The #FreeBobiWine hashtag has become a rallying point on Twitter.
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But McCain seeks to preserve our traditional rallying point — our ideals.
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Mr. Tashi's plight has become a rallying point for Tibetans abroad.
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The outbreak may have created a fresh rallying point for protesters.
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Despite her faults, at least Clinton served as their rallying point.
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It incensed many Remainers and thus provides a rallying point for liberals.
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In this, she has also become a rallying point for Mexican people.
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Elizabeth Warren said Trump's presidency should serve as a rallying point for progressives.
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Historically, a regiment's colors were used as a rallying point on the battlefield.
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Mr Sisi's foes hoped that Mr Morsi's death would provide a rallying point.
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It's one of several worldwide commemorations of the key gay rights rallying point.
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In Tocantins, I used my idol as a rallying point for an alliance.
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For career officials, Ms. Yovanovitch, a three-time ambassador, is a rallying point.
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US involvement in the Yemen war, though, may be a rare rallying point.
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Voting rights has become a rallying point for progressive groups across the country.
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And Germany's anti-immigrant fringe is using the attack as a rallying point.
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But Mr. Erdogan's growing authoritarianism has itself proved to be a rallying point.
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"For the Palestinians, it was seen as a rallying point," Professor Dumper said.
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The 7-meter-tall bronze head of Marx in the city center was once a rallying point for demonstrations that took place each Monday to demand the end of Communism; this week it was the rallying point of the far right.
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The hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue has become a rallying point for anti-Trump protesters.
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In the Trump era, Teen Vogue has become a rallying point of the resistance.
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The Times cited concerns over immigration, a key rallying point of the "Leave" camp.
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Because of the pro-democracy protests, Hong Kong has become a central rallying point.
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Khair's death became a rallying point during 16 weeks of protests against Bashir's rule.
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Kemp has also called reports of voter suppression a politically driven rallying point for Democrats.
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That crisis has emerged as a rallying point for Democrats as the U.S. presidential election approaches.
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When Warren decided not to run for President, the Sanders campaign became the populists' rallying point.
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Initiated on Inauguration Day, the piece is meant to be a rallying point for anti-Trump protesters.
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She quickly became a rallying point for the French people, giving them a symbol to unite behind.
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" "I had expected Hope to serve as a rallying point to counter (Abe's) continued predominance in power.
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As a rallying point, the ACA has been a consistent frustration for Republican officials and their constituents.
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"After Ian became ill and had complications, he became a pioneer, a rallying point," Dr. Oneill said.
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Huawei had become a rallying point for patriotism in China as tensions with the United States mounted.
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On the evening of September 30, 1962, this statue was a rallying point for opponents of integration.
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"When a monument serves as a contemporary rallying point, then we need to remove them, I suspect."
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The Trump International Hotel has become a rallying point for anti-Trump protesters since it opened in September.
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The infirm president's candidacy became a rallying point for the protestors who have filled the streets for weeks.
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The higher her profile, the more Republican leaders can use her as a rallying point for their voters.
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With its introduction, the unpopular Quebec premier, Philippe Couillard, has found a rare rallying point for his government.
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Mr. Damore's dismissal became a rallying point for conservatives who saw technology companies as workplaces dominated by groupthink.
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The site of the bunker where Hitler died has been obscured, to deny neo-fascists a rallying point.
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He became a national hero—and a rare rallying point for Chinese netizens to brazenly voice dissent online.
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A rallying point for Australian strikers is the plan to open a new coal mine in central Queensland.
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The opposite may be more likely because a trade scuffle with China could be his bipartisan rallying point.
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Like Brown's order, it had no force of law, but it served as a rallying point for organizers.
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Campus free speech has become a rallying point for the conservative movement — the focus of energy, money, and legislation.
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It also lends Democrats a political rallying point about "open, fair" internet access for use in the midterm elections.
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His alleged murder in 2015 of Kate Steinle became a rallying point in a national debate over immigration policy.
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It's also something where, it creates this perfect rallying point for a community when it's negative 10 degrees outside.
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In an era when partisanship is all too common, conservation remains a rallying point uniting both Democrats and Republicans.
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And a sit-in for gun control measures that are almost certainly doomed became a rallying point on social media.
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After authorities canceled celebrations in Taksim Square, a traditional rallying point, thousands of protesters gathered in the city's Bakirkoy district.
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She survived bombardment by pirates and became a rallying point for Catholics when a secular government expelled priests generations later.
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The defeat for Mr. Sanders, whose criticism of free trade was a major rallying point during his race against Mrs.
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At Thursday's meeting, where Trump largely reassured GOP senators that he is one of them, ObamaCare became a rallying point.
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Harris's beating by white nationalist demonstrators became a rallying point for counterprotesters in the wake of the white nationalist rally.
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This year, however, Freedom Square, the traditional rallying point of the opposition, has been fenced off and renamed Exchange Square.
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The case, involving an 11-month-old girl born with a heart defect, has become a rallying point for conservatives.
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He served as a figurehead, a rallying point that could help them convert larger numbers of Americans to their cause.
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Even so, the funeral also became a rallying point for people who embraced his hope for a more democratic China.
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The dispute became rallying point on encryption for tech companies — Apple rivals, Microsoft and Google voiced support for the Cupertino, Calif.
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Robert E. Lee as a rallying point in their fight to reclaim the United States from immigrants and people of color.
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His dismissal became a rallying point for conservatives who saw Silicon Valley companies as dominated by liberal political and social views.
