Sentences with phrase «of public calls»

The flood of public calls, e-mails, testimony and civic engagement throughout Florida sent the message loud and clear that we won't have privacy protections that protect our right to have an abortion taken away in the service of a fringe political agenda.

Nine members of the public called upon the Madison County board today to either reject the agreement or delay a vote until public hearings could be held.

Sixty - three percent of the general public says it prefers an increase in school expenditures in the local district, well up from levels in 2007 when only 51 percent of the public called for expenditure increases.

«A member of the public called in with information about the sculpture which was then recovered along with a bronze plinth which had also been taken from the Henry Moore Foundation,» she said.

Not exact matches

After public transportation advocate Jarrett Walker criticized what he characterized as Musk's «hatred of sharing space with strangers,» Musk called Walker an «idiot.»

It's encouraging to hear BlackRock (blk) CEO Larry Fink — whose company's $ 4 trillion of assets under management make it the 800 - pound gorilla in public markets — decry the short - term focus of many investors and call on companies to lay out a «strategic framework for long - term value creation.»

The National Association of Manufacturers and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC), in partnership with the International Franchise Association and Women Impacting Public Policy, recently launched a coalition and advocacy campaign called Rethink Red Tape.

If copies of the work are distributed to the public for sale, that first date of sale is called the publication date.

SEOUL, South Korea — A Korean Air heiress apologized for causing trouble in her first public appearance as a suspect in an abuse of power case Tuesday as public calls urging her family to resign grow.

It's a trend that once elicited one of the most annoyed public comments from Apple CEO Tim Cook ever: He called Chromebooks mere «test machines» in an interview from 2015.

Some of it has been hidden from the public - the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life.

TORONTO — Ontario will be the first in Canada to issue so - called green bonds next year to generate the billions of dollars that's needed to expand public transit, Premier Kathleen Wynne said Wednesday.

These are still early days — you can't make actual trades, and the program isn't available to the general public — but it may not be long before StockCity becomes the new Call of Duty.

Laurie Garrett, one of the globe's most gifted writers on global public health issues, has a timely and scary essay on foreignpolicy.com about the nasty norovirus plaguing athletes in the Olympic village — a bug one expert calls the «perfect human pathogen.»

The Globe and Mail once called Gutsche an «oracle,» and he has all the hallmarks of a public intellectual.

The cheques do not have to be tied in the public's mind to the GST credit; call it the Canada Food Inflation Rebate (CFIR), but piggyback it off of the existing infrastructure provided by the GST credit program.

Normally I wouldn't think much of that date, but it reminded me of the so - called «crying Indian ads,» — the Keep America Beautiful public service announcements from my childhood.

In the U.S. presidential race, Hillary Clinton has proposed tax reforms to curb what she calls «quarterly capital,» the focus by public companies and investors on rapid returns instead of long - term profitability and economic growth.

The way he sees it, there are three tiers of public companies: small market cap, mid market cap, and what he calls «Tier 1» companies — multi-hundred-billion giants like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

The findings of the investigation headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder will be made public, board member Arianna Huffington said in a call with reporters on Thursday afternoon.

There's a constant worry that you'll be called on in class, the terror of public speaking and, of course, the relentless bullying that comes with being a kid with a speech impediment.

As part of the Demo Day, President Obama issued a call to action to both the public and private sector, according to Tom Kalil, deputy director for technology and innovation at the OSTP.

At the company's VMworld conference last week, VMware tweaked its cloud message again, pitching a new set of services, called Cloud Foundation, that the company says will help businesses run their applications across internal data centers or those run by VMware (vmw), VMware partners, or public clouds.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

These female journalists, originally numbering 64 in total, have signed a public letter first published by The Hollywood Reporter, calling Brokaw «a man of tremendous decency and integrity.»

Plunging sales two years ago sent Fitbit's shares into a tailspin — they're down more than 70 % from their 2015 initial public offering price — although it has unveiled a well - reviewed watch of its own called Versa.

Alliance Santé, as his company was called by the mid-1990s, expanded further into Europe until 1997, when Pessina, believing he could rationalize the costs of pharmacies with his wholesale business, merged with UniChem, one of Britain's largest pharmacy chains and a public company.

Many of the so - called unicorn companies probably could go public — but, most likely, at prices they wouldn't like.

Numerous professional roles, including a majority of those at OFC, remain largely unavailable to women (or «ladies,» as managers at OFC often call them) because the jobs demand driving, heavy lifting, or frequent public interactions with males.

I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP spill: 1) increased public consciousness of the dangers inherent in transporting oil and oil products and more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.

The state's peak business body has called for reforms to the penalty rates system, which it says is out of date and causes many Western Australian businesses that open on Sundays and public holidays to lose money.

A search engine that understands queries and answers the call of the public's cry for better search results and providing one search service would be a heck of a thing.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP)-- A Korean Air heiress apologized for causing trouble in her first public appearance as a suspect in an abuse of power case Tuesday as public calls urging her family to resign grow.

And yet emails that were never intended to be public unavoidably will have consequences, most of which will never be tested in a court of law or arbitration and some of which may never be aired at all, such as the unreturned call or, ironically, the unanswered email.

Facebook has now apologized for the retention of videos that were never made public, blaming it on a «bug» and calling the glitch unintentional.

And such actions still have not protected firms from legal attack; McInturff, who conducts the NBC / WSJ poll and is co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, says he gets a claim per week accusing his firm of calling a cellphone from an autodialer.

«I don't like to be in public because a lot of liberals calls me a racist, which I am not.

Instead of hiring the first one who shows up, do your homework, advises David Moore, an angel investor and president of City Rewards Network in Charlotte, N.C. «A lot of investment bankers are going to call you and say «We can take your small company public for $ 50,000.»

Unlike the public trashing that other women have gotten when accusing powerful men in the past — think Anita Hill, called «nutty» and «slutty» in 1991 or the long line of Bill Cosby accusers who, until very recently, were dismissed as gold diggers — Carlson's claims that Ailes ogled her and forced her out when she rebuffed him were taken seriously, listened to, and investigated.

Gotlieb's call for marketers to be more proactive in explaining targeted advertising echo those made in September by Macy's consumer strategy executive Julie Bernard, who attributed much of the public's ambivalence about the practice to negative media spin.

On the public front, I think it's important to call out that kind of discrimination forcefully and with no ambiguity.

Instead of a public vote, Ben & Jerry's is calling for a free vote in parliament on marriage equality.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

Without any warning or even an after - the - fact public announcement, Instagram locked down its API last Friday, removing access from a number of apps while reducing the limit for API calls for all others to just 200, down from the previous limit of 5000.

The public kickoff of the effort came on Wednesday when T - Mobile announced it was acquiring a startup TV service in Denver called Layer3 TV.

The Facebook data breach scandal involving Cambridge Analytica has heightened the public's awareness of the potential costs of using so - called free online services.

«The secretary did not speak to the president and is unaware of the reason, but he is grateful for the opportunity to serve, and still believes strongly that public service is a noble calling.»

37signals is calling this month of unstructured free time an experiment and vowed in the blog post to report back to the reading public about how it goes.

And that means doing some of what's usually called «public relations» or PR.

In 2017, the California cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz, and Imperial Beach, as well as Santa Cruz county, Marin County, and San Mateo County attempted to sue oil majors over climate change damages, citing a theory called «public nuisance.»