Sentences with phrase «resistance leader who»

Sterritt **** This documentary about an Afghan resistance leader who struggled against the Taliban despite crushing odds led de Ponfilly to look more deeply at his own fascination with brutal warfare in far - flung places.

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Ocampo issued the ICC's first indictments against five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including its commander, Joseph Kony, who are responsible for the abduction of more than 20,000 children (and perhaps many more), mutilations, rapes, and the displacement of some two million Ugandans.

The Christian politician, who announced last month that he would step down as leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the counter-cultural nature of Christianity means resistance is inevitable.

Anne was uplifted when she heard a 1944 radio broadcast from a Dutch resistance leader, encouraging those who were suffering to preserve their letters and diaries, so that posterity would have a record of everything the Nazis had done to them.

Those were appropriately different administrative responses to two leaders who opposed Roman law and order one by violent rebellion, the other by nonviolent resistance.

Western countries have already condemned the elections as a sham, following the lead of resistance leader Aung San Suu Kyi who called for a boycott when they were announced.

Monserrate started to crack immediately, bombarded with calls from union leaders who were furious they might once again face a wall of Republican resistance to their agenda.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

It also met resistance from the Armed Services Committee's Democratic Chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, who replaced Gillibrand's provision with a measure that would require review of prosecution decisions by more senior military leaders.

Former First Minister Peter Robinson, for example, who was DUP leader and Northern Ireland's first minister until last year, was an active member of Ulster Resistance.

Connecticut's Democratic political leadership is part of a larger network of progressive state leaders who are driving the resistance movement.

Another highlight: Assemblyman Keith Wright and faith leader Suzan Johnson Cook — who previously worked with the NYPD and FBI — said they supported Apple CEO Tim Cook's resistance to help the FBI circumvent iPhone encryption technology as the government investigates the San Bernardino attack.

«Over 400,000 people die of malaria each year, and resistance to common antimalarial drugs is growing,» says Professor Mike Blackman, Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute, who led the research.

The Loner Leader (Lea Seydoux) is a French Resistance type commander, who keeps a close eye on the secret couple.

The search is also on for actors to play John Connor, future leader of the human resistance against the man - hunting Terminators, and Kyle Reese, the soldier who eventually travels back in time to father John with Sarah.

In fact, it is women who are the leaders at the heart of the Resistance.

Sean Maguire is the well meaning but not - too - bright warrior leader of a band of resistance fighters against a power - mad chancellor (Little Britain star Matt Lucas) who, luckily for them, isn't much smarter.

Terminator Genisys Rated PG - 13 for intense sequences of sci - fi violence and gunplay throughout, partial nudity and brief strong language Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in yet another Terminator film where resistance leader John Connor (Jason Clarke) sends back his father Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) to protect his mother (Emilia Clarke), who is already being protected by an older version of the Terminator robot played by Schwarzenegger.

It provides more characters (Giancarlo Esposito and Rosa Salazar, as the leader of the resistance and his pseudo-daughter, play the most notable newcomers), but they're even more poorly defined than the established characters, who become anonymous here, too.

Georgia legislators have scrapped a proposal to fund school construction through voter - approved local sales taxes after meeting resistance from municipal leaders who did not want to have to compete with school districts for funds.

There was some momentary drama when a group of mostly black leaders in Algiers won a temporary restraining order against the plan and Acting Superintendent Watson and board president Torin Sanders, who was one of the votes against the Algiers plan, began to talk about OPSB opening four of its own West Bank schools in November, but the resistance was short - lived.

In addition, some teacher leaders in formal roles encounter resistance from colleagues, who question whether this teacher (particularly if he or she is young) has greater expertise.

He said other Conservative leaders had decided against expansion of selection because they encountered «such resistance from their own voters, who do not like it».

One of the most effective was selecting project leaders who possessed enough political clout to overcome resistance to change.

Finding out more about the relationship between teachers» learning styles and level of resistance to change may help teacher education schools and school leaders provide more appropriate assistance and support, enabling schools to retain teachers who may have a harder time accommodating the changes involved in a dynamic school context such as the one under investigation here.

It's 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese professor of history, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the 19th century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War.

The Foreign Correspondent is the story of Carlo Weisz and a handful of antifascists: the army officer known as «Colonel Ferrara,» who fights for a lost cause in Spain; Arturo Salamone, the shrewd leader of a resistance group in Paris; and Christa von Schirren, the woman who becomes the love of Weisz's life, herself involved in a doomed resistance underground in Berlin.

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia tasks players with controlling both Alm, a farm boy with a mysterious lineage, who gets elevated to the leader of a resistance force in the war between kingdoms — and gods, and Celica, his childhood friend who also has a mysterious past, and now has the power of a cleric.

So many of the leaders in these movements were young men and women who followed the line of least resistance that, with the killing of some of the men, and the consequent distraction from art to other channels of occupation by the women, there will be a diminution of objective interest in new «Fads,» and a consequent return to saner methods.