Sentences with phrase «as resistance to movement»

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The activist movement has grown steadily since the tribe established Sacred Stone Camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in April, a temporary site founded as a point of resistance to the pipeline.

As I have written earlier in these pages («A guide to the far right,» August 2 - 9, 1995), the militias are in many ways the successors to the tax resistance movement of the 1980s.

Bonhoeffer came to accept the full implications of the resistance movement, justifying his position as follows: «It is not only my task to look after the victims of madmen who drive a motor - car in a crowded street, but to do all in my power to stop their driving at all.

The draft resistance movement cultivated a macho image to counteract the image of the dominant society of draft resisters as cowards.

But as the tent gets bigger and as the missional movement spreads to rural America, we must initiate a conversation about how to effectively grow a more inclusive church in this unique context, where we are sure to meet some resistance.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Furthermore the existence of a diverse, mobile, and fragmented society, containing groups sufficiently alienated to find identity in religion and a global movement of resistance rather than in the culture of their land of birth, represents a major source of vulnerability for France, as it does for Britain and others.

As shown by the Times's description of local Tea Party resistance to FreedomWorks» advice to adopt more - traditional political practices, the movement's energy is potentially valuable but also inherently difficult to channel.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

The DisruptJ20 activist network is holding a series of events throughout Washington, D.C. on January 20, including the Queer Resistance on J20, a queer anti-inauguration party at a security checkpoint, at 6:30 a.m. at McPherson Square Park; the Movement for Black Lives #J20 Resistance at the Inauguration — a combined movement of Black Lives Matter DC, Baltimore BLOC and the Movement for Black Lives — at 7 a.m. at MPD Police Headquarters; the «Festival of Resistance: March Against Trump» at 12 p.m. at Columbus Circle to reject forms of hate and oppression such as racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia and ableism; and «Preparing for the Trump Era: What Anarchists Are» on January 21 at 5 p.m. at The Festival Center.

«My focus and my strong inclination remains to stay the course in Washington, to continue to be part of the resistance movement as it relates to Donald Trump and to work with my colleagues in government to stop him from doing some of the terrible things he wants to visit on the American people,» Jeffries told POLITICO New York during a brief interview following an annual State of the District speech in his Brooklyn district Thursday night.

Besides, calisthenics trainings are also intended to increase body strength, body fitness, and flexibility of the pupils through movements such as pulling or pushing oneself up, bending, jumping, or swinging, using only one's body weight for resistance; usually conducted in concert with stretches.

It started as a scrappy grass - roots protest movement against Trump, but now the so - called resistance is attracting six - and seven - figure checks from major liberal donors, posing an insurgent challenge to some of the left's most venerable institutions — and the Democratic Party itself.

According to its website, Occupy Wall Street defines itself as a «leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions.

Noah Wyle stars as Tom Mason, a former history professor who uses his knowledge to help lead a resistance movement, dodging aliens in a postapocalyptic landscape as he tries to rescue his own captive son.

The material — known as 1T» - WTe2 — bridges two flourishing fields of research: that of so - called 2 - D materials, which include monolayer materials such as graphene that behave in different ways than their thicker forms; and topological materials, in which electrons can zip around in predictable ways with next to no resistance and regardless of defects that would ordinarily impede their movement.

Another important thing is to make sure to begin learning every movement pattern with a relatively low amount of resistance and then gradually increase it as your body adapts.

It consists of the inner core muscles, such as the diaphragm, pelvic floor and transverse abdominus, which lie deep inside the abdomen and are the first to engage to protect the spine during heavy resistance training; the outer core muscles, including the abs, lats, spinal erectors, glutes and hip flexors, that generate movement and have an important stability function during high - speed activities.

Then, as the range of motion is reversed, the resistance to the movement will decrease, so the athlete will be experiencing variable resistance throughout full range of motion.

While free weights can only provide resistance in a vertical plane (because of gravity), elastic bands can provide resistance in the horizontal plane as well, thereby allowing you to add resistance to a greater number of functional movement patterns, as well as provide constant tension to the target muscles.

For example, when using chains, as the range of motion builds, the amount of chain being supported will increase, thereby increasing the amount of resistance to the movement until it reaches maximum at the top end of the movement.

If you are over the age of 50, one study suggests that you can get the best results from combining resistance and aerobic training, which could involve any type of exercise ranging from HIIT (High - Intensity Interval Training), such as various circuit training sessions to dynamic yoga, which mixes strength building exercises like push - ups and planks with dance - like movements.

If you kill the acceleration and force transfer in the majority of big compound lifts you will create a much bigger resistance for your muscles to work against, because you've eliminated the stretch reflex at the bottom of many movements as well as the elastic component intrinsic to most exercises.

So just as you'd add the resistance of dumbbells when doing an overhead press, you should also add resistance to your core movements.

This crawling exercise shifts the resistance from primarily gravity at the start of the movement to more of a horizontal resistance as greater tension is applied to the rope.

Making that connection between movement training and real life is at the core of the ACE Integrated Fitness Training ® (ACE IFT ®) Model, the Functional Movement and Resistance Training component of which provides a framework for developing stability or mobility as appropriate in a specific area of the body (phase 1), reintegrating it into a full - body movement (phase 2), adding external load and creating a stimulus for strength gains (phase 3) and increasing movement speed to develop bodily control and power (phase 4).

While isolating the weak muscle as during muscle testing, the patient is taught to contract and resist as the practitioner gives verbal cues and the appropriate isometric resistance against the weak muscle's direction of movement.

