Sentences with phrase «turned against communities»

But city Democrats today argued that the real «rigging» in the works are voter identification and voter intimidation efforts they claimed the GOP has turned against communities of color, the poor and college students.

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You have lost all credibility and have turned 99 % of the crypto community against you.

If anyone thought the black community turned out at the polls for Obama watch the Gay community turn out this time against all of these Republicans.

«Only global pressure on governments, employers and communities can begin to turn the tide against exploitative child labor.

I had to quit the last community I oversaw when I realized the tide had turned against this.

To watch so many communities disintegrate and splinter and turn on one another or rage against everyone else, it just feels hopeful to see a beautiful community come together for the sake of each other.

Before turning to a brief consideration of some of the forms taken by the community to express its spiritual and intellectual yearnings — those adopted by the Mu «tazilites, Shi`ites, and Sufis — we should stop to remind ourselves of the background against which these developments took place.

You point out a few issues with the Ox — he just turned 23 last month, and when you think about moments like his goal against Chelsea in the community shield, or his brace against Palace in 2014, you see he has huge potential.

Arsenal will play Benfica tomorrow and then Sevilla on Sunday before turning their attention to the FA Community Shield final against Chelsea a week later.

Protecting a nine - game unbeaten run that stretches back to their Community Shield triumph over Manchester City is one massive incentive for the players who do turn out on Tuesday, while there's also the small matter of surging to the top of Group C. Only a two - goal margin will suffice if United wish to take command of an incredibly weak group, and they may well achieve that goal against a team more renowned for their goalscoring exploits back home than for their staunch defending.

His mother and fathers gift was even more horrible It included a wagon wheel with Rawhide straps set up in the front yard with the sign that that evening the community needed to come see the uppity slave get publicly whipped for his defiance There was also a 2000 dollar cleanup needed His mother was Taken was crying that she had given birth to him 45 years before had we turned him so much against us he would be this petty about it.

I am a MFM and I must say that I am realizing everyday that the obstetric community, inspite of the lowest maternal and infant mortality rates in years, is losing the battle against untrained practitioners who are making a business and a mockery out of many susceptible clueless first time moms... unfortunately a lot of babies will have to suffer / die before things turn around.

Paradoxically, their dependence on their wider community for general security means they can not turn to the South African police when members of their own community commit acts of SGBV against them.

In a poor community like this one, with a record of low turn - out — that was enough to win the election — the question is will his tactics work if he's running against someone who's well organized and not under indictment?

Abe, who spoke at a rally in Bodo community, Gokana LGA, said the Kpopie - Bodo road the governor said he flagged off was a farce intended to deceive the Ogoni people and turn them against him in the legislative re-run election.

The revenge attacks that followed in which 11 members of the Hausa communities were killed are part of the agenda of the bandits and their sponsors to turn Nigerians against one another.

Inner London on the deprived fringe of Fulham and Kensington, where upmarket bars turn into fruit and veg stalls and the old west end communities rub up against the Asian and Caribbean immigrant families who frequent the street markets and halal butchers.

«I am encouraged by the large number of my fellow Westchester residents who turned out and spoke out against the horrific incidents of gun violence that is plaguing our communities, Legislator Williams tells BW.

«Since the emergence of the administration of President Buhari, Forex Trading has been illegally turned to an exclusive business of the friends and family of those in power as against the principle of banking which allows for professionalism in trading and ensuring circulation to the business community for import and export of goods and services that will have direct positive impact on the economy and the people, the statement said.

Chin added, «Today, I join Manhattan Borough President Brewer to renew our demand that our city provide the Two Bridges community a real opportunity to shape the future of their neighborhood... In order to turn the tide against out - of - control overdevelopment across our city, we need to act decisively and close loopholes that would allow for the construction of out - of - scale luxury towers without a robust and transparent public review.

«It is critical that you stand for the people and not against the people, show an investment in our communities by expanding a tax that has been on the books and has still not turned away businesses or millionaires from living in NYS.

In late 2014, Grindr responded to security researchers who pointed out that risk by offering an option to turn off the app's distance - measuring feature, and disabling it by default in countries known to have «a history of violence against the gay community».

