Sentences with phrase «of nationwide protests»

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — After a week of nationwide protests, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on 19 April sought to reassure scientists that her government was rethinking a rumored $ 423 million (AUD $ 400 million) cut to medical research over 3 years, starting in the 2011 - 12 budget.

She believes the key to victory will be tapping into the grassroots energy behind many of the nationwide protests.

Cuomo's announcement came on a day of nationwide protests and rallies, as fast - food workers and other low - wage workers called for the $ 15 wage and for the right to unionize.

Fresh off the second weekend of nationwide protests against President Donald Trump, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has released its initial list of Republican - held seats it plans to target in 2018.

A press release dated August 3, 2017, and signed by the Association's Chairman, Charles Danso did not give a date for the start of the nationwide protest but called on members to support the agitation.

When the former, Ahmad Shafik, was allowed to pass through to the second electoral round, waves of nationwide protest decried his candidacy.

He hinted of a nationwide protest by the Ghana First Patriotic Front and its allies against the deal.

«We have coordinated this with the school district and the superintendent's office,» said Alex Caputo - Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which is leading the LA part of the nationwide protest.

Demonstrators hold up signs during a rally in downtown Orlando, Florida, as part of the nationwide protest against gun violence across the U.S. on Saturday.

The students were given detentions for walking out of school on March 14 as part of a nationwide protest.

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The Democratic committee is touting a surge of 675,000 new supporters in January, many of whom joined the cause amid nationwide protests against Trump's policies.

Despite the West Coast clashes, most nationwide protests were peaceful as immigrants, union members and their allies staged a series of strikes, boycotts and marches to highlight the contributions of immigrants in the United States.

Nonetheless, Trump appears unmoved by nationwide protests or any other signs of oppositions against clamping down on immigration, which leads me to wonder what are the risks that America, particularly tech executives, see that Trump does not?

San Diego Fast - Food Workers to Join Nationwide Protests on 50th Anniversary of Historic Memphis Sanitation Strike Times of San Diego Debbie L. Sklar Feb. 9, 2018

As well as creating a full - blown cryptocurrency economy inside the app, it would also insulate it against the attacks and accusations of nation - states such as Iran, where it now accounts for 40 % of Iran's internet traffic but was temporarily blocked amongst nationwide protests against the government.

A Kansas church that attracted nationwide attention for its angry, anti-gay protests at the funerals of U.S. military members has won its appeal at the Supreme Court, an issue testing the competing constitutional limits of free speech and privacy.

Their movement had a short, compelling name (Never Again), concise goals (more background checks for gun buyers), plans for a nationwide protest, a slew of media appearances and a handful of memorably viral speeches that took their message across the nation.

He speaks of members of a small Kansas church who have gained nationwide attention for protesting loudly at funerals of U.S. service members, denouncing homosexuality.

Obviously, the police have been feeling a lot of heat lately with a series of nationwide (even global) protests about abuse of power, racial profiling and lack of accountability.

Inspired by similar events organized by a growing group of unlikely activists nationwide, the protest brought about 200 women to ABC's headquarters Monday.

What began as a localised protest over a shopping centre and the demolition of the Gezi Park in Istanbul's central Taksim Square turned into a nationwide conflagration in response to the inciting rhetoric of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the unfettered police brutality unleashed upon peaceful protestors.

A nationwide protest against university fees hits the UK today, as student across the country demonstrate against the costs of their education.

Thousands of students, emboldened by a growing protest movement over gun violence, stood up in their classrooms and walked out of their schools in a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Florida.

At noon, Albany fast food workers join nationwide protests on the anniversary of the Memphis sanitation strike and rally as part of the Fight for $ 15 movement, state Capitol, Albany.

A protest which started on Friday at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre has spread to three other institutions, amid signs of nationwide unrest at the deportation process

A group of Stoneman Douglas shooting survivors over the weekend announced plans for a nationwide march to protest gun violence, with students criticizing the NRA's impact on stalling gun legislation in Congress.

Though Mr. Donovan's inability to secure an indictment of a NYPD officer in the death of Eric Garner, a black man, sparked protests nationwide, the otherwise low - key prosecutor is popular on Staten Island.

The two killings, on top of fatal police encounters elsewhere in the country, helped spark protests nationwide, calling for law enforcement officials to be held accountable for killing unarmed civilians.

PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO In the first of several nationwide actions initiated by high school students to protest the lack of meaningful legislative action on gun control, young people nationwide walked out of their classrooms on March 14 — some for 17 minutes to commemorate the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High -LSB-...]

It was the worst school shooting since the February assault on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a young man with an AR - 15 rifle left 17 people dead and prompted a wave of nationwide, student - led protests calling on lawmakers to tighten gun laws.

The umbrella body of Muslim faithfuls in Nigeria, the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has announced its plan to embark on a nationwide protest against the Nigerian Law School over its law against the use of hijab.

Academy Award - winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino joined hundreds of demonstrators waving signs, shouting through megaphones and marching along the city's streets on Saturday to protest police brutality nationwide.

The group however threatened nationwide protest and a fierce legal action should the law school fail to rescind its decision of not calling the affected graduate, Firdaus Amosa, to the bar.

In January, popular Nigerian artiste, Innocent Idibia, better known as 2Baba, solicited the support of well - meaning Nigerians as he planned a nationwide protest against President Muhammadu Buhari's administration.

A number of the congresses held nationwide were marred by boycott, protests and parallel voting.

New Paltz, NY — Hudson Valley college, high school, and middle school students were among the thousands nationwide to walk out of class in protest of a war against Iraq.

Even after a grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, sparking nationwide protests, the case promised to drag on for years thanks to a federal civil rights investigation, internal NYPD probe, and civil suit from Garner's family.

When the survivors of the Valentine's Day mass shooting at Parkland, Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took to Florida's capitol in February, sparking nationwide actions in solidarity, they were echoing the actions of an earlier group of young people protesting a shooting.

EC began the nationwide registration of prisoners on August 22, 2016, amid protests by some political parties like the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), that the exercise was being carried out without prior notification to stakeholders.

A gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others in Louisiana's capital, Baton Rouge, just days after the police shooting of a black man there sparked nationwide protests, one of which led to the massacre of five Dallas policemen.

Mr. Donovan rose to prominence after he did not secure an indictment of a white police officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Island man, spurring protests nationwide.

In response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, young people nationwide, including many New York City public school students, are planning to walk out of school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» inaction.

It would be recalled that members of SSANU nationwide embarked on an indefinite strike to protest the alleged skewed distribution of earned allowances in federal universities.

Sequel to the directive from the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, that churches nationwide should embark on a protest over the spate of killings by suspected...

The shooting spurred nationwide protests and school walkouts in support of stronger gun laws.

The Nigeria Labour Congress has further threatened to embark on a nationwide protest to resist the plan by President Buhari and his economic team to sell off the nation's assets, stating that the effect of such action on Nigerians would be grievous.

The Nigeria Labour Congress has said it will mobilise Nigerians for nationwide protests to resist the plan by the Federal Government to sell strategic assets under the guise of using the funds to be generated to get the country out of recession.

Striking McDonald's restaurant employees lock arms during nationwide «Fight for $ 15 Day of Disruption» protests.

A year after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an 18 - year - old black man, by a white police officer touched off protests that echoed nationwide, Davis spoke with Education Week Staff Writer Denisa R. Superville about his still - developing plans to address inequity and bias in the district.

Milwaukee participants in the Feb. 17 nationwide walk - ins hold signs protesting a proposed state takeover of the city's public schools.