Sentences with phrase «about uprisings»

Still an active correspondent, Tucker crisscrossed the continent, filing stories about the uprisings in the Congo, the civil war in Sierra Leone, and the postgenocidal conflict in Rwanda.

Many Copts are ambivalent about the uprising against the Mubarak regime.

I was reading an article on the New York Times fashion page about the uprising of the maxi dress; the mini is «out» and street style reflects this.

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Hey man, I said «often - laughable» and the story about the uprising was the best part, in my opinion.

When they do get to the topic of the movie, he has to deal with the barely concealed racism of questions about how many white people are killed in this movie about a uprising against slave owners (His response, pointing out that the anger about the depiction of killing in a movie is misguided compared to real - world killing, is spot - on).

Further to what Mark said on Joe Konrath's blog, in his smashwords blog he's outright daring the Big 6 to do something about the uprising he says is coming.

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One is an online archive, called simply 858, about Egypt's 2011 popular uprising.

There's a reason paranoid officials tried to block Chinese netizens from reading about populist uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere.

Later that night, while riffing on the vile comments left by trolls on his YouTube videos, headliner Chris Hardwick talks about the nerd uprising.

Turkey has detained nearly 16,000 people for suspected links to the failed uprising, and about half of them were formally arrested to face trial.

«If there is a grassroots uprising about the issue of who owns user data, we can get it passed,» Wyden said, citing other pieces of bipartisan legislation that once seemed like a long - shot.

Critics of a regime - change strategy note that the only way it could be brought about — short of war, coup or uprising — is with China's acquiescence.

If Jesus existed (and that is not a given since his name means «salvation,» he's probably an allegorical character), and if the stories about his visit to Jerusalem early in the reign of Pontius Pilate are true, he died because he was an anti-Roman insurgent, probably involved in a Zealot uprising over the use of the Temple treasury to finance the construction of an aqueduct.

Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam.

Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh, who judge this inchoate NGO uprising as presently «the only force we see that can break the global gridlock,» finish their important study with a judgment about its high stakes: «The great question of our age is whether people, acting with the spirit, energy, and urgency our collective crisis requires, can develop a democratic global consciousness rooted in authentic local communities.

He saw himself as the leader of an uprising to rid their world of Roman Order and bring about the new order of God's kingdom on earth; the true Messiah.

About that time, the institute accepted several refugees from the Hungarian uprising of 1956.

Still convinced that Jesus would lead some kind of political uprising, the disciples argued amongst themselves about who would reign beside him when he became king.

The authorities, like Luther himself, were frightened about the general unrest and the danger of an uprising.

But a bloody turning point came in 1821 when the Greek uprising against the Ottomans brought about a rampage between Eastern Orthodox Christians (whom the Protestant missionaries disliked as much they did Roman Catholics) and the Turkish authorities.

The 57 - year - old Spanish manager, who has been a vital part of Newcastle's uprising in the recent past, was amongst the special guests for the night and had a lot of positive things to share about the club's history as well as the progress that it's making.

We've seen this trend on Epolitics.com before, for instance during the Jena Six protests in 2007, and you can also see an analogy in how Twitter and Facebook helped to spread the word about the initial uprisings in Tunisia.

During the Q&A session, there were a lot of questions about the potential for international community to influence Syria uprising.

We will tell them about a great uprising of hope - a time when the British people stood up for justice, and we prevailed.

The interesting thing about all revolutions and uprisings is nobody knows if they are successful or not.

The suit says the director and other board members sent worried e-mails about the payroll problems, with Reed directing Marshall in one message «to calm down the employees in order to avoid any uprising over the JBRC's failure to pay [them] what they have earned.»

Political leaders were celebrating the anniversary of the Libya uprising today, despite ongoing concerns about human rights abuses under the new regime.

Nonetheless I will share a few thoughts about the very importance of June 4 and most especially remind us of the underlining values and principles which guided the popular uprising.

An article in some copies on Saturday about reaction to the New York State Legislature's approval of a measure to legalize same - sex marriage referred imprecisely to the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in 1969.

Washington (CNN)-- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour had blunt words on CNN's State of the Union about the conservative uprising that toppled a moderate Republican candidate in New York's 23rd Congressional District.

How did you hear about Egypt's uprisings?

Hawass, who under Hosni Mubarak was recently named minister of antiquities, has been confronting an unusual uprising among his own staff as well as questions about his political future.

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

Her calm causes District 13's demanding president Coin (Jullianne Moore) to have doubts about her as the symbolic icon of the uprising... until Katniss shows the rage she harbors for their enemy.

But the book also lays the groundwork for a larger story, one that's not just about one girl's harrowing experience in the Hunger Games but about the government that requires it and the popular uprising that is bound to come.

The experience Cleo describes of an eclectic native uprising, simultaneously strong and broken, is reflected in the film's calico assembly — reflective, too, of Hopinka being too swept up in civil disobedience to worry about perfect coverage or to care about hiding the seams.

Rebellion (15)(3/5) is about a native uprising in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia in the south - west Pacific in 1988, on the eve of the election battle between Francois Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.

The Scavengers are still about on the surface and constantly trying to begin an uprising, so Cruise has to stay on his toes throughout the action.

Note: This movie is not to be confused with Joel and Nash Edgerton's crime thriller The Square (2010) or Jehane Noujaim's Netflix documentary The Square (2013), about the Egyptian uprising.

As previously announced, the movie is based on a forthcoming book by Daniel H. Wilson about a robot uprising against the human race.

But what used to be a narrative underpinning — the totalitarian corruption from which bread and circuses are meant to divert attention — has become superscript this time, with President Snow (Donald Sutherland) so deeply concerned about Katniss» capacity to incite an uprising amongst the wretched, increasingly angry masses that his usual handling tactic of blackmail swiftly escalates to murder plans.

Autodefensa has elements of a populist uprising, and the grisly sights of such things as heads of decapitated victims lined up like ducks in a shooting gallery or a woman's story about the barbarous murder of a little child can not help but win sympathy for their argument for self - defense — especially when the Mexican government is, at best, ineffective when it comes to protecting its citizens.

Previously in competition with «Delta» (2008) and «Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project» (2010), Mundruczó won the festival's Un Certain Regard prize in 2014 with «White God,» a sensational thriller about a canine uprising that provided a handy metaphor for the return of the repressed.

Special Correspondents (Unrated) Ricky Gervais wrote, directed and co-stars in this remake of Envoyes Tres Speciaux, the French farce about a radio journalist (Eric Bana) and assistant (Gervais) who decide to fake their own disappearance and flee to New York during an uprising in a South American Banana Republic.

So, as is likely to happen when you're country is trying to conquer the world, war breaks out, and the boys are about to be shipped to the Sudan to stop an uprising.

John Ridley's critically acclaimed documentary about the Los Angeles uprising LET IT FALL: LOS ANGELES 1982 - 1992 premiered in theaters and aired on ABC in April.

But Catching Fire argues that we can use the parties and the gowns and the TV appearances in a subversive way, and in this case it's getting a whole generation into a science fiction story that's pretty much about a socialist uprising.

Another mutant uprising is about to begin, and this time it's a lot more difficult to tell who the?

In 1955, Howard Hawks made a very good epic spectacle called Land ofthe Pharaohs that depicted a slave uprising against an evil pharaoh.William Faulkner wrote the screenplay, but later expressed hisdisappointment about the project because he «didn't know how ancientEgyptians talked.»