Sentences with phrase «described by campaigners»

Mr Prescott also called on ministers to ratify the European Convention on Human Trafficking, described by campaigners as the modern form of slavery.

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It was lapped up by anti-Brexit campaigners and described by one pro-European reviewer «as the campaigning guide that all Remainers have been waiting for».
Labour First, shadowy right - wing Old Labour group run by John Spellar got in first (though the mouth of former Labour national executive member Luke Akehurst), describing the new group as «a slap in the face for grassroots campaigners ``.
As they always have, news services began describing the embargoed findings earlier in the evening, prodded by environmental campaigners and some scientists who hoped the results would inspire diplomats preparing to gather next month in Bali for the latest round of climate - treaty talks.
After each evacuation, New Orleans appears at risk of losing ever more of its population, not in a refugee - style rush like those described by many climate campaigners, but as one household at a time gives up the fight.
Bill McKibben, a high - profile climate campaigner with 350.org, said: «For scientists, conservative by nature, to use «serious, pervasive, and irreversible» to describe the effects of climate falls just short of announcing that climate change will produce a zombie apocalypse plus random beheadings plus Ebola.»
The IPCC had referenced the claim to a report prepared for WWF by Andrew Rowell and Peter Moore, whom the article described as «green campaigners» with «little scientific expertise.»
Much of the global warming debate is perhaps best described as a constant outbidding by frantic campaigners, producing a barrage of ever - more scary scenarios in an attempt to get the public to accept their civilisation - changing proposals.
Scenes of «panic policing» were unanimously condemned by the House of Lords in Laporte, a test case against the Gloucestershire police brought after campaigners travelling to a demonstration were locked into their coaches by police and forcibly escorted away from the protest, without toilet stops, causing what Lord Bingham described as «acute physical discomfort and embarrassment.»
Described by commentators as «a seasoned campaigner,» Mark Paterson has a broad practice which includes advising on infrastructure, nuclear and aerospace related matters.
The company received # 3.5 M from leave campaign groups in the run up to the 2016 referendum, and has been described by leave campaigners as instrumental in securing their win.
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