Sentences with phrase «siege in»

It's particularly under siege in the District of Columbia, but the product of black families — of these so oftentimes single black families, broken families — are black males — black females, but particularly the black males, as we've now come to know them as endangered species.

Dr. Perry has been consulted on how to help children involved with the following high profile incidents involving traumatized children such as the Branch Davidian siege in Waco (1993), the Oklahoma City bombing (1995), the Columbine school shootings (1999), the September 11th terrorist attacks (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), the FLDS polygamist sect (2008), the earthquake in Haiti (2010), the tsunami in Tohoku Japan (2011) and the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings (2012).

Kosinski asserted in an interview with Quartz that regardless of the methods of his paper, his research was in service of gay and lesbian people that he sees under siege in modern society.

SRL's who are under siege in their own matter — working in a hostile system that they are ill - prepared to participate in — seeking answers to help them work through their matter and which answers, often, just do not exist.

Any institutional analysis that seeks to understand internal biases in these fields must consider the state of continuous siege in which they operate.

He won for Memory Bucket, a documentary exploring Crawford, Texas, and the Branch Davidian siege in nearby Waco.

He recently exhibited at Galerie Ateliers L' H Du Siege in France, Fabrica in the UK, and Cynthia Reeves Gallery in New York.

The siege began 20 years ago this year, in 1992, and lasted for 1,395 days making it the longest siege in modern warfare.

Among the main female protagonists that inspired this research are Balkis Sharara, Rifat Chadirji's wife who in 1979 carried copies of his works into and out of Abu Ghraib allowing him to author three of his seminal books while in the prison; artist Nuha al - Radi whose diaries of 1990/91 describe the dynamics in the lives of Baghdad's people beyond the news coverage; an unknown young woman who stands out in the festivities of the gymnasium's 1990 new year concert; Fahrelnissa Zeid who was herself an artist (most recently the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern) and the wife of the Iraqi Ambassador in London when Le Corbusier received a telegram confirming the approval of his first design proposal for Baghdad; poet Iman Mersal who paid a solidarity visit to Baghdad under siege in 1993; Zaha Hadid whose architectural drawings influenced the imagination of architectural students in the 1990s; and others.

In conjunction with this series, Lockdown Archive and Shelter in Plates, Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari assemble images culled from the web to try to make sense of the military siege in Watertown, Massachusetts during the hunt for the Boston Marathon Bomber.

Her latest series of works covers the big issues today — ice caps melt and Aleppo is under siege in her typical explosive painting style where everything is recognisable yet with an air of the intangible.

The Winter Siege in - game event is coming to Call of Duty ®: WWII!

The fiscal Q2 sales on Ubisoft's earning report increased 34 %, largely due to the Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, the third DLC of For Honor, and the release of Rainbow Six: Siege in Hong Kong.

Ubisoft has officially unveiled the two new Attacking Operators coming to Rainbow Six Siege in Operation Chimera.

In italics because it's possible to talk about Siege in the same watercooler conversations as CS: GO or Dota 2.

The town of Bacalar fell to the Chan Santa Cruz Maya due to siege in 1858 resulting in the massacre of nearly all, including women and children.

Until Puppies and Babies and their sister store, Pets of Bel Air stop selling live animals, the activists claim they will continue their siege in the hopes that this chain will succumb to public pressure to go humane and only adopt out animals from shelters with the help of local rescue organizations.

As for 403 (b) and 457 plans, employer - sponsored retirement plans offered by tax - exempt organizations such as charities, public schools, and universities may be under siege in an effort by the current administration to simplify retirement savings options.

John Keegan takes us inside Berlin in the Spring of 1945 during the most intense city siege in history.

President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) looks across a battlefield in the aftermath of a terrible siege in this scene from director Steven Spielberg's drama «Lincoln.»

Anyone watching «Waco» is going to feel very sorry for David Koresh and his followers, but based on all accounts of what happened before, during, and after the 1993 siege in Waco, TX, only the latter deserve such pity.

It continues 2005's early obsession with home invasion and falling under siege in broken sanctuaries, and it uses mirrors, paths into the woods, and dark hollows with what at first appears to be an admirable level of Yeatsian «Stolen Child» smarts.

