Sentences with phrase «under protest from»

Phillip Schmitt's grandfather moved the family's farming operation from New York's borough of Queens to the Eastern end of Long Island in 1929, under protest from his own father who couldn't believe that anyone would want to set up shop in that then - desolate region.

Years later, the group would dissolve under protests from some of the pastors of individual churches that the upper leadership was too authoritarian.

Not exact matches

Hours later, US soldiers reportedly returned to the town accompanied by FSA fighters, and the rebels who led the protest were reportedly «discharged, «likely under orders from Ankara.

Police said that due to fears of violent protest over the deadly Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip, they would bar men under the age of 50 from Jerusalem's flashpoint Al - Aqsa mosque for what are usually packed prayers on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Temporary suspensions from some of these countries occurred under Obama with little protest.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving protested the game for giving players the option to drive under the influence (intoxication affects the driving mechanics, making it harder to steer and obey traffic laws), and demanded it be barred from retail.

ANTI WALL - STREET PROTESTS ARE ALSO KNOWN UNDER ZIONIST «TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP» IN AMERICA FROM HANDS OF WHITE AMERICANS TO SO CALLED «MINORITIES» (COMMUNISM).

A federal judge on August 31 ruled that the March for Life, a secular organization that stages the annual January Roe v. Wade protest in Washington, is exempt from offering artificial contraception as required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare.

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.

Last season, for the first time fans got under his skin, and although he has stubbornly clung on to secure yet another two year extension to his contract, you can tell from his frank post season interview that the protest did affect him.

im actually looking forward to this game today... * norwich are under pressure staring down at relegation they will fight * arsenal an team are under pressure from fans media an top 4 trophy * protests

Garde has had little help in the way of reinforcements to at least try and push the club in the right direction, with owner Randy Lerner and his colleagues coming under increasing criticism from supporters with protests seen at the stadium.

The player continues to protest his innocence, and an investigation into his conviction by the Criminal Cases Review Commission is under way, but he has been met with unwavering resistance from numerous football fans, while 160,000 people signed a petition against his return.

Alonso then went down in the area under pressure from Pique after Willian had played him in, but the referee waved away Chelsea penalty appeals with Giroud booked for his furious protests.

Arsene Wenger has come under a lot of criticism in recent times from the fans following another disappointing campaign and the supporters are looking to pressurize the Frenchman to leave the Emirates Stadium at the end of the season by organizing protest marches, unfurling banners during games and even flying planes over stadiums with anti-Wenger messages.

Because of the kinds of things you talked about under the name of Fabianism, instead of democratic practices and accountability like popular participation and protests and other forms of civic or popular review, we've gone the route of professionalisation in the civil service and accountability via targets and standardisations and numbers, which enable what is often merely an appearance of accountability, and actually operate in a very different way from other more politicised forms of accountability.

Taking the podium, Nixon thanked the committee members for their «courage» and called the WFP, which has come under assault this week from inside and out — with two major unions leaving the fold in protest after it became clear Nixon was all but locked into the endorsement — the «political home for progressives in New York State, and a source of grassroots muscle for the movement.»

The photo is from a protest under the Polish presidential palace against legitimizing the Turkish president Recip...

It's puzzling then that free speech - in the shape of the right to dissent and to protest — has slipped from being under the political radar to actually disappearing.

After a light hearted beginning, question topics included his expectations concerning Kathy Hochul's separate primary, where he expects votes to come from, his «position» in the John Liu / Tony Avella senate primary, reports of pressure from Cuomo's staff and allies on Democrats to refrain from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, Teachout's comment that her qualifications include «not under federal investigation», whether Teachout is qualified to be governor, whether votes for Teachout are an anti-Cuomo protest, his encounter with Teachout at the Labor Day Parade and Tim Wu's related comment that Cuomo «failed a basic test of decency and civility».

Joe Seeman, a MoveOn organizer from Saratoga County, said the protest was aimed at defeating Buerkle in the November election and preserving the Affordable Care Act, the health care program passed under the Obama administration.

[75][76] The Iraq War was deeply unpopular in most western countries, with Western governments divided in their support [77] and under pressure from worldwide popular protests.

ALBANY, NY (01/19/2017)(readMedia)-- Dozens of community activists joined members from the New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) under a grey sky to protest the closing of the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center.

UK Uncut - the direct action group who occupied upmarket retailer Fortnum and Mason during Saturday's protest - came under criticism from Mr Cameron, who condemned their refusal to dismiss the violent scenes at the march.

It is something of a puzzle that free speech of a different hue, the right to dissent and to protest, is not simply under the radar but has almost disappeared from the political map.

