Sentences with phrase «which is a riot»

There is a four minute gag reel, which is a riot.

He even calls it that which is a riot.

Not exact matches

She campaigned loudly for Thomas Mulcair's federal NDP (doing so at the aforementioned Calgary luncheon, which is roughly equivalent to dining at Vladimir Putin's house and telling him how much you love Pussy Riot).

In last year's, The Economist noted that the ranking had been conducted before the city's downtown riot, which it said was likely to cause the city to «head downward in subsequent iterations.»

Major players: Riot Games, which was Inc.'s company of the year in 2016, is one of the biggest names in eSports.

«We were taught how to do forced cell extractions,» said Turner, now 43, referring to a procedure in which guards in riot gear restrain and remove a combative detainee from his cell.

Johnson was heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915, a reign that included his knockout in 1910 of the so - called Great White Hope, former champion James J. Jeffries, which prompted race riots in dozens of U.S. cities.

The company, which is owned by Chinese social networking giant Tencent, has stayed mum on revenue it gets from its sole videogame title, various reports suggest that Riot Games easily pulls in more than $ 1 billion per year.

For instance, rather than get upset when the yard was locked down because of riot or fight, which caused me to miss my workout, I chose to work out in my cell instead.

The companies who stage events like China's 2017 Riot Championships, which posted more than 32 million viewers, have been able to compel customers to actually pay to view content, and even tip players, with the right streaming and payment technologies.

There has been much discussion about the Riot's insider stock sales and long - term viability, which is well - warranted.

It's worth noting that Riot Blockchain (like Longfin) is listed on the Nasdaq, which might be part of the reason for the SEC's added scrutiny.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

IMF riots break out, the government falls and a dictatorship oriented to serve global financial institutions is installed, friendly to the capital flight which strips the economy of its resources all the faster.

Then there's my personal favorite, Riot Blockchain, which changed it's name and its business entirely from biotech to digital currencies.

Modi was widely criticized for the role he played in riots in the state in 2002, which led to the deaths of more than a thousand people, most of them Muslim.

In an attempt to calm the passions of «Black Tuesday,» as the riot came to be known, the government last July replaced the makeshift grave with a marble sarcophagus, even as it declared that it would uphold the new constitution» which guarantees the equality of all religions before the law.

Possibly, Jesus's execution prevented mass rioting amongst the populace of Jerusalem, swollen due to the festival of rebellion that is Passover, which would have resulted in many dead Jews.

Inter-communal riots were very much in the picture and threatening the unity of India based on common humanity which was fundamental to secular nationalism.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Recently, a friend who is black shared an insight with me about people who riot (which, by the way, is not something unique to people of color).

In the aftermath of the riots, Mr Cameron's own party was urging him to return to the family policies on which he campaigned in the 2010general election.

All told, jail might be a safer place for Nakoula — his film, which sparked violent riots across the globe, has warranted several violent threats...

Earlier this year, the Tulsa Race Riot Commission recommended that reparations be paid to the survivors of the 1921 race riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were kilRiot Commission recommended that reparations be paid to the survivors of the 1921 race riot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were kilriot in that city, in which as many as 300 African - Americans were killed.

In fact, violent attacks on Jews were one of the most salient characteristics of the 1936 riots, which played a role in stopping Jewish immigration into Palestine during the Holocaust.

Television, in particular, was found to have presented violence in simplistic terms — depicting «a visual three - way alignment of Negroes, white bystanders, and public officials or enforcement agents,» which tended to create the impression that the riots were predominantly racial confrontations between blacks and whites, while factors such as economic and political frustration were pushed into the background.

I interpreted it solely as a divine command... I seized (the book I had been reading], opened it and in silence read the first passage on which my eyes lit: «Not in riots and drunken parties, not in eroticism and indecencies, not in strife and rivalry, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh in its lusts» (Rom.

From pagan writers of the early second century A.D. it can be gleaned that Christianity had spread from Judaea to Rome, possibly before A.D. 50, (Suetonius, in his Life of Clandius, says that Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome for continual rioting «at the instigation of Chrestus», a phrase which has been variously interpreted, but may refer to trouble between Jews and Christians.)

