Sentences with phrase «of years of protests»

JERSEY CITY — Tens of thousands of workers at the New York region's three major airports are poised to receive phased - in raises to $ 19 per hour in coming years, the highest minimum wage in the nation and the culmination of years of protests by employees who said they had to scrap every day just to get by.

Not exact matches

For one thing, Ukip is a right - wing protest group that has gained a surprisingly large amount of support in the past few years on an anti-EU and anti-immigration platform.

The provocative 33 - year - old former editor of alt - right media website Breitbart News has turned railing against feminism, Islam, social justice and political correctness into a money - spinning show, sparking protests along the way.

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

The announcement came on the same day that Israel celebrated its 70th year of statehood, and amid continued protests at the Israel - Gaza border, in which Israeli soldiers have used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

Pensioners took to the streets of Athens earlier this year in protest, and international creditors have said the government needs to make further reforms to the pension system.

Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20 - year - old regime has risen after he cast himself as the guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

According to Bleacher Report's Mike Freeman, it appears the NFL is souring on him for two reasons: some are offended by his protest of the national anthem last year, and others just don't think he is a good quarterback anymore.

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP)-- Oil could be flowing through the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in less than two weeks, according to court documents filed by the developer just before police and soldiers started clearing a protest camp in North Dakota where pipeline opponents had gathered for the better part of a year.

The number of protest votes fell to a little more than a fifth of the total after the advertising company came back last year with a more modest 48 million - pound plan for the executive.

«In our experience, markets tend to over-react to political shocks, as was seen in the example of Tiananmen Square — where the Hang Seng fell 22 % in a single day, losing 37 % from its peak over the entirety of the protest period, before steadily recovering back to previous peak over the following year,» the team wrote.

In theory, Occupy was a protest against economic inequality, a reaction not just to the gap between «the 1 %» and «the 99 %,» but to the widening of that gap in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

Outrage at the government for raising transit fares earlier that year snowballed into a protest of everything by everyone with no clear leader or agenda.

His quick acceptance of the results eased tensions in the volatile nation where the latest presidential election, in 2013, narrowly won by Maduro, was bitterly disputed and where anti-government protests last year led to 43 deaths.

According to the story, major white supremacy groups used Discord to organize protests and rallies, including one carried out in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of a 32 - year - old civil rights activist.

Maduro's approval ratings have tumbled amid the crisis to 28 percent, near the lowest in 16 years of socialist rule, and while there's no sign the sometimes violent street protests that overwhelmed the country a year ago will return anytime soon, polls indicate that the opposition will coast to victory in legislative elections expected to take place by year end.

Last year, the governing coalition broke its campaign promise to hold a referendum on Iceland joining the European Union, prompting thousands of Icelanders to protest and sign petitions demanding a parliamentary vote.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey took part in demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, live - tweeting updates from the protests of the police shooting of 18 - year - old Michael Brown.

The shooting death of an 18 - year - old black man named Michael Brown by a 28 - year - old white police officer, and the weeks of protest that followed.

When rapper Meek Mill was sentenced to 2 - 4 years in prison last week for violating his probation, an outpouring of protest followed the controversial decision, with Jay - Z being one of Mill's most fervent supporters.

Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos» vision of becoming a tech and media powerhouse, however, has drawn protests from an investor community that for years overlooked its lack of profits because of red - hot revenue growth.

She reiterated Trump's argument that the NFL protests, which began more than a year ago when 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the anthem in protest of police brutality, «disparage [s] the brave men and women in uniform» and American values more broadly.

Protests during the test - run FIFA Confederations Cup last year highlighted popular discontent with the cost of staging the World Cup, which has grown to an estimated US $ 11.3 billion in infrastructure spending.

Last year, the FDA approved a pioneering Duchenne treatment from Sarepta Therapeutics (srpt) over the protests of its own scientific advisers who said it lacked proven efficacy.

The week - long walkout was one of the biggest teacher protests in a year marked by job actions.

As a new era of protest and activism picks up, it's easy to see why this year's theme is focused on gender politics.

Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62 - year - old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life - threatening parasitic infection.

ST. PETERSBURG — While protesting is an intrinsic part of American culture, protests have had a huge resurgence in the past couple of years, with events like last year's Women's March and this weekend's March for Our Lives.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)-- Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to deliver economic growth to a country hammered by years of economic hardship, as thousands gathered in protest at more planned austerity measures.

A white Arkansas man faces up to 20 years in prison after being found guilty in the beating of an African - American man during racially charged protests last summer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

BEIJING (AP)-- More than 10,000 workers at a state - owned machinery manufacturer in southern China are protesting low wages and company plans to lay off thousands of staff after posting losses for three years, employees said Wednesday.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

The widow of late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo said that after eight years of house arrest she is ready to «die at home» in protest of her continuing detention by Chinese authorities, a report said Wednesday.

Given also the need for an austerity budget to comply with European rules, growth is likely to weaken, meaning the protest parties will continue to strengthen and may well be strong enough to take over in a couple of years.

-- 1968, The Year That Rocked the World, by Mark Kurlansky, which tells the story of the Vietnam protests and the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr..

For the generation of runners of things which came to power in the Clinton years, at least a modest degree of participation in college - years protest was very nearly mandatory.

Two and a half years ago, popular protests in Gezi Park in Istanbul and elsewhere captured the imagination of the West.

When the Keystone XL Pipeline, slated to bring especially carbon - heavy tar sands from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast, was killed thanks to years of fierce environmental protests, the stakes were raised for the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Public protests over the last two years have highlighted the risks of spills along the route from Alberta to BC's coastal waters, and the climate impacts of building new pipelines to enable massive increases in bitumen production and exports.

During that same year, he provided significant news coverage of the anti-government protests and civil unrest in Egypt and Libya.

Faith leaders and Christian charities have been protesting outside the Eritrean embassy in London to mark 14 years since the government shut down many of the country's...

Atheists are not out protesting against equal rights or basing equal rights off of a book written 2000 years ago.

WHEN YOU PROTEST (it is much more than just than necessarily), RAISE SIGNS HIGH SO WHOLE WORLD CAN SEE DISPLAYED I CITE, «66 YEARS OF GENOCIDE AGAINST WHITES IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE!!!»

I spent 2 years in Viet Nam believing I was fighting for freedom... 70 % of people my age either protested or went north to canada... FEEDOM HAS A TASTE THAT THE PROTECTED WILL NEVER KNOW.

As Naomi Schaefer Riley noted in the Wall Street Journal about events this year at Notre Dame: «About thirty students walked out of The Vagina Monologues in protest after the first scene.

Back in 1995, when the album R.I.O.T. (Righteous Invasion of Truth) was released — a mere 11 years after Footloose hit theaters — factory dance - offs were still seen as a legitimate form of protest.

In Portland, Maine, some parents protested a year or so ago because the school board okayed the distribution of condoms in a middle school.

So for the past three years, dozens of Christians from GKI and HKBP have been gathering on Sundays to worship in a plaza near the country's national monument and presidential palace as a way to protest the local government's inaction.

However, his opinion is vastly different from the man whose statue was the center of recent violent protests in Charlottesville last year: Robert E. Lee.