Sentences with phrase «by huge corporations»

The TRON founders believe that the internet has deviated from its original intention of allowing people to freely create content and post as they please; instead, the internet has been taken over by huge corporations like Amazon, Google, Alibaba and others.

Most bananas are grown on vast plantations by huge corporations in what used to be known as banana republics, but Fair Trade ensures that the workers get better pay and better conditions.

It is being balkanised by huge corporations (see «Welcome to the age of the splinternet»).

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In other words, consumers» rather modest gains have been far surpassed by the profits reaped by corporations making stuff in China at huge reductions in cost and then lowering the price a bit on the finished retail goods.

Facebook, by contrast, is a huge multinational corporation, with almost unlimited resources.

«Pass - through» companies like LLCs, partnerships, sole proprietorships, and S corporations, which are overwhelmingly owned by rich individuals like Donald Trump and currently pay normal income tax rates after their earnings are returned to the companies» owners, would get a huge number of tax cuts too:

They're made by MillerCoors and Anheuser - Busch InBev, respectively, though you'd never know it based on their craft - beer - like labels — which don't state prominently the huge corporation responsible for the brand.

And in the same paragraph: «It is really very difficult for people — including large associations of people and huge corporations — to do anything very bad, for very long, when they are not buttressed by the threat of physical coercion.»

I have been strongly opposed to this from the beginning, but as long as it was economically profitable, and those who suffered were not politically powerful, it was extended by the World Trade Organization and other international economic organizations working together with huge agricultural corporations and the American government.

The chemical corporation Monsanto has turned this potential into huge profits by patenting seed stock that is compatible with its own pesticide, Roundup, and manufacturing sterile «terminator» seed that requires farmers to buy each year's planting seed from the company.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

While energy companies are the most frequent targets of climate activism, a new report by GRAIN shows that large food corporations — especially in the meat and dairy sector — are huge contributors to global climate change.

Loan programs will also be promoted so that farmers can have the financing to buy off external inputs supplied by huge agrochemical corporations.

Golden Rice is said to be a Trojan Horse that will further open our agricultural sector to seeds and inputs owned by huge agrochemical transnational corporations, including Syngenta and ChemChina.

Amendment to finance bill had targeted huge profits made by companies from fall in corporation tax rates

«The Republican Tax Scam is nothing more than huge tax cuts for the rich and big corporations, paid for by tax increases on millions of middle - class families,» said DCCC spokesman Evan Lukaske.

For instance, Senator Dino Melayo had on several occasions in the floor of the national Assembly exposed explosive financial infractions committed by officials of the current presidency including the huge bills that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporations spends illegally as subsidy for importation of fuel and the illegal employment of children of favoured politically connected persons into plumb jobs in the central bank of Nigeria.

Committee chair Keith Vaz said huge corporations were «passing the buck» by allowing ISIS to use their platforms.

More recently, huge corporations and vast university centers supported by government grants have been the engines of bioscience, but that has not stopped hobbyists from trucking on.

At a time when invention tends to be dominated by faceless teams at huge multinational corporations, he showed it is still possible, even in semiconductor electronics, for an inventor with enough talent and determination to triumph despite daunting disadvantages in resources.

Lawrie Lyons, professor emeritus at the University of Queensland, thinks the huge sums now generated by superannuation funds should be used to buy equity in multinational corporations.

You've been deceived by the clever marketing of huge multi-million dollar food corporations...

Combine that with huge profit - seeking pharmaceutical corporations, fly - by - night supplement companies that have active lawsuits being filed against them for fraud, millions of dollars in advertising and promotions on TV and the internet targeting vulnerable people, and endless layers of websites full of contradictory information about scientific trials, clinical tests, and potentially bogus health promises, and it's no wonder why people end up confused and frustrated.

BP was ultimately held responsible by the U.S. justice system (well, as much as a huge corporation can be these days) but the first trailer for Peter Berg's...

Critics maintain the Delaney measure would have amounted to a huge giveaway of tax revenue to companies in the midst of wide public concern over the use of so - called inversion deals to avoid taxation by relocating corporations overseas.

They can simply decide to use the curriculum provided by the corporation that hired them - at a huge profit to the corporation - with no public review or opportunity for input by parents or other concerned citizens.

