Sentences with phrase «financial ties with»

Just this May during 350.org's Global Divestment Mobilization, thousands of people attended over 260 events in 45 countries on 6 continents to put pressure on institutions to break their financial ties with fossil fuel companies.
Knowing how many years and hours Mr. Donaldson has donated to the CMRR, I often wonder if he also has any financial ties with them as well.
Instead, Cuomo used his leverage to press companies and colleges to adopt a new code of conduct obliging them to sever their financial ties with one another and then drafted a bill to enshrine the code in New York State law.
October 2015: Town of Brookhaven severs financial ties with Singh's company.
Take away: If China cuts financial ties with North Korea, the North Korean economy would without a doubt plunge.

Not exact matches

The short version is that the piece revolves around the non-smoking gun of a hotel server tied to Trump's hotel, which, according to records from a DNS provider (a sort of directory service), made repeated contacts with Alpha Bank, a financial outfit tied to the Kremlin.
Still, the company details some of its financial ties to HPE in the filing that haven't been previously disclosed and were likely related to Dropbox's migration from AWS, which HPE helped out with.
With a nearly 16 percent stake in Dell and ties going back three decades to the creation of the company out of his college dorm room, Michael Dell is seen as having much more at stake in the deal going through than Silver Lake, a financial investor that often walks away from deals.
And in speeches to some of the country's biggest banks, she highlighted her long ties to Wall Street, bantering with top executives and saying that she views the financial industry as a partner in government regulation.
As Trump praised and defended Russian President Vladimir Putin along the campaign trail, many questioned whether the real - estate mogul had any financial incentives — including business ties or outstanding debt — to seek better relations with Moscow.
Take a look at your financial forecast and only cut ties with low - paying clients when you know you've got work locked in for the next few months to cover whatever shortfall their departure leaves you.
Google issued a harsh response Tuesday to the Campaign for Accountability's analysis of academic papers with financial ties to the search giant.
The new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 36 percent of firms with more than 200 workers, and 18 percent of firms over all, use financial incentives tied to health objectives like weight loss and smoking cessation.
The Bitcoin Deutschland AG is acting as tied agent of the FIDOR Bank AG within the meaning of § 2 Section 10 of the Banking Act and provides the system or the completion of financial instruments in accordance with § 1 Section 1a Sentence 2 No. 1 of the Banking Act exclusively in the name and for the account of the FIDOR Bank AG.
As a result, bilateral ties between the two countries have become highly personalized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping directing government commissions, sitting officials, and heads of state corporations to develop financial and trade deals — most of which are large - scale, top - down investments of Chinese money into key sectors of the Russian economy.
Stephen K. Bannon's main financial backer is formally cutting ties with the former Trump adviser.
What is interesting to see with this bitcoin hype is how uneducated writers still are when it comes to the question of what money actually is — especially the assumption that money, e.g. US Dollars, are tied to any real world values like gold is one of these modern fairytales that is repeated often — I can not understand that even after the big corporate crimes (aka as «financial crisis») that US Citizens cost millions of dollars there is still such a lack of understanding of what money actually is.
Combined with the Russia - tied company — Navigator Holdings Ltd. — Ross has a financial interest in at least 75 ships, most of which move oil and gas products across the globe.»
There probably isn't a magic bond yield that will shake the world's faith in the US financial system, but with tens of trillions of dollars tied to the US 10 year yield, there is a likely a breaking point out there.
There are specialized 7 (a) program options for exporting companies, those in underserved communities, those with military ties (such as a veteran business owner or businesses owned by the spouse of an active service member), and those with cyclical or seasonal businesses that need help with short - term financial needs.
Long story short, a permanent plan is best suited for reducing the inconvenience of a death when it inevitably happens, and making sure that all of your financial loose ends can be tied up with minimal hassle for your family.
With tens of thousands of jobs in construction and financial services tied to the market, the Bank of Canada has specifically cited Toronto's inflating condo sector as a potential source of concern.
In the US, strict and costly regulations in the aftermath of the financial crisis were applied with a broad brush, to large financial institutions capable of creating systemic catastrophe and to community banks with risks tied only to the communities they faithfully serve.
But according to the 2010 Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI), published by Z / Yen, Dubai tied for 24th place with Isle of Man out of a total of 75 centers, representing a slide of three points in its ranking from the 2009 GFCI.
It's kinda humorous how these stakeholders with financial ties pop in and then disappear.
To try to tackle Indulgences was to start to tamper with the whole ecclesiastical economic structure, held together by financial, political and psychological ties.
But APC deputy secretary general, Rahmat Ajiguna, said that «Syngenta, who owns the Golden Rice patents, can change the agreement regarding royalty any time they want adding that we can not trust any scientist or government officials with alleged financial ties to IRRI, Syngenta, Monsanto or to any agrochemical TNCs, whom we assumed to be lacking any credibility whatsoever.»
Reviews of the health effects of sugar sweetened beverages that are performed by authors with financial ties to food companies are five times more likely to conclude that there is no association of sugar consumption with weight gain compared to those with other sponsors (relative risk: 5.0, 95 % CI: 1.3 — 19.3)[42].