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And then she also tries to present her identity not as a hurdle to her success, but as a rallying point.
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And then she also tries to present her identity not as a hurdle to her success, but as a rallying point.
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The hardline TLP grew out of support for Qadri, and his grave has become a rallying point for those demanding Bibi's death.
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And when opinions have become polarized – and driven by ideology - it becomes incredibly hard for a compromise to become a rallying point.
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Similarly, the Martin case became a national rallying point, after Zimmerman followed and shot Martin, 17, claiming self-defense at his trial.
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Photographs of that standoff became a rallying point for the workers and supporters of Mr. Sharif's political party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
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His origin story is compelling, but he's also being used as a rallying point to pull together a future band of heroes.
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The Unsung Founders Memorial, situated on the same plaza as Silent Sam, became a rallying point for those who opposed the statue.
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It is now an historic rally, which will serve as a rallying point and battle cry for the rising Alt-Right movement.
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A central rallying point for the white nationalist "alt-right," the Daily Stormer website was scrubbed from multiple platforms after mocking Heyer's death.
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It is still a big fish among the opposition minnows, and the only likely rallying point for a serious challenge to the BJP.
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When Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus was announced this summer, it became a strange rallying point in the battle against modern white supremacy.
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Iran and Soleimani offered early assistance to northern Iraq's Kurds in the fight against Islamic State, a rallying point for the Kurdish community.
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His response will do little to assuage the protesters and advocates who have honed in on the law as a rallying point, however.
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The Georgia election has since become a rallying point for Democrats, who point to the contest as a powerful example of voter suppression.
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For that reason, blockchain—banal, technical, deeply unsexy—has become an ideological rallying point, especially among those looking to subvert the reigning order.
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Such parties provide a rallying point for news media, political pundits and activists while giving candidates a platform for victory and concession speeches.
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Its rallying point is that the labor of local workers is undercut by immigrants, who weaken communal bonds by refusing to respect them.
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" The plight of home growers, in fact, has become a rallying point for anti-cannabis advocates concerned about the rise of "Big Marijuana.
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Visiting international dignitaries were first and foremost brought to watch the Bolshoi, and during wartime the ballet was an important national rallying point.
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The monument, which was sometimes used as a rallying point by David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, has stirred debate for decades.
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The international cancer agency's report immediately turned into a rallying point for critics, and provided ammunition to mount legal challenges to Roundup's safety.
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Civil rights activists staged protests against the monument in the 1970s; in the 1980s, the Ku Klux Klan used it as a rallying point.
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His story similarly became a massive rallying point for religious fundamentalists and far-right pundits who believed it was an example of government overreach.
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The A7 club, on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue A, two blocks from Mr. Flanagan's mother's house, was an early rallying point.
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Trump's problem, though, is that his need to keep his own promises isn't exactly a rallying point for Republicans in Congress or Republican voters.
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The timing of his resignation — just months before the midterm elections — makes the nomination of his replacement a potent rallying point for both parties.
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But lawmakers were unable to repeal the tax because of European Union rules, and it became a rallying point for the pro-Brexit camp.
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House Republicans have voted to release a controversial secret memo that has become a rallying point for allegations of bias in the Trump-Russia investigation.
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But several civil servants and a minister have already lost their jobs over it, and the affair has become a rallying point for disenchanted voters.
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The election of Hillary Clinton will provide a rallying point for conservatives, making it easy for them to unify in opposing unconstitutional or harmful policies.
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WALLACE (on camera): Is their concern that some of these pieces could be used as a rallying point for Neo-Nazis here in this country?
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The bill has become a rallying point for industry groups opposed to the ozone rule, but the White House on Tuesday threatened to veto it.
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Many scientists and others pressing for a more sustainable human relationship with the environment had latched onto the word and idea as a rallying point.
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The hotel is a few blocks from the White House and has become a rallying point for anti-Trump protesters since it opened in September.
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She was never the ideal rallying point, however, lifted as she was out of obscurity to join, reluctantly, a legal challenge to Texas abortion statutes.
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While the death of Mr. Seyed Emami was a tragedy for his family, it has become something of a rallying point for middle-class Iranians.
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Mr. Balcomb, who sits on the governor's task force, said J35's plight has become a rallying point for the efforts to protect the whales.
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Second Amendment groups have identified the state as a rallying point for the fight against what they see as a national erosion of gun rights.
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Until we truly reckon with the history and legacy of slavery and the Civil War, Confederate statues will remain a rallying point for white supremacists.
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"They seem to be a rallying point for investors," said Caroline Vance, director in the sustainable investments group at DWS, majority owned by Deutsche Bank.
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Trump's defiance is providing a rallying point for some Republicans, who are seizing on some reasonable arguments that can be marshaled to refute the Democratic strategy.
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The connection between Bolsonaro's potential plans to slash environmental safeguards and the fate of the rights of landless workers has made for an effective rallying point.
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Charlottesville, around 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Alexandria, became a rallying point for white nationalists after the city council voted to remove a statue of Lee.
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The Civility Trap When used as a political rallying point, appeals to civility are often a trap, particularly when forwarded in response to critical, dissenting speech.
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How that translates nationwide in the legislative elections will depend on whether he is able and willing to become a rallying-point for left-leaning groups.
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He said that he supports the concept of "Medicare for all," the proposed single-payer health care system that has become a rallying point for progressives.
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The gilets jaunes are the French rallying point for those, left and right, old and young, peaceful and disruptive, who want to see this hope dashed.
