It's time we took a stand and had this reckoning.
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Trump took a stand against Duke later in the day.
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Just one day after Shultz took a stand, Reagan backed down.
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In 2003, we took a stand of zero tolerance against torture.
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Robin Wright took a stand for equal pay in the workplace.
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It's about time the league took a stand on this one.
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Earlier this week, Ellen DeGeneres took a stand in support of Hart.
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"We took a stand last night because we had to," he said.
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I am glad Ms. Swift took a stand against casual sexual assault.
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But facing great legal and political opposition, Apple took a stand anyway.
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Canada's dreamy prime minister, took a stand for public breast-feeding on Twitter.
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John McCain took a stand on behalf of his adoptive hometown of Phoenix.
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However, Prince famously took a stand to keep control over his life's work.
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Popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe also took a stand against hate speech following Charlottesville.
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In 2016, the ad tech company AppNexus took a stand against hate speech.
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He took a stand to protest warrantless domestic eavesdropping under George W. Bush.
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They took a stand and kept playing even when the president himself quit.
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Kaur took a stand against the issue and came under the face of attack.
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Unfortunately, we have no proof that any government employees ever actually took a stand.
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That's why workers in Shakopee, Minnesota, took a stand and walked out on Monday.
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Imagine what could change if 54 million voices joined together and took a stand.
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Facing steep cuts, the paper's editorial board took a stand in a blistering column.
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Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates just took a stand against her very powerful boss.
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In each case, a chief executive took a stand — a growing trend in corporate America.
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Ten years ago when they were doing beheadings up there and they took a stand.
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But that night, the marginalized LGBTQ community members took a stand and fought back against police.
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We watched together as courageous students in Florida took a stand on our nation's gun laws.
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Kanye famously took a stand against homophobia in hip-hop all the way back in 2005.
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"Four of our colleagues took a stand and organized for a better workplace," the post said.
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Initially, The Knot, WeddingWire and Pinterest were our industry leaders who really took a stand early.
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"Today Pittsburgh took a stand to say enough is enough," city councilman Corey O'Connor told CNN.
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Like Goldman, JPMorgan took a stand against something that accounted for little to no financial gain.
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"[Governor Malloy] took a stand against this dangerous development in our national discourse," Schlossberg said on Sunday.
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Residents and business owners took a stand and apparently succeeded in removing one obstacle to economic growth.
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The company took a stand over President Trump's plans to reduce the size of two national monuments.
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The fashion and beauty mogul finally took a stand in October, sharing a creative meme on Instagram.
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Earlier this year, she also made headlines when she took a stand against her very powerful boss.
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The Democrats took a stand to limit a president whom they found deeply threatening to American democracy.
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"He took a stand for not only flight attendants but everyone," one flight attendant told the Washington Post.
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The CEOs who took a stand this week should only be the beginning — who else is ready to lead?
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Instead of doing nothing in the face of social injustice, Colin Kaepernick took a stand (by taking a knee).
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We hope coach Eddie Robinson and his legendary players appreciate we took a stand and thought we were right.
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The federal government once took a stand against illegal drugs and even condemned their harmful effects in the 1980s.
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Stack had been a relatively low-profile executive, but that changed when he took a stand on gun violence.
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"If Taylor Swift took a stand, it would impact her listeners," he says of the famously apolitical chart-topper.
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Female Islamist opinion writers, most of them typically supportive of the A.K.P. government, also took a stand against it.
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A restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina, took a stand against the rhetoric of Donald Trump and some of his supporters.
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Elon Musk took a stand against what many are calling a "Muslim ban" in a series of tweets on Wednesday.
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Can you imagine if Jimmy Fallon took a stand tonight I don't fault Jimmy Fallon for not being a journalist.
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The suspended PBS talk show host took a stand for workplace dating Monday night on Tucker Carlson's FOX News show.
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First-grader also took a stand on her own Seven-year-old Havana Chapman-Edwards decided to take action, too.
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FERRISBURGH, Vt. — In a nation ripped apart by racial strife and economic inequality, Rowland and Rachel Robinson took a stand.
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He thought the white racists of the South could be countered by the ministers who took a stand for equality.
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Aerie regularly shares photos of its customers in store windows and took a stand against airbrushing models several years ago.
