Against the background of the German Peasants ' War, unrest also arose among the townsfolk in 1525.

Against the background of ethnic homogeneity, significant regional differences exist.

Against the background of ethnic homogeneity, however, significant regional differences exist.

Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.

Against this background the negotiations for the Treaty of Amiens started in October 1801.

Against this background, the gardens fell into a serious state of neglect, and were lost to sight.

Against this background Chen Duxiu became an increasingly influential activist in the revolutionary movement against both foreign imperialism and the Qing government itself.

Against the background of the developments in Europe, CRC was able to persuade the Canadian government to develop the system into a fully-fledged service.

Against this background, William Cubitt was asked to investigate possible solutions in 1814.

Against the background of the Great Depression, he and de Valera engaged in the Anglo-Irish Trade War which lasted from 1933 until 1938, causing severe damage and hardship to the Irish economy and the cattle industry.

Against this background the English Civil War began, with Farnham playing a major part.

Against the background of an absence of organized law enforcement and liberal criminal procedures, penalties were savagely increased.

* Tim Parks ' review of Lauro Martines, April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici: a sketch of the subtleties and contradictions in the background to the " Pazzi conspiracy "

Against the background of the Group realizing its global ambitions, ING Investment Management has also expanded across borders.

Although all his books were set against a background of horse racing, his male heroes held a variety of jobs including artist ( In the Frame and To the Hilt ), private investigator ( Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief, Under Orders — all starring injured ex-jockey Sid Halley, one of only two heroes used more than once ), pilot, artist, wine merchant and many others.

Against a background of good progress, Alexander issued further orders to Patton to develop an eastward threat along the coast road once he had cut it.

Against the blue background, the metallic lettering now has the appearance of glass or perspex.

Against this background of discontent, Lenin concluded that world revolution was not imminent and proceeded in the spring of 1921 to replace the War Communism with his New Economic Policy.

Against this background, Washington's vision, as expressed in his " Atlanta Compromise " speech, became controversial and was challenged by new leaders, such as W. E. B.

Against this background, various explanations have been put forward to explain the origins and spread of the motte-and-bailey design across northern Europe ; there is often a tension amongst the academic community between explanations that stress military and social reasons for the rise this design.

Against the background of a student rebellion, two murders are committed on the Tisquanto State College campus.

Against a background of ongoing protest and low-level sabotage, on the night of January 18, 1982 an RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade attack was launched against the unfinished plant.

Against such a background, Muir ’ s continued presence in Edinburgh was regarded as a serious threat to public order, and he was removed to an armed cutter, the Royal George, at Leith Roads.

Against the background of a different theory of explanation, Malle, Knobe, and Nelson ( 2007 ) tested an alternative set of three actor-observer asymmetries and found consistent support for all of them.

Against the background of the scarcity of Slovak literature, Tranovský's Slovak hymns formed a source for raising national consciousness.

Against that growing threat, the royal council decided, under queen Catherine de ' Medici influence, to make some concessions.

Against growing hostility among the Romanian populace, the Hungarian language university issue was brought up again in September, with a UDMR ultimatum.

Thus, by the late-1950s, in correlation with the Cold War context in Asia at the time, Rennie's Mill gradually became a Little Taiwan and a Bastion Against Communism, with the flag of the Republic of China flying, its own school system and practically off-limits to the Royal Hong Kong Police Force until 1962 when the Hong Kong Government decided to turn it into a resettlement estate due to its apprehension of the growing Kuomintang presence in the enclave.

Most notably, the rap rock genre became popular in the late 1990s, with bands like Rage Against the Machine, KoRn, Sublime, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and, most recently, Hollywood Undead gaining worldwide popularity by furthering Run – D. M. C.

In 1983, Stevie Wonder, at the height of his popularity, gave the programme a musical exclusive when he agreed to let a World in Action crew record him performing an unreleased song, written to help the Democratic politician Jesse Jackson's electioneering, for The Race Against Reagan.

Munro has starred in two Moment of Truth movies: Stand Against Fear, as a high-school jock who uses his popularity for the all the wrong reasons ; Abduction of Innocence, as the boyfriend-turned-kidnapper of a teenage lumber heiress.

The band decided to go with this label due to them being famous at the time for previously breaking other heavy bands such as Korn and Rage Against the Machine into mainstream popularity.

