Sentences with phrase «by civil unrest»

Representing a Brazilian construction company in relation to a potential dispute against a North African government arising out of two infrastructure projects disrupted by civil unrest.

Galvanized by the events of May 1968, a period marked by civil unrest and protests in France, Raysse returned to Paris to join the student - led demonstrations.

Even then, many hiccups occurred as public opinion wavered between the idealism of the civil rights years and the backlash instigated by civil unrest in major cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Most importantly, further eroding civil liberties is likely to fuel what I believe to be the underlying cause of the unrest that's popping up around the globe: a deep frustration with a system that is seeing the world's growing wealth increasingly controlled by fewer and fewer people.

«Survivalism,» or preparing for societal collapse, has become serious business among some of America's super rich, as illustrated by a recent article from The New Yorker which takes a look at the great lengths to which some of the richest from Wall Street to Silicon Valley have gone to protect themselves against cataclysmic civil unrest.

Nearly two - thirds of respondents also said they'd support calling up the National Guard or reserves to address civil unrest like that seen in Charlottesville in August, when white supremacists clashed with counterprotestors, one of whom was killed by a car driven by a man who had protested with a white - supremacist group.

Pyongyang looks at states such as Iraq — where Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States — and Libya — its late leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nuclear ambitions for sanctions relief and aid, only to be toppled and killed after the United States intervened in his country's civil unrest — and believes that only being able to threaten the US mainland with a retaliatory nuclear strike can stop American military intervention.

As African Americans coming of age in Los Angeles during the social unrest of the 1960's, both Johnson and Beckwith were heavily influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of the Beloved Community.

Refugees arrive at our borders in a steady stream, seeking better lives and fleeing civil unrest from governments kept weak by the policies of our own.

What they found: War and civil unrest may spike by up to 56 percent between now and 2050, while acts of aggression — murder, assault, domestic violence — could increase by 16 percent.

A team with two first - class, viable starting quarterbacks is therefore like a nation with two kings: a dysfunctional hotbed of dissent and unrest doomed to implode into what Shakespeare called «the intestine shock / And furious close of civil butchery» — the only quote by the Bard this correspondent has ever been able to remember, hence my practice of grandly unleashing it at the merest opportunity.

In the new study, Janke and his research group examined the DNA evidence taken from skin biopsies of 190 giraffes collected by Fennessy and team all across Africa, including regions of civil unrest.

This is primarily the result of the heterogeneous distribution of freshwater in space and time, which is exacerbated by economic disparities, civil unrest, and failures of institutions (2).

Improved health conditions and life expectancy over the past 20 years in the Eastern Mediterranean Region are being subverted by wars and civil unrest, according to a new scientific study.

The unrest that followed spread throughout the country over the ensuing months, and by February 2012, Syria had descended into civil war.

Seeming to foreshadow France's civil unrest in May of 1968, the director is shaken by the crisis and irrevocably changed by his own deep - rooted conflicts and misunderstandings.

Grounded by SZA's hook, the verse «Confrontation ain't nothin» new to me / You can bring a bullet, bring a sword» speaks directly to Chadwick Boseman's King T'Challa, who faces political unrest upon returning home to Wakanda after the events of Captain America: Civil War.

Imagined by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the pages of Fantastic Four in 1966, Wakanda is the backdrop for civil unrest in Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler.

And the rally was likely initially fueled by easing concerns over Catalonia, thanks to a poll over the weekend from an anti-independence newspaper showing that support for independence has waned, as well as reports on Monday that there were little signs of unrest in Catalonia despite calls by the Catalan government for civil disobedience.

Once tickets have been issued Virgin Atlantic shall not be liable for any failure to comply with its obligations caused by (but not limited to) weather conditions, fire, flood, strike, hurricane, industrial dispute, war, terrorist activity, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, or any other circumstances beyond the control of Virgin Atlantic.

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A colony on a distant planet is rocked by poverty and civil unrest, and a young woman named Rose and her small band of supporters fight desperately to protect the population from marauding criminals and uncaring politicians.

Riot: Civil Unrest is an interesting game by Leonard Menchiari that blends real - world protests from recent history with objective based strategy gameplay.

As a departure point for her SFMoMA commission, Ms. Mehretu turned to 19th - century paintings by Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, layered with recent photos of civil unrest in cities including Ferguson and Baltimore.

Considerably more ominous, the works in the Tear Gas series share similar formal elements with the Fog paintings but are inspired by recent incidents of civil unrest in urban centers such as Ferguson, Missouri.

The Brooklyn Museum exhibition PROOF — FRANCISCO GOYA, SERGEI EISENSTEIN, ROBERT LONGO brings together drawings, etchings, and film — mostly black and white — by three artists who «witnessed a turbulent transition from one era to another and the profound repercussions of revolution, war, and civil unrest.

«Our two children, now in their mid thirties, face the second half of their lives in a world wracked by severe weather, plagues, food shortages, civil unrest and loss of biodiversity.

Climate change threatens dramatic price fluctuations in the price of wheat and potential civil unrest because yields of one of the world's most important staple foods are badly affected by temperature rise.

HO - 1 or Basic Coverage, is the type of packaged Homeowners Insurance policy meant for protection of home, detached structures, and personal property from losses caused by the following disasters and perils: fire or lightning, wind or hail, explosion, riot or civil unrest, aircraft, vehicles, volcanic eruptions, smoke, theft, vandalism or malicious mischief and self - damaging instances (e.g. damage by glass material that is part of the building, a part of the building falling, etc).

With the recent earthquake in Japan, civil unrest in multiple regions of the world, and a recent rash of travel delays caused by massive wind, hail, and tornadoes across the southern regions of the U.S., interest in travel insurance protection is on the rise.

We recently had a complaint that civil unrest wasn't covered by their travel insurance plan and the customer noted they would simply rely on their credit card travel insurance in the future instead.

This benefit pays to transport you to the nearest safe place or to your primary residence if you must leave your trip because a Travel Advisory or Travel Warning is issued by the U.S. State Department for you to leave a country you are visiting due to 1) civil, military or political unrest; or 2) you being expelled or declared persona nongrata by a country you are visiting.