Stirring murder mystery, love story and psychodrama into a mesmerizing slurry, Mr. Pearce turns his native island of Jersey into a sunlit trap where Moll chafes against her domineering mother (an icy Geraldine James) and conservative community.

It isn't difficult to fine the familiar vein that runs throughout Wright's Cornetto Trilogy, the idea of a community turning against a small group who must find a way to survive.

What keeps the movie from becoming nihilistic are its moments of kindness: Logan caring for an ill Xavier, a family standing up to shelter their guests from the authorities, Laura and her young mutant peers fighting back against their abusers and working together to turn a comic book fantasy into a real community.

Michael Glatze didn't turn against the gay community in a vacuum, and there's a much stronger telling of this story that recognizes that the people around him and those impacted by him were just as interesting as he was, maybe even more.

Stopping terrorism requires that we look closely at our own feelings as they turn from sadness and fear to the desire to lash out — against our own communities and those in Afghanistan.

Pick your reason to not partake: The total lack of research behind this assessment so there is no reliability or validity to it what so ever, they are using our kids to norm reference their assessment, for free, the subjectively set cut scores done by vote, not science, that have been set to intentionally fail 60 - 70 % of our students and their teachers which in turn allows for a whole other set of things to happen to schools and communities, the pending lawsuit against SBAC in Missouri where a judge issued a restraining order against the state from making payments, that we now also have to pay to them (where is that MOU?)

I was stunned that my public school community would turn against a model of schooling that was answer for so many children and parents who had nowhere else to turn.

Anderson has turned Scroggins» action into an opportunity to speak out against banned books, telling readers what they can do if books are challenged in their communities.

Many veterans say they are ready to fight if the government doesn't live up to its promise, including on the hustings, as happened when the community turned against the Conservatives in the last election.

The community who once supported and loved GSC Game World, started to turn against the company.

This tactical turn - based puzzle game pits The Mushroom Kingdom and its community against a horde of angry Rabbids invading this peaceful territory.

Then as our community moves progressively forward, we can all still be relieved to know that Miami is still on its way to transcending its past as just another dumbed down tourist destination — promoting that less thoughtful decaying visual aroma that we still get a whiff of now and then... that kind of old Miami putrid commercialized smell that turned so many despondent and sour and caused the international arts communities to view Miami's indifference to an international discourse as but a memory, constantly recuperating the South Florida pastiche... a past that if you need reminding of you need only take a trip to Key West to know what kind of image Miami is still fighting against — the land built on coral and swamp, but filled with cheap and shallow tawdriness, like acid in your contemporary, progressive face, eyes of mundane kitschy campiness saddening and maddening, dumbed down affection that solicits and sells itself to another kind of cultural neanderthal — the accidental drunken tourist who seeks passive mediocrity and the same in other kindred spirits -LSB-.]

This does not seem to be a central critique of Joe and Stefan against our piece, but I outline this issue here because there is a falseness in the way the whole climate science community has posed the goal - setting and crank - turning debate.

This could backfire against the whole climate science community if the forecast turns out to be wrong.

Having fought industrial wind development for years in my community, I have come to understand that only a grassroots rebellion, led by rural environmentalists against the wealthy, powerful, special - interest, urban fake - environmentalists will be able to turn the tide.

Our work collectively as part of the U.S. People's Delegation is aimed at amplifying the urgency of climate action, holding accountable elected officials who have said they will step up against the Trump Administration to ensure they turn their words into action, and sharing our stories and solutions from diverse communities.

In what turned out to be a whirlwind year, our activities ranged from bursting the gigantic balloon of 13 gigatonnes CO2 - equivalent of «hot air», to achieving a major victory against coal power projects in the CDM, to helping local communities negatively affected by CDM projects to be heard at international level.

In some cases their families turn against them, and in others the rest of the community will distance themselves from the complainant.

That decision inspired the bitcoin community to erupt in a somewhat violent display of solidarity against the company's products, and led to accusations that Apple had abandoned its principles by turning its back on innovation.

It undermines the strength we can, as communities and individuals, draw from our cultural identities and turns them into weapons to use against each other on the battleground.

-- A lack of affordable housing leads to a lack of an available nearby workforce to attract employers, which in turn works against the planning objectives to have a balance of jobs and housing within a community.