Reviews of the health effects of sugar sweetened beverages performed by authors with financial ties to the sugar industry are five times more likely to conclude there is no association of sugar consumption with weight gain [42].
If true, that puts Arsenal in a very difficult position as they will be desperate to keep one of the more prized assets, although they're certainly in a strong financial position moving forward with Bellerin tied to a long - term contract and so it will cost Barca a significant price to re-sign him.
He would certainly need a mentor, likely a strong connection with MP and also to be tied to some sort of incentive contract which allows the Lions to walk without much of a financial burden if he never got his shit together.
We might find out one day precisely what financial impediments Wenger had to work with, if any, and people may be little kinder with his record if we find out his hands were effectively tied.
Djukic, with his hands tied at boardroom level and hindered by enforced player sales and a whole host of other factors arguably beyond his control, has failed to restore former glories to Los Che, so, as the club's owners search for a way to control the financial mess, it will be down to another fire - fighting manager to sort out the problems that are existent on the pitch.
Nearly a decade after the financial crisis that brought the Great Recession, Wall Street has too many cops, each with too little power, tied up in knots with each other.
Brad Parscale, the political strategist and online guru who was named Trump's 2020 campaign manager, has a close financial relationship with a penny - stock firm with a questionable history that includes long - standing ties to a convicted fraudster, according to an AP investigation.
The 73 - year - old financial information industry billionaire, who earned a reputation as a social liberal with strong Wall Street ties during his time as New York City mayor, has considered a White House run for years.
With our economy growing and diversifying at an impressive rate thanks to a dynamic and forward looking leadership and Vision 2020, there are huge opportunities for a further entrenchment of Oman - UK ties in areas such as infrastructure, construction, financial services, energy, science, healthcare, defence and education.
Bill Bratton, who announced Tuesday he well depart the NYPD in September for a presumably lucrative job at Teneo, a global consulting firm with ties to the Clintons, told Charlie Rose Wednesday night that his 31 months as police commissioner under Mayor Bill de Blasio have been a financial sacrifice.
New York state is due to receive $ 385 million of a $ 787 million fine levied against Crédit Agricole after it was determined the company conducted business with entities with ties to countries under formal U.S. sanction, the Department of Financial Services on Tuesday announced.
The state Democratic Committee, in turn, has accused Cox of pushing the fracking issue because of his ties to the natural gas industry, with some lawmakers, including IDC Leader Jeff Klein, to call for an investigation of the financial relationship with Noble Energy.
The question of party - funding reform is tied up with the financial and «technocratic» coups of the present time (the bailouts and the elimination of functional democracy in Italy and Greece).
Subsequently, another mortgage firm with ties to Eisner, Manhattan - based Guardhill Financial Corp., has granted mortgages to Percoco, Howe and John Regan, Howe's former lobbying partner in Washington during the 2000s, who would go on to join the Cuomo administration in an economic development job under Glaser in 2012.
Cuomo has certainly been accused of being buddy - buddy with developers before, and his strong financial ties to the real estate industry — developers and brokers were among the top contributors to his reelection campaign — ensure it's a topic that often comes up.
«We had to break ties simply because of what's happened with Mr. Terry and his financial situation,» said Cruz, who added he was not aware of Terry's tax debts.
The Clinton Global Initiative, which arranges donations to help solve the world's problems, set up a financial commitment that benefited a for - profit company part - owned by people with ties to the Clintons, including a current and a former Democratic official and a close friend of former President Bill Clinton.
Bill Bratton, who will depart the NYPD in September for a presumably lucrative job at Teneo, a global consulting firm with ties to the Clintons, told Charlie Rose last night that his 31 months as police commissioner have been a financial sacrifice.
Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2013, to submit a legislative proposal establishing an effective and comprehensive European whistleblower protection programme in the public and in the private sector to protect those who detect inefficient management and irregularities and report cases of national and cross-border corruption relating to EU financial interests and to protect witnesses, informers, and those who cooperate with the courts, and in particular witnesses testifying against mafia - type and other criminal organisations, with a view to resolving the difficult conditions under which they have to live (from risks of retaliation to the breakdown of family ties or from being uprooted from their home territory to social and professional exclusion); calls also on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective protection for whistleblowers.
Washington (CNN)-- As many Americans rail against big banks and lawmakers push for financial reform, Democratic Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Chris Dodd of Connecticut will attend a New York fundraiser with some top Democratic donors who also have ties to Wall Street.
Prosecutors argued that Skelos exerted political influence to benefit the environmental technology company AbTech, which scored a $ 12 million contract for a stormwater remediation project in Nassau County, and Glenwood Management, the New York City real estate titan with financial and personnel ties to AbTech.
Singas began an ongoing review of Nassau County contracts in April after then - state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was accused of taking official actions to benefit AbTech Industries, an Arizona - based environmental company that sought and received a contract with Nassau County as well as Glenwood Management, a New York developer that had financial ties to AbTech.
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