Sentences with phrase «fight against a project»

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders advancing the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) and Dakota Access (DAPL) pipelines, prompting a tsunami of outrage and vows of bold resistance from the Indigenous activists, climate campaigners, and countless others who have fought against these projects.

Terri Bright, the city's former top lawyer who ultimately lost her job because of a Destiny battle at city hall, said those who fought against the project were risking their political careers.

Many community - led fights against projects are localised and may not be on the Fossil Free map yet.

International NGOs are denouncing the charges brought against Nasako Besingi, a leader in the fight against a project by U.S. agribusiness giant Herakles Farms to develop oil palm plantations in Cameroon.

Not exact matches

CUNY professor Jeff Jarvis, who will direct the project as part of the Tow - Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, said in a blog post that the idea came from conversations he had with Newmark about the need to fight back against the rise of fake news and misinformation.

The company has an uphill fight against Nike — its projected $ 5 billion in revenue this year is just a fraction of the larger company's expected $ 33.9 billion.

He was active in the fight against Salt River Project's proposal to hit solar customers in Arizona with fees.

It was immediately following Christy Clark's surprise victory in the last provincial election, an election many thought would play a large role in the fight against tanker projects on the West Coast.

Saskatchewan's fight against Justin Trudeau's carbon tax rests on the same argument as B.C.'s opposition to the Trans Mountain project, Chantal Hébert writes.

This project won the main $ 20,000 prize fighting against other 11 pitches during the whole second day of the event.

This is the first time in my 10 - year fight against the water project that I have seen a national magazine cover it with no holds barred, reporting the truth of what its ecological consequences already have been and will be.

Although the limits were comparatively low for these games, it's fascinating to note that the Seminoles were initially projected to be 24 - point favorites against the Fighting Irish.

As a gentle parent, working with, instead of against, our children will help to make eating healthy a fun family project instead of a food fight.

At National Grid we're using all the tools we have at our disposal to play a part in the fight against fuel poverty but it's incumbent upon all of us in the energy industry to reach out, form partnerships and develop joined - up projects if we are to fully address the issue and make fuel poverty a thing of the past.

MANHATTAN — After a long fight against plans for a waterfront trash collection site at East 91st Street, Upper East Siders thought they had finally won a reprieve because budget constraints appeared to have postponed the project indefinitely.

The reason why the fight against corruption is such an important matter for his government and the people of Ghana, he explained, is because of the project that we (government) have put before our people.

The issuance will likely further inflame opponents of the project - including the Oneida Indian Nation - who have mounted multiple legal fights and public relations campaigns against Wilmot's plans to put a casino 76 miles west of Turning Stone Casino.

Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights asking him to «use your good offices and position to urgently request the National Assembly of Nigeria, specifically the Senate, to withdraw amendments to the Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal Act which if passed into law would seriously weaken the act, undermine the fight against corruption in the country, exacerbate extreme poverty and violations of internationally recognized human rights.»

But now it is very clear that there's an ethnic, ethnocentric, tribal agenda that is meant to incite hatred against a good man who has been fighting all his life for the Ghanaian project, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, Allah shall fight for Akufo - Addo.»

That's right, the same not - in - my - backyard New York that fights against any major energy project.

The real estate board fought hard against a proposal to require a prevailing wage for construction work, something it said would threaten the viability of many projects.

Some of his proudest accomplishments is helping to lead the fight against the Kiryas Joel pipeline project, sponsoring benefit programs for veterans, and supporting services to help seniors remain in their homes.

Environmentalists, meanwhile, have made the project a symbol of their broader fight against fossil fuels and global warming.

European research and the fight against crime outlines some of the EC - funded projects, such as explosives trace analysis and criminal identification through ear prints, designed to make us safer citizens.

The DNA Repair Research Project is still in its early stages, but members of the group are committed to helping in the fight against cancer.

