Sentences with phrase «writing protest letters»

The graver threat to Corbyn would be a repeat of the 2006 riot by MPs resigning government posts and writing protest letters which ultimately did for triple election winner Tony Blair - though the would - be insurgents lack a Gordon Brown with a great clunking fist.

Aubrey Chalmers, a member of Shackerstone Parochial Church Council, one of Rev McClean's 12 other parishes, has written a protest letter to the Bishop of Leicester, Rt Rev Tim Stevens, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby.

On the receipt of the purported new delegates list, we all made a written protest letter, including Rotimi Akeredolu SAN, transmitted our letters to the Primary Election Committee Chairman informing him of our rejection of the substituted delegates list.

«We wrote protest letters to the governor, national secretariat over the looming crisis.

They said apart from appeal already filed on the latest judgment, «the staff members are also concerned that the BoT has written a protest letter to the Inspector - General of Police against the reopening of the secretariat».

Not exact matches

Bonhoeffer wrote a strong letter of protest but never received a response.

When my family started writing letters to the editor to protest the drug sting, we were shunned by most of the white people in town.

we know how to protest here in nort London too you know we once wrote a letter to Arsen Wanger asking him to leave and another time we wrote on a A4 paper saying time for a change but I forgot it home

On Monday, the Congressional Black Caucus wrote a letter to the NFL in support of players who protest during the national anthem.

We can all boycott, write letters of protest, encourage negative publicity about any company that sponsors a club with a total anti- supporter dictatorship.

Boyer had written an open letter saying that Kaepernick has the right to protest, but that he wished to understand better where Kaepernick was coming from.

Protests and letter writing campaigns could be effective, or counter-productive, depending on their content, tone and framing.

Another source said the «lawmakers agreed to withdraw plans to write a letter of protest to the Senate against Ndume.

VanBlarcum halted the warrant checks in November after civil liberties groups wrote a letter protesting the practice and county lawmakers threatened to turn over security services at the DSS center to a private firm.

After several years of controversy and a huge public protest, it finally wrote a letter suggesting it opposed desalinization and called for further study.

Three Labour MPs — Joe Benton, Jim Dobbin and Mary Glindon — wrote an open letter protesting the plan to «redefine marriage» with Lord Anderson of Swansea in December last year.

CIFS recommends appropriate courses of action designed to alleviate such problems, including writing letters to protest human rights violations.

SAC wrote a letter of protest to Victorian Premier John Brumby and Kim Carr, the federal science minister, noting: «In our collective experience spanning decades and continents, no synchrotron director has ever been removed from office without notice.»

«Last week, Brazil's largest scientific organization wrote a letter on behalf of more than 120 scientific societies» protesting the decision, Underwood wrote.

In a 17 May letter of protest to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, researchers say that the rule as written will cause «an incalculable loss to science» by permanently making such remains unavailable, and that the rule is «contrary to both the letter and the spirit of the law.»

Complaining in particular that «unreasonable or obstructive reviews» and reliance on a limited group of reviewers led to the publication of truly original research being delayed or prevented, Professor Smith organised the writing of a letter of protest, which was signed by a group of key stem cell researchers and sent to leading journals.

In response to a request by the Weston A. Price Foundation, over 1000 people wrote letters of protest.

The unusual delay prompted two key Congressmen to write a letter of protest earlier this month to former Acting Secretary of Education Gary L. Jones.

So the students said they wanted to write a letter to Gov. Bobby Jindal protesting all the writing required in Louisiana's public schools these days.

By singling out the NAACP with multiple editorials, protests and letter - writing campaigns, the charter lobby threw cheap shots at one of our most historic civil rights organizations with the intent to rally the charter base.

From refusal and opting out to protests and organizing letter - writing campaigns, section five, «Resisting and Responding to High - Stakes Testing,» takes a look at a wide range of efforts teachers, students, and communities have employed to oppose the testing regime.

