Sentences with phrase «years of unrest»

Utley's essay outlines years of unrest in this country in the heart of Africa.
Despite the rhetorical tendency to suggest the social upheaval of the»60s ended with the actual decade, 1970 remained a year of unrest.

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The team reports that the volcano has been stirring for 67 years, with two - year periods of unrest in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s giving rise to small earthquakes — a pattern that was also seen in the lead - up to the 1538 eruption.
The current unrest is consistent with a reactivation of the magmatic system after 412 years and, hence, with an increase in the threat from volcanic activity to the caldera's population of almost 360,000 people, as well as to the three million residents of Naples immediately outside its eastern margin.
With an unprecedented 2,000 - year record of historical unrest and eruption2, Campi Flegrei provides key insights for understanding the dynamic evolution of large calderas.
Devaluation would boost manufacturers and exporters, but — as last year's experience proved — also cause domestic economic upheaval and heighten the possibility of social unrest.
Nobody wants social unrest, rising unemployment, and years of financial pain that follows during a recession.
Let's take a look at some of the key fundamentals that have kept gold prices on a tight leash during the last few years against the backdrop of a sharp correction in the equities markets, rising inflation, geopolitical unrest and the likely end of an era of low interest rates.
The banking cartel that controls the US military has been war gaming conditions of massive social unrest for years now with Unified Quest 2011.
Stamos, who joined the social giant almost three years ago after a very public stint in a similar role at Yahoo, ran the team inside Facebook tasked with hunting down ads related to the Kremlin's efforts to sow unrest in the U.S. ahead of the presidential election.
Investors are bailing out of emerging markets from Turkey and Brazil to Thailand and Indonesia, extending a selloff that began last year, amid concerns about faltering economies and political unrest.
During that same year, he provided significant news coverage of the anti-government protests and civil unrest in Egypt and Libya.
In January 2009, China's Communist leaders set up a special committee called 6521, designed to control unrest linked to the commemoration of 60 years of Communist rule (October 1); 50 years since the Tibetan rebellion (March 10); 20 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre (June 4); and 10 years since the official ban on Falun Gong (July 20).
Stephen Timms, said some of the constituents he spoke to on Monday were «concerned» about the unrest and campaigner's claims that 25 year old Edir Frederico Da Costa was brutally beaten after police stopped his car.
They've stuck their noses in to virtually every Middle Eastern conflict in the last 70 years, including he Israeli War of Independence, Suez War, Iraqi Army Revolt, Lebanese Civil War, Mosul Revolt, Kirkuk violence, Kurdish Revolt, North Yemen Civil War, Dhofar Rebellion, Six - Day War, The War of Attrition, Jordanian Civil War, Yom Kippur War, Egyptian - Libyan Border War, Intra-Iraqi Kurdish warfare, Iraqi Shia unrest in Karbala, Yemeni War, «The Tanker War», Osiraq Reactor Raid, Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, South Yemen Civil War, 2 Intifadas, Sa «dah Insurgency, and the Gaza War.
This incident does raise the alarm in terms of the security surrounding travelling teams in Turkey and in a country which has experienced political unrest in spells over the past few years, it may be seen as a blessing in disguise that proper contingency plans can now be put into place.
But his acceptance of fourth place every year has led to the demise of the club and the questionable showing of a lack of ambition created unrest with the Arsenal fans.
30 points (And counting) behind oil City Consecutive years without Champions League football Highest EPL finish in the history of Wengers tenure at the club Lockeroom unrest between players and now with the coaching staff.
Sanchez wldnt be a happy player playing for arsenal next year, he wld be a source of dressing room unrest and might not give his best on the pitch.
With Arsenal having handed our long serving manager another two year contract extension despite seemingly ever growing unrest among some of the club's fans, you are not going to hear any of the current playing staff saying anything negative or critical about Arsene Wenger.
Between that, reports of unrest in his personal life, and rumors that his brother and new agent had begun shopping the striker around Europe, the tabloids have been salivating over the 24 - year - old's future.
Amid fears that Lambert was rushing the captain back from a calf injury in a bid to quell growing unrest, Vlaar returned to the side to ring in 2014 at the Stadium of Light on New Year's Day.
After the initial unrest at Stamford Bridge since the arrival of new boss Antonio Conte, it was certain that the former Arsenal skipper and Barcelona reject Cesc Fabregas would calm his nerves and get back to producing the form that we have known him to be capable of producing over the years.
There is no doubting what the man did for our club but the past few years we have seemed to stagnate a little and fan unrest has grown and grown to a point of fans not turning up to tomorrow night's game and others planning a 75th minute walkout.
They must have been aware that there's been a history of having these blogger junkets blow up in a very ugly way (especially this year, I think there's some social unrest behind a lot of the rage about these junkets), and, given that they've been boycotted for over 30 years, they must have known that, you know, activists use the Internet.
