Sentences with phrase «upheaval over»

Congregants at the United Church of Christ are struggling in the wake of the political upheaval over the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s statements and Senator Barack Obama's responses.

This sparsely settled county of mostly Hispanics and Apaches was in upheaval over a lawsuit filed by two Campaign members, Sam Hitt of Forest Guardians and John Talberth of the Forest Conservation Council.

«The profession is in upheaval over the number of vacancies,» he said of museum directorships.

As I said in the comments on that post, publishing is going through massive upheaval over not only the formats of books to be published in, but over its ongoing ability to make money in general.

However the upheaval over Zack Snyder's CGI and fetish exhibition gone wrong is dwarfed by the passing of someone who's had an overwhelming impact on this industry, Elizabeth Taylor.

Cate Blanchett is leading the jury of this year's festival, which comes as the industry is under upheaval over revelations of sexual misconduct.

As expected, they fell away towards the end but given the upheaval over the summer, he did a fantastic job.

To take only one example of this failure, why is it that our denominations seem ready to engage in this great upheaval over gay and lesbian ordination all alone, with hardly a reference to the struggles and decisions of other parts of the ecumenical church?

I kind of hope that's true because the world, thanks to all this technology, has seen dramatic upheaval over the past decade.

The exchange world has been in an upheaval over the last decade as electronic trading took over.

And the cataclysms of 9/11 and Katrina and upheavals over Guantánamo and the environment brought new lawyers into the pro bono ranks.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

As chair of the CRTC, he wields enormous influence over the regulations that govern a more than $ 100 - billion industry in the midst of unprecedented digital upheaval.

Now the desktop browser market is in upheaval, according to Statcounter's numbers; Chrome is taking over, while Firefox and Internet Explorer are shrinking.

Insurers are facing an upheaval in their health insurance businesses due to uncertainty over the healthcare legislation as Republican lawmakers seek to follow through on their promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Maxim Sytchev, managing director with AltaCorp Capital in Toronto, issued a note following the raid observing that SNC - Lavalin has secured $ 2.1 billion in new contracts over the past few months «while facing unprecedented upheaval.»

Buffett warns against panicking over political upheaval or economic headwinds.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

-- «The Trump White House is a place where turmoil never ends,» writes Dan Balz: «The upheaval is without precedent in a modern White House, and there is no assurance that it is over.

Even now dismal possibilities lie ahead — upheaval, anarchy, violence; it may be the League of Nations spoiled by opposition, apathy or treachery, and the whole world going on with this military business, using all inventive genius for destructive ends and making a worse hell of it all than the Stone Age a thousand times over.

Los Angeles Times: Growing ties between Egypt, Turkey may signal new regional order Egypt and Turkey are forging an alliance that showcases two Islamist leaders maneuvering to reshape a Middle East gripped by political upheaval and passionate battles over how deeply the Koran should penetrate public life.

Crooker asks, «Was there, then, some weakness in the Church of the 1950s that would have been vulnerable to the upheavals of the 1960s, even without the excitement and confusion over aggiornamento after the Council?»

All this confirms me in the belief that the creation and development of the earth was not all that long ago and took place not by gradual evolution over billions of years but rapidly by a succession of catastrophic upheavals.

Project Night Night donates over 25,000 Night Night Packages each year to homeless children 12 and under who need our childhood essentials to have a concrete and predictable source of security and an increased exposure to high - quality literacy materials during their time of upheaval.

What has been at issue for lawmakers and Cuomo is the governor's push to have unilateral changes over the spending plan after it is approved — a non-starter for the Senate and Assembly, but the only nod the $ 152 billion budget proposal gave to the upheaval in Washington.

AYF in a statement signed by its National President, Alhaji Gambo Ibrahim Gujungu and made available to newsmen stated that, «Following the recent upheavals that engulfed the country over the altercation between the Nigerian Army and the now illegal Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, we see it is expedient to raise some issues as as per cursor to future occurrence in the country.»

Democrats lost the majority in 2010, a wave year for the party and upheaval due to elections and corruption convictions and over the years remade the conference's leadership.

Over the weekend around 800 British citizens have been extricated from the violent upheavals of revolutionary Libya.

