Sentences with phrase «as public pressure»

It is an abdication of a prosecutor's duty to the public to bring unsupported criminal charges, and the abdication is aggravated when those charges are brought based on an impermissible purpose such as public pressure.

The two sides came together on the issue as public pressure to remove junk foods from schools increased.

Not exact matches

I think he saw it — the political pressure that really resulted from public pressure, or people saying things as simple as, «I drive around the city and I can see with my own eyes that the lights are not synchronized.»

As Bloomberg pointed out last month, Spotify's recent deal to raise $ 1 billion in convertible debt valued the company at roughly $ 8 billion and put additional pressure on the streaming service to go public.

And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.

Also Kim Jong - Un is being pressured to make a move as the public sentiment toward him is very bad.

The outcry after the shooting has sparked public pressure on corporations who offer discounts to the NRA as well as asset managers who invest in gun manufacturers.

The chain was bumped to the # 3 spot in the industry by Wendy's at the end of last year, and the pressure to succeed is on as it prepares to go public again.

The federal government has increased pressure on the private sector to fight the war on drugs, just as public support for the effort has reached a low.

As pressures mount, an increasing number of citizens commit suicide by jumping off the towering public apartments.

The ones that still do, such as TPG Partners and Apollo Global Management, are already being pressured by public pensions to stop the practice.

A few months earlier, Beijing had applied similar pressure on European nations, this time to join with it in an unprecedented public call to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.

I truly believe that it's time, after almost a decade of prosperity in the public markets and the global economy, that we put pressure on the entrepreneurial community as a whole to start focusing on making money versus raising money.

If «Tromc» made its public debut with this call, it was nevertheless The Los Angeles Times that took center stage in what we may call, probably briefly, the Lagos Gambit (POLITICO: «L.A. Times poised to get big push from Tribune as sale pressure lingers»).

Facebook has named a new head of U.S. public policy as the company deals with ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and increasing pressure over privacy around the world.

This time, as pressure mounted from legislators, investors, advertisers and the public alike, the company conceded.

And internationally, debt - ridden economies are subject to pressure from inter-governmental institutions such as the IMF and European Central Bank to impose fiscal austerity on their labor force, cut back public spending and even sell off public enterprises.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

I guess the lesson of Travis Kalanick's resignation as chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. is that you can be the visionary founder of a massive company, stay private to avoid the pressures of the public market, keep control of a majority of the voting power of the shares, and still be forced out in a boardroom coup led by activist shareholders:

However, I think the awareness - raising effort is primarily directed at the public, and in particular those who can, by way of investment choices (whether as a shareholder or a tourist), put economic pressure on those decision - makers.

Unless central banks move beyond quantitative easing and actually print money to directly finance consumption or public investment, debt tends to be disinflationary, as high debt levels can calcify potential future growth and inflationary pressures.

Prior says that «as the aging population starts to jeopardise the sustainability of current healthcare funding it will place increased pressure on both public and private payers to find cheaper, more efficient ways of delivering care, and where possible reduce the need for care in the first place.»

On October 28, 1994 Premier Klein told the media that he had axed the appointment as a result of public pressure from the oil industry and environmental groups who claimed the posting would politicize the regulatory board.

If the sequester happens, the most likely scenario (as I see it) is that public pressure will result in some House Republicans allying with the House Democrats and a large majority in the Senate to restore the cuts after some face saving compromise that doesn't save the Republicans much face.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

The Church could no longer interfere with the Government just as the Government could no longer interfere with the Church, but through voluntary reform groups the Christian citizen could, by moral pressure and a majority legislation, see to it that public morality was kept at a high level.

Insofar as that view has sedimented itself in public education, the media and therapeutic centers, then I would say there are Europeanizing pressures.

Public debates over farmgate milk prices will take place across Britain over the next couple of weeks, as producers and campaign groups look to maintain pressure on retailers and processors.

Floating his name like this in the locker room and in the public can serve as a trial balloon — a way to gauge the reaction and / or put some pressure on owner Steve Biscotti.

