Sentences with phrase «bad publicity on»

I was the first council member to let the chief executive know about the bad publicity on twitter caused by the Law Society advertising and charging for a course helping firms through the process for bidding for a PCT contract.

Whereas once it seemed like Facebook could ride out any bad publicity on the strength of its inexorable growth as a business and cultural force, it's increasingly operating in an environment where billionaire technology moguls like Michael Bloomberg and Pierre Omidyar are publicly criticizing it and even calling for it to be regulated.

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So bad word of mouth and negative publicity on social media can sink you, Jenkinson says.

The firm's traditional approach is to ignore bad publicity, counting on its reputation to lift it above the fray.

In June 2012 he ousted Abrams, a decision that attracted a wave of bad publicity when the New York Post reported — falsely, according to Buffett — that Abrams had been fired for spending company money on a Bermuda cruise.

Apparently in an attempt to avoid bad publicity, Mayer conducted a series of clandestine layoffs based on secret evaluations.

Adding to the hit on sales, Whole Foods has been contending with some negative bad publicity, including a warning in June from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about food safety at a Massachusetts plant that makes prepared foods and other products.

Cambridge Analytica may be out of business thanks to bad publicity, but «Emerdata» is a new company, whose board includes the daughters of Robert Mercer, who bankrolled Cambridge Analytica; disgraced former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix is on its board of directors, and much of Cambridge Analytica's C - suite has packed up their desks and moved -LSB-...]

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman threatened ADP with bad publicity if he were forced into a formal proxy contest for seats on the payroll processing giant's board, according to the company.

Add on the fact that you will have annoyed instructors watching you & you brought unwelcome bad publicity to the class.

If you can not make the protests you can go to the just giving crowd funding Chris butler website and donate to the organisers.They are doing a great job and for every pound donated one Gooner is matching it.As for yesterday Wenger playing Gibbs and keeping Ozil's and Giroud on for as long as he did was the same as playing Ramsey as a left winger with a damaged toe at old Trafford as far as bad decisions go and shows the man has to go.When is something going to be done about those spud fans who attack our lot before and after the game.If it had been Millwall the media would be all over it but because they are the media darlings it is not given the publicity it deserves.Spuds fans are the worst in the country.

And go on the march owner's will not like the bad publicity???

The timing could hardly be worse for the Conservatives — it is too late for the by - election to be held on the same day as the European elections, so the by - election will presumably come fairly soon afterwards, at a time when UKIP will almost certainly be enjoying a big publicity boost from having done well in the European elections...

Following a weekend firestorm of controversy, protests and bad national publicity Statehouse Republican leaders say they are taking whatever steps that are necessary to ensure the public that Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) can't be used to discriminate against Hoosiers based on sexual orientation.

Defense attorneys on Wednesday speculated that the 84 percent reduction may be the result of bad publicity in The Post and other news outlets.

Usually, «researchers recognize the need for publicity for their own research field,» but depending on the situation, interacting with the media can also be looked upon badly, Peters says.

After all of the recent bad publicity around online dating on the BBCs flagship current.

The resulting publicity and furor over what some see as a bad taste move on her part escalate tensions, with the community divided as Mildred continues to harass police chief William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) and others in his department, including Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell).

While on the publicity tour for Deadpool 2, the film's co-star Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to have some fun with a a parody of the classic western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Fellow new release I Know Who Killed Me, meanwhile, fell on its sword of bad publicity swirling around star Lindsay Lohan; a late scratch in some rural areas, the movie opened in just over 1,300 theaters, and grossed only $ 3.4 million.

Do nt be shocked because Nintendo just changed their worst publicity in mere seconds from EVO on Melee streaming that is something Sony never did with the PS3.

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.

Horn blamed the current clash over classroom size on legislators» willingness to package major policy decisions like this one with the state's overall spending plan, a move that he acknowledged is made to avoid lengthy, sometimes bitter, public discussions and bad publicity for lawmakers.

He blames that loss on bad publicity.

In 2016, it was accused of trying to avoid bad publicity by delaying the release of documents relating to poor pupil performance and governance at 15 academies after it published a series of old notices all at once on a Friday before a bank holiday weekend.

Spending too much time on advance book promotion is probably as bad of a decision as spending no time on advance book publicity.

However, when publicity began to take a negative turn, focusing on bad trips, psychotic breaks, flashbacks and suicides, the drugs became illegal and largely unattainable — until now.

So many ugly things writers have done and yet if the writer kept writing, they just went right on proving the old saying that even bad publicity is good publicity.

But it gets even worse; on his LinkedIn profile, Albee indicated he worked for Smith Publicity for 10 years, including a time frame when my agency wasn't even in existence.

One of the many questions and subjects to be ironed out with the digital model, I would hope that if you asked for a refund one would be granted or as you pointed out you can read the digital copy when it is unlocked on the real release date, though for the very small amount of digital users right now I wonder why Marvel took it upon themselves to fix the problem this way and generate the bad publicity — just look at what happend to Amazon.

After a storm of bad publicity, Amazon agreed to switch to agency — though it kept Macmillan's buy buttons off until a contract was signed on Feb. 5.

Amazon has been bad for non-bestsellers because its co-op demands cut into the money that would otherwise fund publicity and marketing efforts for mid-list writers and gambles on new authors.

While much of the bad publicity about pit bulls centers on their fighting dog history, what's often left out of the equation is that they are true terriers.

Bad Press: In recent years, the breed has received some negative publicity, primarily due to a lack of understanding of the breed and canine nature on the part of the owner, and indiscriminate breeding on the part of the breeder.

Bad publicity for a site looking to capitalize on the centennial of its discovery.

A few weeks ago United was hit with some bad publicity over leggings on a plane.

This hasn't been a great month for Apple: bad publicity for waging war on the little guy and the art of self - repair with the Pentalobe screw, the unfortunate news that Steve Jobs» health has taken a bad turn, and now a report coming out of China that puts the company last in a list of 29 tech giants ranked for their responses on pollution and workers» rights, including occupational health hazards, at their suppliers» factories.The report, written by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs with a coalition of other Chinese NGOs, says that behind the company's stylish image, «Apple products have a side that many do not know about — pollution and poison.

I'm quite surprised they fired them — even this is bad publicity and it's not publicised but some future trainees do fail an exam and get kept on.

Mark Zuckerberg today posted his annual New Year's resolution post on Facebook, and this time he's using it to address the elephant in the room — namely, Facebook's bad publicity in 2017.

Sensing that it couldn't handle the bad publicity surrounding the embattled Note 7, and putting safety first before any other thing, the company finally decided to pull the plug on Tuesday.

This news comes on the heels of bad publicity that Faraday Future has been receiving, including a report that says the company is behind its payments to AECOM, the construction firm that was originally responsible for building the factory.

But with the sudden tidal wave of bad publicity over Facebook's data collection — and the selling of that data — it looks like a May preview of the new tech toys is now on hold.

Smart politicians don't like bad publicity, especially if it will reflect badly on their chances at the next election.

And a flurry of bad publicity that centered mainly on Wells has so far failed to slow down the stream of new unlisted offerings set to hit the market in 2004.