Sentences with phrase «written as a protest»

One beautiful story, that of Ruth, seems to have been written as a protest against the narrow particularistic view developed in this period, especially in its prohibition of marriages to outsiders.

Originally written as a protest song against boarding schools, the song has gone on to be adopted by protesters in apartheid South Africa and campaigners against the West Bank barrier.

Not exact matches

These days Hawken is consulting, writing, teaching, and — as in the case of the Seattle protests — marshaling the forces of antiglobalism.

As Clason writes, «That what each of us calls our «necessary expenses» will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.»

«In our experience, markets tend to over-react to political shocks, as was seen in the example of Tiananmen Square — where the Hang Seng fell 22 % in a single day, losing 37 % from its peak over the entirety of the protest period, before steadily recovering back to previous peak over the following year,» the team wrote.

As more and more companies pull their advertisements from Fox News's The Ingraham Angle in protest of a controversial tweet from the show's host Laura Ingraham, The Hill's media reporter and opinion contributor, Joe Concha, writes that if the boycott succeeds «we've entered some dangerous territory.»

«The last two weeks have been about as grim and hopeless as any of us can remember,» Lamott wrote, listing events like the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine, Palestinian children killed by rocket fire while playing football on the beach and protests against young refugees showing up at the U.S. border.»

«Their insistence that scripture contains all things necessary for salvation,» he writes, «was part of their protest against the Roman insistence on belief in dogmas like transubstantiation [and the perpetual virginity of Mary] as necessary articles of faith.

It's no surprise, then, that, as music critic and Haggard biographer David Cantwell points out, two days after «Okie» hit the top 100 charts, President Nixon delivered a speech written by Patrick Buchanan on the «silent majority» who didn't protest or yell or want free love or psychedelic drugs.

This may look like working within the community as a partner, it may look like supporting active work, it may look like participating in a big life - changing way, foster care advocacy, it may look like writing to our government, employment, opportunity, friendship, or perhaps protesting or participating, it may look like advocating for these changes and opportunities at the highest levels of government.

Pragmatism, however, at least the pragmatism of William James, actually arose as a sharp protest against the kind of thinking that Palmer calls objectivism but which was called «positivism» at the time that James was writing in the 1870s and 1880s.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a withering dissent in which he protested that he and others were not to be condescendingly treated as black victims but as individuals possessed of the dignity of being responsible for their successes and failures.

Paul Tillich enunciated the «open Christian» commitment to freedom in that «Protestant principle» which, as he wrote, «contains the divine and human protest against any absolute claim made for a relative reality, even if this claim is made by a Protestant church.

I try to consider each post and as you know after a while you get a feel of the type of fan and person who writes in offering their thoughts and I have the absolute highest regard for Jon Fox and his views as they are totally in line with my own.I sometimes FEEL the passion with how and what Jon writes.He is on record as having given up his season ticket as protest against the mismanagement and decline of our club and that to me is akin to the Ultimate Sacrifice.How frustratedhe feels is written in his posts and I would trust you could at least respect this from him.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Postscript: Chris Allison is also the individual who wrote the recent report on the G20 protest policing which the Met submitted to the Metropolitan Police Authority and which has been widely, and rightly, condemned as extremely misleading.

National Republicans have been dismissive of many of the protests, writing participants off as professional activists who have been paid off by national organizations.

They include Chi Onwurah, the former minister for culture and the digital economy, who wrote that it was «statistically interesting to say the least» that Labour's leader had made life difficult for two of the very few minority ethnic female MPs; and Pat Glass, who resigned as shadow education secretary in June two days after being appointed, in protest over Corbyn's leadership.

A written constitution would at least protect the civil rights constantly being eroded by a government who seems to view protest and action that threastens their position as the only crime worth stamping down on.

«Simply lamenting the tension or protesting attacks on the integrity of science and science education won't work,» wrote Leshner, who also serves as executive publisher of Science.

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.»

► «Frustrated scientists in Chile have taken to the streets to protest against low research spending, frail science institutions, poor career prospects — and what they see as the government's overall disregard for science,» Tania Rabesandratana wrote in another Monday ScienceInsider.

«While I understand and sympathize with the scientists who have decided to boycott science meetings in the U.S. as a protest, I am concerned that this boycott will impede the progress of science,» Ferguson writes in an email.

Basques protest in support of catalan independence as crisis in spain grows: tory whip chris pincher dressed in his bathrobe «tried to untuck the man details the time he got drunk and wrote to denmark to one woman gave a subtle hint to her dates that she's not to be messed with by brandishing an axe in her profile photo, while another will at least attract people with a keen interest in angling by lying alongside a giant fish.

In movies, gay has never truly gone mainstream, and, considering the state of our cinema, not to mention our country, at this point it never might (as Mark Harris wrote in the November / December 2016 issue of Film Comment, «they don't include gay people in their movies because they don't have to; we don't move the needle on revenue, and we rarely protest our absence»).

