Sentences with phrase «campaign against an initiative»

The Washington Attorney General is seeking at least $ 14 million from the food industry, alleging a trade association broke public disclosure laws by shielding the names of companies that contributed to a campaign against an initiative that would have required food makers to label products with GMOs.

May also criticised green groups who campaign against initiatives such as wind farms and the Severn tidal barrage scheme, while also proclaiming the need to tackle climate change.

Not exact matches

At least some of those concerns now seem to be playing out in a fight over how America's largest food industry group financed a campaign against a food labeling initiative.

OLYMPIA — The Washington Attorney General's Office is seeking at least $ 14 million from a food industry association, alleging it tried to secretly finance the campaign against a GMO labeling initiative in 2013, according to previously sealed court documents released Wednesday.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Independent initiatives are needed now if the campaign against terrorism is to succeed.

An active national leader in the fight against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God's Love We Deliver, and the Bed - Stuy Campaign Against against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God's Love We Deliver, and the Bed - Stuy Campaign Against Against Hunger.

Baby Milk Action, a campaign group that monitors the baby food industry against United Nations marketing standards, says it has received a letter (dated 9 July 2014) from the Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, Mr Georg Kell, that confirms its view that the corporate accountability initiative is «worse than useless and lacking in integrity».

Even as the campaign against Cuomo's agenda was in full swing, UFT members have continued implementing new school - based initiatives established by the UFT contract that are moving New York City schools forward, Mulgrew said.

And he says that money could be used to unduly influence the process of electing delegates, to «wine and dine» and lobby them, as well as to finance advocacy campaigns for or against initiatives that the delegates might ultimately endorse.

(WBEN) The Erie County Sheriff's Dept. has launched a public education campaign to try and combat underage drinking this summer with an effort to tell parents in stores, not to buy alcohol for kids The initiative, done in conjunction with Consumers Beverages and WNY United against Drug and Alcohol...

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

The technique had been developed by the Los Angeles LGBT Center following the defeat of the campaign against Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that made same sex marriage illegal in California.

Notably, the three national organizations most closely associated with the public campaign against smoking — the American Lung Association, American Heart Association, and American Cancer Society — were «indifferent» or «skeptical» to initiatives of the state and local activists.

They remember that the enlightened left campaigned against Eisenhower's and Reagan's supposed simplemindedness and lectured America that grand initiatives like the «war on poverty» were failsafe.

While the final outcome of the Vergara case remains to be seen, the unions» firm stance against reform could help prompt tenure opponents to mount an initiative campaign — a routine occurrence in California politics.

He has served on the U.S. Presidential initiative, The National Campaign Against Youth Violence and is a consultant to The United States Secret Service, including its collaborative Safe Schools Initiative with the U.S. Department of Education.

Rebalance IRA Managing Director Scott Puritz joined legendary Vanguard founder John Bogle, and other industry leaders, in the continued fight against unfair retirement investment practices at the recent launch of the groundbreaking initiative «Campaign for Investors.»

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«While our federal government is sitting on its hands, California is moving full speed ahead toward a clean energy future,» Mr. Schwarzenegger, who campaigned vigorously against the initiative, said in a recent address.

The San Francisco - based billionaire first gained notice in politics by bankrolling a series of California ballot initiative campaigns that boosted state energy efficiency actions, promoted land conservation, and defended the state's cap - and - trade law against industry rollback.

The utility empire is striking back, with tactics that include a deceptive and well - funded Florida initiative campaign to buttress the utility monopoly against rooftop solar competition.

The firm obtained a preliminary injunction that prohibited Impey from repeating some accusations against Hart; but when the campaign ended — and the bond initiative failed — Husch Blackwell advised Hart to drop the defamation case.

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