Sentences with phrase «as a protest at»

Shaw said that his team would work on a process for handling additional arrests as protests at the Trans Mountain site continue.

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Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

Matt Sernett holds his daughter Wade, 5, atop his shoulders, as more than 1,000 people gather at Seattle - Tacoma International Airport to protest in Seattle.

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.

Marian Vayghan reacts after her uncle had been released from a detention center for deportation back to Iran as people protest at the International terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California.

At Los Angeles International Airport, hundreds of people had gathered to protest Trump's order, as chants of «refugees are welcome here» echoed through the arrivals hall.

As Altaf Rahamatulla, a Ford Foundation program associate, recently noted in Fortune, students are protesting these hateful activities with great passion and in huge numbers, as they did this fall at the University of MissourAs Altaf Rahamatulla, a Ford Foundation program associate, recently noted in Fortune, students are protesting these hateful activities with great passion and in huge numbers, as they did this fall at the University of Missouras they did this fall at the University of Missouri.

After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

DAMAC Properties had initially said it would stand by Trump, even as another of the billionaire's Middle East partners, the Lifestyle chain of department stores, halted sales of his «Trump Home» line on Wednesday in protest at his comments.

As numerous foreign citizens were detained at airports around the globe, triggering spontaneous protests, part of Trump's executive order was temporarily blocked by a federal judge in New York.

As usual, everyone howled in protest, insisting that trying to service that large an account all at once would wreck the company.

Toronto police officers take up positions as they face off with protesters during a protest at the corner of Queen Street and Spadina Avenue on June 27, 2010 in Toronto, Canada (Photo: Jemal Countess / Getty)

«Flash activism,» the label I prefer for online protest forms such as online petition, can be effective at influencing targets in specific circumstances.

SEATTLE, Washington, Melb - ourne... during the past 18 months, at major meetings of groups such as the WTO, IMF and G - 8, these and many other cities have seen hundreds of thousands of people protesting against the globalised economy and the institutions t

The law followed now - familiar protests from traditional taxi firms, furious at the competition posed by services such as Uber, which do not adhere to the same licensing standards and can offer lower prices by having drivers bear the costs of their vehicles.

Recently, the Twitter customer service account at Bank of America received bad press for confusing an Occupy Wall Street activist, who was protesting against the bank, as a customer in need of help.

As protests broke out at that Philadelphia Starbucks, Johnson and Schultz appeared in television interviews to pledge that the company would work to combat unconscious bias and racial profiling among its employees.

Educators in Phoenix and Denver rallied for more education funding at their state capitols on April 26, as part of a wave of teacher protests that have...

Businesses, such as UBM, WPP and drugs firm Shire, moved to Dublin in 2008 in protest at UK tax rules on overseas profits

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance called for a temporary ban on pick - ups at John F. Kennedy Airport as a protest against President Trump's ban on refugees from seven Muslim - dominated countries.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.

At the same time, some New Yorkers have deleted Uber over concerns that the company tried to profit during airport protests last month against President Trump's immigration order, as well as the ties the company's chief executive, Travis Kalanick, had to Mr. Trump.

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.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats stood up for residents of coastal communities Tuesday as several hundred British Columbians gathered at the legislature to protest the B.C. Liberals» reckless cuts to ferry services.

As the Dallas - based airline held its meeting at the Renaissance Blackstone Chicago Hotel on South Michigan Avenue, across the street hundreds of Southwest pilots protested.

The protests spread as far as Germany, where students at Kaiserslautern High School observed a moment of silence.

This May 1, 2018, file photo, shows Arizona teacher Aurelia Ionescu, front right, chanting with other teachers as protest organizers at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix.

Huffington Post: At United Nations, Organization Of Islamic Cooperation Calls For Ban On Insulting Prophet Muhammad As anti-American protests continue in Islamic nations against a U.S. - made film that mocks the Muslim prophet, the leader of the world's largest Islamic organization met with United Nations leaders this week to condemn violence over the film and call for a ban on insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

The incident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) as members of a small Kansas church that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

Contrary to Castro's protests, most of the early attention of the Assembly was political, with the major focus being on the war in the Persian Gulf — which was at its height in mid-February as the Assembly met.

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.

«The last two weeks have been about as grim and hopeless as any of us can remember,» Lamott wrote, listing events like the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine, Palestinian children killed by rocket fire while playing football on the beach and protests against young refugees showing up at the U.S. border.»

It would be just as logical to rant about how Christians all go around protesting at dead soldiers» funerals, just because of those wackos in the Phelps congregation.

As truckloads of equipment arrived at the fair organised by the Defence and Security Equipment International in East London in September 2017, Quakers were among faith groups protesting against arms trade and profiting from war.

They did it at the cost of what was considered a National Principle, but as the populace didn't protest, they did their jobs.

I will admit that there are churches that do shun Gays and Lesbians, such as Westburo but at the same time you see that often at their protest it is others of Faith who are challenging and counter-protesting.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

The Phelps family (a better description than a «Baptist church,» though even that is filled with tragic irony as they self destruct), protested at my former church.

-- This institution will make every effort to battle such reprehensible fundamentalist violence to ensure that such horrors are not repeated anywhere (even if that means Muslims volunteering — NOT protesting — to be ethnically profiled, as terrible as that would normally be in times of peace, at airports, to help catch the murderers).

Until the early 1970s historians of Pentecostalism argued that the movement emerged ex nihilo at the turn of this century as an alternative to fundamentalism in protesting the modernist trend that was capturing mainline Protestantism.

As for my own conclusion, I have to protest at the way Miola seems resolved to pin me down to matters of purely biographical interest, when we are all agreed that very little is known for certain about Shakespeare and his religion.

As many have said, protest at the hospital, but make it a celebratory one.

As Wael Ghonim watched the uprising in Tunisia gain steam, he polled the members of the «We Are All Khaled Said» Facebook page - named after a young Egyptian who died at the hands of police in Alexandria - to see who might come to a protest in Egypt on January 25.

The Anglo - Catholics are not alone in this by any means, but their cause was greatly discounted by such an unreasonable protest, which looked as if it was the last chance, coming at the close of the conference, and they wanted to make use of that chance.

A number of my fellow rock - bohemians hungered to get «our 60s,» our movement that would unite our generation with purpose — it was feeling I felt throughout my 80s teenage - dom, but I became disturbed at the way the «political» longings were increasingly so content - empty, not seriously seeking any overall account of things, and thus seeming ready to embrace any ol' something to be against that would serve as an excuse to protest.

-- Women in Paris decided to protest at 3:40 pm to symbolize the time they stop getting paid as a result of the wage discrepancy which allows the average male co-worker to earn 26 percent more.

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.

Disorienting, because it protests my deeper persuasion that success as an entrepreneur, or any professional, requires that career takes the throne of my priorities and remain there for, at the very least, a couple of years.

Her case drew the attention of the whole world, voices of protest and support arose in many countries, Filipino women demonstrated at home and in Hong Kong as well.

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.