Sentences with phrase «as a protest»

The strike began as a protest against proposed massive cuts in public spending, including higher education.

In a sense, abstract expressionism first started perhaps slightly as a protest of the project and the associations on the project, a kind of desire to free themselves from the project days.

As protests continue across the country, there is a renewed focus in the mainstream art world on work that addresses the effects of violence on black people.

It was clear to me we could not govern a city, even just as a protest movement, that way.

That strong, space - based culture has also been used as a protest tool.

Is there such a thing as a protest goal?

But not calling something for what it is is as bad as protesting.

As this protest shows, students want print not necessarily because they prefer the format over electronic, but rather for economic reasons.

Still, I'm voting for a third party candidate mostly as a protest.

Standing out on the street with a candle as a protest will not solve the problem.

Many couples also use divorce talk in the middle of a fight as a protest against things feeling really bad, or hopeless.

While by - elections are often used as protest votes against governments and have lower than usual turnouts, this parliamentary contest has a whole number of potentially significant ramifications for British politics.

She spoke recently at an event dedicated to preserving the Affordable Care Act as well as a protest against immigration orders at Hancock International Airport Sunday.

They formed in 1984 after New York's MoMA exhibited a survey of contemporary art that only included 13 female artists out of 169 in total — as well as protesting in person, they pasted the city with eyecatching posters.

Demonstrators stand outside of the Li Fung tower in Hong Kong as they protest over what they say are unpaid wages owed to textile workers in Turkey by Li and Fung and garment brand Esprit.

The findings appear to confirm the Lib Dems are no longer seen as a protest party, making it harder to win a new constituency.

I should point out that FOIA, the guy that released he climategate emails made explicit his reasons for doing so were socially motivated, and not as a protest against dreaded «big government».

A number of Robert Mapplethorpe photos, including a self - portrait (shown) were projected onto the exterior of the Corcoran Gallery of Art as protest against the cancellation of his exhibition «The Perfect Moment.»

Greaves said black Masses began as a protest by people who felt oppressed by their local religious cultures.

And what you characterize as «coercing journals» may just as well -LSB-(or better) be seen as protesting a deeply flawed editorial process.

Their resignations, they said, could be read as a protest at the commercial, pop - culture direction of the museum at the expense of education and scholarship.

Despite bringing an admirable level of consistency to the club in his 20 years in charge, some supporters have had enough of the veteran French coach and believe that the time for change has come as protests continue to build before games.

NYC Councilman Charles Barron is heading up the Thruway (OK, actually, he's taking the train) to file more than 43,500 signatures at the state Board of Elections to create an independent «Freedom Party» line on which he plans to run as a protest candidate for governor this fall.

Local opposition has also gone as far as protesting outside of Department of Social Services Commissioner Steve Banks» Brooklyn home.

Originally written as a protest song against boarding schools, the song has gone on to be adopted by protesters in apartheid South Africa and campaigners against the West Bank barrier.

This openness is not thought of so much as a protest against dogmatism as an insistence on the possibility of newer and richer insights and formulations of belief.

Mary Guedon of the group Raging Grannies holds a sign as she protests in 2010 outside of the Facebook headquarters in California.

In a book of watercolors, the Swedish artist and illustrator turns away from his fashion work for more intimate portraits that reflect the fragility of the human body as a protest against the slow response to the AIDS crisis.

Both comiXology and Amazon are currently running a 99 - cent sale on comics by Alan Moore, including the iconic V for Vendetta (illustrated by David Lloyd), which gave the world the Guy Fawkes mask as a protest symbol, thus allowing Anonymous to be anonymous.

She returned to Istanbul in 2014 after the Gezi Park demonstrations of the previous year, which began as a protest of the government's desire to remove the park and replace it with a mall.

Its new Fire phone has over 1500 one - stars, apparently as a protest from Greenpeace, who don't like Amazon's environmental policies.

There's been a huge rise in boots - on - the - ground, grassroots engagement during earth - sign Virgo in full effect, as protest marches and calls to government representatives reached record levels.

Serra joined in, wearing his hair in a ponytail and sporting a green military jacket even as he protested the Vietnam War.

Clarke is significant as well because Schneiderman is trying to lock up support of minority voting blocs since there are no candidates of color in the AG's race — a fact that has spurred NYC Councilman Charles Barron to run as a protest candidate for governor.

Opponents of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines hold a rally as they protest US President Donald Trump's executive orders advancing their construction, at Lafayette Park next to the White House in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2017.

As protests broke out, officials worried the backlash could escalate.

The Unite the Right rally was nominally planned as a protest against the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a city park.

i.e. it can be viewed as a protest against Trump's quick removal of any mentions on LGBT rights on the US.

«The Sabbath as Protest: Thoughts on Work and Leisure in the Automated Society.»

The appeal to the «superiority» of premodern biblical exegesis is best understood as a protest against the reductionism inherent in the long - standing monopoly of the historical - critical method, not as a rejection of rigorous historical study of the Bible.

Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem as a protest against racial injustice and police violence at the start of the 2016 season.

The only thing I've been doing is not turning up for some of the games, this wasn't done as a protest, it was done because I really couldn't be bothered going to watch the same turgid rubbish week after week.

He talked about wanting to play still, his camp reaching out to the Titans (who ultimately went with Brandon Weeden) and why he hasn't spoken out more as the protest and the controversy around them have continued.

Television also came into play as the protests spread, though not the heavily - censored domestic channels.

(The battle over New York's budget went into high gear Wednesday as a protest against cuts and the end of a «millionaires» tax» blockaded an entrance to the Capitol for almost an hour.

He began on the Today programme this morning, dismissing support for Ukip as a protest vote: