Sentences with phrase «of action against american»

While Jesner suggests that five justices likely would rule that the federal courts should not recognize an ATS cause of action against American corporations for their overseas activities, several federal appeals courts have exhibited little willingness to limit the scope of ATS liability unless directly ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.

While Jesner suggests that five justices likely would rule that the federal courts should not recognize an ATS cause of action against American corporations for their overseas activities, several federal appeals courts have exhibited little willingness to limit the scope of ATS liability unless directly ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.

Not exact matches

The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and docketed under 18 - cv - 02213, is on behalf of a class consisting of investors who purchased or otherwise acquired BRF American Depositary Receipts («ADRs») between April 4, 2013 and March 2, 2018, both dates inclusive (the «Class Period»), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants» violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10 (b) and 20 (a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the «Exchange Act») and Rule 10b - 5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.

He also referred to the U.S.'s threats of unilateral trade action against China, recommending that the White House figure out what it wants from China, listen to China's own complaints, talk to American allies and set out a clear timeline for action.

While the American public is overwhelmingly supportive of Mueller keeping his job and could be upset if action is taken against the special counsel's investigation, the editorial board fears that the public could see this as just another food fight in Washington, DC and let it go.

«Building on prior actions against BP and its subsidiaries by the Department of Justice, this historic resolution is a strong and fitting response to the worst environmental disaster in American history,» U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

American manufacturers of steel and aluminum pressed the White House to take action against cheap imports, which they say hurt their ability to compete.

In a statement shortly after he sued JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Schneiderman said the lawsuit was a template «for future actions against issuers of residential mortgage - backed securities that defrauded investors and cost millions of Americans their homes.»

The measures are Mr. Trump's strongest trade action yet against a country that he says is responsible for thousands of lost American jobs and billions in lost revenues.

Prominent Republicans warned President Donald Trump on Wednesday against taking further trade actions that could harm American workers, even as top administration officials meeting in Davos, Switzerland, rose to the defense of the president's «America...

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.

Additionally, as a heart disease survivor and National Volunteer for the American Heart Association, Star uses her international public platform to positively impact the lives of all women by empowering them to take action, stand stronger and join the fight against heart disease.

The Senate voted Tuesday night to kill a controversial rule that would have allowed Americans to file class - action suits against banks instead of being forced in many cases into private arbitration.

It seems rather ironic that the papacy is very quick to take action against its American nuns, when for decades it has played deaf, dumb and blind to the outrageous number of Catholic priests who have been proven to be child molesters.

In a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

It is hard to know what the reaction to the fight between American nuns and the Vatican is within the American Catholic community, but there have been some pockets of protest against the Vatican's actions.

The other matches scheduled for the day session worth paying attention to will be Daniela Hantuchova against wünderkind Victoria Duval, No. 4 seed David Ferrer and No. 2 seed Victoria Azarenka in action at Louis Armstrong stadium and a host of unseeded American men and women (Jack Sock, Christina McHale, Bradley Klahn, Alison Riske) who already have wins under their belts.

Three more medallists go in the men's shot put, with USA's winner Ryan Crouser again going up against his compatriot and world champion Joe Kovacs, plus Tom Walsh of New Zealand, while Spain's high jump champion Ruth Beitia and USA's long jump winner Tianna Bartoletta are back in action, with the American again facing Britain's Lorraine Ugen and Shara Proctor.

The case is just the latest in a series of actions against scientists, including a writ against Peter Wilmshurst, heart specialist at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, by American firm NMT Medical, for suggesting medical trials into one of its devices had been described inaccurately.

One panel explored the varied success of attempts to use law against neoliberalism through progressive legislation, regulation, and judicial action, drawing from the examples of Burma, Colombia, and Latin American regionalism.

Going to war has been the defining moment of American politics in the last decade but Elizabeth says that many fire fighters she treated were against this action as they saw ground zero as a «sacred place» that should not be used for political gain.

Activist and Author David Mixner Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation President Jarrett Barrios Board Chair of the Empire State Pride Agenda Frank Selvaggi Human Rights Campaign New York Marriage Director Brian Ellner Former Chief of Staff to Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and Deputy Campaign Manager to John Kerry for President Steve Elmendorf Senior Vice President for External Affairs at the Center for American Progress Winnie Stachelberg Democratic National Committee Treasurer Andy Tobias Former Clinton White House Advisor Richard Socarides Academy Award Winning Producer and AFER Board Member Bruce Cohen Gill Action Fund Executive Director Patrick Guerrero Gill Action Fund Deputy Executive Director Bill Smith

Author of Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids: What You Need to Know; Political Class Dismissed: Essays Against Politics; Direct Citizen Action: How We Can Win the Second American Revolution Without Firing a Shot; and his latest book, Progressivism, A Primer

When we look back to those days of protest against American action in Vietnam, in 1967, the year Ali refused to be indicted into the military, the country could hardly be described as being anti-war as it was to become later.

The World Peace Council was established on the orders of the Communist Party of the USSR in the late 1940s and for over forty years carried out campaigns against western, mainly American, military action.

And here is a spot from American Action Network in support of former state GOP Executive Director Rodney Davis (R) in his race against physician David Gill (D).

«This legislative action will be the first of its kind for a major American city, as well as the first set of regulations by any state in the union, and it will establish new registration, cleaning and monitoring standards for cooling towers in the fight against Legionnaires» disease,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

Later, thyroid cancer patients would win a class - action lawsuit against the federal government, as the American public learned that the toxic heavy metals from the bombs caused devastating health problems for millions of Americans who lived within 300 miles of that site, during years of detonations.

