Sentences with phrase «open letter last»

The company was responding to a pair of Apple shareholders who wrote an open letter last week arguing that the iPhone - maker needs to tackle what's seen as a «growing public health crisis» of smartphone addiction in young people.

Tim Draper, a well known Venture Capitalist who is very active in Fintech, posted an open letter last week addressed the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the recent comments on regulating Initial Coin Offerings.

Nonetheless, virtually every major national environmental organization continues to reject nuclear energy, even after four leading climate scientists wrote them an open letter last fall, imploring them to embrace the technology as a key climate solution.

Eighteen groups, including Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Natural Resources Defense Council, signed an open letter last week urging the president to take bolder action.

Black's performance, called OR LIFE OR, was her first public event after writing a provocative open letter last month to the curators of the Whitney Biennial, urging them to remove and destroy a painting of Emmett Till by Dana Schutz.

While the Kickstarted project was expected to be delivered in full in November, it was explained in an open letter last week that the game - and more to the point its story - had «turned out to be bigger and more ambitious than first envisioned.»

In an open letter last month to President Vladimir Putin, more than 150 RAS researchers asserted that the reforms are eroding science's image in Russia; they warned of disastrous consequences for the nation, including a brain drain of young scientists and an «upsurge in activities of bureaucrats and impostors.»

In an open letter last week to the UC system, President Richard Atkinson reiterated the university's position that grad student employees are considered to be students first, and employees second.

In an open letter last week to Ms. James and other Cabrera backers, lawmakers outlined why they were choosing to support Mr. Rivera — and pointed to Mr. Cabrera's long record opposing gay and women's issues that Ms. James has long supported.

King engaged in a war of words with local Democratic elected officials who questioned Cuomo's progressive credentials in an open letter last week, and state Party Chairman Jay Jacobs accused the Senate GOP of flip - flopping on a host of issues — including redistricting reform.

Not exact matches

Last month, Thomas Peterffy, the billionaire chairman of Interactive Brokers Group Inc., wrote an open letter to CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, arguing that bitcoin's large price swings mean its futures contracts shouldn't be allowed on platforms that clear other derivatives.

His last open letter to shareholders makes the point clearly about investing in creating value — «Berkshire's gain in net worth during 2016 was $ 27.5 billion, which increased the per - share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 10.7 %.

The competition stems from a movement that began last summer, when Silicon Valley leaders and prominent academics published an Open Letter on the Digital Economy.

Rometty, who joined President - elect Trump's economic advisory team last month, teased the set of recommendations in an open letter in November.

Last week, Airbnb published an open letter encouraging boutique hotels to use its platform over online travel agencies, touting its lower fees.

Just last week, I sent a stinging open letter to actor Chris Evans: «Since you starred in the movie Captain America: Civil War, I've gained seven pounds and lost my wallet.»

The last of them, Scott Thompson, resigned in disgrace after five months when a large activist shareholder, Dan Loeb, published an open letter accusing him of fabricating a computer - science degree.

As my colleague David Graham wrote, the letter from Trump's lawyers that Trump proffered on the subject last week «doesn't define several key terms,» leaving open the possibility that one of Trump's projects benefited from Russian funding through a pass - through corporation or another intermediary.

As many as 107 House Republicans expressed deep concerns last week, writing in an open letter to the president that the «new taxes in the form of broad tariffs would undermine» the «remarkable progress» made by the tax overhaul.

Last month, I signed an open letter to John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

What I found is that Facebook is doing OK, but not great by any means — see one Forrester analyst's recent open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, pointing out that Facebook comes dead last on a satisfaction index of digital marketing channels.

At first she explained that I opened too many credit cards in the last two years (just like the letter said.)

Timing could be in response to an eight page open letter from Cboe's Chris Concannon, President and COO, which was published last month around the same time the SEC began considering the Pro Shares requests.

That's the kind of thinking that annoyed a Missouri seminary professor so much that he wrote a blistering open letter in the online magazine Religion Dispatches last week attacking its rationale.

Among numerous non-Catholic constructive responses to last Year's Islamic Open Letter «A Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like God, Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence of the role of religion in social life, the opposition of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion of common initiatives for peace»

The letter came after Pope Francis issued his Amoris laetitia («Joy of Love» in English) declaration last year which sparked fears among critics that he was opening the door to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receiving Communion.