«There is blood on many hands, from those who incited violence under the guise of protest all the way to the mayor's office at City Hall,» Lynch said in a statement supplied by spokesman Albert O'Leary.

However, since quitting the shadow cabinet in protest at Corbyn's leadership in July 2016, Alexander has come under pressure from pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum, including some local activists who are also members of the far left Alliance for Workers» Liberty.

The US embassies in the Egyptian capital Cairo, and elsewhere in places like Tunis, Sana'a and even consulates in Western cities, have come under sustained protests from angry mobs, some of whom have burned US flags and attempted to storm properties.

Last Friday a group of residents of the city under the aegis of Ogbomoso Parapo staged a protest asking members of staff of the institution who hail from Osun to leave.

Massive protests broke out in Hong Kong in the 1980s when China announced its plan to build the Daya Bay nuclear plant just across the border from the city, then under British rule.

In recent years protests from Native American Groups have increased, and town officials have been under increasing pressure to stop its recognition of Columbus Day.

Plans in the document to turn every state school in England into an academy by 2022 have come under fire from teaching unions and parents» groups, with ongoing protests against forced academisation planned across the country.

Newark, NJ — November 19, 2014 Around 75 members of the Newark Student Union led a walkout from Barringer High School to protest the learning conditions under the One Newark district reform plan that Gov. Chris Christie and his appointed superintendent for the district, Cami Anderson, have forced on the community.

Simone Leigh has used her agency as an artist to turn her exhibitions at various art institutions into platforms for everything from yoga classes to natural healing centers; at the New Museum this past summer, Leigh staged a protest and celebration by 100 artists assembled under the name Black Women Artists for Black Lives.

Dubbed «The Irascibles» after protesting the Metropolitan Museum's exclusion of their work from a recent survey exhibition, they were soon gathered under single label — «Abstract Expressionism» — despite their differences.

The Boston - based design practice called over, under curated the exhibition, which tells this history from multiple perspectives, using archival maps and drawings, documentary footage, protest materials, and period photography.

Following protests by the Azerbaijan president, two large - scale sculptures by Moscow - based artist Aidan Salakhova, flanking the entrance of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion, were yesterday hidden from view under pieces of cloth.

A series of dioramas mounted along a wall provide a timeline of various key moments over the past academic year, from the announcement on Halloween that implementing tuition was under consideration to the various ways the community has responded in dialogue, in protest and in art.

It was active from June, 2001, until it was demolished by the police, under new powers banning protests within one kilometre of the Palace of Westminster, in May, 2006,

Arguably his most famous piece, for which he won the 2007 Turner Prize, was a recreation of Brian Haw's one - man anti-war protest, copied from Parliament Square and displayed under the title of State Britain.

-- a performance of «art workers» theater» inspired by the PASTA / MoMA strike of 2000, art / political protests from 1969/70, and art / activism from the recent past (including some under the auspices of Occupy Wall Street)-- was presented at the Kitchen in New York in 2013.

However, B.P., under pressure from protests organised by the collective Liberate Tate, announced in March of this year that it was ending its 26 - year sponsorship of Tate in all its forms.

In 2012, the three artists, as well as Ed Ruscha, had resigned from the board in protest against the direction the museum was taking under former director Jeffrey Deitch.

Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface joined representatives of environmental justice and environmental organizations Thursday at a rally during the midday break from an Air Board hearing to protest expanding the state's cap - and - trade plan to include offset credits generated under the United Nations» Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation — REDD — program.

In countries around the world such as Indonesia, Taiwan, Philippines, England, and the U.S., organizations participating under the Break Free From Plastic global movement protested outside Starbucks stores and met with store managers to talk about the company's plastic pollution problem.

From January into April, we, like many of you, marched and protested while trying to see a way forward for carbon taxes under a denialist U.S. regime.

The House saw «no reason in law or logic why, leaving aside... the extreme cases of outright dismissal or walk - out, a contract of employment should be on any different footing from any other contract as regards the principle that «an unaccepted repudiation is a thing writ in water...»» The argument that the employee impliedly accepted the repudiation by working on under protest was rejected.

From September 2000 to March 2001 she protested to her employer 14 times about the pressure she was under.

(Online protest by surveyor wrongly convicted and struck off; surveyor won his appeal and was reinstated; online postings and correspondence claimed to be actionable harassment of RICS under Protection from Harassment Act 1997; whether ECHR Article 10 right to freedom of expression; whether need to prove «alarm and distress» from alleged harassment; whether RICS seeking an injunction had «clean hands»).

The government's plans for remote communities, which have caused great anxiety in communities and major protests across the country under the #SOSBlakAustralia banner, went yesterday from a drip - feed of information in the media and Parliament to a relative deluge.