Sentences with phrase «environment as hostile»

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

That's because we alone among the species can experience our natural environment as that hostile.

Not exact matches

Perhaps equally surprising is Amazon's placement near the top, considering last year's reporting by the New York Times that characterized it as having a hostile work environment.

The New York Times and CBS News, citing unnamed officials briefed on the matter, reported they included overseeing a hostile work environment as the White House doctor, allowed the overprescribing of drugs and drank on the job.

And as many as 50 % of female tech workers will leave the industry because of the hostile work environment.

Employees can perceive this as a hostile work environment.

A few weeks later, Kris Duggan stepped down from his role as CEO of BetterWorks following a lawsuit that claimed a hostile work environment.

For example, the Vice-owned creative agency Carrot is said to have fostered what many described as a hostile work environment for women.

Several other managers are also named as culprits in creating a hostile work environment, in part for their response to Kim's complaints.

A 2015 report from researchers at Kent State University and the University of Texas at Tyler found that the «prevalence of male norms in the male - dominated environment may result in a more hostile workplace for women who are perceived by men as violators of the gender norms.»

Legal precedent, meanwhile, tends to define sexual harassment as occurring either when a supervisor requests sex in exchange for a subordinate being promoted or not being fired, or when an employee is subject to behavior of a sexual nature that's so pervasive it creates a hostile work environment.

Sources who have seen parts of it said the report chronicles an aggressive and fast - growing startup, resulting in a frequently chaotic and «hostile work environment» without adequate systems in place to ensure that violations such as sexual harassment and retaliatory behavior were dealt with professionally.

The measures, which were first announced last Friday, have set the markets in disarray, as investors braced for a more hostile environment for global trade.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Given that these trends threaten Jews and Christians alike, we have reason to join forces as countercultures that seek not so much to remake the other in our image as simply to sustain our witness in a hostile environment.

Additionally, every job description for managers and supervisors should include requirements regarding knowledge and proper enforcement of the anti-harassment policies and procedures, and caution that nonemployees such as customers, diners and guests can also create a hostile work environment for employees.

The big difference was that he seemed to embrace the hostile environment around him and didn't let the dumbfounding moments and ensuring criticism affect him as it so visibly did last year.

This morning as I watched the news, it occurred to me that a blitz of mail would lift the spirits of those serving in the Middle East, 8,000 miles from home in a hot and hostile environment.

In the ruling from Judge Howard Levine, who was appointed a hearing officer in Kellner's appeal, both the Ethics Committee's ruling that the Manhattan Democrat engaged in inappropriate behavior that created a hostile working environment as well as Silver's decision to impose penalties were upheld.

As with so much of May's «hostile environment» agenda, these new regulations are ill - thought out and short - sighted.

MPs have today called for a review into the impact of the government's «hostile environment» policies which are designed to make life as difficult as possible for undocumented migrants.

But this latest development comes as no surprise to those of us who have been watching the evolution of the Conservative government's commitment to making the UK a «hostile environment» for illegal immigrants.

But the «hostile environment» policy remains, as does the political ambition that motivated it.

Terrified of being labelled as soft on illegal immigration, even those MPs who privately object to much of the «hostile environment» will not say so publicly.

«It is incredibly worrying to see the hostile environment being expanded to treat victims and witnesses of crime as suspects by the police.

My union — the Public and Commercial Services Union — has been clear from the outset: we opposed the Immigration Act 2014, and many of our members were appalled at the «hostile environment» created by then home secretary Theresa May as she sought to make political capital out of the sensitive issue of immigration.

The letter, sent to the Labour MP David Lammy, is the earliest evidence yet of the Conservative immigration policy that was to follow — which was defined by May two years later as the «hostile environment» strategy.

Stressing that Ms May's measures as Home Secretary had been directed at illegal — not legal — migrants, a Home Office spokesperson said: «It is categorically untrue to say the Home Office has called for a hostile environment for immigrants.