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" Mr. Mulhall, of Hope Not Hate, said of Mr. Robinson, "He has become a rallying point around which people on the international far right have gathered.
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Mike Gravel, the man, is not a pawn — he has his own reasons for agreeing to this scheme — but he is a somewhat inert rallying point.
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His annual "March for Marriage" in Washington was so poorly attended that progressives gleefully shared pictures of empty grass around its rallying point on the National Mall.
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"This is not a widespread public demand which transcends all political and economic classes, it has always been a rallying point for some disaffected groups," she said.
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The recent Los Angeles strikes were a struggle over difficult resource constraints, but charters were included as a convenient rallying point to gain traction with the public.
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It became the main rallying point for 2013 anti-government protests in which tens of thousands of people demonstrated against President Tayyip Erdogan, then the prime minister.
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The Oregon occupation was billed by its leaders as a political protest and a rallying point for frustrated ranchers who wanted to reclaim land under federal control.
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The Ryder Cup's modern success has been rooted in a strong rivalry, though not really Europe versus the United States, which is no classic sports rallying point.
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This has dulled the potential of obscurity as a rallying point for change and leaves society struggling to protect something in dire need of defining and defending.
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Mr. Fallon and others behind the new group acknowledge that conservatives have been much more effective at turning the courts into a rallying point for their voters.
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Four years after its political awakening, and in the absence of an obvious rallying point, the Ron Paul coalition finds itself in a diffuse, conflicted and confused diaspora.
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Beyond pressuring vulnerable Democrats, GOP-affiliated groups such as Heritage Action are pushing Kavanaugh's nomination as a rallying point to get Republicans to turn out for House elections.
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A new "Protection and Stability Council", headed by a former warlord, Abdul Rasoul Sayyaf, has been set up as a rallying point against Mr Ghani's emollience towards Pakistan.
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He said legalization of same-sex marriage, which has become a major rallying point for LGBT activists, is important but can distract from problems such as conversion therapy.
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But Tuesday's commemoration is fast becoming a rallying point for critics who accuse the Trump White House of courting white nationalists and playing down the suffering of Jews.
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The wall has been a rallying point for the President since his campaign in 2016, when he promised voters a border wall would be paid for by Mexico.
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But a more normal threat to a deep-pocketed interest group's preferences still turned out to be a more natural rallying point than the specter of creeping Putinism.
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One way out could be for the President to use the attack on the Saudi oil facility as a rallying point to rebuild the international front against Iran.
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Eager to prevent the May 4 anniversary from becoming a rallying point for political activism, the Communist Party has used the date as an excuse to flatter China's youth.
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Relations with Washington were severed after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and enmity to the United States has always been a rallying point for hardliner supporters of Khamenei in Iran.
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Relations with Washington were broken after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and enmity to the United States has long been a rallying point for hardline supporters of Khamenei in Iran.
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When General Lee's Virginia home was overrun by Union soldiers, the tent was brought back to the capital and put on display to serve as a patriotic rallying-point.
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Although bias in facial recognition systems has become a rallying point for experts and researchers who are worried about algorithmic fairness, many warn that it shouldn't overshadow broader issues.
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The Place de la Republique, a vast square in eastern Paris, has become an informal memorial and a rallying point for free speech and democratic values after the attacks.
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For a campaign frequently depicted as offering a rallying point for the white working class, the people volunteering to help Mr. Trump here are noteworthy for their ethnic diversity.
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CNBC points out that crude has basically stalled around $50 a barrel right now in part because that round number has itself become a rallying point for oil skeptics.
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Syria's attack on Turkish forces gave Erdoğan a rallying point for his domestic audience, who otherwise might not have been eager to commit troops to the fight in Syria.
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The excitement built as news of the mummy spread across the country, becoming a popular rallying point against Iran's clerical government and quickly setting off alarms in high places.
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Each year, a different regiment takes a turn presenting its colors down the ranks – a drill that is based on the colors being used as rallying point on the battlefield.
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For many people who previously questioned Bundy's tactics, the idea that Finicum was shot down in that manner has already become accepted fact and a rallying point on social media.
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The presence of Ailes, whose edgy television channel became a rallying point for conservatives, and Bannon, whose right-wing news website is also notoriously pugilistic, portends a bloody fall campaign.
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It has become a rallying point for the victims and their supporters who hold weekly protests at the site, reminding the world of the sordid history Japan prefers to forget.
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Across Europe and the United States, opposition to trade has become a rallying point for populist movements on the left and the right, threatening to upend the established political order.
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Republicans and Democrats both seized on the ruling as a rallying point, hoping it would mobilize voters for a presidential election in which immigration has become an intense flash point.
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He has functioned for years as a rallying point for "birthers," conspiracy theorists, extremists and racists who are apoplectic about the fact that the country elected a black man president.
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The summit has been a great focus and rallying point for the global movement—networks have expanded and consolidated, and new audiences and interest groups have been brought on board.
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The tent city here in Tornillo, about forty miles south of El Paso, was erected to house unaccompanied minors and quickly became a rallying point for critics of the policy.
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Construction of the route has become a global rallying point for environmental and tribal activism, drawing thousands of people to a sprawling protest camp and sometimes prompting clashes with authorities.
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Ryan also served as a rallying point for lawmakers, companies, outside groups and even several administration officials looking for ways to pressure the White House against the President's preferred route.
