Sentences with phrase «with political protest»

Her legacy lies in creating work that skillfully balances figurative expression with political protest.

Not exact matches

Political instability in Spain continued with hundreds of thousands of protesters gathering in Catalonia's capital Barcelona over the weekend to protest against a resurgent independence movement that has been gathering steam in recent days.

The current scandal may be the country's worst yet, with Prime Minister Najib Razak facing increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing last month to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

Malaysia's shares and currency have been hit with a toxic brew of declines in the prices of its commodity exports, especially palm oil and crude oil, as well as what may be the country's worst - ever political scandal, which has spurred protests calling for the removal of the prime minister from power.

Cook called for unity among Apple workers regardless of their political views, and came out against remarks Trump made during a Tuesday press conference equating far - right hate groups with the people protesting them.

In a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anyway.

Due to a lack of traditional organized conservative political opposition outside the PC Party, it has been an odd and sometimes humorous sight to watch rookie Wildrose MLA's stand side - by - side with New Democratic Party MLAs at protest rallies over the course of the summer.

Going back to the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, Berkeley has been a city with a strong social and civic identity and today is still frequently the site of protests and marches.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Fuel - starved Nepal has signed an agreement with China to import gasoline, diesel and cooking gas, effectively ending a monopoly on supply from India, which has restricted fuel convoys as a result of political protests in the Himalayan nation.

Such as God told Noah that that no more flooding would occur following this one, hence global warming is a hoax, and this came from a political leader not a marginal preacher in Florida looking for its 15 minutes of fame on TV with his proposed koran burning protest.

Contrary to Castro's protests, most of the early attention of the Assembly was political, with the major focus being on the war in the Persian Gulf — which was at its height in mid-February as the Assembly met.

Nostalgia for the old, monuments of spiritual aspiration, the worldwide revival of ancient religious forms, the power of orgiastic political movements of destruction, and the protest impulse that has driven artistic expression for more that a century all testify to the profound ambivalence with which the success of instrumental rationality has been greeted.»

A number of my fellow rock - bohemians hungered to get «our 60s,» our movement that would unite our generation with purpose — it was feeling I felt throughout my 80s teenage - dom, but I became disturbed at the way the «political» longings were increasingly so content - empty, not seriously seeking any overall account of things, and thus seeming ready to embrace any ol' something to be against that would serve as an excuse to protest.

If these nasty bombastic Christians that protest funerals and wrap their lives around political candidates as a savior actually read the Bible they would see they are not in line with God's will.

Their discomfort with cultural issues is reflected in their protests that matters such as partial - birth abortion, school prayer, or same - sex marriage are not proper items for political debate; they are rather «wedge issues» that conservatives illegitimately bring into the public arena in order to divide the nation (read: in order to cost Democrats votes).

Moreover, the linkage of supposedly idealistic protest with violence and aggression is also very much a part our modern Western political aesthetic.

I think in a lot of ways people who are doing protests, they get the media attention, they drive the political will, but then it also takes people who are going to come up with policy ideas.

Love poetry, woven with folksongs of political protest, forms some of the most poignanat music heard in Latin America today.

Political theologies and theologies of social activism, coinciding as they did with the protest movements of the past decade, sought to secure a transcendent reference point for a minority cadre confronting the status quo.

They had reacted fearfully or even gleefully to the news of Martin Luther King's assassination, they are unsympathetic with student protests, and they do not want the church to become involved with the social or political issues of our society.

Whilst I am a regular participant in political protests and demonstrations — I believe it is right to protest against something you see as being wrong, but I think people need to remember that when players are struggling with form and confidence and the team is under great pressure, then as a supporter of your team it is more appropriate to get behind the team during the match.

After months of protests, political unrest and sponsor threats, it seems Ched Evans is closing in on a return to football, with League One side Oldham Athletic 80 % likely to sign the striker, according to their owner Simon Corney.

Supporters from around the world have launched massive protests with «Wenger Out» banners appearing in all parts of the globe at music concerts, other sporting events and political rallies.

American political campaigners use the term «astroturfing» to describe campaigns that are created to look like spontaneous grassroots protests but that are in fact highly orchestrated, usually with significant financial backing.

A US citizen has the right to protest, to express their political views without being violently assaulted, that right is not subject to people agreeing with them.

Similarly, it posted the political comments or mass - media representations of the protests and asked the participants to critically engage with them, thus engaging people in a simultaneously democratic and intellectual process.

