Sentences with phrase «of resistance to the movement»

For example, when using chains, as the range of motion builds, the amount of chain being supported will increase, thereby increasing the amount of resistance to the movement until it reaches maximum at the top end of the movement.

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The activist movement has grown steadily since the tribe established Sacred Stone Camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, in April, a temporary site founded as a point of resistance to the pipeline.

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is on the forefront of the movement to use food technology and markets to solve some of the world's biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger to antibiotic resistance and the exploitation of billions of animals annually.

There is an alternative to the dictatorship of eros: a resistance movement where you can find solidarity, an almost monastic love of comrades, but sex and romance are banned.

To better appreciate the moral significance of Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends in the White Rose resistance movement, I began to search my own memory for a point of connection with them and the great decision they madTo better appreciate the moral significance of Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends in the White Rose resistance movement, I began to search my own memory for a point of connection with them and the great decision they madto search my own memory for a point of connection with them and the great decision they made.

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 fate of the civil rights movement, its leaders recognized, lay in its ability to convince politicians and administrators in the federal government that it was in their interest to enforce the law and defend the Constitution in the South in the face of the massive resistance by politically potent segregationists.

If perestroika is to come to the Americas, and not just be celebrated «over there» in Eastern Europe, then liberation theology in the U.S. needs to become embodied in coordinated movements of resistance that bring to an end our government's decades - long rituals of domination in Latin America.

As I have written earlier in these pages («A guide to the far right,» August 2 - 9, 1995), the militias are in many ways the successors to the tax resistance movement of the 1980s.

6, a certain Judas of Galilee had led an abortive rising against the Roman government, an underground resistance movement remained in being, and broke out sporadically from time to time, until at last they succeeded in precipitating a full - scale rebellion in AD.

Bonhoeffer came to accept the full implications of the resistance movement, justifying his position as follows: «It is not only my task to look after the victims of madmen who drive a motor - car in a crowded street, but to do all in my power to stop their driving at all.

While the convocation was concerned more with saving the Church than the state, it indirectly questioned the moral legitimacy of the government and gave impetus to the German resistance movement.

The draft resistance movement cultivated a macho image to counteract the image of the dominant society of draft resisters as cowards.

I have worked with Dutch - Canadians for nearly thirty years, and they have told stories of how the Christian churches and schools defied the demands of the Nazi occupation authorities and contributed to the resistance movement.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

It was largely due to Paul that the Christian movement began to move outside the boundaries of Jewry, and this partly derived from the discovery that, whereas there was considerable resistance among the Jews to the new form of the faith, some of the Gentile adherents of the various synagogue centers were quickly attracted to the Christian Gospel.

The prophetic movement was the political resistance against all despotic or imperial rule, and it was the witness to the Sovereignty of God and its political expression, that is, the restoration of the covenant community.

Ultimately the people's resistance takes the form of new religious / cultural movements, counter and alternative to the dominant cultures and civilizations.

The stubborn resistance of the poor tribal women in the now famous Chipko movement against the Government's decision to turn their habitat into a mining area, has brought to our consciousness the inseparable link between the struggle of the poor and ecological issues.

In modern Rio, they are the alternative to the drug - traffic, the main resistance movement in terms of the forging of identity, values and respect for the force of the community.

This weekend sees the start of the German Bundesliga and the English Premier League and although there has been little movement in the Premiership futures market, the «Bayern to Win» line got hammered down to 1.54 by mostly public money before it received any resistance.

In addition, both seats offer an Impact Absorbing Harness to provide resistance to forward movement in the event of a crash.

The swaddle reminds them of the womb and offers resistance to their movements in a way that is comforting without adding more stimulation to their already frazzled system.

Furthermore the existence of a diverse, mobile, and fragmented society, containing groups sufficiently alienated to find identity in religion and a global movement of resistance rather than in the culture of their land of birth, represents a major source of vulnerability for France, as it does for Britain and others.

As shown by the Times's description of local Tea Party resistance to FreedomWorks» advice to adopt more - traditional political practices, the movement's energy is potentially valuable but also inherently difficult to channel.

The final panel explored the tactics of social movements operating outside the state apparatus in their resistance to neoliberalism with reference to examples from Egypt, Colombia, the UK, and Bolivia.

There is now no resistance to this movement at the top of British politics, apart from among a few stubborn Tory backbenchers and the minority of Lib Dems who still remember what the word liberal actual means.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

The unpredicted support for Brexit by over half of voters in the UK referendum illustrates these characteristics of the movements we model in the book, with the resistance to traditional forms of organization.

