Sentences with phrase «big corporations take»

We don't let big corporations take advantage of consumers.

Sadly, all of this Nestle chatter is just one example of how big corporations take advantage of of their positions in developing countries.

Not exact matches

The Mickey Mouse corporation became the biggest brand in family entertainment by taking years to develop new characters and properties, then stoking demand by limiting DVD releases and other access to «the Disney vault.»

Although Sandwich still makes plenty of videos for penniless passion projects and moderately - funded ventures, the company has recently taken on work for big corporations like eBay and Yahoo, and has even put together the odd TV ad.

«There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they're going to take the money they're saving and reinvest it in American workers,» Rubio said in the interview published Thursday.

«We've got to get tougher and smarter to take on the big corporations and make sure B.C. workers and communities come first when it comes to our forest resource.

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

Would you give it up with your feeble «but what abouts...» where you always take the side of corporations, and big money interests.

It took a lot more than a mere rebuke to get big multinational corporations like Google and Starbucks to change their practises, however.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that his major concern about legalizing marijuana is that big corporations will take over the industry and exploit its «addictive» nature to try to hook kids, just like the tobacco companies.

«We can raise hundreds of billions of dollars by closing corporate tax loopholes and assuring that the rich pay their fair share, so that big corporations and the wealthy take responsibility for contributing to building strong communities,» the party's draft platform says.

The «big boys» (i.e., big corporations) in NYS will ALWAYS make sure that they're being taken care of.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

One question focused on possible reasons to vote for «Woodstock,» citing reasons like fighting to improve the economy by taking on big businesses and monopolies, pushing for campaign finance reform, increasing education funding, changing the tax code to require the wealthy and large corporations to pay more and raising the minimum wage.

«You can keep them in Albany until they take the corrupting influence of big corporate money seriously and close the LLC loophole that currently allows corporations to contribute unlimited sums of money into our political system.

The real terrorists, which I prefer to label «greedy f# * ks, are the corporations big enough to take their operations to third world companies where they can get away with paying people 40 cents a day, can evade all responsibility for shoddy buildings collapsing and killing / injuring a thousand people, where workers have to handle toxic chemicals without any protection (or lose their jobs) etc etc etc..

The Corporation and its allies furiously tried to stop George Osborne taking a big chunk of licence fee income to help fund other government departments.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that his major concern about legalizing marijuana is that big corporations will take over the industry and exploit its «addictive» nature to try to...

• Roll back tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations to ensure high quality public education: If education is truly the key to opportunity, then let's take three bold steps to ensure a brighter future.

«Big corporations and right - wing ideologues are dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into races to elect candidates who would take away the voice of labor and the middle class.»

So liberals take vitamins and other supplements because they love all things «natural» and hate big pharmaceutical companies and private insurers, while corporation - worshipping conservatives take them because they love free markets and hate nanny - state bureaucrats telling them what they can and can't take for their own health.

Subra, a chemist and microbiologist who works gratis with poor communities to take on big corporations, held workshops at a local church to teach residents how to use the buckets to collect air samples and keep diaries so they could match their physical symptoms with what they smelled in the air.

The lack of regulation in the fitness industry has allowed an abundance of big corporations and businesses to open up certification processes that take no time at all.

The Big Short director takes his brand of acerbic wit and excessive cursing to TV with the series about a power - hungry family vying for control of the corporation headed by the aging patriarch (Brian Cox).

But that changes when the family - owned multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where image - obsessed and self - promoting CEO Lucy Mirando (Swinton) has big plans for Mija's dearest friend.

Release: Christmas Day 2015 [Theater] Written by: Peter Landesman Directed by: Peter Landesman Concussion is the kind of movie one watches because they want to get that warm and fuzzy feeling of seeing the big bad corporation that is the NFL taken down a peg or two.

Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters.

Source: Toyota Press Release is on Page 2 Toyota to Unveil GR HV SPORTS concept at Tokyo Motor Show 2017 Presenting a new way of enjoying cars Toyota City, Japan, October 6, 2017 — Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) is set to unveil the GR HV SPORTS concept car at its worldwide premiere at the 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017, taking place from October 25 through November 5 at Tokyo Big Sight.

