Sentences with phrase «such as civil rights»

Sean has experience with legal issues involving government entities, such as civil rights actions, municipal tort claims and tax appeals.

In our municipal law and government practice at BHPK, we represent government entities, officials and public employees in matters such as civil rights claims, land use issues, employment law, alleged ethics violations, and personal injury.

Deeply involved in the legacy of Post-War American art, «Glenn Ligon» highlights the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement and features many major figures such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Chris Ofili.

Much of his work relates to abstract cxpressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement.

She photographs what she cares about, whether that be major events of the 20th century such as Civil Rights protests and the after - effects of the Holocaust, or the everyday life of her beloved New York City.

Andrade carried forth a similar progressive stance in her political causes she supported, such as the Civil Rights Movement, Women, and Gay Liberation.

Much of his work relates to abstract expressionism and minimalist painting, remixing formal characteristics to highlight the cultural and social histories of the time, such as the civil rights movement.

What comparisons can be made between the animal activism movement and other social movements, such as civil rights and environmental movements?

So were events such as civil rights movement, the Kennedy presidency and the American college experience.

These changes increasingly create pro-reform parent constituencies among traditional labor allies such as civil rights organizations.

Life.com organized these visual treasures into nearly 900 thematic sets (called galleries) of 12 — 20 photographs, grouped by topics such as civil rights, nature, the space race, and celebrities.

The girls particularly like the extracurricular activities, such as a civil rights group and a leadership group in which they learn about living outdoors.

And yet he pushed through great advances such as civil rights legislation by sheer force of personality even when Democrats disagreed with him.

The American separation of church and state, despite its flaws, both supports and encourages democratic, religiously inflected efforts — such as the civil rights movement — to advance this process.

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

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This pronouncement, along with Johnson's (and executive chairman Howard Schultz's) apology, meetings with community leaders, and enlisting the guidance of civil rights leaders such as former Attorney General Eric Holder and the NAACP's Sherrilyn Ifill, ensures that this incident and the specter of racial bias will remain in the public's mind beyond a few days.

This is not to dismiss or marginalize the importance of civil and political rights such as freedom of expression and religion, but rather to adopt an integrated approach recognizing that all internationally recognized human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.

That you would describe such filth as «culture» of any kind is a slap in the face to Dr. King and the rest of the civil rights movement.

The passages concerning civil law are defined as such right there in the text, and are all relevant to the time and culture in which they were given.

Although it might also include opposing government encroachment on civil rights, such as, banning personal prayer in school, banning student led prayer groups and meet - at - the - flag - pole groups, and banning Muslism garb.

It really does mean a lot when groups such as NAACP voice their support for civil rights for the LGBT minority.

Seligman considers whether, in a time of atomized anomie, new social movements such as feminism or gay rights might provide an incipient civil society for their adherents.

Today's civil rights orthodoxy is to denounce as «racist» ordinary people's revulsion at behaviors among blacks that offend and threaten them, as well as policies such as affirmative action that strike them as basically unfair.

But leading canonists and theologians assert the right of civil courts to pronounce the death penalty for very grave offenses such as murder and treason.

It is, of course, governed by democratic laws (including federal Civil Rights laws), just as are the private clubs like those remaining in Philadelphia, Augusta, etc., or those set up by college students — sororities, fraternities, or the sort of club in the SOCIAL NETWORK which provokes such envious emotions in Mark Zuckerberg.

During the Civil Rights era, even though progressive elites such as seminary professors T. B. Matson (1897 - 1988) and J. B. Weatherspoon (1886 - 1964) managed to persuade the denomination to officially endorse Brown v. Board at its 1954 convention, most congregations continued to embrace segregation.

Today's civil - rights orthodoxy is to denounce as racist ordinary people's revulsion at behaviors among blacks that offend and threaten them, as well as policies such as affirmative action that strike them as basically unfair....

Erzen writes that «studies such as those of Simon LeVay and Dean Hamer, which argue that a gay brain or gay genes exist, are revered as the basis for a minority identity and entrance into U.S. civil rights discourse.»

It sum, it would seem that the civil rights movement made a massive error in investing so much time, energy, and moral fervor in such a dubious cause as mandatory school busing.

(Because someone is bound to ask, I've made it pretty clear in the past that I support gay marriage as a civil right, and would hold this position regardless of whether I believed such marriages should be blessed by my church.)

History suggests that American Protestants, despite their recent preoccupations with virtue and tradition, are probably just resting between their periodic commitments to social transformation (joining such causes as temperance, abolition, the social gospel and civil rights).

In the recent book, Civil Liberties Under Attack, one of the authors mentions the case of a government official with an impeccable record who was placed under charges because unidentified informers asserted he «advocated the Communist Party line, such as favoring peace and civil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual &laCivil Liberties Under Attack, one of the authors mentions the case of a government official with an impeccable record who was placed under charges because unidentified informers asserted he «advocated the Communist Party line, such as favoring peace and civil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual &lacivil liberties,» and «his convictions concerning equal rights for all races and classes extend slightly beyond the normal feelings of the average individual «1

Civil rights do not depend on religious beliefs / opinions... legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

The neglect of basic social and economic rights undermines such civil and political rights as freedom of expression and freedom of association.

«It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points.

Inspired by examples of American civil rights activists, such as the freedom riders of 1961, HRPM members travel at a moment's notice to fight injustice and defend villagers thrown off their land, persecuted believers of any religion, and the human rights of all.

But they have launched forceful campaigns on such issues as civil rights.

The witness of Christians on countless injustices such as slavery, child labour, and the denial of civil rights, has been an important element of our shared history and prophetic social vocation.

And since now in our enlightened age when people find all anthropomorphic and anthropathic conceptions of God improper, yet do not find it improper to think of God as a judge in likeness of an ordinary civil judge or solicitor general who can not get at the rights of such a prolix affair — they conclude then that it will be exactly so in eternity.

The civil rights debate, such as Gay marriage, there are tons of LGBT and LGBT accepting churches that are in agreement with you and have been pushing for Gay marriage.

Although title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as so amended, applies with respect to «pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions», a few courts have failed to reach the conclusion that breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in the workplace are covered by such title.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids public accommodations such as restaurants from discriminating based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

Other instruments, such as the European Convention of Human Rights (Art. 1 para. 1), the American Convention of Human Rights (Art. 6), and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Art.

Please consider using more research and using more balanced words when writing about such important topics as civil rights.

The drive for the bill has won editorial support from newspapers across the state, and advocates have also enjoyed assists from top law enforcement officials — including James Sheppard, the chief of police in Rochester, and Steven Krokoff, his counterpart in Albany — who aggressively knocked down criticism from opponents of transgender civil rights protections that such laws create public safety problems in locations such as bathrooms and locker rooms.

In the way the city's criminal justice coordinator works to set and develop policy, so would the civil justice coordinator — and Mr. Levine said his goal would be scaling up to a universal right to counsel in cases that could be potentially life - altering, such as eviction, custody matters, and deportation hearings.

The bill will also make some non-profits identify large donors, a move the New York Civil Liberties Union worries will discourage people from donating to groups involved in controversial advocacy, such as Planned Parenthood or gun rights groups.

Speaking as he accompanied Congressman Charles Rangel to vote today, Wright described those actions as having «brought up all of the ghosts of the civil rights movement... all of the ghosts of Jim Crowism... all of the ghosts of poll taxes» and declared that such tactics have «no place at all in any political activities here in this community.»

Applications from left - leaning organizations such as the Family Planning Advocates (FPA), the Women's Equality Coalition (WEC), the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) as well as the right - leaning New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms (NYCF) were rejected by the commission.