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But what happened was, Albu Nimr tribe was a local tribe that stood against, they said they stood against Islam.
Until last week, the Justice Department stood against those states.
The Republican Party has never stood against our democratic principles.
Jack stood against everything you stand for – hatred, division, ignorance.
He stood against the curtains, hoping Trump wouldn't notice him.
I stood against tyranny and kept darkness from consuming the world.
But the plan would fail if any senator stood against it.
They stood against the wood panels, watching the slides crawl along.
He stood against all the people who said this was a sensitive issue.
I've unflinchingly stood against bigotry and bias and racism in all their forms.
He stood against the hate between the white and black community, and the war.
Rezaei said that the majority of the council stood against joining the international body.
Vo21, the king of Painkiller, stood against Fatal21ty, the best gamer in the world.
Corbyn and the Labour Party, then, stood against whatever the Conservative government brought back.
We stood against white supremacy there, and then this march happened the week following.
Egypt was "hell-bent" on arresting and harassing anyone who stood against Sisi, Amnesty said.
Few athletes have so bravely stood against inequitable institutions at the height of their careers.
C.E.U., whose student body is mostly international students, represented everything Orbán's populist government stood against.
Like that Old Testament prophet, he stood against corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.
She pointed out that as attorney general of California, she stood against the criminalization of immigrants.
But the United States, which previously stood against the offensive, appears to have offered tacit agreement.
And that will require him to make compromises with the very establishment he has long stood against.
Pakistani politician Imran Khan hailed Castro as "an iconic revolutionary leader" who stood against the United States.
French President Emmanuel Macron also condemned the attack and said France stood against all forms of extremism.
Like that Old Testament prophet, he stood against the corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.
Earlier this month, the Senate took a symbolic vote declaring that it stood against Trump's trade agenda.
Bill Cosby has been convicted of sexual assault — and those who stood against him are overcome with emotion.
There was a time when liberals stood against the use of intimidation, harassment and violence against political opponents.
Manning introduced the senator, saying the church had stood against injustices and welcomed leaders who shared those values.
"Like that Old Testament prophet, he stood against the corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel," Mrs.
They stood against the fence, condemned to a life of being the Razor scooter kids at a skatepark.
Even if he still had an incomplete understanding of his own politics, he knew what he stood against .
He reportedly told North Carolina Republican Mark Meadows that he would "come after you" if Meadows stood against him.
She has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood and has consistently stood against legislation that would defund the organization.
Other listeners sat on rugs on the floor just inches from the performers or stood against the back walls.
The longer individuals and their families stood against Assad, the further they've had to shift from his power bases.
The party, like Republicans in Virginia, is closely tied to the big energy monopoly and Carter stood against that.
Notably, during Clinton's first presidential campaign in 2007, every major Democratic and Republican candidate also stood against gay marriage.
Counter-protesters stood against the police barricade, chanting "Nazi scum" while bottles, firecrackers, and other projectiles flew from both sides.
Would they nominate a forceful, dynamic left-wing politician who stood against "establishment" politics and called for structural political change?
By not disagreeing with someone who I had categorized as standing for everything I stood against, did I become them?
Even the commanding general at Fort Hood, Lieutenant General Mark Milley stood against loosening gun carry laws on military installations.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A cardboard cutout of the candidate stood against the wall, below a not-yet-erased whiteboard showing his schedule.
Moderates, like members of the Tuesday Group, a loose alliance of up to 50 House Republicans, have stood against these cut.
"This is a victory against all the odds because we stood against powerful forces," he said to a gathering of supporters.
We stood against the Durbin amendment in 2010 and we continue to oppose it today because bad policy is bad policy.
What we know is that the UFC president initially stood against the rumors, calling them nothing more than "just a tabloid story".
"Like that Old Testament prophet, he stood against the corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel," Hillary Clinton said of Cummings.
Civil rights organizations like LULAC have stood against such anti-American policies in the past and we will continue to do so.
They argue that efforts to ban or otherwise tighten regulations on pornography is the kind of overreach they have long stood against.
Gurria said Panama has so far stood against joining the global push for transparency and backtracked on its commitments regarding information exchange.
The recent battle on health care, for example, gave rise to several high-profile incidents in which Republicans blatantly stood against the President.
When Ed Miliband stood against his elder brother David for the leadership of the Labour Party in 2010, it tore the family apart.
Thoreau's life and writings stood against the current of scientism that prevailed in his time and that continues to define our intellectual culture.
