Sentences with phrase «protested against the development»

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Domestically and internationally, Ahmadinejad is regarded by not a few as a capricious dictator whose presidency has included serious human rights violations, routine defiance of the United Nations, development of capabilities for nuclear weapons, and massive student protests against his government.

In the course of her research into adolescent spiritual development, Almeda Wright has heard numerous stories and testimonies from young African Americans experimenting with new ways of relating spirituality to their protests against racial injustice.

Only where historical developments have led to a degeneration in the life of the fellowship, and hence to a weakening of this feeling, will there be a rationalistic or mystic or spiritualist protest against the actual manifestation, or against the very idea of a communion and community in religion.

Throughout the 1970s and 80s Faith magazine often protested against these betrayals of Catholic truth and of God's people, all the while calling for and offering the outlines of a development of doctrine which is faithful to the teaching of Gaudium et Spes and the tradition.

Actually, the events in December and January were preceded by a spontaneous campaign against government repression in May of 2010, in which people reacted to an opposition leader's attempt to start a protest march by posting supportive photographs on Facebook, a development that Nour believes emboldened cyberactivists.

The councilman said the BSA, which he calls a «bogus agency,» regularly ignores community protests against out - of - character developments and dismisses community board recommendations to satisfy the wants of developers.

The Nigeria Police Force had also warned against the planned protest having gotten a wind of the imminent development

Fighting off police from occupied houses, as well as violent protests against nuclear plants led to the development of the Black Bloc tactics.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst - a sixteen - acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

It was the sixth London - based protest following the fifth on Friday when Romanians took to the streets of London on pushbikes brandishing banners and chanting «together we save Rosia Montana», in a «non-negotiable» movement against further development of the mining project.

That development came on the heels of a scandal surrounding the Senate Republican and IDC's use of lulus to pay members for committee work they didn't actually do and a mounting display of grassroots protests against IDC members in their districts.

A good example of this is the Baker's Bay development which Guana Cay residents protested against from the moment it was announced.

Indeed, approximately 80 municipalities in this province have declared themselves to be «unwilling hosts» for wind turbine developments — a collective protest against legislation that smacks more of the Soviet than the Canadian style in getting things done.»

Protests over the third runway at Heathrow, and against airport expansion in general, attempt to portray much needed investment in transport infrastructure as an unwanted imposition on «the people», rather than a development to be welcomed.

In recent years, Hansen has focused his attention on legal battles involving climate issues, such as suits against fossil fuel developments and defending activists arrested while protesting fossil fuel facilities.