Sentences with phrase «came as activist»

Mark - Viverito previously penned a letter to the F.T.C. criticizing Herbalife, which came as activist investor Bill Ackman was organizing a public effort against the company.

The decision comes as activist fund Elliott, which has built a potential holding of 5.7 percent in the former phone monopoly, has challenged the way TIM's biggest shareholder, France's Vivendi, manages the group.

It comes as activist AWE shareholder James Dunphy has urged investors in AWE to ignore the board's recommendation to accept Mitsui's bid.

Not exact matches

Activist fund Corvex Management six months ago built up a stake in the maker of Activia yogurt and Evian water, as European consumer - goods companies come under pressure to boost profit amid slow growth in mainstream brands.

While Noah projects the righteous ardor of a campus activist, British - born Oliver comes across as an exasperated high school teacher.

As Lookout and Citizen Lab, an academic team in Toronto, reported in blog posts, the Pegasus discovery came after a human rights activist forwarded a screenshot of a suspicious link he had received via text message.

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.

That goal has come to the fore in some high - profile cases of late as activist investors have demanded that executives share the wealth — or risk being unseated.

The agreement, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday, comes days after Ackman resigned from Penney's board as part of a deal to resolve an unusually public battle between the activist investor and the struggling department store.

The teenage survivors of the Florida shooting have emerged as vocal activists in the gun control debate, and corporate America has come under pressure to do something to help.

But as eager as Republicans might be to move on from gun control, it will likely be a difficult issue to avoid in coming months, as gun violence prevention activists expand nationwide protests.

The moral choice comes from how one chooses to express this fact about themselves and many gay and lesbian activists allow the wrong spokespeople to send the wrong messages to a society that hasn't shed the animal instincts to reject what may be viewed as defective.

Scott D. Lively first came to light as an anti-LGBT activist in the early 1990s in Oregon, when he was involved with the Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) in a variety of capacities: executive director, finance coordinator, finance director, and communications director.

That a lot of secular progressives are fierce supporters of the abortion license because they're eugenicists at heart shouldn't come as a surprise; one current member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had a Gruberian moment some years ago when she admitted in an interview that legal activists promoting the abortion license prior to 1973 did so in part because they thought it would cut down the «growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.»

Patrick G. D. Riley Wauwatosa, WI And it came to pass that, as the Federal judiciary sat in the courts of law interpreting the Constitution, the anti-usurpationists and the cultural warriors and the original intentionites came and said, Tell us, by what authority make ye these activist rulings?

Perhaps it will come as news to Giberson and Stephens, but the idea that counseling groups like the APA have been mau - maued by homosexual activists isn't exactly news.

Among secularists, gay activists, liberal politicians, and the like, it is taken for granted that homosexual urgings are «natural,» in the sense of being innate (the word nature comes from the Latin natus, «to be born» as, in fact, does the word innate); and since the urges are natural in that sense (or so goes the claim), what's wrong with satisfying them?

As study after study began to report that religious nones in America were growing, many atheist, agnostic and humanist activists began to stress the need for these relative non-believers to come together and turn their numbers into political and social influence.

Women come to be pro-life and pro-choice activists as the end result of lives that center around different definitions of motherhood.

I also don't put myself into any type of activist stance when it comes to how families decide to bring their babies into the world — as long as women feel empowered, supported, and grateful for their experience, that's all that matters.

This challenges the Commission's historical position as an «honest broker» — a position that has already come under some considerable strain as the institution has come under increasing pressure from the European Council, and from the more activist EP.

During the many sit - ins, cultural events and discussions at the Park, people of very different backgrounds, who would otherwise not come into contact — Turkish secularists and nationalists, Kurdish activists, members of the creative professions and white collar workers, Socialists, religious and ethnic minorities, Islamists as well as LGBT and gender campaigners — found a way to manage coexistence and respect for pluralism.

For that decision, President Lincoln came under sustained attacks and media condemnation, as well as litigation, all orchestrated by some American human - rights activist groups and public affairs commentators.

Cuomo's announcement came as his Democratic primary opponent, actress and activist Cynthia Nixon, appeared outside the state Capitol at a climate change rally and march.

Her campaign comes as economic - focused progressives try to build a larger coalition of voters within the party, and as black party activists demand that black voters not be take for granted by the Democratic party.

The proposal came during the same hour that activist and actress Cynthia Nixon was joining environmental protesters — critical of Cuomo policies on fossil fuel and renewable energy as inadequate — outside the Capitol.