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Marx saw something going on, so he took a stand and walked where no one else would dare to even try.
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When its chief executive, Edward Stack, took a stand against selling guns after the Parkland, Florida shooting, some store sales fell.
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Ivanka Trump broke with her father several weeks ago and took a stand against Moore soon after his accusers went public.
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Unlike Rubio, Walker, Pence, and so many others with 2020 ambitions, he took a stand, even though it meant loud boos.
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Before Rosa Parks, there were others who took a stand against injustice, but she had the character to represent the movement.
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A model took a stand against Gucci's newest styles while modeling in the brand's Spring/Summer 2020 fashion show on Sunday.
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On Sports A few days after the first presidential debate, LeBron James took a stand: He endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
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But last July, a week before a public hearing on Locke's design, the local NAACP took a stand against his work.
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What is one that you would take a stand on, like the students pictured above took a stand on climate change?
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"Three years ago, we took a stand against corporate greed but corporate greed won the day then," Mr. de Blasio said.
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He also took a stand against rule changes that shielded former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) from ethics charges.
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Jeff Flake (R-AZ), a closely watched swing vote on Kavanaugh's nomination, took a stand Friday at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
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Journalist Melissa Blake took a stand against internet trolls by sharing a series of selfies on Twitter, and her post went viral.
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Several local jurisdictions in the district took a stand against California's so-called sanctuary state laws that seek to protect undocumented immigrants.
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Andy took a stand for his BFF, Kelly Ripa, during his SiriusXM show Monday morning ... calling out Strahan for taking the 'GMA' gig.
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On Tuesday, Jennifer Aniston took a stand against media speculations about whether she's pregnant in a powerful piece published on The Huffington Post.
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Keys also took a stand for tolerance by recognizing the 53rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's historic "I Have A Dream" speech.
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Many voters took a stand earlier in November and registered their strong disapproval -- via midterm elections -- for the President of the United States.
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Here are 20.7889 celebrities who took a stand in the past year in efforts to make a positive impact on the world: 1.
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Yet we also learn that the band took a stand against racism when they refused to perform for a segregated audience in Jacksonville.
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And two days after Trump urged owners to fire players who won't stand for the anthem, the Patriots took a stand against Trump.
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David Leonhardt argues that New York bravely took a stand against companies that pit cities against each other in search of tax breaks.
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After a handful of companies took a stand against opening on Thanksgiving Day, the list of retailers sticking with holiday hours is quickly growing.
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The NCAA just took a stand against North Carolina's controversial bathroom law and pulled seven major championship games out of the Tar Heel state.
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Last month Emmanuel Macron, the French president, helped defuse a political crisis in Lebanon, and he took a stand against Mr Trump's Jerusalem decision.
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She also took a stand in favour of gun control, preventing Pennsylvanians who had been denied state permits from buying guns in other states.
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Menashi took a stand against women protesting sexual assault while at Dartmouth College saying the marches discriminated against men, the New York Times reported.
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On Monday, Twitter took a stand by updating its advertising policies: It will no longer take advertising money from state-controlled news media outlets.
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"The university could've expelled every single person in that building, but we took a stand and said we've had enough of this," Gittens said.
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"It's time we took a stand and refused to keep hurting ourselves in the pursuit of a 'perfect' body that doesn't even exist," she wrote.
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Aheda Zanetti, who lives in Australia and owns the trademark on 'burkini,' said online sales skyrocketed as women took a stand against the clothing directives.
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The idea that we took a stand that you drew a line in the sand and said what side of the line we were on.
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After sex-worker organizers reached out to his campaign, he took a stand only one other congressional candidate has taken: Congress must repeal SESTA/FOSTA.
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The letter also took a stand against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), denouncing how it has been arresting people at hospitals amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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He took a stand (or took a knee depending on how you view it) to alert all Americans to the problems of race in America.
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In 1982, the predominantly Black, poor, and rural residents of Warren County, North Carolina took a stand against a PCB oil dump in their community.
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But that has not stopped people like Mr. Cornett from viewing the decision through a political lens, and asserting that the company took a stand.
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The leader of the largest liberal Jewish congregation in Latin America, he took a stand when a journalist was killed by his torturers in 103.
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In the days after the Charlottesville protests, as white supremacist leaders vowed to march on other college towns, university leaders across the country took a stand.
