Sentences with phrase «self immolations»

«No amount of thunderstorms, police chases, government shutdowns or self immolations could keep us from having the best party of our lives.»

This covers, truth, justice, human rights, self immolation, Martin Luther King and Amnesty.

Nominees include the above mentioned surprising slump in indie sales, the not surprising shrinking revenues at the major publishing houses, the also not surprising continued self immolation of Barnes & Noble, and my winner... The impressive (and frightening) maturation of Amazon as a media conglomerate.

Not exact matches

Since then, there has been a wave of self - immolations in Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Punjab and elsewhere, by people who feel that they have no voice to counter what they have alternatively described as «injustice, oppression and lack of equality,» or «poverty, corruption and unemployment.»

As he finds the self - oblation and self - immolation of Christ in the Mass, he knows that «in the likeness of Christ, he has to give himself, body and soul, to be «bread broken for you» in the ministry of Christ.»

In my post, I wrote of an «epidemic of self - immolations,» noting that from mid-March to mid-July 2011 more than 40 Tibetans had set themselves on fire to protest the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Tibetans - in - exile hold a candlelight vigil following the self - immolation attempt by a monk in Kathmandu on February 13, 2013.

Self - immolation began as a form of protest among Tibetans in China in February 2009, when a young monk set himself ablaze.

(CNN)- China Daily, an English - language newspaper and a mouthpiece of the Chinese government, last week published an article called «Western Voices Question Tibetan Self - Immolation Acts.»

Today, Tibet is witnessing an epidemic of self - immolations.

All that to say, David, I am not so sure Trump is self - defecating, as much as performing self - immolation.

CNN: My Take: Dalai Lama should condemn Tibetan self - immolations Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explains why he believes the Dalai Lama should abandon his position of neutrality on the «epidemic of self - immolations» going on in Tibet.

It was known to the FBI that David Koresh was religiously committed and fully capable of fulfilling an apocalyptic vision of self - immolation.

Self - immolation is becoming an increasingly common form of protest for Tibetans who want genuine autonomy from China and accuse Beijing of repression.

When fulsome credits are attributed to the transcendent, my mind goes to a newspaper item describing a young student's self - immolation, According to the report, she set herself on fire to experience death and the world of spirits beyond — i.e., the transcendent.

Read the full story about the history of self - immolation, from 4th century Chinese Buddhism to North Africa today

Religion News Service: Tibetans have «sacred duty» to support self - immolations As the 18th congress of China's Communist Party began in Beijing this week, six more Tibetans set themselves on fire as Tibetan leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing wave of self - immolations.

Nevertheless, besides the issue of natural justice, I think that desire is defined as something that is considered to have a so - called positive outcome, so I would think that on a personal level self - immolation has no personal desire (unless «fame» and / or desire to die are there) and it is surely painful to the person self - immolating (unlike e.g. self - explosion), and the thing being probably considered by individual persons as social sacrifice.

Reuters: Dalai Lama presses China to investigate Tibetan self - immolations Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged Japanese parliamentarians to visit Tibet, and for China to investigate the dozens of self - immolations by Tibetans.

«We have made so many appeals (to stop self - immolations), but they are still doing it,» said Sangay, the political successor of the Dalai Lama, as the number of self - immolations by monks, nuns and others swelled to 68 since March 2011.

But in the annals of this sort of charity we find fantastic excesses of devotion recorded which are only explicable by the frenzy of self - immolation simultaneously aroused.

-- The self - surrender may become so passionate as to turn into self - immolation.

New versions of his self - immolation and his audience - challenging, and more typically, new formulas for the theater of regularizing such, became stock features of Rock.

Together they perfectly captured the feminine art of vocal self - immolation, and they were destined to burn out in their own distinct ways, one by what she gave and the other by what she withheld.

Five years after Mohamed Bouazizi's self - immolation in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia ignited the Arab Spring.

And if not their self - respect, then their self - interest, because any hopes of re-election will be squashed between the threat of deselection and the charge of guilt - by - association, as soon as the Conservatives have had enough of watching Labour's self - immolation and step up their own campaign.

The self - immolation of Zac Goldsmith's political career will in time be a footnote to the uncontrolled wildfire of 2016.

In fact, she suggested the exact opposite — that Grisanti's self - immolation was caused by multiple factors.

Congrats on your self - immolation, Anthony.

Her hold on the establishment has only been strengthened by the self - immolation of Anthony Weiner, who was in a strong position to contend in 2013 and who was popular among real - estate types because, in Tighe's words, «He seemed like one of the guys.

Stating that those who seek to diminish Aregbesola's achievements are only a self - immolation mission, the Bureau said PDP's inability to comprehend the Aregbesola program of changing the fortune of education in the state could only help to sink the party into its abyss of extinction.

Among the more extreme cases of mind control is the self - immolation of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in 1963 to protest the repressive regime in South Vietnam.

The unkillable mercenary's sardonic self - immolation is thus clarified as a display of grief, albeit one that simplifies his punkish gesture.

This time, the story of the notorious punk band's self - immolation is told in relatively orthodox documentary style, pockmarked with film clips of the economic unrest that lit the punk fuse in England.

The picture is about the noxious half - life and death of grief, its ending as suggestive of rebirth as it is of self - immolation — marking the belief that the process is one best defined by ambiguity.

Has Michael's paraplegic ex-wife, Catherine (Shari Shattuck, her voice overdubbed), glimpsed in startling flashbacks to her self - immolation, returned from the grave in a fit of jealousy?

Inside the Lighthouse, Lena finds a confounding video account of Kane's apparent self - immolation and the emergence of an unscathed doppelgänger facing him.

It is a if Stillman came out of retirement as an act self - immolation.

He has only 10 seconds of self - immolation before burning out.

It would though have involved considerably more effort on the part of the designers to create the circumstances for inflicting self - immolation on their own sales figures.

The women's wounds arose from another horror, self - immolation.

Even the mere picture of her, as the paint was dripping from Marta's clothes, aligned with the artworks in the back, was evoking the notion of self - immolation.

At the other end, a print from the late Malcolm Browne's 1963 sequence «Self - Immolation of Buddhist Monk Thich Quãng Ðuc» is an image painful to see and unbearable to contemplate.

With humor and cynicism, Lamdark's conceptual disco mocks the Chinese cultural invasion of Tibet, while graphically commenting on the tragic self - immolation of Tibetan monks in response to their oppression.

These include paintings by Tenzing Rigdol that metaphorically depict the horrific self - immolations (now over 140) occurring in Tibet; Fadi Yazigi, who continues to reside in Damascus, Syria, making art despite the raging war all around him; and Rasheed Araeen, a Pakistani, London - based artist who highlights Afro - Asian, postcolonial racial oppression.

Rigdol's enormous «My World is in your Blind - spot,» made of five panels six - by - six - feet each, references the more than 100 self - immolations inside Tibet, as well as what Rigdol has called the «degradation» of the Tibetan language.

from an entertainment perspective: i was going to say Heartland's self - immolation, though Millicient's suggestion of the AR5 leak might be even better.

Self - immolation is rarely a pretty sight, but it can still be really entertaining.

Now activist scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has released a book that insists we're on track for self - immolation.

And then there was the «Prague Spring» of 1968, and the self - immolation of Jan Polak.