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It felt like we weren't even giving the new administration to actually do anything, good or bad, before people felt the need to demonstrate against it.

We talked about how in this country, we have the right and the privilege to demonstrate against something we don't agree with, and my husband shared with them why he thought it was so important that men joined the Women's March.

This space is also called Freedom Square, where women were a part of demonstrations against apartheid laws.

Sethembile Msezane: On April 9, 2015, the Cecil John Rhodes statue was scheduled to be removed after a month of debates for and against its removal by various stakeholders.

I have spent so much time defending myself against attempts to demonize me and make me apologize for who I am, trying to portray me as something that I'm not, some kind of thug or gangster, a menace to society.

Then, with my cell phone, I flipped the internet against itself and began to broadcast these live conversations to my online followers.

Most importantly is that Gacaca emphasized Rwanda's traditional philosophy of reconciliation and reintegration, as against the whole punitive and banishment idea that undergirds present-day Western style.

They tore families apart and brainwashed children against their own parents.

And it's right for us to be thinking about balance: Where do screens fit against all the other things that a child needs to do to learn and to grow?

I'm fighting against the corruption on SCOTUS, upping my top knot since when I first wrote this.

Reluctantly, Scott found himself pitted against the Norwegian in what the newspapers called a ‘race to the Pole.’

I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression.

And she said, "You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror.

But it’s still driven to protect its home against rivals.

Biologists have even noticed that its bluffs are tactical: newly molted mantis shrimp are more likely to bluff against smaller rivals, who are especially likely to be driven away.

And when you come up against that crisis point in situations of grave violations of international and humanitarian law, if you don't understand what you're seeing, if you don't understand the truth and if you get trapped in the fake news paradigm, then you are an accomplice.

And he stood against Marine Le Pen, who is a very dangerous woman.

He decided that his best bet was to pit two families against each other.

If you don't know, "Settlers" is a board game where you're competing against other people to collect resources and use them to build structures.

Whether it was on Facebook or WhatsApp, Indians were writing and sharing and reading all kinds of things: terrible jokes, spurious pop history, long, emotional confessions, diatribes against the government.

That means we can play 372 games against the quantum computer using your choices.

Originally found defending single-celled bacteria and archaea against invading viruses, naturally occurring CRISPR uses two main components.

So these creatures will be bright against the cold surroundings.

So actually, this method of hunting for life gets stronger and stronger as you go further away, because the optical reflectors have to be more powerful so the reflected light shines out even more in contrast against the dark background.

And you can whack it against the table, if you want; be careful.

Thankfully, the same buildings that offer protection from the blast are even better at guarding against fallout.

You can ask, how do you stack up for positive emotion, for meaning, for flow, against literally tens of thousands of other people?

We vaccinate against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, measles.

Breath analysis needs to be validated in clinical trials, and enough data needs to be collected so that individual conditions can be measured against baselines.

Writing under the pen name “Iola,” by the early 1890s she gained a reputation as a clear voice against racial injustice and become co-owner and editor of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper.

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