Sentences with phrase «brutal assaults on»

The government's plans to make strikes harder to organise has been criticised as a «brutal assault on the most basic of human rights» by Mick Cash, the leader of the RMT.

He added: «The trade union movement will unite to fight this brutal assault on the most basic of human rights and that campaign will be taken into the communities who stand to lose access to safe and reliable services as this noose of the anti-union laws is twisted round our necks.»

Our leaders refuse to condemn his brutal assault on those with disabilities.

We pick up this sweeping sci - fi tale a year in the past, with players witnessing the Mechon's brutal assault on the Homs — hell - bent on slaying every man, woman and child that crossed their path.

It's a brutal assault on the senses.

Not exact matches

if you pay attention to discussions of higher education funding, one of the memes that inevitably pops up revolves around the notion that higher education has been under some brutal, neo-liberal assault since... well, I'm not sure, but probably since 1995 at least, and everything is being defunded, laid on the backs of students, it's the end of civilization, dark ages ahead, etc., etc..

They stated that the «brutal aggression» is a «clear violation of the international laws and the UN Charter», and was an «unjustified assault» on a sovereign country that is a member of the United Nations.

While one might expect Arnold to hit the ground, it was Marcelo who collapsed as though he had been the victim of a brutal assault, with the 21 - year - old looking on bemused as he received a yellow card from referee Gianluca Rocchi for his supposed role in the incident.

There had been much rhetoric that Liverpool were on the cusp of handing out a hammering and the Slovenian outfit became the victims of this brutal assault.

To retaliate in such a brutal fashion against people exercising their constitutional right to band together for mutual aid and protection is an assault on all of us.

These comments were made by the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, in reaction to the brutal assault meted out by officers of the Ghana Police Service against unarmed civilians who embarked on a demonstration, organised by some pressure groups in Accra, on Wednesday, September 16.

RIKERS ISLAND — Five correction officers were convicted of attempted gang assault on Tuesday in the brutal 2012 beating of an inmate at the city jail.

Sixteen alleged members of a Central American gang, MS - 13, were charged for a range of crimes — including murder, assault and racketeering — in connection with three brutal slayings that rocked Brentwood on Long Island last year.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Sixteen alleged members of a Central American gang were charged Thursday for a range of crimes — including murder, assault and racketeering — in connection with three brutal slayings that rocked Brentwood on Long Island last year.

This movie is bad enough for non-techies as a thriller, but if you know anything at all about computers the film is nothing less than a brutal assault of stupidity on all of your senses of such magnitude, the government should also crack down on MGM for releasing it.

However, nearly all have since been picked up by other publishers, with Ghostbusters: The Video Game and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena landing at Atari and Brutal Legend finding a home at EA, to name a few.

Take, for instance, Julian's rushing, brutal, and ultimately hilarious assault on Abby or, in contrast, the sequence in which Julian gives Loren the go - ahead to kill Abby and Ray, taking place in daylight at a make - out point - type setting, which nearly drips with inappropriate intimations.

In the DVD's featurette, «Composing Flesh + Blood», Poledouris comments on the unsettling nature of the scene, and the challenge in writing music that can not glorify such a brutal assault.

James Franco is also on board to produce the film, which follows the story of a 19 - year - old boy recovering from a vicious assault who pledges a fraternity with his brother and faces brutal challenges to prove his loyalty to the brotherhood.

For my taste McQueen lingers too long on scenes of brutal floggings and assaults (though the sex is not tastelessly explicit), which may be what white viewers need to be reminded of — except excessively explicit violence is a staple of many modern films, where the old saying that «less is more» has long been forgotten.

A brutal, vicious siege movie in the tradition of Assault on Precinct 13 and From Dusk Till Dawn, it makes up for what it lacks in originality with style and heart.

Eidos have done a stellar job of managing to balance everything out and ensuring that no style of gameplay is pushed more than another, but ultimately I'd have to say that the augmentations on hand and amount of alternate ventilation routes and level layouts did encourage me to take a stealthier approach rather than a brutal frontal assault.

The latest Gears retains the series» signature third - person combat and brutal weapons (including the Lancer, everyone's favorite chainsaw - infused assault rifle), but based on the stage demo we saw, seems to take on a darker, quieter and more eerie tone than its predecessors.

There were numerous other inconsistencies raised by the defence including that both alleged brutal sexual assaults left NO injuries, yet in May of 2012 when she called the police, a red mark was found on her arm because the complainant stated that she «bruised easily.»