If you like, you may call the actions of the Indians against white incursion the Resistance, though both sides could lay claim to that label — the soldiers resisting the presence in America of people from a different culture, the Native Americans fighting against those they consider invaders.

Told through the eyes of six American basketball players who joined Maccabi Tel Aviv and helped shape the team that beat Russia, and featuring interviews with NBA iconic legends Bill Walton and David Stern, ON THE MAP combines the pulse pounding action of a high - stakes game with an incendiary political situation to deliver a film that mesmerizes fans of the game and captures the spirit of a nation triumphant against all odds.

Action, Adventure - Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution in the late 18th century, Assassin's Creed III introduces a new...

In 2005, he directed the award - winning play My Name Is Rachel Corrie about the American student who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer while protesting against the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip.

The highs are many of the action scenes, which pit American soldiers armed like high - tech Rambos against an unstoppable ghost army.

Combining live action and some overlayed animation (think American Splendor, which feels very much apiece with the whole film, not just aesthetically), The Diary of a Teenage Girl has a lot of competition in the «young girl coming of age» category (pitting it against Brooklyn, Mustang, Girlhood, Inside Out, etc), but it manages to hold its own.

Michael Moore's screed against the American health care system Sicko, Laura Dunn's cosmic meditation on the environment and political action The Unforeseen — MIFF 2007, Julian Temple's ultimate music documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten — MIFF 2007, Chris Smith's poetic parable of class and poverty The Pool — MIFF 2007, Shane Meadows pitch perfect recreation of 80's England, This is England, and finally, a year late because I saw it late, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Half Nelson, which would make my top five in any year and is easily one of the best American independent films of the decade.

The survey which was commisioned by American IT industry group SafeGov, asked 1000 Australian parents about their knowledge of data mining, of which 80 % said they would take immeadiate action against the data mining of students.

Most Asian Americans support affirmative action, and, in my experience, also believe that elite colleges discriminate against Asian - American applicants, in favor of whites.

The American Federation of Teachers union is unveiling a seven - figure advertisement campaign ahead of Dec. 9, a day that the group has billed as a «national day of action» against the education reform movement and push alternative solutions.

State campaign finance records show that no teachers unions disclosed giving money directly to Walsh's campaign, instead the American Federation of Teachers donated $ 500,000 to One New Jersey, a political action committee that has a history of spending money against candidates who have clashed with teachers unions.

There's nothing more manly than a bit of tank on tank action so many will be thrilled to hear that Wargaming is now accepting European gamers to battle it out against their American bretherin in...

However, when Sartre supported Soviet aggression against Korea, Rosenberg brought his essay to Elaine de Kooning, then the editor of ARTnews, who ran «The American Action Painters» in December, 1952.

Wojnarowicz challenged the nature of pubic arts funding at the National Endowment for the Arts, and initiated litigation against the American Family Association of Tupelo, Mississippi, an anti-pornography political action group that Wojnarowicz accused of misrepresenting his art and damaging his reputation.

Though he never denounced painting, Mangold had reacted against the Abstract Expressionist or New York School that had dominated American art during the forties and fifties, particularly the action paintings of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others in whose works flamboyant gesture and accident of execution were records of the intuitive activity that went into their creation.

Finally, what began last fall as the exhibition «Decolonize This Place» at Artists Space has mutated into a ongoing collective action — mutating in both time and space — against gentrification, the occupation of Palestinian lands, an imperialistic Teddy Roosevelt statue in front of the American Museum of Natural History, and the Brooklyn Museum's inclusion of real estate developers on its board.

His work has also been the subject of important group and solo shows throughout the span of his almost 50 - year career, including Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2013); superhuman, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim (2012); Reenactor, Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA (2012); The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York (2010); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); Corbu Pops, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2009); Thirty Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2008); Black Is, Black Ain't, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2008); Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning at Art Institute of Chicago (2008); Art After White People: Time, Trees, and Celluloid... at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2007); William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2007); 7e Biennale de l'Art Africaine Contemporaine, Dakar, Senegal (2006); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2004); The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2004); Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York (2004); William Pope.L: the friendliest Black artist in America at ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, DoverseWorks Artspace in Houston, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, ME, Artists Space in New York, and Mason Gross Art Galleries at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ (2002 - 2004); eRacism: Retrospective Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland (2002); eRacism: White Room, Thread Waxing Space, New York (2000); Eating the Wall Street Journal and Other Current Consumptions, Mobius, Boston (2000); and Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 — 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998).

Exxon still funds groups such as the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that deny climate change and lobby against action to address it.

Meanwhile, the Sierra Club and WWF America lobbies against energy development in Africa, an American foundation with ties to Hilary Clinton funds serial, frivolous legal actions against an Indian power company in Australian courts and the World Bank is in a «race against time to stop construction of new coal - fired power plants across the globe».

ExxonMobil now gives more than $ 1 million a year to organizations which oppose taking action against climate change — including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Frontiers of Freedom, the George C. Marshall Institute, the American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research and the American Legislative Exchange Council.

The tour marks the beginning of a new chapter in Greenpeace's long legacy of activism — the group is planning to launch a wide - scale American campaign against coal this spring, and the Coal - Free Future is something like its pilot run (read more about the actions completed thus far on the tour blog).