Sentences with phrase «of a national campaign by»

His sermon was part of a national campaign by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal organization that has organized Pulpit Freedom Sunday since 2008, encouraging pastors to flout the Johnson Amendment with political endorsements from the pulpit.

APS appears to be leading the first assault of a national campaign by the utility industry trade association, Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and fossil fuel interests like APS, to weaken net metering policies.

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By that time, multiple senior members of the campaign had been in contact with high - ranking Russians, including incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn, incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and senior adviser Jared Kushner.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

News of Lucara's discovery of the Lesedi La Rona diamond (it was named in a national contest held in Botswana and translates into «our light» in the Tswana language) has helped invigorate a mining category that has languished in the wake of a global recession, not to mention a campaign by Blood Diamond star Leonardo DiCaprio to promote synthetic alternatives to alleviate working conditions of miners in Africa.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

There are a host of last - minute disputes, but the Democratic Party has filed at least seven federal lawsuits in an effort to stop so - called «ballot security» campaigns by either the Republican National Committee, local Republican parties, the Trump Campaign, or Stop the Steal.

Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, described in his opening remarks the process by which the intelligence community concluded in January that «the Russian government pursued a multi-faceted influence campaign in the run - up to the election, including aggressive use of cyber capabilities.»

ads will no longer be seen in the pages of glossy national magazines, the campaign is survived by its parent.

The company has also adapted its marketing strategies by country, rather than language, because potential new users are more accepting of marketing campaigns that are in line with their national tastes and customs.

The event, hosted by Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, and the casino mogul Steve Wynn, will benefit the Trump presidential campaign and the RNC.

A national survey after the first round of the campaign found that 78 % of smokers saw at least one media spot.37 By 2015, there had been four rounds of the campaign.

When the transaction became politicized during the 2016 campaign, some experts cast doubt over the legitimacy of the Clinton connection, as well as the national security threat posed by the deal.

The firm also secured hundreds of thousands of dollars of business with John Bolton's Super Pac, formed by the hawkish former UN ambassador to support conservative candidates campaigning on national security issues.

«Large companies can hire by credentials and screen people carefully,» said Robert Rodriguez of National Communications Sales Promotion, a Miami - based company that helps customers manage their sales promotion campaigns.

The Argentinian National Electoral Chamber (CNE), which is in charge of overseeing the elections and auditing campaign contributions and expenses, initiated an «internal investigation» following the scandal revealed by British TV Channel 4.

The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his former campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

The complaint also accuses the Tillis campaign and the state GOP of receiving illegal contributions from a super PAC led by John Bolton — now Trump's national security adviser — that also used Cambridge Analytica in pro-Tillis campaign activity.

«As we prepare to come back to Ottawa for the fall session of Parliament, it is also important to ensure Canadian middle class families understand the threat posed by Thomas Mulcair's risky and dangerous economic plan,» said the memo, from Conservative national campaign manager Jenni Byrne.

Instead, about half of the campaign's $ 18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles - Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show.

For Dish, today's comments reveal merely a change in executive linguistics; the company, in its advertising, has been directly targeting traditional cable for some time, evidenced by its national campaign of TV ads starring tough - guy character actor Danny Trejo.

But the Nunes memo implies the case was primarily built on the Steele dossier — and points out that it was funded partially by a law firm on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

Michael T. Flynn, a Trump campaign adviser who went on to be his national security adviser, was paid more than $ 65,000 by companies linked to Russia in 2015, including an American branch of a cybersecurity firm believed to have connections to Russia's intelligence services, according to congressional investigators.

Lincoln Financial Group received a perfect score of 100 % on the 2017 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality.

The figure is their calculation of what each Florida student is worth to the Republican senator; they came up with it by dividing the amount the National Rifle Association has spent to support Rubio's campaigns, $ 3.3 million, by the 3.1 million public and private students in the state.

The dossier was part of opposition research funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to look into Trump's ties to Russia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today announced a national media campaign in opposition to the «Super Chapter 9» bankruptcy legislation for Puerto Rico, which was recently released by the Committee on Natural Resources in the U.S. House of Representatives.

«For those of you feeling alienated, it gets better,» says OneWheaton's founding statement, signed by about 700 GLBT and straight, alumni, echoing Dan Savage's national «It Gets Better» campaign for gay youth.

The ballot initiative was part of a national campaign brought by Personhood USA, a group that describes itself as a nonprofit Christian ministry.