So I just don't get the «too much pressure to breastfeed» when all around me are images of bottles, ads for formula telling me a happy feeding makes a happy mom, bottlefeeding moms, moms and doctors and nurses telling new moms that formula is «just as good» and «not to feel guilty», women getting «the look» for nursing in public, or feeling weird about doing it (I sure did)-- to me, any pressure out there is NOT to breastfeed, or do it as little as possible (not if it's not immediately easy or you don't love every minute, not past 6 mos, not in public, not around male relatives and friends, not around children, not if you ever want to go out alone sometime...)

It also welcomed the unveiling of the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights as an opportunity to ensure that the workplace and public services reflect the changing needs and aspirations of men as well as adding pressure to end pay and job discrimination against women.

British women have the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world because they are being put under pressure to resume their old routines as quickly as possible after birth, a leading public health academic has said.

The Miami - based fast food chain, which re-launched as a public company in June, has been putting real pressure on McDonald's for the first time in years, in part by adding versions of products already available at the Golden Arches.

They worry that if public pressure causes LFTB to be eliminated, bacteria - laden beef trimmings will go back into hamburger, just as they used to, and the meat will be much less safe.

To educate of other members of the adoption group and the general public about the injustices done to the First Mother as per coercion, social pressures and worse.

In part because human capital in these high quality sectors is deep and specific, so needs to be used to the full in exporting; in part because there are typically strong positive externalities to training and innovation systems from increased exports; in part because a tight fiscal policy constrains wage demands in the public sector from undermining restraint of export sector unions: these countries, as well as Japan and China for similar reasons, want no constraints on their exports through macroeconomic regulatory rules pressuring them to expand consumer demand.

Haruna Iddrisu since last month appeared to have come under some pressure from persons within the party to run as flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) ahead of the 2020 general elections or make his stance on who he will support public.

These changes are an opportunity for public affairs companies although he argues that, in Brussels as elsewhere, the economic downturn is going to be the most important driver for public affairs activity in the coming 12 months, not least because of pressure for EU - wide legislation affecting the financial markets.

The Royals as victims of unfair public pressure («the system is unfair to the Royals themselves as much as anybody» is a more powerful one post-the 1990s, and with our particular form of celebrity culture (which the Royals have themselves used post the 1960s with the first family argument).

The public matching program was approved in the state budget in 2014 as a compromise with Senate Republicans and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was under pressure that year from good - government advocates and public - financing supporters to create a public financing system.

Not at all to disagree that much more public civic pressure could be v.important - including in Europe, Japan, Canada as well as the US.

One journalist emphasized this as crucial to generating public moral pressure: «If the people don't find out because we don't publish... the authority just says, «Whatever.»

Given various policy options, this line of thought asserts, military force stands alongside many competing actions as but one policy option among many, whether economic sanctions, political incentives, alliance building, political pressure, or shame in the court of public opinion.

We should be making life as difficult as possible, and changing the assumption that the only public pressure on immigration is toward spite.

Gary Greenberg, an outspoken child sex abuse survivor, has purchased a digital ad urging the public to pressure state leaders into passing a law making it easier for victims to seek justice as adults.

Today, in the wake of growing public pressure for Vito Lopez to resign immediately as Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman, Lopez announced that he would not seek another term as chair.

And while most congressmembers aren't going to change their minds on climate change, women's reproductive rights, guns or immigration (the issues listed as priorities in Carson's email), rallies or meetings to put pressure on them can get local public and media attention.

The pressure on New York City mayoral contender Bill Thompson to end his candidacy to avoid a divisive Democratic runoff is mounting as former supporters of NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn announce their support for the frontrunner, NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

Mr Jackson: The hon. Lady will know that the markets have recognised that the fiscal consolidation that the Government had to put in place as part of a policy of growth in the private sector and consolidation in the public sector has resulted in a lessening of the pressures in the gilt markets, with gilt yields down to 3.53 % since May last year, and every 1 % is # 1 billion of interest payment.