Sentences with phrase «by complaints about»

Your efforts to network are usually thwarted by her complaints about her own situation.

But the ticket - buying subscription service has been dogged by complaints about its dodgy smartphone app, poor customer service, and questionable marketing choices.

Numbers from the first quarter showed that complaints about health insurers were most common, followed by complaints about auto insurers, according to officials.

Ann Goldgar, in her un-kindled, non-googled, Impolite Learning, describes how the eighteenth century, called at the time «the century of the journal,» was marked by complaints about the very shallowness, laziness, and loss of learning fostered by the book abridgements and reviews that appeared in these new periodicals.

(AP)-- Stung by complaints about dropped calls and slow wireless downloads, AT&T Inc. is going to spend an additional $ 2 billion to improve its network this year.

The company says this explains why Ford ranked so highly, even though it has been hounded by complaints about its complicated Sync and MyFord Touch systems.

Writer and director Joss Whedon has always described himself as a feminist, which is fair enough considering he created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but in May he was forced to deactivate his Twitter account after being deluged by complaints about Black Widow's role in his film.

You'll want to keep your child rear facing as long as possible, with a switch generally triggered by complaints about comfort as your child outgrows this position.

Not exact matches

The discussions, led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, are expected to cover a wide range of U.S. complaints about China's trade practices, from accusations of forced technology transfers to state subsidies for technology development.

The investigation was prompted by about a dozen complaints concerning the Trump school that the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has found to be «credible» and «serious,» these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was not yet public.

It didn't help — a few months later, customer servcie complaints increased by about 5 percent, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

«We started getting complaints from users about seeing too many political stories shared by their friends, probably due to all of the Trump - related scandals,» says Jonathan Abrams, Nuzzel's CEO and co-founder.

The change comes two weeks after Uber settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that the company failed to protect the personal information of drivers and passengers and was deceptive about its efforts to prevent snooping by its employees.

Monsanto (mon) put on hold the launch of a chemical designed to be applied to crop seeds on Wednesday following reports it causes rashes on people, in the latest instance of complaints about a company product that was approved by U.S. environmental regulators.

Blankmeyer, who according to the criminal complaint suffers from depression and attention deficit disorder, first approached Stonehill officials with a complaint about her roommate, Laura, violating the school's rules by having sex with her boyfriend without her permission.

The prosecutors» office in Vienna is consolidating «hundreds of complaints» about a scheme known as «Optioment» that have been filed at police stations across the country, and which add to a warning by financial watchdog FMA, spokeswoman Christina Ratz said by telephone.

Hardly a Congressional hearing goes by without some lawmaker, Democrat or Republican, reporting complaints from the home constituency about credit - worthy citizens being turned down when applying for a mortgage.

This is the second time the USPTO has made such a ruling in response to complaints about the Redskins trademark, brought most recently by five Native Americans.

Mistaken identity — trying to collect a debt from the wrong person — was by far the most common complaint about debt collectors.

The present media frenzy seems fueled, in part, by a dearth of information about how harassment complaints should be evaluated.

By comparison, Logan Paul's younger brother has always been considered slightly more polarizing, particularly for his attempts at a rap career and his feud with his neighbors, whose complaints about Jake's antics led to his firing from Disney.

The European Union executive is planning a law to deal with complaints about unfair trading practices by leading online players such as Apple and Google.

The FTC is probing a complaint brought by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which looked at some 1,000 products on Amazon's website in June and found that Amazon (amzn) put reference prices, or list prices, on about 46 % of them.

In his report, the IG found that complaints about sexual harassment, in many cases perpetrated by high - ranking officials, have increased over the last five years, have been consistently mishandled across the country, and require «high level action.»

As he was leaving a statehouse meeting in mid-July, Patrick was asked by reporters to respond to Kennedy's complaints about the cost of additional children in schools.

In 2011, Facebook had settled privacy - related charges with the FTC, which were brought about by EPIC's complaints.

According to the National Labor Relations Board complaint, Tesla violated workers» rights by requiring them to sign a confidentiality agreement that could bar them from talking about their working conditions and safety issues at the company's facility in Fremont, California.

The discussions, led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, are expected to cover a wide range of U.S. complaints about China's trade practices, from allegations of forced technology transfers to state subsidies for technology development.