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Paris attracted the biggest march as 5,500 protesters, according to a police estimate, went from the traditional rallying point of Republic square through central Paris before dispersing near the Louvre museum.
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Iran and the United States cut diplomatic ties shortly after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution and enmity to Washington has long been a rallying point for hardline supporters of Khamenei in Iran.
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"She said: "It is clear that the Liberal Democrats are the rallying point for people who want to remain in the EU, and who value an open, fair and inclusive society.
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Even so, McConnell's words and Warren's forced silence became a rallying point for the progressive movement around a moment that, even 10 years ago, may have been lost to the CSPAN archives.
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Yet supporters and critics alike used the General Assembly's return as a rallying point about a law that set off an economic backlash and shoved the state into a rollicking national debate.
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But he also said the White House's four pillars were the best rallying point for negotiations in the House, which has proven to be a divisive starting point for Republicans and Democrats.
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In October, the Cherokee Courthouse was the rallying point for a march to observe Indigenous Peoples' Day, meant to replace Columbus Day's celebration of conquest with appreciation for the Americas' original inhabitants.
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Extremists have another rallying point now The President framed his announcement that he had signed an order to keep open the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as keeping a promise to Americans.
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With the Democratic Party largely leaderless and the 2020 presidential primary race still a long way off, one person has served as a rallying point for dispirited Democrats: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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His killers have never been brought to justice, and the death has become a rallying point for those who accuse Mr. Vucic of creating a climate of fear that fuels political violence.
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An unapologetic adherence to Trump, warning about undocumented immigration, and fighting to preserve the statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, that later became a symbolic rallying point for white supremacists.
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Police used water cannon when scuffles broke out in front of the Bourse, which has become a symbolic rallying point for people to pay their respects to those who died in Tuesday's attacks.
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But in an interview with Broadly, Barbara Galiza, the head of marketing at Her, explained that they wanted to find out what their users actually felt about the LGBTQ community's annual rallying point.
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At 6900, he can serve for decades and could prove to be a rallying point for a new conservative Court if Trump replaces any of the three oldest justices: Ginsburg, Kennedy, and Breyer.
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Fighting affirmative action, even if using the time-tested method of pitting Asian Americans against black Americans and Latinos, serves as a rallying point for the Trump base and the larger conservative movement.
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Yet he has become a rallying point for protests, with dozens of players this season at various points kneeling or making some gesture during the anthem, though lately the numbers have trailed off.
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Wade as part of their effort to upend a Trump nominee they find objectionable or, failing that, to deploy the issue along with health care as a rallying point for voters in November.
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Should all four move forward from Iowa, with their perceived strengths and weaknesses, it could make it difficult for any of them to become a rallying point for voters uneasy about Mr. Sanders.
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Warren's announcement was a sign of how DeVos, President Donald Trump's education secretary, has become a rallying point for Democrats on the campaign trail Angela Merkel doesn't want either of the EU's top jobs.
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The caravan, made up largely of migrants from Honduras seeking refugee status, has become a central rallying point for Trump, whose administration is mired in a number of controversies, three weeks before midterm elections.
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"The new platform will serve as a rallying point for the community and represents the team's long-term commitment to both funding the project and sharing details of the development process," the developers explain.
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Radical economic transformation, a vague ANC plan to tackle racial inequality, has emerged as the key rallying point for the two main factions led by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma respectively.
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Although the proposed elimination of the grant program would affect housing programs more than food services, the threat to Meals on Wheels in particular has become a rallying point for opponents of the cuts.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Reuters photographers covering protests in the central Santiago rallying point of Plaza Italia were getting ready to capture images on Monday as the police set about clearing the square for the evening.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of people braved London's winter drizzle on Sunday for a screening of the Oscar-nominated movie that has become a rallying point for opponents of U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration policy.
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The brutal fights, a staple of the local Pongal harvest season celebrations, have been a rallying point for the Animal Welfare Board of India, PETA, the Humane Society International-India and others for years.
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Trump calls immigration laws 'a disgrace' Hours after the arrest was announced, the case started to emerge as yet another rallying point for Republican lawmakers and others who advocate for more restrictive immigration laws.
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But it has definitely given fuel to "chavistas" — followers of Hugo Chavez' left-wing ideology — to use those remarks as a rallying point for their (very small) base and to try regaining international recognition.
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It was just a state Senate election in Delaware, but the race had become a rallying point for disoriented Democrats around the country eager to do anything they could to resist in the Trump era.
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A rallying point for a fragmented opposition, it is often pieced back together by the activists, who have been refused a plaque over a regulation that Putin himself circumvented in a different case in 2013.
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All of which underscores the fact that if the Trump team doesn't quickly turn the website into a tool to advance its goals, it could end up being a rallying point for the administration's opponents.
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As scientists warn of the imminent consequences of global warming, the Green New Deal has been a rallying point for liberals in the party's base as well as Democratic presidential contenders in the crowded field.
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In France, the arrival of Emmanuel Macron and his entirely new party named "La Republique en Marche!" with its trademark exclamation point, has been a rallying point for democratic forces even beyond his country's borders.
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AIS can be a rallying point for that collective defense, where -- with a large enough group participating -- organizations of all sizes, regardless of sophistication or investments, work collaboratively to defend our networks and our country.
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The litigation is likely to become a political rallying point for opponents of Mr. Trump, and should the legislative effort fizzle, a court challenge could become an alternative vehicle to derail or delay his policies.
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Palestinian outrage at this development became a rallying point for the protests in Gaza, but the issues driving young Palestinians to risk their lives — and be killed — attempting to break the fence run much deeper.
