Sentences with phrase «time activist turned»

One - time activist turned government bureaucrat Theo (Clive Owen) is kidnapped by his ex-partner Julian (Julianne Moore) and her comrades from a rebel outfit called Fish, which fights for the rights of Britain's vast refugee population.

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Now — in a time of red state teachers madly striking, of fast - food workers demanding $ 15 an hour, of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter activists refusing to go away — it looks like our time could represent a cultural turn of its own.

Slowly, over time, we started turning into activists, planning to actually start improving things.

With the surge in young Democrats joining the ranks of party activists, as young Republicans join the ranks of the corrupt, time will turn this worm around, and the Dems will take a firm control again in Minnesota.

The parent activists of StudentsFirstNY have been clear — it's time to deliver fundamental reform to turn around New York's schools.

Steele sought to silence those critics by noting that since assuming the national committee chairmanship he has traveled to 23 states meeting with grass - roots activists, while at the same time turning a deaf ear to the talk in the nation's capital.

He's about to turn 60, and while his friends want to celebrate his birthday he's so consumed with a video he's crafting on the life and times of fellow ACT UP and AIDS activist William Wilson (David Drake) he's unable to process practically anything else.

Journalist Talks of Time at «Straight Camp» Harvard Crimson, April 29, 2011 «Ted Cox, a journalist and activist, described what he views as the absurdity of religious camps aimed at turning gay people straight to a full room at the Graduate School of Education yesterday.»

To start the conversation, use the New York Times article 7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism as a basis for helping your students place into historical context the efforts of Parkland survivors and youth activists across the country to raise awareness and call for change in school safety measures and gun legislation.

Every organization and activist in support of the Dearborn will symbolically «walk - in» to Dearborn and show their support during this difficult time as Dearborn workw to turn their school around without a charter operator and address critical infrastruction issues.

And by Underdogs, we mean a band of art activists turning Lisbon upside down with one large scale mural project after another, rivaling cities five times its population.

We've really never had a situation where middling government workers such as Jim Hansen or Gavin Schmidt and the many more stealth activists have turned their jobs into full time political operations where they assumed «untouchable» as they dress their politics as «science».

For the first time, fracking was an issue represented by the Goldman Prize: Jonathan Deal, a wildlife photographer turned environmental activist in South Africa, was named a winner of the 2013 Goldman Prize for his work to fight fracking in his beloved Karoo.

In a January 20, 2009, op / ed in the Seattle Times, Moore wrote that it is «inevitable that a small amount of ingested pharmaceuticals will eventually show up at trace levels in wastewater,» Greenpeace activist turned industry PR consultant Patrick Moore writes in an op / ed.

When gullible news outlets unquestioningly cite people from the same enviro - activist clique every time, failing to realize they could win Pulitzers if they turned the tables on sources of smear material, and when they egregiously allow members of that clique to be labeled as «reporters», this all invites one more «Sharptonism» to be applied to the mainstream media:

They are the innovators, the activists and the foot soldiers of our age; they are the people that given time will actually turn the promises into reality.

At a time when grassroots activists are turning to blogs and wikis as the cheapest, easiest technology for getting the word out about their activities, Joy London recommends law firms revisit this idea for themselves.

(CNN)- The students - turned - activists who survived a mass shooting at their Florida high school last month are featured on the glossy cover of Time magazine.