Sentences with phrase «held signs calling»

We also held actions at campaign events, handed out fliers and held signs calling on the candidates to support a statewide moratorium.

Students shared their own experiences of gun violence and called for stronger gun laws, while some held signs calling for an end to school massacres.

Representing a smattering of different environmental advocacy groups from around the state, about 250 protesters held signs calling on officials and lawmakers to prohibit any more natural gas pipelines being built in New York, to stop the construction of a proposed liquid natural gas storage facility next to Seneca Lake, and to shift the state's energy production to greener fuel sources....

«New Yorkers deserve an attorney general who is unwavering in her fight to uphold and defend their most basic rights,» Ms. James said in a brief speech at the Brooklyn Historical Society, where she was surrounded by cheering supporters holding signs calling her «the people's lawyer.»

Juma Graham, left, holds a sign calling for a $ 15 minimum wage as James Brown, right, speaks during the rally held at the state labor board's meeting to discuss raising the wage.

Not exact matches

In 2010, in the wake of the financial crisis, the Fed and its global counterparts signed the so - called «Basel III» accords, under which all countries agreed to raise the minimum level of capital banks must hold to 8 % of their risk - adjusted assets.

More than 71,000 people signed a Change.org petition calling on Protein World to remove the adverts, and a small protest against the campaign was held in London's Hyde Park.

So Walker has thus far held off on signing the budget into law and has called the legislature back for a second special session, beginning July 11.

Christianity itself has become a principality and holds thousands captive, Before anyone comments on me calling todays Christianity a principality, (a demonic stronghold) let me just make a request that those who do answer are those who live as the followers of the way did in biblical times, that is, meeting every day, considering nothing they owned as their own, laying their lives down for the gospel (and not getting paid to do so) and having signs and wonders accompany them when they speak of the Lord.

Some in the Rangers camp would like to sign Bob Horner to play third and move Steve Buechele to second, but Horner had better not hold his breath waiting for a call...

«Greg,» who goes by «Violations Greg» on Twitter and runs a blog called «Jawnville,» ran out of the stadium to Broad and Shunk Streets around 10 p.m. the night of the last win and posted a picture of two guys holding a «Fuck Millie» sign.

Sean Goss: Signed from Exeter City in 2012, Goss has been called «the next Michael Carrick» due to his natural inclination to sit deep in a holding role soaking up passes and screening his defence.

Were there those at the DNC still chanting «no more war» or holding up signs calling for an end to drone warfare?

I held up that sign because I believe its time to call out those whose diet of hate, division and suspicion will create nothing but poverty and misery.

The PNC Chairman's call for leniency follows the many sympathisers, mainly from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who have signed petitions and held vigils in solidarity with the Montie three.

About two dozen people attended the People's State of the State Address, holding signs that called for taxes on the rich and giving speeches about mass incarceration and the increasing lines at food pantries.

In a sign of divisions among some businesses, the Institute of Directors (IoD) said a referendum needed to be held and called on Labour to do more to set out its plans to make the EU more competitive.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a measure designed to put more pressure on banks that neglect either so - called «zombie» homes, or vacant homes they hold the mortgage on.

More than a dozen state lawmakers have signed onto a letter calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor to probe the death of Eric Garner after he was subject to a choke hold from police.

A timeshare unit of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. agreed to pay $ 250,500 and improve its business practices to settle charges it made hundreds of unsolicited telemarketing sales calls to New Yorkers who had signed up for the National Do Not Call Registry.

At noon, clergy will hold a press conference and deliver a petition signed by over 100 faith leaders calling for the Millionaire's Tax to be expanded and the 2 percent spending cap eliminated in order to invest in fighting poverty and inequality, War Room, 2nd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

The governor even held a ceremonial signing of the measure — now called Affordable New York — last week for those who may have missed its actual passage.

The governor in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, called on the international community and the media to save democracy in Nigeria from being truncated by «the APC cabal's desperation to hold on to power by whatever means.»

Hoosick Falls residents hold signs during a news conference at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., in June calling for hearings on the state's handling of PFOA contamination in drinking water in their town.

The protestors, under what they called the «loose coalition of Fire Howard,» lined the entrance to the California Road restaurant upon the Republican's arrival, chanting and holding strongly - worded signs that read «Enter Here Racists,» among other things.

Romney, like most of the Republican candidates, has largely embraced positions held by party activists: committing to repeal the health - care law signed last year by Obama; calling for reduced federal spending, but no tax increases, to balance the budget; and opposing same - sex marriage and abortion.

