Sentences with phrase «campaigned against funding»

Among other things, «Pervert» was a fierce response to Jesse Helms and his allies in Congress who campaigned against funding aids research.

Jules White, a head teacher in West Sussex and part of a campaign against funding shortages, said parents who are facing cuts in their children's schools should be made aware that «money is no object» for free schools and grammar schools.

Not exact matches

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

In 2010 — the same year that NFIB joined the lawsuit against the health care law — the organization received $ 3.7 million from Crossroads GPS, a Republican campaign fund co-founded by former George Bush presidential aide Karl Rove, according to the Journal.

Federal investigators are reportedly looking into possible manipulation of Herbalife's stock and have interviewed individuals hired by hedge - fund manager William Ackman, who has been running a campaign against the nutritional - products company for over two years.

Keystone has become a can't - lose battle for the environmental movement, with activists staging frequent protests against the pipeline and California billionaire Tom Steyer funding major advertising campaigns to move public opinion.

But in another post written under Luckey's Reddit pseudonym, there are echoes of a similar tech billionaire, Peter Thiel, who used his deep pockets to secretly fund a campaign against Gawker.

Toward the goal of clean capital markets, in 2004 Byrne began a vigorous citizen - journalist campaign focusing on regulatory capture, hedge fund mischief, settlement system failures, systemic risk, and the possibility of economic warfare against the US by organized crime and foreign governments.

With a proxy contest looming, activist investor Voce Capital has released yet another broadside against target company FBR & Co., this time in the form of a comprehensive presentation detailing the rationale behind Voce's campaign and advocating for the election of the hedge fund's three board candidates.

It promotes inclusion in education, and campaigns against any form of exclusion in state - funded education on the grounds of religion.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

It will be a difficult fight against a government - funded campaign (ie one backed by our money), which has daily access to the media, especially to the BBC - which has clearly shown that it intends to push for «gay marriage».

If they're using funds to shelter pedophilic priests, and campaign against abortion, and gay marriage... then it's time to tax them.

Disgruntled Arsenal fans have really ramped up their protest against manager Arsene Wenger recently and in order to pressurize the Frenchman to leave the Emirates Stadium at the end of the current campaign, supporters even collected funds to fly a plane over the Hawthorns last Saturday urging their legendary boss to leave.

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.

The campaign fights such «license to discriminate» bills on the state and federal level and builds support for the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, a federal bill prohibiting child welfare agencies that receive taxpayer funds from discriminating against LGBTQ youth or prospective foster and adoptive parents.

One solution is a widespread, well - funded public health campaign to inoculate kids against the forces that lead to unhealthful eating, akin to that used to discourage teen smoking.

Firstly, immediately, and funds permitting, Nuttall will surely be planning a major campaign tour of those constituencies whose MPs voted against triggering Article 50 — and particularly those where the MPs have a small majority and where UKIP are even vaguely viable.

In the opposing camp there was the CPHA (Campaigning to Protect Hunted Animals), made up of the Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), the League Against Cruel Sports and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

In a political system in which candidates are largely responsible for funding and organising their own re-election campaigns, it is dangerous for parliamentarians to stand against the tide of public opinion.

Saujani's campaign did not dispute the numbers I've presented here, but insisted she'll have sufficient funds to fight hard against Maloney over the next eight weeks.

And these campaigns were not just fought by religious groups — the campaign against the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill in 2004 united Rowan Williams, the NSS and evangelicals like the Barnabas Fund in its opposition.

Cuomo brought up the hypothetical of a wealthy businessman who decides to self - fund a campaign for governor (Businessman Carl Paladino did just that in 2010, vowing to spend his own money against the very well - funded Cuomo campaign and lost in a landslide).

Rye Town Supervisor and hedge fund manager Joe Carvin, who launched his campaign for US Senate against Sen. Gillibrand today, is pledging to put $ 1 million of his own money into the campaign.

Well, not willingly — a week or two back, Warren's campaign for Massachusetts senator was running online display ads asking for donations to her «response fund» to reply to the television attacks Rove's American Crossroads had launched against her (I was too swamped...

Actress Cynthia Nixon started the Democratic primary campaign against Cuomo with a huge fund - raising disadvantage, but her ability to use her celebrity to attract free media can help her counteract the powerful benefits of the governor's incumbency, political experts agree.

Bo's campaigns against corruption also allegedly seized the assets of private entrepreneurs, in turn funneling these funds into state projects and welfare programs, effectively re-asserting state control over wealth.

