Sentences with phrase «several protests from»

Campaigners put in hours leafleting, putting up posters, public meetings with national campaigners like Keep Our NHS Public and local campaigners, Freedom of Information requests, press releases, tweeting, and several protests from the large to the small and direct.

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Several dozen union workers from GE factories in Pennsylvania, Canada and elsewhere protested outside a GE facility here, where about 450 shareholders gathered.

Several dozen union workers from GE factories in Pennsylvania, Canada and elsewhere protested outside a GE facility here, where about 450 shareholders gathered for the meeting.

The Times report said several owners expressed concern about Trump's attacks on the league, citing fan boycotts, pressure from sponsors to stop the protests, and declining TV ratings.

Despite receiving the support of local Conservative members and several leading Tory MPs, Goldsmith's decision to resign from the Conservative party in protest at the decision to build a new airport runway in his constituency meant he was barred from accessing the crucial local voter data he required.

Trump, however, went on to fire several political shots toward his opponents, including his immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, who previously turned down an invitation to speak at the Jamboree in protest of the Boy Scouts» policy of disallowing gay members and leaders from joining its ranks in 2013.

Chinese Internet message boards have also featured photos from Hefei, capital city of the eastern province of Anhui, where several «elementary school students» staged a protest with a banner reading «Oppose Carrefour, Shopping is shameful».

The pipeline was halted late last year by former President Obama after several months of protest from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of Natives.

India's language of protest, drawn largely from Marxism, is changing, however, mostly because of the failures of socialism around the world, as several speakers mentioned.

The ownership of the club by the American pair has drawn protests from Liverpool fans and news of Benitez's impending departure will also lead to question marks over the futures of several key players.

Jay Rodriguez struck an 89th - minute equaliser from the spot after Dean adjudged Calum Chambers to have handled the ball in the box, provoking furious protests from Wenger, goalkeeper Petr Cech and several other Gunners players.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) drove several Routemaster buses from the Docklands to the headquarters of UKTI DSO in protest against the event.

Clinton is scheduled to be the commencement speaker at Medgar Evers College, which has raised objections from several members of the Haitian community who plan to protest the speech and are pushing the college president, Rudy Crew, to rescind the invitation.

While again hundred thousands of Egyptians show their defiance of the old regime at Cairo's Tahrir Square and worker protests have broken out in several Egyptian cities, Washington and London still follow a pipe dream of a gradual transition from Hosni Mubarak to a more or less democratic, yet by all means secular new government.

ALBANY, NY (03/01/2012)(readMedia)-- Dozens of members from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) lined the sidewalk in front of the state Office of Mental Health (OMH) at 44 Holland Ave. in Albany to protest the way the state is closing and shifting services in several state - operated psychiatric facilities.

He stressed further that the exemplary leadership quality of Comrade Sunmonu actually liberated Nigeria our of economic recession as he staged several national protests to recover the nation's wealths from the hands of fraudulent political demagogues.

Alcohol was banned by Congress through Amendment 18 in 1917 because of Protestant protest groups and grassroot campaigns from several Woman's Rights Movement organizations.

The protest which witnessed the presence of activists and mostly youths converging from across several states took - off from the Unity Fountain, Maitama, Abuja.

Around 100 teachers from several regions of the state gathered in the biting cold to protest what they believe is Governor Cuomo's unfair stance against teachers and the union that represents them.

Also participating were the Green Party and its gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins, delegations from several colleges, environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, indigenous dancers in traditional garb and headgear, a number of out - of - state liberal organizations, activists from several foreign nations and a large complement of radical socialist and communist parties — all marching to the usual protest accompaniment of acoustic guitars, drums, horns and whistles.

At roughly the same time, several dozen demonstrators from the advocacy group Picture the Homeless rallied outside the Vanderbilt Avenue headquarters of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, in protest against the Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict Mr. Pantaleo in the Garner homicide, and against broken windows policing.

Several hundred people crowded into the street across from Cuomo's Manhattan office to protest the new law.

Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (Shiites) across several cities in the country, at the weekend staged coordinated massive protests, demanding for the release of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky from detention.

The strategy sparked protests from firefighters, neighborhood groups and several city councilors.

Several prominent psychiatrists resigned from the APA to protest what they saw as attempted restriction on their freedom of speech.

Disagreements over the safety risks have also prompted outspoken protests from several senior Hanford officials.

This morning, representatives from several science and justice advocacy groups held a small protest in front of CDC's Washington, D.C., office.

In an era in which hashtag protests can quickly spread like wildfire on social media, the academy avoided a potentially thorny situation when James Franco — who has recently faced accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior from several women — failed to score a lead actor nod for his performance in «The Disaster Artist,» which earned him a Golden Globe award for best actor in a musical or comedy just weeks ago.

Yesterday, Stephanie Simon of Reuters revealed that at least four states have pulled out of the data mining Gates - funded operation called inBloom Inc., because of privacy concerns and protests from parents, and several others are reconsidering.

The latest protest didn't rival that one, which saw thousands of demonstrators from several community groups flooding downtown streets to broadcast similar calls for an elected school board and dramatic changes to the way the city's police are supervised.

On Monday, parents in several states mounted a protest against the Common Core that kept children home from school.

In the past several weeks the county Animal Control Director Dr. John Lauby has received more than 18,000 emails from people protesting the adoption ban.

Right alongside them, and more than happy to put a damper on the festivities were the local and international animal activists who've made it their mission over the past several years to protest the festival, record the carnage, and save dogs from the butcher's block.

With recent protests by professional football players in mind, the young Chicago - based artist Samuel Levi Jones has curated this group show, which brings together several artists from different generations whose work meditates on the relationship between power structures and persons of color in America.

The Brooklyn Conference will also offer workshops including: THE RESISTANCE REVIVAL: A Restoration of Force presented by organizers from the Women's March on Washington; Protest Poster Making hosted by Amplifier, during which attendees will create their own silkscreened posters; Mirror / Echo / Tilt, a performance workshop developed by Shaun Leonardo, Sable Elyse Smith and Melanie Crean; a hands - on program led by The Laundromat Project, and several other programs and activities throughout the building.

Protests have been relentless from several of the nation's indigenous groups, who recently went as far as attempting to storm the Capitol to air their grievances.

Several Hawai'i judges privately expressed support for the march, Portnoy said, but added that «archaic rules» governing judicial conduct prevented them from joining the protest.

The assistance services coordinator arranged safe ground transportation for Kristin (and several other covered students) to an airport many miles away from the protests.

From Silicon Valley, The New York Times published an internal protest memo written by several thousand Google employees, which vociferously opposed Google's work on a Defense Department - led initiative called Project Maven, which aims to use computer vision algorithms to analyze vast troves of image and video data.

These attacks come just a week after Ohio Governor John Kasich signed several anti-women's health provisions into law despite protests from thousands of Ohioans statewide.

I can recall a news story from several years ago of a dad dressing up as batman and staging a protest on the Buckingham Palace balcony.

My husbands protests are the dirt that shoes up on white as opposed to wood (we've been battling decor vs. practicality since we moved in on basically everything... he's shaken his head and walked away from the room several times when he finds me in the middle of a project or seen some or other purchase, ha ha.