Sentences with phrase «as civil disobedience»

Inherent unfairness generates litigation as well as civil disobedience (F4J).

I like to think of what he did as civil disobedience in the tradition of Henry Thoreau, not hacking.

The key difference between «geoengineering as self - defense» and «geoengineering as civil disobedience» is what does the justificatory work.

Similarly, one might argue that geoengineering as civil disobedience can avoid the objections to self - defense because it purports to benefit all victims of climate change.

That doesn't work nearly as well and I would argue that it's not really quite the same as civil disobedience, which I would want to confine to disobedience of the unjust law itself.

That is, by an act of imagination, creation theology becomes a warrant for what the Empire would regard as civil disobedience.

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«But if there was a situation in which employers decided to knowingly continue to hire someone illegally — for example, as an act of civil disobedience — then they could be prosecuted for a felony for harboring illegal workers.»

• Commercial property insurance covers everything related to the loss and damage of company property due to events such as wind and hail storms, fire, smoke, civil disobedience, and vandalism.

As lawyers, our legal ethics obligations mean that we can not advise clients or others to engage in civil disobedience.

Conservatives need to defend themselves against marginalization, even as we realize that if we are to remain faithful, we might have to commit civil disobedience.

«Civil Disobedience» has been criticized as naïve, but this «bible of protesting minorities» profoundly influenced both Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and, through them, both Indian independence and the U.S. civil rights moveCivil Disobedience» has been criticized as naïve, but this «bible of protesting minorities» profoundly influenced both Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and, through them, both Indian independence and the U.S. civil rights movecivil rights movement.

Both have been arrested and served six - month jail sentences for acts of civil disobedience in protesting the School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)-- a military school in Fort Benning, Georgia, that has trained Latin Americans in tactics of war, terrorism and torture.

1) I agree with just civil disobedience and, as I see it, this is the foundation of Hobby Lobby's actions.

Would I have been willing to sacrifice my reputation as a «Bible - believing Christian» by rejecting biblical arguments used to support segregation and oppose civil disobedience?

Oberlin College went so far as to advocate «civil disobedience» in the face of the fugitive slave laws (leading to the Oberlin - Wellington Rescue Case — an important event in the history of American civil liberties).

The police arrested several faith leaders, including Claiborne, for staging a prayer vigil as an act of civil disobedience that culminated at the door of Senator Paul Ryan's office.

Pope Pius XII did not demand that people rise up in violence to stop the Nazis, yet many regard him as a hero because he and the Church were able to save 800,000 Jews through civil disobedience and cultural resistance.

He was outspoken in his denouncement of slavery as a moral wrong and may be considered a pioneer in the area of civil disobedience.

Sixteen Seventeen protestors were arrested today in what's being billed as the first major act of civil disobedience since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office on Jan. 1.

«And for the miscreants and hoodlums, the Lagos State Government and the Police Command would not allow any act of civil disobedience and those arrested would be dealt with in accordance with the law and further arrests would be made as investigation continues,» he sai

In her 1972 work Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, Arendt points out that the rise of state violence is frequently connected to a decrease in substantive power as regimes mistakenly believe they can retain real control through violent measures (CR 184).

The reaction to civil disobedience by the state is in turn drastically distorted, hence the police take measures such as have been witnessed over the past few weeks and months.

The Governor stated that the state security apparatus have been mobilized to immediately commence patrol, particularly within the areas identified as hotspot, to nip in the bud any attempt to cause civil disobedience and unrest in the state.

This birth voter's apathy, civil disobedience to constituted authorities and failure to perform statutory duties as a precursor to the eventual burial of social contract.

IPOB describes the boycott as a potent weapon of civil disobedience to activate demand for referendum, the report noted.

If blocking traffic counted as protected speech, it wouldn't be a crime — and it wouldn't be civil disobedience.

Mark - Viverito said she approved of civil disobedience as a means of protest, and proudly said she had done it many times: «I engage in that kind of First Amendment way of expressing yourself.»

In answer to the question of whether «peaceful civil disobedience (such as people staging sit - ins or occupying shops)... was an acceptable or unacceptable way of protesting,» 73 % of people said it was acceptable and only 22 % said it was unacceptable.

