Sentences with phrase «united powerful movement»

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In 1987 Thatcher proclaimed «there is no such thing as society», 22 years later we have a community organiser, supported by the trade union movement, in the most powerful job in the world, President of the United States of America.

In the decades since, the environmental justice movement has grown from a scrappy army of the poor and disenfranchised into a powerful coalition that united the mostly white and college - educated traditional environmentalists, trade unionists, blue - collar workers and residents of some of the nation's most contaminated neighborhoods.

He is the architect of a powerful new movement that promises to unite Venezuelans behind an alternative vision of democracy, free enterprise, -LSB-...]

It is no accident that the American labor movement has been kept afloat by the success of public - sector unions - and that the largest, most powerful union in the country is not the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers, but the National Education Association.

Although there have been charter schools in Los Angeles since the early 1990s, the movement took flight early in this decade behind such figures as philanthropist Eli Broad, former school board president Caprice Young, former Mayor Richard Riordan and a long list of teachers and principals who were fed up by the ever - shifting reform agendas of Los Angeles Unified — and by what many saw as a recalcitrant teachers union, the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles.

«(Reuters)-- Chicago teachers... are taking on not just their combative mayor but a powerful education reform movement that is transforming public schools across the United States.»

It was so moving that our little underfunded movement had emerged united and powerful and national and broadly representative.

The previous suggested reason was that climate change was shifting storms and the powerful air currents known as the jet streams — including the one that traverses the United States — toward the poles, which in turn were driving the movement of the clouds.

And while each movement has had its own specific aims and methods, each has united countless citizens of all creeds, backgrounds, and walks of life in speaking the truth of their cause to the interests of the rich and powerful in their way.

Just as they do in social movements, company rallying cries communicate big ideas in simple, powerful ways that unite people around a common struggle or goal.