#promote

We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#buses #closely #cycle #electric #encourage

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted. ↗

— Roger Corman

#get #good #jim #promoted #proof

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

#congress #distinct #duties #how #i

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#avert #between #black #class #inevitable

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#destructive #different #different set #family #family life

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #developments #eroded #family #life

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#could #democratically #done #each #everything

We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#accidents #better #encouraging #falling #firearms

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism. ↗

— Gary Locke

#big problems #change #china #climate #climate change

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#because #felt #i #part #people