Sentences with phrase «focus of activists»

Schmidt nicely articulated how the news focus of journalism and the agenda focus of activists of all stripes left a fertile space — «between the paper and the tweet» — to be filled:

It is important to understand, while all pet categories are under attack, puppies are currently the front - line focus of activists.

Not exact matches

He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

So increasing focus on shareholder - friendly corporate governance, the rising clout of activist investors and the robust market for corporate control are all manifestations of the fact that shareholders want big companies to give them back their cash, and that companies are increasingly willing to do so.

That may sound like a small change, but it could make companies less vulnerable to damaging forms of activist investing — and make it easier for managers to focus on the long term.

According to activist groups, helicopters dropped barrel bombs filled with toxic gas on the last rebel - held town in Eastern Ghouta, which has been besieged for six years and the focus of a renewed government offensive launched in mid-February.

There were librarians and archivists focused on copyright term extension and digital locks; several doctors spoke to the impact of the TPP on public health and access to medicines, food experts highlighted the dangers associated with food security, environmental activists focused on the TPP and climate change, and speakers of all ages (including a 92 year old woman) expressed concern with the investor - state dispute resolution provisions.

Activist investor Marcato Capital Management has pushed for the «wings - beer - sports» focused casual dining operator, which owns about 50 % of its restaurants and franchises the others, to adopt a 90 % franchised model.

Diversity has been a hotly debated issue in Silicon Valley in recent years, with activists focusing on a dearth of minority and female engineers and executives in many of the biggest tech companies and hottest startups.

Women's apparel retailer Chico's FAS finds itself in the crosshairs of retail - focused activist investor Barington Capital, which is seeking two seats on the Company's board.

Levine argues that activists pressure companies to focus on short - term financial results at the expense of long - term investments in company growth.

Even Sullivan's chapter on «The Liberationists» does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by French philosophy.

«This is a deliberate attack on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean - focused charter school in the area.

Knowing I have something of a national platform, I've been thinking a lot about how to use it more effectively — perhaps by focusing my best op - ed writing on one or two and using the rest of my influence to amplify those church leaders, activists, and artists doing the good work of justice all around the world.

Dubbed «Bonds that Matter» for its focus on these beginning - of - life issues, the ICRI's inaugural conference gathered scholars, activists, and students from around the country to Simi Valley, California last Friday to discuss the various ways in which these four practices violate children's rights.

The South African soccer team the Kaiser Chiefs organized a national awareness day; in Burkino Faso, activists partnered with a trucking union for monitoring purposes; drivers of moto - taxis in Thailand keep watch for child sex exploitation; Nepalese trafficking survivors formed Shakti Samuaha, a nongovernmental organization that lobbies officials to make policy changes; organizations in Bangladesh have focused specifically on the taboo topic of male prostitutes and have opened shelters for exploited children.

The focus is on onigiri, bite - size balls of fun, in Rice Craft, a new cookbook by grain activist Sonoko Sakai.

The website is something of a bad news dump that suffers from the common activist practice of focusing on everything that's wrong but less of what is being done that is good.

The NEC Society is the world's first and only activist - based, clinician / family collaborative organization specifically focused on the understanding, prevention and treatment of NEC.

I encourage you to read the rest of Jane's entry, which also discusses the pragmatic reasons why school food became the focus of the Obama administration and other anti-obesity activists, even if improving school food is not going to be a panacea in the obesity battle.

On the other hand, if you're trying to reach a handful of influentials, such as, say, political activists in the mountain states in the West, you're going to get better results by focusing on the specific blogs and newsletters that these people read — and where possible, to contact potential opinion leaders individually and directly.

Yes, plenty of conservative activists will still be fired up about Obama's «socialist» agenda, but with health care reform passed into law, they've lost the main focus of their ire.

In his article on political mobilisation during the Quit India movement, Greenough focused in particular on Midnapore district in Bengal, where a rebel national government had been set up by local activists of the Indian National Congress.

Her campaign comes as economic - focused progressives try to build a larger coalition of voters within the party, and as black party activists demand that black voters not be take for granted by the Democratic party.

«Campaigns should really be focusing on the work in the field and be more careful of what they're doing when it comes to Nevada — Culinary's turf is the casinos,» said Jose Macias, a well - known local activist who is supporting Sanders, because of his support for a $ 15 minimum wage.

The view of many Conservative MPs and activists is that he should focus either on his job as chancellor or on being an unofficial third joint - Tory Party chairman.

