Sentences with phrase «number of activists»

You argue a statement I've made is counter-intuitive, yet what you quote is my argument to the lack of scientific research demonstrating how it is government is the best solution to deal with this really scary climate change being sold by activists and an alarming number of those activists being funded by the very governments that would be empowered to handle «global problems».

Pretty clear actually, unlike the «ice free» used by a number of activists that doesn't really have a defined meaning, in spite of your heroic attempts.

Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

For me the lesson should be an end to such recommendations on behalf of the left made by a tiny number of activists in the name of the left.

A number of activists are understood to be pressing to have the ex-soldier formally deselected as the party's candidate, amid claims from Mr Joyce's predecessor that he was «not a fit and proper person to be an MP».

I suppose Unite will say it is an encouraging case study of the impact a very small number of activists can have.

Their pain, it seems, is shared by a reasonable number of activists, some of whom have decided to quit the party altogether.

Again, social media didn't cause the Tunisian Revolution, but they enabled it — without the ability of a small number of activists to pass along shocking news and imagery from the first wave of protests, they might have fizzled out as so many street demonstrations in so many countries have in the past.

A number of activists and churches from nearby El Cajon, California, have protested the treatment of the detainees.

A quota system, rationalized and marketed as a tool both for mission and overcoming past injustice, had from the first another, and deeper, goal: to serve as a Trojan horse for importing the largest possible number of activists into the church bureaucracy.

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.

Activist investors are also pushing for more distributions, with 2015 marking an all - time high for the number of activist campaigns.

Since China does not have laws against animal cruelty, it is heartening to know that increasing numbers of activists are standing up for animals, especially dogs.

The awards resonate with currents that run through this year's Frieze New York, including an enhanced present of historical work, an emphasis on female and feminist artists, and a number of activist positions.

Nonetheless, outside of the United States, Canada ranked second highest in number of activist targets by location of company headquarters, topped only by Australia with 53 targets in 2017.

Not exact matches

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

He is an activist investor and has been able to influence a number of companies by getting board members appointed.

Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.

On May 13th various garment industry activist organizations announced that a deal had been reached between several, mostly European brands and a number of Bangladeshi and international unions including IndustriALL.

On Wednesday, activist investor Starboard Value sent a letter to the company threatening a proxy fight unless Yahoo replaces Mayer and a number of directors.

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.»

If current activists view online support as an asset, rather than with resentment because it is different from «traditional» methods, they can mobilize vast numbers of people.

And it also sparked discussion about the validity of demands by black activists and others at a number of universities for what some have called «safe spaces» — that is, a space without intrusive or divisive elements like the media.

The (small number of) ardent climate - change environmental activists I follow on Twitter were not expecting Barack Obama to say a word about Keystone XL today.

We include corporate CEOs, the head of the Canadian public pension fund and an activist investor, and the heads of a number of institutional investors who manage money on behalf of a broad range of Americans.

April 7, 2016 - Climate Change 2016: As Proxy Season Arrives, Shareholder Activists File Record Number Of Environmental Resolutions - International Business Times

Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet's powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill — twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories.

Lynas's Malaysian plant is the largest one outside China, and while it could have started production as early as May of this year, safety concerns by local activist groups have set the launch back a number of times.

Named National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year in 2014, Galpin has taken the world by storm founding the nonprofit Mountain2Mountain, the activist organization Combat Apathy and the Afghan cycling program Strength in Numbers.

The latest wave of activist - investor involvement has led to a record number of spinoffs, divestitures and various other strategic reorganizations in 2014, many of which often elicit cheers from shareholders.

A number of companies are sticking by the NRA, at least for now, including FedEx, which has been under activist pressure to end its discount for the NRA for over a year.

Mr. Lens, a Chicago - based labor leader and activist in peace and radical movements, is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, The Promise and Pitfalls of Revolution.

A number of justices raised concerns about a Massachusetts state law preventing activists from crossing a 35 - foot buffer zone around reproductive health clinics.

[2][5] India's 2011 census shows a serious decline in the number of girls under the age of seven — activists believe eight million female fetuses may have been aborted between 2001 and 2011.

It drew a number of spirited responses, including the following by Juli Loesch Wiley, longtime pacifist activist; «Charles DiSalvo says he has noticed harsh and accusatory words, avoidance of suffering, and general belly - aching among those who blockade abortion sites.

The Bohemian Merton got the others into any number of scrapes, and the Activist Merton often got carried away by currents in the sixties that — in retrospect — were not entirely fair to American society.

Alongside these statistics used by the activists, it is useful to read studies by the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), the official state agency for demographic data: INED estimates the number of concerned children to be between 24,000 and 40,000.

A number of cities that contain large universities have found their governments influenced in varying degrees by university - based activists, many of them sixties» radicals now safely tenured faculty members.

«A growing number of chefs have joined the ranks of activists advancing the agenda of changing our food system... Today's food culture has given chefs a platform of influence, including the power, if not the luxury, to innovate.

As in anti-tobacco efforts, anti-corporal punishment activists have started squeezing spanking from the public sphere, shrinking the number of places where it is acceptable to swat a child.

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Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

Whether the messages were sent to known anti-government activists or just blasted out to phone numbers at random, this kind of direct and personal threat would dampen just about anyone's revolutionary fire.

Yet, this opposition was not only confined to the relatively small numbers of committed nationalist activists who took to the streets in December 2011.

Like a sizeable number of Labour activists, she is a firm opponent of the Trident nuclear weapons system.

There are researchers and activists in a number of countries who are currently exploring how republican values might be applied in the economy.

The immigration activist Ravi Ragbir's delayed deportation case is one of a growing number in which federal judges have ruled to halt both individual and mass deportations.

Blogads are usually quite inexpensive for the number of people they allow you to reach (though prices on popular blogs have gone up significantly in the past few years), and they're putting you before a targeted audience: activists on a red - meat wave - the - bloody - flag political blog, pacifists on a peace - oriented site, enviros on a green energy blog, and so on.

Dafis was a Member of Parliament for Ceredigion from 1992 until 2000, having been supported by a coalition of local Plaid Cymru and Green party activists, the latter of which had worked with him on a number of environmental initiatives.

Aligned with the growing Central Brooklyn political operation of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and former Councilwoman Una Clarke, Thompson made headlines by clearing a number of Hynes's questionable convictions for murder and other offenses, convictions that had earned his predecessor considerable ire from civil rights activists.