Sentences with phrase «from giant corporations»

, Season 7, Episode 6: Some people eat organic foods because they want to support small local farms - but eating organically might mean you're getting your food from giant corporations or China.

In one of the film's earliest scenes, Pryce breaks down at a congressional hearing as he speaks of the damage done to his hometown, and voices the outrage and moral certitude of a lone voice demanding justice from the giant corporation responsible.

Not exact matches

In a very large country, Canada Post has some built - in advantages for a foray into the parcel business: besides a national delivery network that reaches or almost reaches every home in Canada, the corporation's retail outlets offer a far more user - friendly way of collecting a missed parcel than what's on offer from logistics giants like UPS.

It shows why, if given the chance, we'd never build the Internet we have now: As a centralized advertising economy that strips wealth from creators, and feeds personal data to giant corporations.

As Facebook evolved from a closed, Harvard - only network with no ads to a giant corporation with $ 40 billion in advertising revenue and huge subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp, its privacy policy has also shifted — over and over.

,» Robert Hackett mints his own currency, Petsdotcoin, as a way to explain everything you need to know about crypto, from the ICO craze to the way giant corporations are using the blockchain to track mango shipments:

Malfeasance from giant global corporation should stand omitted.

The private - equity giant shares rose 4 percent Thursday morning after it said it plans to convert to a corporation from a partnership.

On Monday May 5th, Target Corporation removed Gregg Steinhafel from his role as CEO as a result of his unsatisfactory response to a cyber security threat that compromised millions of user accounts at the retail giant.

Of course, one of the reasons their declared impairments were so massive was simply due to the giant size of these corporations, but the fact of the matter is that diversification of their business segments into many different commodities didn't help these companies from suffering massive losses in 2015 and diversification didn't prevent US stock portfolios from crashing in 2008.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

Yes I don't work or pay taxes, but at least I'm not some giant corporation stealing money from people like me who could work there.

Actually America was founded by refugees running away from two giant god - corporations, the Catholic Church and the Church of England.

Now we have the threat from Chemical weapons, neutrons and, the bacteria, as well as giant multi-national and trans - national corporations.

In effect, the giant corporations get extra favors from government and the little guy gets shafted.

«From his work as a trial attorney taking on giant corporations like Wal - Mart on behalf of working people, as well the hundreds of hours he's done in pro-bono work for women who were victims of sexual harassment and abuse.

Similar to Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot - measure committee, Gray has used the second campaign account to accept larger campaign checks from special - interest groups and big corporations that lobby the Legislature, including $ 35,000 from the California Independent Petroleum Association, $ 25,000 from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and $ 15,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris.

«This half - baked compromise will still double the tax on millions of Americans and is a hollow sham that would hammer huge numbers of middle - class families from Elmira to Syracuse with a tax hike in order to pay for a tax cut to already - profitable giant corporations and the super-rich,» Schumer said.

Toward that end, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited agreed to purchase from the French nuclear giant AREVA at least two 1650 MW European Pressurized Reactors, each priced at more than $ 3.5 billion, with an option for four more later.

In December, the state of California approved a deal in which utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric would purchase 200 megawatts of power from a space - based system that will be deployed by Solaren Corporation by 2016.

In 2001 researchers at the biotech giant Geron Corporation isolated a molecule called TA - 65 from the herb astragalus, which they said boosted telomerase activity (its effect has not yet been evaluated in published, peer - reviewed studies).

Okja focuses on a young woman named Mija (Seo - Hyeon Ahn) befriending the titular giant animal and trying to prevent a powerful, multi-national corporation from getting its ruthless paws on her pal.

If one beats the game they are awarded the OASIS and its parent company, which Wade and his treasure seeking online friends try and do to protect it from the giant IOI corporation.

This unique adventure film depicts a young girl named Mija willing to do anything to save her best friend — a giant animal named Okja — from being kidnapped by an influential, multinational corporation (led by a transcendent Tilda Swinton).

Even though Google reportedly were not involved in the conception of the film, and aren't in line to directly profit from ticket sales, because the film obviously got the full cooperation of Google in the making of it, whatever satirical material could have been mined from poking fun at the giant corporation's branding and image has been declawed to the point of the enterprise doubling as a recruitment film.

Okja is a creature feature (an exciting prospect given the director's previous work on 2006's The Host) that finds a young woman named Mija (Seo - Hyeon Ahn) befriending the titular giant animal and trying to prevent a powerful, multi-national corporation from getting its ruthless paws on her pal.