In the great majority of cases, indeed in all the cases I know (Martin Luther King is the one exception), Christians step into line in response to vast propaganda campaigns, launched by others, for this or that group of the «poor» — for example, the Algerians of the National Liberation Front, the North Vietnamese, the proletariat.

In March 2012, he became the Director for the Lifelines to Healing Campaign with the PICO National Network, a campaign led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the United States committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people oCampaign with the PICO National Network, a campaign led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the United States committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people ocampaign led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the United States committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people of color.

One of my favorite functional images of the Church is one suggested some years ago by Gregory Pierce of the Chicago - based National Center for the Laity: the Church as «campaign headquarters.»

Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.

During U2's sold - out concert tours, Bono declares nightly that the One Campaign, which already claims over 2 million members in the U.S., will surpass the membership of the National Rifle Association by 2008.

If we measure left and right by support for or opposition to abortion and Bill Clinton, which is a reasonable measure in this case, twelve of the groups represented are very far left indeed — including Catholics for a Free Choice, Human Rights Campaign (a leading gay rights organization), People for the American Way, AIDS National Interfaith Network, and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

«On September 11th, let's show that we can rise above prejudice and hatred and be the kind of conscientious citizens who give back to our country by through a national «Muslim Serve» campaign,» the materials continue.

Almost everybody who has commented on this debate has noted the oddity that the campaign was led by two Brits, Peter Brimelow of Forbes, who is now a U.S. citizen, and John O'Sullivan, editor of National Review, who is not.

The campaign initiative is being headed by Michael Wear, the Obama campaign's National Faith Vote Coordinator, Derrick Harkins, Director of Faith Outreach for the Democratic National Committee, the Rev. Regena Thomas, pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Katherine Archuleta, a political director for the campaign, and Broderick Johnson, a campaign adviser who focuses on Catholic outreach.

The Washington Post: «Chick fil - A Appreciation Day» announced by Mike Huckabee amidst gay marriage debate After Chick - fil - A President Dan Cathy's comments on marriage launched a national «Eat Mor Chikin» backlash, another cultural bigwig, former Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee, announced Sunday that he was coordinating a campaign in support of the «company run by Christian principles.»

The recently launched «Make in India» national campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which aims to transform India into a global manufacturing hub, has the potential to be a game - changer and lead to the manufacture of food testing equipment indigenously in India, at a fraction of the cost.

Animals Australia has been at the forefront of national public awareness campaigns highlighting the suffering endured by mother pigs in sow stalls and farrowing crates in factory farms.

The new campaign would be led by the National Road Safety Committee, with support from a coalition of industries directly affected by drink driving.

In addition, the binder contains a flash drive that consists of IPC logos / clip art that retailers can incorporate into their own POS materials or advertising campaigns, as well as clips of the many programs and public relations successes by the IPC over the last year; our new national TV commercial, a highlight reel of our hugely successful Big Idaho ® Potato Truck Tour, and a consumer program highlights reel.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

Marking the first time the restaurants, owned by Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp., and St. Jude partnered on a national giving campaign, the effort far exceeded initial goals thanks to the generous support of the restaurants» guests, stakeholders and parent company.

AFM's newest campaign, «For the Love of Guac,» will fully - charge every September celebration, from Hispanic Heritage Month and Labor Day to National Guacamole Day (Sept. 16) and the kick - off of Fall football by launching its first - ever national BOGO offer — buy one Avocado From Mexico and get oNational Guacamole Day (Sept. 16) and the kick - off of Fall football by launching its first - ever national BOGO offer — buy one Avocado From Mexico and get onational BOGO offer — buy one Avocado From Mexico and get one FREE!

Herold has been honored by the restaurant industry on numerous occasions, as she is a recipient of the National Restaurant Association's Neighbor Award, a two - time recipient of the GRACE Distinguished Service Award and AMY Award for both TV and Radio campaigns.

Winners of the first annual Handcraft Heroes Breast Cancer Campaign were chosen by an independent panel of judges chaired by Dr. Sheri Phillips Prentiss, MD, National Spokesperson Susan G. Komen 3 - Day.

Running June 1st through the end of August, Dos Equis» Luna Rising is a fully - integrated campaign that includes limited edition packaging, national TV, digital and social support along with events and sponsorships that will inspire LDA + consumers to choose Dos Equis by showcasing that as the moon rises, so do the possibilities.