Sentences with phrase «backed by activist»

Supporters including the New York Bar Association and the New York People's Convention, backed by activist Bill Samuels, say a convention could fix the state's partisan redistricting process, as well as create more environmental protections and measures to close campaign finance loopholes.

Valeant, backed by activist investor Bill Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Investment holds some 10 per cent of Allergan stock, originally announced its takeover bid back in April and has since boosted it twice to some US$ 53 billion.

Last month, Dimon prevailed at the bank's annual meeting when only 32 percent of shareholders voted in favor of a proposal — backed by activist groups after the «London Whale» trading losses — to strip him of the chairmanship.

Not exact matches

Backed by a minimum - wage activist group, employees that suffered severe burns on the job have filed complaints against the chain in 19 cities.

Lynas's Malaysian plant is the largest one outside China, and while it could have started production as early as May of this year, safety concerns by local activist groups have set the launch back a number of times.

LONDON Major Barclays shareholders will baulk at any bid by activist Edward Bramson to gain a seat on the bank's board, despite giving their cautious backing to the biggest bet of his career.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

Writing on his website, Scott Lively said that «pressure and harassment by LGBT activists», was the reason it was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual back in 1973, but called for it to be put back in.

Yes... this is the severist most ignorant form of human brotherhood... but Bill Nye, is taking the first step towards his goal, and the goal of many athiest activist... take the rights away from God believers... because... a hundred reasons... children will be hurt, holds back our country yada yada... be careful who you get suckered in by as you travel these few years we are given on this earth... allow your brother to be your brother... allow him to chose for his life and family... never cross the line of «knowing better.»

It was 1991, and the Madison, Wisconsin, policewoman needed treatment for a back injury - she'd been hoisting a stolen moped out of a car trunk; in the waiting room, Maples flipped through a copy of «Being Peace» by the Buddhist monk and activist Thich Nhat Hanh.

Back in February, I was surprised and honored to be included on a list compiled by Elizabeth Street (with the help of food activist Robyn O'Brien) of the «Top 15 Most Important Moms in the Food Industry.»

Activists said the Games supported discrimination, MPs savaged the Home Office and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport for not keeping track of things, Seb Coe tried to ban people wearing Pepsi T - shirts from entering the Games and ministers decided to step back from the abyss by not using VIP lanes.

The other big problem with a challenge is that a contender would be seen by activists as stabbing the leader in the back and would start a vicious civil war inside the party.

The group New York Unity PAC, an effort fueled in part by Republican activists who back same - sex marriage legalization, reported spending more than $ 210,000 on ads, direct mail and robocalls, in its recent 10 - day post primary filing.

Fineman focuses on one particular New Hampshire activist who's beseiged by requests from Hillary's supporters, really wants to work with Obama, but hasn't heard back from his campaign.

[As an aside, back in 2000 I briefly flirted with a national campaign for a certain third - party candidate, but the dalliance ended for good when they lost a hefty chunk of their activist list to a server crash — I was already a little turned off by what seemed to be a dangerous level of disorganization, and I ran away in disgust when they didn't even have a backup copy of the one database they desperately needed to hold on to.

The upstaters backed Flanagan despite a push by many in the region, including gun rights activists, to install DeFrancisco.

Fortunately for taxpayers, Governor Cuomo has held the line and turned back efforts by anti-cap activists to «go under the hood» and tinker with the cap.

The prospects for ethnic minority politicians are still held back by «dinosaur attitudes» to race among party activists, a thinktank has argued.

The organisations also backed the call on the President to step aside and go on another medical vacation to look after his health as canvassed by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), and other activists.

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

Gov. Cuomo said Tuesday he «strongly» backs a new proposal to unite warring Democrats in the state Senate, a move demanded by left - wing activists as the governor heads into an election year.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

Housing activist Medina, 51, who was backed by the Working Families Party, received 39 percent of the vote.

Dressed in gray corporate attire to blend in with the businesswomen in the audience, the activists unfurled pink banners with «Stop Supporting the War» in black letters and briefly yelled the phrase at Clinton from the back of the room until they were hustled out by security guards.

