Sentences with phrase «huge protests in»

UK politicians watched on uneasily as May was pictured hand - in - hand with Trump in Washington, whose contentious travel ban and controversial remarks triggered huge protests in London and cities across the country.

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Startup online content players, especially in the video arena, don't have the popularity or the clout to appeal to a huge base of customers to protest disadvantaged treatment.

Huge protests against austerity measures engulfed Madrid recently as angry voters displayed their discontent in the streets.

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 Missouri.

Financial group Skandia was rocked by revelations of huge bonuses to executives more than a decade ago, while telecom group Ericsson faced shareholder protests in 2007.

The Irish movement draws inspiration from protests in Poland, where women took to the streets in huge numbers to successfully prevent their government from passing harsh abortion laws last year.

But to the huge crowds that greeted them in Washington on Saturday at a march to protest gun violence, the students were fearless celebrities.

ST. PETERSBURG — While protesting is an intrinsic part of American culture, protests have had a huge resurgence in the past couple of years, with events like last year's Women's March and this weekend's March for Our Lives.

Mexico City taxi drivers snarled traffic in a massive anti-Uber protest in May, complaining that app operators do not have to pay the huge fees that cabs are charged by the government.

President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, resigned Tuesday in what was widely viewed as a protest against the president's plan to impose huge tariffs on steel and aluminum imports into the US.

When the last pope was in town the protest were huge.

''... they protest «rigid religion,» objecting to a certain brand of conservatism that insists there is only one way to express spirituality, faith, and the search for transcendence... So why, then, is it «good news» that there is a huge rise in the «spiritual but not religious»?

First, in the media battle that raged before the Pope's arrival, the Protest the Pope coalition got a huge amount of coverage, so much, indeed, that some of us began to fear that the visit might turn out to be a disaster.

It was the second Friday in a row that Egyptian protest organizers used Friday prayers as launch events for huge demonstrations.

Friday's huge «Day of Departure» protests in Cairo, Egypt coincided with Friday afternoon prayers, the most important of the week for Muslims.

A large part of the protest is claiming that while the Premier League clubs are raking in excess amounts of money from television rights and sponsors, the fans are not treated fairly, despite the huge role they play.

The only reason people think the «Wenger out» protests are out - of - order is because he was a breath of fresh air when he first arrived, carried himself with dignity and intelligence, and saw Arsenal continuously finish in the top - four despite the huge financial pressures of building a new stadium like the Emirates.

To have a chance of staying and ward off huge fan protests, round the corner shortly, Wenger would have to beat City in the League Cup and also get at least an honourable draw in the Prem.

The clauses in the defence cooperation agreement have led to huge protests from the majority of Ghanaians, with a demonstration against the deal taking place on Wednesday.

The huge march in London at the weekend was in part a roar of deep dissatisfaction at hardline policies in the UK (cuts to legal aid, threats to scrap the Human Rights Act, etc), not just a protest at Trump's divisive rhetoric and policies.

Yesterday Lib Dem energy secretary Chris Huhne's speech at the LSE in London was blighted by a huge student protest outside.

The day after huge student protests ended in widespread violence including an attack on a car containing Prince Charles, the assessment of the police response begins.

In her Hastings and Rye constituency there was a protest by a huge flotilla of fishermen about the EU still having rights to the UK's fishing waters in the Brexit transitioIn her Hastings and Rye constituency there was a protest by a huge flotilla of fishermen about the EU still having rights to the UK's fishing waters in the Brexit transitioin the Brexit transition.

Protests were huge, publicity smart, donations rolled in.

There's been a huge rise in boots - on - the - ground, grassroots engagement during earth - sign Virgo in full effect, as protest marches and calls to government representatives reached record levels.

Jalna (Maha) The Maratha community today took out a huge silent protest march (Muk Morcha) at Jalna town in Marathwada region of Maharashtra..

Because people DID protest Barnum's circus in New York, but a huge part of that was that he OWNED A SLAVE.

Huge numbers turned out last Friday morning to support a peaceful protest in Donabate over road safety issues.

But more involving is the huge protest of the Rat People (a takeoff on the Occupy group), barging into stores and tossing dead rats inside and causing riots and destruction in the streets.

Despite huge protests at Michigan's state capitol building in Lansing, Republican lawmakers in the state made the union stronghold the 24th right - to - work state in the country.

«It takes away a huge, huge chunk of money from their chunk of money» The fights in Maplewood and Millburn are reminiscent of what East Brunswick went through last year, before the DOE approved the charter school's application over parental protests and the local board of education's recommendation to deny the application.

The student protests over gun violence during the past several months, including a huge rally in Washington, D.C., in March, were organized by survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14 that left 17 people dead, including 14 students and three staff members.

«In early March, charter school supporters held a huge rally at the state Capitol featuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo and hundreds of students it had bused to Albany for the protest.

Vallas brought in Chicago groups, including UNO, on huge contracts to establish the Chicago model in New Orleans in the teeth of growing local protests there.

My God, I remember marching in huge protests to stop the Viet Nam war, I remember rallying for the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez, I remember passion, action, interest, commitment; what is going on?

But in Thailand the government was faced with huge protests from communities against coal - fired power plants.

This huge coal project has incited strong local opposition including a lawsuit and multiple protests by thousands of local residents resulting in violent clashes with project security and the military.

The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says the nuclear plans were met with huge criticism and calls for protests in some quarters, not least because finance officials, including then Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene, insisted that South Africa could not afford the ambitious project.

Human rights activists who have been honoured today include Reuben Herrera from Guatemala — an activist supporting indigenous protests against huge energy and mining projects in Huehuetenago, a delegation of syndicalists fighting for workers» rights in the Philippines, and Huber Ballesteros from Colombia — a union leader who was one of hundreds imprisoned after a general strike in 2013.

Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building a huge dam, as Circle of Blue reports, the run - of - river project still would have diverted a 16 kilometer stretch of the river through pipes to generate electricity.In addition to stopping the project, construction on which had been on hold for over a year after scientist AD Agarwal nearly died in a hunger strike protesting the plan, a 135 kilometer stretch of the Bhagirathi River upstream of the town of Uttarkashi will be designated an «environmentally sensitive area», prohibiting future hydro or similar development projects.

In May, 2013, there were huge street protests against government plans to raze Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park to make way for a shopping mall.

Therefore, if you have ever raised money for your organization, was in charge of the Public Relations of your college, ran campaigns to support or protest against reforms, or conducted a huge research with other fellow students from your college, now is the time to talk about it.