Sentences with phrase «campaigning against the nation»

Bhatti, who was Pakistan's Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, was well known for campaigning against the nation's strict blasphemy law and lobbying for the rights of religious minorities.

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This fast train to war was sidetracked, however, as Russia and China succeeded in blocking concerted United Nations action against both Iran and its ally, Syria (itself facing a massive propaganda campaign alleging atrocities that can not be independently or fully verified).

An unprecedented, simultaneous rally across U.S. airports last week protesting Trump's order banning travel from seven Muslim - majority nations sparked an online campaign against Uber with the hashtag #deleteUber.

In March, United Nations investigators concluded that disinformation campaigns facilitated by Facebook have played a «determining role» in inciting violence against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority ethnic group.

He touched on his past opposition to free - trade agreements, his support for heavier regulations of Wall Street and the nation's banking industry, and his vote against the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a preview of his campaign.

American evangelicals» annual campaign against the supposed «War on Christmas» began early this year, with the president promising the perpetually oppressed faithful that we would once again be a nation...

Omar Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and voice of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel says this about negotiating: «I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land.»

With the specter of civil war looming, the new President, who had denounced the Dred Scott decision repeatedly in his senatorial campaign against Douglas in 1858 as well as in the presidential campaign, turned attention to it in his remarks to the nation.

In 2013, the Micronutrient Campaign launched an exciting new partnership with Rise Against Hunger (formerly Stop Hunger Now), a Raleigh, N.C. - based nonprofit whose mission is to alleviate hunger in developing nations around the world.

Ghana captain and star striker Asamoah Gyan is likely to miss out on the Black Stars» opening game of their 2015 African Cup of Nations campaign against Senegal, report the Mirror, after the former Sunderland forward was admitted to hospital with a mild bout of malaria.

The Guinea international offers a mesmerising blend of qualities - how many players could average 2.6 tackles and 2.6 interceptions over a German league campaign, and score the kind of winner that the 22 - year - old did against the Ivory Coast in an African Cup of Nations qualifier in June?

Baby Milk Action, a campaign group that monitors the baby food industry against United Nations marketing standards, says it has received a letter (dated 9 July 2014) from the Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, Mr Georg Kell, that confirms its view that the corporate accountability initiative is «worse than useless and lacking in integrity».

«UJA - Federation of New York applauds Governor Cuomo for being the first governor in the nation to issue an executive order directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel,» said UJA Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein in a statement.

The campaign against the detention of women in Yarl's Wood has been endorsed by Zadie Smith, who branded the practice a «shame to any civilised nation».

The Bosnian War had raged from 1992 to 1995, and had stopped only after the NATO led an air campaign against the Serbian backed facted, and that only after a more moderate international intervention by the United Nation peacekeeping forces failed to stop the fighting and the massacres.

The Oneida Indian Nation has been leading a campaign against the NFL's teams use of the name, which now includes several members of Congress.

Miriam Colque, community and human rights advocate, Latin American Community Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (Barac)

The issuance will likely further inflame opponents of the project - including the Oneida Indian Nation - who have mounted multiple legal fights and public relations campaigns against Wilmot's plans to put a casino 76 miles west of Turning Stone Casino.

Clinton is launching her general election campaign in earnest this week with a speech tomorrow in the battleground state of Ohio and a new TV ad that casts her as a leader who can bring the nation together, while Trump pits people against one another.

Bahrain is also still in the grip of a political uprising, with the tiny island nation undergoing a massive campaign of civil disobedience against the ruling Khalifa family.

He identified corruption as the major problem bedeviling the nation and urged them to support the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration's campaign against corruption by eschewing all forms of corruption and vice and becoming vanguards of good morals.

Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney is struggling to raise money for her 2018 election campaign against Democratic state Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi in what is expected to be one of the most competitive House races in the nation, new disclosure reports show.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney is struggling to raise money for her 2018 election campaign against State Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi in what is expected to be one of the most competitive House races in the nation, new disclosure reports show.

According to supersport.com, one major campaign some loyalists of Hayatou hold against Ahmad is that he is from a weak football nation, Madagascar, who are ranked 39th of 54 African national teams.

