Sentences with phrase «of armed resistance»

Featuring a handmade label with a «mammy» figure on the front and a Black Power fist on the back, the ubiquitous California wine jug turned Molotov cocktail wryly comments on the potential and promise of armed resistance to oppression.

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By the time the West struck back just under a week later, armed resistance in the areas around the Syrian government's seat of power had all but collapsed, further strengthening the hand of President Bashar al - Assad.

There was no resistance, but officers found a large stock of arms at the villa in Yerres, 12 miles southeast of Paris, a ministry official said.

The main liberation movement, the ANC, long committed to nonviolent resistance under the influence of Gandhi and its Christian roots, had by 1963 decided, after agonizing debate, to engage in an armed struggle.

The chronicler of the horror, Montesino's later Dominican brother Bartolomé de Las Casas, tells a story of the Taíno chief Hatuey, who was caught and convicted for armed resistance.

The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves.

He finds these values as well in the handiwork of «insurrectionists» from Daniel Shays to John Brown to Timothy McVeigh, and in the arguments of neo-republican legal scholars such as Amar, Sanford Levinson and David Williams, who find a mandate for revolutionary resistance to oppressive government in the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Moreover, it is characteristic of black power philosophy to insist, with Hartshorne, that, under certain conditions, those who support the struggle may rightfully engage in armed resistance to oppression.

All examples of cases where the mightiest military force on the planet couldn't take out a p ∞ rly armed, p ∞ rly funded citizens» resistance movement.

Both hawks and doves reasoned that war would disappear in face of the insane disproportion between armed force and any hope of resistance.

Judaism faced the alternative of eclipse or armed resistance.

How about members of the IRA, the Ulster Defence League, The Manmase National Christian Army, the National Liberation Front of Tripura, The Army of God, The Aryan nations, Phineas Priesthood, The Covenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord, The Iron Guard, The Lancieri, The Lord's Resistance Army...

We should not forget the pragmatic consideration that the non-violent resistance of an unarmed populace against armed police or military authority may be the only feasible kind of protest.

It's this constant reflection upon what is happening here, in the light of nuclear arms, saying something to folks about the utter urgency of this resistance.

They were arrested, harassed, beating and even killed — no record of any resistance by them with or without arms.

There was a great deal of resistance to the French army's abuses and occupation and Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory (in Puebla) of the smaller, poorly armed Mexicans over the much larger French army.

Armed with 20 years of research (and with a little help from popular media), cities have recently begun mounting stiff resistance against demanding teams.

In sympathy with her brothers, Raymonde wore armbands under her clothes, ones bearing the Cross of Lorraine or the letters «FFI» standing for «Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur,» associated with the armed resistance, despite the obvious danger should a German soldier discover the fact.

To strengthen the muscles in your back, try this exercise: with your arms straight out in front of you, spaced about shoulder with a part, hold a resistance band with both hands.

With your arms straight out in front of you spaced about shoulder width apart, hold your resistance band with both hands.

Instead of revolting against their government (Hamas), Gazans endorse their government and prone armed resistance (again) against Israel.

It also met resistance from the Armed Services Committee's Democratic Chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, who replaced Gillibrand's provision with a measure that would require review of prosecution decisions by more senior military leaders.

(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

Instead, it has encouraged the President to fall back on military tactics, which are antithetical to democracy and the result is resistance from the other arms of government and critical stakeholders.

Carson's argument was fundamental: Because pests and weeds quickly develop resistance, chemical pesticides create a kind of arms race.

But as Loos analyzed the data further, she saw that while men with this variant indeed had less fat in their arms, legs and trunk, they also had higher triglycerides — fat found in the blood — and lower good cholesterol in their blood and increased insulin resistance, all signs of ill health.

Armed with this information, the researchers plan to look at the number of repeats present in existing nematode - resistant soybean varieties in an attempt to explain why some display better resistance than others in field settings.

They found that when a negative electrical potential is applied to skin on various parts of the arm, creating a current, that stretch of skin exhibits a low resistance to a subsequent current flowing through the skin.

This process was hypothesized to result from an evolutionary chemical arms race, in which the invention of potent venom in the predatory animals and the evolution of venom resistance in their prey animals, exert reciprocal selection pressures.

This paper, however, shows an arms race that includes behavioral resistance to certain types of food — in this case, glucose.

In C. albicans, an isochromosome 5 can arise in response to fluconazole treatment and confers drug resistance because the left arm of Chr 5 encodes Erg11 (lanosterol 14α demethylase), the target of fluconazole, and Tac1, a transcription factor that activates expression of drug export pumps [15], [17].

In the intention - to - treat sample (n = 190), remission rates were compared for the 2 treatment arms using logistic regression and controlling for site, treatment resistance, age, and duration of the current depressive episode.

From barre moves that lengthen the lower body to curls that target the arms, resistance bands can be used for almost any type of activity and muscle group.

Also included is a set of resistance bands for an arm workout while using your vibration platform.

For my arms, I like to combine about 30 minutes of resistance training twice a week with 10 to 15 minutes of high - intensity interval training on most days.

Use resistance bands to do foot curls and arm stretches at your desk, and take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Hold a resistance band in front of you with your arms extended straight out.

Adding the resistance band creates a super-gravity effect on the upper body, requiring a stronger response of spinal muscles to stretch out and lengthen through the arms.

Adding the resistance band takes away that limitation and allows for the overhead arm variation to be accessible to even the most tight of shoulders!

In addition, the resistance band provides a marker of how level each arm is with one another, an especially difficult task when one hand is completely outside the range of vision.

Adding a resistance band will increase the amount of tension taking the arms back and allow for an easier stack of the shoulders over the hips.

While with the standard exercises the resistance is reduced as the hands approach the chest, by flexing your shoulders, i.e. keeping your arms slightly in front of the torso, you add to the resistance when you pull the cable towards your body.

Starting Position: Stand on one end of the resistance band, and hold your arm out to the side to about 90 degrees with your palm facing down.

Any type of resistance training will help you tone up the tummy, hips and arms.

Hold a relatively light resistance band out in front of your chest with your arms straight.

It does this by connecting your hands, arms, core, legs, and ankles with a series of straps and rubber resistance bands in a non-intrusive, comfortable, and highly adjustable way.

I have lost over 2 stone which I am happy about (I weighed 11st 10 before, but now just over 9 st) but I have also lost muscle, which I am not happy about as I have a lot of loose skin around my arms, legs and stomach, so this year I started resistance training.

Using your own bodyweight as resistance, the Physique 57 workout targets the muscles in your arms, thighs, seat and abs to the point of fatigue then stretches them for relief.

When you only use 1 arm at a time you core muscles must work really hard to counteract the rotational force of the resistance.

These more resistance when you are doing strength training, think arm or leg curls or extensions, or allow you to use more of your bodyweight to add to your workouts.