«She said he then grabbed her by the neck, bent her over a chair and violated her as she cried and protested,» wrote Sylvia Moreno for The Washington Post in 2004.

The screenplay, written by McQueen and Enda Walsh, has many good moments, such as the clean clothes the Brits force the Irish to wear to receive visitors (Otherwise they are naked, in protest of wearing criminals» clothes), a masturbation scene wherein one prisoner, in a cell smeared with feces, somehow feels embarrassed to waken his cellmate with the sounds of his self - pleasure, the scene of how the Brits need to powerwash the excremented cells, only to have the prisoners returned to the cells and break their cots and other furniture in protest — again inflicting almost as much brutality on themselves as the Brits do.

Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee): Lee writes, directs and stars as a delivery boy for a white - owned Brooklyn pizza joint; when he tosses a garbage can through the window to protest the murder of a brother, the screen explodes.

It is hard to see what else the administration could have done, given the failure of Congress to make corrections itself, the manifest impossibility of carrying on with the law as written, and the protest that would have come from Democrats in Congress and the army of education reformers if the administration had simply settled for waivers.

Barone is fair in his treatment of John Dewey, and he writes that progressivism's «advocates misinterpreted Dewey's ideas, as he himself protested in 1938.»

As we've written, Project School parents and students have rallied to the school's defense, turning out in force at a recent rally and forming a Facebook group protesting Ballard's decision.

Now, as teachers started standing up in union protests in Wisconsin, Diane Ravitch sat down and wrote an opinion piece for CNN's website, titled «Why America's Teachers are Enraged.»

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.»

in a novel I've written I used him as a character at a ficitonal protest march in Juarez referring to him only as «the American.»

«At certain critical junctures in American history, artists have come together to protest injustice and craft counter-narratives to the prevailing voices in government,» wrote Nancy Spector, the Guggenheim's artistic director and chief curator, characterizing the artists» posters as the latest in a long line of protest art, stretching back through the AIDS Crisis, demonstrations against the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement.

Wilke has also participated in a large number of significant group exhibitions including the forthcoming exhibition Virginia Woolf: an exhibition based on her writing, Tate St Ives (2018); Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950 - 1980, Met Breuer, New York (2017); Body Talk, Rose Art Museum, Waltham (2017); Feminist Avant - Garde of the 1970s, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2017), travelling to Stavanger Art Museum, Norway and The Brno House of Arts, Brno (2018); I Remember Not Remembering, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017); Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016, Hauser & Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles (2016); Americana: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum, Miami (2013); Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary (2013); Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012); Naked Before the Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Seattle Art Museum (2012); The Body as Protest, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2012); Ourselves, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2012); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA, New York and elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010).

It expands the history of the European avant - garde known as the Situationist International to include Congolese intellectuals, while also recounting the writing of a protest song that emerges tantalizingly as the film progresses.

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.»

The student body, in particular, has been incredibly vocal: all of us support a tuition-less model, and almost all of us support the organized protests which are occurring even as I write this.

Soon after the show opened in Beijing on September 17, six of the 55 participating artists — Antje Ehmann, Marcel Odenbach, Julian Rosefeldt, Hito Steyerl, Rosemarie Trockel, Clemens von Wedemeyer — as well as the estate of Harun Farocki, wrote to co-curator Walter Smerling in protest.

As Tàpies wrote in a 1969 essay published in Barcelona, «my first works of 1945 had something to do with street graffiti and a universe of repressed protest, clandestine yet full of life, as one could find on the walls of my country.&raquAs Tàpies wrote in a 1969 essay published in Barcelona, «my first works of 1945 had something to do with street graffiti and a universe of repressed protest, clandestine yet full of life, as one could find on the walls of my country.&raquas one could find on the walls of my country.»

For Manifest Intention we also present a dialogue between written works and «drawn» ones, diaries or notebooks from Nan Goldin to Mario Merz, traces of Giovanni Anselmo and Giulio Paolini, quotations as memories by Elisabetta Benassi, graffiti by Keith Haring and Mircea Cantor; experimental works beyond drawing from Luciano Fabro to Lara Favaretto, protests by Shirin Neshat through Farsi writing, life stories narrated across wall constellations from Nedko Solakov to Peter Friedl, or projects for works (executed or not) by Chen Zhen as well as the famous explosions of Cai Guo - Qiang.

He did not protest when Harold Rosenberg wrote that the «zip,» as the painter called his signature vertical, was an emblem of the self.

I am writing to protest the inclusion of Bubu Pateh Jallow as Review Editor... He played no role whatsoever in our chapter.

But as the ABA Journal's Carter writes, it is almost unheard of for large groups of lawyers to march in protest of anything.

Have you had an experience where you, as a teacher, have been told not to speak, draw, perform, write, sing, dance, or protest?

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.