The February protests were the largest that Bulgaria has seen since the fall of communism, with more than 100,000 Bulgarian citizens mobilizing themselves against poverty, high energy bills and widespread political and social corruption.

Perhaps a new «third way» that avoids the over-simplistic definitions of right - wing capitalism and left - wing socialism is needed, because even though the aims of the protest movement would seem to be leaning towards a social - democratic, «leftist» welfare state, a significant number of protesters clearly do not wish to detach themselves from the political right, and are very much opposed to being associated with the left.

«Unfortunately, many of our elected officials seem intent on proposing legislation as a form of protest, or to win political points in a game of partisan ping pong, rather than listening to their constituents and coming up with ideas that would help to solve real problems for the people they serve,» he said.

Sliwa ended up with two tickets from a nearby NYPD officer who apparently was a fan of neither public displays of semi-impromptu displays of political protests nor Midwestern - style lasagna.

Check out the full article for more, and watch this space: we're not done with student gun protests OR with new forms of political organizing.

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

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Besides showing scheduled meetings with political over-tones, such as attending protests against President Donald Trump (R) on Jan. 19 and against the now - defunct Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, on Feb. 16, Councilmember Dromm's 2017 calendar also showed scheduled meetings with officials with special interest groups Queens Community House, on Jan. 27; the United Federation of Teachers on several occasions; and NY - CLASS, on Nov. 28.

Taking the podium, Nixon thanked the committee members for their «courage» and called the WFP, which has come under assault this week from inside and out — with two major unions leaving the fold in protest after it became clear Nixon was all but locked into the endorsement — the «political home for progressives in New York State, and a source of grassroots muscle for the movement.»

Images from the sea of citizens protesting against their Prime Minister in front of the Icelandic parliament went viral and became a sign of Iceland's invested civil society and its dissatisfaction with members of the political elite.

When the moment of crisis finally came earlier this year, with massive civilian protests first in provincial towns and then, spectacularly, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, splits emerged among the political elite over how to react and the army command waivered.

The forum was the first in a new series called the Campbell Debates, where panelists are asked to argue for or against asking rich people to pay more — a question deeply rooted in this year's presidential election, Occupy Wall Street protests and the tea party's dissatisfaction with traditional political parties.

With the local government elections set to take place within the next seven months, it is worth considering what impact the recent upsurge in protests will have on the country's political future.

In reality, the mushrooming protests have been organized similarly to the very first tea party rallies, by novice political activists (some with campaign experience) getting permits or crowdsourcing their tactics.

The register, which was used for the conduct of the 2012 general elections sparked protest from some political parties and other stakeholders who demanded for a new register claiming the current one was fraught with foreign names among others.

Within days of the announcement of Tuface's protests, sympathising groups aligning with or against the musician have sprung up with opposing views to robe the protests in a colorful political garb.

However, after the permission had been granted, a section of the student body came to see the University Management to register a protest with the reason that the SRC which is politically neutral, could not use the resources of all the students to organise a programme to favour one political party.

A fundamental shift is taking place in British politics which is seeing the «traditional» expressions of political interest - party membership and support - die out whilst a new, extra-parliamentary form of politics - campaigning, volunteering with charities, signing petitions, attending protests - continues to grow.

As far back as last winter, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was «less preoccupied with the overburdened shelter system» than with «the political threat from protests against proposed shelters» in Rockaway Beach and Elmhurst, sources told New York magazine.

With record youth unemployment feeding fears of a «lost generation» and high profile protests around cuts to education, rising fees and the cutting of EMA, finding effective mechanisms to elevate young people's voice in the political process is becoming ever more pressing.

The nearest to a Conference when we were top of the political pile in the last twenty years was 2000 after the fuel protests and in 2006 but in both cases we were only level - pegging with Labour (and in 2000 only very briefly).

«If the attendant open protests in several cases are nothing to go by, the disenchantment of a national officer of the party with the undemocratic process can not and should not be ignored by any serious political establishment.

But his presence has sparked angry protests by his critics who clashed with police outside Downing Street today as they demonstrated against President Erdogan's purge of political opponents in Turkey.

In the face of the persisting pro-Biafrans protest and the unforeseen implications of the continued agitations, the Governor of Imo State and Chairman of the APC Governors» Forum, Rochas Okorocha, is set to meet with other governors in the South - East, the leadership of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, and other stakeholders in the geo - political zone to talk and agree on how to check the activities of pro-Biafra groups in the region.