Sentences with phrase «civil disobedience such»

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• Commercial property insurance covers everything related to the loss and damage of company property due to events such as wind and hail storms, fire, smoke, civil disobedience, and vandalism.

On the right, however, such «higher law» arguments become the basis not for civil disobedience but for armed confrontation with the state.

But in the long run, such principled living» combined with peaceful civil disobedience» remade the empire.

The reaction to civil disobedience by the state is in turn drastically distorted, hence the police take measures such as have been witnessed over the past few weeks and months.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito says she's prepared to engage in civil disobedience while pushing the federal government to assist Puerto Rico with its fiscal crisis and that such a strategy may make sense.

In answer to the question of whether «peaceful civil disobedience (such as people staging sit - ins or occupying shops)... was an acceptable or unacceptable way of protesting,» 73 % of people said it was acceptable and only 22 % said it was unacceptable.

As a nonviolent act of civil disobedience escalates into a stand - off with law enforcement officials, issues such as homelessness, mental illness, and drug addiction are explored.

But such pedagogy merely trivializes civil disobedience and panders to students» desires to be outrageous and to make adults uncomfortable.

Another PBS lesson plan on civil disobedience asks students to identify «issues of concern» (such as school uniforms or a tax exemption for a business that pollutes), «brainstorm different ways people make their opinions known about issues of concern,» «discuss which of these methods are acceptable» means of protest to them,» and «identify possible negative consequences of activism to individuals engaged in these activities.»

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

Such games could be deeply integrated with the theme and the tactics of a protest, complement its theatrics, and inform actions of civil disobedience.

Drawing on personal experience and history in his native Chile, as well as research about other countries such as Ukraine and Venezuela, the artist focuses on simple structures that people build in times of oppression as expressions of civil disobedience.

Some have used civil disobedience in particular — I circulated the call for arrestees at the start of the Keystone XL pipeline demonstrations in 2011, and observers said the resulting two weeks of nonviolent direct action resulted in more arrests than any such demonstration on any issue in many years.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

Such civil disobedience attracts consequences.

Its undeniable that participating in civil disobedience as a lawyer is a bold strategy which could allow lawyers to break unjust rules in an attempt to change such rules for the benefit of their clients or the general public.

This seems unlikely, as it appears to be a reasonable limitation, but even if such a challenge can not succeed there is the response of civil disobedience.

Canadians even have a «how - to» book for such practices with the Protestors» Guide to the Law of Civil Disobedience in British Columbia.

Usually a decision to grant sanctuary is accompanied by a commitment by the clergy and congregation to other techniques of nonviolent civil disobedience, such as 24 hour vigils and sit - in blockades.