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Since then, the amendment has become a rallying point for religious conservatives who believe it unfairly restricts their freedom of speech, even though the IRS rarely investigates churches or other religious organizations for violating it.
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It could yet serve as a rallying point for a Republican Party that can save itself from dishonor, win its share of elections, and stand up to the honey badgers who mean to pillage it.
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But even in hospital confinement, Mr. Liu could serve as a new rallying point for China's beleaguered rights activists, angered that his cancer was not detected until it was seemingly too late to save him.
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Yet with several more star-studded ceremonies to come, questions linger as to how well Hollywood's awards apparatus can juggle serving as a rallying point for that movement with its more prosaic, self-congratulatory business.
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The public outcry against the Bundy takeover at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has become a rallying point for the majority of Americans who see the protection of public lands as good stewardship, not government overreach.
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The ruling provides a rallying point for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who has vowed to go even further than Obama on executive action and is using the issue to cultivate crucial Hispanic general election voters.
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The charges against Garcia Zarate were filed just days after he was acquitted of murder in San Francisco in a case that caught nationwide attention and became a rallying point for critics of "sanctuary city" policies.
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But coming ahead of the primary, critics say, it has the practical effect of rallying the state's Republicans behind Cox, while hurting Villaraigosa and complicating Democratic hopes of denying the GOP a general election rallying point.
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Trump calls on Congress to ban late-term abortion The president urged Congress to pass legislation outlawing late-term abortions, using recent liberal legislation on the issue in New York and Virginia as a rallying point.
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I wonder if, with all the caveats that apply, Soleimani's death will temper some of that opposition and become a rallying point for the regime, even among those Iranians who may be skeptical of the government.
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That would have been harder if she had been sentenced over the estimated $8 billion losses on the rice scheme, but jail would have made her a rallying point with glamorous star power at home and abroad.
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The song itself has become a rallying point for Frightened Rabbit fans since Scott died, because its lyrics allow for the notion that life isn't pointless, and that we ought to do some good while we're here.
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Without a clear agenda from Trump right now, many activists see this recess as a test of whether they can propel the momentum gained in the first few months of Trump's presidency without an obvious rallying point.
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He had spent a year in jail rather than plead guilty to a shooting in 2015 that he said he did not commit, and his case had become a rallying point for supporters of changing bail laws.
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He came to greater national recognition as ranking member on the budget committee, where he was a foil for President Barack Obama on policy, pushing a budget proposal that became a rallying point for some in his party.
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There was no such reticence from Republicans as the sight of a GOP president flexing military power offered a rallying point with a White House that has often had tense relations with its own party on Capitol Hill.
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The Unesco designation has been a rallying point for a city that has to balance an annual influx of snowbirds and University of Arizona students with a substantial Native American community, recent immigrants and deep pockets of poverty.
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In September 1962, the statue served as a rallying point where a mob gathered to prevent the admission of the university's first African American student, the school said in 2016 while discussing a plaque to provide historical context.
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The school has been struggling with its own history ever since universities like Georgetown started revealing their ties to slavery and a Robert E. Lee statue in nearby Charlottesville became a rallying point for white supremacists last August.
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Cranes moved into the site and first cement was poured at a modest ground-breaking ceremony on the edge of the square, long a rallying point for demonstrations, as riot police with armoured vehicles and water cannon stood guard.
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Weeks after the women's marches around the country turned out droves of anti-Trump protesters, Warren -- silenced by male senators for attempting to read a letter from a civil rights icon -- had given those women a new rallying point.
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The gap between viewership and subscribers, which is akin to followers on Twitter or page likes on Facebook, emerged as the latest rallying point for YouTube creators gathered at Viacom Inc's VidCon, an annual online video industry annual gathering.
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The hashtag has become a rallying point for scores of second- and third-generation immigrants in Germany, who have taken to Twitter to share their accounts of everyday racism and how they still struggle to be accepted as Germans.
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In the three years since the jihadis swept across the border from Syria where they had regrouped in the chaos of the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rule, IS was the rallying point uniting a fractured Iraq.
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The "228 Incident", as it is known in Taiwan, has in recent years become a rallying point for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which favors formal independence for the democratic, self-ruled island China claims at its own.
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Some two months later, Hulu's adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale" provided another sartorial rallying point, as protesters dressed in blood-red cloaks and white bonnets descended on various state capitals to challenge cuts to funding for reproductive health care.
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At the very least, the decision of Ford to unmask herself offered Democrats a rallying point as they seek to make the Kavanaugh nomination and the fate of the Supreme Court generally a key issue in the midterm elections.
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Footage recorded by local television stations showed two police riot vehicles surrounded by a large crowd of protesters in Santiago's Plaza Italia, a central rallying point in recent weeks, before the incident took place at around 7:30 p.m.
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Their use of tattoos, t-shirts, and flags that provide an aesthetic rallying point and the visual equivalent of a dog whistle has not gone unnoticed by Dozier and others attempting to translate the icons of the alt-right.
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But it has also given Warren and the Democrats a rallying point from which to defy the Trump administration -- not just on the Jeff Sessions confirmation, but on others to come -- and to paint the GOP as hostile to civil rights.
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The first Southern primary is now the rallying point where he dispatched a top adviser Monday, and where his campaign's co-chairman will hold a "launch party" Tuesday, when the campaign is bracing for a blowout defeat in New Hampshire's primary.
