Sentences with phrase «descended upon the state»

Actor Debra Winger and Gasland filmmaker Josh Fox were among hundreds of anti fracking protesters who descended upon the State Capitol Monday, in one of the largest demonstrations against the natural gas drilling process to date.

Over 300 charter supporters descend upon the State Capitol for Advocacy Day as CCSA celebrates National Charter Schools Week

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Each year about state tournament time coaches and scouts from all parts of the land descend upon Hoosierland wielding generous scholarships to help lure the stars to their respective out - of - state schools.

Hundreds of low - wage workers and advocates descended upon Albany today to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it to inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum.

Be it snow on a slope that can sit there for days before being sent descending by an overambitious skier or bonds in macromolecules that change dramatically upon appropriate activation — systems that reside for extended periods of times in one state before switching rapidly to another, energetically more favourable one are found in many different contexts.

New York's Democrats and Republicans will descend upon two downstate venues Wednesday and Thursday, and thanks to former state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's sudden departure from the scene, these party conventions will prove anything but staid.

Although Oklahoma teachers have descended upon the capitol nearly every year to protest what they see as meager public education appropriations, it's no surprise that rallies during state election years are much larger.

The award ceremony is the culminating highlight of the network's 4th annual Charter Awareness Day taking place that morning, which will see students, families, educators and representatives from the state's public charter school community descend upon Nathan Hale Hall for a day of celebration and advocacy.

Hundreds of animal advocates descended upon the Great Hall at the Massachusetts State House in Boston this week during Humane Lobby Day, to meet with and ask elected officials to join the fight for animals in need by passing stronger animal protection laws.

When the festivities of Mardi Gras are over and the Siberian freeze descends upon the southern United States for weeks at a time, I'm reminded how much I despise winter.

On the opening night of The Unplayed Notes Museum, Loris Gréaud's first solo museum show in the United States, guests sauntered around the Dallas Contemporary until a group of people, up to that moment hiding in the crowd, descended upon the art, ripping it from the walls, breaking it into pieces.

Hypothetically (and the relationship is already well established statistically) the gamut of Mid Winter Warmings, Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Final Warmings in the Arctic stratosphere depend upon the supply of ozone rich air from mid latitudes being thrust into the Arctic stratosphere where ozone is normally in a somewhat depleted state due to erosive nitrogen compounds descending from the mesosphere, in turn related to Particle Precipitation Events that are strongly related to geomagnetic influences and the solar wind.

Winter Weather Can Mean More Accidents As winter descends upon most of the United States, driving conditions change for the worse, creating more opportunity for accidents.