Sentences with phrase «government groups called»

After Silver issued a statement Friday that he had accepted the ethics committee's findings, a host of political leaders and good government groups called for Lopez to step down, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D - Manhattan, Brooklyn) and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

Within minutes of the verdict, good - government groups called on Cuomo and lawmakers to take action this year to strengthen oversight of government contracting and boost ethics enforcement.

Good - government groups called on Cuomo and lawmakers to take action now to strengthen oversight of government contracting and boost ethics enforcement.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters on Monday that the final measure was a compromise, of sorts, even as good - government groups called its threshold «completely arbitrary.»

Good government groups called the designation nonsense and said the mayor was seeking to block transparency.

The group announced in March that it was closing after good government groups called for an investigation.

Good government groups call City Hall's designation «fictional» and said de Blasio is blocking transparency.

Also at 11 a.m., members of 24 social justice and immigrants» rights groups, community - based organizations and good government groups call for improved voting systems and a more transparent Board of Elections in light voter roll purges that affected the presidential primary elections, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Silver issued a brief written statement Thursday after the Common Cause good - government group called for a public vote on his leadership.

When a surprising mental breakdown draws too much attention from a secret government group call the Order, 17 - year - old Dakota discovers that her so - called boring life isn't so boring... Read More

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Investigative journalist Eliot Higgins called out the social network in 2014 for removing crucial details about the Syrian government's attacks on its own people, by deleting pages posted by rebel groups.

This included activity by a group called APT28, that the U.S. government has publicly linked to Russian military intelligence services.

Western Australia's peak industry lobby group has repeated its call for the federal government to come up with credible evidence to support its proposed changes to the 457 visa program for temporary s

EcoPeace Middle East, an international environmental group, organized the first - ever Dead Sea Swim to raise awareness of the issue and call for government action.

In September, for example, HTC collaborated with China's Electronic Information Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to develop a program called the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance, a government - endorsed group for fostering growth in VR.

Specifically, we're merging Get Money Out into a group called United Republic, who noticed the same thing we all did - our government is bought.

The first group of so - called debt hawks sees another Great Recession coming and wants national governments to focus on austerity programs aimed at deficit reduction because rising sovereign debts are behind our current economic woes.

Even with hedge funds vanishing from the agenda, debt relief advocacy group Jubilee South called on the G - 8 governments to protect poorer countries from vulture funds, or investors who buy up debt at rock - bottom prices and then sue for the full value.

Starting last summer, a group calling itself the «Shadow Brokers» began to post software tools that came from the United States government's stockpile of hacking weapons.

But when the B.C. government announced this week plans to bar increases to diluted bitumen (oil sands crude) shipments while it launches a new panel study of spill research, the group Stand.earth advised Kinder Morgan investors to call their brokers because this will delay or permanently thwart the company's federally approved Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Last November, groups representing more than a thousand B.C. organizations, companies, and local governments called for an ambitious climate plan.

The group aims to raise awareness about the implications of NAFTA, pressure the Canadian government to ensure that the negotiation process is transparent, democratic and participatory, and coordinate actions to call for a fairer North American trade relationship that benefits all people.

In its paper, the BPP Group raises a number of concerns regarding the hard regulatory approach suggested by the Directive proposals and calls upon the European Commission, Parliament and national governments to support the proportionate, principles - based approach to service supplier oversight overwhelmingly supported by shareholders that is embodied in the Best Practice Principles for Shareholder Voting Research & Analysis, stating that «unwarranted or disproportionate legislation may inhibit the provision of independent information and services that assist investors in the exercise of the very rights and responsibilities that the Directive aims to foster and support.»

The Trade Justice Network joined nearly 40 civil society groups to call on the three governments to #EndISDS.

A South African environmental group renewed its call for a moratorium on shale - gas fracking, as the government moves closer to a decision on whether to allow the process opponents say imperils water quality.

