Sentences with phrase «after years of protests»

Ringling decided this past year to end its circus after years of protests.

After years of protests and rallies, a compromised bill and some eleventh - hour tension on the Council floor, the intensely debated Right to Know Act has been approved by the City Council in its very last day of session.

The surprising move comes after years of protests from animal welfare advocates who objected to harsh living conditions imposed on the animals by the circus.

Mills founded the Greyhound Rescue League as a dog adoption agency after years of protesting kennel conditions at the state's greyhound racing tracks.

Not exact matches

Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20 - year - old regime has risen after he cast himself as the guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

The number of protest votes fell to a little more than a fifth of the total after the advertising company came back last year with a more modest 48 million - pound plan for the executive.

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.

A white Arkansas man faces up to 20 years in prison after being found guilty in the beating of an African - American man during racially charged protests last summer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

BEIJING (AP)-- More than 10,000 workers at a state - owned machinery manufacturer in southern China are protesting low wages and company plans to lay off thousands of staff after posting losses for three years, employees said Wednesday.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

The widow of late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo said that after eight years of house arrest she is ready to «die at home» in protest of her continuing detention by Chinese authorities, a report said Wednesday.

As Naomi Schaefer Riley noted in the Wall Street Journal about events this year at Notre Dame: «About thirty students walked out of The Vagina Monologues in protest after the first scene.

Back in 1995, when the album R.I.O.T. (Righteous Invasion of Truth) was released — a mere 11 years after Footloose hit theaters — factory dance - offs were still seen as a legitimate form of protest.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

The pipeline was halted late last year by former President Obama after several months of protest from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of Natives.

After a year of campus protests, none of us in the seminar — except perhaps the international students — could avoid guilt when someone quoted François's statement that «it may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.»

Even as late as 1937, four years after Heidegger was supposed to have withdrawn from the Nazi party, students at his own university thought it appropriate to protest Nazi denigration of Karl Jaspers by boycotting Heidegger's lectures.

Protests during the one - year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson turned violent after police say two groups of people exchanged fired late last night.

In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a new mosque opened earlier this month after more than two years of community protests, legal hurdles and vandalism.

Neo-orthodoxy was a striking protest against the liberal confidence that God could be possessed, and its return to the dialectic of the presence and the absence of God testified to the way believers felt during the years before and after World War II.

Four years after the first militant uprooting of Golden Rice, waves of protest mobilisations stir anew in the Philippines and Bangladesh against its commercialisation, while debate rages on in Indonesia, India and other Asian countries where Golden Rice is planned for commercial release.

Four years after the militant uprooting of Golden Rice, waves of protest mobilizations stirs anew in the Philippines and Bangladesh against its commercialization, while debate rages on in Indonesia, India and other Asian countries where Golden Rice is planned for commercial release.

Who knows, he could do better than three FA cup wins in the last four years, three community shield wins in the last four years, twenty years of champions league participation and overseeing the building of a magnificient stadium that has propelled us into the top five clubs in the world, All I can say is this, after supporting Arsenal for over sixty years Arsene Wenger is the best their was, the best their is and the best their ever will be and despite numerous attempts to organise protests against him the anti wenger brigade has always failed miserably.

And after a decade of patience and more than 3 years of being lied to about transfers Arsenal fans have EVERY RIGHT to protest against Wenger and demand CHANGE.

Peter Hill - Wood, who was the Arsenal chairman for over 30 years until recently, has jumped to the defence of Arsene Wenger after recent protests calling for Le Prof to be sacked.

I'm guessing that, after years of taking things for granted, last seasons protests along with not getting the full support from the board, must have hit Wenger like a slap in the face with a wet fish.

As reported in the Evening Standard, the fury and frustration of the Arsenal fans after the club tried to sneakily add on a charge to next year's season tickets because we are playing Barcelona in the next phase of the Champions League caused a backlash, with many contacting the club in outrage to protest.

The protests against Wenger have been horrendous this year, but has everyone forgotten that we went a whole 20 games unbeaten after the first game of the season?

Why Lynch chose to sit hasn't yet been revealed, but it comes nearly one year after Colin Kaepernick began a protest of the oppression of people of color by sitting and kneeling during the national anthem in the 2016 season.

the protest IS NOT a violent one (believe me after being in the army for 10 years I know what one of those looks like) ok so the protest may not cause too big a stir in the board room but do we have to sit meekly and just put up and shut up??

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

After a contentious year of protests by competing restaurant owners, Santangelos, Tinley Park's swank, upscale eatery, whose landlord is the village's Park District, has closed - for now.

The Met has finally apologised to the family of Ian Tomlinson and admitted responsibility for his death, four years after he was killed during the G20 protests in London.

Seven rough - sleepers could have faced up to two years in prison after being accused of breaching an injunction which bans them from sleeping in tents in protest against the city council's homeless policy.

Adeyeye, who, a few days ago resigned his position as the Pro-Chancellor of Ekiti State University in protest, after the state chapter of the party dashed his hopes and adopted Governor Ayodele Fayose's deputy as the party's flag bearer said, «the governor and myself are friends and I believe reason will prevail and we cooperate together,» and then «fight for next year's election, and win by the grace of God.»

Given the over 21 - year - gap in the ability to demonstrate publicly (and the government's refusal to pay attention to their voices), the protesters remain in Bucharest's Piata Universitatii, after an entire month of daily protests, becoming a Romanian symbol of freedom of expression.

The all - girl group are currently facing prison sentences of up to seven years after a protest at the Orthodox Church's support for Putin.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Three years after its planned closing sparked outrage and protests among AIDS activists, the renovation of the city's Chelsea sexual health clinic is largely completed and the clinic has been seeing patients since March 5.

After several years of discussion and protests, New York State Parks began its first step to transform West River Parkway into a multi-use trail along the Niagara River on Grand Island.

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).

It was the state's response to a year of protests and discussion after the death of Eric Garner, and a grand jury's decision not to indict the NYPD officers shown on video choking him to death.

After several years of controversy and a huge public protest, it finally wrote a letter suggesting it opposed desalinization and called for further study.

The leaders had assembled at Columbus Circle to protest a skit about Italian - Americans on «Saturday Night Live» earlier this year — but shifted their focus to a defense of Columbus after City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito questioned the propriety of honoring him.

Even after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, sparking nationwide protests, the case promised to drag on for years thanks to a federal civil rights investigation, internal NYPD probe, and civil suit from Garner's family.

Convicted cop killer and Black Liberation Army member Herman Bell walked out of prison a free man Friday afternoon after more than 40 years behind bars — despite fierce protests...

A year after a massive protest at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport in opposition of Trump's controversial travel ban, more than 150 people marched down Montgomery Street on Monday afternoon.

A year after India Cummings died at Erie County Medical Center, protestors were at the door of the Erie County Holding Center protesting her death and demanding changes.

The City Council opened its stated meeting Thursday with parallel protests over recent police killings of African - Americans, protests that sharply illustrated the different styles of a pair of black lawmakers from Brooklyn, both of whom insiders say aspire to lead the body after next year.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

The New Pact for Research in France - What's in it for Young Scientists 14 October 2005 The French government has unveiled its Pact for Research, a new draft bill intended to give French research a new impetus, after nearly 2 years of protests and consultations with the scientific community.