The complaint brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Todd David Alpert found out about Warren Buffett and 3G Capital's takeover of Heinz in 2013 by reading the board member's emails, The Wall Street Journal reports.

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

In fact, according to a report by the New York City Bar Association, complaints to the Attorney General in that state about debt settlement actually went up in 2011, after the new regulations came into force.

On Sunday, engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing what she diplomatically dubbed her «strange» year working at Uber — a tenure that she says included, among other things, a) her manager propositioning her on her first day at work; and b) her repeated complaints about the incident ignored and dismissed by the company's human resources department, under the aegis of not sullying the guy's career for an «innocent mistake.»

Only about 11 percent of eligible borrowers filled out complaints, a low response rate both consumer advocates and the Government Accountability Office attributed to borrower confusion and poor outreach by regulators and the banks.

NBC News» chairman, Andy Lack, issued a statement saying that on Monday he «received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer.»

The discussions, led by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, are expected to cover a wide range of US complaints about China's trade practices, Reuters reports.

«During my nearly 20 year tenure with the Mavericks, I am not aware of any sexual harassment complaints about me or any findings by the organization that I engaged in inappropriate conduct.

«For Treasuries, the share of transactions by primary dealers has dwindled by more than half to 4 percent since the end of 2008,» with electronic traders like Citadel expanding their role as dealers, and the complaints about the Treasury market sound a lot like the complaints in the equity markets about human market makers being replaced by algorithmic traders.

Horner said Alberta has tried to address some of Ottawa's complaints about the current system by pitching its own proposal — one that would create a new national enforcement agency as well as a national systemic risk committee made up of all 13 regulators and chaired by the federal minister.

He went on to say that the agency, created under the Dodd - Frank financial overhaul, is run by «essentially a one - person dictator» and added he had «probably had more complaints about the CFPB in my office, from small local banks and credit agencies, than every other government agency put together.»

Under his watch, by the CFPB's tally, the agency handled more than 1.2 million consumer complaints and brought about nearly $ 12 billion in relief for harmed consumers.

Common Cause filed a similar complaint about a $ 150,000 payment made shortly before the election by American Media Inc., owner of The National Enquirer, to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy Playmate who has said she had an affair with a married Mr. Trump about a decade ago.

December 2009 — a complaint (and supplementary complaint) is filed by EPIC with the FTC about Facebook's privacy settings and privacy policy, with the coalition of privacy groups asserting these are inconsistent with the site's information sharing practices, and that Facebook is misleading users into believing they can still maintain control over their personal information.

Given his 2011 complaint about Facebook's expansive and abusive historical app permissions, Schrems has this week raised an eyebrow and expressed surprise at Zuckerberg's claim to be «outraged» by the Cambridge Analytica revelations — now snowballing into a massive privacy scandal.

At the same time, government agencies are increasing their scrutiny of employee misclassification due to a growing number of complaints about abusive labor practices by sharing economy companies.

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. investigation that led to the sudden resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A. director on Friday began with a complaint several months ago about «harassing» e-mails sent by Paula Broadwell, Mr. Petraeus's biographer, to another woman who knows both of them, two government officials briefed on the case said Saturday.

Thinx has denied the harassment allegations, made by a former employee in a legal complaint, and says other allegations about the company's culture are inaccurate.

The pro-migration Senators» complaints about border agents, deportations, and detention beds come as blue - collar wages are beginning to rise after decades of minimal growth, and as Trump's deputies step up their efforts to deter migration by illegal immigrants and asylum - seekers.

Of the 52 Facebook comments, the remaining five included one asking whether the clear backpacks were just at Stoneman Douglas or were countywide (Answer: Just Stoneman Douglas); two that weren't understandable; and two that maintained minor students have no rights in public school, so the complaints about the loss of rights by students were meaningless.

On the chance that you are contacted by a member of the press for a comment regarding a customer's complaint, have a document detailing some information about you, your history and experience, and the policies you try to enforce on standby to send to that person to clarify your practices.

«Despite the level of hysteria and partisanship in American politics, we are surprised and disappointed by the unprecedented attack on a media company by an organization that purports to value free speech,» American Media officials said in a statement Tuesday about the Common Cause complaint.