Sentences with phrase «by activists as»

The unprecedented deal was welcomed by activists as a first step towards meeting the Paris agreement targets.

At the time of passage, the bill was celebrated by activists as a means to crack down on «wild animals kept as backyard pets or in roadside zoo exhibits.»

Hestres plans to expand on his research by studying the types of audio and visual communications used by activists as well as the effectiveness of their digital strategies during Donald Trump's presidency in the United States.

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.

Not exact matches

And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

As for Anthony Weiner, he was targeted by the late provocateur Andrew Breitbart and fellow Right - wing activists who used fake email addresses and pretended to be underage girls.

In terms of other technical IT platforms, an FSB cyber operative flagged up the «Telegram» enciphered commercial system as having been of especial concern and therefore heavily targeted by the FSB, not least because it was used frequently by Russian internal political activists and oppositionists.

as created by online activists who were trying to share content using the most private methods.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

Costs are both financial, including listing fees and the expenses associated with mandatory disclosures and other regulatory requirements, and less tangible, such as the perceived burden of quarterly earnings releases, the risk of being targeted by activist investors, and higher visibility that can result in political or competitive pressure.

Directors must insist on asking management to analyze strategic choices as an activist would: by looking at alternatives to the strategies the CEO is recommending.

Chipotle as part of the announcement also said that it would give its chickens more space (6 pounds per square foot), provide them with improved lighting and litter in their housing, and change how its chickens are slaughtered to a practice pushed for by animal welfare activists.

As if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by PeltAs if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltas Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltz.

The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.

The day is billed as one of protest and advocacy for gender equity organized by the activists behind the Jan. 21 Women's March on Washington.

Restaurant companies can make ripe targets for activists, as most are tiny by market - cap standards so amassing a sizable stake doesn't cost too much.

• As China Censors MeToo Activists, Ethereum's Blockchain Proves to Be an Unlikely Ally (by Lucinda Shen)

Established in 2006 by Australian activist Julian Assange as a means to anonymously divulge sensitive information about countries and institutions, Wikileaks was best known for its revelations about U.S. military operations, diplomatic activities, detention camps and abetting of NSA leaker Edward Snowden — until 2016, when the site involved itself in the U.S. presidential election by releasing troves of Democratic party emails allegedly supplied by Russian operatives.

While reporting on a protest by a group of activists who had just forced the university's president to resign, he was pushed and harassed by the demonstrators, as well as by a faculty member.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

The creators of Signal, the encrypted messaging app widely used throughout security community — as well as by journalists, activists, and others seeking to stymie government surveillance — announced on Wednesday a major change to the organization's makeup.

In 2015 the organization, Lesbians Who Tech, honored her work as a technologist and activist by naming a coding scholarship to recognize her work and her part in the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Management Corporate Boards Led by investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Jeff Smith, and targeting companies from DuPont to PepsiCo, campaigns by activist investors have become a common occurrence in the United States in the past few decades.

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:

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

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.

Si2 provides overview reports on the main environmental, social and governance issues raised by activist shareholders in their proposals to companies, as well as impartial breakout reports on the proposals awaiting votes at companies.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

Driven by increasing mergers - and - acquisitions volume, as well as activist trends, investors allocated roughly $ 15.7 billion to event - driven hedge funds in the first half of 2014, with the activist - only component garnering $ 9.4 billion.

Saturday's march presented itself not only as a mass demand for gun control, but also as an activist event for the young, by the young.

Paris witnessed burning cars, smashed shops and banks, and police attacked by masked and hooded left - extremist activists Monday as the May Day protests descended into bitter violence.

Among those who took a turn at the microphone was Nezar Hamze, South Florida executive director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, viewed as a leading activist organization by the Muslim community and as an arm of militant Islam by its critics.

It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmological wherein «activists» sometimes revolt against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

Hall admitted the windows had been installed by his predecessor as cathedral dean, Francis Sayre, «one of the great activist civil rights clergy of the 1950s and 1960s... [Sayer] could live in that tension, but I can not, and I believe this cathedral can not.

Always was and is and will ever be no matter what matters of materialized shapes to tend to seemingly clutter up His spiritual abundancy It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmologies as protruding «activists» are sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly being viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmological «activists» sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

From the «I can't believe my eyes and ears» file: A group called Majority Action ¯ which describes itself as being «led by veteran Democratic activists and [having] a leadership board that consists of prominent political figures, including several former Members of Congress,....

A pioneering h0m0 activist Frank Kameny celebrated by fellow h0m0 the world over and honored by big O and his adm - in says the God of the Bible is a sinful h0m0pho bigot who needs to repent of his sinful h0m0pho.He was integral in pressuring the APA to reclassify gay activities as normal, has written to a pro-family organization that he believes bestiality is fine, as long as the animal doesn't mind.»

Doubling as an activist campaign to pressure companies to make changes, NCOSE produced a watch list, which includes several household companies used by millions of Americans daily.

We see clearly in the result of the 2016 presidential election that political outcomes can act as a brake on runaway cultural agendas promoted by activists and elites at the extremes of public opinion.

We should then remind the activists that, while their work may be a parable of God's kingdom, as Luther said, this kingdom does not depend on their efforts, which are always enfeebled by a self - love that elicits God's judgment.

Maybe this is why I am so against this push by the gay activists to make life even more confusing for kids: Lets be really clear: nearly every country on Earth has outlawed homosexuality in its not too distant past, and most of them won't allow such silly games as SSM.

He points to the growth of bio-regionalism, «green» political organizations, and confrontations by activist ecological groups such as Greenpeace and Earth First!

Once an ardent political activist, Marianne is now in law (a career imposed by her parents), but she is not pleading the cause of the oppressed as she had once dreamed.

The church might be able to preach on that text, as long as they don't mind being vandalized by pro-homsexual activist groups (yes, it's happened more than you know).

Yet, as noted, activist population programs have been embraced by governments presiding over something like four - fifths of the people of the Third World.

The revolution in government presaged by an activist population policy would thus seem to be based less in politics per se than in «science,» for in the final analysis it is the field of learning known as «population studies» that provides population policy with its raison d'etre.

They were treated to a litany of anti-LGBT propaganda, including the false claims that being molested as a child causes hom.ose.xuality, that LGBT people are se.xual predators trying to turn children gay by molesting them, and that gay rights activists want to replace marriage with a culture of se.xual promiscuity.

All this was refuted from those that were pressured by the gay activist groups to say there was such a thing as the gay gene.