AAN may have carried out «grassroots organizing,» but a crucial section of the network's tax return shows the money for that organizing didn't come from grassroots sources such as local activists or small dollar donors.

As ugly as the redistricting process can be, this is one year in which the reality of democracy meshes with its rhetoric — an individual voter / donor / activist CAN make a difference, and one with the potential to echo through the halls of power for at least a decade to comAs ugly as the redistricting process can be, this is one year in which the reality of democracy meshes with its rhetoric — an individual voter / donor / activist CAN make a difference, and one with the potential to echo through the halls of power for at least a decade to comas the redistricting process can be, this is one year in which the reality of democracy meshes with its rhetoric — an individual voter / donor / activist CAN make a difference, and one with the potential to echo through the halls of power for at least a decade to come.

Astorino's plan to unleash his own commercials comes as a growing number of Republican activists fear that Cuomo's heavily funded TV attacks are putting a permanent negative stamp on their candidate.

The curious dance of Saturday's proceedings comes as the WFP, originally formed as a coalition between labor unions and grassroots activist groups, has been somewhat depleted after the exodus of Cuomo - allied unions and is fighting to remain a force in liberal New York.

The other thing is that — far from the hardline free market ideology of some party leaders and activists — Tory supporters really come across in the poll as utterly indifferent to the issue.

The agreement comes as WFP activists appeared close to coalescing around the candidacy of Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor.

He came across as a very committed, focused activist who was polite and pleasant.

When it comes to the process of converting visitors into activists, content is key, as we'll discuss again and again in the chapters to come.

The letter from activists also came as Lord Steel, the former Liberal leader of the Liberal party, told the Guardian that the party Lib Dem party «has not covered itself in glory» over the affair.

And when tenants» - rights activists accused Cuomo of not doing enough to protect them as rent laws came up for renewal in Albany, they met David.

«As I understand it, the individual in question was a well - known activist who was told he was coming in for a routine interview, and they suddenly turned it into a deportation.

Political clubs could face a new level of unwanted attention this election season as the organization linked to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver comes under fire from Manhattan activists.

When activists in the Working Families Party attempted to run Teachout as their candidate on the WFP ballot line this coming November, Cuomo cut a deal to push the party's agenda and get the line himself.

But from Annkio Briggs, a Niger Delta environmental activist who signed in as president, Agape Birthrights and convener, Niger Delta Occupy Niger Delta Resources (NDONDR), came the ringing declaration.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER When the 25 - year - old Empire State Pride Agenda, in late 2015, abruptly announced it was closing up shop — with only a vague pledge, that it never fulfilled, to keep its political action committee functioning — activists, advocates, and service providers in the LGBTQ community across New York were at a stunned loss as to what would come next.

It comes as a poll of Tory activists for the ConservativeHome website last week found Rees Mogg, a committed Brexiteer, in second place as their preferred next party leader, just behind Brexit secretary David Davis.

He opted for a similar PR nightmare when it came to greeting the Olympic torch outside Downing Street, meeting the torch so as not to offend the Chinese, but refusing to touch it so that he didn't upset human rights activists either.

Wilkins is also known by Tory insiders as the man who wrote May's famous 2002 conference speech, which warned activists that some people had come to see the Conservatives as the «nasty party».

The activists said the act is cruel to the thousands of young people who stepped out of the shadows to identify themselves as having come to the country illegally.

John Major had to deal with a very significant Europhile tendency in the parliamentary party and in those days I used to come across Europhile activists frequently, they were probably a majority in the constituency I lived in.Now however I doubt more than 20 % of our parliamentary could be classified in any sense as Europhile and amongst the activists that I meet they are rarer than Hens teeth, even on this blog there are only a handful.

Anthony Browne, who wrote The Times» story, obviously does not pay enough attention to ConservativeHome as he makes no mention of our hugely relevant Monday finding that UKIP was the favourite choice of party activists when it came to mentioning the other political party closest to their views.

It came as another senior Lib Dem minister called for mediation to resolve the dispute over Rennard, the former chief executive accused of harassing female activists.

The conference discussion comes as Democratic activists around the nation ramp up protests against Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare... Last weekend, conservative Rep. Tom McClintock (R - Calif.)

The disclosure came in an interview with Newsday a week before her first trip as a senator to Long Island, where gun - control activist Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D - Mineola) has threatened a primary challenge to Gillibrand in the 2010 election.