Sentences with phrase «fuelled protests from»

Publisher Hachette and Amazon ended Thursday an acrimonious feud over online book sales that highlighted Amazon's market dominance and fuelled protests from leading authors like John Grisham and Stephen King.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Fuel - starved Nepal has signed an agreement with China to import gasoline, diesel and cooking gas, effectively ending a monopoly on supply from India, which has restricted fuel convoys as a result of political protests in the Himalayan natFuel - starved Nepal has signed an agreement with China to import gasoline, diesel and cooking gas, effectively ending a monopoly on supply from India, which has restricted fuel convoys as a result of political protests in the Himalayan natfuel convoys as a result of political protests in the Himalayan nation.

He wrote his most famous book, The Naked Public Square» his 1984 argument against the attempt to secularize every part of shared life» because he thought the nation was in danger of losing the religious dynamism that had fueled everything from Abraham Lincoln's speeches to Martin Luther King's protests.

His death from injuries sustained while in police custody led to protests around the city and helped fuel the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

While Facebook and other social media played an essential role in creating the protests themselves, I would argue that their even more important role consisted in continuously fuelling them, as multiple Facebook pages dedicated to the protests started posting photos, videos and articles on what was happening, while simultaneously engaging the public and the protesters in a discussion on a wide range of important and thought - provoking civic topics, ranging from the manifestations themselves to Romania's political future.

Dr. Peter Ozo - Eson, the General Secretary of the union, had disclosed yesterday that the major organs of the congress would meet to appraise the indefinite strike called to protest the recent increase in the fuel pump price from N86 to N86.50 k to N145.

The amendment comes after recent protests against the rising cost of fuel, as well as calls from the minority for the Special Petroleum Tax to be scrapped.

The decision was controversial and continues to generate protest, fueled by new findings from this icy realm.

As the noisy protests from the CVT make clear every time you get serious about acceleration, the mission here is fuel efficiency, not fizz.

The 1840s gallery was chosen for the protest because it houses many paintings from the time of the industrial revolution, when the large - scale burning of fossil fuels began in the west.

It's another in a list of protests and arrests directed against CO2 from fossil fuels, with a special focus on coal.

Progressives are driving their fossil fuel powered cars from great distances this morning, to protest the fact that the government allows them to purchase gasoline.

Europe continues to be taken hostage by destructive fossil fuels and the companies who profit from them, according to Friends of the Earth groups protesting at an informal meeting of European energy ministers in Amsterdam today.

McKibben, who spent much of the summer organizing protests in Washington, D.C. against increased U.S. imports of oil from Canada's tar sands, called on Bellingham residents to join in another battle against increasing fossil fuel trade.

The fossil fuel industry was deeply «unsettled» by comments from energy secretary Ed Davey raising the prospect that their assets could be rendered worthless by global action on climate change, according to a letter of protest sent to the secretary of state.

* distance in time from Hiroshima, the Cold War, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and the protest movement of the 70's (in the main) * aging population, meaning many younger respondents don't have personal experience of this negative history * immigration (in Australia particularly), from countries with nuclear power already, or which didn't have strong antinuclear movements * willingness to reconsider the option, based on both climate change, and the increasingly visible decline of fossil fuels * smarter, better educated population