Sentences with phrase «when rabble»

The Guardian: Mali: no rhythm or reason as militants declare war on music When a rabble of different Islamist groups took control of northern Mali in April there were fears that its rich culture would suffer.

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English actor Henry Ian Cusick is just right as the Christ — understated, enigmatic, appealing, somewhat distant, but completely human — a firebrand and rabble - rouser when provoked, self - assertive to the point of arrogance, warm and genuine.
Jesus found mankind a rabble of clever animals with brains & hands; when he left us we were men.
When the pair takes up drinking and rabble rousing in an attempt to put the years of combat and death behind them, the pair infuriates the whites in town, and bring concern and fear of repercussions to the Jackson family.
People first realized the boy was fast when he and his African - American pal Kyle Williams kept breaking out of the herd of six - year - olds chasing a ball across rec - league soccer fields in the Dallas — Fort Worth metroplex, leaving the rabble in the distance.
It started just before noon, when Suffolk Coastal's own Therese Coffey received a rabble - rousing reception before her contribution to international development questions.
Here's a fun approach to shifting the political baseline: track the Sunday morning talkshows, Media Matters - style, and rally the rabble to smack»em when they ignore your issues.
At that tragic pass, the South East governors roused themselves to «ban» IPOB (a panic - driven action of dubious legality)-- not when Kanu was inspecting a bathetic column of Biafra «troops»; not when he announced the formation of a Biafra Secret Service; not when he triumphantly claimed the president was a Buhari clone from the Sudan, after his medical vacation, not the Buhari original; and definitely not when he ordered his IPOB rabble to burn Nigeria, should any attempt be made at his arrest!
When Tom Watson described it as a «rabble», that is what it has felt like.
«At the very moment when people want solutions to the country's problems, Nick Clegg is at the head of a self - indulgent rabble of a party — turning in on themselves, rather than standing up for hardworking families,» he said.
Things get complicated when he finds out the chief rabble - rouser is none other than Miss Jones own boyfriend.
Perhaps the most damning indictment of «The Last Castle» lies in the fact that even when US audiences could be forgiven for liking something this blatantly rabble - rousing (the wake of September 11), they still panned it.
When I get the chance to quiz someone who seems disproportionately passionate about the snobbishness of literary critics or the rabble's appetite for trash, there's usually some highly charged personal history behind their indignation.
The location, an outpost for intergalactic criminals and rabble - rousers nestled in the head of a dead Celestial being, made a big splash last summer when it hosted the second act of Marvel's blockbuster «Guardians of the Galaxy» film.
Normally when an online game launches and all hell breaks loose, I am right on board with the masses, screaming and rabbling about how the developers should have been prepared.
«It was pretty difficult to sit in that courtroom and hear the judge, when he was offering up his reasons for judgment, say repeatedly that the Treaty 8 stewards of the land had no legal right or standing to be doing what they were doing,» said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs to rabble.
«It's a really sad thing when it seems that treaty rights are nowhere in our court system,» said Ana Simeon, Peace Valley Campaigner at Sierra Club B.C., in a phone interview with rabble.
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