Sentence examples for occupation against from inspiring English sources
Promoters recognized that by pitting two pugilists of a different race, ethnicity, or even occupation against one another, working class interest in the matter would be magnified.
The University of the Arts London (UAL) is taking legal action against its students staging an occupation against cuts to foundation courses in the main building of Central St Martins (CSM).
It pits the senior, established clergy who counsel tolerance toward the occupation against a younger, militant faction that wants to found an Islamic state modeled on Iran and has stopped just short of calling for holy war against American troops.
The clerics who hold sway over Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority are locked in a violent power struggle pitting the older, established ayatollahs counseling patience with the occupation against a younger, more militant faction itching to found an Islamic state.
Simply negotiating the transfer of sovereignty back to Iraqis has proved so vexing that an Administration that jealously guarded the occupation against any international control has turned to the battered and despised United Nations for help in dealing with Iraq's unleashed political forces.
But since 1967 it has been Israel that has missed most opportunities: a 40-year occupation (against the advice of its own elder statesmen); three catastrophic invasions of Lebanon; an invasion and blockade of Gaza in the teeth of world opinion; and now a botched attack on civilians in international waters.
On the other, they staged protests and occupations against tuition fees, in support of university staff and opposing privatisation of student debt.
In 2012, British electricians staged strikes and occupations against an attempt by multinational Balfour Beatty to slash their terms and conditions – and they won.
They are holding a rally against austerity at University College London on 2 November and are calling on students to support a day of civil disobedience and occupations against austerity on 5 November.
However the activists, part of a global wave of similar occupations against the perceived excesses of the global finance system, are keen that the travails of the church do not obstruct their primary targets.
Across Britain today, thousands of school and university students staged multiple demonstrations and occupations against the tripling of university fees and scrapping of educational maintenance allowances for poorer teenagers.
