Sentences with phrase «time activists who»

The pair presented themselves as long - time activists who have challenged the establishment.

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«We did not have anything,» says Gen. Riho Terras, the commander of Estonia's armed forces, who had been a student activist at the time.

Ducey, who lives in Los Angeles, is an actor, part - time restaurant server, and now, «increasingly so, an activist,» he tells Fortune.

According to the New York Times, he said that Black Lives Matter activists need to be willing to sit down and actually discuss the issues with those who have the power to enact social change, instead of simply shouting at them from a distance.

The timing of the annual conservative jamboree is auspicious because it will offer Trump access to activists on the right, who he must win over to get anything significant done.

At the same time, activists, who at times could be brash, have softened their images.

Choi Sung - ryong, an activist who has been fighting for the release of North Korea's political prisoners, told The Financial Times, «We heard it through our sources in North Korea late last month.

«It's time for you to stop being politely angry,» Gbowee told CBS news anchor Norah O'Donnell in a sweeping conversation that moved from her native Liberia to the women's marches in the United States last year to the young activists who have emerged in the aftermath of the shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

During her time on the March for Our Lives stage, Emma González, 18, who has been one of the most prominent of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivor - activists, allotted herself six minutes and 20 seconds for her speech: the amount of time, she noted, that it had taken for Nikolas Cruz to slaughter 17 of her schoolmates and injure many more.

Friday is showdown day between the activists who want board and management change at Crescent Point Energy and those who argue the current group needs more time.

CNN: Texas pastor behind blind Chinese activist freedom It has been a busy week for Pastor «Bob» Xiqiu Fu, a pastor from Midland, Texas, who has spent considerable time on the international stage working for the release of Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese activist who arrived in the United States on Saturday after weeks of diplomatic back and forth between two global super powers.

I was a bit wary, then, when in the late 1980s I received an invitation to spend some time with a small group of Christian scholars and activists — with Tim LaHaye as one of the persons who had already agreed to participate — to discuss strategies for representing our convictions in the public square.

Animal - rights activists are up in arms about a recent statement by Peter Singer ¯ a bioethics professor at Princeton's Center for Human Values who was, once upon a time, beloved by those activists for his 1975 book Animal Liberation.

From writers who are creatively exhausted from managing a constant stream of online feedback, to readers who can't seem to pull themselves away from their smartphones, to activists who are burned out from responding to yet another crisis with a social media campaign, to foodies who can't enjoy a meal without snapping a photo for Instagram, our writing, reading, and sharing habits consume more of our time and mental energy than ever.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

U2 frontman and anti-poverty activist Bono has penned an op - ed for The New York Times outlining, what he believes is the best way to help refugees who've fled violence and...

Author, activist and leader Christine Caine — who has written about overcoming sexual abuse — retweeted Moore a short time later:

John Kennedy repeatedly appointed segregationist judges to the federal bench in the South, and the civil rights case that Robert Kennedy most vigorously prosecuted involved charges brought against Albany, Georgia, activists for violating the rights of a white storeowner by boycotting his business because he had served on a jury that cleared the sheriff who had shot a black man three times in the neck at point - blank range.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

She was a stay - at - home mother who launched a full - time career as a political activist and public speaker from nearly the day her first child was born, doing a neat end - run around the feminists who claimed to have invented the idea that a married woman could have a professional life.

Sunday morning was often the only time in the week that a black person could assert their dignity, says Durley, the Atlanta civil rights activist who also is a retired Baptist pastor.

, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

It's a good piece, and it reflects the time that Jose has spent covering the online politics beat — he was one of the few mainstream journalists who really dug into HOW people were using the internet for politics this time around, as they created a profoundly new environment for politicians, journalists and activists alike.

She discussed the importance of building up a core of year - round activists, people who can be counted on to work on issues more than just at election time.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

I have felt honoured to be so welcomed by the Fabians and by yourself in the time since I left, and I really am interested in having this debate, but whilst interning I really was taken aback by the culture of hierarchy and deference not just in the Fabians but across liberal think - tanks, the structures of gender and power and who was and wasn't allowed to contribute to the debate, compared to my subsequent experiences in the activist movement, where even very young, inexperienced people are treated as equals.

