Sentences with phrase «political protest against»

In 2007 Wallinger was awarded the Tuner Prize for one of his most well known works, State Britain, a recreation of peace campaigner, Brian Haw's one - man political protest against war and foreign policy in Parliament Square.

We wonder how a mission to serve as witness to a case turned to political protest against the governor.

The inability of SAN - ROC to generate anything but everyday bloc support suggests that political protest against South Africa may have reached its limits.

Dr. Scranton also took action against the pastor of the church, warning him not to make any political protests against the Japanese colonialization of Korea.

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«Another factor is companies [that punish protesting employees] could be viewed as retaliating against political statements, which in some jurisdictions are protected under the human rights legislation, and that can get really hairy.

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.

Political instability in Spain continued with hundreds of thousands of protesters gathering in Catalonia's capital Barcelona over the weekend to protest against a resurgent independence movement that has been gathering steam in recent days.

Cook called for unity among Apple workers regardless of their political views, and came out against remarks Trump made during a Tuesday press conference equating far - right hate groups with the people protesting them.

(The reason is largely political: homeowners would protest against the sharply rising taxes that would accompany realistic annual property reappraisals.)

Many idealistic commentators predicted that from these protests there would emerge a «color revolution» in the country that, in the 1978 rebellion against the shah, became the founding state of political Islam.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

(Isa 2:4) These then are not involved in protest rallies, nor prays for or against any political candidate, but rather it prays for God's kingdom (Matt 6:9, 10), a heavenly government, to bring total peace to the earth, removing all national boundaries, sin, sickness and death and raising «meek» ones to perfection to enjoy living on a paradise earth forever.

One issue was the church's visible participation in the dominant political issues of the day notably the struggle for civil rights for minorities and the protests against the Vietnam war.

As galling as one side's occasionally reckless and vulgar invocations of the sacred were the other side's patently partisan protests against religious language in the political arena.

A number of my fellow rock - bohemians hungered to get «our 60s,» our movement that would unite our generation with purpose — it was feeling I felt throughout my 80s teenage - dom, but I became disturbed at the way the «political» longings were increasingly so content - empty, not seriously seeking any overall account of things, and thus seeming ready to embrace any ol' something to be against that would serve as an excuse to protest.

In the case of a specifically religious group such conflicts are particularly frequent as their very emergence may represent a protest against certain political, economic, or moral conditions.

Is it alienating its own members who protest against the political establishment?

Albert Schweitzer consistently refused political involvements and judgments, though he did join in protest against the use of nuclear weapons.

The prophetic protest against political alliances was religiously motivated: it meant the compromise of Yahwism and the worship of alien deities.

Reuters: Islamists push own agenda in Iraq's Sunni protests against Shi'ite power Street protests in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland pose a new challenge to Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al - Maliki as shock waves from the Sunni - led insurgency in nearby Syria strain his country's fragile political balance.

Whilst I am a regular participant in political protests and demonstrations — I believe it is right to protest against something you see as being wrong, but I think people need to remember that when players are struggling with form and confidence and the team is under great pressure, then as a supporter of your team it is more appropriate to get behind the team during the match.

Even in cultures where BF has always been traditional, BF is increasingly seen as a «protest» against unnatural, foreign Western norms and once again, BF becomes a political statement.

That said, the popular image of the protests is one of the people united against the political and financial elite.

The February protests were the largest that Bulgaria has seen since the fall of communism, with more than 100,000 Bulgarian citizens mobilizing themselves against poverty, high energy bills and widespread political and social corruption.

It adds to the sense of the BNP being a protest against a political elite.

And in Italy, a party founded only in 2009 by a comedian in protest against the political class recently won the mayoralty of Rome.

71 % Against Player Protests During National Anthem Nearly Half Watching Less Football Mainly Because of Political Protests 55 % Say Buffalo Bills Should Punish LeSean McCoy for Sunday «Stretches» More Voters Agree with Trump's Statements than Disagree 82 % Want Less Politics During Sporting Events (Buffalo, NY)- Western New York voters overwhelmingly oppose the player protests during the national anthem that have swept the league recently, according to a recent survey released this morning of likely 2018 Western New YorkProtests During National Anthem Nearly Half Watching Less Football Mainly Because of Political Protests 55 % Say Buffalo Bills Should Punish LeSean McCoy for Sunday «Stretches» More Voters Agree with Trump's Statements than Disagree 82 % Want Less Politics During Sporting Events (Buffalo, NY)- Western New York voters overwhelmingly oppose the player protests during the national anthem that have swept the league recently, according to a recent survey released this morning of likely 2018 Western New YorkProtests 55 % Say Buffalo Bills Should Punish LeSean McCoy for Sunday «Stretches» More Voters Agree with Trump's Statements than Disagree 82 % Want Less Politics During Sporting Events (Buffalo, NY)- Western New York voters overwhelmingly oppose the player protests during the national anthem that have swept the league recently, according to a recent survey released this morning of likely 2018 Western New Yorkprotests during the national anthem that have swept the league recently, according to a recent survey released this morning of likely 2018 Western New York voters.

