Sentences with phrase «backlash against all use»

It's also «widely known» that there is a backlash against using language of war in inappropriate manner, but the unknowing just glide along, blithely insulting millions of military man and women.

This aggressive move is a form of backlash against using the legal system to hold the food and beverage industry's accountable for deceptive marketing practices.

Last June, the New York Times reported about a significant backlash against the use of a software system called COMPAS (developed by Northpointe Inc.) to assess defendants» risk levels for sentencing purposes in many states.

Not exact matches

Despite the widespread use of this idea, there has been recent backlash against it.

Labatt Breweries quickly learned a brutal lesson in social media marketing and PR after a legal threat against the Montreal Gazette, over the paper's use of a photo depicting accused killer Luka Magnotta holding a bottle of Blue, transformed into a Twitter backlash mocking the beer company.

But Facebook users, in the middle of what seems to be a moment of broader cultural backlash against social media and technology, are also clearly grappling with the ramifications of their use of the platform.

So last month, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest announced it was filing a class action lawsuit to stop McDonald's from using Happy Meal toys to market to children, the fierce and ugly backlash against the mother of two who was brave enough to attach her name to the case was predictable.

Peter Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and First Minister of Northern Ireland, has stated during a TV interview that it was the backlash against a rally held in memory to two IRA terrorists that led to his party withdrawing its support from plans to build a peace centre in what used to be HM Prison Maze, on the site of the former Long Kesh Detention Centre.

One tactic: campaigns often use microsites to launch attacks on their opponents, employing a microsite partly to focus the message and partly to insulate the main site from backlash against the attack.

Michael Petrilli, president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a Common Core supporter, said he anticipates another wave of backlash against the standards in the states — so it won't be helpful to have a president using his bully pulpit to rail against them.

At the major E3 video game conference in June, Sony used the widescale backlash against Microsoft's plans to boost the popularity of its rival PlayStation 4 machine.

Maisie Skidmore was interested in news that various institutions were banning the use of camera phones to preserve some mystique and then we chatted about the backlash against longform fetishisation (and the backlash to the backlash).

Of course this is not going to single handedly solve the worlds plastic bag problem, nor are we saying it is totally sustainable jewelery, (gold is also used), but this jewellery does give rise to alternative and thoughtful uses for discarded plastics.The recent backlash against plastic shopping bags in Australia has been written about here before, there are a few alternatives that have been trialled such as the potato starch bag, reusable woven bags and banning plastic bags altogether, but using plastic bags persists, which leaves the dilemma of what to do with them.

When I wrote the first edition of «The War Against the Greens» in 1994 I predicted that the violent «Wise Use» backlash against environmentalists created by public lands industries like mining and timber might someday be superceded by a more powerfulAgainst the Greens» in 1994 I predicted that the violent «Wise Use» backlash against environmentalists created by public lands industries like mining and timber might someday be superceded by a more powerfulagainst environmentalists created by public lands industries like mining and timber might someday be superceded by a more powerful force.

On May 29, 2015, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, attended a Big Green - funded League of Conservation Voters event where he called for using RICO against climate skeptics and fossil fuel companies (see the YouTube here), then in a Washington Post op - ed, «The fossil - fuel industry's campaign to mislead the American people,» prompting a backlash asserting that the charge was false, and defending the right to dissent.

«Consumers have the right to know that the products they are buying are not fuelling crimes against humanity,» said Balint - Kurti, «Electronics brands and other companies that use conflict minerals now have a clear choice between showing leadership, or facing a public backlash.»

Greenpeace uses 1997 as a benchmark year due to increased coordinated backlash against global climate negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol of 1998.

Nor does the backlash against ICOs impact the use of blockchain in general.

Indeed, aggressive police raids — where doors are kicked in, machine guns are held to civilians» heads, and houses are completely ransacked — create a backlash against the police and against the legal system in general, especially when these tactics are used against «crimes» as mundane as poker games, checking high school students» lockers for drugs, and even cracking down on unlicensed hairdressers.

The lawsuit is the latest development in a wave of backlash against Facebook over ways its platform was used to influence the 2016 election.

What seemed like an innocuous and smart use of data - tracking a user's gender and adapting its homepage to reflect this - led to a backlash against the brand for overstepping the mark and using data inappropriately.

The lawsuit is the latest development in a wave of backlash against the social media company over ways in which its platform was used to influence the 2016 election.