Sentences with phrase «groups bombarded»

A year after a gun - rights group bombarded the State Police with hundreds of Freedom of Information Law requests to see who was on a mental health - related «no gun» list, they are heading to court after getting what they say are unresponsive answers from the NYSP.

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Users in these groups would share «best practices» from bombarding borrowers with frequent phone calls to posting public notices around their homes or even swarming them with «beggars,» practices that a Chinese lawyer told The Paper could veer into illegal territory.

On Thursday, the 23 - year - old model was bombarded at a meet - and - greet by a group of anti-fur protesters who had an issue with her history of wearing fur.

In January, according to the Times, HNA Group companies bombarded employees with a variety of e-mail pitches promising high rates of interest in exchange for short - term loans.

You can, for instance, create a separate group of early subscribers to avoid bombarding them with messages.

I shared this with a group called Deliciously Dairy Free — and fully expect you to be bombarded!!

Advocacy groups by the thousands bombard Congress with emails and phone calls every year, but we've never had a president both with Obama's passionate personal following AND the effective means to mobilize them for instant political action.

Campaign group 38 Degrees had attempted to mobilise its 2.2 million members into bombarding MPs with emails asking them not to reject the Lords amendments.

Mr. de Blasio's comments, made on WNYC as radio host Brian Lehrer noted that advocates had bombarded their phone lines and Twitter feed, are likely to irk NYCLASS, the powerful animal rights group who is seeking a ban.

One group called «New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany,» which supports charter schools and is funded by Walmart heirs, has spent $ 800,000 bombarding the Lower Hudson Valley with ads attacking Mayer for working with various disgraced Democratic pols.

A coalition of Democratic activist groups including MoveOn, the SEIU, the Health Care Action Network (HCAN), Progressive Congress, and Democracy for America are mobilizing their supporters to bombard Congress with a hoped - for million messages — calls, faxes, tweets, emails, you name it — all in one day and all in support of passing a reform bill — any reform bill, it appears.

«Cambridge Analytica's statistical models isolated likely supporters whom Parscale bombarded with ads on Facebook, while the campaign bought up email lists from the likes of Gingrich and Tea Party groups to prospect for others.»

Americans for Prosperity, the advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, is emerging as the most powerful ally of the Republican Party ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, bombarding Senate Democrats with early air attacks that could help the GOP retake the Senate.

The group is often probed for financial fraud for forging birth certificates, vehicle registrations and identifications and is also known for bombarding defendants with a barrage of lawsuits, according to the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services.

«By bombarding the material with protons at low energy, we simultaneously increased the material's current - carrying capacity and critical temperature — the first time that this has been possible in an iron - based superconductor,» said physicist Qiang Li, head of the Advanced Energy Materials Group at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, who directed the research.

In a paper in Review of Scientific Instruments, from AIP Publishing, the group describes how they created a system to squeeze and stretch a material while at the same time rotating and bombarding it with high - energy synchrotron X-rays.

«Members of this age group are trying to figure out who they are while being bombarded by conflicting messages from parents, peers, and society.

As tonally hysterical as it all sometimes seems, Fire is one of the most radical works to grace this list, as it literally incited pressure groups to bombard screenings, tear up the seats and demand and end to this amoral filth.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

You can also try contacting reviewers in the Amazon Vine program, which consists of a group of people hand - selected by Amazon as being among the best reviewers on its site; just be aware such people are bombarded with requests, so your approach has to be thoughtful.

When a British man dressed entirely in khaki posed in front of Ramses II for a picture, a group of Chinese women bombarded him, insisting on a selfie.

Watch as a group of players bombard an enemy base in a fly - by.

It seems like a broad coalition of environmental orgs, student groups, industry coalitions have been bombarding Congress with the message that the 2007 Energy Bill needs to reflect a strong commitment to renewable energy and independence from foreign oil.

«Cambridge Analytica's statistical models isolated likely supporters whom Parscale bombarded with ads on Facebook, while the campaign bought up email lists from the likes of Gingrich and Tea Party groups to prospect for others.»