Sentences with phrase «protest against the system»

At the same time, he has registered a stunning protest against the system that created his debt.

Away from the glare of the Western media, thousands of Dalits have been protesting against the system... More

Away from the glare of the Western media, thousands of Dalits have been protesting against the system that has held them in poverty for three millennia.

The right to silence is sometimes traced to protests against this system, although hints of it existed earlier.

Not exact matches

Members of the Committee of retired Teachers of Puerto Rico's Teachers Federation protest against the underfunding of their pension system in San Juan on March 18, 2016.

It's that belief system that causes people to vote and protest against others that don't believe as they do.

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.

Kierkegaard's work is a sustained and passionate protest against the Hegelian system, and against what Hegel made out of human history, and out of Christianity.

In Modes of Thought, Whitehead praised William James for the character of his intellectual life, which was «one protest against the dismissal of experience in the interest of system» (MT 4).

He, like they, protested against and did a radical critique of the domination system of his day, just as they did of the domination systems of their day.

What I am essentially protesting against is the bifurcation of nature into two systems of reality, which, in so far as they are real, are real in different senses.

So what Whitehead is essentially protesting against is the bifurcation of nature into two systems of reality, which, insofar as they are real are real in different senses — one reality would be entities such as electrons which are the entities of speculative physics; the other reality would be what is given us in actual sense - awareness.

In responding to such questions the church develops an elaborate system of apologetic theology and of moral rules much like those against which Jesus and Paul protested.

It's a protest after all against the system and status quo.

Despite the stats that always say we're sold out, the fact people chose to not go at the game even if tickets were sold is a solid form of protest against a stagnated system.

Last year, the deployment of a US missile defence system in South Korea caused vehement protests from China, because the system was allegedly directed not against Pyongyang but Beijing.

The # 15,000 earnings threshold that applies in the current student finance system will be uprated annually in line with inflation from 2012, in a move to help existing graduates and try to stem the rising tide of student protests against the policy.

Romania's president says the European Union, after triggering proceedings against Poland for its justice system overhaul, may do so against Romania as well due to its own legal system changes that have sparked widespread protests.

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.

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.

Anti-Trident demonstrators have circled the Ministry of Defence with a «peace scarf» to protest against the replacement of the UK's nuclear weapons system.

Mr. Cuomo, reacting to the mass protests against police brutality that have convulsed the country since grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men in Staten Island and Ferguson, Mo., argued that «today, sadly, too many people are questioning if the blindfold is still intact or does the justice system now see black and white or black and blue or rich and poor.»

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.

But one could also forgive it for focusing on the disenfranchised who often receive a raw deal in the judicial system (see the most recent protests against Stand Your Ground laws in many states).

Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino) takes the protest song form to new heights in this impressive music video that exquisitely captures America's crisis as a Police State busy escalating its 150 - year long system of genocide by degree against Black citizens.

There is such anger against the system,» he said, «whether it's the protests on Wall Street or in London at St Paul's, or the seismic shifts happening in the Middle East.»

But then came video cameras on cell phones, recording the very acts that have been perpetrated on many black communities throughout the country and honestly, I look at the same song as an honest and powerful protest against an unjust system that at times treats minorities as sub-human.

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.

The poem they perform — a piece called «Black Girl Magic» — is a celebration of black female identity and a protest against an education system entrenched in a white - dominant narrative that doesn't serve their cultural and socio - emotional needs.

Teachers widely regarded as highly competent by their colleagues retired early in protest against the new accountability system.

Others decline in protest against what they see as an unfair imposition on them of the traditional publishing world by its internationally standardized tracking system.

During bloody reprisals against Inca protests, the Spaniards finally abolished the entire Inca system and established a colonial regime.

Bus Nut re-articulates the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a political and social protest against US racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery Alabama and its relationship to an educational video on school bus safety.

Mediating a collaboration with artist Tsuyoshi Osawa, curator of the miniature so - called «Nasubi Gallery» which takes its form from the once - common Japanese milk - box, the self - appointed «Smallest Gallery in the World» was first launched in 1993 as a parody and protest against the prevailing commercial gallery system.

When large protests happened, as you have recorded, they were mainly against war; they did not imply a broader critique of the economic system «at home.»

Inspired by the youth demonstrations which began in Spain in May this year and the various uprisings (Egypt, Tunisia, Greece etc.), disparate groups came together on Wall Street on 17th September 2011 to protest against the financial system which no longer works for 99 % of the people.

The current economic system against which the «occupation» protest across the industrialised world are directed, both creates and depends on unsustainable consumption, and has driven income and asset inequality within and between nations.

The ceremony has been the focus of protests against the costs and delays of the court system, in particular in the area of family law.

«The need for this vigil is, in itself, a troubling reflection of the current state of affairs, in that those protesting against the cuts to legal aid and the wider justice system feel driven to take direct action to make their concerns heard.

Whether unintended or intended, the effect of the lawsuit against all five protestors was to intimidate, silence, disrupt further protests and to breakup groups through threat of lawsuit and privatizing a matter of public importance within the judicial system.

More than 1,000 legal aid solicitors took to the streets this week to protest against proposed changes to the legal aid system that they say will hit the poorest members of society.