Sentences with phrase «such protest in»

Nearly 400,000 people turned out Sunday afternoon for the People's Climate March, which, true to its organizers» promise, ended up being the largest such protest in history — as well as quadruple the size they were expecting.

The detainee protest was a continuation of a Movement for Justice demonstration outside the centre earlier on Saturday — the third such protest in recent months.

The» 77th minute walkout», the first such protest in the club's history, saw more than 10,000 supporters leave Anfield during the 2 - 2 draw with Sunderland on February 6th as a result of planned ticket price increases which included a # 77 ticket and the first # 1,000 - a-year season ticket.

Not exact matches

A South African company, Unlimited IT, recently tried such a stunt to protest slow broadband speeds in the country.

Kurds in other countries around the world, such as Lebanon and Germany, are also protesting Turkey's operations in Afrin.

It could then take small steps to strike back, such as limiting financing for programs through the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. (Though, it's worth noting that the U.S. had already suspended OPIC operations in China as part of sanctions following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.)

The online protests highlighted how the biggest tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, have taken a back seat in the debate.

«Flash activism,» the label I prefer for online protest forms such as online petition, can be effective at influencing targets in specific circumstances.

But the online protests also highlighted how the biggest tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, have taken a back seat in the debate about protecting net neutrality, rules that prohibit internet service providers such as AT&T and Comcast from blocking or slowing sites or for charging people or companies for faster speeds of particular sites.

Although many journalists cheered the decision by Time and the AP to boycott the briefing, others wondered why no one had thought to protest in a similar way when Trump blocked news outlets such as Mother Jones and the Huffington Post from his campaign prior to the election.

Businesses, such as UBM, WPP and drugs firm Shire, moved to Dublin in 2008 in protest at UK tax rules on overseas profits

Protest will flare up again, reopening old wounds in Nebraska and elsewhere, but the current commander - in - chief has said that he has little time for such things or sympathy for those who care about them.

Marketers such as Verizon and Procter & Gamble boycotted the platform in protest.

Such as God told Noah that that no more flooding would occur following this one, hence global warming is a hoax, and this came from a political leader not a marginal preacher in Florida looking for its 15 minutes of fame on TV with his proposed koran burning protest.

Yeah, Henry Rollins might provide a workable way (for sophomoric liberals) to protest LAPD heavy - handedness in the early 1980s, and other minor Western maladies, and maybe punk music really could strengthen your spine in the aughties if you're an alienated Egyptian liberal youth under the boot of Mubarak, but no, the example of Rollins and such sure can't find help you navigate your way to political effectiveness between the Egyptian military on one hand and popular Islamist groups on the other.

In protest against such callous parental neglect, the girl goes straight for the symbolic source of her abandonment, secretly draining the family liquor bottles.

On the occasion of his being called to succeed the venerable Doctor Ludemann in the chair of systematic theology in Bern, such a storm of protest arose from an articulate group of Bernese churchmen as would have dismayed the doughtiest.

Yet the protest is ultimately one against any notion of a moral order, that there is an established way of being which demands a change in my behaviour, and that without such a change I am somehow less than I should be, that I ambecoming less than what I am made to be.

It is extraordinary that such a fundamental insight, one which also fits in with the modern insights concerning ecology, should provoke so much protest as it did.

-- This institution will make every effort to battle such reprehensible fundamentalist violence to ensure that such horrors are not repeated anywhere (even if that means Muslims volunteering — NOT protesting — to be ethnically profiled, as terrible as that would normally be in times of peace, at airports, to help catch the murderers).

Of course, if we are Just quite comfortable we protest against such pessimistic out - look which wants to take away our joy in life (which is quite untrue); when we are vigorous in body and soul we refuse to believe that this will not last for ever.

The Anglo - Catholics are not alone in this by any means, but their cause was greatly discounted by such an unreasonable protest, which looked as if it was the last chance, coming at the close of the conference, and they wanted to make use of that chance.

Christians should mourn Matthew Snyder's death and honor such servants of God in the military, not gloat over their deaths as Fred Phelps did in his reprehensible protest.

In such cases, we may grumble and protest and promise to vote against the perpetrators next election day, but we do not feel that we have become victims of an outrage.