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Rapper and performance artist Shawn Carter, known as Jay Z, took a stand against the bail bond industry in a Time column ahead of Father's Day.
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Sure, it's nice ABC finally took a stand against Barr's bigotry – but if, at this point, they were shocked by her comments, that might be on them.
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"Ohio Right to Life is grateful that our pro-life senators took a stand against discrimination and abortion," said Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life.
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In the nearly 13 months since the former NFL quarterback took a stand by taking a knee, tight end Julius Thomas had never followed suit -- until Sunday.
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A Maine high school sophomore took a stand against what she says is her school's inaction toward sexual assault and harassment — and ended up suspended for bullying.
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Jay-Z took a stand against sexism as he spotted a future POTUS in the middle of his Cleveland concert -- 'cause ya gotta vote for that face!
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In March, on International Women's Day, the championship-winning soccer team took a stand for equal pay, filing a federal gender discrimination lawsuit to the U.S. Soccer Federation.
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After a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida claimed the lives of 17 people, survivors, students, and other young people took a stand.
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Hollywood celebrities and business leaders took a stand against a similar so-called religious liberty bill that passed in Georgia, and the state's governor vetoed it last week.
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Kaeser also took a stand when he pulled out of Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative following the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
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One model, Ayesha Tan-Jones, took a stand against the fashion label by writing "Mental health is not fashion," on their hands as they went down the runway.
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That same year, Germany took a stand on anti-refugee Facebook hate speech, and top publications began to silence the haters by removing the comments sections beneath their articles.
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In just 22 minutes, New Girl took a stand against "Tuesday meetings" and the all too commonplace workplace discrimination that happens in offices all over the world, every day.
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Just hours after the flurry of inappropriate comments started to circulate the internet, Gomez took a stand in an Instagram post that seems to speak directly to body shamers.
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When future generations ask us what we did when the planet was threatened, we will be able to say we took a stand for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
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That's when Athena took a stand -- saying it's time for ALL professional team dancers and cheerleaders to start getting paid better ... especially with SO much money in pro sports.
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The difference is that I am a Saudi woman, born into a kingdom of men, and forced out not because of my divorce, but because I took a stand.
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But what made this championship so special was that it came after the American players took a stand for gender equity in a sport dominated and governed by men.
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Halsey took a stand Saturday night during a pre-Super Bowl concert in Miami after a fan harassed her by repeatedly screaming out the name of her ex-BF.
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And maybe it's time some Republicans took a stand on what is emerging as the central dispute of our time — not between left and right but between open and closed.
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Minnesota voters took a stand on women's rights, Tuesday night, voting in a female candidate to replace a representative who repeatedly allegedly belittled women on his talk show, CNN reported.
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Many decades ago, his father took a stand for a party that would be ideologically diverse and where the center and right would both have a place at the table.
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Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross took a stand for the Time's Up movement at the 2018 Golden Globes — and she did so to celebrate the strength of all women.
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The Willkies boomed and busted with the rest of Elwood, and Herman Willkie, Wendell's father, took a stand against "unfettered capitalism," joining the economic-populist crusade of William Jennings Bryan.
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Lisa Brown took a stand for working mothers back in 1993, when she brought her infant son to the floor of the Washington State Legislature for a late-night vote.
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Shelby is likely well aware of this risk but took a stand anyway — breaking decisively with his party's leader, President Donald Trump, who recorded a robocall for the Moore campaign.
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While a handful of advertisers took a stand by pulling campaigns from Facebook in the weeks after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, Facebook's growing revenue suggests many have stuck by it.
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"OK, look around everybody, look around, ladies and gentleman, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed," she said, as women around the room took a stand.
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He also made waves in 2007 when he took a stand against the sealing of records in civil cases, even when both sides want to keep documents secret after a settlement.
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The Party's previous nominee, Mitt Romney, has said that he wants to be able to look his grandchildren in the eye and tell them that he took a stand against Trump.
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Beyoncé has advocated for causes, made noise around things like police brutality, and for a while people reacted against it, but she took a stand that wasn't easy for her to do.
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Rather than responding with a passive "That's okay" or faking calmness, this Imgur user took a stand and decided to enlighten her bae on all the effort she put into grooming herself.
