Sentences with phrase «uprising against»

We need an ethical uprising against the misuse of our personal information and we need both politicians and business leaders to pressure Facebook into being a good ally for democracy.

The online uprising against the government's plans puts President Moon Jae - in a tough spot, and his office was quick to say a ban is just one proposal under consideration.

The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against «big government» led to the rise of a broad - based conservative movement.

This morning President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, capping a seven - year uprising against the project, which would have carried 800,000 barrels of extreme oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast every day.

An essay by Sarah Johnstone and Jeffrey Mazo entitled, Global Warming and Arab Spring, draws a convincing line that the pressure on food prices was a contributor to the start of the revolutions of the Arab Spring — the tumultuous uprising against many Arab governments.

As she began finishing her renovations, the Syrian uprising against President Bashar al - Assad began to grow, driving a number of her Syrian artist friends into exile.

We have yet to experience an uprising against artist residencies without stipends, academic - art positions that require constant instability or relocation, or exhibition venues that are far from

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Malevich spent his childhood living in rural villages across Ukraine where he found a love of peasant art and embroidery.

Diverse works in a labyrinth of galleries move through the pomp and circumstance of the Communist, Roman Catholic and Modernist beliefs; Polish Christmas traditions; and the Solidarity movement, with a closing reference to the 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Germans.

It is the motivation behind the disorienting flip at the beginning of Real Violence, but also its Hanukkah prayer, which sparked postulations such as the following from Alexandra Schwartz's review in The New Yorker: «Hanukkah is a holiday that celebrates the success of an uprising against an oppressor; maybe this was an Inglorious Basterds scenario, an act of vengeance for atrocities committed by the man laid low.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Kazimir Malevich spent his childhood living in villages across Ukraine, where he developed a love of peasant art and embroidery.

An Assassin initiate who is working his way up to the rank of Master Assassin in the midst of France's uprising against the monarchy.

A very unique and exciting plot in which the protagonist plays a vital role in what is essentially a rebellious uprising against a future England ruled by oppressive rulers.

Take a look behind the scenes of the Sonic X Tempest freerunning event, where gaming YouTubers and parkour experts joined the uprising against Dr Eggman and going through some physical challenges.

More than 200 years ago, the Garifuna people were exiled from their Caribbean home after an uprising against the British.

In 1848 while the Mayan Indians were rebelling and uprising against the Spaniards in the nearby Yucatan, refugees of the conflict fled to the northernmost part of Belize and established Corozal Town.

The narrative becomes more detailed, suspenseful and upsetting as Talty describes the days prior to the Dalai Lama's frightening escape during the 1959 uprising against Chinese occupation forces.

Written as an oral history of a robot uprising against humans, the book was heavily promoted at BEA in 2011 and landed on the NYT best seller list at # 13 for one week.

The one positive aspect of Duncan's legacy is that his policies have sparked the largest uprising against high - stakes testing in U.S. history.

This ongoing education spring has now produced the largest uprising against high - stakes testing in U.S. history, highlighted by the 60,000 students who were opted out in New York State alone.

In the past two weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math exams.

Undoubtedly, the uprising against Common Core (often referred to as «the Core) in the country has not gone unnoticed by President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

We are in the midst of the largest uprising against high - stakes testing in US history and I am thrilled to announce that the forthcoming book that I edited and contributed to, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High - Stakes, is now available for pre-order.

Continue reading FairTest's «Testing Reform Victories 2015» Report: The uprising against the testocracy takes off!

The first article, Laura Flanders's «Ireland: 100 Years after the Rising,» focuses on how contemporary Irish politics are shaped by that country's 1916 uprising against British rule, and by the «Troubles» of the 1970s and»80s.

Morgan's u-turn followed an uprising against forced academisation from backbench Tory MPs who were particularly concerned about the potential impact on smaller schools in rural areas.

It's hard to know what image the title of June Kronholz's piece on Michelle Rhee — «D.C.'s Braveheart» (features, Winter 2010)-- is meant to conjure up: a hopelessly romantic quest, a quixotic uprising against corrupt power, Rhee's eventually being drawn and quartered.

Thaddeus Kosciusko, who fought as a colonel in the Revolutionary War before leading Poland's 1794 uprising against imperial Russia, makes many an appearance in the Polish press, for example.

Barry Pepper (the praying sharpshooter from Saving Private Ryan) is Jonnie, the human slave who leads an uprising against Terl's tyranny.

Free State of Jones (R for brutal battle scenes and disturbing images) Civil War saga about a white Mississippian (Matthew McConaughey) who leads fellow farmers and former slaves in an uprising against the Confederacy.

In 1955, Howard Hawks made a very good epic spectacle called Land ofthe Pharaohs that depicted a slave uprising against an evil pharaoh.William Faulkner wrote the screenplay, but later expressed hisdisappointment about the project because he «didn't know how ancientEgyptians talked.»

In 1685 England, Dr. Peter Blood (Flynn, in a role originally intended for Robert Donat) helps treat a rebel wounded in an uprising against King James II, and for his trouble gets labeled a traitor and sent to Port Royal in Jamaica to be sold into slavery.

There is a half - baked uprising against WCKD that is only tangentially related to the main characters and serves little purpose other than to paint an explosive background to what's meant to be the true emotional stakes of the movie: Thomas saving his friends.

It follows Beck (voiced by Elijah Wood), the leader of uprising against The Grid.

As previously announced, the movie is based on a forthcoming book by Daniel H. Wilson about a robot uprising against the human race.

When they do get to the topic of the movie, he has to deal with the barely concealed racism of questions about how many white people are killed in this movie about a uprising against slave owners (His response, pointing out that the anger about the depiction of killing in a movie is misguided compared to real - world killing, is spot - on).

Even the film's B - plot, where Cate Blanchett plays the Goddess of Death and Idris Elba the Asgardian warrior plotting an uprising against her, seems like an afterthought.

The city first drew militants in the uprising against Syrian president Bashar al - Assad, but in the revolution's wake, IS set up camp.

One of the most important and prominent agendas of 2017 has been the solidarity of women standing together to defend themselves, especially during the recent uprising against sexual misconduct.

Joined by an arsenal of top moviemakers — Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci — Favreau brings an all - new action thriller that will take audiences into the Old West, where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world.

Willem eventually leads an uprising against the hideous Colonel Swannell (Grant Swanby) through a high stakes game of Rugby.

The story takes place in the republic of Panem, where the United States has broken into 12 districts and, as a penalty for a failed uprising against the totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the death.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small - town physician known as «El Doctor,» shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years.

In 2029 an astronaut leads a human uprising against a military leader and his army of ruling simians.

Later still, Valjean and Cosette (now played by the doe - eyed Amanda Seyfried) have settled in Paris, where a group of dreamy, floppy - haired students are planning an uprising against the tyrannical monarchy.

As they seek justice for the fallen, their only hope is to unite together in a global uprising against the forces of extinction.

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small - town physician known as «El Doctor,» leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years.

In AD 60, Boudica led an uprising against the Romans.

The statue at Mallia may have been smashed and burned during an uprising against the Minoan elite.

Speaking on BBC1's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Mandelson urges the public to donate to Open Britain in support of Tony Blair's call for an uprising against leaving the bloc