The civil - disobedience protests against the Amadou Diallo shooting hit a new high yesterday as NAACP chief Kweisi Mfume and 58 other demonstrators got themselves arrested.

Watkins Glen, NY — Eleven veterans representing all branches of the U.S. armed forces, were among 13 arrested on Tuesday morning in a human blockade at Crestwood Midstream on Route 14 as part of We Are Seneca Lake's ongoing civil disobedience campaign against gas storage in underground lakeside salt caverns.

A few years ago, I and dozens of others frustrated by the state's failure to resolve the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit and provide the resources coming to the city schools as a result barricaded the entrance to the Capitol in Albany in an act of civil disobedience.

The whole idea here is «perseverance through patience»: Richard and Mildred are strong and in love from frame one through to the very end, and though the threat they feel is pervasive, they fight it with the civil disobedience of... eating dinner as a family.

Sundance hints that «Joshua comes of age on screen as he rallies tens of thousands to civil disobedience» which means this is as much of a story about him as it is about the movement.

Rather than debate individual responsibility, gun control, American domestic and foreign policy and civil disobedience (as Millar did), it all comes down to Cap doing everything he can to help his incredibly guilty - seeming best friend.

As a nonviolent act of civil disobedience escalates into a stand - off with law enforcement officials, issues such as homelessness, mental illness, and drug addiction are exploreAs a nonviolent act of civil disobedience escalates into a stand - off with law enforcement officials, issues such as homelessness, mental illness, and drug addiction are exploreas homelessness, mental illness, and drug addiction are explored.

As a result, don't be surprised to find yourself rooting for the radical Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and other more confrontational elements of the movement who employ civil disobedience as tacticAs a result, don't be surprised to find yourself rooting for the radical Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and other more confrontational elements of the movement who employ civil disobedience as tacticas tactics.

Indeed, as even the Catholic League president insinuated, our schools, incubators of civic culture, play a significant role in instructing students about civil disobedience.

Even the Center for Civic Education, a 40 - year - old nonprofit organization whose National Advisory Committee reads like a Who's Who of democratic values and traditions (including a dozen current and former members of Congress and a couple of Supreme Court justices), does not explain in its curriculum standards that civil disobedience is rooted in fundamental principles as opposed to personal preferences.

The families, offended by what they regarded as sartorial tyranny, have since given their children a two - year lesson in civil disobedience, the Bill of Rights, the American legal system, and the vagaries of iron - on patches.

Another PBS lesson plan on civil disobedience asks students to identify «issues of concern» (such as school uniforms or a tax exemption for a business that pollutes), «brainstorm different ways people make their opinions known about issues of concern,» «discuss which of these methods are acceptable» means of protest to them,» and «identify possible negative consequences of activism to individuals engaged in these activities.»

While she complained, according to Education Week, that the school district should have granted her a leave of absence, a letter writer to the newspaper reminded the teacher of her history: «While civil disobedience and legal protest have long been used as ways of attracting attention to a cause, civil disobedience is unique because it has always carried with it the obvious risk of arrest and possible imprisonment.»

Groups as diverse as ACT UP (gay rights), Critical Mass (environmental bicyclists), even the archconservative Catholic League are getting on the civil disobedience bandwagon.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

That's the chant that rang out as approximately 140 people sat arm - in - arm on LaSalle Street Wednesday in front of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) headquarters, participating in a pre-planned act of «civil disobedience» to protest the proposed closing of 54 Chicago schools.

What's been most striking in my reporting on this issue is meeting students as young as 11 or 12 who are getting involved, speaking out, and performing, essentially, civil disobedience for the cause of public education.

Consent by the People has not been deemed to be of importance therefore leaving civil disobedience as the next step in a parent's duty to defend what they think is best for their children.

Pirates who illegally access research materials may paint the sharing of copyrighted material as an act of civil disobedience that benefits the public by making information more accessible.

«Brave acts of civil disobedience... [give] March its educational value even as Powell's drawings give Lewis's crisp narration an emotional power.»

The issue remains confusing and contentious for many Christians today, as issues of political activism, religious freedom, and civil disobedience confront those seeking to understand this crucial relationship.

The children and teens who are involved in the civil disobedience against the government fight tirelessly for their rights as humans and attempt to create a new world where their innocence is preserved.