Sentences with phrase «faced public pressure»

It's interesting to consider what this type of calculation would show about other shareholder proposals, especially this year where two proposals pertained to areas where Alphabet is facing public pressure.

In the end, Elia — who was herself facing public pressure to get rid of Paladino — sided with the board majority.

Not exact matches

These positions are public sector and governments at all levels are facing budget pressures, but even so average salaries are close to $ 100,000 and some go considerably higher.

After an initial public offering in March that gave it a theoretical market value of $ 27 billion, Snap is facing considerable pressure to show that it can increase revenue, and quickly.

That's a specific example that speaks to a larger truth: Most public - sector officials can not understand the pressure and time demands startups face.

On hand will be several of our Sector Leads and analysts to review and discuss S&P Global's research related to credit pressures facing U.S. states and local governments, with a focus on pension issues and emerging risks / trends in public finance.

New accounting rules are likely to show that public pension plans could face hundreds of billions of dollars in additional liabilities, putting new pressure on state and local governments to act.

If the sequester happens, the most likely scenario (as I see it) is that public pressure will result in some House Republicans allying with the House Democrats and a large majority in the Senate to restore the cuts after some face saving compromise that doesn't save the Republicans much face.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

«You have to remember, he came from a very poor family, and suddenly, when he was 16, still basically a child, he was thrown into the public eye and faced with a lot of pressure,» says his friend Valdano.

(Faced with this pressure, and perhaps also to resuscitate LAUSD's public image — which has been battered quite a bit on «Food Revolution» — the new Los Angeles schools superintendent announced yesterday that he'll ask the LAUSD board in to consider a flavored milk ban.)

Ultimately though, regardless of how absurd it sounds, women are harassed for feeding their babies, asked to leave restaurants, fear meeting their child's needs in public due to public shaming, face judgment for how they feed their children, and feel pressured to feed a certain way but be invisible.

Lawmakers will return to Washington today facing intense public pressure to break their decades - long gridlock on gun control, a demand fortified by a bipartisan group of governors calling for Congress to take action to protect against mass shootings.

Chancellor George Osborne stood firm in the face of public pressure from Dr Fox, who had hoped to persuade No 11 to finance Trident separately from the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) overall budget.

The state Health Department and village officials were widely criticized because they waited roughly 16 months — and faced pressure from the EPA — before they warned the public to stop drinking the water.

A new report shows that New York City patients are being cared for more and more by public hospitals, as some private hospitals face financial pressures.

Michael P. Kelly, a former general manager of New York City's public housing authority, is returning to the job at a time when the agency faces financial pressures even more dire than when he left.

But the debate over public financing is a complex one for the Senate, with Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein facing pressure from liberal advocacy groups to deliver on the issue.

On its face, it appears to announce a major new public health initiative after months of pressure.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing pressure to revive an issue that failed in state budget negotiations, enacting a public campaign financing system for statewide elections.

The development brings serious pressure on John Yates, long seen as a reliable public face in controversial police investigations, as MPs write to him to demand answers about his claims.

The mayor, the governor, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and many others were / are in San Juan this week to show solidarity with the island territory as it faces a debt crisis, to attend the annual Somos El Futuro conference, and to put pressure on Congress to aid Puerto Rico with its financial crisis.

Among the findings: States will face continued pressure due to skyrocketing Medicaid costs, underfunded pensions for retired public employees and volatile tax revenues, as well as reduced federal funding.

Faced with growing public pressure to answer for the MTA's deficiencies, Cuomo recently launched a $ 3 million competition for «geniuses» to come up with how to fix the system.

Originally, Klein had steeled in the face of the public pressure, essentially adopting a bunker mentality.

At first he said this was because the city was not subject to a property tax cap, but in the face of public pressure said his measures were meant to find efficiency and wouldn't «cost the city a penny.»

Earlier this month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was facing pressure from the press, local officials, and the public to make his first appearance in Hoosick Falls, a small town near the Vermont border.

Public - sector unions around the nation face growing political pressures not only from Republicans but also from their traditional allies among Democrats, as governors grapple with recession, declining tax revenues and pension funds perilously close to bankruptcy.

The public sector was insulated from these pressures but now faces a similar trade off... they must share the burden as we pay to clean it up.»

The private UB Foundation is technically separate from the public university, but has long faced pressure to be more transparent about how it does business.

The governor is facing pressure from the progressive Working Families Party, which might not endorse him on the party's ballot line if he doesn't achieve public financing reform.

Facing pressure from unions and some elected officials, the Assembly stalled and then eventually introduced an amended bill that strictly defines which public and appointed officials could have their pensions stripped.

McNutt also notes the many new pressures facing science publishing — such as authors bypassing journals entirely and posting their work directly on the Internet, sometimes as a way to more directly engage the public and provide more immediate connections to readers and promotion of their findings.

Plutonium has a bad public image in the US, and many power companies are likely to face enormous pressure not to burn MOX fuel in their reactors.

In the face of 40 years of public - health drumbeating, smoking bans, and social pressure, that's an amazing failure rate.

Now a public advocate for marriage equality, thanks to his «Blue Neighbourhood» music video series highlighting the pressures same - sex couples face, Troye, like a lot of Australia, is embarrassed that we haven't stepped our game up and legalised same - sex marriage.

Clearly this increase will add to the already significant challenges faced by public services, already under huge pressure because of budgets cuts.

He claimed the education system is facing a «perfect storm of both decreasing public confidence and increasing pressure in the system as the greater emphasis on end - of - term exams creates even more work for examiners over the summer».

While providers of public education certainly face the temptation to do what might look like taking the easy way out by letting academic standards decline, there is also countervailing pressure in the direction of higher standards.

The address information was geocoded to generate measures of the pressure that public schools face from private competitors.

While providers of public education certainly face the temptation to do what might look like taking the easy way out by letting academic standards slip, there is also countervailing pressure in the direction of higher standards (especially, as long as there are competing standards in other states).

Every day, they face myriad pressures and responsibilities driven by the political, social, and economic landscape in public education.

For unions in manufacturing the imperative to consolidate has been driven by deindustrialisation, while public service unions have had to face up to the pressures of privatisation and contracting out.

Students of color are even more underrepresented among graduates with education majors, at least 82 percent of whom are white.65 This disparity could be related to a number of factors students of color face, including negative experiences with the public education system; 66 the additional costs and time involved for teacher credentialing; 67 or pressure from their families to seek out higher - earning and higher - status jobs and career tracks.68

All three heads, who gave evidence to the Commons public accounts committee alongside NAHT leader Russell Hobby this afternoon, said they felt the Department for Education (DfE) did not understand the pressures they faced.

Higher Education Accountability is designed for policymakers, higher education professionals, students and faculty, or members of the public who are interested in learning more about how colleges are responding to all of the pressures that they face.

The evolution that transformed New Orleans» public schools into an entirely choice - based structure demands that many charter schools and other schools of choice that may have previously engaged in exclusionary practices toward special education students (Wolf, 2011) must now serve students across the spectrum of academic and developmental abilities while still facing the pressures of demonstrating progress in a struggling school system.

Rich Township, however, faces financial pressures shared by many public schools throughout the state.

One of the nation's most successful public schools, in a Los Angeles suburb, is the setting of this searing look at the pressures faced by high - achieving high - school students.

Some successfully nudge their way into the public eye via good marketing and good feature sets, like the nook, and some simply fail in the face of so much pressure.