Sentences with phrase «vocal group in»

Young people are maybe the most vocal group in the climate fight, perhaps because they have the most to lose.

They married on October 26, 2002 in a private ceremony in Dallas, with close to 300 guests.Nick was on summer break from studying Sports Medicine at Miami University in Ohio when he got an invitation from a high school friend to join an up - and - coming vocal group in Los Angeles.

Biography: Nick was on summer break from studying Sports Medicine at Miami University in Ohio when he got an invitation from a high school friend to join an up - and - coming vocal group in Los Angeles.

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Nooyi was more vocal than many CEOs in calling out the racists at a rally in Charlottesville, where a participant rammed a group of counter-demonstrators with his car, killing one and injuring 19.

But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

One person in particular who has been quite vocal about the hurricane is Virgin Group founder Richard Branson.

Before you oil the squeaky wheel, here are some things to keep in mind about the vocal minority — those online customers, trolls and / or community members who have big mouths, but don't actually represent the sentiments of the group.

As it happens, many of the vocal protestors at Emera's annual meeting are members of both groups: they are shareholders in Emera and customers of Nova Scotia Power.

Harold Feld, a senior vice president at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit group that supports net neutrality, said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years.

He studied English with an emphasis in African American literature and he was the president and vocal director for the co-ed a cappella group Counterparts.

The group, which came together in recent months as a vocal opponent of the finance minister's tax - reform plan, is urging him to go further — beyond the adjustments he made to calm an uproar that dogged him for months.

For some reason the governments in every other province can implement such laws but a vocal group of Alberta farmers reject it.

This group is however in the minority, just very vocal.

As a vocal Christian, Shirley's determination to steer the group's moral code often comes across as judgmental (when Britta, the group's vocal atheist, forgets to bring a present to the Christmas party, Shirley quips, «I see you brought what you believe in: nothing.»)

But where you vocal in your opposition to what I feel are the insane policy views of a large group (if not majority), of Christians?

I hope this is true, but it seems the vocal groups are the hateful, bigoted types armed to the teeth in the name of the bible and America.

Currently, I find many Messianic Jews dissociating themselves from the label «Jews for Jesus,» explaining that the organization is «just a small group of 100 or so Hebrew Christians in a west coast missionary enterprise that is very vocal and widely publicized.»

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

Science education is becoming a key part of what it means to be a well - informed and well - educated citizen of today; therefore, any effort to temper science education in order to placate a vocal religious group cheats the students, cheats society, and cheats our future.

Sure, you have your vocal minority in every group... but Atheists don't have churches, functions, gatherings... they don't preach.

It comes from a particular vocal group of naturalists on one side and a much smaller but equally noisy lot of creationists on the other, both of whom have increasingly been declaring their respective philosophical views not merely to be true but to be true in a specifically scientific sense.

Muslims as a group are still not vocal enough in denouncing Islamic extremism.

Let's buy the Canon (Crowd Funding to buy Arsenal Football Club)... I just created a group on Facebook with this name, lets start from there, then we'll petition Piers Morgan [high profile, very vocal critic and with a genuine love for the club] to mobilize in the early stages, if you have anyone else in mind please feel free to put their names forward.

Look, I know that all fanbases have their knuckleheads that do these things at games (yes, the Spurs, too), but I don't know another group that is so over-the-top vocal and frequent in their delusions.

In the midst of «get better, Stu» and «gutted about Stu Holden» tweets, a very vocal and relatively large group of Wanderers fans made it clear that Holden's wages were apparently too much of a burden on the club and that the sensible choice would simply be for Bolton to tear the player's contract up and send him on his way.

I was vocal in a Whatsapp group over my opinion.

In March, when I first wrote about how the biotech rider — called the Monsanto Protection Act by its vocal opponents — undercut the constitutional concept of separation of powers, it seemed hardly anyone (other than the usual advocacy groups) was paying attention.

