Sentences with phrase «uprising over»

Witness the uprising over the Common Core state standards.

At an all - day meeting in Ottawa with roughly 50 practicing scientists, convened at the behest of federal Health Minister Jane Philpott to quell an uprising over CIHR grantsmaking reforms, Beaudet agreed to the introduction of a «hybrid» peer - review system.

Therefore, if the price of bread goes up five cents, they might be annoyed, but probably not ready to organize a political uprising over it.

The suit says the director and other board members sent worried e-mails about the payroll problems, with Reed directing Marshall in one message «to calm down the employees in order to avoid any uprising over the JBRC's failure to pay [them] what they have earned.»

If Jesus existed (and that is not a given since his name means «salvation,» he's probably an allegorical character), and if the stories about his visit to Jerusalem early in the reign of Pontius Pilate are true, he died because he was an anti-Roman insurgent, probably involved in a Zealot uprising over the use of the Temple treasury to finance the construction of an aqueduct.

The Arizona walkout is part of a bubbling national uprising over low teacher pay and funding.

Not exact matches

On the ninth anniversary of the opening of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie and the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, museum leaders were joined by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as they raised concerns over...

Speaking at the launch, the Home Secretary said: «Over 400 UK - linked individuals have now travelled to Syria since the uprising began.

Maybe if Islam does take over the world there will be an uprising from the oppressed bur seeing that it hasn't happened yet and that woman allow themselves to be controlled in every way, including being raped beaten and covered from head to toe and not allowed to socialize without male relatives present the question is «Will women destroy Islam from Within?»

That's the whole point... These churches are funding the uprising of the American Taliban... Give em a choice... Put up or shut up... They already stepped in puckey... Obama lawyered them... He got ten states to file suit over this contraception thing and admit that there is a Seperation of Church and State... They are trying to hide behind it now...

The earlier disillusionment gathered weight as it stretched over several decades, beginning with the purges of the 1930s and extending, at different rates among different individuals, all the way up to the crushing of the Hungarian uprising and to Khruschev's «secret speech» in the 1950s.

The Blue Jays responded emphatically to the eight - inning uprising when Jose Bautista drilled a ground - rule double over center fielder Lorenzo Cain's head to extend Toronto's lead to 3 - 0.

Given that the uprising of Arsenal supporters has been going on for over 10 years, and given that the complaints we hear on the phone ins now are the same as the ones we heard 10 years ago, and given that nothing has changed the answer must be, no this is not a very effective way of getting change at the club.

«What we have seen in Libya is that when tensions over power and resource began to emerge, they simply reinforced deep - seated ideological and ethnic fault lines in the country, meaning the hopes of the revolutionary uprisings quickly began to unravel.

Foreign secretary William Hague, who has been under pressure over his response to the Libyan uprising, insisted that the Foreign Office had not been overstretched by trying to deal with the global disaster while simultaneously managing events in the Middle East and north Africa.

As the SMC was preparing to hand over political power to an elected government after a Constituent Assembly had drafted the Third Republican Constitution, the country was hit by another military uprising on May 5, 1979 which was swiftly quelled by the authorities.

Indeed, he didn't seek to go above Pickles's head and appeal to Osborne over the climbdown, and played his part in trying to head off the backbench uprising.

The Second Intifada was a Palestinan uprising that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Palestinians, and over a thousand Israelis.

On the very day when I was planning this uprising and voting for leadership change, there was a resolution which contained over $ 2.7 million for various organizations, more than 25 that I sponsored, on my desk.

The uprisings, at this point, had spread all over the region, with Yemen, Bahrain and Syria all engaged in fully - fledged revolutions against their governments.

In the speech the leader of the June 4, 1979, uprising decried the spate of corruption that has characterised the political climate over the past few years describing it as a thousand times more than what prevailed prior to the June 4 uprising.

The leader of the June 4 1979 uprising, former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has decried the spate of corruption that has characterised the political climate over the past few years describing it as a thousand times more than what prevailed prior to the June 4 uprising.

The coalition government faces the first industrial uprising against its austerity measures today as up to 750,000 public servants strike over planned changes to their pensions.

There has been a recent grassroots uprising in Rye over the revelation of a 95,000 - square - foot fieldhouse proposed for Playland's main parking lot.

Over the next 72 hours the government shut down the country's Internet service and mobile - phone system in an attempt to squelch the rebellion — to no avail: a rich ecosystem of Facebook conversations, Twitter outbursts and chat - room plans had already unified millions of Cairo's people, who continued the relentless uprising.

