Sentences with phrase «when political protest»

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The current scandal may be the country's worst yet, with Prime Minister Najib Razak facing increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing last month to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

Those efforts would come as Prime Minister Najib faces increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing this week to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

Nuns when I was growing up got involved in political protests, they taught school, and truth be told, represent a more «Liberal» element that this now «far right wing» church.

When she turned in later years to racial protest and fantasies of a nonnuclear postcolonial family, Baker donned an intrepid and progressive political identity.

Radicals should protest (as Jim Wallis does in Sojourners [January 1986, pp. 4 - 5]-RRB- when Nicaragua restricts political and religious liberty.

Whilst I am a regular participant in political protests and demonstrations — I believe it is right to protest against something you see as being wrong, but I think people need to remember that when players are struggling with form and confidence and the team is under great pressure, then as a supporter of your team it is more appropriate to get behind the team during the match.

This is the provision the police often relies on to injunct demonstrations especially when such intended protests have political connotations.

When the moment of crisis finally came earlier this year, with massive civilian protests first in provincial towns and then, spectacularly, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, splits emerged among the political elite over how to react and the army command waivered.

One naturally suspects that a sort of reflexive sexism is behind it, although to be fair Nick Robinson faced similar attacks when he was BBC political editor, including protests in Scotland whipped - up by then - SNP leader Alex Salmond, who cynically manipulated this strain of left - wing anti-media activism to try to threaten Robinson into producing more sympathetic coverage.

This effort, of course, did not prevent political opponents from organizing pockets of protests and coopting willing reporters into false reports, even when nearly 30 states were in a similar dilemma.

The nearest to a Conference when we were top of the political pile in the last twenty years was 2000 after the fuel protests and in 2006 but in both cases we were only level - pegging with Labour (and in 2000 only very briefly).

In 2013, Williams stunned the political world when he shouted in protest during former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's final State of the City address, and when he suddenly announced that he was running for Council speaker after the November election.

When House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress for his role in the Fast and Furious scandal, Rangel called it a «perversion of the job of the House of Representatives» and «absurd political theater,» and he joined most of his Democratic colleagues in walking out of the chamber in protest.

Linnertz and his boss, Mayor Stephanie Miner sparked union protests, neighborhood demonstrations and political criticism last year when they announced a plan to close Station 7 at 1039 E. Fayette St. and to reduce the number of firefighters per shift from 69 to 65.

He entered the political arena in 1986 when he led student protests against a bill that threatened to limit access to higher education and create a two - tier university system.

Power teaches anthropology at the University of East London, where Knight also worked until 2009, when he was fired by the university in connection with organizing a previous political protest.

So when Wade stopped by the mbg office on a blustery winter day, we decided to ask her how she finds the energy to show up at protests and speak out against the current political climate while still finding the space to take care of herself.

Protest is not a pose, yet when it comes to the fashion industry sampling socio - political discourse that's often exactly where you end up.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Zapruder's story, that of the «world's most famous home video», might have resonated in an interesting way today, when ordinary people can easily record images of protests and political violence on their phones.

THE TAP (originally set up at USA in 2014) Not going forward STUDIO: Universal Cable Productions TEAM: Andrew Lenchewski (w, ep), Aaron Tracy (w, co-ep), Rob Reiner (ep), Alan Greisman (ep), Charlie Ebersol (ep), Simon Cellan Jones (d) LOGLINE: Set at Yale University circa 1969, during the height of America's cultural and political revolution — a time when the campus is being upended by antiwar protests, race riots and the arrival of its first female students.

In 1972, when the United States was experiencing race riots, war protests, and campus violence, Harvard political scientist Edward C. Banfield penned an essay, «How Many, and Who, Should Be Set at Liberty?»

So when we were in the midst of a unit on civil disobedience and had read Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., articles on the «take a knee» protest, and some interesting political cartoons, I introduced the lyrics to Bob Dylan's «A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.»

Five years ago, then - Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee accelerated the downsizing of the D.C. school system when she moved quickly to close 23 schools, igniting angry protest and long - lasting political backlash while spurring an exodus of students to the city's charters.

It was a roller - coaster time in American political and social history, when our nation experienced civil rights protests, the start of Beatlemania, and growing involvement in Vietnam.

An earlier version of this article misstated when the Queens Museum closed in political protest.

«This exhibition offers an opportunity to view the pictures from the vantage point of the twenty - first century in a time when women's rights and the social mores that determine their behavior are being questioned, debated, and even protested in the political arena,» Lombino explains.

It was also when the struggle for black civil rights became a defining — even unavoidable — feature of the American political landscape, both in moments of charged protest and those of provisional victory.

But in these highly charged times, it went from being almost universally well received for its political engagement to being the center of protests when an abstracted painting by the white artist Dana Schutz of the body of Emmett Till was condemned as an example of insensitive cultural appropriation.

356 S. Mission Road, an artist - run space connected to New York dealer Gavin Brown, was targeted for protest only when artists chose to use the site for political organizing, and some smaller galleries including Nicodim and Museum as Retail Space were targeted aggressively in the fall with protests during an opening and provocative graffiti after - hours, but for the most part business has gone on as usual for the galleries trying to bring the Downtown Arts District across the river.

Already, when the Governors» Forests and Climate Task Force — the political body responsible for lining up a supply of REDD credits for California — gathered in Aceh, Indonesia in 2010, they were met with protests (see video at 1:25).

First, why is it called extremism when you try to «intimidate» companies into making policy decisions you prefer, when that intimidation is done through protest, campaigning and civil disobedience, when the grand old tradition of political lobbying and corporate campaign contributions essential does the same thing?