Individuals and interest groups are more vocal than in the recent past and these actors are demanding that the Chinese government represent their concerns in their dealings abroad.

«The far - right in America - a small, very vocal group of them - came after me and I was like: «Oh shit, I'm just making jokes».

Morgan has already been a vocal opponent of a hard Brexit and has been part of a group of MPs calling for a debate in the Commons on the issue of unaccompanied children in Greece and Italy, which will take place on 23 February.

She's been a vocal member of the BBC Women group campaigning for equal pay since it was revealed her salary came in the under # 150,000 - a-year bracket while fellow Today presenters Nick Robinson and John Humphrys earned at least twice that.

The groups involved include some of the most active in New York City: Alliance for Tenant Power (an umbrella organization of eight other groups including New York Communities for Change, Make the Road NY, and others), Community Voices Heard, Vocal - NY, Citizen Action of New York and Manufactured Housing Action.

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A vocal opposition group called No Hospital Downtown has adamantly fought the proposed location, saying it will actually wipe away many historical buildings and displace dozens of existing businesses in this footprint.

In a 2015 letter following the Chelsea clinic's closing, the Treatment Action Group (TAG), Housing Works, Harlem United, Gay Men's Health Crisis, VOCAL - NY, ACT UP / NY, and Ginny Shubert, a leading housing and healthcare consultant, wrote to Mayor Bill de Blasio asking that the services lost with the closing be replaced.

Critics from groups like New York Communities for Change, Make the Road New York and Vocal New York charge that the tax break, created in the 1970s to spur development at a time when the city's fiscal health was waning, is antiquated, allowing powerful developers to reap millions in tax breaks while creating housing exclusively for the wealthy.

Vocal New York, the group behind some of the protests, was formed in the 1980s to advocate for people living with AIDS and HIV.

The disparity between the numbers was highlighted Thursday in a report by the advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools, a vocal de Blasio critic.

Gen. David Petraeus will form a new gun - control group for veterans with retired astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who became a vocal proponent of gun - control efforts after she was shot in the head in 2011.

Linares and Duane were members of the same NYC Council class, (elected in 1992), and grew close during their years there as participants in a small, yet vocal, group that consistently voted «no» on the budget deals reached by then - NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr..

The report was compiled by Kevin Connor, co-director of the nonprofit Public Accountability Initiative, in collaboration with Community Voices Heard and VOCAL — two groups that have been protesting CSNY and Cuomo's proposed spending cuts for several weeks now.

An analysis released today by the group found the «most vocal» supporters of allowing high - volume hydrofracking in New York are also the recipients of the industry's campaign donations.

Alternating vocal and instrumental numbers with solo and group dance numbers, Zikrayat's mission is to highlight the diversity of Arab culture for mainstream Western audiences in an authentic yet entertaining contemporary representation.

But a coalition of residents and community groups have been vocal about their opposition to having FreshDirect in the Bronx.

Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, one of the nation's most influential charter school leaders who has been a vocal supporter of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and defender of President Donald Trump, recently told a group of faculty members concerned about her alliances to the new administration that she is limited in how much she can advocate politically.

Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, the Legal Aid Society, Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, chairman of the City Council's Committee on Courts and Legal Services, have all praised the move as a step in the right direction, though some groups like VOCAL - NY and mayoral candidate and activist Bob Gangi have approached the development with caution.

She chaired the all - party parliamentary group for Friends of Syria, and was vocal in making the case for military action in the country last autumn, on humanitarian grounds.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I), one of the country's most vocal gun control advocates, and the National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun rights group, have each spent six figures, telling you everything you need to know about what's at stake in Colorado.

Ministers in the Department for Communities and Local Government have been very vocal in praising religious groups, and even religion itself, as fundamental to the government's vision.

A large group of his party wanted to oppose sanctions, while a slightly smaller, but equally vocal section wanted to support Wilson in the voting lobbies.