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But September 26, Stanislav Petrov Day, is as good a time as any to celebrate the ordinary officers who took a stand when it counted to prevent hundreds of millions of deaths.
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The army only took a stand when Emmerson Mnangagwa, regarded as the longest serving ally to Mr. Mugabe from the liberation struggle, was pushed out of office by Mr. Mugabe this month.
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When the work's first tour reached the segregated National Theater in Washington, its African-American stars took a stand and threatened not to perform — forcing the theater to integrate, at least temporarily.
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Mr. Cook publicly took a stand on privacy in 2016 when Apple fought a court order from the F.B.I. to open the iPhone of a gunman involved in a San Bernardino, Calif.
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This was the decade that brands like P&G and Nike took a stand on political and social issues while others like Burger King and KFC used humor to sell their products.
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Back in 2016, Apple took a stand against the FBI's effort to break into the encrypted iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter and its insistence that it needed a backdoor for Apple's encryption.
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RAICES took a stand itself when the organization refused a $250,000 donation from Salesforce after it was revealed that the company holds a contract with Customs and Border Protection to provide HR software.
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Electronic Arts took a stand to quell gamer backlash toward Battlefield V. And Sony is still grappling with a massive controversy over its decision to block PS4 Fortnite accounts on Nintendo Switch devices.
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Outdoor retailers Patagonia, REI, and North Face took a stand against Trump's elimination of protected land by sharing very direct messages of disappointment and calls to action across their websites and social media.
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"Like many feminists, I'm conflicted about sex work," says Liesl Gerntholtz, executive director of the women's rights division at Human Rights Watch, which took a stand in favor of decriminalization four years ago.
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Three months ago, Democratic Party leaders took a stand: Fox News, President Trump's favorite channel, and a reliable soapbox for attacks on liberals, was barred from participating in the party's 2020 presidential debates.
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But Kipling's American adventure began to sour in the fall of 1895, when President Grover Cleveland, invoking the Monroe Doctrine, took a stand against Britain in a boundary dispute it had with Venezuela.
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Last week, it was the chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, who had countenanced the President's falsehoods and flights of bigotry but who finally took a stand on the question of steel and aluminum tariffs.
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This time she took a stand, knowing it could hurt her business in a pro-gun, largely rural state, where hunting and target practice are immensely popular and where the political schisms run deep.
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"I think we were guys originally who took a stand because we weren't the type of guys [who] could get pushed," he says, describing the embryonic stage in which the brothers' reputations were made.
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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco, long at the heart of the technology revolution, took a stand against potential abuse on Tuesday by banning the use of facial recognition software by the police and other agencies.
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And if you ask why Ryan never took a stand against Trumpian corruption, why he never showed any concern about Trump's authoritarian tendencies, what ever made you think he would take such a stand?
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When I checked last night, the most recent comment said Campo Santo "took a stand" against PewDiePie over racism, and the highest-rated said the developer was "childish and thin-skinned" with no further explanation.
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That some smart people might think twice about working for Facebook is hardly surprising, and it wouldn't be the first time students took a stand against a leading tech company based on their moral compass.
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Apple has spoken a lot over the past year about how much it values the security of its customers' data, but it wasn't until early this morning that Apple really took a stand for it.
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When the national anthem played before the start of the preseason game with the Green Bay Packers on Friday night, Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, took a stand by not standing.
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Read more: A model took a stand against Gucci's use of straitjackets on the runway while walking in the brand's showPulley system-enhanced dresses weren't the only unique fashion displays on the Issey Miyake runway.
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For example, her 20143 Wedding Vows collection took a stand against domestic violence by using renderings of kirpans, the small swords that are an important symbol of her Sikh identity, in necklaces and other pieces.
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When "The Star-Spangled Banner" played to kick off the team's third preseason game against the Green Bay Packers on Friday, Kaepernick took a stand against racial injustice by sitting down during the national anthem.
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The judge, unlike Congress, took a stand: "Any attempts to invade the privacy of the jurors or to harm or intimidate them is completely antithetical to our system of justice," said Judge Amy B. Jackson.
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In his final act of excommunication, Buckley took a stand against the paleoconservative Pat Buchanan in 1991 for expressing opposition to the Persian Gulf war in terms that were both incendiary and undeniably anti-Semitic.
