Sentences with phrase «become rallying points»

Pictures and words seem to become the rallying points for certain assumptions.

CNN: Chick - fil - A restaurants become rallying points for supporters Throngs of people weighed in on the Chick - fil - A debate at stores across the United States on Wednesday, buying chicken sandwiches to show their support for the restaurant chain and its president's opposition to same - sex marriage.

The hotel is a few blocks from the White House and has become a rallying point for anti-Trump protesters since it opened in September.

The commission's hearings then became a rallying point for publicizing Japanese - American sufferings during the internment, while the commission's independent status allowed its findings and recommendations for reparations to appear nonpartisan.

The tragedy of this youthful victim of the Taliban's brazen terrorism has, indeed, become a rallying point for Pakistanis from all walks of life and shades of thought.

For the champions of an avowedly neoliberal and consistently secret trade agenda, CETA has now become the rallying point.

The results of the investigation have become a rallying point for Cuomo's opponents after the New York Times published a lengthy front - page evisceration of the governor's dealings with the Moreland Commission.

The people who love it really love it; it's become a rallying point for people of color in Hollywood; and it's a likely second pick for fans of The Post, Phantom Thread, and Call Me by Your Name — all of which are liable to be eliminated.

And while the plot about kings and noblemen socking it to the middle class and poor with higher taxes resonates today — for tea party loyalists, this «Robin Hood» could become a rallying point like «Fahrenheit 9/11» was for Iraq war protesters — the screenplay never really knows what it wants to say about it.

Even though Trotsky opposed Stalin, he did not find a welcome in most European countries whose governments feared that he would become a rallying point for local communists.

Games like Fallout 3 and Far Cry 2 became rallying points for us to gather and measure the progress of narrative games to that point.

Miranda Lash, NOMA's curator of contemporary art, said that the piece commemorates a tragic, but significant happening that became a rallying point for the New Orleans gay community.

What might have been a quiet show of Alice Neel portraits of her multiethnic friends at David Zwirner became a rallying point of sorts for empathy.

Although eight independent investigations later found that the scientists did nothing unethical, Climate Gate has become a rallying point for climate - change skeptics.

The death of 14 people became the rallying point of courage able to shame our legislators into finally dealing with gun violence.

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After that came a massive anti-Keystone rally in Washington and John Kerry's two pointed mentions of global warming during his congressional hearing to become America's next secretary of state and in his first public speech as such.

Berg also points out that a unified culture will «rally the troops,» but with multiple locations, this task becomes more challenging.

This became possible because over the last 12 months Bitcoin has been rallying an important point that attracted more users.

As an example, banker - approved Ripple (XRP) became a favorite plaything of speculators — at first it quadrupled between December 24 and January 4; alas, by January 16 it had done a complete round - trip, returning to the point at which the late December leg of its rally had begun:

You can read more about the trouble in translating this here, but the salient point is that the verse has become a rallying cry for the anti-Ahok political movement in Indonesia, who use it to justify not trusting the governor, who is a Christian.

While they sincerely preached and stood for these principles, they became, fortunately, not a rallying point for unity, but one more denomination competing on the American scene.

The Heat rallied to overcome a 27 - point deficit and became just the sixth team in 2,019 such games over the last 15 years to come back from 27 + points in the second half.

The furious rally is becoming a trend for the Wolf Pack, which erased a 14 - point second half deficit to beat Texas in overtime in round one.

New York is one of just two states (along with North Carolina) that still does that, and the effort to end this practice has become a big rallying cry for Assembly Democrats and the IDC, as well as a big sticking point in the budget talks.

Trump railed against efforts by some frustrated Republicans planning a last - ditch effort to try to thwart him from becoming the party's nominee, threatening at one point to stop fundraising if Republicans don't rally around him.

But [the rally] may become a starting point for the further self - organization of researchers.

This is a huge undertaking and may take some time to become fully implemented but the first rankings are available for Obedience & Rally now (see below) Agility Ranking will be based on MACH Points earned in each Master Class, as well as a formula combining speed and accuracy for each of the Regular Classes.

One of the rallying points was a scientific calculation that the rise of global temperature could not be held below 2 °C (the internationally accepted point at which the warming would become «dangerous») unless at least half the known reserves of fossil fuels were left in the ground.

Since the Feb. 14 massacre of 17 Stoneman Douglas students and faculty, Pine Trails Park has become a symbolic rallying point for students and victims, a home to protests, prayer vigils and memorials.