Sentences with phrase «of peaceful protest»

Second, this is related to a deeper failure of the police to understand the role of peaceful protest in a democratic society, and to understand their own role as facilitating such protest.

I felt the energy of a peaceful protest, of the right to articulate our human rights.

He felt so strongly about it that he joined one of the peaceful protests against coal mining and nearly got arrested.

So no I don't agree with Dr. Amy, I consider this a type of peaceful protest.

He is the author of The New Law of Peaceful Protest: Rights and Regulation in the Human Rights Act Era, published by Hart Publishing in 2010, and numerous articles and blog posts over the past ten years.

Two years ago, just before the general election, I called for a Royal Commission into the right of peaceful protest.

The play focuses on an unnamed colonised African country on the brink of an uprising to the British occupiers, as its residents abandon the use of peaceful protest in the pursuit of equality and their own identity.

Violence has escalated between protesters and security services, and frustration with the ineffectiveness of the peaceful protests has contributed to this.

Although he talked of a peaceful protest he warned of unprecedented political anger if Parliament blocked Brexit.

When a debate on Burma took place in 2007 in the aftermath of the regime's brutal suppression of peaceful protests in Burma, William Hague insisted on opening for the Opposition, even though David Miliband was on paternity leave and his then junior minister Meg Munn was deputed to speak for the government.

Those who engage responsibly in exercising their rights and freedoms will not have their chances of admission compromised, nor will current admissions be revoked, regardless of whether they face disciplinary action by their schools or districts as a result of peaceful protest.

«We encourage you as educators to guide your students toward healthy civic engagement and to teach them the value and history of peaceful protest in creating change in our great nation.

The very best campaigns utilise all forms of peaceful protest, and this is what the US is doing well in my view.

Icon of Indian independence, purveyor of peaceful protests, and one of the few reputed «nice guys» of great global leaders.

In December, 2010, accusations against falsified presidential elections brought rise to a wave of peaceful protests throughout the country, which were, in turn unmercifully retaliated against by police and government forces.

In a carefully orchestrated campaign of peaceful protest to expose and defeat racial injustice, King awakened the nation's conscience and galvanized support for the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo said: «This illegal boarding of a peaceful protest ship highlights the extreme lengths that the Russian government will go to keep Gazprom's dangerous Arctic drilling away from public scrutiny.

After eight and a half hours of peaceful protest and nine arrests, victory was declared Monday afternoon for having successfully closed operations for the day.

«The concept of peaceful protest is ingrained in our country's history and our rights as citizens,» Santelises said at a school board meeting Tuesday.

«We are also officers of justice and many of us will be on the front lines of the fight to have the law declared illegal,» said Bourget, calling Bill 78 «a disproportionate attack on our freedom of expression, association, and of peaceful protest.»