Isometric exercises — exercises that involve muscle contractions with no movement, such as clasping your hands and pressing your arms together — can be a great way to start resistance training.

An MET stretch is performed in the following way, using the hamstrings as an example: The therapist moves the hip into flexion, with the athlete on their back, until they encounter the point of resistance - where the movement stiffens, due to tightness in the hamstrings.

The only difference is that instead of promoting relaxation to reach your maximum range of movement as you do in passive stretching in isometric stretching you deliberately contract your muscles against a form of resistance for a number of seconds (normally between 8 and 10) to deliberately tire out the muscles and then when you relax you have a short window of opportunity in which you can stretch further before the stretch reflex reasserts itself.

For these sorts of extremely low load high velocity movements, where smaller muscle groups are the prime movers (such as the rotators and deltoids), maximum effort work should be more directed towards the core, with the athlete concentrating on high resistance abdominal rotations and back / shoulder movements to build up the structures that support the arm.

Against this tragic backdrop, Yuri escapes from a Soviet prison and joins the anti-Bolshevik resistance movement as he battles to reunite with Natalka and continue the fight for a free Ukraine.

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But as the reform movement gathers momentum, teachers unions are giving no quarter in their massive resistance against states trying to shake up failing public education...

The opt - out movement sprang up in the last several years as part of a broader resistance to testing, and has been particularly strong in states like Colorado, New Jersey, and New York.

As ever, we enter the New Year both greatly optimistic about the incredible opportunities that lie before our movement and greatly sobered by the unconscionable levels of resistance that many charter schools continue to face.

A measure of student academic growth extracted from PARCC scores will be a 10 percent weight in the evaluation of some teachers, and skeptics have questioned whether the NJEA sees the PARCC resistance movement as a way to escape the use of student data in teacher performance reviews.

I hope that the stories of resistance from front - line fighters, as well as analysis from some of the most renowned educators, inspire you to join this movement to reclaim and transform public education.

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The new ECOMOTIVE version of the Ibiza incorporates several solutions, such as the new closed front grille and new rear spoiler that combine to reduce resistance to movement and therefore decrease mechanical effort as well as fuel consumption and emissions.

He tends to write novels in which the protagonists are older (as in Exposed, a retelling of Shakespeare's Othello, set in the world of professional soccer) or in which the subjects and themes are mature (as in Tamar, a complex historical novel about the World War II resistance movement).

The ETA first appeared in the 1960s as a student resistance movement opposed to General Franco's military dictatorship (Franco banned the Basque language, suppressed their culture and had Basque intellectuals tortured for their beliefs).

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Put simply; price action is the study of market movement as it relates to prior levels of support and resistance.

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However, devotees began to re-establish the breed soon after the war, only to encounter danger once more when World War II broke out and Bouviers once again served as couriers — this time for the anti-Nazi resistance movements of several occupied northern European countries.

- Iizuka has received a ton of requests from fans to have their own original characters appear in Sonic games - while that couldn't happen, Sonic Forces» custom character recognizes that fan desire - the avatar was created with the idea of «making straight high - speed action» - this time the concept is that all three styles (Modern, Classic, Avatar) would be high - speed based - make selections for the face, mouth, body color, and gender of custom characters - each species will also have their own unique skills, such as wolves being able to pull nearby rings - you can't change custom characters in the middle of the game - there is some sort of feature that's unlocked after you've cleared the game once related to this - the new avatar style will have a speedy and rhythmic style like Modern Sonic, but also different vectors from Sonic - this includes differences in timing for pressing buttons, or the Wisps giving the avatar trickier movements - the story aims to depict heroes that would feel like Sonic - by controlling different characters, the devs hope to show a story that extends to explaining the world setting as well - the story concept has been «Hero Army vs. Eggman's Army» from the start - when wondering who should be made playable among the heroes, the idea came up for Classic Sonic - the character setting for the avatar is a civilian in an area occupied by Eggman who stands up and fights together with Sonic - during stages, you'll hear radio contact from partners like Tails and Amy - Sonic and the rest of the gang form a resistance to stand against Eggman's army, so they relay information from headquarters - boss characters like Chaos and Metal Sonic will appear in Eggman's army - details on the new character (Infinite) are being kept secret - the main part of the storyline is that Eggman gathers strong enemies in the past to form an all mighty army - some people might be wondering why Shadow is on the enemy's side, but they can find out more by experiencing the story - the team thinks Japanese fans are taking a liking to the serious story and character customization features - there were some struggles with the new engine in early stages, but now they've moved to a smooth development process - the team knew they wanted to bring the game to Nintendo's new console before they even knew it was the Switch - the Switch info came to them during the middle of the game's development - SEGA knew Nintendo fans would want to play Sonic's new game, which is why they personally worked to bring it to Switch - SEGA plans to show the game in Japan at Tokyo Game Show 2017 in September - the team is also working on providing new information, including news that would be unique to Japan

Some artists, galvanized by the spirit of the civil rights movement, created images of solidarity, strength, and resistance, or paid homage to legendary African American figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Angela Davis, musician John Coltrane, and sports hero Jack Johnson; while others focused primarily on color, form, and concept.

Masha Bruskina was a nurse and leader of the Minsk (Belarus) resistance movement during World War II; a 17 - year - old Communist partisan, she posed as a gentile in order to help wounded Soviet prisoners escape from Nazi - held territories.

ET: Collectivity, political and social movement, public space - you've used these themes to frame a concept of «ecstatic resistance,» which most recently took form as an exhibition of other artists» work.