Sentences with phrase «campaign by the activist»

Management Corporate Boards Led by investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Jeff Smith, and targeting companies from DuPont to PepsiCo, campaigns by activist investors have become a common occurrence in the United States in the past few decades.

Today's summit on tax was the culmination of months of campaigning by activists on an issue which has angered voters across the western world.

Back to Troy Senik, on how back in 2010 the CTA squelched a parent trigger campaign by activist parents in Compton.

After a year - long campaign by the activist group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, Apple has replaced its revolver emoji with a squirt gun.

Not exact matches

Rather than circulating reports among fund managers and investors behind closed doors, so - called activist short sellers are adept at deploying «shock and awe» campaigns by publicizing information and allegations on Twitter.

Although Ottawa and industry associations continue supporting it, a consortium of activist groups called the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability has begun campaigning for an ombudsman reminiscent of that proposed by Mackay years earlier.

But the company's voice was drowned out by activist groups, which pre-empted the campaign with an online spoof.

A similar campaign attributed to Vietnamese officials at least temporarily blocked content by government critics, activists said.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

When asked about the campaign by a journalist, one of the unnamed activists remarked the «campaign is not meant to harm the gay people who live in the nine cities» [in unprotected states] that are bidding for Amazon's foothold.

Jacobs: Were you surprised by the activist energy around your campaign?

Their move follows an activist campaign by hedge fund Starboard Value LP, which is pushing Yahoo to consider a deal with AOL and unlock Yahoo's valuable stakes in Asian Web companies.

«I think it's a concerted effort that there is too much money to be made here and (they're) not going to be deterred by the structural or cultural defences (anymore),» said Chris Young, who works with companies on the receiving end of activist campaigns at Credit Suisse in New York.

As if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltz.

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.

Overall, cash returned to shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.

This wasn't the work of activists or a public arts campaign, but a move by the suits at advertising agency McCann New York.

Following a multi-year period of underperforming shareholder returns, amid a slump in comparable store sales and hampered by relatively high expenses, the Company would appear to be vulnerable to an activist campaign.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

Doubling as an activist campaign to pressure companies to make changes, NCOSE produced a watch list, which includes several household companies used by millions of Americans daily.

(CNN)- A Muslim activist group has launched a new ad campaign to reclaim a word they say has been abused and distorted by Muslim extremists and by anti-Muslim groups.

It began a campaign of terrorism against Israel, which retaliated by imprisoning the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, in 1991 and arresting hundreds of Hamas activists.

CNN: Liberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic laypeople.

Amid the furor over Akin's comments - for which he apologized this week, even as many Republican leaders have called for him to end his campaign - many anti-abortion activists have stuck by their stance against abortion rights in the case of rape.

Both sets of guidelines chime not only with the meat - reducing aim of the Meat Free Monday campaign but also with the seven - word green - eating mantra coined by journalist and food activist Michael Pollan in his 2009 book Food Rules: An Eater's Manual: «Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.»

Campaigns against the practices of fast - food chains and the campaign to ban battery cages, which have been heavily supported by the hard work of tens of thousands of grassroots activists, have improved the living and dying conditions of millions of animals.

* Tech - savvy farmers using social media * Agribusiness, food safety activists pour money into campaigns * Whistleblowers see new laws aimed at them By P.J. Huffstutter and Lisa Baertlein April 16 (Reuters)- Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp shareholders at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely investor prepared for battle.

According to Wikipedia, the forerunner to the CCF was called the «Guest Choice Network» and was formed «to unite the restaurant and hospitality industries in a campaign to defend their consumers and marketing programs against attacks from anti-smoking, anti-drinking, anti-meat, etc. activists...» It was funded by $ 2.95 million from, you guessed it, Phillip Morris, along with contributions from an unholy alliance of slot machine manufacturers, beer companies, meat processors and cigar makers.

Posters here are claiming, quite sincerely, that activists campaigning FOR human rights ought to have just stayed home if their feelings might be hurt by people who disagree with them.

Outraged by this attempt to block Filipino efforts to safeguard the health of their infants, activists both inside the country and overseas launched a campaign to support the department of health and the implementation of the IRR.