And though negative statements like "the most disgusting thing on a woman is hair on her legs," were left, others stood against the adversity.
Ali stood against a war before it was popular to do so, demanding his rights in court and in the court of public opinion.
In between the Hilton and Marriott hotels, directly leading up to the front entrance to BlizzCon, a small group of protesters stood against Blizzard.
They stood at the foot of the monument to Jose Rizal, our national hero who stood against Spanish colonialism but cautioned against violent revolution.
For 20 years there, he studied the effects of drug treatment with drugs like opiates and marijuana (the latter of which he staunchly stood against).
"I've made the point that every time we've stood against equality, we've been on the wrong side of history," he told The Advocate in 2012.
In Norway, some lamented that the Marines' arrival stood against the country's traditions and threatened to make it a target of its much larger neighbor.
" Of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the post said, "He never had a chance to win the nomination as the Democratic Party itself stood against him!
Tshiseskedi, the candidate whom Congolese officials declared the winner, is the son of a longtime opposition leader, Étienne Tshisekedi, who stood against Mobutu and both Kabilas.
In 21999 and again in 21990, Mr. Tsvangirai stood against Mr. Mugabe in elections marred by growing levels of violence against opposition supporters by government followers.
When a union of Iowa laundrymen threatened a community of Chinese business owners in Des Moines in 22020, he stood against them as the community's spokesman.
Opposition parties stood against the proposed law that would, for the first time, create a legal pathway to grant Indian nationality on the basis of religion.
"Like that Old Testament prophet, he stood against the corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel," she said, to a roar of applause from the congregation.
Hill stood against his red truck in a cut sleeve tank top watching Armstrong operate the hay bailer and I asked him what makes Vermont farmers different.
In the cavernous arena, the crowd faced a stage, on which a row of American flags stood against a backdrop bearing a towering image of George Washington.
The seven released on bail and ordered out of the country had all left, Ouch Sopheaktra said, adding that the charges still stood against them in Cambodia.
So I think we should all look at this story, in the sense that this was one person who stood against a system that was oppressing people.
Britain's redoubtable but unsung foreign secretary "stood against the sky" when Greece, Turkey and Berlin were in play in a treacherous game of bluff and double bluff.
He is still well behind Le Pen and Fillon, but even before he launched officially, some of her worst scores were in scenarios where he stood against her.
" Michael Ahrens, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee: "Republicans are going to make sure voters remember who stood up for Americans' priorities, and who stood against them.
Many said they put him there because he stood against political correctness and was a successful businessman and because they liked what he said about our trade policies.
Then came the 2012 elections just two months after I arrived in the United States, and Mr. Obama won me over again when he stood against Mitt Romney.
"The United States has stood against the corrupt and destabilizing regime in Cuba and embraced the enduring dream of the Cuban people to live in freedom," Trump said.
But then, as president, Trump equated a group of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and white nationalists who descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, with the counterprotesters who stood against them.
"Our political opponents stand where they always have stood - against change, against progress, and are servants to the same vested interests - the big banks and big business," Shorten said.
"Remember the Judiciary Committee once stood against a court-packing scheme of a Democratic president that would have eroded judicial independence, and that was a proud moment," Leahy said.
On November 22015, 240, 25-year-old conceptual artist Chris Burden stood against a gallery wall while a marksman pointed a rifle at him from about 15 feet away.
But if I don't have my citizenship, I wouldn't be able to vote, [so] even if I stood against any type of initiative strongly, there's nothing I could do.
Nixon and Watergate Although Watergate eventually swept away Nixon's support, Republican Senators stood against an even stronger current when they supported the initial steps to fully investigate the scandal.
And so the legacy of Trump's presidency, begun with a campaign that drove people apart, will include bringing us to the kind of openhearted future he has stood against.
Another photograph depicts a black hole cut into a similarly manicured suburban bush—perhaps a sign for unsuccessful attempts to push through the emotional walls the artist stood against.
"As we didn't surrender to the coup makers, and stood against the tanks with our bare hands, we will not surrender to the economic hit men," Mr. Erdogan said.
Some are seen amid the bustle of the city; others appear to be isolated in the studio, though in reality, they stood against a backdrop on the same busy square.
I stood against a green screen, selected an avatar (I chose Arnold from Hey Arnold!), put on an Oculus Rift headset and was transported onto a New York City rooftop.
We imagine Kanye or one of her pals played photographer, as Kim stood against a wall with her robe draped open and her post-baby slim down on full display.