Source: Toyota Press Release is on Page 2 Toyota to Debut Next - generation Century at Tokyo Motor Show 2017 Toyota City, Japan, October 4, 2017 — Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is scheduled to showcase the new Century (to be released in the middle of 2018) at the 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017, taking place from October 25 through November 5 at Tokyo Big Sight.

This isn't meant as a knock on the individual arts and writers, many of whom have taken the publisher's existing franchises in a number of interesting and often times thought provoking directions — it's just that Marvel is a big company (one now owned by a giant corporation), and as such, risk taking is likely not atop its list of priorities.

When you sign the petition, you support not only indie writers (many of whom are now, as never before, making a living writing books that lots of people enjoy), but you also support FREEDOM of CHOICE, which is what, it seems to me, that Hachette and other publishers and conglomerates and other big money grabbing corporations, are trying to take away from us.

Microsoft's Malware Protection Center reports on the biggest current malware threats and the efforts the Microsoft Corporation is taking to protect their users.

-- Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking action against CarHop, one of the country's biggest «buy - here, pay - here» auto dealers, and its affiliated financing company, Universal Acceptance Corporation, for providing damaging, inaccurate consumer information to credit reporting companies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking action against CarHop, one of the country's biggest «buy - here, pay - here» auto dealers, and its affiliated financing company, Universal Acceptance Corporation, for providing damaging, inaccurate consumer information to credit reporting companies.

If operating debt - free was such a superior business practice we should have already seen the emergence of «Big - Debt - Free, Inc.» driving all the existing leveraged corporations out of business and taking over the world.

At the beginning of the game, I found the story to be somewhat unique as it focuses on a big corporation trying to take down others with the help of their agents.

Not only do the big corporations have a role, but so do the street gangs, who do their best to take control.

I anticipate similar endeavours and hope that the bigger game companies and corporations take note.

Coral Davenport, the new Washington environment and energy reporter for The Times, amplified on her recent articles on big corporations that are taking climate change seriously (here and here).

Media accounts and policy discussions of oil sands and Keystone XL usually portray the adversaries as David vs. Goliath: small, underfunded environmental pressure groups taking on big, wealthy corporations.

Then I got a job offer to do transactional work at a big corporation, and I took it.

We'll take the fight to the big corporations and the insurance business and their huge elegant attorneys.

We are willing to take on even big corporations and companies.

We help our New Orleans clients stand up to the bullies and the big guys, whether it's a large hospital that won't take responsibility for a medical error, a business that cheats its employees of their fair wages, a polluting big corporation, a dispute at sea, or manufacturer who denies fault for their dangerous product.

We like to think that our employers, the big corporations in America are going to take care of us, but it's not so true.

We draw upon our own experience as well as the unique qualities of other highly accomplished law firms to build a team of lawyers that can take on the largest firms and biggest corporations.

No firms gain more by dragging out litigation than the big firms because they have the clients with the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars of capitalization who can afford, with the help of the taxpayer, to pay the astronomical fees they charge for as long as it takes to take on similar corporations similarly represented, or to squash the little guy (which is why FCT has McCarthy's on retainer and Stewart has Borden's on retainer — the given real estate file / title insurance claim is small potatoes but the title insurers make it dead obvious that if you sue them, you will up against a Big Fibig firms because they have the clients with the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars of capitalization who can afford, with the help of the taxpayer, to pay the astronomical fees they charge for as long as it takes to take on similar corporations similarly represented, or to squash the little guy (which is why FCT has McCarthy's on retainer and Stewart has Borden's on retainer — the given real estate file / title insurance claim is small potatoes but the title insurers make it dead obvious that if you sue them, you will up against a Big FiBig Firm.

If you have clients (in - house or of your firm) at corporations that work overseas, Geoff Gussis recommends that you take a hint from what's happening at DaimlerChrysler and big oil and revisit the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

At the Seattle law office of Elk & Elk Co., Ltd., our attorneys take on the big insurance companies and corporations to get justice for the injured and their families.

You believe that you're better off signing a contract without reading it, particularly if you're a little guy dealing with a big corporation which puts a «take it or leave it» standard form agreement on the table.