Sentences with phrase «done as a protest»

The only thing I've been doing is not turning up for some of the games, this wasn't done as a protest, it was done because I really couldn't be bothered going to watch the same turgid rubbish week after week.

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If your run a McDonald's, and an employee is engaging in a day of protest, make sure they're not out wearing their McDonald's uniform while they do it, regardless of whether or not you as a manager support the cause personally.

A viral video shows Philadelphia police arresting two black men inside a Starbucks as witnesses protest that the men «didn't do anything.»

As Altaf Rahamatulla, a Ford Foundation program associate, recently noted in Fortune, students are protesting these hateful activities with great passion and in huge numbers, as they did this fall at the University of MissourAs Altaf Rahamatulla, a Ford Foundation program associate, recently noted in Fortune, students are protesting these hateful activities with great passion and in huge numbers, as they did this fall at the University of Missouras they did this fall at the University of Missouri.

The law followed now - familiar protests from traditional taxi firms, furious at the competition posed by services such as Uber, which do not adhere to the same licensing standards and can offer lower prices by having drivers bear the costs of their vehicles.

Starting in July 1993, the protest crowds grew and grew and so did the coverage, reaching around the globe as environmentalists demonstrated outside Canadian embassies and high commissions in England, Australia, Germany, Austria, the United States and Japan.

«The bill would require us to provide issuers access to our intellectual property, and then force us to provide an audience to their protests in a way which our investor clients do not support and compromises our rights as an independent research firm.»

It sets distressing signals about race and protest, the same week as police moved in again on a peaceful Indigenous - led standoff against a North Dakota pipeline — and as Donald Trump rhetoric riles up believers in Second Amendment «remedies» when an election doesn't go their way.

As far as they were concerned, the protest movement and the Church had nothing to do with each otheAs far as they were concerned, the protest movement and the Church had nothing to do with each otheas they were concerned, the protest movement and the Church had nothing to do with each other.

Although, as a child of the 60's, I tend to reject any «system» which says that protest is futile (although knowing that getting their own way is what the powerful have always done), I see something here which might be a message for our times.

It's that belief system that causes people to vote and protest against others that don't believe as they do.

You're doing fine, you still have the vast majority of Americans on your side as professing Christians, and those of us protesting the enforcement of your religious beliefs through legislation are hardly persecuting you.

as the saying goes «me thinks they do protest too much.»

For example, aren't there better ways to help humanity than protesting soldiers» funerals as the Westboro Baptist Church people do?

Whether their assessment of the Eastern position is correct is debatable, as it is also whether continence was universal (northern European Councils had to keep on enforcing this, and the protests of the East also suggest that they did not hold it as an apostolic essential).

It is extraordinary that such a fundamental insight, one which also fits in with the modern insights concerning ecology, should provoke so much protest as it did.

As for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypotheticalAs for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypotheticalas a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypotheticalas the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypotheticalas a hypothetical).

They did it at the cost of what was considered a National Principle, but as the populace didn't protest, they did their jobs.

I will admit that there are churches that do shun Gays and Lesbians, such as Westburo but at the same time you see that often at their protest it is others of Faith who are challenging and counter-protesting.

He never thought, after the Greek fashion, of soul as pure being, capable of disembodiment, but spoke, as his Jewish contemporaries did, of future life in terms of bodily resurrection, and on that basis he discussed life after death with the skeptical Sadducees, protesting only against the popular, contemporary ways of conceiving the raised body and its uses in the next world.

Keep in mind, though, that Jesus did not protest his innocence and that people took this as a sign of his guilt, though he, of all men, was completely innocent.»

The people complaining today about being demonized did not, as far as I know, raise their voices in protest against the demonization of others by members of their own community.

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

When horrified bureaucrats protested, the abbot declared that they were just doing their duty as Soviet citizens as required by the First Secretary.

Christians should mourn Matthew Snyder's death and honor such servants of God in the military, not gloat over their deaths as Fred Phelps did in his reprehensible protest.

And in the name of that God, we must protest today, as the signers of the Barmen Declaration did yesterday, when the leaders of a government begin to say, «Hear, trust and obey us.

I don't however think that there is room to protest recreational palmistry, exorcisms, chakra alignments or the morning horoscope as if someone takes it to base their life decisions then it is their own mindset that drove them to it.

We must protest today, as the signers of the Barmen Declaration did yesterday, when the leaders of a government begin to say, «Hear, trust and obey us.

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

It does indeed: Whitehead is very much the Anglican who has a duty to «the State» or «the nation» which in time of danger such as war leads him to condemn Russell's «heedlessness» in protesting injustice to conscientious objectors.

Although there were acts of protest and provocation, women advocates and their supporters did not pursue a strategy of the fait accompli, as in the U.S., but worked to organize, debate, and persuade.