At a conference held by the New York State Progressive Elected Officials Network at the Desmond Sunday, there was no explicit talk of what happened there nearly two years ago, when the party's institutional union backers turned back what was essentially a revolt among its activist members against Cuomo's business - friendly centrism.

Conservative London mayoral candidate under fire for backing illegal direct action by activists

Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill their promise to swiftly repeal the Affordable Care Act.

* In Washington's 3rd district race for the seat of retiring Rep. Brian Baird (D), state Rep. Jaime Herrera (R) is the choice of the GOP establishment, but former Bush administration official David Castillo (R), who's been backed by popular Attorney General Rob McKenna (R), and activist David Hedrick (R) are also in the running.

A succession of activists, including many councillors, protested that allowing parents to set up new schools beyond town hall control would benefit better - off families to the detriment of those in poorer areas, and could also lead to selection by the back door.

In the West Village's Assembly District 66, veteran lawmaker Deborah Glick beat back a bid by longtime gay, anti-war, and environmental activist Jim -LSB-...]

Some 66 Labour MPs defied their leader Jeremy Corbyn - and a concerted campaign by anti-war activists - to back military action.

Documenting the experiences of women worldwide who are living with HIV / AIDS, the project is supported by US fashion designer, Kenneth Cole, and human rights activist, Bianca Jagger, and backed by the United Nations Population Fund.

On Aug. 2 she was back, showing up to a meeting of local Harlem activists called by Councilwoman Inez Dickens to address a recent spate of shootings.

The potential challenge by Sex and the City star and LGBT activist Cynthia Nixon has New York Governor Andrew Cuomo «spooked,» according to a report in The Daily Beast, and sparked a back - and - forth between Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio:

It's more of a top - down affair (a problem with the whole Republican Party, younger activists here lament), hosted by Americans for Prosperity, a major Republican - backing organization.

In January, Bonacic became the only Senate Republican to back a bill prioritized by abortion rights activists.

The Florida Democrat faces calls for her resignation from her perch atop the DNC from party activists who worry the relatively skimpy debate schedule could be seen tilting the scales for front - runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and for her potential apostasy when it comes to supporting President Barack Obama's Iran deal — what amounts to his signature foreign policy achievement and one backed by all of the Democrats running for president save for Jim Webb.

The potential challenge by Sex and the City star and LGBT activist Cynthia Nixon has New York Governor Andrew Cuomo «spooked,» according to a report in The Daily Beast, and sparked a back - and - forth between Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill De Blas... Read

More than 50 parents and education activists back a lawsuit filed by Public Advocate Letitia James and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to overturn all charter school «co-locations» in city - owned buildings approved by de Blasio last month.

And in a third sign of growing disillusionment with Cuomo by Democrats and others on the political left, Working Families Party activists, furious over Cuomo's alliance with Senate Republicans, are threatening to back someone other than the governor in the November election, a move that would aid GOP gubernatorial contender Rob Astorino, sources said.

Murkowski was defeated in Alaska's GOP primary by the once - little - known Miller, who enjoyed the backing of Tea Party activists and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

The founders of Take Back Parliament said that it was a cross party group of activists, with the first meeting to form the campaign hosted by Power2010 and operational execution undertaken by staff of Power2010, with support from Unlock Democracy.

Jeremy Corbyn is BACKED by two - thirds of Labour activists.

He finished by leading the crowd in a boisterous call and response inspired by an LGBT activist chant: «Facts and evidence under attack,» «Act up, fight back!»

A book published this spring by Northwestern University historian of science Alice Dreger, Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists and the Search for Justice in Science, demonstrates that those risks go back centuries.

Back in 2006, an Australian Internet activist launched a website with the goal of sharing classified documents globally by making it impossible to trace sources.

Conservative organizations, think tanks, and other right - wing activists backed by corporate donors including the Koch brothers, the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and the Bradley Foundation, have long been preparing for a case like Janus as part of a larger campaign to break unions.

But Janet Downs, an activist with the Local Schools Network, accused the Department for Education of trying to avoid bad publicity about academies by pushing the release back until after the release of its white paper on March 17.

Like Tuck, Romero was backed by a mix of Silicon Valley tech activists and Republican business interests — but she failed to make the runoff and Torlakson won an easy victory over former district superintendent Larry Aceves.