Sentences with phrase «waving placards»

At Hyde Park, we park our bikes alongside a group of Christians, who are singing hymns and waving placards urging us to repent.

The Stuckists quoted her on Monday, waving placards with «It's a Fix» written on them.

To the likely relief of Republicans, there were no protestors waving placards at the entrance of the facility.

According to a press release his office sent out on Friday: «New York City tenants, housing advocates and clergy and community leaders [will be]... chanting slogans, waving placards and criticizing so - called advocacy groups as being out of touch with the needs of tenants in poor and middle class neighborhoods.»

asked State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins attendees waving placards that read «Strong Families, Strong New York.»

He was met by supporters waving placards saying «24 hours to cut fares».

Thousands of Zimbabweans had also turned up outside parliament to urge on MPs, chanting, dancing and waving placards in Africa Unity square

To prevent me from speaking, they stomped their feet in cadence and loudly sang the National Anthem of the Sandinistas, while waving placards proclaiming their solidarity with Nicaragua, as if the new society being built in Nicaragua after the overthrow of Somoza was a concrete example of what liberation theologians were hoping to accomplish.

Still, even a paternal and unpresuming Lincoln didn't appease the statute's critics, some of whom appeared at its unveiling singing «Dixie» and waving placards that read «Jefferson Davis Was Our President» and «No Honor for War Criminals.»

Braced for confrontation, a number of gays stood at the Whittenberger Auditorium entrance waving placards reading: «Gay is proud»; «Christian, Gay, Proud»; and «Stop Christian persecution of gays!»

In Africa, hundreds of protesters in Nairobi's Karura Forest waved placards and sang American protest songs.

While I can understand that the 18 - certificate content may make a strong case for this approach, I'm again concerned that Christians neither wave placards at an imagined bogeyman, nor miss the opportunity to relate to one of the major cultural stories of the day.

«Waving a placard and threatening a cyclist is an abuse of power,» said Gounardes, who is Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams» top lawyer.

Others shouted and screamed, waved placards and abused passing politicians.

Transportation activists and political opponents called for City Hall to yank state Sen. Marty Golden's parking placard after a cyclist reported Golden waved his placard and claimed to be a cop in an effort to clear the bike lane, but de Blasio has remained silent.

The teachers, many of them wearing red union T - shirts, waved placards that said: «Shame on the L.A. Times» and «We Demand Fair Reporting.»

My first impression when I hear the word feminist is to picture a makeup-less, female wearing clothing styles of the late 1960s or early 1970s, waving a placard or shouting out a slogan while marching in a parade.

Not exact matches

Five years on from his first Premier Christianity culture column, Martin Saunders asks if there's more to it than sermon illustrations and placard - waving.

In the West, Romans 7:2 is scarcely a well - known scriptural text, certainly not a reference that enthusiastic evangelists wave on placards at sports stadiums.

The reference is routinely painted on placards and waved at sporting events.

Don't know man, never heard Wenger apologize to the fans until after the Norwich game and a few placards waving.

The drama from that placard waving stuff and all the focus on the wrong talking points after the matches will still be fresh in everyone's memory.

Congressman John Faso sometimes grouses that the placard - waving rallies in front of his congressional district offices have been «orchestrated» by partisan Democrats.

State Sen. Marty Golden is accused of waving a fake police placard at a cyclist and threatening to detain him.

Asno doubt will the footage of Osborne's placard - waving opponents, quite literally shouting from the sidelines outside conference.

The Royal Anglians had to face a chanting mob waving grotesque placards accusing THEM of terrorism and child murder.

A band of placard - waving X-ers might have encouraged the candidates.

Whilst Baby Boomers waved Give Peace A Chance placards and Generation Xers philosophized about world hunger whilst watching The Breakfast Club, Millennials found themselves reared on rapid - fire Internet connections, waving handhelds, pressured to succeed academically and at work, wrapped up in a world of virtual relationships via social networking, and with little time for a real social life.

John Boorman condescends to his audience, kookily but heavy - handedly linking the personal to the political, beginning with a traffic jam during which a prominent Irish businessmen, Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson), gives a homeless man a bottle of wine and a passerby waves a newspaper around like a placard, a headline announcing «the greatest rich - poor divide in Europe» on the front page.

They want to just book their tour, jump on a plane and meet their friendly, smiling, placard - waving representative at the other end to be whisked off on the journey of their lives, staying in whichever generic 3 or 4 star hotel the tour operator has lined up for them.

And, predictably, those words made it onto placards waved last night by the anti-conceptual art, anti-Tate pressure group the Stuckists in their traditional, weary picket of the Turner prize.

From placard - waving dogs to tea parties with Kurt Schwitters, here's a selection of artworks by this year's four Turner prize nominees

Yet there is a somewhat political tone running through the work as well, with Sam Durant's pop - ish coloured light boxes, like protest placards calling for Basel fair - goers to think a little deeper about their social context, and work by legendary second - wave feminist artist Judy Chicago on show at Jessica Silverman Gallery.

Sudanese supporters of secession wave regional flags and pro-separation placards upon the arrival of Sudan's President Omar al - Beshir at Juba airport on January 4, 2010.

[14] Ekow Eshun wrote, «if scandal equated directly to success then this year's winners should probably be the Stuckists, the ragged band of artist malcontents who've turned their annual placard - waving anti-Turner protest outside the Tate into a kind of art event of their own that now generates press attention from around the world.»

But at the first Tea Party rally I attended, at the Washington Monument earlier this year, the crowd — bristling with placards about the Second Amendment's being the correction — was treated to an arm - waving speech by a caricature English peer named Lord Monckton, who led them in the edifying call - and - response: «All together.

Can an Oscar - winning playwright and a former Eastenders actor succeed where placard - waving lawyers have failed, in drawing to the public's attention the devastating impact of the legal aid cuts?