The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.

In the face of armed revolt of Jewish militant groups and increasing violence of the local Arab population, Britain had found itself unable to control events.

In the face of increasing violence after World War II, the British handed the issue over to the United Nations.

Explaining this, he stated that at a 1984 Minutemen show, a fan struck MacKaye's younger brother Alec in the face, and he punched the fan back, then realizing that the violence was " stupid ", and that he saw his role in the stupidity.

" She further wrote that although " Islamic historians agree that the prophet Muhammad never hit a woman, it is also clear that Muslim communities face a domestic violence problem.

Actions mix of violence and anti-authoritarianism proved controversial and the title lasted less than two years before being withdrawn in the face of media protests.

Some barely have a face, but the comedic or violence proportions exceeding those of conventional clay puppets, with grisly crime scenes riddled by clay gunfire and hapless victims falling in a sniper's cross hairs.

The temporary closure of the Suez Canal in 1967 effectively negated the last reason that British had kept hold of the colonies in Yemen, and, in the face of uncontrollable violence, they began to withdraw.

Slapstick is a type of broad, physical comedy involving exaggerated, boisterous actions ( e. g. a pie in the face ), farce, violence and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people frequently face violence motivated by their sexuality or gender identity.

Due to their low status in society, mainly due to social conditions of poverty, rickshaw pullers face abuse and discrimination, including incidents of physical violence from passengers.

The Prío administration increasingly came to be perceived by the public as ineffectual in the face of violence and corruption, much as the Grau administration before it.

Locally the movement's activists were led by Fred Shuttlesworth, a fiery preacher who became legendary for his fearlessness in the face of violence, notably a string of racially motivated bombings that earned Birmingham the derisive nickname " Bombingham ".

Teens face harassment, threats, and violence.

Difficult years of state building, in the face of Republican violence, would characterise the party throughout its time in Government.

" One might assume, in the face of such a visual display, that the Nice is a mediocre group that compensates for musical failings with a pop-rock version of the theater of violence.

Nonetheless, he asserted, peacefulness in the face of a grave wrong that could only be stopped by violence would be a sin.

The way of nonviolence is patterned after the example of Christ who never exhibited violence in the face of persecution or as a punishment for sin.

Many Iraqi Mandaeans have fled the country in the face of this violence, and the Mandaean community in Iraq faces extinction.

At the same time, however, the United Nations statement marking the tenth anniversary of the Declaration noted the fragility of press freedom in the face of political violence or authoritarianism.

One school of fight choreographer thought says that an unusual aspect of live stage combat, such as in a play, is that audiences will react negatively to even simulated violence if they fear the actors are being harmed: for example, if an actor is really slapped in the face, the audience will stop thinking about the character and, instead, worry about the performer.

Many of the men, who believed that they were participating in an armed demonstration, not an actual rebellion, now deserted in the face of actual violence.

He inflicts many acts of violence and humiliation upon the Losers during and before the summer of ' 58, such as partially carving his name into Ben Hanscom's belly, killing Mike Hanlon's dog and bathing him in mud in order to make him a " tar baby ", breaking Eddie Kaspbrak's arm, breaking Richie Tozier's glasses numerous times, and white-washing Stan Uris ' face in snow until it bleeds.

Traditional non-violent protest theory holds that if the demonstrators are restrained and do not do any violence, yet refuse to back down, then they could conceivably win, as they either will be joined by the forces they face, be allowed to defy the law or government openly and peacefully, or be physically attacked, struck down, and made into powerful moral symbols of the lengths to which the agents of the state will go to enforce its laws.

Our data indicate that these students of today do basically accept the existing institutions of the society, and, in the face of the realities of complex and large-scale economic and political problems, make a wary and ambivalent delegation of trust to those who occupy positions of legitimized responsibility for coping with such collective concerns.

Some of the problems which individual countries face are the way they are grouped together by their economic strengths according to LAFTA.

From around 1840 to 1860, laissez-faire advocates of the Manchester School and writers in The Economist were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s.

The triumphalist image that Elizabeth had cultivated towards the end of her reign, against a background of factionalism and military and economic difficulties, was taken at face value and her reputation inflated.

The results have included various bilateral trade and economic agreements and permanent joint commissions involving Ghana and its immediate neighbors, sometimes in the face of latent ideological and political differences and mutual suspicion, as well as numerous reciprocal state visits by high-ranking officials.

In the face of economic stagnation, Hungary opted to try further liberalization by passing a joint venture law, instating an income tax, and joining the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

In 2008, several international organizations highlighted the potato's role in world food production, in the face of developing economic problems.

Sony meanwhile, put their decision down to a need to review their global strategy in the face of a fast-changing worldwide economic climate.

The government continues to face serious problems, including an uncertain economic outlook, deforestation, and malaria control.

At the start of the 1930s Stalin launched a wave of radical economic policies, which completely overhauled the industrial and agricultural face of the Soviet Union.

This is an extension of the sense of paranoia felt by many people in the 1970s, believing themselves to be powerless in the face of political and economic forces over which they had no control.

As a result, in 1999 and 2001, the DSP government of Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit had to face two major economic crises that were caused mostly by the weak and loosely regulated banking sector ; the growing trade deficit ; and the devastating İzmit earthquake of 17 August 1999.

The balance of the play details the fate of each family as the characters face the medical, economic, social, and environmental consequences of a nuclear war.

He followed up this minor success ( the French governor surrendered in the face of overwhelming force ) with a failed attempt to capture Guadeloupe in 1703, although he did significant economic damage before retreating.

Yemen remains under significant pressure to implement economic reforms or face the loss of badly needed international financial support.

The new Russian Federation was headed by Boris Yeltsin, and would face severe economic difficulty.

The Weimar Republic, like many other European countries, had to face a severe economic downturn in the opening years of the decade, because of the enormous debt caused by the war as well as the Treaty of Versailles.

He retired from Parliament in 1983 in the face of the SPD's left wing, who opposed him on defence and economic issues.

Anker argues that " they are helpless in the face of the prettified economic and sexual stereotypes ... that they and their culture have designated for their salvation.

This law applies specifically when there are two forms of commodity money in circulation which are required by legal-tender laws to be accepted as having similar face values for economic transactions.

* In the 1992 film City of Joy ( whose title refers to Kolkata ), Om Puri plays a rickshaw puller, revealing the economic and emotional hardship that these underpaid workers face on a day-to-day basis.

He also announced a short-term mortgage scheme which allowed low-wage earners to maintain mortgage schemes in the face of economic difficulties.

The indigenous peoples of Taiwan face economic and social barriers, including a high unemployment rate and substandard education.

Some of these acquisitions were to prove less than resilient in the face of economic and political developments from the 1970s on.