Sentences with phrase «public protests in»

In the UKóamidst public protests in opposition to almost every proposed wind energy projectówind energy constitutes barely 3/10 of 1 % of total electricity supply.

Inspired by the organized public protests in the Middle East beginning in 2011, the artist took note of the communal spaces around the world being utilized and, in contrast, those left empty.

According to Odewabi, doctors in the zone will carry out «systematic solidarity action» and public protests in the six states of the zone in solidarity with their colleagues.

The law, which fines groups and individuals for «public actions aimed at propaganda of pederasty, lesbianism, bisexuality, and transgenderism among minors» is an attempt to criminalise gay public protests in Russia, campaigners say.

I expect many embarrassing public protests in which our problems are laid bare for all to gawp over.

The bishop withdrew his approval when Fernández Martínez, a Catholic priest who had decided to marry and raise a family, appeared at a public protest in favor of optional clerical celibacy.

Local breastfeeding supporters staged a public protest in response, and the YWCA apologized.

«This would criminalise any education campaign or public protest in support of LGBT rights where there was a possibility that young people might witness it.

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Whether it is in Athens or on Wall Street, Fink says public protests are a simple statement of fear by people who are frightened for good reasons.

The email came after Kalanick failed to assuage public outrage over Uber's decision to turn off surge pricing at JFK International Airport at a time when taxis refused to stop there in solidarity with a protest against the order.

Some of the actions that have helped keep these matters in the public eye include the Me Too movement, protests and Time's Up, an initiative that tackles harassment and sexism.

And the public was ready to pounce: Just 24 hours after Fowler published her post, the Twitter hashtag #DeleteUber had generated almost 5 million more impressions than it did during the weekend of January 27, when masses of people started using it to protest the company's response to a New York taxi strike and CEO Travis Kalanick's (soon to be short - lived) participation in President Donald Trump's tech advisory committee.

Protests in Greece have already turned deadly, and public discontent is expected to increase as unemployment (above 16 %) continues to rise thanks to unpopular austerity measures.

Opinion polls showed that just 22 % of New Brunswickers supported the deal, and a two - month - long diet of protests and loud public outrage convinced five of Graham's Liberal MLAs, including three cabinet ministers, to tell the premier in early January that they couldn't support the transaction.

This resulted in major backlash from the public since other ride services canceled airport routes in protest.

The public unrest that swept across Iran starting in late December began as a protest against poor economic conditions, but it quickly turned into a call for an end to the country's theocratic regime.

Tens of thousands marched in Madrid at the weekend to protest against drastic cuts, including a 7pc cut in public wages.

All the public has is its vote and its ability to protest, which only becomes a force to be reckoned with when the masses start to aggregate in the streets in sufficient numbers.

Public protests over the last two years have highlighted the risks of spills along the route from Alberta to BC's coastal waters, and the climate impacts of building new pipelines to enable massive increases in bitumen production and exports.

CNN: Health secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedoin protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedoIn an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedom.

No, they are protesting the way their student has been vilified for engaging in public discourse.

God is famous in the family dinners and protest marches, in the re-reading of a favourite book to small children and in Wednesday night Bible studies open to the public, in the prayers of the unknown and the faith of the uncelebrated.

Rachel: You note that while Catholics, African Americans, Hispanics and many Mainline Protestants have continued to be involved in public education, White evangelical Christians are largely absent, until a «culture war» issue arises --(around school - led prayer, evolution, sex ed, etc.)-- and the protests begin.

As for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypothetical).

The survey also examined views of income inequality in America, an issue that has thrust to the forefront of public discourse by the Occupy protests going on in cities around the world.

What constitutes legitimate protection of a child and what are the obligations of a family to protest against an injustice in school segregation, for example, and to open the way for better public education?

A public outcry is more a gaggle of people in stark protest for something.

This can be observed in the struggle to defend public school salaries, in forms of nonmonetary trading of goods and services, in incipient micro-banks oriented especially toward financing projects designed and carried out by women, or in protests against corruption in the public sphere.

