Sentences with phrase «despite public protests»

Murphy High, the school she attended in Mobile, was one of the first in Alabama to begin integrating black and white students in 1963, despite public protests by the state's then - governor, George Wallace, who famously said during his inaugural address that same year, «Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.»

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Protests, despite having no direct influence on legislation, are fundamental to harnessing public opinion around an issue.

Despite innumerable private testimonies of help and solidarity given — often at great risk — to persecuted Jews, despite innumerable touching signs of friendship and fidelity that dismissed Jewish professors received from their students, no public protest has been made by any educational body; and some new corporative institutions, among the liberal professions, are willingly admitting a kind of numerus cDespite innumerable private testimonies of help and solidarity given — often at great risk — to persecuted Jews, despite innumerable touching signs of friendship and fidelity that dismissed Jewish professors received from their students, no public protest has been made by any educational body; and some new corporative institutions, among the liberal professions, are willingly admitting a kind of numerus cdespite innumerable touching signs of friendship and fidelity that dismissed Jewish professors received from their students, no public protest has been made by any educational body; and some new corporative institutions, among the liberal professions, are willingly admitting a kind of numerus clausus.

Public outrage over Thatcher's poll tax, which John Major had been slow to abolish despite widespread protest and promises of change, led the Liberal Democrats to a storming victory, overturning Conservative Nigel Evans» 20,000 vote majority to win the seat.

Subways were running close to normal but many parents and students reported rough commutes to public schools, which were open Monday morning despite protest from some politicians.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald says the Republican - led chamber will pass a bill cutting collective bargaining rights for most public employees despite noisy protests inside the Capitol that have gone on...

Walker's proposal, which passed the Republican - controlled Legislature despite massive protests and all 14 Senate Democrats fleeing to Illinois for three weeks, targeted only public workers and exempted most fire and police officers.

Majority Leader Trent Lott (R - MS) put this legislation high on the Senate's agenda this week, despite protests that it hadn't been reviewed in committee or debated in public hearings.

The company building an oil pipeline that has been subject to sustained public protests said on Thursday it has resumed drilling beneath a North Dakota lake despite a last - ditch legal challenge from a Native American tribe leading the opposition.

Occupy Los Angeles, the largest protest outside of the original in New York's Zuccotti Park, is still going strong in the City of Angels, despite the fact that its biggest contributions to the public debate have been a nostalgic invocation of the French Revolution and a wave of antisemitism (note to the protesters: Los Angeles is not the ideal market for that last one).

Despite Facebook's stance, which mothers around the world have protested, it is actually legal to breastfeed in public in many countries, including Canada, the U.S. and Britain.

Despite protests by experts that it's already part of the public domain, the U.S. Patent and Trade Office added the term in 2000 to a list of recognized trademarks.

«like Charles Evans Hughes, Sr., later Mr. Chief Justice Hughes, who stood up for the constitutional rights of socialists to be socialists and public officials despite the threats and clamorous protests of self - proclaimed super patriots — men like Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., and John W. Davis, who, while against everything for which the Communists stood, strongly advised the Congress in 1948 that it would be unconstitutional to pass the law then proposed to outlaw the Communist Party — men like Lord Erskine, James Otis, Clarence Darrow, and the multitude of others who have dared to speak in defense of causes and clients without regard to personal danger to themselves.