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St. Louis Detective Sergeant Heather Taylor took a stand against Stockley, publicly declaring in a video message posted on YouTube and a police association website three days before the verdict that he should be convicted.
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On Thursday, in a speech at the Georgetown Law Center, Biden, who was once the Senate Judiciary Committee chair, took a stand against Senate Republicans' use of the "Biden Rule," calling it "ridiculous" and nonexistent.
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While she didn't reveal state secrets, she took a stand for the public's right to know by providing free online access to just about every scientific paper ever published, on topics ranging from acoustics to zymology.
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The European Union took a stand on privacy concerns with General Data Protection Regulation Act, or GDPR, a law enacted last year to compel transparency around the data that companies collect and how it is used.
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Norway's $915 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world's biggest, took a stand on Friday against executive long-term incentive plans which attempt, with little success, to align the aims of company owners with those hired to manage.
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More than 50 companies representing over $2.4 trillion in annual revenue took a stand Thursday for legal protections for transgender people following a report that the Trump administration is considering limiting the definition of gender to birth anatomy.
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MILAN, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Europe's biggest power utility, Italy's Enel, took a stand on Thursday against the energy-hungry industry of mining cryptocurrencies, saying it had "no interest whatsoever in selling power for the purpose of mining cryptocurrencies".
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There's reason for telecom companies to look for scale, and reasons to believe deals will get approved: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai took a stand in his decision not to review the proposed AT&T acquisition of Time Warner.
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"They took a stand and they put security over sales," said Frank Cilluffo, director of the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and a former senior homeland security official to former President George W. Bush.
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McCain would equally apply those principles to his work in government, even in the final months of his life when he publicly took a stand against President Trump by casting the deciding vote to save the Affordable Healthcare Act.
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Russell Moore, who heads the denomination's public policy arm, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said some compare him to Martin Luther, the reformer who took a stand against the excesses of the Catholic Church and sparked the Protestant Reformation.
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Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska, for instance, took a stand against Lyndon Johnson by voting against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964, the measure that granted the President wide authority to use force in Vietnam.
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Andrés is a Spanish immigrant who took a stand against then-presidential candidate Trump when he backed out of a deal to open a restaurant in D.C.'s Trump International Hotel after the candidate made disparaging remarks about Mexican workers.
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Over the years, while women around the world have struggled for equal rights and an equal voice, some of them have been particularly inspiring, as they took a stand to defend a cause or dared to challenge the status quo.
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While Andrés didn't decide to use his spotlight to start speaking Spanish, he still took a stand before throwing to the Roma teaser, which is built around the life of an indigenous Mexican woman and domestic worker (boundary-breaking Yalitza Aparicio).
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"Today, Senator Collins took a stand for families across Maine by opposing this dangerous nomination that would be a threat to our clean air, clean water, and public health," Glen Brand, director of the group's Maine chapter, said in a statement.
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The case against Moro and his alleged political bias in Lula's conviction had been stalled since December last year, when justices Edson Fachin and Carmen Lucia took a stand against it and justice Gilmar Mendes requested a review of the case.
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"Over 60% of Florida voters took a stand for fairness and voting rights, and to remove an ugly stain that has been in our state's constitution since the Civil War era," ACLU Executive Director Howard Simon said in a statement.
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Meanwhile, 180 miles away, contractors at Boeing Field near Seattle took a stand on immigration and began refusing to fuel jets that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were using for deportations and detentions of undocumented immigrants, largely from Central America.
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But there are still plenty of rules that govern behavior on the platform, and the company took a stand recently: If people are kicked off Facebook for violating one of its other policies, running for office won't get them back on.
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When you were suspended for the 1987 Orange Bowl and wore the T-shirt referring to the NCAA as National Communists Against Athletes, is that something you look back on and are proud that you took a stand against the NCAA?
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Anger over rising Premier League ticket prices has been simmering for years, but on Saturday around 10,000 Liverpool fans, including longtime Reds defender Jamie Carragher, took a stand and walked out of their side's home match against Sunderland in the 77th minute.
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Back in January, many women and men took a stand against this at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, when a large amount of the attendees arrived in black dresses or tuxedos to protest sexual harassment against women as a show of solidarity.
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Much like during my teenage years, last week I asked questions and took a stand when I became aware that I was in the speaker's line up with Steve Bannon for The Economist's 175th anniversary event, the Open Future Festival, in New York.