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Ireland itself voted to legalize gay marriage two months later, a rallying point for gay activists, and in July — after replacing the parade's longtime board chairman — event organizers said two gay and lesbian groups would be invited to march in 2016.
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The standoff became a rallying point for supporters of ranchers who argue they should have more access to public lands, as well as militia groups and anti-government figures who saw the skirmish as a chance to confront federal agents.
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The entire report is devoted to this one incident, likely because of its significance: Google had long held up its lack of caused collisions as a rallying point, but realistically, it was only a matter of time before something went wrong.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy went on trial on Monday for his role in leading a 2014 armed standoff against federal agents that became a rallying point for militia groups challenging U.S. government authority in the American West.
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Just as the British authorities tried to get rid of the Gaelic languages in Scotland and Ireland in the 18th century, the party has long been worried about separatist Tibetans and Uighurs using their language as a rallying point for independence.
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"Aquarius" has become a rallying point for the embattled Brazilian left, but even viewers with scant knowledge of the situation in that country will be aware of the film's timeliness, which is less a matter of ideology than of sensibility.
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Aipac used to be able to sidestep issues like settlements and the occupation, but now, with the Israeli right threatening annexation of the West Bank, the occupation has become the moral rallying point of the Jewish left, and Aipac appears paralyzed.
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That original "Statue of Peace," as its creators call it, has become a rallying point for weekly anti-Japanese protests, some of them belligerent, about islands contested by South Korea and Japan or calling for the boycott of Japanese goods.
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The Bronx district attorney on Wednesday asked a judge to dismiss gun and assault charges against a teenager in a case that had become a rallying point for critics of the criminal justice system, saying a crucial witness had disappeared.
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Mr. Azar contended that Congress might have better tools to rein in drug prices, and for now, the legislative package that is still being honed in Congress may offer Mr. Trump and Republicans a rallying point on the campaign trail.
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Mr. Azar contended that Congress might have better tools to rein in drug prices, and for now, the legislative package that is still being honed in Congress may offer Mr. Trump and Republicans a rallying point on the campaign trail.
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In the immediate aftermath of acquiring a historic stain with which only two previous Presidents have had to live, Trump did what he always does by going on the attack, leveraging his humiliation as a rallying point in his 2020 campaign.
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Confederate statues have been the topic of a national conversation since a statue of Lee, the commander of the Confederate States Army, became a rallying point for far-right protesters during the deadly "Unite the Right" demonstration in Charlottesville in 2017.
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Meanwhile, Bernall's story proved to be a rallying point for youth ministry: In a 1999 Weekly Standard column, Joseph Bottum wrote about 73,000 teenagers who "wept along with sermon after sermon on her death" at a rally in Pontiac, Michigan.
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Though single-payer health care has become a new rallying point within the party, Ossoff said in an interview that he doesn't support "any move toward single-payer when we need to be focused on what's achievable" on health care policy.
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Ever since the National Park Service's main Twitter account appeared to "go rogue" on President Donald Trump's inauguration day, people have been using the department and its various park-specific social media accounts as a rallying point in the anti-Trump resistance.
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Burke has become a rallying point for conservatives who think the pope is taking the 1.2 billion member Church too far to the left and accuse him of showing more concern for social issues such as poverty and climate change than moral doctrine.
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Though Gjoni never called for any kind of campaign against Quinn, a certain subset of gamers took his nine-thousand-word, she-done-me-wrong post and turned it into a rallying point from which to defend their sacred, mostly male gaming territory.
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While union members traditionally march on May 1 for workers' rights around the world, the day has become a rallying point for immigrants in the U.S. since massive demonstrations were held on the date in 2006 against a proposed immigration enforcement bill.
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The hanging of Qadri on February 29th has become a rallying point for Pakistan's Barelvis, a broad movement within the majority Sunni community which had been regarded as non-political and non-violent as well as a useful foil to more militant sects.
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And within the partisan world that we live, President Trump will likely continue to be successful at handling the politics of the investigation in this manner, even turning it to his advantage and into a potential rallying point for Republicans in the midterms.
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The Senate on Wednesday voted to reinstate the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) net neutrality rules, passing a bill that has little chance of advancing in the House but offers net neutrality supporters and Democrats a political rallying point for the midterm elections.
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Although the bill is unlikely to become law, Geraint Davies, the lawmaker who will introduce the bill in parliament, said it would build political pressure on the EU and act as a rallying point for lawmakers whose constituents are demanding a new vote.
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Colombia has one of the region&aposs highest levels of income inequality, ranking second only to Haiti according to one study, and politicians and armed groups have tried to make that a rallying point at various moments in the nation&aposs history.
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Rice's death became a rallying point for the Black Lives Matter movement and one of a number of deaths that led to nationwide demonstrations against the use of excessive and sometimes deadly force against minorities, especially young black men, by police officers.
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A core fact of our era is that the national Republican Party is politically effective only as a vehicle for anti-liberalism, a rallying point for all the disparate groups who feel threatened by having our cultural elite in full control of government.
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The controversy around Pruitt's contacts with oil, natural gas and coal companies has given Democrats a rallying point to call for a delay of his final vote on the Senate floor, but which Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has insisted will take place Friday.
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You would think that by now a figure — someone younger than my 59 years — would have appeared to inspire people with true American values, a figure who could serve as an antithetical rallying point, laying the groundwork for the midterm elections and beyond.
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Instead, it all could be a failure by design in the hope of losing the case in the Senate in order to energize the Democratic base and win back control of the Senate next November, all while denying Republican voters a rallying point.