He told the mayor and police commissioner that what was needed was «an honest soul - searching analysis and evaluation of the environmental causes which have spawned the riots.»

Over subsequent centuries there were many other incidents in which Christian mobs murdered Jews, e.g., the 1506 Easter Slaughter of Jews in Lisbon, Portugal, the 1613 - 1614 Fettmilch Uprising in Frankfurt, Germany, the Hep - Hep riots in Germany in 1819, etc..

And it is our culture's affirmation of an absentee God the Father which is a key cause of the absentee fathers which the Institute for Public Policy Research's riot report recently highlighted.

Since the Stonewall riots, the gay rights movement has continued to gain influence, and homosexuality is increasingly a public issue to which you must have an answer.

The reasons for that decay are obscure, but seem riot to have arisen from anything inherent in the Christian faith which these peoples professed.

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.

Do you propose that the bigotry especially prevalent in the south is the reason you've had race riots in big cities all over the country like L.A. and Detroit and Miami which is not traditional «deep» south.

It could very well be argued that offending so many people is akin to deliberately trying to provoke a riot, which is illegal.

I'm not so sure about Sophia since I think Pussy Riot have found themselves (or partly so) and are now shouting truth to power (or two powers, church and state which are in a corrupt union).

Even greater mayhem might be produced if our protagonist reached instead for his Mossberg ten - shot riot gun, with which he could hardly avoid blasting everyone near him to shreds.

Such a situation can be fostered by governments which directly or indirectly aid the disaffected groups on the basis of their ethnicity in the hope that they will not rebel, riot or cause societal dislocation.

Not sure what muslim countries your talking about, but culturally most of them do have sharia law in one form or another, which is why most of them consider christians second class citizens & if they ever step out of line by offending muslims there will be rioting and murder of christian families.

There is no need to elaborate here the various features of the human scene, such as war, race - riots, family friction, crime, drugs and all the rest, which make it eminently clear that the world of men as a whole stands in need of renewal.

What I was making attempts toward elaborating upon is the ways in which socialisms are being held in check by televised séances of a conjuring manner wherein many noted hierarchies of socialist dissertations might just inflame their followers toward mass riots... this said, I can submit and admit that socialized justifications for warranted civilities become immorally the bargaining assets of the cultured races hiring ways... Maybe I am but a fruitcake...

«His Electoral Grace is not bound to teach and rule in spiritual affairs... he is bound as temporal sovereign to order things so that strife, rioting and rebellion do not arise among his subjects; even as the Emperor Constantine summoned the bishops to Nicaea since he did not wish to tolerate that dissension which Arius had stirred up.»

Liquid Riot currently cans five varieties of its beers with limited availability and periodically releases barrel - aged and specialty beers in bottles, which are available at Liquid Riot, 250 Commercial St., in Portland, Maine.

In 1962 a Washington, D.C. championship football game between predominantly black Eastern High and all - white Catholic St. John's, played before a crowd of 50,000 in D.C. Stadium, provoked a riot in which 340 people were injured and hundreds of cars damaged.

It hosted just six title fights between 1987 and»96 and seemed incapable of properly handling even lower - profile, nontitle bouts — witness the lack of sufficient security at the July»96 Riddick Bowe - Andrew Golota debacle, which ended in a riot during which 14 spectators were injured.

Fans are already ready to riot which could soon turn ugly.

Bruin coaches say that the L.A. riots of May 1992 adversely affected this year's recruiting class, only two members of which aren't from California.

In the U.S.S.R. enthusiasts are jailed regularly for «hooliganism,» a charge which in this connection usually means that the offender smashed a beer bottle over the head of the comrade sitting in front of him; but in Ethiopia, out of deference to the emperor, soccer riots don't start until Haile Selassie has left the park.

Galatasaray fans, whom had earlier caused disturbances in the local area before kick - off, threw several flares onto the pitch towards the end of the first half, when they were 2 - 0 down, which caused Italian referee Gianluca Rocchi to halt the game, with goalkeeper Fernando Muslera and captain Wesley Sneijder among those helping to restore order as riot police moved around the perimeter.