But these funds are seldom willing to actually take a stand against powerful business interests.
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"This shows they are determined to take a stand against complex tax avoidance schemes, " he said.
The attacks underscore that when locals decide to take a stand against the Taliban, there are sometimes deadly consequences.
Unite's regional officer Des Quinn said staff had voted overwhelmingly to take a stand against a "paltry" pay offer.
Security-minded officials are trying to take a stand against technologies like Google Earth, which is worth looking up if you've never seen it.
It is a shame that such a small number of our political leaders are willing to take a stand against such deceptive fundraising practices.
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This year's anti-bullying week focuses on the role of the bystander in a bid to encourage more pupils to take a stand against the bullies.
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Schrag hopes this game will further encourage fresh debate on the Kildonan clearances and a riot which saw families take a stand against landowners and the authorities.
Would it have been easier, short-term, for IBM to not take a stand against segregation in order to win the best possible employment incentives with a state bent on resisting integration?
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When is the BBC, and in particular respected programmes such as Panorama going to take a stand against this rhetoric and expose a scandal that is happening on a truly global scale?
Another possible reason for the improved security has been the growth of the "Awakening" movement, in which Sunni tribes decided to take a stand against al Qaeda in Iraq in Anbar province.
The ad suggested that as the governor of Texas, Bush failed to take a hard stand against a murderous 1998 attack by three whites on a black man, James Byrd in Jasper, Texas.
The real moral crusade would be to take a principled stand against injustice.
The issue that had alienated him from his party was its refusal to take a strong stand against illegal immigration.
The U.S. ambassador has been pressing U.N. members to take a stronger stand against human rights abuses in the African country.
Rights groups have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is serving his final year in office, to take a tougher stand against hard-line Muslim groups fomenting religious conflict in several parts of the country.
In October, the full NCAA board will decide whether to formally adopt the proposed new anti-violence rules, and even if they do, they will only succeed if advocates nationwide are vocal and persistent about demanding that Emmert take a similarly strong stand against all sexual violence, not only scandals that rise to a level of virtual child sex trafficking.
We must take a stand on this use of SWAT against gun owners and veterans who have no violent crime history, and that stand needs to be a firm one.
Suu Kyi has been criticized for failing to take a strong stand on attacks last year against the Muslim Rohingya community in western Rakhine state.
The Georgians stand accused of posing a threat to Russian security because they cannot or will not take effective action against the Chechen fighters, possibly allied with Islamist extremists from elsewhere, who have set up camp in the remote Pankisi gorge.
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