Sentences with phrase «back against the authorities»

The Internet is changing everything: providing voice to the voiceless, undercutting power - yet also creating new means of control as forces push back against authority.

When your freedom is on the line, you owe it to yourself and to your family to push back against the authorities with everything you've got.

Not exact matches

In 1952, as a brash, ambitious attorney, he backed postal workers in an unprecedented strike against British authorities.

If Republicans are able to get a veto - proof majority to back some kind of bill limiting Trump's authority to issue tariffs, it would echo the time when Republicans forced Trump to impose sanctions on Russia last August and locked old sanctions against the country into law instead of leaving them as executive orders that Trump could unilaterally rescind.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders pushed back against Rogers» testimony Tuesday, telling reporters that she disagrees with the idea that he needed more authority.

British authorities had requested that he be extradited to the UK, however a Kosovan court blocked the move because under Kosovan law the child abuse allegations against him - some of which date back to the 1970s - had expired.

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

The conversion experience would seem psychologically analogous to the following: A child who has been rebelling against parental authority finds the estrangement unbearable; he rushes back into the parent's arms.

From Nabi - Saleb we drove back down to Ramallah, where we went to the home of Raymonda Tawil, an outspoken Palestinian nationalist recently put under house arrest for two weeks by Israeli authorities for «inciting actions against the occupation.»

(iii) Ironically the US and German cases evinced against the Pope concerning abuses back in the 70s and 80s (as with the much more recent Ealing headmaster case used very prominently against Archbishop Nichols) show the Church being decades ahead of the game as they had all involved full and appropriate cooperation with civil authorities.

The first pillar of a national growth strategy ought to be a state - driven national house - building programme, enabling local authorities to borrow against their assets, and issuing government - backed bonds to raise finance through capital markets.

Paladino walked that back somewhat a bit later on in the interview, saying he wouldn't have the authority as governor to try to seek prosecution against Cuomo for something he did «12 years ago» at HUD.

Blakeman, a former Nassau County legislator and ex-Port Authority Board member, was the first Republican to throw his hat into the ring against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, announcing his campaign back in January.

Certainly, Corbyn's authority would be undermined if, say, he voted against future UK military action in Syria but a majority of his MPs backed it.

Cuomo also continued to rail against the major utility providers in the New York City area, saying that «when we get stabilized» he would seek an independent review of the Long Island Power Authority and ConEd's work in getting the lights back on.

Cuomo, with the backing of the White House, intervened, threatening to bring a lawsuit against the gunmakers on behalf of the nation's public - housing authorities and, in Spitzer's view, undercutting his own negotiations.

The part the Dems are particularly interested in comes at the tail end of the report, highlighting a lawsuit brought against Grimm back in the summer of 2000 by a former NYPD officer who claimed Grimm brandished a gun and misused his FBI authority after getting into an argument with another man over a woman (Grimm's date, the man's estanged wife).

The emails show in part the effort by Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye, an appointee of Cuomo's, pushing back against the efforts by officials on the New Jersey side of the Port Authority to reverse the closures.

The AFL - CIO on Tuesday announced a six - figure ad campaign against Long Island Rep. Kathleen Rice over her support for backing fast - track authority for the Trans - Pacific Free Trade Agreement.

Jeffries backed Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's effort to hold her post against a challenge from Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan in November, and he praised the San Francisco Democrat at the time for being «incredibly open - minded» about possibly allowing junior members of the caucus to wield more authority.

Over the course of an hour - long debate at the Woodstock Playhouse Monday, October 24, Congressional candidates Democrat Zephyr Teachout and Republican John Faso answered moderators» questions on trade, executive authority, the battle against ISIS and other issues, all while circling back to core campaign themes.

Just a day after state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed suit against State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada for «looting» his taxpayer - backed Soundview Health Clinic for more than $ 14 million to fund his own lavish lifestyle, state and federal authorities appeared at the facility with criminal search warrants.

Improving the park has long been a goal for people pushing back against the Peace Bridge Authority and the state plans for the plaza.

Its roots can be traced back a century to three - time Democratic candidate for president William Jennings Bryan, who ran fundamentalist campaigns against the theory of evolution, which he argued was causing moral decay in the nation's youth by undermining the authority of the Bible.

What keeps the movie from becoming nihilistic are its moments of kindness: Logan caring for an ill Xavier, a family standing up to shelter their guests from the authorities, Laura and her young mutant peers fighting back against their abusers and working together to turn a comic book fantasy into a real community.

Flipping back and forth to the planet Vulcan, we also meet the mixed - race Spock (Zachary Quinto), whose rebellions against authority are less rowdy but no less deep.

When a shot rings out, her past comes crashing back, and the punks find themselves pitted against the local authority — an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.

Back in 2014, the British Parking Association (BPA) was busy lobbying against proposals to ban the use of CCTV and ANPR by local authorities for parking enforcement, including the use of cameras for parking enforcement outside schools which could potentially put children's lives at stake.

DeVos pushed back against the notion that the Education Department would be abdicating its authority.

But politicians & authorities should try remember they're walking a tightrope here — if they push back against the private landlords too hard, their voters may well end up in poorly serviced / un-renovated apartments.

A search - and - rescue task force of firefighters from around San Diego County was on its way back from the Houston area Thursday after helping in following Hurricane Harvey, but the team could potentially be deployed again before the week is over, this time against Hurricane Irma, authorities said.

In 2003, during Bookbinder's time as Chief Climate Counsel, the Sierra Club backed ten states that brought a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Bush administration's decision that it does not have the authority to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gasses that cause climate change (Massachusetts v. EPA).

I have it on the good authority of some of the local players that they were advised against the journey and had been discovered lost, once already, but refused an offer to turn back and follow the other vehicle.

A similar power for the SRA to require firms to «reach out» to victims of systemic wrongs was inserted into the current Solicitors Code of Conduct two years ago; and with the new Code and Handbook at its back, the SRA is expected by some to cast its weight against any legal services business overstepping the Authority's own subjective demarcations for integrity or commercial propriety, with diminishing discretion or restraint.

So, Lords Mance, Scott and Neuberger won 3 - 2 against Lord Bingham and Baroness Hale, ending a legal saga dating back to at least R (Heather and Others) v Leonard Cheshire Foundation [2002] EWCA Civ 366, [2002] 2 All ER 936 where the Court of Appeal found that the Leonard Cheshire Foundation was not exercising statutory powers or performing a public function in providing care services to residents placed at public expense by the local authority under NAA 1948.

On Steely Dan's «Jack of Speed,» from the band's Two Against Nature CD (ripped and encoded in 16/44.1 FLAC), the tweeters reproduced the snap of the ultra-tight snare drum with authority without losing track of the midrange of the tightly synchronized horns backing the band.