St. Jerome, in his letter Against Jovinianus, discusses how people come to their present condition as a result of their heritage, and then lists several examples of peoples and their customs.

*( c. 97 ) Flavius Josephus Against Apion, or Against Apion, or Contra Apionem, or Against the Greeks, on the antiquity of the Jewish people ( usually abbreviated CA )

Against the backdrop of the historical sufferings of the Nepalese people and the enormous human cost of the last ten years of violent conflict, the MOU, which proposes a peaceful transition through an elected constituent assembly, created an acceptable formula for a united movement for democracy.

As an example of how the word natio was employed in classical Latin, the following quote from Cicero's Philippics Against Mark Antony in 44 BC contrasts the external, inferior nationes (" races of people ") with the Roman civitas (" community "):

Against over 50, 000 Ndebele held up in their stronghold of the Matobo Hills the settlers mounted patrols under such people as Burnham, Baden-Powell, and Selous.

In Blows Against the Empire, Kantner ( and Slick ) sang about a group of people escaping Earth in a hijacked starship.

This included the Hukbalahap (" People's Army Against the Japanese "), which consisted of 30, 000 armed people and controlled much of Central Luzon.

It was Buñuel's intention to shock and insult the intellectual bourgeoisie of his youth, later saying: " Historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called ‘ avant-garde ,’ which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the audience ’ s reason .” Against his hopes and expectations, the film was a huge success amongst the French bourgeoisie, leading Buñuel to exclaim in exasperation, " What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in something which was basically no more than a desperate impassioned call for murder?

He is a trustee of the charity The Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-Semitism, and also President of DebRA, a British national charity working on behalf of people with the genetic skin blistering condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa ( EB ).

* Gypsies Against Stereotypical Propaganda ( 1982 ): Gypsy King JoJo ( played by Skaggs ) led a protest demanding that the Gypsy moth's name be changed because it was demeaning to his people.

The Regulations Governing Offenses Against Public Order empowered the police to admonish, fine, or detain people for up to fifteen days.

The Regulations Governing Offenses Against Public Order empowered the police to admonish, fine, or detain people for up to fifteen days.

Thomas Pynchon refers to Aztlan as the " mythic ancestral home of the Mexican people " in his novel Against the Day ( 2006 ).

The Socialist Party's first issue of 2010, headlined " Rage Against Unemployment " and written by Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser Sean Figg, who took part in the Jarrow March for Jobs, argues that young people are likely to suffer ' permanent psychological scars ' from unemployment.

Against Aztec domination, these people welcomed Hernán Cortés and the Spanish, who used the area as a headquarters during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and made it the first capital of New Spain between 1521 and 1523.

Five people, including three female expatriate staff of Action Against Hunger, were inside the targeted vehicle.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ) is a US non-governmental media monitoring organization which promotes the image of LGBT people in the media.

Nearly 30, 000 people attended the Boston March Against Racism, which they had organized.

* Citizens Against Drug Abuse: " This organization possesses elegant letterheads and is engaged in a campaign of encouraging Congressmen to outlaw catnip, a drug which some young people are smoking whenever marijuana is in short supply.

In May 2010, workers and young people established the Committee Against Utility Shutoffs ( CAUS ) in response to the deadly house fires in Detroit, Michigan that were " the result of the shutoff of gas and electrical service by the local utility monopoly, DTE Energy.

The United Front Against Fascism ( UFAF )— founded by the FSP, but also including a broad coalition of the Left, the LGBT community, labor unionists, feminists, people of color, Jews, and civil libertarians — took the lead in mobilizing against neo-Nazis in the Pacific Northwest.

A number of Russian nationalists came from Moscow, including leaders of Movement Against Illegal Immigration, and organized a rally calling on the government to forcibly resettle all people from the Caucasus, especially ethnic Chechens, from the town.

She lists her political interests as criminal justice, foreign affairs, human rights, international development, penal reform, and prisons, and has written several books, including Creating Criminals: prisons and people in a market society ; Bricks of Shame: Britain's prisons ; Failures in Penal Policy ; Imprisoned by Our Prisons: a programme for reform ( Fabian Series ); The Prisons We Deserve and A Sin Against the Future: imprisonment in the world.