Sentences with phrase «years white flag»

In an open letter, founder and director Matthew Strauss wrote: «For the past ten years White Flag Projects has worked to provide context and opportunities to artists at pivotal junctures in their careers, and give St. Louisans a space to engage with these exhibitions in the most direct way possible.

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His win this year could boost his endorsement value, but White might have hurt himself by dragging the U.S. flag on the ground after winning Tuesday night.

Additionally, Spotify removed several white supremacist acts that had been flagged as «hate bands» by the Southern Poverty Law Center three years ago.

(Last year, leaked internal documents indicated that part of the problem is that Facebook's algorithm protected categories like race and gender but not age or social class, so that negative discussion of «white men» would raise red flags, but a post insulting «black teens» would not.)

More surprising to me, though, was the rare public white flag waved by Bezos, one of the richest humans alive, by looking to a brick - and - mortar retailer for help; after 10 years of trying and mostly failing at making grocery delivery a workable business, this was a «We can't do this on our own» moment.

«It would have been easy to run the white flag up the pole,» says Robinson, who turns 75 this year, «but that was not God's purpose for us.»

After nearly 10 years and who knows how many millions or maybe even billions spent I kind of liked the thought of the wrapped in bacon and hanging from flag pole at White House idea.

One year after raising $ 30 million and listing on the ASX, Automotive Solutions Group has put up the white flag and surrendered.

His Stars wear flags on their uniforms, as do the members of Daniels» Denver boxing team, and his red, white and blue Indianapolis car was informally christened «The Silent Majority Special» two years ago.

Well put steven i think the winter period hurt laca first year in epl is tough on majoruty of foreign strikers bellerin has been decent but he could srengthen up and xhaka has had his oppurtunoty and not grabbed with cazorla coming back and a summer open for signings he is indee pressure now but with time i think the new signings will start to gel and with perspective to the Rticle i agree with uou there is no white flag being thrown up this article really lacked the perspective that was being asked because it jist said we lost some games without an honest reflection pf how those games went everyone has lost games this year and liverpoodlians even lost to swansea city to wigan

Only eight years removed from their team's last World Series championship, Twins fans have replaced their Homer Hankies with white flags, essentially surrendering the season before it begins.

New York's Fifth Avenue was awash in the blue and white of the Israeli flag for Sunday's Celebrate Israel Parade, whose mood reflected rising tensions in the Mideast this year.

One Fifth Avenue sidewalk was filled with two groups of protesters who have appeared each year, both critical of Israel: anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jews who oppose Israel's existence, saying only the Messiah can establish a Jewish state; and supporters of a Palestinian state who hoisted their red, black, white and green flags.

Ms Thornberry is already a controversial figure, having been sacked by Ed Miliband last year for an allegedly «snobbish» tweet of a white van man's house draped with England flags.

One day a few years ago, I realized I needed a white holo, and Do You Have a Flag?

Cliched lyrics about white flags and lines in the sand show that reducing civil rights struggles to greeting - card poetry is clearly the mini-trend of this year's nominees, but Blige gives her song far more authority than Day does with hers; its raw, rootsy production is unusual for the progressive diva, and worth her exploring further.

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

«School districts and states came in, in the first year, and waved the white flag, and said, «We can never make the goal,»» recalled Miller.

So, the events of the past few years — among them the violence of white supremacists in Charlottesville, the church shootings in Charleston, the national debate over Confederate flags and memorials — certainly shaped the book, especially as they emphasize the extent to which the history of our country is built around the armature of slavery and the Civil War, and how far we still are from putting those issues behind us.

I would like to «wave the flag» of social «indignation» (as Cervantes says), because the peace and friendship were kicked in dark holes, while 15 years ago we were all - the - same - blacks, white, purple or green... We used to be one big family.

Belize Garifuna Settlement Day Celebration 2015 Every year on November 19, Belize raises the yellow, white and black flag of the Garifuna population and celebrates this thriving culture, descendants of the numerous Black Caribs that first reached Belize in 1832.

Review of Louise Lawler's No Drones at Sprüth Magers, her first solo show in the UK for four years Lawler's photographs capture artworks in compromising positions; from a Koons Rabbit next to the refrigerator (Foreground, 1994) to Jasper Johns» White Flag in the bedroom (Monogram, 1984).

Now Berlin - based, the artist is back to London for his first gallery show in three years at the Lawrence Alkin Gallery, «A Blank Canvas is a White Flag».

Over the past few years, as her work has gradually transitioned more and more into the three - dimensional, real space of the white cube with group and solo exhibitions of her video along with other works like a series of flags and «paintings» on aluminum, Cortright has also continued to become more and more infamous within Internet communities of artists and other visually - minded, new media thinkers who are utilizing the unique terrain of the Internet to modify how art can be made, disseminated and even bought and sold.

In September last year, following an unusually low measurement of Arctic sea - ice extent, Damian Carrington wrote: «Ice is the white flag being waved by our planet, under fire from the atmospheric attack being mounted by humanity.»

After celebrating its 250th year as a city, Leesburg altered its flag to include the colors white, blue and yellow.