Sentences with phrase «agitating for»

Around that time, the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks were agitating for a new basketball arena to replace the outdated BMO Harris Bradley Center, and CARW saw opportunity in dovetailing its work in Park East with the business community's efforts to keep pro basketball in the city.

But the «dads» agitating for joint custody claim they want their «turn» at being a care - provider.

If not, you want to be living by example and agitating for this change... or joining the company whose culture already embodies it.

The version that left Parliament would introduce very tough new rules for companies and governments handling EU citizens» personal data, but it appears member states have been agitating for these rules to be weakened.

I've also no doubt that other provinces are watching closely to see what happens, since Quebec is not the only one agitating for change.

However being informed that the bill had been enacted and being aware that various groups had been agitating for a law that made joint custody of children South Carolina's default position, I decided to review the bill.

«We will all continue agitating for solutions,» he said, choosing language more common to labor organizers than business conference attendees.

Will the policies that UN climate delegates are advocating and agitating for change the climate?

We Australian taxpayers have been agitating for CSIRO funding for Antarctic research and the provision of a fully funded ice ready research vessel.

they would be agitating for more action, rather than shrugging their shoulders and saying «I guess we should just sit it out».

Over in Bonn, left - wing NGOs and developing nations are back to agitating for wealthy nations to pick up the tab for «loss and damage» suffered by poor countries when extreme weather strikes.

Seven north - eastern states have set up the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative — emissions stabilisation followed by cuts, with a trading scheme — and six western governors are agitating for federal action.

You'd think if they were so sincerely concerned about how ineffective Kyoto will be (as, frankly, they should be), they would be agitating for more action rather than shrugging their shoulders and saying «I guess we should just sit it out.»

WildEarth Guardian, which has been agitating for a Prairie Dog Day since 2003, held organized an event in Salt Lake City today honoring the prairie dog, which has been dwindling in numbers since the 1990s.

«All of this had a grassroots start, and the community has been agitating for so long for an honest accounting of the [Cooper] finances.

By the 1970s, murals depicting barrio life and often agitating for social change were appearing in housing projects and on storefronts in Puerto Rican and Chicano communities.

She later co-founded the Ad Hoc Women's Art Committee, agitating for equal inclusion of women artists in the Whitney Biennial.

Within recent memory, I have seen among these groups lying about breed («boxer mix,» «lab mix»); offering dogs with known animal aggression («can NOT be in a home with cats»); agitating for a pit who killed a person to be spared and transferred to an - out - of - state «rescue;» directly encouraging people to bring their pits to dog - and child - filled charity events, etc..

Animal lovers, rescue groups and advocacy organisations have been agitating for change at the Lost Dogs Home (LDH) for at least a decade and -LSB-...]

When it comes to agitating for change and managing discounts, I'm content to pay a reasonable management fee to Goldstein and co. to let them do the heavy lifting on my behalf.

At this point, however, I believe key shareholders will wring more value from the company... by waiting, rather than by agitating for a quick sale.

Modern activists exploit this property by taking large minority stakes in these stocks and then agitating for change.

Activists exploit this property by taking large minority stakes these stocks and then agitating for change.

With Ironfire Capital agitating for change, we believe BRN presents an attractive opportunity for investment.

The YHOO situation is starting to get very interesting with Dan Loeb and Third Point holding a position and agitating for change.

Barnwell Industries, Inc. (AMEX: BRN) is exactly the kind of opportunity Greenbackd likes to find: a company trading at a discount to its liquidating value with an activist investor agitating for change.

Some investors in this category are known for agitating for changes such as new management, a merger, or the spin - off of a subsidiary.

Ackman is an activist investor with a history of taking large positions in companies and then agitating for radical change.

The company is further distracted by activist shareholders that are agitating for the company's sale.

Travel Foreman posted these pieces to his blog overnight, explaining that he and Jeff Lemire were agitating for a Doom Patrol reboot around the time the artist left DC Comics»...

On top of all this she has been saddled with Hamlet, on leave in the Outland to see if people really consider him a ditherer: rather untimely as Kaine is agitating for war against the Danish.

The teachers unions oppose reforms like Vergara, they oppose free speech lawsuits like Friedrichs vs. the CTA, they oppose charter schools, they fight any attempts to invoke the Parent Trigger Law, and they are continually agitating for more taxes «for the children,» when in reality virtually all new tax revenue for education is poured into the insatiable maw of Wall Street to shore up public sector pension funds.

As the front - line leaders of school improvement efforts, the nation's principals have been among the loudest voices agitating for a long - overdue ESEA reauthorization, but the expediency of the reauthorization can not come at the expense of equity.

AP: Prior to the passage of ESSA, we were already agitating for the «Schools Our Keiki Deserve,» and thinking about how to connect with the community around student - centered advocacy.

By last year, groups such as the Connecticut Parents Union (on whose advisory board your editor serves) had sprouted up throughout the country, and, along with long - established groups such as the Black Alliance for Educational Options, were agitating for the enactment of Parent Trigger laws, pushing for the expansion of charters and vouchers, and weighing in on such issues as overhauling teacher evaluation systems.

Thank you for your petition signing and your letter writing and your overall agitating for the Fillmore cause!!

Sticking to their knitting means finding ways to make their enterprises work today in specific places, not agitating for massive changes in the ground rules.

His theory of change relied on rewards and sanctions for schools along with an informed public agitating for improvement.

The women are agitating for a pay rise and are led by Rita (Sally Hawkins), an unassuming young mother of two who is voted in as their spokeswoman.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Historical Epic about Birth of the IRA Out on DVD It is Ireland in 1920, a time when freedom was in the air, and the working class was agitating for independence.

Achieving gender equality, social justice, and environmental sustainability is not going to be achieved without people like you agitating for change, whether in your workplace, in politics, or more broadly in society.

But rich people on the city council with ties to the Islamic parties are agitating for easy access to antiquities.

She argues that the NDRC is agitating for the inclusion of the concept in the next plan to ensure resources are available for more research and policy development.

We have a poor leader in John Dramani Mahama, and that is why I am agitating for change,» he said.

While the military was quick to illegally and unconstitutionally declare armless IPOB members as terrorists for peacefully agitating for their rights, it becomes so dumb and voiceless to the gruesome genocide being carried out by the killer Fulani herdsmen against Nigerians.

Obianor, who is seeking ticket of his political party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance to contest the election, also said the Church killings in Ozubulu village in the state were not done by either the Boko Haram terrorist group or people agitating for separation in his zone.

The Igbo should strive towards producing a president in the Federal Republic of Nigeria instead of agitating for the sovereign state of Biafra.

Uber says its push is about much more than the governor's push, and indeed it has been agitating for several months.

A second coalition, called Growing Together New York, and joining dozens of labor, environmental and community groups, will focus more directly on opposing Mr. Cuomo's cuts, while also agitating for the extension of the income - tax surcharge.

Nobody would have been agitating for a change in government if the President was doing well.