Sentences with phrase «what speaks on your behalf»

Not exact matches

There is no evidence of a God and many of us have seen belief in God sometimes lead to bad things — probably because people assign power to God and then speak on his behalf (they «hear» what he says).

What dares you to assume upon yourself the authority to speak on behalf of those who have been born with an orientation that wasn't of their making.

They've acted and spoken on his behalf many times, but now that he can see what he shouldn't see, they may look bad to the neighbors.

Three, the Church has a responsibility to speak out with greater audacity on their behalf (including those who are not as famous as Meriam Ibrahim), no matter what Islamic law says about them.

As evangelicals continue to find common ground with these causes, we asked those who have previously either spoken up on behalf of the #BlackLivesMatter or pro-life movements what the two can learn from one another.

You choose to think it's snobbery on my behalf and that speaks volumes of your judgement and your attitude to other women as well as a lack of imagination as to what issues I and other women might be going through.

«All of the folks who have been anti-marriage equality have been professing to speak on behalf of our children, but up until the point where we filed our first brief, nobody had actually thought to ask children raised by same - sex couples what their experience had been.

My job was to go out and defend and speak forcefully and hopefully effectively on behalf of what all of our ministers were doing and defend their case in a way that perhaps they couldn't because they had to defend a more compromised coalition line... So my take is that I've gone out and got my hands dirty doing exactly that.»

In reality what tends to happen in such leader - centered systems is that she / he has to delegate to unelected deputies who speak on her / his behalf, with all sorts of problematic consequences.

In what initially appeared an in - house crisis has come to the fore as the leadership of the All Progressives Congress have started throwing up tantrums at each other over who should speak on behalf of the party.

«Every leader in this state should be shouting about what Cuomo and his trustees did to LICH, how the community was railroaded, almost 2,000 New Yorkers were put out of work, and a vital medical facility was shut down to benefit wealthy real estate developers and other friends of the Governor,» said Julie Semente, long - time LICH nurse and member of the New York State Nurses Association's executive committee at LICH, speaking on her own behalf.

Paramount chief of the Guli Traditional Area, Naa Seidu Braimah, who spoke on behalf of his fellow kingmakers said: «We know what you have done for us.

It might make Albany a lonely place for me sometimes, but my constituents deserve a voice that will speak out on their behalf, no matter what the consequences.»

«I wonder how long the administration was aware that there was a pending criminal investigation, how long the administration was aware what type of criminal investigation it was and, if they were aware, why did they allow the commissioner to come before the Legislature and speak on their behalf last week?»

There are some things that could be said of the Sapphire Series what with all the * cough * out - rage * cough * going on with the transfer of Gladiator but speaking on behalf of Braveheart it has lived up to its new reputation and I truly hope Forrest Gump can be of the same caliber.

But, speaking on behalf of all of those who didn't get a ballot, I can say we're not jealous, but instead thrilled that the same critical profile that once placed Trash, Showgirls, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Lickerish Quartet alongside Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, John Ford, and Carl Theodor Dreyer will be making its mark in what nearly any card - carrying cinephile recognizes as the most authoritative word on the canon.

But being blissfully unaware of the taboos that constrain the professional reform discourse, these authors also have license to observe what those of us within the echo chamber can not: that the kids themselves, and many of the adults who claim to speak on their behalf, are too often their own worst enemies.

Not only can the student decide what the Voki will say on their behalf by typing it into the speech box so that the Voki can speak their words, but the student can also play with the voice and accent, adding an element of whimsy.

Craig, who spoke on behalf of the Indianapolis NAACP at Wednesday's State Board meeting, says she liked what she heard from McGrew and doesn't have a problem with all alternative certification programs.

But at the very moment that the children of the land face certain defeat, parents, teachers, the teacher's union (known as the Hartford Federation of Teachers) and other public education advocates rally together to speak out on behalf of their children, the school, the importance of public education and what is right.

Considering that teams are the way we work in schools, what do you know that needs to be spoken or accomplished on behalf of kids?

A student from neighboring New Milford High School was allowed to speak on behalf of her Sherman classmates and expressed the frustration that students were having with instructional lessons geared toward telling them what to think rather than encouraging them to think for themselves.

His willingness to stand up and speak out on behalf of students, parents, teachers and public schools has earned him accolades and praise from the Washington Post to the Wait, What Blog and from many others.

At the crux of the debate are questions about who gets to speak on behalf of racial minorities and low - income children, and what school accountability should look like in the age of Donald Drumpf.

She said: «We will be speaking up on behalf of independent authors, and making links with booksellers, wholesalers, agents and legacy publishers, so people have an idea of what our creative needs are.

Indie authors trying to speak on tradpub authors behalf essentially becomes an echo chamber, because publishers don't care what we think: we're not part of their stable.

@Edward You say I don't speak on behalf of the fans, yet I know without a shadow of a doubt, that the fans are only reiterating what I've already said.

«Someone in a position to speak out on behalf of people who don't have voices is what it's all about.»

Women's activism and feminist movements opened the floor to a debate of the idea of activism and not letting a third party decide what is appropriate and letting them speak on behalf of women.

What will it take before the World Speaks Up, Stands Up & Acts on behalf of Our Planet?

This tells me that we've gradually lost the ability to let people speak on their own behalf, and if we dislike what they say, to limit our dislike to that person and not transfer it to the people and organizations with whom they're associated.

An attorney can speak to your insurance company on your behalf and advise you what you can safely say to them.

For those who are being abused, whether in care homes (as in the case of Winterbourne), hospices or hospitals, and who are placed on the Pathway as a means of obscuring mistreatment, for those who do not have a legal adviser to speak on their behalf, for those whose family are simply confused and paralysed about what to do and take the matter no further, very little can be done.

Use sites like Facebook and LinkedIn to find others in the organization working in a similar capacity, call and offer to take them out for a cup of coffee to learn more about what their job entails and gather inside information (if you hit it off, ask if they would be willing to speak to the hiring manager on your behalf, or if you can use their name as an employee referral - these often get precedence).