Within weeks of ISIS» lightning - fast advance in Iraq and Syria last summer, the world's top Islamic scholars issued an open letter to al - Baghdadi, taking him to task on the poor Islamic theology that was dictating the horror he was inflicting upon the world.

Last November we reported that the official website for the second Open Letter to the Pope and others states that this letter was unique in the history of Letter to the Pope and others states that this letter was unique in the history of letter was unique in the history of Islam.

Last October, on the first anniversary of their robust reply to the Pope's Regensburg lecture, Islamic leaders issued another «Open letter».

This time last year, just weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, evangelical leaders spoke out in an unprecedented way against his temporary refugee ban with hundreds signing on to an open letter published in TheWashington Post.

Last week, more than 500 evangelical leaders signed an open letter decrying the ban and emphasizing how «compassion and security can coexist, as they have for decades.»

Not only did I submit a personal letter of protest to the FDA and encourage you to comment on FDA's website and sign an online petition about it *, but I also gave up my entire Saturday last weekend to draft an open «sign - on» letter to oppose the dairy industry request.

Adamski, 25, opened the $ 50 ticket from the Will County Forest Preserve District last week and read the letter alleging she had used a dog park without a proper permit.

Think about what Annie wrote in her Open Letter published last fall in response to the Nestle Family Blogger event:

So Nancy Huehnergarth and I created an open letter for any interested SNA members to sign, which I posted it The Lunch Tray last October.

Last May, nineteen past SNA presidents took the extraordinary step of breaking with the current SNA board by writing their own open letter to Congress urging it to stay the course on healthier school food.

In this post from last January, I told you how Dr. Sean Lucan published an open letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association describing his efforts to get junk food out of his child's school.

In an open letter, signed by Clive Lewis and Jon Cruddas, they argued that cooperation with other progressive parties at last Thursday's local elections could have tipped the balance in close - fought councils, just as it could have delivered a Labour - led government in 2017.

«This is our last request that you join «Trump for President» and try to preserve what's left of your pathetic careers in government,» Paladino wrote Monday in an open - letter to Republicans in New York's congressional delegation and state legislature.

During a CapTon interview last night, I asked GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino for his reaction to the «Wise Guys» open letter that deemed him «simply not fit to lead this great state» and the practicer of «a destructive brand of politics that will divide our state.»

Former state GOP Chairman Pat Barrett, who crossed party lines to endorse the Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner, appear in a TV ad for him and serve as one of his three campaign co-chairs, is now sending an open letter to fellow Republicans Monday, asking them not to contribute any last - minute cash to the Buffalo businessman's campaign.

He replies to last week's open letter from ConservativeHome Editor Tim Montgomerie; «A patriotic plea to David Cameron».

«This community finds itself once again blindsided with the last - minute announcement of yet another hotel conversion,» Congressman Joe Crowley wrote in a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio last week that accused the administration of opening the site with «no prior notice, and zero community input.»

«This is our last request that you join «Trump for President» and try to preserve what's left of your pathetic careers in government,» Paladino wrote in an open letter.

Actor Mark Ruffalo is one of 100 wealthy New Yorkers who have signed an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a last - ditch attempt to get him to change his mind about continuing to tax wealthy state residents at a higher rate to generate revenue to restore some budget cuts.

Last month, 150 health experts issued an open letter to the UN health agency calling for the Games to be delayed or relocated «in the name of public health».

Last week, Executive Director Charlie King pushed back hard against local Democratic elected officials who signed an open letter to the governor, questioning his progressive credentials and calling on him to end his opposition to extending the millionaire's tax.

Opening last night's debate, Lord Harrison, argued «that the BBC has failed the humanist community in Britain both in the spirit and in the letter of the Communications Act 2003, which requires the BBC to schedule programmes on religion and other beliefs, including humanism... The truth is that religious public broadcasting is growing while Anglicanism contracts.»

As you may know, I wrote an open letter to you last month.

Paterson, who once was on course to face Cuomo in a potentially racially divisive primary, expressed confidence that Cuomo will manage to win back disaffected black voters, noting that he moved quickly to address a problem that was first aired (at least in a mainstream way) by The Amsterdam News» Elinor Tatum in an open letter / editorial last week.