The following year, at the height of the decade's civil unrest, the festival was extended to a one - week event.
Labour's five turbulent years of office from 1974 to 1979 came during the global oil crisis and also saw domestic unrest — from militant unions, inflation, IRA and coup talk — which stimulated growing attacks on the Westminster leadership for betrayal and incompetence in the face of harsh choices.
Although the unrest in this year's vote was not as serious as in 2007, days of sporadic protests left at least 28 people dead.
At a time of rising crime and in a year when London was beset with social unrest during the riots, that is a scandal.
In years influenced by volcanic eruptions, Nile flooding was generally diminished, leading to social stress that could trigger unrest and have other political and economic consequences,» says Joseph Manning, lead author on the paper and the William K. & Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of History and Classics at Yale.
In the past, radar images of the majority of the world's volcanoes were only acquired a few times a year, but seismological data indicate that the duration of unrest before an eruption might be as short as only a few days.
Any combination of war, civil unrest, or natural disaster can produce the devastation and death that has wracked regions like northern Iraq, the Balkans, and Rwanda in recent years.
By comparing volcanic activity to records of social unrest, the researchers found a correlation between the two that was too closely matched to dismiss: «In years influenced by volcanic eruptions, Nile flooding was generally diminished, leading to social stress that could trigger unrest and have other political and economic consequences,» Manning said.
Set entirely within the confines of a police van, Clash dramatizes the ongoing political unrest in Egypt two years after the Arab Spring.
Governing during turbulent years of Catholic and Protestant unrest, the Queen is under constant threat from religious fanatics and eventually finds herself the target of an assassination plot by her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton).
«At Berkeley» — Frederick Wiseman's four - hour documentary about the great public university, shot in 2010 at a time of campus - wide unrest over budget shortfalls, says more about the state of American education — and by extension, America itself — than any other movie this year.
Though its setting and vision of civil unrest make it something of a companion piece to Loach's The Wind That Shakes The Barley, which won the Palme a few years ago, Jimmy's Hall is actually closer in spirit to Footloose.
The concept of a microcosm of society to demonstrate social unrest between classes is a well - worn idea — High - Rise may find a very close cousin in last year's Snowpiercer — but this is one of the more direct and slickly executed interpretations of the theme, only treading on the brink of science - fiction.
The question of the title of the film therefore takes on a deeper resonance as one considers the tantalizing mélange produced by a marriage of noir, the western, and a jazz movement founded on unrest and violence, sold through a uniquely Japanese medium (animé, natch) that has been the vehicle for some of the most profound examinations of nihilism, violence, and romanticism (thinking especially of masterworks like Grave of the Fireflies and last year's Spirited Away) in the modern cinematic vocabulary.
A number of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education systeof films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education systeof an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education systeOf Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education systeof Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education system.
In a year of unprecedented social unrest and acrimony, the Left and Right came together in appreciation of Albert Nobbs, a film whose tony, prestige - picture credentials satisfied Conservatives and whose deeply empathetic exploration of a woman living outside the rules proscribed by society enraptured the Left.
Directors Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin combed through more than 1,500 hours of archival footage for LA 92, their documentary on the civil unrest that devastated Los Angeles 25 years ago.
The picture also questioned the wisdom of fixing foreign elections in this fashion, since very bloody, civil unrest subsequently arose in Bolivia, anyway, which forced Goni to flee the country for asylum in the U.S. a year into his administration.
Even then, many hiccups occurred as public opinion wavered between the idealism of the civil rights years and the backlash instigated by civil unrest in major cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Partnered with the University of Phoenix, the National Network of State Teachers of the year just released this list — broken down by grade level — which was curated by real teachers with a goal of using books to start conversations, spark ideas, and present challenges to brainstorm solutions in the wake of social unrest in our country.
To meet growing public demand and to address the alarming problem of racial tension and unrest in our communities, which is rooted in the harmful effects of school segregation, we urge Congress to appropriate $ 115 million to the Magnet Schools Assistance Program in Fiscal Year 2017 as requested by President Obama.
City schools CEO Gregory Thornton has faced backlash over staffing issues this year, following the departure of high - profile principals — including the principals who led schools in neighborhoods affected by the Freddie Gray unrest — and school layoffs that included the depletion of a surplus pool of teachers.
But — going off this latest staple squabble, and the lineup of court dates it will inspire — looks like the true victims of this fight may be in for another school year (or two) of community unrest and classroom battle lines.
The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen - year - old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest — until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary... Miami, 2017.
Seven years later oil was discovered, transforming the impoverished country's economy, but most of the wealth stayed in the hands of a few, leading to resentment and unrest.
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