Sentences with phrase «staged a campaign against»

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Keystone has become a can't - lose battle for the environmental movement, with activists staging frequent protests against the pipeline and California billionaire Tom Steyer funding major advertising campaigns to move public opinion.

The American bishops staged a rigorous campaign against the White House's new contraception mandate.

A recent example of just such suspicion and mistrust took place in August, when an anti-trafficking nonprofit called Agape International Missions (AIM) came under fire from the Cambodian government for purportedly working with CNN to stage a smear campaign against Cambodian women.

Tottenham Hotspur kicked off their 2014/15 Europa League group stage campaign this evening with a largely uneventful 0 - 0 draw against Partizan Belgrade on an awful pitch in the Serbian capital.

We are of course still in the Champions League, having reached the knockout stages of the competition for the 13th consecutive term, and despite coming up against the same team who knocked us out of three previous European campaigns, we have reason to be more confident next time around.

With big matches against Manchester City and Arsenal coming up Di Maria still has a chance to show his ability on the biggest stage before the end of the campaign.

We may be at the quarter - final stage of the EFL Cup, but Emi Martinez has had Wembley on his mind since the first game of the campaign against Nottingham Forest.

The Spaniard's form in the final stages of the campaign was so good that he was picked ahead of the Welshman for the Champions League final against Juventus, which Los Blancos won by a comfortable 4 - 1 scoreline.

Manchester City made their way into the knock out stages of Champions League after such difficult campaign as they confirmed their passage after grabbing an important win on the final group game against AS Roma.

They will play their Group A games against the hosts Poland, Slovakia and Sweden at the Kolporter Arena in Kielce, and will be hoping to better their 2015 campaign during which they were unable to qualify from the group stages.

The present champs of Europe made the trip to Signal Iduna Park on Tuesday night, as they faced off against Borussia Dortmund in the second game of the group stages of their new Champions League campaign, in which Real Madrid will be eager at retaining the title.

Victor scored nine goals in that campaign including the opener against Barcelona in a famous 2 - 1 win in the Champions League at Parkhead, as they went on to advance to the knockout stages.

Newcastle United picked up a 3 - 1 defeat against Benfica on the first leg of their Europa League campaign on Thursday, but the Magpies manager Alan Pardew remains optimistic with his team's chance in advancing into the next stage especially since they managed to score an away goal.

He broke into the Chelsea squad in the closing stages of last season, making his senior debut against Leicester City in the final game of the campaign.

After Napoli's 5 - 2 win in Europa League against Legia Warsaw to clinch a perfect group stage campaign, the club's young midfielder / attacker, Omar...

During the latter stages of the campaign there were further allegations by some independence supporters that the BBC — the UK's national broadcaster — was biased against Scottish independence.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Decampaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall DeCampaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

Hospitals will share data on their knife - related admissions as part of the next stage of the government's campaign against knife crime.

After Mr. Turner's victory, Mr. Koch threatened to continue raising his concerns on a national stage, suggesting that he would consider campaigning against Mr. Obama in battleground states like Florida.

We can not tell if efforts were made to limit the poll to actual doctors or to make it representative of junior doctors in terms of career stage, age, region and so on — it doesn't really matter, as it is fatally undermined by being conducted in a forum campaigning against a contract.

After Warren introduced the president at a Boston campaign event, Obama took the stage and urged voters to support Warren in her heated challenge against Republican Sen. Scott Brown.

There is a burgeoning sports boycott, which most recently campaigned against the decision of European football's governing body UEFA to stage its Under 21 tournament in Israel.

Having left an imprint on the world from the stage (touring Australia in 2003 with his one - man show «Scaramouche Jones») to the environment (campaigning against climate change, and championing the cause in The Age Of Stupid), he certainly won't be forgotten, living on through the glory of cinema.

The action becomes so intense in later campaign stages that you will be forced to learn to build quickly in order to have some form of cover against the advancing horde of enemies coming your way.

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