Likewise, if one is silent about political prisoners in Vietnam while protesting such prisoners in South Korea, one does not really care about human rights.

Theologians who have quite properly protested against the notion that God was such that he needed to be made friendly and available to his creatures by reason of some event (in this case the death of Christ) which opened up for him this possibility, have failed to see that in this inadequate and often misleading way of speaking, there was an insight of which they should have taken due account.

It does indeed: Whitehead is very much the Anglican who has a duty to «the State» or «the nation» which in time of danger such as war leads him to condemn Russell's «heedlessness» in protesting injustice to conscientious objectors.

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

«70 Acting on this belief, Wallis led his Sojourners community in over forty public actions during the first six months of 1977, protesting such issues as the use of torture, the proliferation of nuclear armaments, and the government's repressive housing policies.

He protested about the fashion in which those who proclaim the gospel often spend most of their time in stimulating an artificial sense of utter failure and sinfulness, so that then those preachers could declare that after all God still cares for such miserable wretches as he has induced his hearers to think themselves to be.

In the case of a specifically religious group such conflicts are particularly frequent as their very emergence may represent a protest against certain political, economic, or moral conditions.

Such gluttony has resulted in a protest movement that seeks salvation in whole foods and free - range meats.

And if in certain circumstances such a right is denied him, this is by no means necessarily an attack on his freedom, even though he may protest.

I support the laws that now exist in 40 states placing restrictions on such protests anywhere near funerals.

They may tell us that in dealing with such phenomena as «religiosity» or «humanism» it is irrelevant and out of order to inquire about the «something» that lies behind them, and thereby protest against the conclusion that the only answer to all ultimate questions is the Nihil.

Its dominantly pacifist position forces on it the character of a protest movement, encouraging individual action in withdrawing from «destructive work»; but it has given some attention to constructive alternatives, such as research in agriculture and small industries or technical assistance openings in under - developed countries.

he Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt this week urged its followers to protest after Friday prayers - the first time in the latest wave of unrest the group has made such a call.

But far more troublesome to me is the fact that many Christians are passionately protesting the building of Islamic community centers in New York and Mufreesboro on the basis that such centers are «offensive» or that they «threaten the American way of life.»

Now, the Church has tried (and sometimes succeeded) in fighting these injustices — such as clergy from around the nation peacefully protesting the death of Eric Garner — yet Christians will find it increasingly difficult to remain apathetic to these cultural imperfections as more and more people walk away from a version of religion based solely on doctrine and not actions.

In reality, however — as Janet E. Smith has pointed out — any such suggestion will be met with blank stares followed by the protest, «But that would be completely different!»

but, alas, «a verse such as Isaiah 45:7 is not to be taken literally» many protest... and they thought I was a scapegoat... when, in fact, poor Lucifer gets so much unnecessary blame... what a shame.

Then, under the heat of new cultural pressures in the 1960s and beyond, most of what was substantial in such religion quickly evaporated, often almost without a trace and seldom with so much as a protest.

Such a description is sure to raise storms of protest in many sectors of American Christianity today.

Protesting the widespread depictions in the public arena of Chávez as Christ only deepens the poor's suspicions that such allegations are true.

Still, it seemed worth voicing a few protests, even if only a debiliori: that the biblical imagery of the redeemed state is cosmic in scope and positively teeming with fauna (lions lying down with lambs and such)-- that Paul's vision of salvation in Romans 8 is of the entirety of creation restored and glorified — things of that sort.

Under the royal patronage of Queen Jezebel, Melkart, Baal of Tyre, rose to such prominence and power that the party of Yahweh were in despair and Elijah towered up in protest.

Commitment to such already - realized values is idolatry, and against such idolatry we must ever protest in the name of commitment to the creative event itself.

When a third, unidentified onlooker also protested such treatment, he was ordered to join the others in martyrdom that day.

So what Whitehead is essentially protesting against is the bifurcation of nature into two systems of reality, which, insofar as they are real are real in different senses — one reality would be entities such as electrons which are the entities of speculative physics; the other reality would be what is given us in actual sense - awareness.

Our protest should be at the point where such religions anchor people in their immaturity.