"We have always stood against any imposition of a, quote, final status solution and against any resolution that is unfair and biased against Israel, and we will continue," Kerry said.
And in other years in other ways, but in all these years I stood against them and said whatever the results of the election are, they must be carried out.
In being "against purity" — in knowing "nothing at all about good and evil" — Shinran also stood against the standard way that most Buddhists of his day understood themselves and enlightenment.
He surmised that the information is coming out now because the government feels secure enough to let those who stood against it know that their relatives are dead, he said.
"In 2019, the federal grand jury exists as a mockery of the institution that once stood against the whims of monarchs," Manning wrote in a letter to Judge Trenga on Wednesday.
After Murphy left the game, he stood against a wall in a narrow hallway, surrounded by cameras and members of the New York media who had covered much of his career.
Many left-wing and progressive protesters have depicted their favorite superheroes as defenders of American values, while explicitly framing Trump as the face of the fascism America has historically stood against.
He stood against the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, praised the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United and, more recently, blasted Democrats for their push to expand access to the ballot.
I stood against a wall by my desk, glued to my phone, panicking over the possibility that the greatest rapper of our generation, one of my heroes, might be gone forever.
Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister, and Mehdi Karoubi, a cleric and ex-speaker of parliament who stood against Ahmadinejad, remain under house arrest where they have been for five years.
But it is in our human nature to love the story of a person who did great things: saved lives, wrote books, stood against the dictator who wiped out millions of lives.
That is why in the Western Hemisphere the United States has stood against the corrupt, destabilizing regime in Cuba and embraced the enduring dream of the Cuban people to live in freedom.
A group of teens willingly stood against a wall and got a dose of pepper spray to the face as a part of a criminal technology course at Barberton High School in Ohio.
Birtukan was one of dozens of opposition figures arrested in the violent aftermath of a 2005 vote - when an opposition coalition stood against the government across the country, then challenged the EPRDF's victory.
That is why in the Western Hemisphere, the United States has stood against the corrupt and destabilizing regime in Cuba and embraced the enduring dream of the Cuban people to live in freedom.
The king's order came less than a week after the pro-Thaksin political party Pheu Thai, Thailand's main opposition group, stood against a party supporting the ruling military junta in disputed national elections.
And that is the approach that judges like Brett Kavanaugh and others on this list would have stood against and that is why the Democrats and their allies are so opposed to such nominees.
He rolled it out in response to polling that showed only 37 percent of voters thought that the Democratic Party stood for something, while 52 percent said the party only stood against President Trump.
But that market volatility also stood against a backdrop of Nixon's decision to suspend the dollars convertibility into gold and a recession following the oil shock of late 1973, according to JPMorgan's John Normand.
For emerging writers, this was a way to test out their work's worth, to see how it stood against breaking news, if people were interested in the genre, or if it would create a scandal.
Then for the actual shoot, Nélisse stood against a vertical bed, with the camera roughly six feet away and shooting with a tight zoom lens just over Ritter's shoulder as he spoke sanitized, alternate dialogue.
The issue has pushed aside almost all others - a point made by a dozen semi-naked climate change protesters who stood against a glass panel in a public gallery overlooking the chamber as lawmakers debated.
The group also stood against Boehner's first heir apparent, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, causing McCarthy to withdraw his name from contention and convincing Speaker Paul Ryan to run for the job as a shoo-in.
While these Anti-Federalists — as they were known — stood against the Constitution and for a Bill of Rights, on the other side were those against a Bill of Rights and in favor of the Constitution.
"Al Azhar will stand against calls for sexual perversion the same way it has stood against extremist groups," a preacher at the 1,000-year-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning said in his Friday prayers sermon.
On the Lower East Side, Tony Strong, 51, stood against a fence in front of the La Guardia Houses, chatting with a friend, with two carts packed with bagged items and extra plastic bags beside them.
Her decision leaves in place a moderate Republican who is a swing vote; she has stood against President Trump's agenda more than any other Republican senator and is likely to maintain a role as his foil.
Pence goes on to enumerate three moments in American history in which pulpits stood against tyranny: against King George III's oppressive rule prior to the American Revolution, against the practice of slavery, and in favor of civil rights.
Bannon, according to basically every leak out of the White House, clashed with McMaster for the exact same reason that his erstwhile colleagues at Breitbart did: He saw McMaster as an advocate of "globalist" ideas that Trump should have stood against.
