Sentences with phrase «groups put pressure»

In addition, environmental groups put pressure on provincial governments to strengthen regulations.

Conservative groups put pressure on Facebook to address charges of censorship and bias.

NCTQ isn't the only group putting pressure on schools of education.

Not exact matches

The GFC and new technology have put increasing pressure on law firms, but local firm HHG Legal Group is taking the opportunity to tailor a new service for the middle segment of the market.

In a tweet, the president said he decided to dissolve the groups «rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople.»

The judge, Maria Sizintseva, said they acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

Even before recent mass shootings that killed dozens of people, a group of nuns quietly put together a plan to pressure gun makers

Seattle's new minimum wage law groups franchises with large businesses, putting the pressure on independent franchisees to increase workers» pay at an accelerated pace (a move that sparked a discrimination lawsuit from the IFA).

At a hearing in Moscow's Tverskoy District Court to decide whether Magomedov and his associates should be detained before their trial, Judge Maria Sizintseva said they had acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

«The rapid appreciation of Bitcoin and others is somewhat surprising in light of some developments that seemingly would have put downward pressure on the currency,» another group of Morgan Stanley analysts wrote, citing the SEC's rejection of a Bitcoin ETF, among other factors.

«Lower enrollment among healthy individuals would likely result, especially if they would have to pay the premium surcharge due to having prior gaps in coverage, putting upward pressure on premiums, all else equal,» the nonpartisan group wrote in a March 2017 letter to Congress.

Most normal, sane people would * always * put their children before even their own lives, never mind social pressure groups like churches.

The government's controversial Lobbying Bill has been temporarily put on hold following months of pressure from religious groups, charities, thinktanks and NGOs to give it further scrutiny and for major changes to be made before it is passed.

The government's controversial Lobbying Bill has been temporarily put on hold following months of pressure from religious groups, charities, thinktanks... More

To give credit where it is due, a group of House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama explaining that the Senate immigration bill the president supports would sharply increase low - skill immigration and put downward pressure on the wages of low - skill Americans and low - skill noncitizen....

what groups of Muslims ever put pressure on countries like Iran to do the same?

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

To give credit where it is due, a group of House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama explaining that the Senate immigration bill the president supports would sharply increase low - skill immigration and put downward pressure on the wages of low - skill Americans and low - skill noncitizen residents.

An animal rights group has put pressure on Aldi Australia asking the supermarket to open up about its animal welfare polices to the same degree as its competitors.

A couple birdies by McIlroy on the front side, and avoiding bogey, would put tons of pressure on the groups behind him.

Mark Sampson's side emerged as winners from a group which also contained the Netherlands, Finland and Australia, and after the final he told the BBC that «we challenged the team to win the tournament and put pressure on them to deliver.

I agree about Mustafi and the Cazorla link helped him out and sometimes Granit does put the CBs under pressure because he can't find a forward pass or is too scared too, but facts are facts Mustafi made 1 start at the 2014 WC & 2 sub appearances making a total of 132 minutes only in the group before he got injured, I disagree he «helped» Germany win the WC as he simply didn't play enough and didn't play any knockout games so was only a squad player who played 1.5 games in total, he can play well but tends to panick and finds himself out of position ALL the time, he is a liability diving into tackles and trying to make interceptions he has no.

We have a special group of players that are doing special things on the pitch, but the media wont tell u that we have lost just one away match this year, and have the best defense in the league, infact i heard a documentary that says «Liverpool have the best defence in the league conceding only 9 goals only equalled by Arsenal» such reporting is typical in putting pressure on Arsenal.

Dustin Johnson, who is 7 - under, will tee off at 12:10 p.m.. He's one of the players who could play himself into contention with a strong final round, as a few early birdies before the late groups tee off could put some pressure on the leaders.

News of the upset spread to this field as both Teams knew that # 1 Team Goldberg wasn't going to make it to the Championship — that put even more pressure upon these groups as suddenly — their odds of winning the whole thing drastically improved.

