Sentences with phrase «leading campaigners for»

Wes Streeting wrote today: «She may be one of the country's leading campaigners for civil liberties, but we shouldn't pretend that everything about the timing and nature of this appointment doesn't stink.»

The same is not true for oil, observes Merran Smith, a leading campaigner for the Great Bear Rainforest who now heads up Clean Energy Canada, an NGO focused on hastening the country's transition to renewable energy.

It doesn't have a view on whether a third «devo - max» option should be added, but does worry this could complicate matters when it comes to who is the lead campaigner for each option, and deciding on the phrasing of the question.

David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham and a leading campaigner for action following Grenfell, said the PM has «seen sense».

Labour MP David Lammy, a leading campaigner for tough action after Grenfell, said the PM was right to add the extra panel members so that the inquiry has the confidence of the community

A leading campaigner for the expansion of selection during David Cameron's tenure as prime minister, Brady became a prominent cheerleader for Theresa May's plans to open the first new grammar schools in decades when they were announced last year.

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«What's for sure [with trade deals] is there will be losers, as there have been losers from NAFTA and other trade deals,» Maritta Strasser — a lead trade campaigner for the nongovernmental organization Campact, and a speaker at Saturday's reportedly 50,000 - person rally in Frankfurt — told CNBC last month.

The audacity of the prominent campaigner for reproductive rights illustrates the kind of changing of attitudes that would lead to the 1967 Abortion Act.

But, despite the polls showing a yes lead, Christians for Independence has urged campaigners to continue working until referendum day.

The minimum 50p per unit price, delayed for six years by a legal challenge led by the Scotch Whisky Association, has been welcomed by the medical professional and health campaigners as the biggest breakthrough in public health since the ban on smoking in public.

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Led by the Leading Association for Catering in Education (LACA), the group consists of chefs, caterers, Unions, head teachers, campaigners and People 1st.

Leave campaigners promoted a vision of an independent UK playing a leading role in the world, so its important that this leads to better protection for human health.

As Leave campaigners looked for a statesmanlike message, the leading Brexiteer was goaded into song.

Campaigners led by the charity Action For Children have called for the reform in order to punish those who make their children's life a misery with an unrelenting campaign of emotional degradatiFor Children have called for the reform in order to punish those who make their children's life a misery with an unrelenting campaign of emotional degradatifor the reform in order to punish those who make their children's life a misery with an unrelenting campaign of emotional degradation.

A veteran campaigner with at least seven statewide races under his belt, Nixon had a solid lead over Spence for much of the past year.

As the Chairman of the Fresh Start Group of Conservative MP and leading Leave campaigner he continues to campaign to get the best deal for Britain post Brexit.

Chuka Umunna, Labour MP for Streatham and leading anti-Brexit campaigner «Neither major party can treat these results as any kind of endorsement.

Kate Hoey, Labour MP for Vauxhall and leading pro-Brexit campaigner «These results suggest many ex-Labour Ukip voters don't yet trust us to genuinely honour the referendum result.

Climate change campaigners begged both Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband to make arrangements for the energy secretary to remain, because of the vital role he had been given by the Mexican hosts in leading discussions on the fate of the earlier Kyoto Protocol.

The Labour MP led the calls for Theresa May to take action on the Windrush crisis and has duly been named «Campaigner of the Week» by parliament's official magazine.

The decision by Defra to issue consent in September 2011 for Rothamsted Research to carry out a trial of GM wheat resistant to aphids led to further clashes between pro and anti GM campaigners in early 2012.

The labor - backed party's Reuben Hayslett, national online and social media campaigner, said the WFP would be «pulling out all the stops for Bernie» in the days leading up to Super Tuesday, sending buses of volunteers to Massachusetts (where the senator is well known) and Virginia, and phone banking and door knocking in other states (11 are in play, all told).

