Sentences with phrase «working against a history»

Her identity as a mixed - race, Thai - American woman is an important part of the work she makes, working against a history of colonialism, otherness, and patriarchy in documentary tradition.

Not exact matches

Although Amazon's history demonstrates it will not discriminate against employees, LGBT advocates worry about what will happen when family members look for work, apply for housing or adopt children.

He is currently working on a history of commercial fraud in the United States, and especially organizational fraud against consumers and investors, from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Downloading names, home towns, work histories and «likes» of 50 million users was not against the rules — at least in 2014 — but Kogan should not have transferred the data to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook wrote.

Over 60 years ago when it was still extraordinary for women to work out of the home in this country the mainline was making the theological case for women in ordained ministry against the overwhelming opposition of most Christians throughout history.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

Kierkegaard's work is a sustained and passionate protest against the Hegelian system, and against what Hegel made out of human history, and out of Christianity.

In the Exodus tradition it becomes clear that God's presence in history entails an implacable opposition to oppression and injustice — forces that work toward chaos and against God's shalom.

Their biblical commitments would not allow them to deny God's role in history, but the pressure of Greek metaphysics worked against this.

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

Against these kinds of inactivity, H. Richard contrasts the useful inactivity of Christians who believe that, even when they can not act meaningfully in history, God is nonetheless working to being about justice and peace.

Against H. Richard's emphasis on human finitude and dependence, Reinhold's awareness of human freedom and the Christian's political responsibility seems better to acknowledge the creative and liberating possibilities of moral action and of God's work in history.

Anti-Semitism and racial prejudice against black Africans are two of the uglier maladies in the history of the West, but in the work of its greatest dramatist we see that these evils are not integral to its civilization, and that in the West's critical spirit lie the means of its continual reform.

It's that background and history that gives Espresso Americano the edge against other coffee franchises, and North America Director David Kubena says the company's knowledge will serve it well as it works to make greater inroads into the North American market.

If a corporation / parent company has a substantial egregious record or history of working against our values — organics, sustainability, non-toxic food, social and environmental responsibility, etc., we remove their products from our shelves, or don't stock them in the first place.

It's probably for the best that as a California kid Sanchez might not fully appreciate the force of history he is going against: Things just have a way of not working out for the Jets.

History was the biggest factor working against the Cowboys, whose RPI was 20 places worse than 2016 Syracuse, which is the highest RPI number ever selected.

«These items work against the shame and instead show a sense of pride for our histories / journeys.»

Parker's history of anger issues works against him.

Another socialist democrat who happened to work for one of the most corrupt administration in NYS history running another campaign of lies against one of the most honest and sincere men in the business.

«The facts are simple, George's values are way too extreme and out - of - step with those of the residents of the 46th Senate District and George has a history of supporting businesses who ship jobs overseas and standing against equal pay for equal work for all New Yorkers.»

Mind you, this strategy is far from new or original; those of us with some memory and / or knowledge of history know when people working against seggregation or racism2 where called «black (or Jew) lovers» (or far, far, far worse)

Nana Akuffo Addo has a very strong history of violence against his working colleagues, his workers and it is believed that he attempted to slapped his own campaign manager after he lost the General elections in 2008.

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

Michael R. Caputo, a local GOP consultant who worked briefly for Trump, signaled that the candidate ought to attack Bill Clinton's sexual history in Trump's debate against Clinton's wife, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, on Sunday.

The work has many motivations, but as with most science, at the core lies a hunger for truth: By accumulating physical evidence, Haglund and colleagues aim to document crimes against humanity for the benefit of grieving families, humanity, international justice, and history.

History has taught us that numbers alone are no defense against attrition from the ivory trade, and this new work confirms that elephant numbers are decreasing in East, Central and Southern Africa,» said co-author Iain Douglas - Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants.

Hickey knew the black laborers who dug the canal were forced to work against their will, though most modern histories don't say so.

The Illinois team, led by veterinary clinical medicine professor Dr. Matt Allender and his colleagues at the Illinois Natural History Survey, are targeting every aspect of the disease — its epidemiology, how it grows, how it is transmitted, how to treat it, and even which disinfectants work or don't work against the primary fungus associated with the disease, Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola.

If they would've worked on it 1 year more, maybe everything would've been ok, but no, BioWare stood against every principle that they had, and ruined the BEST SERIES IN THE HISTORY, to whom it was given to be.

But the truth is that a movie about deeply personal obsessions can't work if it doesn't have some of its own, and the prevailing mood of The Current War is indifference; there's no point listing the crimes against the past committed by Michael Mitnick's dramatically inept script, which ends with a tacked - on, emotionally manipulative paean to the wonders of cinem - ah that anyone who cares about film history will likely find insulting.

This retrospective video shows the history of GLSEN (the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network), an organization that works to encourage respect and combat discrimination and violence against LGBT youth in schools.

Although this bit of auto history might have been forgotten during the current aerodynamic - car revolution, Topaz and Tempo were among early examples of autos shaped to work with the atmosphere, not against it.

Although this bit of auto history might have been forgotten during the current aerodynamic - car revolution, Topaz and Tempo were among early examples of autos shaped to work with the atmosphere, not against it.No longer a trend setter, Topaz has settled into a niche as a conservatively styled sedan with a fairly conservative price range of $ 9,850 to about $ 13,000.

Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

George R.R. Martin explains why there's violence against women on Game of Thrones — In which George R.R. Martin uses the history excuse to explain the violence against women in his work.

A day laborer trolls the streets for work with men half his age and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; a religious hypocrite gets her comeuppance when she meets the Virgin Mary at a bus stop on Sunset Boulevard; a typical bus route turns violent when cultures and egos collide in the night, with devastating results; and Aurora goes on a journey through her gentrified childhood neighborhood in a quest to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican Americans dream of, «the land that belongs to us again.»

Of course credit history can also work against you if your finances become unmanageable and you have trouble paying bills on time.

Those that benefit most are tenants, who often have insufficient assets, as well as a poor credit history, working against them, making the chances of securing mortgage approval smaller.

Working against those possible dings, regular, on - time payments to the card balance will slowly improve your credit history; derogatory marks already on your credit will get older (meaning they impact your score less) and eventually drop off.

Closing a card, particularly one that's been open for a while, can work against you because it shortens your credit history.

Provide information about a broker - dealer's prior run - ins with regulators, serious complaints that may have been lodged against them, their educational background and their work history;

If you ever want to take out a car loan or mortgage from them, having a history of overextending your account will work against you — so I loan keeps your record clean!

Colescott, Marshall, and Thomas marry appreciation of these traditional forms of representation to a deep understanding of contemporary American culture to create insightful works that disrupt historic narratives and read canonic art history against the grain.

The idealism of the founders, the hard work and dedication of everyone involved in sustaining these histories, against all odds, illustrates the dynamic purposes that continue to propel the artistic scene in New York.

1 «At Black Mountain College everyone was always rebelling, both in their lives and in their work, and it struck me at the time that it was only Cy and I who were not rebelling against the history of art.

What Akunyili Crosby knows (and what she shares with Kerry James Marshall, whose fine retrospective continues at the Met Breuer) is that an engaged commitment to black or African visibility has to work through art history, not against it, and that the most powerful way to redress its injustices is to stake your claim, proudly, confidently, at its very center.

The National Portrait Gallery, meanwhile, looks at the origins of art photography via the work of four celebrated figures of the Victorian era, and Tate Modern takes things further with Shape of Light, which entwines the histories of photography and abstract art from the early 20th century to now and positions work by the likes of Man Ray and Thomas Ruff against abstract paintings, sculptures and installations.