It would be hugely positive if this group of players tasted success in the form of a trophy to «confirm» their achievements, So too would be the respect they get for triumphing rather than mocked with tedious quips about how you don't receive a trophy for «putting on the pressure» or about being typically «Spursy.»

The loss of Tarik Black didn't help the group and put more pressure on Donovan Peoples - Jones to perform.

Bibras Natcho fired home a late penalty to deny Bayer Leverkusen the chance to put pressure on leaders Monaco in Champions League Group B.

To play beautiful football, to put so much faith and trust in this group of players, to play with so much financial constraint, to move to a new stadium, all of which would put massive amounts of pressure on any manager, have left him seemingly in a position of appearing to have failed due to the lack of trophies.

23 years ago I supported the Milk Poverty Action Group, to put pressure on Nestle to halt it's dangerous sales practises.

In a Facebook group dedicated to his wife's memory, Chen urged hospitals to put less pressure on moms to breastfeed.

Patients» groups have warned the major reforms of the NHS now being pushed through, combined with the # 20 billion efficiency savings drive sought by 2015, are putting intense pressure on the health service.

The trouble began on Monday, when King blasted the labor - aligned Working Families Party and criticized Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in a lengthy statement after liberal groups have started to put pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to unite the various Democratic factions in the chamber.

Klein, a Bronx Democrat who leads the growing, seven - member conference, sharply rebuked the efforts over the last several days by mainline Democrats to unify the conference by involving Cuomo and putting public pressure on him through various left - leaning advocacy groups and the Working Families Party.

What is the point of having pressure groups if they don't put pressure on politicians?

He added that this is the second time Bafarawa is receiving such massive support across the country, saying last month, a group of PDP supporters under the auspices of Northern Youths Coalitions Alliance met in Kaduna and called on him to openly declare or they will match to his house with two million people to put pressure on him to run,» the source stated.

ANHD and its allies had launched a public advocacy campaign to put pressure on Signature, but president Benjamin Dulchin said the group recently let up on their public campaign as the two sides met to negotiate.

Continuing to chair the group as it put pressure on the government he was concurrently a member of contravenes the ministerial code, although a government spokesperson has told openDemocracy that they do not view it as a breach.

An interesting coalition of groups have teamed up to put pressure on the state to lower mandates costs for municipalities.

The debate opens with an amendment put forward by the Social Liberal Forum (SLF), a left - wing pressure group, for a change of economic policy.

A group representing school business managers says Cuomo's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour could put upward pressure on property taxes, making it even harder to adhere to the approximately 2 percent annual cap the governor pushed through at the start of his first term.

«We must put pressure on the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to do everything within their power to make the codes of practice statutory, fight for their role so that it is not further reduced and we should continue to expose this Coalition Government's weakness in tackling prejudice and discrimination and their blatant lack of care for vulnerable groups.»

A group representing school business managers says Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour could put upward pressure on property taxes, making it even harder to adhere to the approximately 2 percent annual cap the governor pushed through at the start of his first term.

A group calling itself the Concerned Youth of Atiwa, has held a demonstration to put pressure on President Akufo - Addo, to appoint a District Chief Executive (DCE) from Atiwa East, to represent the Atiwa District in the Eastern Region.

On April 6, a pro-NPP pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) demonstrated in Kumasi in what it described as the last attempt to put pressure on the EC to implement the Committee recommendations.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE The organization that produces New York City's annual pride parade, rally, and related events is under pressure to put groups that are taking a lead in pushing back against Republican Party control of the White House and Congress at the front of this year's march.

What Reuters did not mention was a gay - organized Facebook group that has sprung up online to put pressure Diaz into making nice with Smith.

May is a member of True Blue 53, a group that's been putting pressure on the 13 - year incumbent for months now.

Efforts by several advocacy groups to put pressure on the duty bearers to have the bill passed have also not yielded any positive results.

The reason they resigned in several groups over the following weeks was not because they were co-ordinating their efforts to put pressure on Corbyn but because each one had a different breaking - point.