Winerip writes: «As of last night, 658 principals around the state (New York) had signed a letter — 488 of them from Long Island, where the insurrection began — protesting the use of students» test scores to evaluate teachers» and principals» performance.»

It was launched only hours after a letter, written by author Douglas Preston and signed by a number of authors calling on Amazon to resolve its dispute with Hachette and asking readers to email Amazon founder Jeff Bezos direct with their protests, went public.

To bring attention to their campaign, the groups often stage protests at pet stores, write letters to the editor in local newspapers, investigate where pet stores buy their animals and lobby local officials to consider bans.

The protest by the famous German painters has been backed by German private art gallery owners — the total of 259 members of the association of galleries and art dealers in Germany wrote an open letter to the German culture minister Monika Grütters, where they stated that the adoption of this law would «regulate art to death» and «end international art sales in Germany».

A name given to them after the group wrote an open letter to the director of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, protesting the museum's exhibition American Painting Today 1950.

In 1971, Gilliam pulled out of an exhibition of work by black artists at the Whitney Museum of American Art because, as he wrote in a letter signed by six other artists also protesting, the show represented «the worst form of tokenism without any regard for our real qualities.»

Ms. Sterne, who died in 2011 at 100, was best known during her lifetime — and to her dismay — for being the only woman in a photograph published in Life magazine in 1951 that depicted «The Irascibles,» a group of artists who had written a letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art protesting «American Painting Today — 1950,» an exhibition that neglected the burgeoning New York School.

Published after artist Parker Bright physically protested the work by standing in front of it — wearing a t - shirt with «Black Death Spectacle» written on its back — Black's letter argued that «the painting should not be acceptable to anyone who cares or pretends to care about Black people because it is not acceptable for a white person to transmute Black suffering into profit and fun, though the practice has been normalized for a long time.»

Leading figures in the British art world, from Grayson Perry to incoming Tate director Alex Farquharson, have written a letter to the Guardian protesting against the potential closure of a gallery in the West Midlands that has been a prototype for others.

She started writing letters, embarking on a journey that brought her into a series of brutal confrontations with police and assorted thugs and finally to a leading role in the protest movement that erupted in December over election fraud.

Indeed, his witness pulled many of the nation's environmental groups off the sidelines; when we got out, he and I wrote a letter to the CEOs of all those powerful green groups, and in return they wrote a letter to the president saying, «There is not an inch of daylight between our position and those of the people protesting on your lawn.»

Letter to the Editor — Welland Tribune — April 26, 2013 We've done our research, attended meetings, held rallies, written letters, staged protests and done everything possible to call attention to what a fouled up mess the Green Energy Act, is and still the Liberal government, with the help of the NDP, continues to steamroll -LSB-...]

She organized monthly Boone County meetings, and soon provided community trainings on how to read mining permits, write letters to the editor, interface with the media, and protest using nonviolent methods.

This prompted a long list of scientists to write a letter of protest to Ban Ki - moon, Secretary - General of the United Nations on the UN Climate conference in Bali.

More than 170 leading artists and figures in Britain's art world have also written an open letter protesting the relationship, calling the BP logo «a stain on the Tate's international reputation» and corporate sponsorship a means by which companies can gain «social legitimacy» to distract the public «from their impacts on human rights, the environment and the global climate.»

If there are any climate scientists, in addition to MIT's Kerry Emanuel, who are members of this organization, I'd suggest that they collaborate to write Mr. Wood a letter of protest requesting his apology for his libelous attacks on their integrity, and demand his resignation if he refuses.

A similar pattern also held in the House, where 38 Democrats wrote letters of protest.

Help us fight the cuts by signing the petition that is going around, writing a letter to your MP or participating int he «On to Ottawa Trek» protest scheduled for May 28th.

Students have now become advocates for gun control by organizing protests such as walkouts, posting feverishly on social media, writing letters to lawmakers, making banners and posters, creating donation funds that will benefit victims» families, and more.

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The Buyer protested this, and his attorney wrote a letter to the Owner stating that they believed the Contract was still in force.