Sentences with phrase «amid public pressure»

A day after Senate Democrats huddled at a hotel and catering house outside of Albany amid a public pressure campaign to bridge the divide within the party in the chamber, black Democratic officials are joining the push.

The move came amid public pressure over implementation screw - ups and amid a multi-million-dollar media battle between the soda industry and public health organizations.

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March 25 - Remington Outdoor Co Inc, one of the largest U.S. makers of firearms, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday to carry out a debt - cutting deal with creditors amid mounting public pressure for greater gun control.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Bowing to public pressure amid a pension controversy, Highland Park Park District board President Lorenz Werhane Jr. announced Tuesday that he would step down after the board finds replacements for the two other board members who resigned last week.

Her claim heaps more pressure on ministers amid the Windrush scandal, in which some migrants who came to Britain from the Caribbean before 1971 have been threatened with deportation by the Home Office and lost access to public services.

More than one in 10 D.C. public schools will close as part of a plan Chancellor Kaya Henderson put forth Thursday, a retrenchment amid budget pressures, low enrollment and growing competition from public charter schools.

I'm never one to doubt that local school boards and public safety officials will find a way to hire even amid bad budget news, but the pressure on state and local budgets is so great and shows so little sign of abating that I couldn't help wondering where the money might come from.

But it only closed for two days and managed to get going again in buildings belonging to a nearby school — amid the pressures of public exams.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

CNN reports that Zuckerberg has come to terms with the fact that he will have to testify, and that the testimony may come within a matter of weeks amid pressure from lawmakers, the media, and the public.

Amid mounting pressure from customers and regulators, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg broke his public silence Wednesday about the widening Cambridge Analytica scandal.