The US and allied nations have launched a campaign of air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, the Pentagon says.

Brindisi's campaign against Tenney is considered by both political parties to be one of the most competitive in the nation this year.

It's great that she elevated progressive infrastructure by making this announcement at Netroots Nation — and that she is promising to elevate the fight against big money influence in politics during her first month in office,» said Marissa Barrow, a spokeswoman for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A super PAC with ties to the Oneida Indian Nation formally launched a campaign Sunday against Claudia Tenney and her Republican primary campaign in the 22nd Congressional District.

Halbritter and the Oneida Indian Nation have led a national campaign against the Washington Redskins and the National Football League, seeking to convince the football team to stop using a name viewed by many as a racist slur.

WASHINGTON — The Oneida Indian Nation took its campaign against the Washington Redskins from Central New York to the NFL team's home turf today, drawing a big crowd and media attention in the nation's caNation took its campaign against the Washington Redskins from Central New York to the NFL team's home turf today, drawing a big crowd and media attention in the nation's canation's capital.

Washington — Democrats on Monday launched an ad campaign against U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, less than a month after she took office following one of the closest House races in the nation.

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Its roots can be traced back a century to three - time Democratic candidate for president William Jennings Bryan, who ran fundamentalist campaigns against the theory of evolution, which he argued was causing moral decay in the nation's youth by undermining the authority of the Bible.

I first noticed it in 1979 when the United Nations International Year of the Child — a global campaign to end poverty and provide health and human rights to all children — was attacked by a number of groups, including Americans Against Abortion, which called it «an intense propaganda campaign to «liberate» children from their parents.»

As most Dropout Nation readers already know, the President - Elect, who won his office on a campaign of race - baiting as well as rank demagoguery against both documented and undocumented emigres, named Bannon, his former campaign manager and the former boss of media outlet Breitbart News Network, to serve as his senior counselor and top strategic adviser.

Today's survey data reinforce the message from the strikes, boycotts, demonstrations and opt - out campaigns against standardized exam overuse and misuse that swept the nation this spring.

While campaigning against toxic waste dumping by industrialized nations in developing Asian countries, Hernandez realized that it was not only hazardous waste, but also toxic technologies that multinational companies were exporting throughout the region.

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Vanessa Green, Campaign Director for DivestInvest Individual said, «We are thrilled to have some of the nation's leading social change organizations join us in taking a stand against banks that are financially backing destructive fossil fuel projects.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen says that the Obama Administration is continuing, even revving up, its campaign against domestic energy production with new EPA regulations on the horizon that would shutter much of the nation's coal industry and do great harm to oil and gas production; he also promised to veto any legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Unlike in World War II, when the main enemy was unmistakably Germany, the anti - Western / anti - cosmopolitan campaigns were directed against abstract foreign foes on the one hand (e.g., global imperialism,) and against specific groups and nations within the USSR on the other.

• Acting for the successful Claimant in R (on the application of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2017] EWHC 1502 (Admin), a challenge to guidance from the defendant Secretary of State which sought to prohibit the administering authorities of the local government pension schemes from adopting policies of boycott, divestment and sanction against foreign nations (led by Nigel Giffin QC).

The decision drew praise from the Oneida Indian Nation and the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), which have campaigned against the name.

This campaign follows West Coast LEAF's trip to Geneva to speak at the United Nations on the review of Canada's progress under the international bill of women's rights, the Conventional on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

Community Rights Counsel Press Release — For more than a decade, Exxon Corporation (now ExxonMobil) has waged a comprehensive campaign against punitive damages awards, triggered by the decision of a jury in Alaska to impose a $ 5 billion penalty on the company for the misdeeds that led to the Valdez oil spill, the worst in the nation's history.

Zuckerberg recounted receiving information about Facebook detecting people in Myanmar trying to incite violence against the Rohingya people — which the United Nations has said were being targeted in an ethnic - cleansing campaign — through the Messenger app.

Wareham — who coordinated the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition and Campaign Against Landmines — described New Zealand's lack of engagement as «an odd show for a nation known for its disarmament leadership.»