Sentences with phrase «people against some of»

He reveals the faulty science and commercial propaganda that have turned millions of people against some of the most valuable foods in human history.

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Countess Meliara and her brother Bran lead a rebellion against the king in light of his secret plot to break the covenant the kingdom's people hold with the hill folk, but their army is ill - prepared and she falls into enemy hands — or at least, what she thinks are enemy hands.

«DEAFENING SILENCE:» TIME recently named the men and women who spoke out against sexual assault and harassment as TIME's Person of the Year.

When you're up against a deadline or facing a tough challenge, do the people you work with know instinctively that they'll find you in the thick of the fight — pitching in, working long hours, and doing whatever is necessary to succeed?

And the 438th rule of business states, «If you benefit from the sneaky behavior of others, at some point the sneaky person will use the sneaky behavior against you.»

A wide variety of crimes fall under this umbrella term, from attacks against gay people to vandalism of religious sites.

«I think that networks are in a tough position right now, where they have shows that a lot of people watch — much more than cable shows that are considered «hits» — but they're not allowed to call them hits because they're up against an old system.»

Donald Hopkins was only 26 when he arrived in Sierra Leone to begin inoculating millions of people against the smallpox virus.

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

The statement comes on the same day that Microsoft announced it's one of 34 companies that signed the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, a document promising that, among other things, participants won't help governments operate cyberattacks against innocent people or companies.

The lawsuit filed by Ingrid Avendano, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, who described themselves as Latina software engineers, says that Uber's compensation and other practices discriminate against women and people of color.

«The brand rallying against the impersonal nature of the world and bringing people and communities together is the point of view that Tim's has always had and will continue to have.»

A passenger who survived the deadly Southwest 1380 flight filed a lawsuit against the airline carrier after an engine exploded earlier this month, killing one person on board and leading dozens of others to prepare for an untimely death.

This is a group of people who refuse to inoculate their children against infectious diseases that ran rampant before vaccines were introduced, putting not only their own children at risk but also others who are too young or too ill to be vaccinated.

For the study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers pitted people assigned to follow a traditional restricted - calorie diet (eating roughly 25 % of their normal daily calories) against those who were told to fast every other day (eating 25 % of their normal calories on fast days and 125 % on the other days) for a year.

Lombardo says he does not expect charges to be filed against Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley, who had been previously called a person of interest in the case.

«I'm fighting a battle against a horrible group of deep - seated people — drain the swamp — that are coming up with all sorts of phony charges against me and they're not bringing up real charges against the other side,» the president said.

Companies in London and later the U.S.developed a sophisticated understanding of risk aimed at protecting people against large losses, disasters, and death.

They encourage their fans to upload their Instagram photos of how they style their favorite Free People items, and upload it to the «Add a style pic» button against the item on their website.

Obama gave The Atlantic several reasons for not enforcing the red line — uneasiness about a strike against Syria not being sanctioned by Congress, a lack of support from the international community and the American people, the possibility that the intelligence on the chemical - weapons attack wasn't 100 % solid — but did not mention the Iran deal among them.

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government are suspected of having used nerve - agent and chlorine gases against people living in Douma, Syria, on April 7, killing dozens and injuring hundreds of men, women, and children.

«There are a lot of people trying to help us out, and it just shows the bobsled community really is one big family, even though we compete against each other,» said Gibbs.

Rabidoux says he works with mortgage brokers who tell him these unregulated mom - and - pop lenders grew from 4 % of their total volume in 2014 to 33 % this year: «I know people who borrowed against their homes to invest in these mortgages.

Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton will file for personal bankruptcy protection as early as Monday after losing a fight in a Florida court for a shield against a judgment in a breach of privacy case involving professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, according to a person familiar with the matter.

More and more, people are judging the value of the products they buy against not one, but two currencies: money, and the effort it's going to take to get the damned things home.

Half a million people took to the streets of Romania against the Romanian government's plans to tinker with the constitution.

I once saw a senior leader take the side of the client against his own people who had done what he had told them to do.

Thousands of women took to the streets of European capitals to join «sister marches» in Asia against newly installed U.S. President Trump ahead of a major rally in Washington expected to draw nearly a quarter of a million people.

«The United States, though inherently hostile to North Korea, will get to know once our talk begins that I am not the kind of person who will use nuclear weapons against the South or the United States across the Pacific,» Moon's press secretary Yoon Young - chan quoted Kim as saying.

When starting up, the odds of success are strongly against you, so you really need people are optimistic more than ever.

Thousands of people joined a global March for Science with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an «assault on facts» by populist politicians.

Also, Switzerland's Office of the Attorney General opens criminal proceedings against two financial entities of 1MDB and against an unknown person, according to Reuters.

Kravetz, whose website is filled with large flashing photographs of brownie gift boxes, also warns against trying to compete on free shipping alone: «I don't want to be the company that people come to because of free shipping.»

• Brittany Laughlin of Lattice VC argues against zero - tolerance policies because, she writes, the bar to report misconduct is currently too high, and we should give people a chance to fix their mistakes:

They are completely at the mercy of guards and administrators, who have to balance the safety of the inmates against the public safety risk of freeing dangerous people.

All of that is proof of why we need an app like Peeple, to safeguard your reputation and to protect yourself against questionable people.

Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

You're up against quite a few negative factors whenever you try to get lots of people to accept a new idea.

Mobile phone proliferation, cloud services and social networking have coalesced into the perfect pressure situation, where people are now more aware than ever that they are generating a good deal of data that can be turned against them.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

Krajisnik, convicted of crimes against humanity including the deportation and persecution of non-Serbs, discussed with the president «the protection of Serb people's rights in the region,» according to a statement from Nikolic's office.

Force 47 has worked pro-actively against distorted information, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, citing Nguyen Trong Nghia, deputy head of the general politics department under the Vietnam People's Military.

Images of violence against «real people or animals» with comments or captions that contain enjoyment of suffering, humiliation and remarks that speak positively of the violence or «indicating the poster is sharing footage for sensational viewing pleasure» are prohibited.

«I have watched so many talented, creative, and inventive people rage against their work, or even worse, stop doing their work because of the frustration that they encountered along the path of whatever it was they were trying to create.

In The Wealth of Nations, Smith wrote: «People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.»

No amount of bureaucratic gymnastics will hide the problem permeating Afghan security forces and the contours of the flailing campaign against the Taliban from the American people.

Kim Jong Un's regime said it will «make the U.S. pay dearly for all the heinous crime it commits against the state and people of this country,» the Korean Central News Agency reported on Monday.

A statement to commit violence against a vulnerable person or group such as «heads - of - state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists» counts here too.

There's no good that could come out of police using force against indigenous peoples and others who are protesting,» said DeCarlo, who is also a former police chief.

Several experts questioned whether the practice is in keeping with the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, which prohibits bias against people 40 or older in hiring or employment.