Sentences with phrase «uprisings as»

These paintings, engendered equally by the 1992 LA uprisings as well as the AIDS epidemic, constitute a visceral visual experience that seems at once highly personal but also universally relevant.

A few viewed the uprisings as a heroic struggle for freedom and human rights by disenfranchised youth.

Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh, who judge this inchoate NGO uprising as presently «the only force we see that can break the global gridlock,» finish their important study with a judgment about its high stakes: «The great question of our age is whether people, acting with the spirit, energy, and urgency our collective crisis requires, can develop a democratic global consciousness rooted in authentic local communities.

This film relates how Armenia fought for freedom against Turkey in 1914 with its horribly costly uprising as told in the true story by Franz Werfel.

Not exact matches

Reserves tumbled from $ 36 billion before the uprising to around $ 17.5 billion in May this year, and foreign currency reserves have been further drained this month as Egypt returned a $ 1 billion deposit to Qatar and paid $ 720 million in fees to the Paris Club.

Once dismissed by many European authorities, he and other whistle - blowers are now being courted as the region's governments struggle to fill their coffers and to stem a populist uprising against tax evasion and corruption.

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...

Government troops firing machine guns mounted on tanks stormed a rebellious town in central Syria before dawn Tuesday as part of military operations aimed at crushing the six - month - old uprising against President Bashar Assad.

As a result, this uprising is far less centralized than Khomeini's revolt.

Rush Bimbo is going to lead a popular voter uprising to overthrow the Marxist pope and replace hime with a «true conservative» and «good» christian, such as himself.

Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the ordinary people pinched in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.

As Wael Ghonim watched the uprising in Tunisia gain steam, he polled the members of the «We Are All Khaled Said» Facebook page - named after a young Egyptian who died at the hands of police in Alexandria - to see who might come to a protest in Egypt on January 25.

Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam.

In this part, however, we only see the seeds of an uprising planted, as 16 - yearold Katniss graduates from tragic victim to symbol of national expectation.

[52] He also wrote as bishop of Lyons, where in 177, a violent uprising had taken place against the Christians, resulted in the martyrdom of almost fifty Christian men and women.

Antagonism against the USA is further perpetrated by the leadership of the USA in Gulf War, military involvement in Somalia [both Muslim nations], and, as mentioned above, the continued economic blockade against Iraq and support and supply of weapons to the Israeli army (which has been used predominantly against the «intifada» [uprising] of the Palestinian youth beginning in 1987).

He remembered the Peasants» War: «I will surely hold my pen in check and keep silent and not intervene as I did in the last uprising.

Rather than looking at the uprising there as a loss because of new religious conflict, Westerners can encourage the Arabs to hold fast.

He saw himself as the leader of an uprising to rid their world of Roman Order and bring about the new order of God's kingdom on earth; the true Messiah.

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.

Writing of the French Revolution, Mosse observes: «This new politics attempted the politicization of the masses, which, for the first time in modern history, functioned as a pressure group and not just through episodic uprisings or short «lived riots.»

But a bloody turning point came in 1821 when the Greek uprising against the Ottomans brought about a rampage between Eastern Orthodox Christians (whom the Protestant missionaries disliked as much they did Roman Catholics) and the Turkish authorities.

Lately, the chocolate version has made an uprising: use oreos as a crust, and melt some chocolate through the quark or Greek yoghurt... mmm!

Billed as an uprising of farmers, the destruction was actually carried out by protesters trucked in overnight in a dozen jeepneys.

As for the ME in general we've come off a massive war in Iraq followed by a decade of internal wars and uprisings.

He's played a huge part in Palace's uprising, as the Eagles have now gone seven games unbeaten in the Premier League and escaped the bottom three with style.

The 57 - year - old Spanish manager, who has been a vital part of Newcastle's uprising in the recent past, was amongst the special guests for the night and had a lot of positive things to share about the club's history as well as the progress that it's making.

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.