The incident has also heaped pressure on the Home Office over its use of «hostile environment policy» and sparked events which led to the resignation of Amber Rudd as Home Secretary yesterday.

She added: «It was only when I was reviewing the papers of the Stephen Lawrence case, the tribunal, and looking at what the description of institutional racism is, and as I've been reading and listening to all of the stories around Windrush, it occurred to me that the policies that this Prime Minister - and it lays only at the door of Theresa May - that her policies where she wanted to create a hostile environment, has actually created an environment that disproportionately affects and discriminates people of colour and therefore could be classified as institutionally racist.

She said: «As the Prime Minister raised today, it was a Labour immigration minister who first used the term hostile environment, wanting to and I quote, «flush out illegal immigrants» and a decision as the Prime Minister said, was taken originally by a Labour administratioAs the Prime Minister raised today, it was a Labour immigration minister who first used the term hostile environment, wanting to and I quote, «flush out illegal immigrants» and a decision as the Prime Minister said, was taken originally by a Labour administratioas the Prime Minister said, was taken originally by a Labour administration.

Ms Butler said the buck stopped with Mrs May rather than her successor as Home Secretary Amber Rudd, because the Prime Minister had presided over the «hostile environment» approach to immigration, including sanctioning controversial «Go Home» vans in 2014.

«We are trying to send a message and you're seeing the media send that message as well and it's that harassment and hostile work environments will not be tolerated,» Fahy said.

A Labour government would dismantle Theresa May's hostile environment policy and remove requirements on landlords, banks and employers to act as defacto immigration enforcement officers, the shadow home secretary will say.

These types of incidents collectively create a hostile environment that women internalize and come to see as normal, she said.

While some measures designed to make life harder for illegal migrants date back to the last Labour government, most Whitehall insiders and immigration experts point to the arrival of the Tory - led coalition government in 2010 as the moment when the «hostile environment» mission began in earnest.

«This creates an environment in which some members are fearful to take part in the party or raise their voice about any issue, as they see that meetings have become hostile and sometimes aggressive.»

«It is the same hostile environment all over again, shutting our fellow citizens out of public life, treating communities who made Britain their home as second - class citizens.

Sajid Javid disowns «hostile environment» phrase in first outing as home secretary — as it happened

As with much of the recent (and long overdue) media and political attention to the government's «hostile environment», people who can be deemed «illegal» are once again dehumanised even by politicians opposing government policy.

Any sense you might have of a hostile environment that has come to exist in wartime will dissipate once our Islamist terrorist enemies are killed, captured, or eliminated, just as the far more offensive feelings we had directed to our past national enemies disappeared when those hostilities ended.

He also insisted today that he would not describe government policy on illegal immigrants as a «hostile environment» - despite Mrs May championing the stance.

There have been many challenging design issues on Solar - B, as well as the usual problems involved in designing for the hostile space environment, not to mention communication difficulties!

This appetite for energy is at last being seen as a threat, though not to the environment: the top brass understands that relying on dwindling oil supplies from unstable or hostile countries is a bad idea.

Program promoters are also having to wrestle with financial barriers as well as a hostile environment that has developed for bikers in cities that used to have millions of them.

For millions of years, our ancestors relied on innovation and cooperation to get enough food, to help care for one another's children, and to survive in hostile environments, such as deserts, tundras, and jungles.

Conflicts can run the gamut including issues such as authorship, intellectual property, mentoring, a hostile adviser or lab environment, discrimination, harassment, salary, or vacation time

Of course, as Walton and Cohen point out, such an intervention may not work in an openly hostile environment.

German intends to see next if these materials might be good as a wound covering for hostile environments where 1) you want to be able to see the wound healing without removing the dressing, 2) you want to protect the wound from the sun and 3) you want to keep the wound in a moist environment, known to promote faster wound healing rates.

«Bias against transgender people takes an enormous toll on their health through direct harm, lack of appropriate care and a hostile environment, and through transgender people's avoidance of the medical system as a result of discrimination and lack of respect,» Dr. Stroumsa says.