Sentences with phrase «started protesting against»

It's high time we started protesting against greenhouse gas emissions.

Garba Shehu even scoffs at the Coalition Movement that started a protest against the two leading political parties in Nigeria — APC and PDP, and asked for a one - term Buhari Presidency.

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Wall Street has started to rethink its close ties with gun makers, especially since the shooting in Parkland, Fla., in February that left 17 people dead and touched off a series of protests and boycotts against companies linked to the firearms industry.

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.

They started to protest against the illegal alliance of police with the landlords and the factory owners.

The most recent Twitter bout started when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he would bench any players who chose to «disrespect the flag» — presumably referring to some players» recent protests against racist police brutality, which they've demonstrated by kneeling during the national anthem.

Thakur's appointment was «like a beacon of hope for those living in fear,» wrote Anto Akkara, who wrote a book about the Kandhamal events and started a petition protesting the apparent discrepancies and injustices in the case against the seven Christians who were found guilty of Saraswati's murder.

In fact, the religious view considers the secularist «mechanical materialist view of reality as too reductionist and as leaving out the «organic» and «spiritual» dimensions of human being and history and therefore as unable to renew the values of humanism and its reverence for life and the dignity of the human person in society in the name of which secularism started to protest against religious authoritarianism.

This prompted proponents to start the Allow Golden Rice tour in 2014 which was confronted by a broader Asia Farmers Network Against Golden Rice which held a conference, protest and press conference in the Philippines.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear all this talk about an» just arsenal protest» and if wenger stays he will run this club down to the ground this site is becoming comical were going threw a bad catch and you kids wan na organise a protest and think your going to change anything you lot haven't even seen your team ever finish were united did last season and all of a sudden that's it our whole club is doomed and it's the end of the world grow up u spoilt brats and lets get threw this together the whole world Is against us at the moment and you lot are with them our team need us now more then ever let's get them threw this bad patch and cheer them on and worry about wenger at the end of the season we support this club ffs start acting like it we love u arsenal COYG

We are looking like a sinking ship now but if we win couple of matches, all the AKBs will come out of holes and start their Wenger praises only to go missing during February or March when again we will be in pretty bad state.We need to keep protesting against Wenger and Board no matter what happens in next few matches.

Everyone in the world knows Arsenal fans have dealt with a lot of things, from selling our best players, to missing out on top players and so on... But we are not known for turning against the club, that's why when the protest started i was happy and surprised and was praying we see changes.

thank bro, we should be united, if many supporters start to protest against the Wenger regime, the board will fell comply to act either by sacking him or putting pressure on him to make a real good work.Honnestly i don t think he s doing a good job right now since some time now.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Here's an angle that just occurred to me about today's widespread online protests against the «Stop Online Piracy Act»: normally we talk about digital activism being HOSTED on the internet, but this is a great example of what happens when the companies behind the internet start to DRIVE protest.

Actually, the events in December and January were preceded by a spontaneous campaign against government repression in May of 2010, in which people reacted to an opposition leader's attempt to start a protest march by posting supportive photographs on Facebook, a development that Nour believes emboldened cyberactivists.

Linda Grant, author of the Booker - shortlisted novel The Clothes on Their Backs, said she was organising a protest against the rule while Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, said he had started a mission to get «every writer in the UK publicly opposed to this by tea time».

Hundreds of Hausa have started arriving Washington D.C. to stage a counter protest in support of President Muhammadu Buhari during a meeting with President Donald Trump, at the same time Igbo activists would be rallying against the 75 - year old Nigerian leader.

«Take Back The Night» started in 1976 in Brussels, Belgium as a candlelight protest against worldwide sexual violence against women.

Initially, Isa started refusing to eat because the food provided in detention was not suitable for his medical conditions but now it has widened into a general protest against the conditions of his detention and the way he has been treated as a detainee.

What started as an environmentalist protest against plans to replace Taksim Gezi Park developed into wider anti-government demonstrations.

It started as a scrappy grass - roots protest movement against Trump, but now the so - called resistance is attracting six - and seven - figure checks from major liberal donors, posing an insurgent challenge to some of the left's most venerable institutions — and the Democratic Party itself.

That is when I decided to put the cryptanalysis plot into the context of what was happening in my country of birth, Bolivia, when I started to write the novel five years ago: the social unrest brought about by the crisis of neoliberalism and the protests against globalization.

Surely Syria's war started when protests against Bashar al - Assad's dictatorship were met with state violence: it grew out of the Arab spring, not western intervention.

Activists have started petitions and held a public protest against Ebell's role, and on Monday afternoon, the Sierra Club and several other groups were planning to project giant messages across the front of EPA headquarters.

Started in 1973 as a protest against the commercialization of Christmas, our focus is on encouraging celebrations that reflect conscientious ways of living.»

``... I remember thinking how ironic it was when Greenpeace started using gasoline - powered boats to block oil tankers, or when people drove to protests against oil drilling...» - Interior Secretary and former petroleum engineer Sally Jewell

The Slow Food movement started in Italy in 1986 as a protest against the fast food culture and the loss of appreciation for local foods.