There is a group of corporations, led by a group of «education reformers,» and backed by a group of Republican and Democratic politicians, all of whom are engaged in an effort to destroy public education, and hand the nation's education system over to corporations and consultants, who can make a huge amount of money.

Legislation pending in Congress would create new opportunities for corporations and successful investors to earn huge profits by transferring public funding to private schools, according to a report released today by AASA, The School Superintendents Association, and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

There huge selection of books is used as leverage by larger corporations that want a competitive advantage.

A huge tax deferral advantage by leaving the after - tax corporate income inside the corporation as opposed to paying it out immediately.

So an open or un-registered account opened by a corporation or holding company benefits huge if it holds corporate class mutual funds which then allows tax - deferred growth, no taxable dispositions by switching investments to other corp.class funds, and once redeemed or withdrawn they only create capital gains which are taxed at a low rate.

What is now left of humanity lives under the surface, in huge cities run by corrupt corporations.

Well, yes, but the primary reason for that was because many of the game's flaws were out of BioWare's control (and you might notice by now that I absolutely hate huge corporations that are only there to turn a profit, hence why I'm so bitter about EA's business here).

The focus part of the fair features a huge number of exhibitions, talks, performances, outdoor installations and other various projects, with our recommendations including Arcadia Missa showing Hannah Black, 47 Canal with a group show of drawings and small - scale sculptures, VI, VII with Than Hussein Clark, Carlos / Ishikawa showing Lloyd Corporation, Emalin featuring Russian artist Evgeny Antufiev's first project in the UK, Kraupa - Tuskany Ziedler showing Anna Uddenberg, Proyectos Ultravioleta showing video and photography by Regina José Galindo and Union Pacific presents a collaborative sculptural installation by Ben Burgis and Ksenia Pedan.

The brief argues that the Court's invitation to overrule key First Amendment precedents would undermine, rather than advance, First Amendment values by granting corporations the power to use huge corporate treasury funds in electoral campaigns even though such funds were not accumulated for political purposes.

Tribes and Native - owned corporations are making huge profits by conserving their forests for carbon offset programs — an effort that could revolutionize conservation.

Set up by billionaires Nat Simons and his wife, Sea Change has been exposed by multiple investigators as a shell corporation that funnels huge sums to radical anti-fracking and anti-fossil fuel activists from Vladimir Putin pals, giant Russian oil companies and investment groups, and more reputable sources like the Gates and Walmart Foundations.

«By their very nature as non-disposable products that don't need to be purchased regularly, they do not offer a huge profit motive to major corporations like Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson.»

If it wasn't for their huge law school debt, we would have the most socially active group of lawyers; instead, this will mean a lot of lawyers will be unemployed or hired by big corporations.

Those rules disadvantage and silence defendants in the face of huge lawsuits by large corporations.»

Sony Corporation suffered a huge security breach in its video game online network with names, addresses and credit card numbers of 100 million PlayStation and PC game network users stolen by hackers.

Commercial music radio has been dominated by a handful of huge corporations ever since.

It wasn't that long ago that computers were huge machines used by universities and big corporations.

Although the amount that the owner was ordered to pay was huge in comparison to the amount claimed in the lawsuit, a sizeable portion of the corporation's legal costs will end up being included in the corporation's common expenses payable by all of the owners.

You must understand before I continue, I was fighting a huge corporation by myself.

I can not stress this enough; there has been a huge failure by these companies to fairly resolve such claims and this failure has led to an increase in litigation as insurance companies and corporations have pursued the strategy of deny, delay and defend.

I do not know the details, but I can see how a reader might be led to believe that this poor county law library is being gouged by a huge monopolistic corporation.

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) achieved a milestone by collecting a huge premium of Rs 39143 crore through its pension and group segment, as on February 28, 2014.

At CES 2014 earlier this year, Cherry Corporation and Corsair made a huge splash in the world of gaming peripherals by introducing the world's first RGB LED backlit mechanical gaming keyboard.

Whether you're writing a more casual cover email to a small tech startup or writing a formal cover letter to a huge tech corporation, here's the step - by - step guide to writing a rockstar message that gets you hired.