Charleston, South Carolina (CNN)Former Attorney General Eric Holder took a veiled swipe at Bernie Sanders Sunday, urging worshipers at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston to hold politicians who have stood against gun reform accountable at the ballot box.
But, mainly, we stood against Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
Understanding how to honor Ali in his death demands a deep understanding of the paradox, and ultimately reconciliation, between a man who stood against a country that was both racist and bellicose, and a sport that at its core embodied both.
The report said Shea posted on the Liberty For All III% website, calling for Patriot Movement members nationwide to travel to Bunkerville, Nevada, which resulted in the turnout of approximately 1,500 armed militia members that stood against the US government.
On "The Mother," in which she sings "You are not an accident where no one thought it through/The world has stood against us, made us mean to fight for you" isn't just a celebratory song of Shepard and Carlile's first child.
In the end, voters kept to the right in granting a fifth term to a leader who has a reputation for getting things done, despite an array of former generals who stood against him — and were dismissed by Netanyahu as the "weak left".
The most prominent of these is a doctor named José Manuel Mireles whose story is highlighted in the Oscar-nominated documentary Cartel Land that explores the way the movement also became embroiled in the same types of crimes it had initially stood against.
In an emotional video posted on Twitter over the weekend, actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus asked concerned citizens to vote for candidates who have stood against what she described as the fear-mongering and racist rhetoric endorsed by Donald Trump and like-minded Republican candidates.
That much of the country, including those who have bitterly opposed his government, stood against a military coup as a violation of democracy has raised hopes that Mr. Erdogan will seize the moment to reach across Turkey's many political divides and unite the country.
The events in Charlottesville drew further controversy when President Donald Trump said "both sides" were to blame for the violence, drawing a false equivalence between the neo-Nazis and KKK members who went to Charlottesville and the anti-racist demonstrators who stood against the white supremacists.
Georgians are better than this, and that's why they are turning out in record numbers to vote for Stacey Abrams, who is the only candidate in this race who has consistently stood against bigotry and hatred and instead has celebrated the rich diversity of our community and our state.
Their opposition was part of why Boehner stepped down from his role and resigned from Congress, and they also stood against his first heir apparent, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, causing the Californian to withdraw his name from contention and convincing now-Speaker Paul Ryan to run for the job.
In remarks punctured with applause from the audience, Clinton drew standing cheers when she compared Cummings with the Old Testament prophet for whom he was named, noting that he "he stood against the corrupt leadership" of biblical figures, an apparent reference to his role in battling the Trump administration.
Saying that a careful study of American history shows the importance of speaking from the pulpit, Pence enumerates three moments in American history in which pulpits stood against tyranny: against King George III's oppressive rule prior to the American Revolution, against the practice of slavery, and in favor of civil rights.
"Based on my insights, it seems safe to say that the museum didn't assume a neutral stance in the private confrontation between two parties, but rather played an active role in this legal dispute and even stood against the artist who was invited to and exhibited in the museum," she continued.
Mr Umunna, Rachel Reeves, a former Bank of England economist, Dan Jarvis, a former soldier, Yvette Cooper, one of the candidates who stood against Mr Corbyn last time, and Sir Keir Starmer, once Britain's director for public prosecutions, are among those often mentioned as at least slightly more stirring possible leaders for the next push.
" The group backed Jones, James said Wednesday, because the election created a situation "where black people can decide if the next senator from the state is going to be a person who is in the tradition of George Wallace or who literally stood against the [Ku Klux] Klan to bring justice to all of black America.
In a video on Little Brother's YouTube channel from 2007, 9th explains: Yeah, he really said "no matter what people think about him": 9th knew that their fans were skeptical of Wayne, which might seem insane, but, remember, he was coming out of a Southern rap scene that represented basically everything Little Brother stood against, talent notwithstanding.
While I am grateful that the government has finally allowed women the choice to drive, it is important to stop and think of all the men and women who have bravely stood against the state driving ban for the past 27 years: The 47 women who drove in protest in 1990 and the man who photographed them were all arrested.
He'd pick out a rod and then, at night, I'd park my beach chair not too close but not too far from him as he stood against the railing, one foot bent up on the concrete sea wall, and the sky would pulse with stars and maybe there would be one of those fat moons that lit a path across the water.
Collins and Murkowski had stood against the motion to bring the debate to the Senate floor on Tuesday, but McCain, who voted for the motion, dramatically put the nail in the repeal-and-replace coffin even after being personally lobbied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (R-Me.) and Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska) stood against the motion earlier this week, voting against bringing the debate to the floor. Sen.

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