I've always believed that any action done with a sufficient level of consciousness and commitment is never wasted.
"Raising consciousness," like "commitment," like "political correctness," is a continuation of that old bully, the party line.
His passion and devotion to environmental ethics helped to inform and inspire his fellow Trustees, raising the College's environmental consciousness and commitment to sustainability.
Until then, reaching out for more members, developing consciousness and commitment, solidifying modes of decision-making and activism, gaining awareness of the needs and desires of diverse constituencies and incorporating their escalating participation, are Occupy's immediate priorities.
Like Carver's, his stories bristle with a quiet, stubborn class consciousness, a commitment to protect the dignity of his people against the prurient, condescending sociological scrutiny of the reading class.
The point is that the way to approach demands is to mould them into a form that strengthens the poor and weak, and weakens the rich and strong – and that will also appeal widely, and that we can argue for and fight for in ways that enrich consciousness and commitment.
It is entitled "The Consciousness of Commitment (Bindung) in Duty and Right".
Only in that context can the CIW's oft-cited formula for social justice -- Consciousness + Commitment = Change -- stand a chance to work.
The results of our analysis revealed the main category 'difficult emotions', which included the three concepts of aversion, consciousness and commitment.
Subscribers of German Sky have long gotten used to the former Dortmund and Stuttgart tyro's special type of punditry, essentially a 1980s stream of consciousness about willpower, commitment and courageous tackles, wrapped up in gratuitously complicated syntax.
The analysis revealed that most of the courses were designed to prepare teachers with pragmatic skills and personal awareness, but not to prepare them in accordance with the key principles of multicultural education, such as critical consciousness and a commitment to educational equity.
