Sentences with phrase «against the scourge of»

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes.

I stand today not just with our legislators, but everyone who is working to push back against the scourge of gun violence in our nation.»

«I hate to compare, but given the innovations he has carried out at IITA and how he has taken it a notch higher the development ladder, I must say that Dr. Sanginga understands the critical role of agriculture research institutes in our continent's grim battle against the scourge of hunger and poverty, more than any of his predecessors.

«We leave here united, ready to fight against the scourge of private enterprise in our classrooms.»

TD Bank economist Diana Petramala defended Canada against the scourge of prescient economic analysis by Mr. Krugman.

As a Toronto urbanite who grew up on a farm in rural Ontario, and who identifies with both city and country life, I recently became aware of a battle that rural residents of Ontario have been waging for five years, namely against the scourge of towering industrial wind factories that have been forced on -LSB-...]

One state, Virginia, has finally declared victory against the scourge of homelessness amongst our veterans by giving every single veteran shelter.

It's clear, however, that this is yet another measure enacted by the company against the scourge of spam and fake news.

Not exact matches

In other words, even if the Assyrian is in effect the scourge of God, does this mean that to fight against him is to fight against God?

The problem is mainstream muslims are clueless about how to stop them, we are doing out best to report them to the authorities but sometimes it is not easy even for US to tell and I think perhaps it is going to take a collective effort of all of us together to rid ourselves of this scourge... rather than a «Its us against the Muslim world» approach which only alienates more people, and is contribute to the problem spreading.

The glory of standing against this test through imprisonment and scourging belongs to Ibn Hanbal, the founder of one of the four schools of law.

January 26 — A part - time English team is going where bigger clubs fear to tread by taking a stand against betting sponsorship, partly because of the scourge of match - fixing pervading the sport.

Against Germany he did not play a part and was unused so there is really not much point going into that game in great depth — Toni Kroos, a scourge of Arsenal over the past few years in the Champions League gave Germany a 1 - 0 victory with a nice finish.

He has since been the scourge of the Arsenal faithful, when in a league match against the Gunners, he kicked Robin van Persie in the face and later celebrated his goal by running the full length of the pitch to slide in front of the Arsenal fans.

Showing growing concern over the rising tide of religious extremism, students suggested a wholesale reform of the Pakistan's history curriculum to eliminate discrimination against minorities and other disadvantaged groups so as to undertake a holistic and long - term effort to eliminate the scourge of intolerance from society.

Let us work together to end the scourge of state - sanctioned discrimination against LGBT workers.»

One of the student leaders who spoke with newsmen at the rally, Oladimeji Adebayo, said students from various institutions joined the protest in solidarity with the government and governor of Ekiti State stressing that as much as the students do not support corruption, the fight against the scourge should not be selective.

Cuomo: «The scourge of harassment and discrimination against transgender individuals is well - known — and has also gone largely unanswered for too long.»

The Dapchi incident occurred against a backdrop of a resurgence of violent attacks by the terrorists which had stripped the government's claim of «technically defeating» or otherwise ending the Boko Haram scourge, of any credibility.

London mayoral elect Boris Johnson says a fightback against the «scourge» of crime will be his priority at City Hall.

«The scourge of harassment and discrimination against transgender individuals is well - known — and has also gone largely unanswered for too long,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Also, the National Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, Mr. Ekpo Nta, has said corruption has become a big and lucrative in Nigeria despite the war being waged against the scourge.

According to Scarpino, the issues that he plans to address in his new role include Westchester's heroin and illegal drug epidemic — a situation he described as «a scourge that is destroying our youth» — as well as Internet predators, phone scams, child and elder abuse, domestic violence, and injustices against immigrants who he believes are preyed upon by people who take advantage of their fear of deportation.

For the study, MAbs were rapidly produced in tobacco plants in as little as ten days, giving promise to change the image of scourged product that causes lung cancer into a manufacturing system for societal benefits against infectious diseases.

The scourge of edge enhancement is sometimes detectable in exteriors depicting characters and buildings silhouetted against the sky, but it's not troublesome.

The criticisms launched against Klein center on her unbalanced, unremitting attack on capitalism as the scourge of the planet.

It is the year 2022, and as part of the Brotherhood, you must defend humanity against the scourge — tower defense style.

The great warrior king of the barbarians, Scourge of God, Attila the Hun leads the charge against the Roman Empire.

Guerrilla Games has been especially tight - lipped about the kind of enemies Aloy will face and the new dangers she'll encounter while scaling up the mountain to face off against whatever scourge is threatening the people.

One case was a suit in 1818 against the owners of The Scourge, a privateer whose officers and crew boarded and plundered a neutral ship, the Amiable Nancy.

Since then, they have been invoked in an ever - growing array of anti-crime objectives including the war on drugs, to battle the scourge of gun crimes, high - level fraud cases, and in the protection against sexual predators and child pornography.