They have been upset for a long time and this rate hike will not help the company's reputation,» said Howie Hawkins, a local activist who has voiced support for publicly - owned power utilities.

Tobin, who ran for California Secretary of State in 2010 — garnering more than 214,000 votes as the Libertarian nominee — had served as Ralph Nader's national ballot access coordinator during the 2008 presidential campaign, a year when the feisty consumer activist, seeking the brass ring for the final time, appeared on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

Some racists and anti-government activists who bill themselves as part of the «alt - right» have a new hero: the most notorious American - born terrorist of all time, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

RIP Edith Windsor, the gay - rights activist whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same - sex married couples federal recognition for the first time and rights to myriad federal benefits, who died today in Manhattan at the age of 88.

If you pull the plug on the network, significantly change its emphasis or even just let it drift, you may alienate the people who've put their time and energy into building it — and who are likely to be your most committed and valuable activists.

However, that changed last month when Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson — who had pushed aggressively for an indictment in the case — recommended that Liang be spared prison time, in a move that outraged Gurley's family and community activists.

Time is of the essence when it comes to public finance negotiations, since this is a key issue for many WFP activists who oppose giving Cuomo their party's endorsement this fall if he doesn't fails to deliver a more widespread program than the one included in the budget.

The activist investor and his wife Lizanne — who are already sizable Cuomo donors — famously bought the sprawling beachfront estate on Further Lane in 2014 for $ 147 million, at the time setting a record for the most expensive home sale ever in the US.

His Lt. Governor, Gloria Mattera, is a long time peace and single payer universal health care activist from Brooklyn who has often polled 20 % of the vote in her prior races for Borough President and City Council.

The news will be enthusiastically greeted by protesters who have long complained of intrusive police surveillance of demonstrators and the over-use of «kettling», where activists are contained in a certain area for an indefinite period of time.

Hogan tried to portray himself as a long - time neighborhood activist who believes residents can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

This race is a second - time matchup between Nassau corrections officer and community activist Carl Gerrato and Vincent Muscarella, an original county legislator who's been serving since 1996.

LAS VEGAS — It wasn't lost on the 2,100 liberal activists gathered in Las Vegas at Netroots Nation for the annual four - day confab that the only Obama administration official who made the trip this time was Treasury Secretary Ray LaHood — a Republican.

In her speech, she compared the ordinary people who campaigned for the Welsh language at times when it had not been fashionable to do so as civil rights activists «in the mould of Mrs Rosa Parks».

Yet the Times will not back the nomination of someone who comes from outside of the state's culture of political corruption — not some reckless crank, a goldbug or anti-vaccinationist or animal - rights activist, but a degree - holding product of Yale and Duke, a former law clerk, a person who works full - time at understanding the process of political reform.

Trump's win was brought to my attention by Frank Morano, a radio host and civic activist who has sought to bring attention to New York's at - times absurd campaign laws.

«Citizen Corbyn... will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

He tweeted: «Amazed that, in 2017, some believe the activists who give up their time and money for Labour shouldn't be given a say in who represents them.»

well said, all the media attacking the internet and bloggers, leave it the professionals with editors they say, as if that ever stopped them before, all involved weren't just amateur bloggers but political activists / public relations people who worked for the partys at one time.

Victor Toro, a Bronx resident and activist who fled Chile in the 1980s after serving jail time for fighting the dictatorship there, will be allowed to stay in America a little longer after deportation proceedings against him were temporarily suspended.

Diamondstone is a long - time community activist who has highlighted Connor's role in the repeal of the commuter tax and Connor's loss of his Minority Leader position to David Paterson on a vote of Democratic Senators.

Last year, Times reporter David Gonzalez wrote about how Jimenez, a longtime Bronx activist, was critical of Assemblyman and then - Democratic County Chair Jose Rivera who was facing challenges to his leadership of the party.

Meanwhile, high - profile neighborhood activist Amber Small, who launched her Democratic candidacy for the seat this winter, wasted no time criticizing Jacobs, claiming Republicans represent an «anti-working families agenda.»