But instead of beating her with an ordinary PAC or a campaign contribution to her opponent, the trade association for the chemical industry has chosen to take advantage of the Citizens United loophole to use undisclosed general treasury funds against Baldwin.

PRINCETON, NJ — Half of Americans say they would personally vote for a law that establishes government funding of federal campaigns, while 44 % would vote against it.

Democrats close to both New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy had also worried that Trump - allied self - funding candidates would jump in against them, forcing them to spend serious campaign cash to defend their otherwise safe seats.

«UJA - Federation of New York applauds Governor Cuomo for being the first governor in the nation to issue an executive order directing state entities to divest all public funds supporting the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel,» said UJA Federation of New York CEO Eric S. Goldstein in a statement.

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

The benefits of incumbency mean that it is harder for either Labour or the Tories to win an overall majority, as they have to battle against incumbent MPs who have large amounts of state funding to bolster their campaigns.

Ssempa, who is associated with Saddleback pastor Rick Warren and is a recipient of U.S. funds to combat HIV / AIDS through «abstinence only» programs, has been linked to prior public vigilante campaigns against LGBT people.

The Cuomo campaign is not taking GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio's «double - dipping» pension fund slam against LG contender Bob Duffy lying down, deploying multiple surrogates to defend the Rochester mayor's honor and unveiling a «fact check» feature on its Website.

Recall that Paladino said last year he would fund primary campaigns against Senate Republicans, which ultimately showed little success.

And then there's the constant politicking and fund - raising for their initial campaign, second campaign, for others in the party... and now they're going to go through that miserable, degrading experience of begging for cash and rubbing up against the masses and issuing lame platitudes (though on a lesser scale)....

ALBANY — Sean Eldridge is a self - funder, a good Democrat on the issues, has the blessing of party bosses for his run for Congress against Chris Gibson, can talk about creating jobs with an investment fund and, again, as the husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, has more than enough money to self - fund an aggressive campaign.

Supremely gross ex-Assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic boss Vito Lopez has spent a whopping $ 177,724 in just the last 6 months, all of it from his campaign fund, defending himself against charges that he's a grope - y creep who sexually harassed a number of former female staffers.

As so - called social welfare organizations, 501 (c) 4 groups emerged on the national level as a potent force in campaign funding, sliding through existing regulatory frameworks because they do not coordinate directly with candidates and do not expressly advocate for or against them.

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

The controversy over former President Goodluck Jonathan's campaign funds cropped up on Monday when a nominee to the board of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, Hajia Maimuna Aliyu, denied allegations levelled against her.

Last month, President Obama spoke at a Murphy fund - raiser in Miami — one of many high - dollar events that Murphy advisers believe will allow them to spend as much as $ 8 million in his primary campaign against Grayson.

According to his latest filing with the Board of Elections, Astorino, the GOP's candidate against Gov. Cuomo in 2014, zeroed out his gubernatorial campaign committee and transferred the bulk of its remaining funds - $ 51,825 - into his campaign committee for county executive.

Staff at Edward R. Murrow HS in Midwood, owed $ 10 million in Campaign for Fiscal Equity funds from the state, put together a multilanguage video telling the governor what the school needs and have sent photos with the same message to the governor and sent postcards to legislators urging them to stand against Cuomo's policies.

Atlantic Bridge was itself a partner of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a US lobbying group funded by the Charles G Koch Foundation (predominant funders of the US Tea Party), the National Rifle Association and the Tobacco Institute, to name but a few, and which campaigns against climate change legislation and regulation of tobacco.

I'd like to think this was partly because of the Tory campaign against him on helping ruin the pension funds (I say helped, not all his fault because poor stock returns and longer life expectancy has reduced the payouts aswell).

And Astorino is now trying to use the advantage of Cuomo's large campaign fund against the governor.

Whichever candidate ultimately takes on Astorino in the general election will be shorthanded in a financial race against the county executive, who reported a $ 2.5 million campaign fund balance in January.

Topics in a post-announcement press Q&A included whether Cuomo will support Bronx Borough President, and Cuomo ally, Ruben Diaz Jr. in a 2017 mayoral run against Bill de Blasio, details on a state program to fund the green card application fees of 2,000 applicants, delays in the Cuomo administration response to the still unfolding Hoosick Falls drinking water catastrophe, whether Cuomo will work to turn control of the state senate to the Democrats, whether Cuomo will sign recently - passed AirBnB legislation, the State's response to increasingly severe occurrences of K2 / spice overdoses and whether he will support 2014 gubernatorial opponent Zephyr Teachout in her congressional campaign.