Robin Webster, senior campaigner on energy and climate, said the 20 per cent target was «undoubtedly ambitious» but presented an opportunity for the UK energy industry to «take a lead in developing the renewable technologies that will be required all over the world in tackling climate change».

In the Vote Leave submission to the Electoral Commission for designated status as the lead campaigner, they described Rotherham's job with them as «coordinating with specialist researchers working in parallel for allied think tanks and groups... and maintaining formal and informal outreach across the wider Eurosceptic movement.»

It should have been obvious that the task for the Labour Party was to keep the media focus on the lies and false promises from the leading Brexit campaigners; and it should have been obvious that the task for the Labour Party was to exploit the division in the Conservative Party and the paralysis of the lame - duck Cameron administration.

With field offices opening across Queens, the Vallone campaign has certainly got a leg up when it comes to experienced campaigners leading to a serious brain - drain for his chief rival, Melinda Katz.

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Ms Chakrabarti led Liberty until earlier this year and has been one of the country's leading human rights campaigners for the last 15 years.

His undercover gun - show tactics have led him into situations where he feared for his safety, and they have also raised protests from some gun - rights advocates, who charge that Wintemute is more a biased campaigner than a researcher.

The esteemed experts included: Lene Wendland, the advisor on business and human rights in the office of the United Nations» high commissioner for human rights; Pamela Gillies, president and vice chancellor of the Glasgow Caledonian University; Cherie Blair, a leading human rights lawyer and campaigner for gender equality; Phillipe Fornier, general secretary of the Swiss Better Gold Association and Nöella Coursaris, the founder and chief executive of Malaika, a foundation focused on educating and empowering girls in the Congo.

http://www.wmgallery.org.uk/learning/secondary-workshops Inspiring a Campaign Key Stage 2 Citizenship / PSHE 90 - 150 minutes Morris was a powerful campaigner for social justice and his influence is still cited today by leading activists and thinkers.

Bob and Roberta Smith RA — a tutor at the Cass and a leading campaigner to save it — agrees, cautioning, «we are really heading back now, not to the 1960s, but to the»30s, when art schools were only for the elite.»

For the longest time there's been a presumption among environmental campaigners and some scientists that if the fog of misinformation and disinformation on climate could be cleared, if the science could be laid out better, if the link between present energy choices and future climate risks could be absorbed better by the public, people would jump aboard the decarbonization express, leading the world to a climate - safe future.

The IPCC must urgently review its policies for hiring lead authors — and I would have thought that not only should biased «grey literature» be rejected, but campaigners from NGOs should not be allowed to join the lead author group and thereby review their own work.

The other day, the energy specialist and climate campaigner Joe Romm told me that a necessary element for getting America mobilized to lead the world to a new non-polluting energy future was a big wakeup call from nature.

There should be no campaigners or anyone else with a vested interest on the «lead author» team for any IPCC publication — ever.»

(04/15/2013) Aleta Baun, an activist who led a movement to block a destructive mine in a remote part of Indonesia, was today awarded the prestigious Goldman Prize, the top honor for green campaigners.

An environmental documentary due to be broadcast on Channel 4 on Thursday evening has come under attack from a leading American environmentalist who was interviewed for the programme, as well as a coalition of anti-GM campaigners based in the developing world.

He even went out of his way to note that Bill Nye, one of the world's most vocal campaigners for climate change action, leads the Planetary Society.

These incidents, argues Gustavo Ampugnani, lead energy and climate campaigner for Greenpeace Mexico, foreshadow worsening oil - and gas - related disasters as the country's massive energy reforms open Mexico's vast fossil fuel reserves up to international companies that are even less regulated and scrutinized than State - owned Pemex.

«It doesn't seem much because per capita emission for the world right now is approximately 2 tons average,» said Siddharth Pathak, a leading Indian campaigner for Greenpeace.

Darren Grimes, far left, posing for a photograph with Michael Gove, a leading Vote Leave campaigner who is now Britain's environment secretary, at the campaign's headquarters in February 2016.