Director Peter Berg licks the story along at an efficient pace, imparts a powerful sense of a city under siege in the overhead camerawork, and wrings tears in a final reveal involving the actual participants.

You are an exploding cigar,» laments a confidante of the clones under siege in BBC America's thrillingly entertaining Orphan Black.

Chronological dating, or simply dating, is the process of attributing to an object or event a date in the past, allowing such object or event to be located (UPDATED) President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday released a list of local officials who allegedly funded the Maute siege in Marawi City.

But the idea that natural selection can operate on groups, and can produce group - level adaptations, has been under siege in a philosophical and semantic war among biologists since the 1960s.

The panel highlights the time that Russian security forces ended a hostage siege in a Moscow theatre in 2002 by filling the venue with fentanyl, an anaesthetic gas.

The same group said it was behind a January attack on a hotel and restaurant in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou that killed 29 people as well as a November 2015 hotel siege in Mali.

The deadly shootout in Melbourne and the Sydney cafe siege in 2014 both involved illegal guns.

Bologna withstood Sampdoria's siege in the second half and added a third on the counterattack in the 73rd as Godfred Donsah ran from inside his own half before rolling the ball across for substitute Orji Okwonkwo, who had been on the pitch for under four minutes.

They invoked Sarajevo, the Yugoslavian city that had hosted the Winter Games a decade earlier and, as a result of the war in the Balkans, remained under what would be the longest siege in modern history.

I was talking about Micah 6 which was written during the time of King Hezekiah, the one who built a tunnel to bring water into Jerusalem before the siege in 702 by the Assyrians.

At the end of World War II, in January 1945, Hitler's army held out in Budapest for a month» the 31st siege in the city's history.

Facebook has been under siege in recent days from lawmakers, regulators, users, shareholders, and even its own employees.

Not exact matches

In fact, the Siege of Veracruz was full of names that would eventually become essential pieces of the Civil War, including future Generals Meade, «Stonewall» Jackson, and Longstreet.

The brothers» next B film, Siege, was written in a week, shot in two weeks, and made on an even skimpier budget.

Restaurant owners who spoke to Fortune stood in solidarity with their immigrant employees who participated in the nationwide «Day Without Immigrants» strike, which organizers hoped would highlight their importance to the American economy and daily life at a time when they feel under siege following the election of President Donald Trump.

In July 2012, the Department of Justice coordinated an elaborate siege of Dotcom's 25,000 square - foot mansion in New Zealand, and local authorities placed Dotcom in custodIn July 2012, the Department of Justice coordinated an elaborate siege of Dotcom's 25,000 square - foot mansion in New Zealand, and local authorities placed Dotcom in custodin New Zealand, and local authorities placed Dotcom in custodin custody.

It's a radical experiment in peace - making through inclusion and understanding, now under siege yet again.

Algeria said on Sunday it expected heavy hostage casualties after its troops ended a desert siege, but Western governments warned against criticizing tactics used by their vital ally in the struggle with Islamists across the Sahara.

Musk should look at the team Trump has put in charge of the country's climate - and - energy future and draw the obvious conclusions: Valid climate science is now officially under siege, and sustainable or renewable energy sources are about to lose out big - time to Big Oil.

The retail and grocery sectors in Canada have been under siege from Target and Walmart, and yet retailers and grocers typically enjoyed double - digit increases in their fortunes.

A union - driven protectionist bent against foreign carmakers made Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s feel like a keep under siege.

Civilians under siege by Assad regime forces and its supporter foreign terrorist groups, wait for their evacuation in Aleppo, Syria, on Dec. 20, 2016.

The kids in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore and other cities who live through a siege of gun violence EVERY DAY.

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The e-commerce giant is plowing money in with its blockbuster Echo home automation device portfolio, its Prime streaming video and music service, and its industry - leading Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform, which is under siege from rivals including Microsoft and Google.

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The Dowdles both said they learned about the Waco Siege when it was in the news, particularly that Koresh and the Branch Davidians were crazy and brainwashed.

The Dowdles spoke to people on all sides of the siege: FBI agents, ATF agents, and David Thibodeau, a Branch Davidian who survived the fire (played by Rory Culkin in the series).