Sentence examples for occupations against from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

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.

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.

An effigy of the party leader, Nick Clegg, was hanged by students staging an occupation against the fee increase at Goldsmiths, University of London.

In a further analysis, we regressed the individual wage differential (the teacher's wage in the non-teaching occupation minus the average wage of a comparable colleague in the same occupation) against the various characteristics of the teachers.