Sentences with phrase «came under»

came under fire by critics for poor leadership decisions as CEO that left GE cash - strapped.

Pfizer also came under fire over drug price increases including a record $ 107 million fine by U.K. regulators for hiking an epilepsy treatment's price by 2,600 %.

Since it springs from Computer Sciences, most of the performance reflected above came under that earlier name and ticker symbol.

President Donald Trump's tax reform plan came under new criticism on Tuesday from two towering Wall Street figures, including billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who called into question a Republican drive to slash the U.S. corporate rate.

«The power of international law is primarily reputational and measured in terms of legitimacy,» Mira Rapp - Hooper, a senior fellow in the Asia - Pacific Security Program at the Center for New American Security, told CNBC earlier this year, when China's island - building in the region came under scrutiny.

The company came under fire last year after it announced it was laying off more than one - thousand people, including 440 in Saskatchewan.

Section 702 of FISA came under scrutiny as the intelligence community began looking into Russia's election interference and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to sway the race in his favor.

The Silicon Valley titan came under fire from some activists who criticized his presence on the councils.

Laval, Quebec - based Valeant has been trying to rebuild its business and regain investor confidence after the company came under investigations over its accounting and pricing practices.

The Dabiq article said he became involved in jihadi activity around the time of the 2005 attacks on the London transit system, and came under the scrutiny of the British intelligence agency MI5.

Despite recently celebrating her six years sober «birthday,» Lovato's sobriety came under fire this week after a fan noticed some suspicious edits on Instagram.

RBS came under fire earlier this year after announcing it would close 62 branches across Scotland, and was forced to partially renege on its plans and suspend 10 branch closures in response to public anger.

The app, which hit its popularity peak in April according to analytics platform App Annie, earlier came under fire for lightening users» skin tones to make them appear more attractive in its «hot» filter.

The area where London City Airport stands used to be an industrial center, and it came under heavy bombardment from German planes during the war.

Sexual assault and harassment in the US military is largely under - reported and came under renewed scrutiny last year after a scandal involving some Marines sharing nude photos of women online came to light.

Whole Foods came under fire for a similar scandal in 2015 after New York City officials found cases of locations overcharging customers for pre-packaged foods at eight stores across the city.

Given India's history, it's not hard to see why Andreessen came under fire for saying this.

The program came under scrutiny earlier this year after it was revealed that Nicole Meyer, the sister of senior White House aide Jared Kushner, who is the son - in - law of President Donald Trump, name - dropped Kushner while giving a presentation to Chinese investors.

BRUSSELS / LONDON, Oct 31 (Reuters)- British Prime Minister David Cameron came under pressure to act tough on the European Union budget and France threatened to use its veto, signalling a divisive start to bargaining over the 1 trillion euro ($ 1.3 trillion) long - term spending plan.

Despite its poverty and isolation, North Korea has poured resources into a sophisticated cyber-warfare cell called Bureau 121, defectors from the secretive state said as Pyongyang came under the microscope for a crippling hack into computers at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The company came under fire in 2015 after a Washington Post investigation found that, on average, one person per week died in incidents in which police used Tasers that year.

Schnatter, 56, who founded the company in 1984, came under fire in November after he criticized the National Football League's leadership over national anthem protests by players.

Next, Rennie Marketing Systems came under fire from bloggers over adulatory coverage of the Olympic Village development by good - news site Vancouver Is Awesome.

BRUSSELS / LONDON, Oct 31 - British Prime Minister David Cameron came under pressure to act tough on the European Union budget and France threatened to use its veto, signalling a divisive start to bargaining over the 1 trillion euro long - term spending plan.

Last year, Singapore, a trading hub of the world's largest commodity companies, came under scrutiny from the governments of some resource - producing countries such as Australia who said they suspect the companies are using units in the Southeast Asian financial center to avoid tax.

Bloom, a lawyer who built a reputation on representing women in high - profile sexual harassment cases against powerful men, came under fire from critics.

Those appointments came under fire earlier this year as it became clear that HP's newly appointed chair, Ray Lane, circumvented the board's independent nominations process by involving the CEO in identifying board candidates and deciding to oversee the process himself (although he had a long - standing relationship with the CEO and was not a member of the nominations committee).

The city initially held its position, even as de Blasio came under increasing fire.

Stocks in the region fell during the second part of the trading day, as Wall Street came under pressure.

Mylan came under fire in August when it raised the price of the EpiPen, a lifesaving allergy drug, to $ 608 for a two - pack.

Oil prices came under pressure on Wednesday as weekly government data showed a larger - than - expected rise of 5 million barrels in U.S. crude stockpiles.

Health insurance companies are exploring new ways to diversify their revenues with acquisitions in acute care after federal regulators blocked two major mergers in the sector, and insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, came under pressure from Republicans.

United Airlines came under fire in March after two girls were barred from boarding a plane for wearing leggings — which did not comply with the company's dress code for special pass travelers.

Ariad's leukemia drug, Iclusig, which is expected to generate sales of $ 170 million - $ 180 million in 2016, came under fire in October for «staggering» price increases.

Last March, a Marine outpost established to support the operation to retake Mosul, Iraq came under rocket attack by ISIS militants, killing Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin.

Earlier this month, Urban Outfitters came under fire over media reports that said it was asking salaried employees to volunteer to work at its fulfillment centers.

The travel company United Continental Holdings (ual) came under fire last month when a passenger was dragged off one of its overbooked flights, a fiasco that dragged as much as $ 90 million off the value of Buffett's stake as United stock plummeted amid the ensuing outrage.

This was the case recently when Amy Pascal, Sony's co-chairman and chief of its film division, came under intense criticism for her remarks about President Barack Obama and less than flattering statements about high - profile actors, including Angelina Jolie, Kevin Hart and Adam Sandler.

Russia came under fire for annexing Crimea in southern Ukraine and is accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

After Ivanka Trump «s fashion brand came under fire for how much it pays its factory workers in China, the Guardian reports that workers at another of the company's manufacturers, this time in Indonesia, face similar conditions.

There were a few incidents when he was an in - flight repairman aboard an AC - 130 gunship that came under North Vietnamese anti-aircraft fire, but by and large his job involved fixing airplanes, not getting shot at.

But they came under scrutiny in connection with Coin.mx, which authorities said was operated by Anthony Murgio, who attended Florida State University with Lebedev, and was owned by an Israeli behind the J.P. Morgan breach, Gery Shalon.

Britain's pound also came under renewed pressure, falling back to $ 1.40 again, as Brexit tensions continued to hound the UK government and its leader Theresa May.

Dove came under fire last weekend for a three - second Facebook ad, which depicted a black woman wearing a brown shirt pulling off her shirt and revealing a white woman in a lighter colored shirt.

While WhatsApp came under fire by the Guardian on Friday for containing a so - called «backdoor,» that report has since been widely debunked.

The operation, near the border with Pakistan, started at about 10:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday and within minutes the 50 US Army Rangers along with 40 Afghan commandos came under fire from multiple direction.

That defensive position came under attack in 2015 as political rhetoric from both sides zeroed in on perceived unfair drug pricing.

Stewardship Ontario came under fire in 2010 when, with little warning, eco fees were slapped on thousands of new household items, such as fire extinguishers and laundry detergent.

And most recently, United Airlines came under fire for forcibly removing a passenger from a flight when he refused to be involuntarily bumped — and you guessed it, the whole thing was caught, in several different angles, on cell phone cameras.

Uber came under renewed pressure over the weekend for a Tweet promoting surge - free pricing during a taxi worker strike in support of immigrants impacted by Trump's Executive Order, which has been widely interpreted as a Muslim ban.