However, the most interesting pattern in the case of Egypt is a procedural one: For revolutions to succeed polarized elites have to connect with a popular resistance movement, usually the urban work force.

The term can apply to the field element of resistance movements, an example of which are the civilians that opposed Nazi German rule in several countries during World War II.

The DisruptJ20 activist network is holding a series of events throughout Washington, D.C. on January 20, including the Queer Resistance on J20, a queer anti-inauguration party at a security checkpoint, at 6:30 a.m. at McPherson Square Park; the Movement for Black Lives #J20 Resistance at the Inauguration — a combined movement of Black Lives Matter DC, Baltimore BLOC and the Movement for Black Lives — at 7 a.m. at MPD Police Headquarters; the «Festival of Resistance: March Against Trump» at 12 p.m. at Columbus Circle to reject forms of hate and oppression such as racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia and ableism; and «Preparing for the Trump Era: What Anarchists Are» on January 21 at 5 p.m. at The Festival Center.

«My focus and my strong inclination remains to stay the course in Washington, to continue to be part of the resistance movement as it relates to Donald Trump and to work with my colleagues in government to stop him from doing some of the terrible things he wants to visit on the American people,» Jeffries told POLITICO New York during a brief interview following an annual State of the District speech in his Brooklyn district Thursday night.

It is shameful that the «Marist poll» has NO interest in revealing the staged, planned, hate - filled, vitriolic, «resistance» movement against this man, who was elected by a 57 % to 43 % margin of victory, and why the media, the Left, and the entertainment nut - jobs are treating him with such hateful disdain.

Besides, calisthenics trainings are also intended to increase body strength, body fitness, and flexibility of the pupils through movements such as pulling or pushing oneself up, bending, jumping, or swinging, using only one's body weight for resistance; usually conducted in concert with stretches.

Yes, the Antifa - short for the German Antifaschistische Aktion - is an anti-fascist movement consisting mostly of young people, which may or may not use violence in their resistance to fascism.

(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.

It started as a scrappy grass - roots protest movement against Trump, but now the so - called resistance is attracting six - and seven - figure checks from major liberal donors, posing an insurgent challenge to some of the left's most venerable institutions — and the Democratic Party itself.

According to its website, Occupy Wall Street defines itself as a «leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions.

4) The Chris Kirby incident and the arrival of a true East Ramapo political movement — It's been no secret that the East Ramapo Central School District is experiencing tumult for years, but 2013 marked the year that a full - fledged resistance to the private school domination of the board was launched by public school parents.

Then he saw a «spirit of resistance» emerge among college students that led to the fossil fuel divestment movement.

One quarter of U.S.parents are reluctant to get their children vaccinated, and thousand shave filed lawsuits alleging that vaccines caused autism in their kids. Allen, a journalist with a decade - long interest in this topic, shows that unlike other medical procedures, vaccination has inspired organized resistance movements throughout its history.

Some hypercooled materials become superconductors, losing all resistance to the movement of electricity.

Globalisation has resulted in the movement of humans and animals all across the world, bringing pathogens into contact with hosts that haven't had the opportunity to establish resistance.

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory compared similar materials and returned to a long - established rule of electron movement in their quest to explain the phenomenon of extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR), in which the application of a magnetic field to a material results in a remarkably large change in electrical resistance.

Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in visualizing the movement within plants of a key hormone responsible for growth and resistance to drought.

The material — known as 1T» - WTe2 — bridges two flourishing fields of research: that of so - called 2 - D materials, which include monolayer materials such as graphene that behave in different ways than their thicker forms; and topological materials, in which electrons can zip around in predictable ways with next to no resistance and regardless of defects that would ordinarily impede their movement.

Another important thing is to make sure to begin learning every movement pattern with a relatively low amount of resistance and then gradually increase it as your body adapts.

It consists of the inner core muscles, such as the diaphragm, pelvic floor and transverse abdominus, which lie deep inside the abdomen and are the first to engage to protect the spine during heavy resistance training; the outer core muscles, including the abs, lats, spinal erectors, glutes and hip flexors, that generate movement and have an important stability function during high - speed activities.

According to James Radcliffe (strength and conditioning coach at the University of Oregon) a standard resistance training involving pliometric movements should contain 6 main elements: