Sentences with phrase «protest against the powers»

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Polish opposition leaders said on Saturday they would maintain their blockade of parliament's main hall and called for popular protests against a government that has accused it of trying to seize power.

Passionate protests against Donald Trump's presidency have swelled the ranks of Democratic activists, but their new enthusiasm faces a hard reality: Republicans remain well - positioned to retain their grip on power in the 2018 elections.

This may he the revolution of black power, protest against the selective service, revolution of the arts (which have otherwise been neglected in this account), of sexual conduct, and the like.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

Economic globalization has created class societies with differences in wealth and power as great as those against which Marx protested.

But such reform movements, as efforts to recover the genuine and liberative orientations of the modern experience of reason, were either ignored by the dominant modern cultures or, when they succeeded, they did so only because they adapted the dominative power techniques of manipulation and control typical of the social orders and cultures against which they initially protested.

Again in I Corinthians 4:20 in a protest against too much arrogant talk we find Paul saying, «For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.»

For instance, organizations trying to assist Haitian and Salvadoran refugees to avoid repatriation, or organizations urging boycott of banks doing business with South Africa, or organizations counseling young people not to register for the draft, or organizations protesting increased military expenditures, or organizations demonstrating against nuclear power or against mineral exploration in wilderness areas, are all in danger of losing their tax exemptions for violating «public policy.»

Most Protestant churches have made an adjustment to the structures of the general community while claiming and fighting for the freedom to witness to the Word of God, and to protest against the absolutizing of any form of power.

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.

The self - renunciation of God is the condition of the possibility of our own and the atheists» protests against oppressive power and presence.

Moreover, in its examination of problems of government in theological schools, the study continues in the tradition of the University of Berlin by voicing a powerful protest against patterns of school governance that «seem to have little confidence in the power of God to establish the victory of truth» and an eloquent plea for the freedom of inquiry that disciplined critical inquiry requires.

The Exodus story of Yahweh's redemption of an oppressed people, the prophetic protest against neglect of the poor, Jesus» proclaiming the good news to social outcasts — this theme of divine concern for those who lack power and possessions is too dominant for us to ignore when we ask what God is like.

Here I can only request the Season Ticket Holder and other members who unlike us has some Power, to do something for this Beloved club, Protest as much as you can against Wenger.

As supporters prepare more protests against their long - time boss, Arsene Wenger admits fan power will help him decide whether to stay or go.

This normative orientation of those who backed the electoral protest against the regime posed Putin a number of serious problems on his return to power.

Also at 6 p.m., People's Power Assembly and Black Lives Matter activists hold a rally and protest in solidarity with Charlotte, NC, uprising against protest brutality and to «demand an end to police attacks and reprisals against protesters there,» Harlem State Office Bldg, 163 West 125th St., Manhattan.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins began his efforts to change energy policies at protests against the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire in 1977.

He pledged to join the protesters, and he linked their efforts to earlier protests against nuclear power and to the larger energy debate.

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

August 2008 - Thousands join the third Climate Camp near Kingsnorth in Kent in protest against coal power

AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters» worst fears.

In the Internet age, in which the Chinese public is becoming increasingly vocal about their rights and mobilizing on social networks, popular protests like the demonstrations in the city of Jiangmen against the processing plant suggest a wider backlash against nuclear power.

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.

Interweaving history, poetry and politics, the series is set against the backdrop of the recent Arab Spring, and the Iranian Green Movement, which brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets across Iran in June of 2009 in protest against corrupt power.

First, her truism, Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise has been popping up on social media feeds, protest posters, and tote bags alike as a slogan for the #metoo movement and for resistance against injustice in general.

Giving voice not only to the village's inhabitants but also the land itself (through field recordings of festive chants and birdsong, or pressed plant specimens, in addition to the photographs), Masuyama's lifework also suggests a unique form of personal protest against the impersonal powers of big government and big contractors.

Actively connecting with local communities So far, the Biketour cyclists have already joined a protest against a planned nuclear power plant at Belene, Bulgaria.

Thousands of coal workers marched in Berlin last month to protest against plans to slap a levy on the oldest and most polluting power plants, which unions say could put 100,000 jobs at risk.

But they are communicating the science, commanding the narrative: the Fourth Power deciding what reality looks like... Right at the moment, this is changing rapidly (see the 150,000 + protests against the proposed European Stability Mechanism — only Die Welt covering it, belatedly).

But in Thailand the government was faced with huge protests from communities against coal - fired power plants.

In 1989, the elder Cuomo shut down a fully - constructed nuclear power plant on Long Island after protests against it by Sierra Club, Audubon and other anti-nuclear groups.

``... I remember thinking how ironic it was when Greenpeace started using gasoline - powered boats to block oil tankers, or when people drove to protests against oil drilling...» - Interior Secretary and former petroleum engineer Sally Jewell

Over the years Germany has made approvals for new wind parks more difficult as the country reels from an unstable power grid and growing protests against the blighted landscapes and health hazards.

The action was part of the global #BreakFree2016 protests against fossil fuels, which saw a similar action last week in the UK when Reclaim the Power halted operations at the UK's largest open coal mine in Wales.

While major protests in the U.S. against the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline have targeted specific infrastructure projects that would lock us into decades of continued fossil - fuel use, they have also shown the power of a united climate movement to effect real policy changes.

Are you old enough to remember the fake Acid Rain scare that was more or less concommitant with the protests against nuclear power?

The Dakota pipeline protests have become the frontline representation of the critical struggle against a completely out of control totalitarian power structure.