Sentences with phrase «challenged by campaigners»

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An attempt by campaigners to challenge a change in the law, which they believe will make assisted suicides... More

Civil liberties campaigners have said the scans represent an invasion of privacy and their introduction may yet be challenged by the Human Rights Commission.

The minimum 50p per unit price, delayed for six years by a legal challenge led by the Scotch Whisky Association, has been welcomed by the medical professional and health campaigners as the biggest breakthrough in public health since the ban on smoking in public.

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.

Council powers to ban gatherings of two or more people have been challenged in a wide act of civil disobedience by campaigners.

Limited rebellions saw the coalition's majority reduced to 32 and 40, ending frantic efforts by civil liberties campaigners to persuade backbenchers to challenge the government.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

The ruling is the result of a case brought by privacy campaigners Privacy International that challenged the collection and use of bulk data by security agencies GCHQ, MI5 and MI6.

Whilst the Schools Minister Nick Gibb has recently written to the campaigners to allay their concerns, Mark Stewart, a leading specialist, says that ministers have so far failed to grasp the challenges faced by left - handed children.

Threatened legal challenges have been dropped, but the new site will be closely watched by anti-selection campaigners.

The concept, while highlighted by climate campaigners, was challenged on two levels — one on technical points about the number of wedges of avoided carbon dioxide that would be needed by mid-century and the other on the broader interpretation (which was never in the work originally) that this meant the challenge of limiting warming was not that hard.

Announced in London alongside former US Vice President and climate campaigner Al Gore, the Earth Challenge Prize will be overseen by a panel of judges, including James Lovelock and NASA scientist James Hansen (whom we mentioned here), who will be looking for a method that will remove at least one billion tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere.

Today's ECJ's judgement is the culmination of a 2013 legal challenge by European privacy campaigner Max Schrems who filed complaints against several U.S. Internet giants — including Facebook — in the Irish courts for alleged collaboration with the NSA's Prism program.

The EU - US Privacy Shield is the replacement for the Safe Harbor arrangement which was struck down by Europe's top court two years ago after a legal challenge by a privacy campaigner successfully argued that data protections were not adequately equivalent under the arrangement on account of U.S. government mass surveillance programs (which had been revealed by the Snowden disclosures to be harvesting EU citizens» personal data via the NSA's Prism program).