Sentences with phrase «action group said»

The Child Poverty Action Group says this cruel rule is going to push more than 250,000 additional children into poverty by the end of the decade.

The Prime Minister has received 66 letters from climate action groups saying they «believe that you have abandoned your duty of care to protect the Australian people as well as our species and habitats from dangerous climate change».

Not exact matches

FARMING groups are taking a cautious view of the Barnett government's promises to make legislative reforms to benefit the sector if it wins the March 9 election, given the lack of action they say has

The ministers agreed to create a working group to study Russia's «malign behavior» given concerns about Moscow's actions in Ukraine and Syria, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said.

The Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids applauded HUD's actions, saying «this bold step» would reduce smoking among groups that suffer the most from tobacco - related death and disease.

On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

TORONTO, April 23 (Reuters)- Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations will create a working group to study Russia's «malign behavior» because of concerns about Moscow's actions, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on MoGroup of Seven leading industrialized nations will create a working group to study Russia's «malign behavior» because of concerns about Moscow's actions, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Mogroup to study Russia's «malign behavior» because of concerns about Moscow's actions, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday.

Two major groups who carry some sway with conservative lawmakers — the Club for Growth and Heritage Action for America — said the Boehner plan failed to address the fiscal mess and they urged members to contact lawmakers and express their opposition.

Moveon.org, a liberal political action group, immediately put out a statement denouncing Tester's vote, saying it was «yet another outrageous example of how our elected officials in Congress are beholden to the NRA.»

«Goldilocks Investment Company Ltd has filed legal action today in light of the continuing refusal by Noble Group Ltd to recognize legitimate legal rights of Goldilocks as a shareholder of Noble,» the investment fund, which holds an 8.1 percent stake in Singapore - listed Noble said in a statement.

Last December, a report by a Bard College research group on drone incidents said that from December 2013 through September 2015, there were 28 incidents involving airplane pilots taking evasive action to avoid a drone while flying.

Mark Cuban, star investor on Shark Tank, has said publicly the new rule will «f *** everything up,» noting that whatever action this group of FCC commissioners has opted not to take could be reversed by a future commission.

With the practice of Buddhism, she says, «comes looking really deeply at things, looking beyond just your generation, looking at how your actions impact broader groups of people.»

«Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page reGroup after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page regroup and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page report.

Related: Privacy of Location - Based Services on FCC's Radar A trade group known as The Internet Association, which counts Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay among its members, said it would work with both the FCC and lawmakers on Capitol Hill to prevent «anticompetitive actions by gatekeepers.»

«Today's historic action by the EPA will finally begin the process of restricting the remaining sources of asbestos, which is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans,» said Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Group Action Fund, which studies toxic substaction by the EPA will finally begin the process of restricting the remaining sources of asbestos, which is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans,» said Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Group Action Fund, which studies toxic substAction Fund, which studies toxic substances.

Protesters were also arrested in Minnesota and North Dakota, the activist group said, after the action early on Tuesday.

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

Simon Rice, group manager for Technology at theInformation Commissioner's Office, said in a blog on Thursday that «with 350,000 of these cameras sold in the U.K. alone last year, this is a threat that all of us need to be aware of and be taking action to protect against.»

Kathryn Harrison, a board member at Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, says her group's goal isn't to shut all that down, at least not all at once.

«We will consider terrorist content to be material posted by or in support of organizations included on the Consolidated United Nations Security Council Sanctions List that depicts graphic violence, encourages violent action, endorses a terrorist organization or its acts, or encourages people to join such groups,» the blog post said.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

«The Administration has taken several recent steps to demonstrate its commitment to a stable, effective transition that works for consumers, and we look forward to Congress taking additional, much - needed action soon,» said the health insurance trade group AHIP in a statement.

He said it was «insane» that Facebook had yet to take legal action against Cambridge parent SCL Group over the inappropriate data use.

Mr. Axworthy said that he'll be raising the issue in late September in New York with the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group which investigates human rights abuses in the 54 - nation gGroup which investigates human rights abuses in the 54 - nation groupgroup.

«It's worth noting that donations to political action committees and groups designated as 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organizations are not tax - deductible,» said Kay Bell, author and tax journalist for the blog Don't Mess With Taxes.

«Our mission was to give them the biggest megaphone possible,» Shannon Watts, the founder of an Everytown - affiliated group, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, said on Sunday.

«The influence of these groups comes not from money,» the Florida Republican said at CNN's town hall «Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action» on Wednesday night in Sunrise, Florida.

Peter Kurdock, director of regulatory affairs for Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety in Washington, said the group sent a letter Monday to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao saying it is concerned about a lack of action and oversight by the department as autonomous vehicles are developed.

«The institutional selling in this group is pretty mindless,» said Jim Cramer, portfolio manager of the Action Alerts PLUS Charitable Trust Portfolio.

Organizers at national gun control groups, who provided logistical support and public relations advice as the students planned the Washington rally, said they believed that the students would not become disillusioned by the lack of immediate action in Congress.

A group of students from Littleton High School held a protest Wednesday morning demanding action — with dozens saying they shouldn't have to fear going to school.

«We will resist all actions undermining the ceasefire from side of the government and it security agents / agencies,» the group said on its official site.

«It's too early to read the tea leaves in DC, but we know the public wants action,» John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun control advocacy group, said.

That being said, there are many groups who target specific types of people and use religion to justify their actions.

Almost going broke, meeting Christians who are Democrats in her church's small groups, encountering the plight of the homeless firsthand, and watching charitable relief projects in action broaden her awareness of significant problems in America and beyond, problems that Republican politicians, she says, tend to ignore.

These groups tend to use threats of legal action (costly) to bully others into doing what they say.

Hierarchical thinking and action, says Mary Louise Pratt, is «historically as well as morally distortive» because it divides everything into privileged and unprivileged groupings, condemning some ideas, texts, and persons to the margins of a culture while exalting others to positions of primacy.

and look if u can't differentiate between the actions of some militant groups which we all in the Arab region are suffering from and the actions of the military forces of a country that reflect the strategy of their country then i hope u start to contemplate at what i am saying.

Washington - Organizers for the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference will not allow American Atheists to have an exhibition booth at the conservative conference, the group's spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Christian leaders in the All - Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea say America should not take military action against the regime.

«The City Council's action today is not the final word,» said Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville and chairman of a group called Stand4MarriageDC.

So — as you rightly say that it is Christans that need to consider thier words and actions, would you say other groups have that responsibility equally in the interest of healthy conversation?

I first want to say that the term genocide can connote the deliberate killing of a large group of people based on ethnicity, race, nationality, etc. and that is certainly not what we have in the actions of God in the Bible.

You condemn a whole group of poeple for the evil actions of a few that say they are Christain.

Their presence on the list is based «on their actions and / or public comment about child sex abuse and cover up in the church,» the group said.

When, speaking informally of two human beings, we say one thinks the other is God, and worships the ground he walks on, we are summing up many thoughts and actions, and although the cases are not quite parallel, to say that Christians believe in the divinity of Christ is to sum up beliefs, attitudes and practices which may vary slightly from one Christian or group of Christians to another.

He refers to meetings his office has held with global warming groups and says «such gatherings can create an environment of dialogue and common ground for common action on climate change,» and he urged that such gatherings be expanded.

It is a case of the lay mind versus the professional, the latter seeking a formula which means different things to different groups, as a basis of common action; the former saying that common action now calls for a more precise definition of principles.

Brooks defended the group's peaceful protest and said: «It is a personal witness against war and for a more peaceful world, and it is the way many things are changed, through direct action and through civil disobedience.»