Sentences with phrase «stunning protest against»

At the same time, he has registered a stunning protest against the system that created his debt.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters)- Marine Le Pen's far right National Front scored a stunning first victory in European Parliament elections in France on Sunday as critics of the European Union registered a continent - wide protest vote against austerity and mass unemployment.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

Strength, however, is the perfect word to describe the stunning images of Evgeny Afineevsky's Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, assembled almost entirely of blood - in - eye footage from the trenches of the massive Maidan protests against then - president Viktor Yanukovych and his government allies, who worked against the nation's EU agreement.