And I don't think the couple withheld part of the money as a protest against injustice, because Peter told them that giving their money was not a requirement, even after they sold their property.

It's no surprise, then, that, as music critic and Haggard biographer David Cantwell points out, two days after «Okie» hit the top 100 charts, President Nixon delivered a speech written by Patrick Buchanan on the «silent majority» who didn't protest or yell or want free love or psychedelic drugs.

But such reform movements, as efforts to recover the genuine and liberative orientations of the modern experience of reason, were either ignored by the dominant modern cultures or, when they succeeded, they did so only because they adapted the dominative power techniques of manipulation and control typical of the social orders and cultures against which they initially protested.

Did I simply imagine the uproar on the floor of the Synod on October 16, 2014, as bishop after bishop protested an interim report generated by Baldisseri and his colleague, Archbishop Bruno Forte, which did not reflect the discussions of the previous two weeDid I simply imagine the uproar on the floor of the Synod on October 16, 2014, as bishop after bishop protested an interim report generated by Baldisseri and his colleague, Archbishop Bruno Forte, which did not reflect the discussions of the previous two weedid not reflect the discussions of the previous two weeks?

It feels as if the world is burning down and we feel powerless to help and so we grieve and we get angry and we post things on Facebook, we march and we protest and we gather and we tell politicians what the problem really is, we watch the news and we cry and yell about things and then we look around our daily lives and wonder, am I doing enough to fix it?

To be sure, anything can be done to excess, but one should not protest too much when excess is on the side of good intentions — or at least of intentions that we feel obliged to construe as good.

Though clergy and ecclesiastical officers must refrain from partisan political activity, as I have cautioned elsewhere, condemning the taking of innocent lives is not partisan, whether through protesting abortion clinics or (as the British clergy did in World War II) denouncing a government for bombing civilian targets.

I would do a protest at the judges home with as many people as possible dressed up as Mohammad.

Finally, the affirming voter does not use the vote as a form of protest.

Only when the minister gets very «radical» about either doctrine or social issues does serious protest arise, and even then there is a tendency to let the minister think his own peculiar ideas so long as not many people are influenced by him.

I do not deny that there are revolts against it, on the part of individuals and even of nations; but these spasmodic movements of protest are painfully crushed by the tightening of the vice almost as soon as they appear.

Political theologies and theologies of social activism, coinciding as they did with the protest movements of the past decade, sought to secure a transcendent reference point for a minority cadre confronting the status quo.

Radicals should protest (as Jim Wallis does in Sojourners [January 1986, pp. 4 - 5]-RRB- when Nicaragua restricts political and religious liberty.

He, like they, protested against and did a radical critique of the domination system of his day, just as they did of the domination systems of their day.

Rahn... Do i really need to back up what i think online... and you being the expert... why do nt you fully explain to me the state that the country is in... enlighten me... but you already know how far that will go... just as my attempt to change others mind's fell short... so will any others opinion... i have my mind made up for my own well founded reasons... all im saying is that spending all day protesting and postulating is of no benefit to anyone... going about your life and making things best for yourself is in the best interest of this country as a whole... I believe Adam Smith said it best... the best results come from one person doing whats best for himself and the team... not throwing a hissy fDo i really need to back up what i think online... and you being the expert... why do nt you fully explain to me the state that the country is in... enlighten me... but you already know how far that will go... just as my attempt to change others mind's fell short... so will any others opinion... i have my mind made up for my own well founded reasons... all im saying is that spending all day protesting and postulating is of no benefit to anyone... going about your life and making things best for yourself is in the best interest of this country as a whole... I believe Adam Smith said it best... the best results come from one person doing whats best for himself and the team... not throwing a hissy fdo nt you fully explain to me the state that the country is in... enlighten me... but you already know how far that will go... just as my attempt to change others mind's fell short... so will any others opinion... i have my mind made up for my own well founded reasons... all im saying is that spending all day protesting and postulating is of no benefit to anyone... going about your life and making things best for yourself is in the best interest of this country as a whole... I believe Adam Smith said it best... the best results come from one person doing whats best for himself and the team... not throwing a hissy fit

This is not Gays VS Christians (or any religion - How fox news of CNN to go there) and it is NOT about what a CEO speaks — this is about people protesting a chain because they do not want the money they pay for a sandwich to go to extreme groups who hate GAYS and work very hard to make sure the gay people do not have the same rights as straight people.

As for the integrity of family life on a monogamous basis, Malachi's protest against divorce bears eloquent testimony to Israel's developing conscience: «And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand.

absolutely... but our protests are in secret just as our fasting and prayer times are done in secret, before the Father who sees what is done is secret as per Jesus's commands (Mathew 6: 1 — 18)

It amazes me for instance that few days ago everything they covered about the Middle East, and Lebanon, were the anti-movie protests, when something as crucial as Pope Benedict's visit to Beirut did not even make it to the news on CNN.