Sentences with phrase «years of protests over»

The proposed rezoning of Jerome Avenue to permit housing development has sparked years of protests over the displacement of automobile - related businesses and other niche businesses along the Jerome Avenue corridor beneath the IRT # 4 subway el.

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Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

«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.

Last year, the FDA approved a pioneering Duchenne treatment from Sarepta Therapeutics (srpt) over the protests of its own scientific advisers who said it lacked proven efficacy.

Given also the need for an austerity budget to comply with European rules, growth is likely to weaken, meaning the protest parties will continue to strengthen and may well be strong enough to take over in a couple of years.

Public protests over the last two years have highlighted the risks of spills along the route from Alberta to BC's coastal waters, and the climate impacts of building new pipelines to enable massive increases in bitumen production and exports.

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

Now, I'm not a huge fan of crowds, but over the past few years, a couple of local incidents tempted me to get out my magic markers and make some protest signs myself.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

You need to wake up if you missed the atheist protests over the Cross of Christ over the past 10 years.

Earlier this year there were protests over the future of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville as well as violent rallies by white supremacists and neo-Nazis, prompting the discussion in Alexandria to progress.

This year, of course, Cardinal Dolan's invitation to President Obama has revived controversy over the president's record not just on abortion but also religious freedom, a record that the bishops have rightly protested.

In looking back over the course of American history, Huntington sees only four periods of creedal passion: the Revolutionary era, the Jacksonian years, the Progressive era, and the 1960s and «70s, with their protest and reform movements.

It seems to me, nevertheless, that he suffered, at the hands of the BBC This World programme in particular, and the media in general, a profound injustice, and that this injustice was made possible only because it fed into a narrative which Catholics have endured over recent years for the most part without protest, so great has been their numb horror at the seemingly endless procession of abusive clergy who have been dragged from the shadows by police and media.

Last year, farmers groups from across Europe were involved in protests and other industrial action as part of plans to draw attention to concerns over the money received for their milk and the difficulty in meeting supplies.

Farmers» groups in Germany, Belgium and Netherlands have all became involved in protests over the last year, which have ranged from spilling milk to boycotting production, as part of calls for a higher basic pay rate for their products.

Who knows, he could do better than three FA cup wins in the last four years, three community shield wins in the last four years, twenty years of champions league participation and overseeing the building of a magnificient stadium that has propelled us into the top five clubs in the world, All I can say is this, after supporting Arsenal for over sixty years Arsene Wenger is the best their was, the best their is and the best their ever will be and despite numerous attempts to organise protests against him the anti wenger brigade has always failed miserably.

If anyone remembers a couple of years back we were close to full blown protest when we were in danger of not making top four and over loaded with deadwood.

Peter Hill - Wood, who was the Arsenal chairman for over 30 years until recently, has jumped to the defence of Arsene Wenger after recent protests calling for Le Prof to be sacked.

As usual at this time of year the long - suffering Arsenal supporters start protesting about Arsene Wenger's lack of trophies over the last decade, and just like every other season, Wenger and the Board just shrug it off as a «tiny minority» of real Arsenal fans.

this is my first comment on this site although i have voted and read articlesfor a few years now, i am just so angry to hear aresene's comments over the last two days the «we did nt win the league because at home the crowd have been on our back» stuff, and then this evening, the protest was a waste of time.

This was not about such a moment but about nine years of attempting to resurrect something both special and normal; a protest march, inspired in the specific by a series of atrocious decisions by a supine governing body, but in the abstract by a culture that prioritises the needs of the owners over the fans, that listens to money over love, and that works not for us but for them.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Because in past years we have done, as a Tamil community, a lot of protests in the UK and all over the world but it hasn't been mentioned in any media.

Despite the unseasonable time of year, Tuesday saw the BMF amongst the hundreds of riders from all over Europe who converged on the European Parliament building in Brussels to protest at the latest raft of motorcycle related Type Approval Regulations emanating from the European Commission.

Over the last few years he has taken part in many protests, including the occupation of the Sweets Way estate in Barnett.

