Sentences with phrase «protesting about government»

«But you've also got to convince them of your credibility that you can actually move from protesting about a government into being the government.

• Around 1,500 trade union members and other protesters have staged a march and rally in Birmingham to protest about the government's spending cuts.

Not exact matches

The federal government approved the expansion in 2016 but the project faces significant opposition in B.C. Thousands of people have been rallying to protest the project and Horgan has raised concerns about the pipeline's possible environmental and economic impact.

He tweeted about the protests several times, calling out the government for blocking social media and messaging apps like Instagram and Telegram this week.

A couple months later, in November, when the Burnaby Mountain standoff was at its peak and protesting residents were being arrested, Kinder Morgan again lobbied the provincial government about its plans for Trans Mountain and, you guessed it, wrote a cheque to the BC Liberals.

The media coverage of the Tumbler Ridge story, which suggested Chinese workers employed by a Chinese company can only be bad news because the company is likely controlled by the Chinese government, begs the question of why we don't see protests about Filipino or Mexican workers.

And second this blog has often reported news bits about atheist billboard campaigns or atheist conventions that get protested by various religious groups or when atheists try to enforce legislation to remove offensive religious material from government and education.

The $ 3.8 billion pipeline drew international protests after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe told government officials that the pipeline would desecrate sacred burial grounds and voiced concerns about possible oil spills.

In late July, about 20 priests protested outside government offices.

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«We know APC government does not obey court orders, they do not care about due process of the law, they are not moved by protest, and therefore, the best option is to use their votes to chase the governor out of seat when he comes out for re-election.»

There was the ludicrous sub-Orwellian language about an «implementation period», even though we only need it as we will have nothing to implement, and then the desperate «nothing - has - changed» protest that she has remained consistent since the Lancaster House speech, even though the government had since changed its stance on every issue from money and negotiation sequencing to the transition and future regulation.

Among the big losers so far are environmental campaigners, whose arguments and protests about air quality, pollution and environmental issues appear to have been brushed aside by the Government.

Indeed, when Phil Woolas was the Local Government Minister, the Isitfair council tax protest group asked him about this, and he responded by stating that the Government had no plans to cap Town or Parish precepts.

Stephen Timms, a government finance minister, protested publicly about the matter.

Baroness Warsi has said in an interview that a Government minister has talked to her about resigning in protest over policy toward Israel and Hamas.

In early 2015, as Malaysians were protesting over government plans to introduce a consumption tax, the then first lady was complaining about the rising costs of her hairdresser.

«And I think he would be slightly horrified by some of the tendency towards endless protests rather than thinking about how we get into power and do what Labour governments are about, tackling inequality, promoting education, dealing with technology, putting us at the heart of Europe.»

Hardly surprising, then, that they have never managed to inspire confidence and that the biggest single concern people have about another Labour government — despite Mr Miliband's protests — is that it would once again spend and borrow more than the country can afford.

The prime minister wrote to the Saudi government to protest about the «extremely concerning» case of Karl Andree, the British grandfather who had been threatened with flogging for possession of alcohol.

«While government is not against peaceful protest by aggrieved citizens, we would like to urge Lagosians to go about their businesses peacefully.

Colin added: «Protests in London is pointless about government policies.

Retrenched workers of the Nigeria Airways on Wednesday protested against the Federal Government's failure to pay their benefits of about N78 billion.

The devices are not illegal, but are now being exploited by the Syrian authorities to block messages about protests and government attacks on civilians.

But the Hany letter and Zamalek protests appear to be part of a wider move by Egyptians to air their opinions about the way their government has been run for the past 3 decades.

Even with the change to soy protein isolate, FDA bureaucrats engaged in the «rigorous approval process» were forced to deal nimbly with concerns about mineral blocking effects, enzyme inhibitors, goitrogenicity, endocrine disruption, reproductive problems and increased allergic reactions from consumption of soy products.31 One of the strongest letters of protest came from Dr. Dan Sheehan and Dr. Daniel Doerge, government researchers at the National Center for Toxicological Research.32 Their pleas for warning labels were dismissed as unwarranted.

In Eisenstein's film, the baby rolling perilously down the steps was about the inhumanity of the murderous government agents attempting to put down public protest.

His opponent is Diane Douglas, a former school board member who focused everything about her campaign in protest of the Common Core Standards and the federal government's involvement in state - level educational policies.

A spokeswoman for Tate Britain confirmed: «There's a protest by about 30 students here against threatened government cuts to arts education funding.

The prize - giving event at London's Tate Britain was overtaken by about 50 students protesting government cuts in education spending.

But in both cases, a small demonstration about trees was met with extreme, inflexible force, which fanned the flames of protest and delegitimized the government.

A lot of coverage of this is making it seem like the government is reacting to rural protest against wind and solar farms, and unfounded public concerns about higher energy costs due to green energy.

Recognizing the potentially devastating situation, he and his neighbors immediately approached local government officials with their concerns about the water supply, but were told that the mine was moving forward regardless of local protest.

Does he know that the so - called «Arab Spring» protests in Egypt that triggered all the shouts about democracy among liberals, were actually food riots caused by governments listening to alternate fuel advocates like IPS?

Instead of terrifying the public with scare stories about climate change caused by CO2 emissions, why aren't governments actually doing something about it by replacing fossil - fuel power stations with nuclear ones (and crushing any protests which try to stop them)?

The federal government approved the pipeline expansion in 2016, but the project faces significant opposition in B.C. Thousands of people have rallied in protest and the provincial government has raised concerns about the pipeline's possible environmental and economic impact.

«I saw more than I really would have liked to, to be honest,» says Potter, who notes he has generally decided to stay clear of any involvement in the protest movements due to concern about Chinese government claims of foreign interference.

The Labour and Employment Law and the Workers» Compensation Sections of the Ontario Bar Association sent a joint letter of protest to the Ontario government about the policy.

District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert Morin ruled today that DreamHost must comply with federal prosecutors» narrowed warrant seeking communications and records about an Inauguration Day protest website: disruptj20.org; but they will have to present the court with a «minimization plan» that includes the names of all government investigators who will have access to the data and a list of all the methods that they will be using to search the evidence.