Sentences with phrase «protest against the conservative»

Zac Goldsmith forced a by - election in Richmond Park in apparent principled protest against the Conservative government's support for expanding Heathrow.

The Irascibles (irascible meaning to be easily angered) was a group of American abstract artists that protested against the conservative bias in the selections for a national contemporary art competition held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit - in near the border with North Korea, facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police to protest against the arrival of a northern delegation led by an official accused of being behind a deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean warship.

Earlier this month the capital Jakarta was rocked by a protest by conservative Muslims against the governor.

Reuters: Saudi clerics protest against appointing women to advisory body Dozens of Saudi clerics staged a rare protest in front of the Royal Court on Tuesday against King Abdullah's decision to appoint women to a body that advises the government on new laws, a sign of growing conservative unease at modest social reforms.

If a conservative Christian is against such a decision because he believes he has good reasons against it, these may perhaps be quite weighty and yet his protest against the decision may be unjustified.

Croatia's conservative opposition and the Catholic Church - the organisers of the protest - said they support combating violence against women and domestic violence, which is the main point of the convention, but are against its alleged introduction of «a third gender» into society.

Because religious conservatives sense this conflict between general television and their own values and beliefs, their viewing of religious programs is both an act of protest against general television and an expression of support for the beliefs associated with religious programs.

In fact, it was only last September that over 50,000 Mancunians marched against Austerity, a protest that intentionally coincided with the opening day of the Conservative Party Conference.

Chris Pincher Conservative MP and member of the energy and climate change select committee Policing policy Westminster recently witnessed a huge demonstration when thousands of police officers protested against the arbitrary changes the government is bulldozing through on their working conditions.

The candidate he worked for was Doug Hoffman, who ran on the Conservative Party line and a protest vehicle against the local Republican Party, which had selected a moderate, Dede Scozzafava, to run in a special election for an open seat.

At roughly the same time, several dozen demonstrators from the advocacy group Picture the Homeless rallied outside the Vanderbilt Avenue headquarters of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, in protest against the Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict Mr. Pantaleo in the Garner homicide, and against broken windows policing.

The conference discussion comes as Democratic activists around the nation ramp up protests against Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare... Last weekend, conservative Rep. Tom McClintock (R - Calif.)

Hawkins also believes he has a chance to win over some more conservative Democrats, who may have supported Teachout as a protest against Cuomo's NY Safe Act.

Additionally, by - elections usually have lower turnout rates and are often used as a way for voters to protest against the current Government, making a Conservative victory in the general election more likely.

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 increasing diversity of home schoolers and institutional configurations should not obscure the fact that many who home school still choose this option out of frustration with or protest against formal, institution - based schooling and seek to impart an alternative, usually conservative Christian, worldview to their children by teaching them at home.

The group became known as «The Irascibles» because of their protest against the Metropolitan Museum of Art's conservative jury for the 1950 show, American Painting Today.