After years of dedicated campaigning by Filipino activists, this summer the Philippines Department of Health decided to implement extremely strong laws on the marketing of breastmilk substitutes, known as the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Executive Order 51.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

«Dell has been a dedicated organizer and activist for years, and he's been a steadfast ally in my fight to make life better for working families in New York,» de Blasio said in a statement released by Smitherman's campaign.

The critical point is that the MyBO features give participating activists tools to organize in their own communities, for instance by throwing house parties and fundraising drives, BEFORE the campaign has begun to direct volunteer activities from above.

Several labor leaders as well as the Cuomo campaign disputed the claims made by WFP State Director Bill Lipton that the governor threatened to work to end funding for the activist organizations as a result of the potential Nixon endorsement.

But Romney will just have to grind his teeth and grind his rivals down, week after week, state after state, driving away independent and alienating party activists simply by not being as conservative as they are, while President Obama and his people built his re-election campaign and prepares for the final showdown in the fall.

Activist Desiree Pilgrim - Hunter, who has been mulling a primary challenge to Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., is putting the pieces in place for a full - fledged campaign by hiring a fundraiser.

Learning from Obama cuts through the hype and places the individual online tools used by the Obama campaign and its supporters in context, including internet video, social networking outreach, online advertising and the MyBarackObama.com activist toolkit.

But as it becomes normal rather than exceptional for campaigns to have a presence on Facebook and other social media channels, politicians will have to endure many more attempts by activists to take over their pages to get attention for their issues or their demands.

First, campaign sites should always have some sort of action available for volunteers to take, so that you don't miss out on a chance to catch potential activists when they stop by.

With the Ashanti Regional activists campaigning for the reinstatement of Kwabena Agyepong following up press conferences in Kumasi with latest ones in Accra, a spillover of the campaign on to social media has seen Kwabena Agyepong being touted as an Ashanti who is being demonized by the Akyem President, Akufo - Addo.

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 challenge for the Scottish Labour left is to put these socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.

He is seen as increasingly vulnerable in this campaign due to the growing Latino majority in his district and his 2010 censure by the House for multiple ethics violations and has attracted four challengers in this race; Mr. Espaillat, former Democratic National, onetime Democratic District Leader Joyce Johnson and Craig Schley, a local activist and former model who previously ran for the seat as an independent.

Gillibrand, who at one point claimed she was going to be outspent by Long, has handily outraised the Manhattan lawyer and judicial activist during the campaign.

[3] If Brown is also to include Nelson Mandela, who arguably made his name as much by his actions before gaining political power than after, then a discussion of political activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst or, perhaps even more so, Eleanor Roosevelt who successfully campaigned towards removing, or at least alleviating, a different kind of apartheid from their respective societies would have also made a welcome addition.

He was accompanied by the acting NPP National Chairman, Mr. Freddie Blay; 2nd Deputy Speaker of Parliament and NPP MP for Essikadu Ketan, Hon. Joe Ghartey; Hon. Papa Owusu Ankomah, former NPP Minister and currently MP for Sekondi; NPP National Women's Organiser, Otiko Afisa Djaba; Deputy National Women's Organisers, Hajia Sawudatu and Diana Karikari; NPP Regional 2nd Vice Chairman, Francis Ndede Siah; Hon. Kobby Okyere Darko Mensah, MP for Takoradi; Hon. Joseph Cudjoe, MP for Effia; Hon. Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, MP for Bibiani / Anhwaiso / Bekwai; NPP Parliamentary Candidates for Sekondi, Shama, Ahanta West and Tarkwa Nsuaem, Andrew Mercer, Ato Panford, Kojo Kum and Mireku Duker, respectively; Charles Bissue, NPP Regional Secretary; Abdul Ganiyu, NPP Regional Organiser; Campaign Aides, Mawusi Awity, Na Paga Sulemana Tia, Justice Newton Abeiku Offei; and former NPP regional activists, Kojo Acquah and Agya Sam, amongst others.

Fineman focuses on one particular New Hampshire activist who's beseiged by requests from Hillary's supporters, really wants to work with Obama, but hasn't heard back from his campaign.

[As an aside, back in 2000 I briefly flirted with a national campaign for a certain third - party candidate, but the dalliance ended for good when they lost a hefty chunk of their activist list to a server crash — I was already a little turned off by what seemed to be a dangerous level of disorganization, and I ran away in disgust when they didn't even have a backup copy of the one database they desperately needed to hold on to.