Sentences with phrase «open revolt against»

Hofmann was a well established German artist who had founded the Berlin Secession (1898) which was the first open revolt against academic traditions and paved the way for modern German art movements such as Expressionism.

Mr. Stringer acknowledged in an interview on Monday that he would have to win support in Albany for his plan to work — no easy task at a Statehouse where suburban lawmakers are in open revolt against a payroll tax meant to pay for mass transit.

A prime minister toppled, a vote to leave the European Union, a shadow cabinet in open revolt against its leader.

It is true that the patronage of the rulers contributed to a considerable flourishing of the arts and sciences, but this does not qualify the judgment that the vital creative forces of the community were divorced from or in open revolt against society.

In the eyes of the devout the «secular affairs» became so tainted that they were condemned out of hand or ignored, and the creative spiritual and intellectual movements became entirely otherworldly and divorced from reality or went into open revolt against the community, aiming at destroying rather than reforming it.

In 1510 the journeymen went into open revolt against the low level of their rewards, and chose the administration of the city as their target.

Well, the nuns are in open revolt against the neanderthals who run the church, and Catholic women have practiced contraception ever since Hector was a pup.

Not exact matches

Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai went to the Emperor Titus and asked him for the right to open a rabbinical academy in the city of Yavneh in return for which he would not urge or foment revolt against Rome.