A group of political activists who came together to support Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders» presidential bid are keeping their word to maintain a permanent presence with a broader focus in Western New York.

He identified an unsustainable level of income inequality and biased police department, and promised an activist government focused on creating more opportunity for all.

Some of Cuomo's staff also attended a recent meeting of 350 Brooklyn, a local activist group with ties to the Green Party that is focused on climate change.

His focus on broken windows policing — stopping smaller crimes in an effort to prevent larger ones — earned him the ire of many of those same activists who protested stop - and - frisk alongside the mayor, particularly after Eric Garner was killed when police tried to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes.

«The fact that members of the City Council decided to antagonize human rights activists when they should be focused on bringing New Yorkers together is irresponsible,» Sarsour said in a statement.

Later that same day, delegates will participate in a program focused on the future of the labor movement by well - known labor and social justice activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. in the Hart Theatre of The Egg, at 2 p.m. Fletcher is currently the director of Field Services and Education for the American Federation of Government Employees.

Facing seven other more conservative candidates, Bennett has been the focus of withering criticism from members of his own party as well as Tea Party activists.

Refuting this argument was a major focus of the Public Safety Committee hearing, and anti-sex trafficking activists were on hand to help in that effort.

While the current request for a federal prosecutor from six members of Congress focused on Mr. Donovan — there is «no indication that the local district attorney is prepared to aggressively prosecute this case,» they wrote — some activists have wondered whether a jury in Staten Island could give fair consideration to the case.

The weekly Common Purpose meeting shares some aspects with Grover Norquist's long - running Wednesday Meeting of conservative activists, but is more focused on messaging day - to - day politics and doesn't include journalists and academics, people involved said.

Supporters of Council member Chin point out that any proposal floated over the years to focus on one section of the neighborhood, such as Two Bridges, has been denounced in the strongest terms by some local activists.

There is a cadre of competent leaders in the ranks of the city's fledgling activist community, but they are focused on their own causes and organizations and have yet to step into the political arena.

Amnesty International USA — Individuals and Risk program Contact: Email Amnesty International is a grassroots activist organization which undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.

Some activists, though, said they are concerned that the United States will focus entirely on private - sector funding and will once again sidestep ways of raising public money, including from «innovative sources,» like a tax on bunker fuels or airline emissions.

Robert H. Nelson, a professor of public policy focusing on public lands management at the University of Maryland and a proponent of the federal government transferring federal public lands to the states, said that what's most notable about McMorris Rodgers» nomination is that, unlike other Trump cabinet nominees, she does not appear to be a well - known activist.

The focus of «Outrage» is on Michael Rogers, an activist who writes for the website www.blogactive.com, specializing in outing closeted politicians who may be voting against gay rights to cover their own tracks.

Equally as compelling is contemporary Matthew Heinemann's (Cartel Land) new film City of Ghosts; which focuses on the anonymous activists of Raqqa, who are being slaughtered silently in the heartland of ISIS's self - declared caliphate.

Wisely avoiding the impulse to deconstruct or diagnose the origins of his lifelong support for organized labor, director Diego Luna instead focuses on Chavez's creation of the National Farm Workers Association and the establishment of his guiding principles as an activist and organizer.

Fastest Cutaway: During the best documentary Oscar presentation, the camera darts elsewhere as pro-dolphin activist Ric O'Barry, the focus of winning film The Cove, holds up a banner imploring viewers to text DOLPHIN to 44144.

The Focus on Time's Up: From the all - black dress code in protest of sexual harassment — which nearly everyone in attendance followed — to the widespread exaltation of the Time's Up initiative to each of the actresses who walked the red carpet with an activist as their date, this year's Globes was about so much more than handing out trophies.

Gore's message still resonates, but for every powerful moment or example of incontestable scientific fact there's also one where the point of all this gets diluted as it focuses on the former politician - turned - activist and not the story he is eager to tell.

by Walter Chaw I'm offended by the marketing for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (hereafter Narnia 1)-- not the trailers (which are pedestrian) or the print ads, per se, but the campaign to pre-screen reels to churches and church groups, including Colorado's wildly divisive rightwing activist organization Focus on the Family.

From the Ferguson uprising, to the global reach of the Black Lives Matter movement, this film gives an authoritative storytelling voice to the black Ferguson community, focusing on letting activists and local citizens speak.

The reform movement has not focused enough on making schools bias free for all students, and it must do so if it is to succeed, a coalition of educators and activists says in a report to be released this week.