Sentences with phrase «protest against the action»

As the eviction took place, a number of students from the university gathered at the site to protest against the action.

Is it because you're President Buhari's fan that you didn't protest against his action?

In 2005, he directed the award - winning play My Name Is Rachel Corrie about the American student who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer while protesting against the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip.

That, ofcourse, is not to say we should not continue to strongly protest against actions that are abhorrent to the majority of our planets citizens.

Not exact matches

Meeting follows widespread Sunday protests by Christians who oppose their government's lack of action against Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram.

For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

The struggle against this tendency to make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.

The action is more than that of a religious reformer protesting against corruption.

Brooks defended the group's peaceful protest and said: «It is a personal witness against war and for a more peaceful world, and it is the way many things are changed, through direct action and through civil disobedience.»

As protest against all false claims upon the conscience it offers the ultimate basis for Christian ethics, and it leads to action against concrete evils.

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.

It is hard to know what the reaction to the fight between American nuns and the Vatican is within the American Catholic community, but there have been some pockets of protest against the Vatican's actions.

To commemorate the historic uprooting and protest action against golden rice last August 8, 2013, hundreds of farmers will gather to hold a public forum in Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon, the rice granary of the country where Philippine Rice Research Insitute (PhilRICE) Golden Rice experimental fields are located.

one of them is launching a protest against the manager being in the stadium during match time just like last year which forced Wenger at leas to change his usual formation and take some improvement actions.

I think he has no remembrance of the several protests against him last season, if he does he will think twice about his actions and comments.

If the income from home tickets and sold merchandise was dropped and if we organised a proper protest against Wenger, maybe the board would then take some action for the club's sake.

After weeks of protesting against austerity measures being forced upon the Greek people it seemed only a matter of time before such action spilt over into the world of football.

The penalty for my action if protested against, is a suspension, which I accept and received.

Actions against protesters included «unlawful killings and beatings by police during protests and house - to - house operations», HRW said, adding there were at least three cases where women alleged police had raped them.

With the rising Ukrainian nationalism and the increasingly more and more visible loss of control of the central government over the country (in the recent trade blockade of Donbass by Ukrainian nationalists, president Poroshenko protested the blockade but was unable to force its lifting), it is possible that Ukrainian military will take more forceful action against Donbass and Luhansk, which may force Russia's hand, so not all risk of war is beyond us.

The nationwide gender justice movement that emerged following the horrific Delhi gang rape and persistent popular protests against official corruption are testament to India's capacity to mount pro-rights collective action.

Firebrand critics and pro-democracy activist, Abiodun Aremu, is a leader of the Joint Action Front noted to have championed protests against government policies in the past.

She has also fired the Finance Manager, who protested against some of her actions, especially misappropriation of funds.

The action of the council followed a third demonstration staged by the youth against the MCE after two initial protests failed to intimidate assembly members to reject her.

There is also clearly an overwhelmingly strong case for forms of direct action protest in the case of disenfranchisement (campaigns for the vote, for US civil rights, against apartheid South Africa; for independence from Empire, etc).

In Egypt, between 2004 and 2010, there were more than 3,000 labor actions, between protests and strikes, mobilized against a baggage of old anti-democratic and intricately corrupt state structures in what came to be called the «deep state».

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) and National Union of Teachers (NUT) at schools, colleges and universities across London will tomorrow (Wednesday) take strike action in protest against changes to their pensions.

Every week, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner hosts a protest against President Donald Trump focusing on how Trump's actions affect local residents.

About 280,000 civil servants will be balloted on strike action today as the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union protests against job losses and outsourcing.

@SJuan76 surely you are correct that the initial actions of the Trump administration were not reasons for organizing the march, but many of the marchers were aware of these actions by the time the march began, and their protests were in part directed against those actions.

Police are in advanced stages of preparation for what is expected to be a large London protest tomorrow against Israeli military action in Gaza.

The Orthodox church in Greece protested loudly against the removal of religion from the ID - card, and yet I can not find any rational argument supporting their actions other than trying to hang on to the privileged position of that church and its followers in the Greek state - effectively hanging on to the ability to treat non Christian Orthodox citizens as lesser citizens.

When we look back to those days of protest against American action in Vietnam, in 1967, the year Ali refused to be indicted into the military, the country could hardly be described as being anti-war as it was to become later.

Jessica Wisneseki of Citizen Action speaks out against the House tax bill at a protest at the state Capitol on Thursday.

The strikes are the most serious action in a continent - wide day of protest against austerity measures, which will touch London with a rally in Westminster tonight.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is holding the one - day industrial action in protest against the three - year pay package agreed by the government in January this year.

However, Boris's refusal to take any further action against Uber means London now faces what cabbies described today as «the biggest ever taxi protest» next Tuesday.

At 11 a.m., Long Island residents concerned with the spread of vacant, dilapidated homes protest at state Sen. Tom Croci's office to demand action against abandoned homes, Croci's office, NYS Office Building, Room 3B - 41, 250 Veterans Memorial Highway, Hauppaugue.

Public Advocate Letitia James and Kirsten John Foy of the National Action Network at a Gays Against Guns protest.

While reacting to a purported protest carried out by members of the association, the State Government said though it was not against peaceful protest by aggrieved citizens but it would not be stampeded into taking any action without strictly following due process and rule of law.

There is no record of protest or indeed any disciplinary action against any of my predecessors for the actions or their reasons for granting waivers which also followed past precedence.

A protest letter submitted to the Zonal Head of EFCC, Ishaq Salihu, at the commission's South - South zonal office in Port Harcourt by Chief Sukubo Sara - Igbe, noted that EFCC's action against Mrs. Jonathan were targetted at stealing her hard earned resources and reputation.

He told reporters after the event that he wonders how the Trump administration is going to react to the peaceful protests that have sprung up across the country against his actions.

Education Committee Chair John Flanagan says the actions were a protest against the roll out of the new Common Core learning standards, which is widely viewed as flawed.

With talk of concerted collective action between the unions in the air, Unite union members joined in a protest against public sector job cuts with the TUC.

Jessica Wisneski of Citizen Action speaks out against the U.S. House tax bill at a protest at the state Capitol in Albany on Thursday.

Although many marchers, like Wolf, are motivated by actions taken by the Trump White House, Rogers says organizers have tried to steer clear of having the march labeled as a protest against the current administration.

Union leaders invite «all concerned Chicago citizens to unite in a day of action by: withholding your labor; withholding your dollars; boycotting the Magnificent Mile... engaging in nonviolent direct action protests...» against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Gov. Bruce Rauner and Illinois» school funding formula.

If the Bull Connors of the time weren't using laws to engage in suppression of freedom and equality, the civil rights protests wouldn't be called civil disobedience; they would have just been the rightful (and peaceful) protests against government actions protected by the Bill of Rights.