Besides showing scheduled meetings with political over-tones, such as attending protests against President Donald Trump (R) on Jan. 19 and against the now - defunct Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, on Feb. 16, Councilmember Dromm's 2017 calendar also showed scheduled meetings with officials with special interest groups Queens Community House, on Jan. 27; the United Federation of Teachers on several occasions; and NY - CLASS, on Nov. 28.

Images from the sea of citizens protesting against their Prime Minister in front of the Icelandic parliament went viral and became a sign of Iceland's invested civil society and its dissatisfaction with members of the political elite.

Whilst in opposition to the then liberal government, current Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance of several political parties, vehemently protested against the Rosia Montana mining project, which was supported by President Traian Basescu and his Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).

Through the poignant juxtaposition of citizenship and slavery, young people's protest against attacks on their economic activity and more broadly against the employment crisis, reflects their efforts to force their way to political recognition, rather than existing a political space that seems to exclude their voices and needs.

The forum was the first in a new series called the Campbell Debates, where panelists are asked to argue for or against asking rich people to pay more — a question deeply rooted in this year's presidential election, Occupy Wall Street protests and the tea party's dissatisfaction with traditional political parties.

The call saw Zimbabweans of all political and racial backgrounds throng the streets of the country's three major cities in protests against Mugabe's rule.

Political crisis in Ado - Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Wednesday took another dimension as lawmakers of state House of Assembly staged a protest on the highway against the freezing of the account of Governor Ayodele Fayose at the Zenith bank by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

Again, the political context was against the protests.

Within days of the announcement of Tuface's protests, sympathising groups aligning with or against the musician have sprung up with opposing views to robe the protests in a colorful political garb.

As far back as last winter, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was «less preoccupied with the overburdened shelter system» than with «the political threat from protests against proposed shelters» in Rockaway Beach and Elmhurst, sources told New York magazine.

But his presence has sparked angry protests by his critics who clashed with police outside Downing Street today as they demonstrated against President Erdogan's purge of political opponents in Turkey.

Garba Shehu even scoffs at the Coalition Movement that started a protest against the two leading political parties in Nigeria — APC and PDP, and asked for a one - term Buhari Presidency.

In February, Labour MPs protested that a # 300m fund for local government was «a political bung» to prevent Tories rebelling against the local government settlement.

But this victory against fracking belongs to the ordinary people of New York state who stood up to the gas industry and organized creative and confrontational grassroots protests, despite those who called for supporting industry - backed politicians in the name of «political expediency.»

As far back as last winter, de Blasio was «less preoccupied with the overburdened shelter system» than with «the political threat from protests against proposed shelters» in Rockaway Beach and Elmhurst, sources told New York magazine in a cover story out Monday.

He entered the political arena in 1986 when he led student protests against a bill that threatened to limit access to higher education and create a two - tier university system.

So when Wade stopped by the mbg office on a blustery winter day, we decided to ask her how she finds the energy to show up at protests and speak out against the current political climate while still finding the space to take care of herself.

This provides grist for the kind of think pieces that spar with one another — «Infinity War» is liberal; no, it's conservative; but don't you see that it's a protest against Trump; actually, it's an attack on the tyranny of political correctness — until they catalyze the inevitable anti-intellectual backlash.

The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth, Season 2, Episode 5: John Heilemann visits Atlanta, Georgia to speak with Georgia State Senator David Perdue, as well as the citizens protesting against him.

Frustrated by continually escalating threats to the environment and by the deafness shown by political leaders, Josh (Jesse Eisenberg, «Now You See Me») an organic farmer who lives in an agricultural cooperative in Oregon, Dena (Dakota Fanning, «The Last of Robin Hood») a young college dropout with considerable family wealth, and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard, «Green Lantern»), an ex-Marine with expert knowledge of explosives, decide to blow up a hydroelectric dam as a protest against the desecration of the environment.

And so it's difficult not to read it on a political level too, a statement on the corruption and power abuses endemic in those closed systems, even as protests against the Ukrainian government's anti-EU isolationism continue to cost lives.

Given the current political climate, particularly nationwide protests against the «Muslim ban» this past weekend, all school - age students, but especially Muslim students, must be feeling especially confused.