Sentences with phrase «be a riot for»

«All over the world — Syria and Egypt — people were rioting for freedom.

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For poor nations, providing fuel to their citizens at below - market prices is a crippling trap — any attempt to change them can cost a politician an election or cause riots.

«With EEDAR estimating current League of Legends revenues to be more than $ 1 billion per year, this means that the value of Riot is significantly higher than $ 1 billion and Tencent would have paid a lot of money for the remaining 7 % of the company's shares,» Walker says.

That's also why Riot goes to great lengths to recruit and hire only hardcore gamers who think like its customers (for more on Riot's hiring, see «How Riot Guards Its Culture» below).

Honor of Kings is essentially a reworking for the Chinese market of League of Legends, originally developed by U.S. gaming firm Riot Games.

She campaigned loudly for Thomas Mulcair's federal NDP (doing so at the aforementioned Calgary luncheon, which is roughly equivalent to dining at Vladimir Putin's house and telling him how much you love Pussy Riot).

China already faces dozens of large - scale «mass incidents» — the government's term for riots — each year, but they're largely contained to rural areas.

Around 80 protesters were arrested on Saturday for trespassing and rioting near a pipeline construction site in North Dakota, according to the local sheriff's department, who said pepper spray was used on some demonstrators.

«Riot Blockchain is seeking a technically experienced and highly motivated CTO candidate with a passion for blockchain technology,» the ad said.

For a service that has had such a profound impact on recent historical events, including the Arab Spring and London riots, it's a very bad precedent that has shaken the faith of many users.

For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people use data from different sources to claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.

In some cases — Merck CEO Ken Frazier's strong rebuke of President Trump's waffling on the Charlottesville riots, for instance — the stock market response was strong and sustained.

People are rioting in London, Vancouver, Toronto, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran and other places for different reasons.

So, in the wake of the London riots, UK Prime Minister David Cameron is looking into shutting down social media access for people suspected of using it to engage in criminal activity.

They've been called kooks for predicting currency collapses, riots and food hoarding.

After the Los Angeles riots, one article in a newsletter claimed, «Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.»

«They were looking for content to greenlight for their new comedy channel, RIOT, so I offered them my female - driven scripts - Trumped, Sugar Babies and Baby and Me Yoga, that were likely to resonate with their audience.»

«Magnum, P.I.» actor Tom Selleck served in the California Army National Guard, and his unit was activated for the Watts riots in Los Angeles in 1965.

The proceeds will be used for bitcoin mining and other investments, Riot said.

For instance, rather than get upset when the yard was locked down because of riot or fight, which caused me to miss my workout, I chose to work out in my cell instead.

It's worth noting that Riot Blockchain (like Longfin) is listed on the Nasdaq, which might be part of the reason for the SEC's added scrutiny.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamfor David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of MesopotamFor Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

But for all the ways Straight Outta Compton grapples with the outcry around the violence in N.W.A.'s lyrics — showing tense press conferences and even a riot allegedly sparked by «Fuck Tha Police» — it's a shame that the misogynist lyrics, and the behavior that went with them, are ignored entirely.

Let's think worst case — should the currency collapse in your home country... and should a bank run ensue... and should the government mandate that all banks then close for no less than a week... and should subsequent food shortages take place... and should no clean water be available... and should the electricity and heat not work... and should violent protests, riots, and widespread looting erupt...

«You really need to be able to convey what you do in the first 30 to 60 seconds,» says Sanjay Parekh, a serial technology entrepreneur and founder of Startup Riot, a twice - yearly competition in Atlanta that gives contestants three minutes to pitch and compete for startup cash and initial investor meetings.

Modi was widely criticized for the role he played in riots in the state in 2002, which led to the deaths of more than a thousand people, most of them Muslim.

Finally, she gave us this take on recent American history: «During the riots of the sixties, when people tried to explain the inexplicable, Aretha Franklin sang simply what was being asked for, «R - E-S-P-E-C-T.

If the Crown Heights and LA riots had been directed towards Muslims in retailiation for 9 - 11 it would be called a «hate crime».

Now they are rolling and cowering to find excuses for muslims rioting for quran burning

When NATO is done groveling will the Muslim caveman idiots who rioted be making any apologies for their actions?

their people are starving, they are rioting int he streets because of a lack of money, and they go and ban the export of a leaf that Israel would pay dearly for and that will now rot on Egypt's desert floor.

Perhaps he oversimplifies the idea of human will: the «Big Book» of AA indicts the alcoholic as «an extreme example of self - will run riot,» the first requirement for recovery being that he becomes «convinced that any life run on self - will can hardly be a success.»

Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall the Company be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labour disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labour or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of 3rd - parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning.

During our conversation, he spent more time decrying rioting and calling for calm and prayer than lamenting the modern - day lynching by law enforcement of innocent black bodies that are piling up across the nation.

Norton, 160 pages, $ 14.95 The vicious riots that took place last spring in the South - Central section of Los Angeles may be taken as a tragic reminder of the need for all Americans continually to evaluate....

Then came the riots, I could not understand why we couldn't see our friend, finally one day, I said to my Mom that I was going to see my friend and would walk there, well over 4 years pased, we went to the store and pushed the button for the eleavator, the doors open and out came my friend and she was crying when she saw me and Mom, then we were all crying, thats how the riots broke my heart.

They call me the King of Darkness, when I offer you no pain Why would they label me heartless, when your love is my cocaine And your soul is my Rogaine, I have a thirst to know your brain When you enter my domain got ta take this number for your name But you don't have to drink cyanide, I'm gonna be right by ya side If we got ta take that riot ride, on the enemy and defy your side Fight for the place we're building, for the reproduction of more children Trying to get that number back around 6 billion, I'm gonna rule until then Founded this colony like a pilgrim, anybody try to penetrate this section or threaten we KILL THEM

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

«Mr Cameron», The Financial Times reported, «is being urged to accelerate tax breaks for married couples as part of his moral clean - up of Britain following last week's riots»:

And let me assure you, this hair is an apt metaphor for her little personality — she's a riot, absolutely stuffed full of mischief and trouble - making but pure sunshine.

«On a Sunday you would be shocked indeed,» she replied, «for then the street is filled with multitudes of the wretches who, released on that day from employment, spend their day in noise and riot.

Well you see on what they waste money making then there are all those fancy buildings... all those only lade to people going out in riots screaming for mercy from the new slavery systems that had not given them the chance to feel the true feeling of being well fed or prosperity....

I'm an atheist and if I burned a bible the Christians might get upset and offended but they are not going to burn buildings, riot in the streets and kill innocents, that's where Islam shows it's true colors for the backward ignorance and barbarity it promotes.

Guess Pres.Obama should ask who's interest was to spark such a riot... knowingly that is inexcusable act for some pretending to bring peace in to the area...!

Is this a reason for us Christians to start a riot and protest and kill inocent people?

All told, jail might be a safer place for Nakoula — his film, which sparked violent riots across the globe, has warranted several violent threats...

Things may not have been going very smoothly at the Thessalonian church, for there was a riot at the time of its establishment (Acts 17:1 - 10), and persecution later (I Thess.

I was pleased when I read in The New Yorker that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the three members of the Russian feminist punk - rock band Pussy Riot serving time in prison for «hooliganism motivated by religious hatred ``, spends her time in a small four woman cell reading.

They also tried to protest at the police officer's house, where riot police were stationed for his protection.

This for all we know will cause riots and people getting hurt due to someone not believing that a gay couple shouldnt be married?