Sentences with phrase «groups called for changes»

Groups called for changes such as a «Database of Deals» and the restoration of power to the state comptroller to review state contracts.

«We think there's an inherent corruption risk in having your state university system, which has a different set of rules than state agencies, be the one that's handing out enormous sums of money,» Kaehny said at a news conference in Albany where several watchdog groups called for the changes.

Some scientists are criticizing the findings as neither surprising nor significant — but they have touched off a firestorm, with environmental groups calling for changes in how pesticides are regulated.

Solar, wind, biomass and hydroelectric power producers want Congress to provide cash payments in lieu of tax credits now available for building renewable energy power plants or producing cleaner energy (see Industry Groups Call for Changes to Federal Incentives).

They asked for the goodies less than two months after they won a hard - fought battle to get Congress to extend tax credits for building renewable energy power plants or producing cleaner energy (see Industry Groups Call for Changes to Federal Incentives).

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Western Australia's peak industry lobby group has repeated its call for the federal government to come up with credible evidence to support its proposed changes to the 457 visa program for temporary s

The CtW Investment Group has called for changes in Tesla and SolarCity's governance given there's only one person on SolarCity's board who isn't tied to Tesla.

In 2009, the group called for the US Congress «to foster necessary political changes to produce a healthier economic environment» and grant permanent normal trade relations status to Russia.

Sometimes groups connect with other groups and the call for change becomes a movement.

Chipotle shareholders Amalgamated Bank and Change to Win Investment Group called on Nov. 1 for the company to strip co-Chief Executive Steve Ells of the chairmanship and install an independent director in the role.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

After Barington Capital Group representing a group of shareholders released a letter to Bloomin» Brands, Inc. chairman and CEO Liz Smith on Feb. 21, calling for sweeping changes in the company's brand and leadership structure, as well as marketing and financial strategy, many were anticipating the earnings report released the following day to be Group representing a group of shareholders released a letter to Bloomin» Brands, Inc. chairman and CEO Liz Smith on Feb. 21, calling for sweeping changes in the company's brand and leadership structure, as well as marketing and financial strategy, many were anticipating the earnings report released the following day to be group of shareholders released a letter to Bloomin» Brands, Inc. chairman and CEO Liz Smith on Feb. 21, calling for sweeping changes in the company's brand and leadership structure, as well as marketing and financial strategy, many were anticipating the earnings report released the following day to be poor.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

Business and environmental groups have called for changes to the EU emissions trading scheme after new figures show some countries are failing to use it to cut pollution.

While we're on the subject of social networking, here's a quick Facebook tip: on a confence call today, Farra Trompeter mentioned that a she'd received Facebook message from a pro-Obama group she's joined, asking her to change her Facebook Status to «voting for Obama.»

Good - government groups have long railed against the so - called LLC loophole, but for the moment the classification has been elusive in changing.

The seemingly endless series of reports from parliamentary committees and expert organisations calling for reform of Britain's drug policy continued today, after a cross-party group of peers called for a change in the law.

On Thursday, five government watchdog groups joined together to call for sweeping ethics and campaign finance changes based on revelations exposed during the Percoco trial.

Lucas Sánchez, director of the Long Island office for New York Communities for Change, a progressive group that advocates for low - income families, called the post «embarrassing» and a «slap in the face» to all of her constituents.

They support calls, such as that made by the all - party campaign group Unlock Democracy, for a citizens» convention process to generate proposals for constitutional change.

The report, the product of the conference's Senate Democratic Policy Group, also calls for blocking budget sweeps from environmental protections funds in order to ensure the money fights climate change.

While we're on the subject of social networking, here's a quick Facebook tip: on a confence call today, Farra Trompeter mentioned that a she'd received Facebook message from a pro-Obama group she's joined, asking her to change her Facebook Status to «voting for...

Teachers unions funneled $ 2.5 million into what Cuomo called «front groups» — AQE and New York Communities for Change — to do their dirty work attacking him for supporting charter schools and opposing tax hikes.

At noon, Making Change at Walmart, along with Walmart - Free NYC and other groups, will hold a demonstration as part of a national campaign and day of action calling on Walmart to «dump Trump and immediately withdraw all financial support for the 2016 Republican National Convention,» Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave., Manhattan.

A coalition of education groups — including the school boards association, the Council of School Superintendents and the state's teachers union — are calling for changes to the cap that would eliminate tying the cap to the rate of inflation, making the limit a 2 percent cap on levy increases.

