Sentences with phrase «taken as political issues»

Randy Bomer's discussion of deficit perspective is well - taken as political issues surrounding school performance have highlighted the fact that schools are struggling to achieve adequate progress within the economically disadvantaged subgroup.

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Shareholders are also taking notice of issues related to socioeconomic and political equity, access and opportunity — such as public disclosure of corporate funding for political action committees (PACs), campaigns and lobbyists.

As more business leaders take a stand on fraught political issues, some find they pay a price by angering consumers on the other side.

While running for office, Trump either scrambled political categories (on issues such as health care), or took on the bipartisan consensus (on issues such as trade).

A statement read: «In a social and political climate such as ours, it often takes a gathering of unlikely individuals to shape the future of our nation on issues of faith and inner city initiatives.

Jesus» answer refers to this particular issue, and can not be taken as a general guide to all the problems of political responsibility.

I don't think of Alise's belief as denial so much as a difference of opinion, akin to taking opposite sides on a political issue.

When he deals with a mentally disturbed person he can not take the place of the psychiatrist, but neither can the psychiatrist take his place; when political issues are involved, he can not fulfill the functions of the statesman, but neither can the statesman, as statesman, illuminate a civil crisis by bringing only ultimate perspectives to bear on it.

A major shouting match, as we know, has also developed between religious liberals and religious conservatives, the two sides taking widely differing positions not only on theological orientations but also on social and political issues, and holding strongly negative views toward the other.

While polls should never have an undue effect on someone's political or moral positions — as Robert Wuthnow convincingly argues in the most recent issue of First Things — this new poll does seem to reveal that an artificial consensus created by the elite of this country, and the relatively quiet response among the opposition, has not taken dramatic hold of the hearts and minds of ordinary people in this nation.

CNN: My Take: Counting the Bible's words doesn't yield a Republican Jesus Stephen Prothero, Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» responds to angry emails he received after writing a Belief Blog post in which he takes issue with evangelicals using Jesus as a political tool to benefit the Republican Party.

Many of you may take issue with me categorizing this as political speech, but that is absolutely what it was designed to do — a springboard for Obama to push gun control.

Concentrating on current problem, Popieluszko always took note of the largest issues involved such as the nature of authority and government, justice and the fundamental human right to freedom and believed that the root cause of the problems of Poland was the exclusion of God from its socio - political life and in the governing process.

Pittman has been known to take strong positions on social and political issues such as abortion and immigration, sending charged email messages to select staffers and friends that leave little doubt where he stands.

First, take a look at their magazine's 2010 Political Technology issue, which features articles on microtargeting («Demystifying Micro-Targeting»), volunteer retention and common mistakes that novice candidates often make, all led off by a reprint of the first chapter of the e.politics «How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010» as an introduction.

Sources Friday evening said Cuomo and the leadership of the party had reached a tentative deal for the incumbent Democrat to take the labor - backed line in exchange for pushing on key progressive issues such as the Dream Act, the public financing of political campaigns and the women's agenda.

As time went on she had to take into account not just the trauma of the actual day but also the growing use of 9/11 as a political issue, which it still remains 10 years oAs time went on she had to take into account not just the trauma of the actual day but also the growing use of 9/11 as a political issue, which it still remains 10 years oas a political issue, which it still remains 10 years on.

Via a presentation McElroy takes his audience on a journey through calamitous political errors and seemingly unbelievable one - liners from would - be Republican presidential candidates on issues such as rape, homosexuality and abortion.

Candidates on the Independence line do not have to take marching orders from political party bosses or follow tooth and nail a restrictive party platform insofar as policy positions and social issues are concerned, instead they are free to make conscious and pragmatic decisions as to what is best for their constituency.

Political party representatives who spoke on the programme, as usual, took opposing stance on the issue.

I had expected to ask questions, but very characteristic of him, the former President decided to walk us through a lecture touching on his days as head of state (military and civilian), some of the difficult and sensitive decisions he took, his observations out of political office, Ghana's present political scene, the challenges confronting the Ghanaian media and finally the issue at stake.

There is never a shortage of issues and actions for Green Party activists but even if you don't think of yourself as an activist, by just registering Green, you are taking a strong stand against the establishment political system that is set on dismantling our democracy.

Mayor's an arts visionary As in most political campaigns, issues and performance take a back seat to personalities and sound

As in most political campaigns, issues and performance take a back seat to personalities and sound bites.

This story, as well as companion stories to be published this week on ScienceInsider, takes an in - depth look at the myriad political, technical, and budgetary issues that are confronting the Census Bureau, which generates some of the world's most widely used demographic data.

Your own RSS and Twitter feeds can also be useful tools, as long as you are actively following news sources with different perspectives to avoid seeing a homogenous take on political issues.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

Some American critics took issue with Arnold's ugly - beautiful portrait as a kind of inauthentic burlesque of their country, skewed by foreign preconceptions and blind spots — though not as many as those who took against Martin McDonagh's Oscar - winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which weathered a firestorm of political and moral debate, backlashes and counter-backlashes, between its rapturous first reception in Venice and the Academy Awards.

