Sentences with phrase «campaign against native»

Elements of the mining industry - and some State governments - conducted a fierce and ultimately highly damaging campaign against native title rights.

[6] The Army established a camp on the island (now known as Camp Reynolds or the West Garrison), and it subsequently became an infantry garrison during the US campaigns against Native American peoples in the West.

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Protesters have been buoyed by the recent success of Native American groups and environmentalists in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale fields into Texas.

There's no reply button under your next comment but one answer to your question about Christian fudamentalists who have committed atrocities is Efrain Rios Montt, dictator of Guatemala responsible for a massive and systematic campaign of slaughter against the native Guatemalans.

Meanwhile, the Queensland Labor Party looks on, astonished that Rudd, a «native son», could not postpone his long - planned revenge against Gillard until after their state election campaign.

Former cable news host and Saranac Lake native Dylan Ratigan announced his campaign against Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, admitting during his press conference that he has done drugs and «never voted in my life,» because «the two choices that are available to me don't reflect the potential leadership in this country and it disgusts me.»

Charlene DiCalogero, 12th Worcester: 1st time candidate, 19.7 % of the vote in a small - town - rural mixed economic area, against a 22 - year incumbent Democrat native to the area, with over $ 321,000 in his campaign fund at the start of the race and raised an additional $ 54K, while I raised circa $ 3,000.

Jeff Gohringer, a Canastota native speaking for the League of Conservation Voters, said the new ads will continue the Flat Earth Five campaign against Buerkle and four other House members who have said global climate change is a myth.

But advocacy groups that have condemned the change in federal policy — which encourages more English and less native - language instruction — are now mounting their campaign against the rules.

The iconic Duke Nukem battles it out against a slew of alien foes in the original four - episode «Atomic Edition» single - player campaign and three over-the-top expansion packs that take the loudmouthed hero to a tropical paradise, a winter wonderland, and even Washington D.C. Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition features polished OpenGL visuals, native compatibility with modern PC and Mac computers, Steam Achievements, and Steam Cloud support.

Helpful Native NPCs - Meet different races inhabiting environments and even fight side by side against enemies, to experience an additional bit of cooperative play feeling within the single player campaign.

Since then it has campaigned against the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, promoted the use of genetically engineered crops and defended the logging of native forests.

Berta Cáceres, a Goldman prize recipient in 2015, was killed by gunmen in her home in March 2016 after leading a grassroots campaign against a hydroelectric dam proposed in her native Honduras.