A new research project from the University of Copenhagen has established an effective model for the fight against the escalating burden of tooth decay among children in Asia.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

Read about a project that can create cures that results in minimum or no side effects, in their fight against cancer.

TBnet is coordinating a project funded by the German Ministry of Health (BMG), aiming to strengthen the cooperation with Armenia in the fight against tuberculosis.

The aim of this project is to fight against Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis)(TB) and Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), leading to serious diseases which usually require intensive care treatment with a long hospitalization.

Whether you need to be red carpet ready, look your best for a photo shoot, fight against unhealthy food cravings, get rid of bloat, get rid of excess water retention, or feel your best inside and out, The Project Juice Reset Cleanse equals results guaranteed.

The Case for: The Matrix Fight Club The Sixth Sense American Pie Galaxy Quest Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut Bowfinger The Blair Witch Project Deep Blue Sea The Case Against: Star Wars -LSB-...]

A great place to start is the National Women's History project, where students can explore this year's theme, «Nevertheless, She Persisted: Honoring Women Who Fight All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.»

In each of our projects, we're fighting against unjust laws and policies that keep children from getting the great public education they deserve.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

He was especially committed to the fight against AIDS and devoted much of his spare time to his «memory books» project, which aimed to raise awareness of this catastrophe.

don't nobody knock message boards: i participate in three which are absolute mustard: given the right kind of people and enough mutual association, they are the best way to swap ideas and even cooperate on projects (case in point: the TMF banking board successfully staged a fight against the Irish minister of finance to defend a bond widely held by its members — including legal action and political lobbying): there is something about the mechanism of general conversation in a small group of like - minded friends that can really take off

While these castes work their way through court, groups like The Puppy Mill Project, Veterinary Professionals Against Puppy Mills, and other similar organizations will keep educating and working to make a difference in the fight against puppyAgainst Puppy Mills, and other similar organizations will keep educating and working to make a difference in the fight against puppyagainst puppy mills.

Brent still serves on the board of directors for KC Pet Project and is the author of the «KC Dog Blog» (kcdogblog.com), where he shares information about the fight against breed - specific legislation and no - kill practices.

One of the WSAVA Foundation's key projects is the African Small Companion Animal Network (AFSCAN) initiative which is supporting the development of the veterinary profession across Africa and playing a key role in the fight against rabies on the continent, together with partners including charities Worldwide Veterinary Services (WVS) and Mission Rabies.

Pet Project Rescue believes that spay / neuter initiatives are essential in the fight against pet homelessness and the number of unwanted animals dying in shelters.

Carbonfund.org: Uses education and public outreach to fight against global warming while supporting projects focused on renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation around the world.

For me, this is why sometimes I say that the biggest villain in the game is not just Joseph Seed, it's the whole cult — the whole Project at Eden's Gate — because they're all working together to fight against you.

On paper, it's the same as the original, with the Federation (now known as the FSA: The Federal States of America) fighting against the Imperials, who have discovered the Albatross project from the original Badd architects.

Not too much is know at this point but it is know that the X-COM project is now an underground guerrilla faction that is fighting against the alien overlords and their public front, the Advent corporation.

But with an all new and heavily expanded car and circuit roster, new tyre model, and a raft of other promising improvements, Project Cars 2 is set to put up a solid fight against the rest of the pack.

Reilly is a founding member of both The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) and the Women's Action Coalition (WAC)-- two organizations fighting discrimination against women in the art world and society at large.

Through Lightbox, Visual AIDS honors all the Archive Project member artists who share their talent and inspire us to continue the fight against HIV / AIDS.

It was in this sense that Walter Benjamin regarded the collector in his Arcades Project, viewing the act of collecting as related to the desire to understand and organize theworld as a cosmos: «Perhaps in this way it is possible to concretize the secret motive that underlies collecting: the fight against dispersion.

In the fight against climate change, every bit counts, but to make an argument that is based on a leverage ratio of somewhere between 90 and 500 times the actual damage caused by a particular project is not the right way to go about it....