Sentences with phrase «protesting against arms»

As truckloads of equipment arrived at the fair organised by the Defence and Security Equipment International in East London in September 2017, Quakers were among faith groups protesting against arms trade and profiting from war.

Meanwhile, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling pledged a crackdown on Islamic extremists, especially those who protest against the armed forces.

Not exact matches

The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is among a broad range of human rights groups planning to protest at Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon.

Five Christians have pleaded not guilty to charges brought against them after they were arrested for blocking access to the London arms fair during a protest in September.

Few contemporary theologians would disagree with this statement, but we might well expect that many of Weisinger's brothers in arms, the literary critics, would raise a cry of protest against this seeming assault upon the reality of the individual mythical vision.

We should not forget the pragmatic consideration that the non-violent resistance of an unarmed populace against armed police or military authority may be the only feasible kind of protest.

Priests, ministers, and rabbis all marched arm in arm to protest against the brutality and to demonstrate for the right of Negroes to vote.

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In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

As players across the NFL took a knee, locked arms and protested during the Star Spangled Banner, the Pittsburgh Steelers» Alejandro Villanueva, a former Fort Drum soldier, remained standing ahead of the game against the Chicago Bears.

These same people of Benue state have continued to go through series of armed attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen who had protested against the passage of the anti-open grazing law by the Benue state house of Assembly.

The shadow Armed Forces minister joined a protest by Jonathan Reynolds and Stephen Doughty against the Labour leader's reshuffle

Colbert urged his audience to buy the book through independent booksellers, rather than Amazon, as a protest against the company's strong - arming publisher Hachette as part of their terms negotiations.

Pollock crosses his arms for Life magazine, while a larger group poses as «the Irascibles,» part of a protest against a museum exhibition that misses the future.

The work, titled Civilian Drone Strike, was auctioned alongside contributions by feminist activist group Guerrilla Girls and photomontage artist Peter Kennard, at the five - day Art The Arms Fair held last week in London in protest against the annual Defence and Security Equipment International arms fArms Fair held last week in London in protest against the annual Defence and Security Equipment International arms farms fair.

The artist's installation, first shown as part of the 52nd Venice Biennale, and originally conceived as a protest against the senseless atrocities of the Iraq war, has since become a powerful symbol denouncing any armed conflict.

When we spoke to him on the phone, Hulme cited as evidence the 2007 protests against Heathrow's third runway, where marchers made their case by waving a research paper at the TV cameras under a banner bearing the slogan «We are armed only with peer reviewed science».

So, and to characterize his protest as being against the armed forces is really absurd.