The latest from cinematic mastermind Bong Joon Ho stars Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, and a stunning all - star cast and follows a young girl who is willing to risk everything to save her best friend — a giant animal named Okja — from being kidnapped by a powerful, multinational corporation.

Okja, the latest experimental offering from lauded director Bong Joon Ho, started off with a controversial bang, but ended up winning over critics thanks to its big - hearted plot about a little girl whose giant pet pig is kidnapped by a meat corporation.

He did what he does with every book that comes out of this giant publishing corporation (unless of course your name is Stephen King, Bill Clinton or Snooki from Jersey Shore).

They're transforming themselves from a giant, faceless corporation into a good neighbor in your community who employs folks just like you!

The mediocre Galaxy Tab 4 Nook is a last - ditch, dying gasp from two giant corporations that should know better.

If you are a giant corporation that is used to controlling the marketplace to a large extent — both in terms of supply and in terms of pricing — then watching a new competitor wrest some of that control away from you is hard to do.

This new Apple policy is a pretty disturbing move (that is almost certain to hurt consumers, however it shakes out), but even more disturbing is how Apple has morphed from the plucky underdog to the ruthless, monopolistic giant corporation that uses its power to squash competition.

Skydance Interactive's debut virtual reality title Archangel — a VR game in which you take control of a giant war machine in order to save a post-apocalyptic America from a tyrannical corporation — is participating in the Oculus Touch Flash Sale Experience and is now $ 14.99 — a 50 % discount from its original $ 29.99 price!

What I love is that the giant, behemoth corporations created by the right - wing ideas of free market, laissez faire capitalism is what is going to free us from the strangle hold of their omnipotent, overbearing politics and monopolies.

CNN: The giant corporations powering the fossil fuel industry are warned that they face a damaging backlash if they try to resist the mounting pressures of climate change legislation and high - profile campaigning The financial and economic muscle of the global fossil fuel industry's corporate behemoths will not protect them from the costly effects of negative [continue reading...]

From solar panels on the roofs of giants buildings of corporations to large wind farms and huge hydroelectric power plants, the evidence of renewable energy acceptance are sprouting sporadically around the land.

Set up by billionaires Nat Simons and his wife, Sea Change has been exposed by multiple investigators as a shell corporation that funnels huge sums to radical anti-fracking and anti-fossil fuel activists from Vladimir Putin pals, giant Russian oil companies and investment groups, and more reputable sources like the Gates and Walmart Foundations.

Other chapters cover things like rules limiting how countries regulate corporations, limiting how countries make laws that might limit corporation profits, and other rules that grant giant multinational corporations special protections from competition.

And the corruption of the world from the oil giants is at absurd levels — when Denier billionaire David Koch sits on the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, who else in the media world can go after Oil?

And, except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.

Well, in the last day or so the World Bank has withdrawn a loan to one of Brazil's cattle giants; and Brazil's three - largest supermarket chains (one of which is Wal - Mart) have announced that they will suspend contracts with cattle companies associated with deforestation: Up to $ 90 Million in Funding Pulled The action by the World Bank comes via its private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, and pulls the last $ 30 million of $ 90 million loan from Brazilian cattle firm Bertin.

Clyde & Co, Sullivan & Cromwell, and Cahill Gordon & Reindel have won roles on insurer Arch Capital Group's acquisition of United Guaranty Corporation (UGC) from insurance giant American International Group (AIG) for $ 3.4 bn (# 2.62 bn).

Once upon a time, witnesses from abroad had to fly in at great expense on British Overseas Airways Corporation's Whispering Giants.

State - owned insurance giant, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) plans to invest Rs 2,00,000 crore across asset classes in FY11, up from the Rs 1,92,000 crore last fiscal.

As Facebook evolved from a closed, Harvard - only network with no ads to a giant corporation with $ 40 billion in advertising revenue and huge subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp, its privacy policy has also shifted - over and over.

Still, this recent filing from the North American banking giant illustrates the increased interest in Bitcoin's underlying technology from traditional financial institutions and major corporations.

And the reality is, most companies and hiring managers feel the same way, from the small and passionate startup to the giant Fortune 500 corporation.

Worked in the position of automotive service advisor in Lexus Giants Corporation Limited from the year 2006 to 2010.

Individuals in the arts and humanities field are the creative spark that influences business across America, powering everything from giant computer and technology corporations to small design studios and clothing boutiques.