Over the course of several field trips to this wilderness, geologist Glassley and two colleagues went in search of evidence that the land is in fact the remnant of an ancient mountain chain and the site of tremendous geologic upheaval.

Over the past 15 years of armed conflict and social upheaval in Colombia, production of illicit narcotics crops has skyrocketed.

That was the unequivocal evidence for the hypotheses postulated by Charles Lyell in his «Principles of Geology»: mountains such as the Andes had not been formed in one colossal upheaval, but grew, barely perceptibly, over the course of millions of years, as the result of countless small quakes, to which Darwin had just been a witness.

For a world torn by conflicts over an unpopular war and other social upheavals, that photograph was a timely reminder of how inextricably united the fates of everything and everyone on Earth were.

Forest ecologist Juan Armesto of the Universidad Católica de Chile, who collaborates with Weathers, says that the country's modern coastal rain forest represents small fragments of what must have once been a contiguous forest, connected to the Amazon Basin, that changed gradually over the past 5 million to 25 million years due to the colossal upheaval that created the Andes Mountains.

Tens of thousands of smaller objects are estimated to lie out there, left over from the upheaval caused by the giant planets moving away from the Sun and settling into their current orbits.

The overcast skies and ominous clouds evoke not so much some picturesque, romantic transcendence as the polluted air of wrongdoing that looms over a people who have had to go about their daily lives through decades of political upheaval, moral corruption, and economic stagnation, crushed beneath a burden of guilt, humiliation and worn out pride.

The key to sustainable change within the teaching profession is a period of stability which allows the profession to embed practices over time, without the need to react to constant change and upheaval.»

The plan has resulted in upheaval for students and their families across the city with some schools closed, others turned over to private charter managers, and the introduction of a school choice system that has left many families with children at different schools and limited transportation options for getting their children there.

What was happening to me, of course, was taking place all over America, but that in itself was a marvel: Radio and TV were creating a mass culture, and my rebellion dovetailed with one of the great cultural upheavals in modern history.

The United States in the 1870s and»80s was deep in turmoil — a brash young nation torn by a great depression, mired in scandal and corruption, rocked by crises in government, violently conflicted over science and race, and fired up by spiritual and sexual upheavals.

It was the year of the assassination of the King, Henri IV, which lead to enormous social and political upheaval in France with repercussions all over Europe.

Due to the upheavals the publishing industry has undergone over the decades, bookstores have been under constant threat but it's no wonder why they are still around.

In fact, I often contemplate whether my strategy shouldn't be simply to remain in cash except during periods of severe economic upheaval (like the 2008/09 liquidity crisis) when funds would be invested, then slowly liquidated over the ensuing recovery.

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While Tunisia and Egypt are retuning to the tourist trail, following their own political upheavals, Bahrain has seen an increase in protests over recent days.

However many artists — with a natural propensity for constant upheaval — have whole - heartedly embraced radical changes in technology over the last sixty years.

But Arteaga says the exhibition will also introductory works from the nineteenth - century that make clear that Mexican artists» interest in muralism and indigenous culture predated the revolution — in fact, mural - making did not resume until about a decade after the upheaval — while turn - of - the - century works by Mexican artists living in Paris foreshadow the cross-cultural pollination that happened between artists in Mexico, Europe, and the U.S. over the next several decades.

Karlic's work focuses in on industry, diaspora, environmental concerns, and the effects of social upheaval, and has led her to capture imagery all over the world, including the United States, her native Poland, Ukraine, Sierra Leone, French Polynesia, and Brazil.

This under - recognized Swiss documentarian made over one hundred videos in her life, having picked up her first video camera in 1970 and using it both to assist the women's movement in France in the early»70s, but also as a tool for upheaval and confrontation, as seen in the jumpy Maso et Miso vont en bateau (1975), and reenactment — such as her staging of a reading of Valerie Solanas's S.C.U.M. Manifesto, ten years post-publication.

Over recent years, Athens has experienced cultural momentum despite being in social and economic upheaval.

In «Cadillac I», the orange ochre from a hypothetical ground occupies the superior part of the painting whereas the celestial blue occupies the inferior part; as its latest act of thumbing its nose at the visitor in search of meaning as well as a symbol of the great upheaval the artist has operated over the artistic landscape of the last fifty years.