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When it came to light that in the wake of the 453/245 terrorist attacks, George W. Bush's administration had authorized the use of torture on detainees, McCain, then a powerful Republican senator, took a stand that few others in his party would.
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This week, Xuhui District People's Court in Shanghai took a stand against social media "shock photos" and ruled that three local marketing companies "damaged KFC's reputation" and "caused it economic losses" by posting images of the grotesque, but quite obviously fake, birds, according to Reuters.
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We already see examples of this trailblazing vision in the actions of teachers in Oklahoma and West Virginia, who inspired the nation as they pushed beyond outdated collective bargaining laws and took a stand to fight for justice in a broken system — and won.
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Her husband has used Twitter to insult at least 282 people, places and things, according to a recent New York Times tally – but on Thursday Melania Trump took a stand against social media bullying in her first solo campaign speech since the Republican National Convention in July.
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While National Coming Out Day is now used to raise awareness for the spectrum of sexuality and LGBTQ individuals' stories, this day also marks an important moment in American LGBTQ history, when people took a stand for gay rights during a national act of unity and protest.
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie Allege They Were Sexually Harassed by Harvey Weinstein – and Brad Pitt Threatened Movie Mogul "I have had issues in this business more times than I can count … I never took a stand because sadly, I thought I didn't matter," she wrote.
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In a statement, US Vice President Mike Pence said that in exiting the UN body Washington "took a stand against some of the world's worst human rights violators," claiming the council had made "a mockery" of its original mission in its criticism of the US and Israel.
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This side took a stand at Microsoft last month when a group of employees wrote an open letter to the company's top executives demanding that they abandon an Army contract that would adapt HoloLens, the company's augmented-reality headsets, for use by soldiers on the battlefield.
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In 2017, the industry took a stand against social media manipulation when the Public Relations and Communications Association expelled Bell Pottinger, a now-defunct London-based PR firm, after investigating its work in South Africa, where the firm stoked racial tensions in service of a billionaire client.
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Tess Holliday and nine other women took a stand for body diversity at Union train station in Toronto, Canada, where they stripped down to their bras and jeans, holding signs encouraging people to take photos and share them on social media to start a conversation about body acceptance.
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On Monday, seemingly motivated by the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, a dozen players from the Cleveland Browns kneeled during the national anthem before their game against the New York Giants, the largest NFL protest since Kaepernick first took a stand by taking a knee in August 2016.
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On Thursday, with the hours winding down on a final version of the bill and a frantic push to pass it along party lines in a narrowly-divided Senate, Mr. Rubio took a stand: He threatened to vote no unless House and Senate negotiators expanded the child tax credit.
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The NBA has long portrayed itself as standing up for human rights, whether dismissing the Los Angeles Clippers' owner for racist statements or moving the All-Star Game from Charlotte after North Carolina took a stand against allowing transgender people to use the bathroom associated with their identity.
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But Trump never crashed and Cruz never realized the election paradox his appeasement created: Cruz was the only one who had enough pull with the base to sink Trump, but he never took a stand against Trump that forced the conservative media to take sides until it was too late.
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Neither, in his opinion, understood the threat of Russia nor the importance of US engagement in the Middle East, and when McCain took a stand against President Trump's health care reforms and disparaged any "half-baked, spurious nationalism," he re-emerged in the American imagination as a truly independent-minded senator.
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A room devoted to interrogation and torture features some history (George Washington took a stand against the mistreatment of British prisoners) and an actual waterboard — the notorious torture device used in the Inquisition, by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia and by the C.I.A. against Al Qaeda suspects in 93 and 2003.
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In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, then candidate 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 took a stand at odds with Obama's.
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Elizabeth Banks rewore the same scarlet Badgley Mischka dress to this year's Vanity Fair Oscars party as she did in 2004, Margot Robbie wore vintage Chanel, and Jane Fonda also took a stand against the wear-it-once attitude looking resplendent in an Elie Saab gown she initially wore to the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
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She has called for a thorough reexamination of ICE — stopping short of Gillibrand's proposal to abolish the 85033-year-old agency — and earlier this year took a stand against voting for a government funding bill that failed to protect hundreds of thousands of immigrants who lost their legal status when Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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Think of when Andrew Hawkins and members of the Rams shined a spotlight on the killings of Tamir Rice and Mike Brown, when the Seahawks' Michael Bennett wore a Black Lives Matter T-shirt, and when a multiracial group of WNBA players from the Minnesota Lynx collectively took a stand against racism by donning shirts in support of the movement.
