Sentences with phrase «began as a protest»

The public unrest that swept across Iran starting in late December began as a protest against poor economic conditions, but it quickly turned into a call for an end to the country's theocratic regime.

The strike began as a protest against proposed massive cuts in public spending, including higher education.

She returned to Istanbul in 2014 after the Gezi Park demonstrations of the previous year, which began as a protest of the government's desire to remove the park and replace it with a mall.

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Some will see Assad's win in Aleppo and other gains he has made with Russian and Iranian support as a chance to return and rebuild their lives - but not those involved in dissent when protests began in 2011.

Iran's recent protests began as a relatively small venture on December 28 in Mashhad, Iran's second largest city, but soon gained traction and have continued into 2018.

After Trump said in September that players should be fired for protesting, several players and others within the NFL began kneeling on the sidelines as the anthem played at games, continuing the demonstration started in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick, a San Francisco 49ers quarterback at the time, to protest racial inequality and police brutality.

What had begun as mainline Protestant support for the classic civil - rights movement quickly morphed into liberal Protestant support for black militancy, the most strident forms of anti-Vietnam protest, the most extreme elements of the women's movement and the environmental movement, the nuclear - freeze and similar agitations, and, latterly, the gay - liberation movement.

Self - immolation began as a form of protest among Tibetans in China in February 2009, when a young monk set himself ablaze.

And in the name of that God, we must protest today, as the signers of the Barmen Declaration did yesterday, when the leaders of a government begin to say, «Hear, trust and obey us.

We must protest today, as the signers of the Barmen Declaration did yesterday, when the leaders of a government begin to say, «Hear, trust and obey us.

What began as a quite protest in his Philadelphia high school became Supreme Court case Abington v. Schempp, which declared Bible readings and prayer in public schools unconstitutional.

CNN: Pope Benedict begins trip to Lebanon amid Mideast protests, violence Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday for a previously scheduled trip as anti-American protests and violence spurred by an anti-Islamic film roiled the Mideast, including in Lebanon.

But as the Maidan protests intensified, it recognized that the political tide had decisively shifted and began to ask Ukrainians to listen to all sides of society and reject violence.

Having begun with protest against tendencies in the latter branch of Christianity to regard the Church as the representative of God it has often succumbed to the same tendency itself.

It was during that period that the family began recording protest songs such as Freedom Highway as well as gospel.

Once genocide had begun, the pope made only two very general statements on behalf of those suffering, despite pleas from some Catholic leaders and Western diplomats such as Myron Taylor, Roosevelt's emissary to the Vatican, for a more explicit protest.

this is how religions start, peaceful protest, but as more and more privileges are taken away from them, then the terrorism and violence will begin.

I guess some might say, maybe, that's a part of the strategy of the principalities and powers,» author and activist Shane Claiborne says with a faint laugh as we begin to discuss his arrest at a DACA - related protest in Washington D.C. last week.

But the football was both a symbol and a catalyst — you are spending our money on this — and since then, as the protests have continued, as the costs of hosting the World Cup have become ever more stark, and as the Brazilian police have begun their incursions into the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the link has become ever clearer.

But one thing i am sure, the biggest destroyer of this clubs are those who are protesting after the transfer window is closed and given the season has already begun we have to treat Giroud like our Messi and ramsey as our iniesta and get behind the team.

Deray McKesson got a call from Colin Kaepernick early in the 2016 NFL preseason, almost as soon as Kaepernick's national anthem protest began.

As we prepare for the beginning of the 2017 WNBA Finals (Sept. 24, 3:30 p.m., ABC), let's take a look back at those protests.

Partners begin to view undesirable behaviors (i.e., shutting down or angry escalations) as «protests of disconnection.»

As I recently began minimizing my wardrobe for the first time since my One Dress Protest ended, I found myself thinking a lot about my ODP (my year - long experiment wearing a single dress every day).

J has begun to protest other travel cribs as I don't think those elevated off the floor can hold her weight comfortably, and she certainly is getting a bit long for many of them.

Following the cancellation of the planned protest scheduled to hold on Monday, February 6, by Innocent Idibia, the initiators of the protest against President Muhammadu Buhari's government have notified that demonstrations will begin in Lagos, Abuja and Kano as planned.