With the ceiling on school and local property taxes in effect, a consortium of groups representing school districts, business and local governments today renewed calls for sweeping changes to required state spending.

Day lobbied the County Executives of America, an influential non-partisan advocacy group of which he is a board member, to pass a resolution calling for New York to change its policy of requiring counties to pay for Medicaid

The group will appoint their own whips in parliament to co-ordinate rebellions where they disagree with Mr Corbyn's policy and look to change the rules to appoint an elected Shadow Cabinet, as previously called for by the party's deputy leader Tom Watson.

Also at noon, Making Change at Walmart, along with Walmart - Free NYC and other groups, will hold a major demonstration in front of Trump Tower as part of a national campaign and day of action calling on Walmart to dump Trump and immediately withdraw all financial support for the 2016 Republican National Convention, Trump Tower, 725 5th Avenue, between E56th Street and E57th Street, New York.

But in a statement from the Nigerian Wailers signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Fasipe Oluyemi, the group has called on the good people of Nigeria to come out en mass for a protest (#OccupyCBN) to stop this impunity of the Fraudulent Forex Trading, Round Tripping and racketeering going on in the Central Bank of Nigeria aided by its Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele and bring to an end the Manipulation of Forex, illegally funding Federal Government budget, short - changing the Money Deposit Bank's reserve ratio at the expense of the Masses as the abuse of internal process.

But the debate continues with the pro-choice groups still calling for the changes sought by the 2008 amendments and the pro-life groups still seeking a reduction in the abortion time limit.

The groups, ALIGN NY and New York Communities for Change, will release a report calling for a mix of plans favored by both Cuomo — congestion pricing during peak travel times — and a millionaires tax — backed by de Blasio, to help bolster the finances of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Lord Darzi's promises come ahead of his final report on the next stage of NHS reform and follow calls from health groups for people working in the NHS to drive forward changes.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

Members of Manhattan and Bronx nonprofit groups, including UnitedNY, La Fuente, Make the Road New York and New York Communities for Change, stood on the 181st Street overpass during rush hour waving signs while also calling to passing cars entering and leaving Manhattan.

On Monday, a small group of delegates attempted to oust Trump by calling for a vote on rule changes.

The unionization drive, called Fast Food Forward, is sponsored by community and civil rights groups — including New York Communities for Change, United NY.org and the Black Institute — as well as the Service Employees International Union.

Most recently, James joined progressive groups in calling for higher wages and a change in the city's economic development policies, including more stringent requirements for banks and corporations that receive city subsidies.

Ruben, a long - time political organizer, aided in the establishment of the group's field organizing program, and headed the 2006 «Call for Change» campaign that facilitated in the election of a Democratic congressional majority, and served as a supervisor for two years in MoveOn's issue campaigns.

Tara Houska, right, a member of the group Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, calls for the Washington Redskins to change their name during a news conference on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C..

I have also lobbied the County Executives of America, an influential non-partisan advocacy group of which I am a board member, to pass a resolution calling for New York to change its policy of requiring counties to pay for Medicaid.

Many good government groups had the expectation that the workgroup's proposals would help empower individual members while decreasing the speaker's ability to control all legislation, something they saw as playing into the charges against Silver, who had long resisted calls for basic technological changes to increase transparency.

Gathered outside Mr. Cuomo's Midtown office, the activists from left - leaning groups including Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change and Crown Heights Tenant Union called the Democratic governor a Republican, said he had done the equivalent of urinating on them, and even claimed he would be arrested before he sought re-election in 2018.

Security group calls U.S. unprepared for Arctic changes The analysis from the National Snow and Ice Data Center comes on the heels of several scientific and policy papers in the past week warning about the consequences of Arctic ice loss.

Predictably, processing times slowed, and by 2003 they had climbed to several months, prompting a group of scientific societies that included the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), AAU, AAAS, and others to call for changes in the visa system.

Looking for immune abnormalities throughout the lifespan of the mice, the group found that most immune system components stayed the same in number, but a type of brain - resident immune cells called microglia that are known first responders to infection begin to divide and change early in the disease.

It participated in the formation of a group called the Cartagena Dialogue, an informal space for countries committed to a low - carbon economy to work on a legally binding regime in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

For example, environmental influences can cause changes in the number of chemical «caps» called methyl groups that are added to DNA bases.