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On Friday a demonstration brought chaotic scenes in Santiago's central Plaza Italia rallying point, where an estimated 1,500 demonstrators clashed with as many as 1,000 police officers, resulting in a 20-year-old protester being run over by a police armored vehicle.
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Garner's death became a rallying point for racial justice activists, who argued that minorities, particularly black men and women, were treated unfairly by police, a movement that grew a few weeks after Garner's death with the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Trump's broadside on Tuesday sparked warnings that he was pouring fire on an already volatile situation, and could be playing into Pyongyang's hands by validating its narrative that the US wants to go to war with North Korea -- a rallying point for the regime.
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The attack on the Kurdish forces in Syria proved a rallying point for both House Republicans and Democrats, but GOP members have stopped short of uniformly condemning the Turkish president's visit, focusing their efforts on controlling messaging and defending Trump in the impeachment inquiry.
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Mr. Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, is trying to goad Republicans, including the committee chairman, Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, and the majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, into defending Mr. Trump, giving Democrats a legislative rallying point.
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As the day went on, thousands of people made their way to the Place de la République, a central rallying point in Paris, lighting candles and piling flowers on the pedestal of an immense bronze statue of Marianne, the personification of the French Republic.
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It's hard to find a less likely cultural rallying point than Adult Swim's "Rick and Morty," the weird, bleak, semi-psychedelic animated show about a misanthropic scientist and his below-average grandson whose world-inverting adventures tend to have an odd tinge of nihilism.
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There was protest at the visit, however, in Dublin where the "Trump Baby" inflatable blimp, a staple of marches against the president, was flown in on Thursday after again becoming a rallying point for thousands of anti-Trump protesters in London earlier in the week.
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Assembly speaker Carl Heastie highlighted the proposals that have become a rallying point for Democrats both in the state and nationally, saying that he was "very optimistic" an agreement could be reached over a state-wide $15 minimum wage with the Republican controlled Senate.
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They contend that after the fights of early August, the president took on the mantle of a national leader with a vigorous and visible response to Hurricane Harvey, and that cleaning up the devastation may prove both a rallying point and a strategic leverage.
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Another was for editing "Dangerous Visions" (1967), a mammoth anthology that served as a rallying-point for the "New Wave" of science fiction—a movement bringing sex, drugs and literary experimentation to a genre often characterised by formal attributes as staid as its ideas were interstellar.
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" Noting that the family's "grief and anguish" was evident in the courtroom, Kline said he believes the case will become a "rallying point for those like the Piazzas who are determined to fix what is drastically wrong on American university campuses and, in particular, fraternity life.
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To make things worse, public opinion in the United States had recently turned hard against the war; after all, this was just a few months after the Summer of Love, when the hippie movement somewhat formally consolidated, with opposition to the war as a central rallying point.
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And with the Democratic field to take on President Donald Trump in 2020 wide open, Holder -- along with former Vice President Joe Biden -- could credibly claim the closest ties to the last Democratic president, a potent rallying point for a party in search of a standard-bearer.
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The six-meter high blimp, which depicts Donald Trump as a snarling, diaper-wearing orange baby, was a rallying point for thousands of anti-Trump protesters who packed central London on Tuesday and tens of thousands who protested in the city against a trip last year.
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"Not only is there someone else for whom to place the blame, there's a unifying, rallying point of, 'If only we didn't have that person, or that entity, or that party, or that whatever, we would be able to do X, Y and Z,'" he said.
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When Nina Simone released "Mississippi Goddam" in 1964, the Alabama she sang about was, specifically, Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church — the church that became a rallying point for the Civil Rights Movement, the church nearly destroyed by fifteen sticks of dynamite planted by four Ku Klux Klansmen.
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Trump's decision so far not to release his tax returns has been a rallying point not only for Hillary Clinton and her supporters but also for the die-hard #NeverTrump crowd, led by 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who released his own tax returns under a drumbeat of attacks.
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His May release of a list of 11 people he would nominate to fill the opening created by the death of Antonin Scalia served as a major rallying point for GOP primary voters still wary of backing someone who was a very recent convert to their way of thinking.
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The news agency report said Mr. al-Bashir would be held accountable for the death of "the martyr Babikir," a possible reference to Dr. Babiker Salama, a 27-year-old doctor whose death during a protest in January became a rallying point for the uprising against Mr. al-Bashir.
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Critics of the take a knee protests argue that the issue is about the constitutional right to protest but amounts to defaming a flag that has been a poignant rallying point for US service personnel and first responders in the decade-and-a-half of war since 9/11.
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"A core fact of our era is that the national Republican Party is politically effective only as a vehicle for anti-liberalism, a rallying point for all the disparate groups who feel threatened by having our cultural elite in full control of government," my colleague Ross Douthat writes.
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The recent rash of anti-trans bills echoes the wave of laws and constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage that served as a partisan rallying point throughout the 1990s and 2000s, from the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act to the passage of Proposition 8 in California in 2008.
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At the same time, Mr. Netanyahu — under pressure from his coalition's powerful right wing to begin annexing settlements — faces the specific problem of finding new homes for the residents of Amona, a recently dismantled settlement that has become a rallying point for many on the right in Israel.
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As a de facto leader of the anti-Trump resistance, Waters has become a bit of a rallying point for progressives in recent months, and her words to Mnuchin quickly became an internet meme among women, minorities, and anyone else who's run out of time to waste and fucks to give.
