Sentences with phrase «not as a protest»

Overstreet said, «I was beginning to look at my art in a different light, not as protest, but as a statement about people... By 1970 I had broken free from notions that paintings had to be on the wall in rectangular shapes.»

Sea Shepherd operates not as a protest group but as a self - appointed law enforcement organization operating in accordance with the Charter.

I should point out that FOIA, the guy that released he climategate emails made explicit his reasons for doing so were socially motivated, and not as a protest against dreaded «big government».

Not exact matches

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.

The requests for Vine are not surprising, as the video streaming service has become an increasingly popular tool for documenting protests, the aftermath of terrorism attacks, and other current events.

Some will see Assad's win in Aleppo and other gains he has made with Russian and Iranian support as a chance to return and rebuild their lives - but not those involved in dissent when protests began in 2011.

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

Though a number of people weren't happy about Madonna as the choice for the tribute and even protested the performance, that wasn't evident on the screen.

And the union that staged the protest is returning with the workers, who will see their pay and seniority respected by the new boss, who is decidedly not the same as the old boss.

Those efforts would come as Prime Minister Najib faces increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing this week to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

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.

If your take on it fits on a protest placard, you're probably not giving it as much thought as it needs.

Shareholders in a zoo near Shanghai, frustrated that they weren't making a profit on their investment, fed a live donkey to zoo tigers as a form of protest.

Those who are protesting the Segwit2x hard fork say that Bitcoin is not a digital currency, was not designed to be a digital currency and should not be treated as such.

«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.»

Though it is important not to overstate the situation, the level of support for the main German right - wing populist party reflects a significant protest vote, which could have an influence on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's approach as she looks past her election victory.

Though it is important not to overstate the situation — realistically, the AfD party is unlikely to have a significant influence over policy in Germany in the short term — the level of support for the German right - wing party reflects a significant protest vote, which could have an influence on Chancellor Merkel's approach as she looks past her election victory.

I'm not a conservative myself, but I'm reckoning there are a lot of conservative women out there who are disgusted by the PC use of Redford as an all - purpose witch and who might vote for Danielle Smith in protest of it.

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.

On Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Association).

Such as God told Noah that that no more flooding would occur following this one, hence global warming is a hoax, and this came from a political leader not a marginal preacher in Florida looking for its 15 minutes of fame on TV with his proposed koran burning protest.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

The protests are about far more than the abortionists» accepting payments for fetal organs — which clearly drew political blood, as Planned Parenthood just announced it will not accept such compensation going forward.

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

Domestically and internationally, Ahmadinejad is regarded by not a few as a capricious dictator whose presidency has included serious human rights violations, routine defiance of the United Nations, development of capabilities for nuclear weapons, and massive student protests against his government.

Now that the protests are slowing down, the media circus is slowly dissipating, and the helicopters are not circling every single night, we are dealing with the same questions we've always faced: Why are things here as bad as they are?

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).

But conscientious protest has meaning only insofar as the Church seriously endeavors to teach, not in the name of its of its own pseudo-democratic consensus, but in the name of God.

Since conservatives comprise anywhere from 2 to 6 percent of faculty on the major campuses across the country, the fact that over 70 percent of the Calvin faculty chose not to sign the protest letter is stunning and should have been viewed as a positive.

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.

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.

-- This institution will make every effort to battle such reprehensible fundamentalist violence to ensure that such horrors are not repeated anywhere (even if that means Muslims volunteering — NOT protesting — to be ethnically profiled, as terrible as that would normally be in times of peace, at airports, to help catch the murderernot repeated anywhere (even if that means Muslims volunteering — NOT protesting — to be ethnically profiled, as terrible as that would normally be in times of peace, at airports, to help catch the murdererNOT protesting — to be ethnically profiled, as terrible as that would normally be in times of peace, at airports, to help catch the murderers).

We wonder whether something of what he learned as he witnessed the smoke rising from Sodom and Gomorrah may have prepared Abraham for his greatest trial, enabling him to respond without so much as a peep of protest about the suffering of the innocent when God asks him to become not just an accomplice in the death of Lot but an actual killer of his own beloved son.

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.

Blake and every radical Christian seer have not only issued a violent protest against the «Christian God,» but they have likewise condemned the mystery and repression of religion as a fundamental obstacle to the realization of a union with the life and Word of Jesus.

All those fastings laws, religious customs, devotions (which I may perhaps hate) and whatever else belongs to parish life and hits me as «law» is not necessarily wrong only because I reject it in a protest which is very problematical.

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

As a result every right to criticize, to care, to cooperate, to object, warn and protest must not come from outside but from within, from a member who is truly conscious of his own responsibility as well as of his own inadequacAs a result every right to criticize, to care, to cooperate, to object, warn and protest must not come from outside but from within, from a member who is truly conscious of his own responsibility as well as of his own inadequacas well as of his own inadequacas of his own inadequacy.

One might very well read his protest not as a brief for atheism, but as a kind of demythologized Gnostic manifesto, an accusation flung in the face of the demiurge.

I address myself to Protestant misconceptions not because they are greater than or altogether different from Catholic ones, but because, just as Catholicism today is discovering its latent protest or prophecy, so Protestantism is discovering its latent mysticism.

The Anglo - Catholics are not alone in this by any means, but their cause was greatly discounted by such an unreasonable protest, which looked as if it was the last chance, coming at the close of the conference, and they wanted to make use of that chance.

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.

A number of my fellow rock - bohemians hungered to get «our 60s,» our movement that would unite our generation with purpose — it was feeling I felt throughout my 80s teenage - dom, but I became disturbed at the way the «political» longings were increasingly so content - empty, not seriously seeking any overall account of things, and thus seeming ready to embrace any ol' something to be against that would serve as an excuse to protest.

If these nasty bombastic Christians that protest funerals and wrap their lives around political candidates as a savior actually read the Bible they would see they are not in line with God's will.

As soon as one eliminates Jewishness from Jesus, the assertion of uniqueness becomes arrogant and exclusivistic because, despite protest to the contrary, one is now talking of things, not a persoAs soon as one eliminates Jewishness from Jesus, the assertion of uniqueness becomes arrogant and exclusivistic because, despite protest to the contrary, one is now talking of things, not a persoas one eliminates Jewishness from Jesus, the assertion of uniqueness becomes arrogant and exclusivistic because, despite protest to the contrary, one is now talking of things, not a person.

Both writers justly protest that this simple conflation is not only false but cruel, as well as hazardous to everyone's spiritual and physical health.

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.