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"You know, I feel like /r/cyberpunk should take a stand towards net neutrality," user MxP1nk wrote in a July 12 post, pointing out the subreddit's relative silence on the issue on a day when Reddit, alongside hundreds of the internet's most popular websites and millions of users, took a stand against the Trump Administration's plans to dismantle federal rules safeguarding net neutrality.
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Last season, Kaepernick, then a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, took a stand against police abuse and racial violence when he took a knee and sat down during the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner," a song that, in part, celebrates the murder of runaway slaves who fought with the British in 1812, according to writer and academic Jason Johnson.
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One of YouTube's most popular creators, Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach, took a stand against the platform on Friday with his video titled "YouTube has a huge problem..."Fischbach said "hundreds" of his fans were suspended from their YouTube and Google accounts after "spamming" emotes, YouTube's emojis, per his direction in his chat, for a livestreaming event he hosted in partnership with YouTube Originals.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Delta Took a Stand on the N.R.A.; Georgia Lawmakers Want to Make It Pay" (news article, March 2): Wouldn't it be inspirational if Delta Air Lines offered airfare discounts to high school students planning to travel to Washington to attend the student convocation later this month to press our elected representatives to pass sensible gun legislation?
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In "San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Technology," Kate Conger, Richard Fausset and Serge F. Kovaleski write about why the city has decided to outlaw its use by law enforcement: San Francisco, long at the heart of the technology revolution, took a stand against potential abuse on Tuesday by banning the use of facial recognition software by the police and other agencies.
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He addressed this development in the "Chloraseptic" remix, in which he criticizes mumble rappers -- a new subgenre in hip-hop -- and boasts that he still outsells them, despite losing half of his fans: "Then I took a stand / Went at tan-face (a nickname for Trump) and practically cut my m-----f----- fan base in half / And still outsold you."
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"It's long past time that Sony Music took a stand for black and brown girls and put a check on R. Kelly and his horrific abuse of young girls, which went on for decades with impunity," said Rebecca Gerber, senior director of engagement at Care2, in a statement emailed to Vox on Friday in response to the news that Sony/RCA will no longer represent Kelly.
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Barkley publicly took a stand against the Trump administration last year when he urged voters in his home state of Alabama to vote against Roy MooreRoy Stewart MooreGOP Senate candidate 'pissed off' at Trump over health care for veterans Durbin says he has second thoughts about asking for Franken's resignation Alabama GOP senate candidate says 'homosexual activities' have ruined TV, country's moral core MORE (R), a controversial GOP Senate candidate supported by the president.
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Here's who looks good: (1) Tortorici, who took a stand publicly against outing and sounded the alarm about doxxing (and offering to pay for an ad to fill the space if necessary); (2) Cliffe, who according to the New York Times, "pledged" to pay approximately $19,000 in writers' fees and according to Cliffe, has already paid them; (3) Lynch, who took a stand by pulling her company's ad and ended up on the right side of the story; (4) The women of media Twitter, from the women claiming authorship to the women yelling loudly to collectively comprise the NYT's "Feminist Twitter Campaign" to the women who pledged to kick in with Cliffe for the pulled articles to the women who kept Donegan's name under wraps for so long; (5) Stella Bugbee, for being an editor whom Moira Donegan could trust to stand behind her, and with her; (6) And, most importantly, Moira Donegan, for her brave and honest and clear-eyed article -- and for starting the spreadsheet in the first place, because she saw that media needed a safe space for women, and that no one was providing that, so she tried to fill in that gap.
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Sure, complaining seems to come easily to everyone, but I don't think the women and girls and young trans folks that approach us every day on Vans Warped Tour are complaining when they say they wish more bands took a stand on issues that matter to them; when they thank us for being a voice for marginalized groups; for shouting out trans rights, shining a light on rape culture, and calling out sexual harassers; for mentioning that the "77 cents on the dollar" gender wage gap figure that we're all familiar with is incomplete because it does not include women of color, who make even less.
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