Sentences with phrase «years he fought as»

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«She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.

However, in the last two years, the practice has decreased (falling down to just 30 percent of purchases in 2013) as businesses have found more effective ways to fight back.

The civil war in Syria has been raging for more than six years as rebels fight to oust Assad, a brutal authoritarian who has terrorized Syrians for years.

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the epic back and forth of the past few years, as Congress decided to impose burdensome new requirements, the small business community fought back, and then Congress (typically) fought childishly among themselves about how to pay for a repeal.

This year, Airbnb expects $ 850 million in revenue and an operating loss of about $ 150 million as it pushes to expand its services to new parts of the world and fights regulators over taxes and lodging laws.

The news comes as the IRS is locked in a closely - watched court fight with anonymous Coinbase users who want to a judge to block a summons the agency served on the company last year.

Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against efforts to expand the legislation), Keller came to see them as a blueprint for improvement.

Look for this to continue in 2016, as the lowest unemployment rate in 15 years means employers will be fighting for recent, debt - strapped graduates.

It's a vocal minority that is gumming up the works, just as it did 20 years ago when Bill Clinton fought to pass NAFTA.

Google, though, has fought efforts to block cookies on its Chrome browser for years, but touted this potential new system as a way to protect user privacy.

Patron, facing an onslaught of competition from celebrity - endorsed tequilas, is fighting back this summer with a line of pricey drinks as part of the largest product launch in the company's 25 - year history.

In the first - year, MBA candidates must read, absorb and debate some 270 case studies in 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professors.

A battle for control of smuggling routes drove killings up for a roughly year - long period between 2014 and 2015, as Ismael «El Mayo» Zambada, Guzman's partner at the top of the cartel, fought with forces led by Damaso Lopez Serrano, the son of Guzman's former right - hand man.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Many early entrants fizzled in recent years, as big retailers such as Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Saks fought back with their own flash sales.

Giving one of the best performances of the year and her career, Chastain plays Sloane less as a trailblazer fighting for a good cause and more as an unapologetic addict of winning at any cost.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

Wayne is a proven senior executive and lawyer with over 25 years business experience, most recently as Executive Vice-President of Kingsdale Shareholder Service, a company involved in providing strategic consulting and other services to companies involved in takeover bids and proxy fights.

The next big battle is in southern B.C., as citizens fight to stop Kinder Morgan's proposal to load more than 400 oil tankers a year in Burnaby.

Inside the FBI, which Trump has attacked as part of his effort to undercut Mueller's investigation throughout his first year in office, the feeling is that the Nunes fight could provide a small victory — at least for now.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

Puerto Rico's most - recent audited financial statements are almost four years old, casting doubt over just how broke the bankrupt island is as creditors fight over its cash and residents protest proposed austerity measures in the streets.

Today marks four years since since the labor movement known as the Fight for $ 15 launched, and American fast - food employees and other hourly workers are continuing to push for a living wage.

And we're going to continue to leverage those as we fight inflation for next year.

Bill Gates» private foundation announced that it will spend $ 158 million to fight systemic poverty in the U.S.. On Thursday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that it will spend the money on initiatives such as funding for community activists during the next four years.

In his keynote address to the convention, Justin Trudeau cast next year's election as a two - way fight between his Liberals and the Conservatives.

«It will be hard to fight positive European [capital] flows in 2018,» he says, noting that European equity inflows picked up last year as the political and economic outlooks improved.

No reason was given for the sackings, but they come as the war in Yemen drags on and is nearing the end of the third year of fighting.

The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as war criminals.

Democrats temporarily shut down the government earlier this year as they fought for that protection.

Actor Patrick Stewart (R) and 9 - year - old Vivenne Harr (C), who uses proceeds from her lemonade stand to fight slavery, ring the opening bell as NYSE Executive Vice President and Head of Global Listings Scott Cutler and and Boston police officer Cheryl Fiandaca (L) look on during the Twitter Inc..

The NDP have put forward the most comprehensive plan to fight Climate Change that Alberta has ever seen, something that the Progressive Conservatives were unable to do in the final decade of their 44 years in government and the Wildrose Party has been unable to do in its four years as official opposition.

As he resigns after 19 years as an MP, Jason Kenney pays tribute to Parliament — and Canadians who fight hard to become «winners of history&raquAs he resigns after 19 years as an MP, Jason Kenney pays tribute to Parliament — and Canadians who fight hard to become «winners of history&raquas an MP, Jason Kenney pays tribute to Parliament — and Canadians who fight hard to become «winners of history»

As competition heated up and the market slowed last year, it was truly a fight to put buildings under contract and mediate the inherent conflict between buyer and seller expectations.

«It's been one of the many challenges I've encountered in the past two years, along with being a first timer with no connections, as well as fighting for my artist visa and getting the script in the right hands.»

The energy sector dominated headlines in 2015 as oil capped its biggest two - year loss ever amid a widening supply glut and intensifying fight for global market share.

And of course, as I began to learn years ago, life's biggest battles are not fought in the realm of the obvious between right and wrong.

Make your fight stand on it own and stop trying to use the experiment of 400 plus years of slavery and discrimination as part of your justification.

History repeats it self... See examples such as the separation of India in to India and Pakistan but left them Kashmir to fight over and remain alert against each other all those years, then another example is the Koreas South and North, then the case of Cyprus for Turkey and Greece, planting of Israel among the Arabs to control, exhaust them, consume their wealth and drain their resources?

As a young man fighting in the Polish resistance, Wiernicki was captured by the Germans and spent almost two years in Auschwitz.

Only strategy Christians has to do is fight for what ever Tradition is going on for years by co-ordinating within the different Christian sects as well as DISPLAYING MORE NATIVITY SCEANS AROUND THE NEIGHBORING HOUSES OF ATHEIST FOLLOWERS especially near the leaders houses for for sure, yea I mean purely private property.

Now, 15 years later, she's able to fight for justice as the police are taking her seriously.

Also in Hammam al - Alil, the United Nations warned that ISIS was taking young boys, as young as 9 years old, to have them fight on their behalf as Iraq continues to fight to retake the country from ISIS.

I have a niece she is 21 years of age, and us too as a family are suffering from this ugly fight between good and evil.

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

And our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISIS.

One way to interpret The Controversy of recent years is to see it as a «preachers» fight,» a tug «of «war among competing clerics, a theological brouhaha that most laypeople would just as soon go away.

Dewey, who died in 1952 after reigning for more than fifty years as America's most influential public philosopher and educator, appreciated that the churches had not gone out of business, and that they could even be useful in promoting peace, fighting economic injustice, and, more generally, in «stimulating action» for what he called «a divine kingdom on earth.»