He is the author of The New Law of Peaceful Protest: Rights and Regulation in the Human Rights Act Era, published by Hart Publishing in 2010, and numerous articles and blog posts over the past ten years.

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.

Given the over 21 - year - gap in the ability to demonstrate publicly (and the government's refusal to pay attention to their voices), the protesters remain in Bucharest's Piata Universitatii, after an entire month of daily protests, becoming a Romanian symbol of freedom of expression.

Even this year, when a number of lawmakers threatened to disrupt his annual State of the State address with protests over the governor's refusal to go along with legislative pay raises, Cuomo didn't plead with them or negotiate.

Last month, Cuomo asked some of his New York commissioners to boycott the Port Authority's public board meeting in protest of the ongoing dispute with New Jersey over what to fund in the agency's 10 - year capital plan.

He has been active in challenging the Chinese government for over 20 years, including participation in the doomed Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD The state of North Carolina today, March 30, repealed HB2, the law enacted a little over a year ago that aroused heated protests and boycotts, generated several lawsuits, and sparked a national conversation about gender identity and sex - specific public bathrooms and locker rooms.

Some elderly people, who are owners of buildings demolished by the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola for the expansion of some road projects in Osogbo, Osun State, on Tuesday protested at the state House of Assembly over the non-payment of about N2bn promised them as compensation since four year ago.

Fast - forward a couple of years, through leaks of TTIP chapters, exposés by journalists and huge protests, European countries are now falling over themselves to reject this deal.

Candidate Pat Ryan of Gardiner, sailing along as one of the top - tier fund - raisers, dealt with some back and forth last week over whether he had conspired to spy on protest groups while employed with a high - tech computer surveillance firm several years ago.

About 12 people showed up to protest «Path to Prosperity,» the Republican budget that cuts about $ 5 trillion of federal spending over the next ten years.

In addition to detailing the continuing tensions at the top, this volume contains graphic accounts of perhaps the worst domestic crises of the New Labour years: foot - and - mouth disease and protests over fuel prices which almost brought Britain to a halt.

He has caved in to pressure from his Lib Dem coalition partners and a storm of protest over the crackdown, aimed at saving # 2billion a year.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew didn't mince words when he addressed hundreds of angry Transport Workers Union Local 100 members protesting the Metropolitan Transit Authority's attempt to overturn a binding arbitration ruling that awarded transit workers an 11 percent pay increase over three years.

The City Council opened its stated meeting Thursday with parallel protests over recent police killings of African - Americans, protests that sharply illustrated the different styles of a pair of black lawmakers from Brooklyn, both of whom insiders say aspire to lead the body after next year.

Tuesday's protests came on top of years of coordination difficulties and delay as a result of concern from native Hawaiians and environmentalists alike over construction of the $ 1.4 billion telescope on the volcano, which is already home to more than a dozen telescopes.

There are tens of thousands of unreported protests in China each year, a rising number of which are over environmental disputes in a country where rapid economic growth has taken its toll on the air, water and land.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — After a week of nationwide protests, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on 19 April sought to reassure scientists that her government was rethinking a rumored $ 423 million (AUD $ 400 million) cut to medical research over 3 years, starting in the 2011 - 12 budget.

Buddhist monks have used the control they have over their minds to tolerate pain for thousands of years and if you have ever read about Thich Quang Duc the Buddhist monk who burnt him self alive in protest of the treatment of Buddhists in Vietnam you will know what I am talking about.

Our region, transforming now Middle East Annual Review looking at our achievements over the past year and illustrate some of the Fy17 highlights Read the In December 2010, a man in Tunisia burned himself to death in protest at his treatment by police.

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The Twittersphere erupted in protests over lack of diversity in this year's nominations; despite rave reviews for Oyelowo, in 20 years this is the second time all acting nominees were white.

Negga's nomination is of particular significance in the wake of the #OscarsSoWhite protests taking place over the past two years.

Controversy over all - white acting nominees and gender pay inequality roiled recent Oscars, and protests about Latino exclusion in front of and behind the camera may hit this year's ceremony, but organisers will have an additional, more prosaic concern: getting the envelopes right.