In the case of ACT and the churches, the approach to the communications industry has been through a combination of education, public protest and stockholder action.

What began as a quite protest in his Philadelphia high school became Supreme Court case Abington v. Schempp, which declared Bible readings and prayer in public schools unconstitutional.

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

«70 Acting on this belief, Wallis led his Sojourners community in over forty public actions during the first six months of 1977, protesting such issues as the use of torture, the proliferation of nuclear armaments, and the government's repressive housing policies.

Through social media, a website and public protests, the group has gathered steam — and put Kelly in hot water.

In a thousand cases across America, in incidents as far - ranging as Boy Scout meetings, public prayers on the Fourth of July, and the display of religious symbols on public buildings, Americans are losing the same privileges by whispering rather than giving voice to their protestIn a thousand cases across America, in incidents as far - ranging as Boy Scout meetings, public prayers on the Fourth of July, and the display of religious symbols on public buildings, Americans are losing the same privileges by whispering rather than giving voice to their protestin incidents as far - ranging as Boy Scout meetings, public prayers on the Fourth of July, and the display of religious symbols on public buildings, Americans are losing the same privileges by whispering rather than giving voice to their protests.

As the Republican National Convention gets underway, and anxiety mounts over protests and public safety in Cleveland, it's worthwhile to reflect on Bl.

Reflecting on the rash of outraged protests against allegedly sexist, racist, and homophobic slurs erupting in our public life, New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen tries to get to the root of the matter.

For instance, organizations trying to assist Haitian and Salvadoran refugees to avoid repatriation, or organizations urging boycott of banks doing business with South Africa, or organizations counseling young people not to register for the draft, or organizations protesting increased military expenditures, or organizations demonstrating against nuclear power or against mineral exploration in wilderness areas, are all in danger of losing their tax exemptions for violating «public policy.»

The Emperor had entered Augsburg on the eve of Corpus Christi, 15 June, and had immediately summoned those rulers who had signed the Protest at Speyer, and ordered their preachers to cease public preaching in the imperial town.

I write to protest your dissemination of half - truths and innuendo about the Campaign for Human Development (CHD) in the «The Testing of Trust» (Public Square, October 1996).

(Citizens in a local community could use various levels of persuasion with the video store owner: consultation, letters to the local newspapers, appeals to the city council to make zoning changes, or stage actual public protests or a boycott.)

Note that the public protest is «the front lines,» implying a kind of war in which the National Guard represents «our» side — against the protesters.

Kevin Offner's typology of Evangelicalism referred to in The Public Square (November 1993) did indeed bring momentary cries of protest from this disenfranchised Evangelical.

He wrote his most famous book, The Naked Public Square» his 1984 argument against the attempt to secularize every part of shared life» because he thought the nation was in danger of losing the religious dynamism that had fueled everything from Abraham Lincoln's speeches to Martin Luther King's protests.

Protesting the widespread depictions in the public arena of Chávez as Christ only deepens the poor's suspicions that such allegations are true.

The LDS Church released a statement in response to the protest saying, «Of course, the Church recognizes the right of groups to voice their opinion in the public square.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.

They protested Bible - readings in public schools unless Catholic versions were used.

Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen bates poseidon press, 365 pages, $ 24 The 1983 protest by a group of parents in Hawkins County, Tennessee, against certain stories and themes in the public school reading....

The evangelical - moralist sector has gained access to the White House, the Supreme Court, the Congress; it has a near - monopoly on mass media religion news, popular religion, the production of religious celebrities; it makes clear its positions on what it calls social issues, and is engaged in calling for constitutional amendments and new laws and in protests in the public squares.

At the same time, throughout August, Luther was composing a formal and personal letter to the young Emperor and a public Offer and Protest — these were personal matters and both texts he discussed in detail with Spalatin in sharp distinction from his polemical works about which he seldom consulted anyone once he had settled the truth of the matter in his own mind, and the text began to flow like molten metal.