Sentences with phrase «over politicians protesting»
When it comes to plausibility, head teachers» warnings of cuts to children's lessons will always win out over politicians protesting that funding is at record levels.
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The ban has sparked outrage and protests all over the US and the UK, and drew criticism from politicians all over the world.
A vicar in the Pakistani capital Islamabad has told Premier protests over the death of a Muslim man who killed a politician defending Christians could turn violent.
Politicians tried to strike a tone of reconciliation and unity in the city that had seen anger and protests over the treatment of minorities by the NYPD.
Bishop and other GOP legislators expressed no such concerns, of course, when Tea Party activists shouted down politicians during town hall meetings over Obamacare, or showed up armed at rallies to protest gun control.
Over the last several years, a grass - roots campaign by criminal justice reform activists, former inmates and local politicians have held protests demanding that the jail complex be shut down.
From the furore around Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary during the Brooklyn iteration of the Sensation show in 1999, to last year's kerfuffle over Martin Kippenberger's crucified frog, displayed in Bolzano, Italy — in protest at which an Italian politician, Franz Pahl, went on hunger strike, describing the sculpture as «a grave offence to our Catholic population» — the Catholic church has taken more than its share of body blows in recent years.
In the glorious Blair years we had a lot of senior Labour politicians who had cut their political teeth in various protest movements such as CND & CCL & it seems to me that they never really realised the importance of the gulf they stepped over in going from activism to democratic government.