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Frequently taking herself as subject, Wilson creates transgressive, avant - garde works that address political and social issues, teasing out complexity and nuance by infusing her work with playful gestures and humorous juxtapositions.

His intense engagement with cultural and social issues led him to organize the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange from 1984 to 1991, an unprecedented project that took him to countries such as Tibet, Cuba, and China and sought to create social connections and bridge political differences.

Taking as its starting point three seminal exhibitions curated by Lubaina in London from 1983 to 1985, the Tate Britain display charted the coming to voice of a radical generation of British artists who challenged their collective invisibility in the art world and engaged in their art with the wider social and political issues of 1980s Britain and the world.

Often taking as his starting point the urban environment and therefore architecture — particularly those of Havana and Madrid, the two cities where the artist both lives and works — Garaicoa documents city landscapes, creating works steeped in provocative commentary which reflect a frustration with social, economic and political issues.

My ideas for the spaces I plan to generate are structured as a dialogue about the interaction between people and new technologies, socio - political issues raised through the dynamic and rapid industrialisation and globalisation,» explains Adela Andea, a Romanian - born artist whose chaotic light installations take over entire spaces.

Taking its name from the birthplace of Juan de Fuca (b. 1536 as Ioannis Phokas on the Ioanian island of Kefalonia), Cefalonia is committed to working with artists and locales that reveal issues of ecology and the socio - political climate of our time while promoting public discourse through the presentation of compelling art.

Taking its name from the birthplace of Juan de Fuca (b. 1536 as Ioannis Phokas on the Ioanian island of Kefalonia), cefalonia is committed to working with artists and locales that reveal issues of ecology and the socio - political climate of our time while promoting public discourse through the presentation of challenging art.

In Takndare's work, issues of Papuan people and identity take centre stage, focusing on how indigenous Papuans have transformed as a result of political changes.

«4 Depicting the explosion of United Airlines Flight 175 as it hit the South Tower, Storr's essay describes how Richter's painting raises and encapsulates many of the complex geo - political issues that the attacks provoked, as well as the horrendous realities of those whose lives were taken away or affected by them.

Drawing from the male - dominated field of Land Art infused with her political sensibility and recurring references to her Latin American heritage, her experiments in film and video are celebrated for their prescient and piecing take on such relevant issues as campus sexual assault, environmentalism, and the challenges of preserving identity in a homogenizing society.

About the artist Taking fraught issues of personal and national identity as her subject, Yael Bartana (b. 1970, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel) works in photography, film, video, sound, and installation and focuses on the poetics of individual political gestures.

Victoria Miro stages a group exhibition by artists concerned with socio - political issues of their day, who question the status quo and the power structures found within societies, and who take the language of protest as a means to explore its potency.

In addition to contributions by the directors of the Museum Ludwig and ARoS — Yilmaz Dziewior and Erlend G. Høyersten — the authors include Tom Holert, distinguished German art historian, taking an in - depth look at Rosenquist's unique spatiality; Stephan Diederich, curator and specialist at Museum Ludwig, giving a review of the themes in the exhibition; Sarah Bancroft, art historian, curator, and Rosenquist expert who co-curated the 2003 Guggenheim Museum Rosenquist retrospective (and current head of the Rosenquist Foundation and the studio) illuminates Rosenquist's seminal source collages; Tino Grass, German designer and researcher, revealing new perspectives on Rosenquist's historic work F - 111; Isabel Gebhardt, Museum Ludwig conservator, outlining the intensive research efforts and conservation work recently undertaken on Horse Blinders; and Tim Griffin, former editor - in - chief of the esteemed American art journal Artforum, discussing the political potential of Pop art as exemplified by a work James Rosenquist created for one of the magazine's issues.

Known for confronting history and addressing political and social issues in his abstract collage paintings, Bradford plans to incorporate figuration in his work for the first time and is «taking as a point of departure» a major Civil War painting.

«Protest» is an exhibition of historical and contemporary works by sixteen artists concerned with the socio - political issues of their day, who question the status quo and the power structures found within societies, and who take the language of protest as a means to explore its potency.

This publication accompanies Protest at Victoria Miro, 23 September - 5 November 2016, an exhibition of historical and contemporary works by artists concerned with the socio - political issues of their day, who question the status quo and the power structures found within societies, and who take the language of protest as a means to explore its potency.

It is a powerful convergence of interests among a very large number of elites, including politicians who want to make it seem as though they're saving the world, environmentalists who want to raise money and get control over very large issues like our entire energy policy, media, for sensationalism, Universities and professors for grants... It is a kind of nasty combination of extreme political ideology and a religious cult all rolled into one, and it's taken over way too much of our thought process and way too much of our priorities.

Just to reiterate, a careful analysis of the scientific methodological issues exposes most of the politics of Dr T's pronouncements, and draws into question his competence in this domain, and hence his right to be taken seriously as a political voice on matters climate.

This site is essential in keeping current on these global warming issues as well as much of the related political mischief that is taking place as a result.»

It took Sandy to get some political recognition of climate change, but it remains, as an issue, on the margins and we all deserve a measure of blame for it.

To take issue with the moral and political arguments that emerge from the climate debate, is seen as equivalent to taking issue — to denying — climate science.