Since the uprising in 2011, over 220,000 people have been killed and almost half the Syrian population have fled their homes.

A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.

Since the beginning of a popular uprising in 1989, over 70,000 Kashmiris have been killed or disappeared by Indian soldiers and policemen.

Her guilt over the deaths of her parents and a friend during an uprising, depicted in the first film, wears heavy on the divergent.

The year is 2021 and the zombie outbreak is over; all the citizens have been inoculated with the cure to prevent a new uprising of the undead.

Based on Victor Hugo's iconic literary classic, the story centers on French convict Jean Valjean (West) and his struggles to escape his past while being hunted for years over a parole violation by Inspector Javert (Oyelowo), set against the backdrop of the uprising of 1832.

In this sequel set eleven years after «The Terminator,» young John Connor (Edward Furlong), the key to civilization's victory over a future robot uprising, is the target of the shape - shifting T - 1000 (Robert Patrick), a Terminator sent from the future to kill him.

Headlines about teachers» strikes may have moved on from Kentucky and Oklahoma to Arizona and Colorado, but the uprisings these wildcat teachers started have not, according to numerous sources I've spoken with in Louisville — Kentucky's largest school district, with over 100,000 students.

It is the politest uprising, but it is giving ministers some very difficult homework over how schools in England are run and funded.

An unexpected labor uprising has gripped some conservative states over the past two months as public school teachers have staged protests and strikes over low pay and strained education budgets.

Over the centuries, many popular uprisings bitterly protested the salt monopoly, including an angry mob that took over the city of Xi'an, just north of Sichuan, in Over the centuries, many popular uprisings bitterly protested the salt monopoly, including an angry mob that took over the city of Xi'an, just north of Sichuan, in over the city of Xi'an, just north of Sichuan, in 880.

Just when they thought their nightmare was over, President Snow decides that he is going to have another round of «The Hunger Games» for the 100th year anniversary of the uprising — and the tributes will consist of past winners.

Vistas that look out over the glaciers or to the base of Torres Del Paine, a geologic uprising of three towers.

◊ Over at the smaller Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, director Jeffrey Deitch, who has had to battle an uprising among his board, earned $ 916,000.

The litany of uprisings and interventions, stretching back into the 19th century and looming over the gallery spaces below, finds counterparts in other works here.

Mr. Vidal's own chromatic text and image - based paintings, which evoke the works of historic colorists such as Henri Matisse and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, appear jubilant at first blush, but a further examination of his work reveals painted - over machetes and other munitions that Portugal forged in order to extinguish uprisings in Angola.

Over the past few months, Morales has faced an internal uprising, led by indigenous groups, and was forced to make significant concessions.

Rage at the regime's callousness boiled over in 2011, helping to fuel the popular uprising.

Think about moments like Idle No More, when an Indigenous - led uprising across Canada took over intersections and shopping malls with round dances, brought ten thousand people to Parliament Hill and forced Indigenous issues to the front and centre of Canadian politics.

At Google's annual shareholder meeting today, the company faced an uprising from stakeholder groups and shareholders over its membership in and financial support for lobbying groups that include some of the biggest opponents to climate change and renewable energy on offer in Washington, DC, a town which boasts quite a collection.

We know there is evidence that the violence triggered by the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were in part fuelled by protests over soaring food prices.

This is Christiania, or Freetown, the 84 - acre former military barracks taken over by residents of Copenhagen during an uprising in 1971.

The truth is that while protests, civil uprisings, terrorist attacks, and any number of violence or danger may be occurring in one portion of a country and not all over the country.

War, hostilities or warlike operations (whether war be declared or not), Invasion, Act of an enemy foreign to the nationality of the Insured Person or the country in, or over, which the act occurs, Civil war, Riot, Rebellion, Insurrection, Revolution, Overthrow of the legally constituted government, Civil commotion assuming the proportions of, or amounting to, an uprising, Military or usurped power, Explosions of war weapons, Utilization of Nuclear, Chemical or Biological weapons of mass destruction howsoever these may be distributed or combined, Murder or Assault subsequently proved beyond reasonable doubt to have been the act of agents of a state foreign to the nationality of the Insured Person whether war be declared with that state or not.

This is likely in reference to U.S. - led sanctions on the country over human rights violations during a popular uprising in 2014.