Sentences with phrase «by campaigners against»

I am assuming that most readers will appreciate Reg Platt's arguments against the untruths perpetrated by campaigners against wind power...

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He was loathed by some of the traditionalist «Fatimist» campaigners - one tried to stab him in May 1982 at Fatima - and some lobbied angrily against his beatification.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

A demonstration against the proposal will be held outside Ealing town hall by pro-life campaigners who say they should be free to explain to pregnant women about alternatives to getting an abortion.

A special screening of Tigers, the new film by Oscar - winning director Danis Tanovic, will reunite campaigners against Nestlé's baby milk marketing malpractice in Edinburgh on Saturday 19 September (tickets).

A large protest against climate change due to coincide with the Paris talks last month was banned by police, leading thousands of campaigners to symbolically leave their shoes along the route it would have taken.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be joining other trade unionists, anti fascist, anti racist campaigners and the public tomorrow (21 June), in a national demonstration and carnival parade organised by Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF).

The real attack on freedom of speech has come from the French state itself and it is directed against those it perceives as potential subversives: the school children who will not say Je Suis Charlie, the Muslim families who are subject to raids by police, the environmental campaigners who want to demonstrate in front of world leaders.

Originally written as a protest song against boarding schools, the song has gone on to be adopted by protesters in apartheid South Africa and campaigners against the West Bank barrier.

Campaigners for sex workers» rights say that by focusing on the prosecution and deportation of the worker rather than the attack against her, police were discouraging other women from coming to them for help.

Campaigners against Universities UK guidance allowing religious speakers to segregate students by sex were celebrating this evening after the organisation said it would review its position.

Parliament faced one of its most bizarre protests this lunchtime as liberal - minded campaigners demonstrated against pornographic censorship by sitting on each other's faces.

The underlying logic of this stance is articulated with characteristic clarity by Larry Bartels, who has written: «In a world where most campaigners make reasonably effective use of reasonably similar resources and technologies most of the time, much of their effort will necessarily be without visible impact, simply because every campaigner's efforts are balanced against more or less equally effective efforts to produce the opposite effect.»

I was nauseated by the fact that any genuine anti-corruption campaigner will hold a service passport from the government and agree to suppress the results of investigative work against another organ of government simply because his principals instructed him to do so.

Guidance published by the Electoral Commission for non-party campaigners in relation to the UK general election states: «We are unlikely to consider enforcement action against non-party campaigners that have taken prompt steps to register, even if their regulated spending is already in excess of the registration threshold».

Parliament faces one of its most bizarre protests as liberal - minded campaigners demonstrate against pornographic censorship by sitting on each other's faces

Geoffrey Dickens warned other campaigners against child sex abuse they could be targeted by «powerful people», years after he handed in information about an alleged Westminster paedophile ring.

Proceedings were also watched from the public gallery by former F1 boss Max Mosley, who became a campaigner against the tabloid press after he was exposed using prostitutes.

Anti-corruption campaigner, Vitus Azeem, has suggested the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) probes the corruption allegations by Kwame Asare Obeng, aka A-Plus, against two presidential staffers, saying that will be considered more credible than that of the police.

Campaigners against the welfare reforms, led by the centre - left pressure Compass and unions including Unison and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), said: «Many of the plans were unacceptable when they were first published and the worsening economic situation should lead to a fundamental rethink.»

In 1988, Matthew Meselson, a biochemist from Harvard and a prominent campaigner against biological weapons, arranged for Soviet officials to give a lecture tour in the US to present their explanation of how the anthrax outbreak could have been caused by contaminated meat.

A clear focus is the research center run by the agency's star climatologist, James E. Hansen, who has variously been hailed and attacked for becoming a prominent campaigner against coal and oil use.

A loud social campaigner, Kitzinger spoke out against episiotomies, the act of cutting a labouring woman's perineum preemptively in order to avoid severe tearing; she considered it a form of genital mutilation, and many clinicians today say that naturally - occurring tears heal better than incisions and can largely be avoided by careful management.

Biofuels were initially championed by environmental campaigners as a silver bullet against global warming.

It took the admirable Watts Up With That blog, run by the American meteorologist Anthony Watts, to point out that in 1893 the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen found the Arctic so ice - free that he was able to kayak above 82 degrees north, 100 miles nearer the Pole than our hapless campaigner against «unprecedented global warming».

Scenes of «panic policing» were unanimously condemned by the House of Lords in Laporte, a test case against the Gloucestershire police brought after campaigners travelling to a demonstration were locked into their coaches by police and forcibly escorted away from the protest, without toilet stops, causing what Lord Bingham described as «acute physical discomfort and embarrassment.»

It is «a broad movement of campaigners and organizations is calling on everybody to join action against excessive surveillance by governments and businesses».

Lawyers and campaigners have served up a mixed reaction to a ruling that the owners of a Belfast bakery unlawfully discriminated against a customer by refusing to decorate a cake with the slogan, «Support Gay Marriage».

Today's ECJ's judgement is the culmination of a 2013 legal challenge by European privacy campaigner Max Schrems who filed complaints against several U.S. Internet giants — including Facebook — in the Irish courts for alleged collaboration with the NSA's Prism program.

He has become the subject of smear campaigns and demonstrably false conspiracy theories that say either he has been «coached» by his father, a former FBI agent; or he is a «pawn» for anti-gun campaigners; or he is not a victim but a «crisis actor,» paid to travel to disaster sites to argue against stricter gun laws.