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After winning a swath of states with diverse ideological, geographical and demographic profiles, like Trump has, such a candidate would expect his main foes to fold their campaigns to fall in behind him -- especially in an election likely to feature Democrat Hillary Clinton, a rallying point for GOP hatred for decades.
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Taken together, this pattern suggests anyone hoping for a realignment of union tactics (including the senior author) should lose the rose-colored glasses, and accept that, in the near term, any expansions of charters or other educational opportunities outside traditional public schools will be a rallying point to harden union resolve.
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Editorial The Confederate-flag-waving white supremacist who murdered nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church two years ago made it impossible to evade the fact that the banner — and Confederate ideology generally — had been a rallying point for white supremacy and racial terrorism for more than 100 years.
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Slowly but surely over the last year, the_donald has evolved from a straightforward political community focused on the goings-on of the Trump campaign to an authoritarian one full of memes and in-jokes, far right talking points, coded racism, misogyny, homophobia, and Islamophobia, and a hypocritical "free speech" rallying point.
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But, in a year of extraordinary political intensity, and in the first national election of the Trump presidency, Republican and Democratic leaders say the gun issue appears to have become a potent rallying point for voters opposed to Mr. Trump and fed up with what they see as Washington's indifference to mass shootings.
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Hunter Biden&aposs position on the board of the company Burisma has been a rallying point for Republicans as they try to defend President Donald Trump against impeachment charges over Trump asking Ukraine&aposs new president to investigate the former vice president and his son while also withholding crucial U.S. military aid.
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"If we don't take the hype out of this debate, with all the people who signed this petition, there is every possibility that of course this visit is then going to become a rallying point for everybody who is unhappy both with the direction of American policy, or British policy or anything else," he said.
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The sheriff of Grant County, Glenn Palmer, had expressed sympathy for the occupation — saying that "the government is going to have to concede something" to the protesters, such as dismissing the F.B.I. from the area and releasing the Hammonds, the father-and-son ranching team whose imprisonment on arson charges was a rallying point for the Bundys.
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For Taguieff, this in part reflects the increasingly religious undertones of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—what he calls an "Islamization of the Palestinian cause," in which the Islamist Hamas party, which has controlled Gaza since 2006, has deemed "Palestine a Muslim territory," and, accordingly, transformed opposition to the occupation into a religious rallying point for Muslims across the world.
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On Saturday, an attacker drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a rally of white nationalists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., fueling a longstanding conflict over whether Confederate monuments — like the statue of Robert E. Lee whose preservation in Charlottesville's Emancipation Park became a rallying point for white nationalists — belong in public spaces.
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Politically, too, a musical that has become a rallying point stateside for a more expansive America would appear to speak no less directly to a West End public that the other night cheered various pro-immigrant remarks with their own spontaneous fervor: two countries divided, as "Hamilton" reminds us, by revolution but conjoined in this instance by art.
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The 1MDB case, as well as concerns about debt to China that piled up at a staggering rate under Mr. Najib's rule, has been a rallying point for the administration of Mahathir Mohamad, the 93-year-old former mentor and ally of Mr. Najib who returned to the prime minister's post last year vowing to clean up the mess.
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In fact, there is every sign that in its quest for a landslide victory, the May campaign is hoping to vacuum up every vote it can, replicating its success in local elections this month, when the Conservatives picked up the support of Brexiteers from the failing U.K. Independence Party, once a magnetic rallying point for Euroskepticism and a thorn in Mr. Cameron's side.
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And after a third of a century in which John Paul II made the papacy "a rallying point for resistance to the redefinition of Christianity," the church is led by a pope who has no use for the culture-war schema of resistance and accommodation — who sees the church called to "go to the peripheries" rather than strive to restore Christianity as the vital center.
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But, the future of Brexit hangs in the balance, without a clear majority in parliament behind Johnson and deep division over how, when, and even if, Britain should follow through on its 2016 referendum decision to leave the EU. Swinson, the party's first female leader, has built her campaign around cementing the Liberal Democrats as the rallying point for those from across the traditional political spectrum who are opposed to Brexit.
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DRESDEN, Germany — On the night of February 15, a group of German nationalists marched through the streets of Dresden to commemorate the victims of the devastating Allied bombing of the East German city late in World War II. The city is an annual rallying point for the far-right here, and the group was met by mobs of black-clad antifa counterprotesters hurling insults, and the occasional bottle.
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DRESDEN, Germany — On the night of February 22017, a group of German nationalists marched through the streets of Dresden to commemorate the victims of the devastating Allied bombing of the East German city late in World War II. The city is an annual rallying point for the far-right here, and the group was met by mobs of black-clad antifa counterprotesters hurling insults, and the occasional bottle.
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While Thingiverse is run by a private company, many of the users assumed they were working with like-minded creators who understood the limitations – and power – of CC. "We've been making assumptions about the protections that CC and Copyright afford, and on what they apply to – this particular situation is maybe the rallying point we as a community can use to bring more clarity to what is a bit of a muddy situation!" said Driggers.
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But in the way that the internet can rapidly make and remake something, morphing meaning in real time, Lil Nas X's track became something different almost every few days on its path from SoundCloud obscurity to pop ubiquity: a savvy troll, a manipulator of streaming algorithms, a meme theme, a battering ram to genre barriers, a trigger of music-biz discord, a David suffering at the hands of Goliath, a sociocultural rallying point, and eventually, a site of cross-cultural kumbaya.
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