Sentences with phrase «more of an activist»

That incident caused some critics like O'Reilly to say Ramos is more of an activist than a reporter.

It made me more of an activist.

«It's made me more of an activist,» she says.

During that session, some of the APRU members urged more of an activist role, saying too much time already has been lost.

For some readers and privacy advocates, it is more of an activist issue than ever.

Occupy Museums Occupy Museums is more of an activist movement than it is an exhibition, but they top my list regardless.

«Hansen has lost a lot of credibility ever since he's moved to be more of an activist than a scientist,» said Matt Dempsey, communications director for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Minority office, which Inhofe leads.

Not exact matches

A little more than two years later, at the encouragement of activist investor Bill Ackman, Harrison came out of retirement to become president and CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP).

Loreto, 42, was among more than a dozen undocumented immigrants who took shelter inside a network of activist churches last year.

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries, small firms, marginalised groups and entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.

An environmental activist with no business training and a resume that was little more than a string of odd jobs, he was drawn to the idea of running a business with a strong social mission.

In particular, he cited the power of the network's grassroots movement in Wisconsin, noting that they have more activists than the state's members of the teachers union.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

One pro-lynching activist, speaking in 1897 during the heyday of lynching — an extrajudicial form of capital punishment — was more explicit: «If it takes lynching to protect woman's dearest possession from drunken, ravening human beasts... then I say lynch a thousand a week if it becomes necessary.»

Part of an emerging crew of startups operating in cellular agriculture — the pairing of food science with genetic engineering — Modern Meadow plans to appeal to more than just the animal - activist crowd.

More than half of the smaller slate has ties to activist investor Alex Denner of Sarissa Capital.

More than half of the smaller slate is affiliated with activist investor Alex Denner of Sarissa Capital.

The company has been a fancy of activist investors such as Pershing Square's William Ackman, who sold the stake after spending 18 months trying to repair the company and suffering more than $ 3 billion in losses.

Bonnie Gwin, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than ever.

Activists and legislators are trying to call attention to and reverse these trends, and some progress has already been documented on the local level: «A number of states have enacted robust pay equality statutes,» Caminiti says, «and we expect more legislation on the horizon.»

SEOUL, April 4 - Elliott Advisors Limited, an arm of the activist hedge fund, said on Wednesday that it holds more than $ 1 billion of shares in South Korea's Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors.

In fact, as the boot camp was wrapping up, China was throwing more than 100 human rights lawyers and activists into prison on allegations of organizing illegal paid protests.

Drummond suggests consideration of a more «activist» role for government.

The Romney campaign's response — which included whiny demands that the president apologize for his attacks — has unsettled GOP activists, causing them to wonder how prepared Mr. Romney and his team are for the mudfest they've entered.The attacks have drawn attention to the Obama campaign's demands that Mr. Romney release more years of tax returns.

More important, climate activists argue, the export of surplus coal negates America's own reductions in greenhouse - gas emissions, simply pushing the problem offshore.

Chipotle as part of the announcement also said that it would give its chickens more space (6 pounds per square foot), provide them with improved lighting and litter in their housing, and change how its chickens are slaughtered to a practice pushed for by animal welfare activists.

Boards are empowered to protect shareholders, but many shareholders have become sympathetic to activists because they believe the system has inherent conflicts of interest; that directors are more interested in collecting paychecks and preserving their status quo than in exercising their fiduciary duty to shareholders.

A tech - savvy and surefooted negotiator, Cohn has since led more than 30 shareholder campaigns against the likes of Compuware, BMC Software, and lately EMC, becoming one of the most powerful and effective activists in the finance industry.

Ellis - Lamkins is one of a number of activists who have recently moved over to the private sector, seeing more promise in a new wave of socially conscious Silicon Valley startups.

At the same time, Elliott's assets have nearly doubled to roughly $ 39 billion, including $ 5 billion it raised in a 23 - hour span in May, making it more than twice the size of the second - biggest activist hedge fund, Dan Loeb's Third Point.

«I don't know if anyone has any more experience than he does prosecuting activist campaigns,» says Chris Young, head of contested situations at Credit Suisse, who has known Cohn since the latter started at Elliott.

None of last year's measures on resource extraction are cancelled, and the government has not seriously become more activist on the environment.

Here's a very partial list: tech icons (founders of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.

More here, about Carl Icahn being the rare activist to go above 10 percent of a company's stock, though in somewhat unusual circumstances.

In his book, Angry White Men, which came out in 2013 but seems even more relevant now, Kimmel surveys the growing rage among neo-Nazis, gamers, right wing talk radio hosts and men's rights activists who define their masculinity and manhood in terms of dominance and power and who believe in their «God - given right» to rule the world.

Activist investor Carl Icahn now owns a sizable chunk of Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), and he may soon be pushing the company to unlock more value.

Their first order of business is to make sure that the Federal Reserve Board is designated the sole financial regulator, knocking out any more activist regulators — above all the proposed Consumer Financial Products Agency that Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren has helped design.

But the new world of an activist (or three) in every stock, and passive - shareholder support for and use of activists, makes these issues a lot more practically relevant.

Elliott Management — the activist hedge fund that owns more than 2 percent of EMC shares and which had pressured it to break up — said in a statement that it will support the deal.

However, it is important to note that much of what activists call value creation is more accurately described as value transfer.

However, as has become typical following the news of major activist involvement in a stock, shares of both firms soared more than 16 % in Thursday trading, taking a little of that potential upside off the table and incidentally earning Singer about $ 26 million on his newly - disclosed stakes.

It's true that the activist investors on the Exxon vote likely include heavy hitters like financial firms BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (though the specific votes are not made public), which are the company's biggest shareholders, owning more than 18 percent of the stock.

There are countless ways to look at the implications of Amazon's proposed $ 13.7 billion takeover of Whole Foods, that it's the latest salvo in the battle between Amazon and Walmart to be the one place where everyone shops for everything, that it's a disruption to the supply chain model in the grocery business, or that it's nothing more than a marriage of convenience to save Whole Foods from the ire of its activist shareholders.

Hundreds of activists gathered to call for the release of a handful of refugees and immigrants who are being detained at the airport, as customs officials seek more clarification from the White House as to the extend of the ban.

In this episode we discuss the ancient history of debt cancellation, the untold life of Jesus as an economic justice activist, and more largely Professor Hudson's forthcoming book,»... and forgive them their debts,» out in summer...

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I almost feel like it was not a war buffet type of deal is more like Icahn kind of thing like an activist approach.

Thom, a lifelong resident of Edmonton Strathcona who practices family law in Old Strathcona, has been a community volunteer and a conservative political activist for more than three decades.

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