A statement signed by Atiku's Media Office stressed that, «the so - called Integrity Group is not known to Atiku Abubakar, the Atiku Media Office and the supposedly held parley by the group, is not known to the former Vice President.»

Several civilians affiliated with the Coalition for the Homeless sat in the audience holding signs reiterating the advocacy group's call for NYCHA to allocate 2,500 units for the 60,000 New Yorkers using the shelter system each night.

► «[M] ore than 300 scholars and scientists, including seven Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter calling on Iran to release [chemist Mohammad Hossein] Rafiee» from its «notorious Evin Prison,» where he has been held «since June 2015, after speaking out in favor of the nuclear deal that was announced a month after he was imprisoned,» Zack Kopplin reported Tuesday at ScienceInsider.

Doniger notes that Bush has refused to sign on to a plan that calls for a 50 percent cut in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2050 or to an effort to hold average temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, as have been proposed by other countries.

Secretary of state Rex Tillerson signed the Fairbanks Declaration, calling for climate action but holding judgement on the Paris Agreement

A signing ceremony to partner on the development of a global science gateway, called WorldWideScience.org, was held at the British Library in London, England, on January 21, 2007.

«Low - Calorie Diet Slows Aging in Mice in Study,» claimed a recent headline.17 According to the article, «Putting elderly mice on a very low - calorie diet for as little as four weeks reversed many of the changes in the activity of various genes that had occurred during normal aging...» The resesearchers were not looking at actual signs of disease, nor were they measuring lifespan, but instead focused on the analysis of 11,000 different genes using a method called microarray technology in which Spindler has large financial holdings.

There are several signs you can look for like how much they weigh, how well the baby is holding their head up, and whether they are able to swallow to determine if your baby is ready for food but I recommend calling your doctor to make sure they agree before you start.

If you're signed up for class but are running late, please call your local studio so we can make sure to hold your spot.

Well, Square Enix had signed on to make a new game called Catacombs and was well into development of the RPG Shooter co-op before deciding to put it on hold.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is calling on teachers and careers advisers to sign up for its first ever careers event for educators, being held at its HQ at 195 Piccadilly, London, on Thursday 9th November.

And, in a sign that they will not compete in round two, Alaska and Texas — neither of which applied the first time — were among the seven states that did not attend, either by conference call or in person, an optional April 21 technical - assistance planning session the U.S. Department of Education held in Minneapolis for prospective round - two applicants.

Two weeks later, she and her husband laughed and posed for a picture with a crowd of union - backed protesters who were holding a sign outside her home in Harlem that read: «Success Academy threatened to call 911 — on 1st graders!»

[66] Their «grassroots» field operation was actually made up almost entirely of people who were paid to knock doors, make phone calls, hold signs, and poll watch.

I know this girl is not a member of any political party, but she is timidly holding a sign that reads: DEATH TO FREEDOM, DEATH TO CAPTIVITY It is a strange slogan that I don't believe has ever been seen or heard under the rule of any dictatorial, Communist, populist, or even so - called liberal regime.

The point of the phone call though is to have your advisor walk through your portfolio and highlight your current holdings, show where PC can make some improvements, explain how PC would invest your money, answer any questions you might have and then try to get you to sign up.

A group of protesters gathered at the gallery on Sunday, making speeches calling for the shutdown of the exhibition and holding signs that read «racism disguised as art» and «this is not my culture.»

Around 1964, she briefly flirted with political subject matter through two semiabstract pictures of crowds of demonstrators holding up signs, both called «Sketch for March on Washington» (circa 1964).

Flint residents, students from Northwestern High School, a young boy holding a «Unwanted» sign that calls for the arrest of Governor Mayor Rick Snyder, await the arrival of President Barack Obama on May 4, 2016.

Alluding to the 1968 strike in which Memphis Sanitation workers held signs asserting their dignity and humanity in the face of discrimination and oppression, he called his painting of Jay Z, «I Am a Man.»

Rather than raise her banner aloft, Fawcett holds «Courage Calls To Courage Everywhere» before her, in echo of Wearing's much loved series «Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say» (1992 — 93).

On June 10, 2016, injured workers and their supporters are holding a province - wide Day of Action to deliver an open letter endorsed by over 140 organizations and individuals, as well as thousands of postcards signed by supporters, calling for changes at WSIB in regard to health treatment and benefits.

The other chip will hold the names of more than 1.6 million people, who signed up during a second call this year.

If you receive a call while charging you have to hold the phone and pack in this weird perpendicular plus sign arrangement or use a separate cable but now it defeats the purpose of the built in cable.