What began as a localised protest over a shopping centre and the demolition of the Gezi Park in Istanbul's central Taksim Square turned into a nationwide conflagration in response to the inciting rhetoric of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the unfettered police brutality unleashed upon peaceful protestors.

Second, as protests spread to the more affluent parts of the country, people poured into the streets of cities like Sfax and Tunis and began to organize themselves with cell phones and Facebook.

As news of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and then Egypt spread to Yemen at the beginning of 2011, Hameed seized his opportunity, doing all he could to promote street protest in Sana'a.

Some press coverage (particularly this Evgeny Morozov piece on ForeignPolicy.com, which the author later reconsidered) seized on the appearance of protest - tagged messages on Twitter to make a bold claim: that Moldovan youth relied on the micro-blogging tool as the main way to organize public actions that began as sit - ins but that morphed into street protests and the temporary takeover of the country's president's office and parliament building.

He began with an opening statement and then answered questions on topics which included the Independence Party (whose ballot line Cuomo is on), the protest at the rally and Cuomo's efforts on passing the DREAM Act, a recent report that 34,000 people have been designated under the SAFE Act as ineligible to own guns and the prospect of Ebola - related restrictions on commercial flights.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Their efforts began to spread, as thousands of labor supporters turned out for a hearing in Columbus, Ohio, to protest a measure from Gov. John Kasich (R) that would cut collective - bargaining rights.

As the protest continued outside of the Harlem River Yard, cars filled with elected officials and community leaders began to pass through the two security gates.

A copy of the OGS rules were provided to State Police whose troopers were studying them as recently as Saturday, a day after the protest in Albany began.

Mark - Viverito answered several questions, including her reaction to some protest groups rejecting the call for a moratorium on protests, whether she shares the sentiment expressed by Mayor de Blasio that media coverage of protests has fostered divisiveness, whether the council will table any pending NYPD - related bills, whether she'll attend the Ramos and Liu funerals, her reaction to PBA President Pat Lynch's comment that responsibility for the bloodshed begins «on steps of City Hall», how long a protest moratorium should last and whether her «show of support... will be received as... political expediency.»

New York City police officers are planning to begin protests outside de Blasio's Brooklyn gym and Upper East Side home this week, as they try to highlight frustrations with City Hall and what they see as the mayor's lackadaisical work ethic.

Crowds packed into Foley Square as protests began about 5:30 p.m., where helicopters flew overhead and demonstrators held up signs while chanting, «No justice, no peace, no racist police.»

An additional 18 people were arrested that evening, as thousands marched from Foley Square to the Financial District in the biggest demonstration since the Occupy Wall Street protests began.

Then, as the legislative session came to a close last year, the governor came out fiercely in support of a $ 15 wage, roughly when Mr. Wright began participating in «Fight for $ 15» protests and actions.

[32][33][34] As home mortgage foreclosures increased, and details of the 2009 stimulus legislation became known, more organized protests began to emerge.

Residents have protested the shelter from the very beginning, claiming it is too close to the elementary school P.S. 75 and has contributed to quality - of - life issues such as vandalism, public drunkenness, noise disruption and thefts.

Recently the Rockland County Times reported that: Residents of New Hempstead, Pomona, Hillcrest, Spring Valley and New City have been protesting the plans for a slaughterhouse in New Square for several years, but apparently to little avail, as opponents say the plans are progressing to the point where actual construction may soon begin.

Bum bags had already been spotted on the waists of super-cool Tumblr kids who love nostalgia and irony in equal parts, but they soon began making their way into the mainstream, as marches and protests started becoming an essential part of everyday life.

This year, long before the show begins, there's already been a ton of coverage surrounding the red carpet, as actresses announced plans to wear black dresses in protest of sexual harassment.

Vera Anderson — WireImage By Eliana Dockterman November 5, 2014 Keira Knightley recently posed topless in Interview Magazine as her own personal protest Keira Knightley performs Lost Stars from the «Begin Again» soundtrack, now available: http:///BeginAgainMusic Cover the song

This sequel, which begins after Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, «American Hustle»), in a dangerous fit of protest, has destroyed the mechanism that controls the «games» as they have played out in Panem for years.

In Northern Ireland, 1981, Irish revolutionary inmates in the Maze prison begin a protest to attain political status and not to be seen as criminals.

I think it's for that reason that Three Billboards has begun to work as a protest symbol in the same way that the red robes from The Handmaid's Tale have.