The series of Arab uprisings collectively known as the Arab Spring is a flashpoint in history — perhaps the biggest we've seen since the collapse of the Soviet bloc 20 years ago.

The former Foreign Secretary also cited the story of how a woman during the uprising in Egypt had said that as a devout Muslim she believed in the dignity of the individual, and that also meant respecting the dignity of her neighbour who may not be a Muslim.

By the time I came to read Orwell in my teens in the late 1950s, communism had already been exposed as the God that failed by the brutality which crushed the Hungarian uprising of 1956 and Khrushchev's denouncement of the realities of Stalinism.

«The neo-conservative claim that the Egyptian uprising shows that the Iraq war cracked open democratic possibilities [doesn't] strike me as particularly convincing.»

Any political uprising which isn't democratic (which isn't including the citizens as followers) will be a result of a single person's ideology shared by several others in power.

Clearly we're not going to be spending the next few years invading every tin pot dictatorship across the globe the second they left a finger against their own people, but we've set a precedent that others will quickly leap on as a pretext: you can imagine Russia claiming it has a responsibility to protect South Ossetia if there are ructions with Georgia again, just as China will if there's a violent uprising in Tibet.

Instead what we've had is the essential sacrificing of one uprising to «save» another, as the US has all but admitted.

As a positive development of this uprising, Dr Daoudy noted the creation of a culture of resistance across all communities and religions, which may survive into the future.

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.

For some, this is also partly the reason for the uprising of far - right movements such as the Front national in France, UKIP in Great Britain and the AfD in Germany.

This piece first appeared on the site on July 5th, 2009, as the Iranian government was crushing a people's uprising.

Tools are not causes of social actions, but parts of socio - technical action, things that help us do some things, hinder others, and are integral to how we live, act, and see ourselves — this is also how I hope people will think of the role of social networking sites and other technologies in the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, not as causes, or as irrelevant, but as tools (for protesters, though sometimes also for security forces)-- in North Africa, even with a less than open internet, some of those involved in recent events certainly seemed to produce their own role as active citizens partially through the use of everyday tools and technologies.

In the summer of 2009, as she was covering the uprisings in Tehran for the New York Times, Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi received a phone call.

Hardly anyone assumes that the uprising at the Nile will become as violent and fanatic as it turned out in Persia 23 years ago.

As the popular uprising against Mubarak gained momentum, a riveting public discourse took shape in Egypt that compared the revolution of July 1952 to that of January 2011.

The play focuses on an unnamed colonised African country on the brink of an uprising to the British occupiers, as its residents abandon the use of peaceful protest in the pursuit of equality and their own identity.

As a haunting figure of a gaunt, silent African woman looms larger, Tshembe is left wrestling with his responsibilities — to his family in Europe versus his duties to his place of origin, particularly as a well - educated man capable of leading the uprisinAs a haunting figure of a gaunt, silent African woman looms larger, Tshembe is left wrestling with his responsibilities — to his family in Europe versus his duties to his place of origin, particularly as a well - educated man capable of leading the uprisinas a well - educated man capable of leading the uprising.

LILCO's ambition to rise to the lucrative status of a national broker of nuclear power fell apart due in great measure to a popular uprising among the regular folks of the Town of Riverhead, wherein the Northville — which the state and LILCO referred to as Jamesport — plant was to be built.

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.

We heard with horror that a Tunisian man burnt himself alive in protest, and then with bated breath as the uprisings spread from one man's flames to cover much of the Middle East and North Africa.

Mr Rawlings marked the 38th anniverasy of June uprising in Wa with a fiery monologue castigating the erstwhile Mahama administration, labeling it as a government of «sickening greed».

He said «as we commemorate 38 years of the June 4th uprising, may we as a nation, solemnly reflect and remind ourselves of the social and economic conditions that prevailed in our country during that era and which culminated in the June 4 incident that sparked a popular revolt against all manner of injustices in our Ghanaian society, including high levels of corruption, thievery, general indiscipline and impunity.»