Sentences with phrase «protest against the state»

In his sustained apologia for Christianity, Chateaubriand hurls a cry of protest against the state - sponsored desecration of the basilica of Saint - Denis, centuries - old burial site of French kings.

Going to Medjugorje is a protest against this state of affairs.

Meinhof attends a protest against the state visit of the Shah of Iran, a protest that descends into violence and anarchy thanks to the heavy - handed tactics of the German police.

Petrol Dealers Association of Nigeria and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers in Ekiti State on Monday declared an indefinite strike to protest against the state government's revocation of Certificates of Occupancy granted to their members.

To show a form of protest against the state's strict gun law, Washington County lawmakers adopted a provision preventing state police from using their county seal on any paper work that deals with the SAFE Act.

Stand - up comedian Randy Credico, who helped bring about reform of the state's Rockefeller Drug Laws, is now setting his sights on the New York state comptroller's office, where he is protesting against state pension fund investments in the private prison industry.

He began wearing it several years ago to faculty meetings as a sarcastic protest against the state's emphasis on standardized testing.

It is not clear whether the Zimmermans simply didn't want to pay for veterinary care or face citations and possible charges for the condition of their kennels, or were registering a protest against state regulation of their sordid business, especially the new bill.

Picasso's 1937 painting served as an impassioned protest against state violence aimed at civilians, and so, if only in its point of reference, Dodd's painting resonated with the marches and die - ins that swept cities from New York to San Francisco this week.

«Recent protests against state legislation have made it clearer than ever that these restrictions are not the will of the people.

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Union leaders urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools that are open on Monday, but large protests were expected to continue at the Capitol against a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits to state workers.

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Carolina - based private security firm hired by Texas - based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners won't be banned from North Dakota, though a judge is still weighing whether TigerSwan operated illegally in the state during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline and might be subject to fines.

Spain's La Razon led Monday's cover with «World outcry against Trump's Muslim veto» and El Pais had pictures of protests on its front page from the state of Massachusetts.

Turkey warned its citizens about travel to the United States on Saturday in response to what the foreign ministry called increasingly violent protests against President - elect Donald Trump.

Black Lives Matter, a generally amorphous protest movement, is generally aimed at raising awareness about state violence against black people and systemic racism.

The move comes after months - long protests by environmentalists and Native American groups in North Dakota against Energy Transfer Partners LP's $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which would bring crude oil from the state's Bakken oil patch through the Midwest and into the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Asian companies protested against this favoritism that discriminates against Japanese firms that have relocated in the United States to take advantage of a tariff and non-tariff trade barriers.

As well as creating a full - blown cryptocurrency economy inside the app, it would also insulate it against the attacks and accusations of nation - states such as Iran, where it now accounts for 40 % of Iran's internet traffic but was temporarily blocked amongst nationwide protests against the government.

THEY HAVE CLOSED DOWN ALMOST EVERY SMALL COMPANY IN UNITES STATES OF AMERICA AND NOW, THEY WANT YOU TO GO OUT THERE AND PROTEST FOR THEM AGAINST WALL STREET (corporations = Wall - street)!!!

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.

Russell could scornfully reply: put a «hood» over your head, put a «hood» over the slaughter on the western front, put a «hood» over your protest against the Moloch of the modern state that demands that children be sacrificed.

Our protest against «the naked public square» was then a distinctly minority position, whereas today there is a much more widespread recognition that church - state jurisprudence is a shambles, and that the democratic process requires the vigorous engagement of the religiously based moral convictions of the American people.

A major part of their protest was against the inability of the Russian Church to be prophetic against the State.

Forbes also suggests that even in the United States, despite many economic mistakes (which Forbes protested against month by month) committed by the U.S. government, two favorable achievements must be acknowledged.

Averill Harriman, then the United States ambassador to Moscow, protested against MacArthur's plan to divide Korea because he knew that Korea had a history as one community with one race, and that no one should divide her.

When we of the so - called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank - account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

A minority, largely among the wealthy intelligentsia who favored states» rights, protested against the doctrines of election held by the church.

That weekend further muddied the message of a movement that many claimed was a protest against the United States itself — and often, more specifically, its troops.

The messaging galvanized many owners to kneel or stand elbows locked with their players against a common enemy: The President of the United States, and not racial injustice, the thing that kneeling was initially supposed to protest against.

In May 1970, during a protest against the war at Kent State in Ohio, National Guardsmen had fired on student protesters, killing four.

A whole state... Fans larger in numbers than us protest against him... He still does what he wants.

The image has gone viral and the fan, Jake Wythers, has explained the logic behind the protest against Wenger all the way in the United States.

Labelling the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, outlawing anti-regime protests, cracking down on NGOs and the clampdown against anti-regime activists and journalists are indications that the security state is disintegrating.

He also called on the state governor to release unconditionally all the protesting workers who were detained and taken to court as a result of the protest against the privatisation.

But she raised concerns about the most recent round of changes enacted in last year's budget, and also didn't protest when the state DAs Association (then headed by the GOP AG contender, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan) lobbied against them.

As for the Pope's visit, that prompted the biggest ever protest against the Pope and the policies of the Holy See, the «state» of which he is head, and a poll commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church last month found that more people disagreed than agreed that the Pope's visit was «good for Britain».

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. today announced that he backs same - sex marriage rights as his father, state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., is in Washington to take part in protests against marriage rights for gay couples.

Since the election of President Donald Trump, many people on the Left have staged vitriolic protests against the new President with a massive Women's March in cities across the United States, penned articles, signed petitions, and speeches at the Golden Globe.

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».

He will deliver a speech at Suffolk County Community College at about 1:30 p.m. Hundreds of UFT members, students and faculty will protest against Trump in Brentwood State Park, across the street from the campus, with an 11:30 a.m. press conference scheduled.

There are theories why Hillary was not supported by Russian propaganda over Sanders and later Trump was that he believed Hillary's State Department was behind protests against his 2011 election and suspicions of ballot issues.

Members of the Baldwinsville Rod and Gun Club joined the statewide «The Shot Heard Throughout New York State» protest against the SAFE Act on Saturday.

A successful open meeting was held last night in Richmond where speakers from the Protest the Pope Campaign outlined the reasons for protesting against honouring Pope Joseph Ratzinger with a state visit.

It must therefore itself remain organised and resist any pressure to dissolve into the soft left, because its support is vital to people fighting imperialism, black people fighting racism, women protesting against the assault on the welfare state, workers on strike and every other progressive struggle.

1968 - Mexico City Tommie Smith and John Carlos, medal winners for the 200 metre dash, made a protest gesture on the podium against the segregation in the United States.

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 (EState 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 (Estate 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).

There's a protest underway at the state Capitol staged by the same low - income and housing advocates who have been demonstrating against the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY.

Hawkins participated in the Black Lives Matter protest organized by Capital Area Against Mass Incarceration outside the State of the State address on Wednesday.

«Since December 2, 2017, workers across the six Oyo State tertiary institutions have embarked on indefinite strike to protest against the government refusal to pay them their 15 month salary arrears.

A pre-colonial nationalist, Pa Conleth Omeka, has vowed to lead a state - wide protest against the Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, stressing that the demonstration would...