Focus - group participants were also told, according to prepared scripts, that «one way that government could encourage innovation is by creating what we'll call «moonshot challenges.»

While most of these groups will frequently call for increased transparency in government, some refuse to make public their own financial backers.

IMPACT had called for a meaningful definition of «conflict diamonds» that does not only define conflict as rebel groups financing their activities to overthrow governments.

Christian MPs are among a group which have backed calls for the UK government to take in 3,000 Syrian... More

Everybody has a conscience but only phony «so - called» christians can get the government to give their group special priviledges.

The Evangelical Alliance and the other groups who commissioned the poll are calling for the government to approach the use of the word «extreme» with «extreme caution».

A small group of Coptic Christians gathering near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Sunday called for international protection of Egypt's Christian community and condemned the government for not doing more to protect them.

A faith - based group has echoed the government's call for better social integration in England's schools... More

The bill's earlier version called for trade sanctions against governments that persecute religious groups.

Last Saturday, Reverend, he called to say he would be discharged in two weeks, but he wouldn't be home this Sunday because his ward government group was in charge of an open house for an infirmary ward at the hospital.

• From Ecumenical News International: «For the first time in history, Swiss churches, including the Roman Catholic Church and Switzerland's main Protestant churches, have joined forces with environmental groups to launch a petition calling on the Swiss government to take urgent action to combat global warming.»

In Ohio, a group called Catholics United released a letter this month signed by 36 Cincinnati clergy and lay leaders, including 11 Catholic nuns, denouncing allegations that Driehaus» healthcare vote begat government - funded abortion.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- A watchdog group concerned with keeping apart religion and government is calling for the cancellation of an evangelical concert scheduled at Fort Bragg on Saturday.

Christian Aid, Tearfund and other groups are calling on the Scottish Government to step up efforts to... More

If the Black Muslim call for the establishment of «a separate state or territory» supported by the government once sounded improbable, it sounds almost rational today as some ethnic leaders and intellectuals rationalize and legitimate political and ideological group claims.

The Christian call to peacemaking has been co-opted, the group said, when «a «theology of war» is emanating from the highest circles of American government; the language of «righteous empire» is employed... [and] the roles of God, church and nation are confused by talk of an American «mission» and «divine appointment» to «rid the world of evil.»»

and why should any religious group get a say in what the government chooses to do its call separation of church and state... they should out down their bibles and read about that instead.

Pro-life groups and other critics called the abortion giant — Planned Parenthood terminates more than 300,000 pregnancies per year — a rogue organization that misuses about $ 500 million a year in government funds to underwrite its lucrative abortion business.

As Andrea Williams of the Christian Lawyers» fellowship commented «Whilst Christian groups have been clear from the outset that they would not wish in any way to deny the provision of basic goods and services to homosexuals, the Government have refused all calls that the Regulations should contain a simple clause that «no - one should be forced by this law to promote or actively condone any sexual practices which are contrary to their deeply held religious belief.

A farmers» group in Uganda has called on the government to pass a law to protect the country's coffee quality

The peak industry group, which represents more than 60,000 businesses across manufacturing, engineering, telecommunications, mining, airlines and related sectors, will caution the Turnbull government against large cuts but call for careful spending reductions across aged care, health, the pension system and the public service to fund a company tax cut as a key priority.

A group of British politicians has called on the government to consider legislation to bind contracts between dairy farmers and processors if the current Voluntary Code of Best Practice on Contractual Relationships fails to meet its objectives.

A group of MPs in the UK have called on the government to step in over low farmgate milk prices, which they claim are taking ruthless advantage of dairy farmers.

Other pressure groups are calling for government intervention to redress the imbalance, hoping that the voluntary Supermarkets Code of Practice governing the supply chain will be rewritten and made compulsory - which could cause problems for retailers» produce - sourcing throughout the UK.

Environmental group calls on governments to do more to encourage meat free eating, to protect the planet and improve human health