Sentences with phrase «other activists try»

Edward Erikson, a consultant who works with prominent Sanders supporter Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream fame) and other activists trying to reduce the role of big money in politics, said Sanders himself deserves the credit for motivating small donors.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Monsanto Co's biotech seed patents on Monday, dealing a blow to a group of organic farmers and other activists trying to stop the biotech company from suing farmers if their fields contain a few plants containing the company's genetically modified traits.

Not exact matches

Other activists are trying to oust the board of Rubbermaid's parent, but Carl Icahn says he hasn't decided which side to support.

Some atheist activists are trying to seize the holidays as a time to build bridges with faith groups, while other active unbelievers increasingly see Christmas as a central front in the war on religious faith.

On the other hand, if you're trying to reach a handful of influentials, such as, say, political activists in the mountain states in the West, you're going to get better results by focusing on the specific blogs and newsletters that these people read — and where possible, to contact potential opinion leaders individually and directly.

As Karen DeWitt reports, they also, along with other anti fracking activists, tried to deliver a letter to Governor Cuomo.

And so critics from left, right and the intellectual center gang up on the handful of environmentalists and other activists who try to get population into national and global discussions.

Activists are also trying to block or slow down other proposed BSL - 3 and BSL - 4 labs at various sites around the country, including the University of California, Davis; the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston; and National Institutes of Health (NIH) facilities in Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana.

The other character types in the film including Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse) the hot girl, Shiley (Andrea Bowen) and McKenzie (Evanna Lynch) the religious types, Sophie (Molly Tarlov) the I am not sure if she's a lesbian or a rebel, Soledad (Joanna «JoJo» Levesque), the activist, Glen, the straight guy who everyone thinks is gay, and lastly, Caprice (Xosha Roquemore), who more or less is your typical black girl with a hot shot attitude and is big on trying to promote diversity within the school.

Writer and activist Audre Lorde, he says, best describes his argument that other young people should have that same access as they try to tell their stories: «If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive,» and «You can not, you can not use someone else's fire.

I have no opinion on AVNW other than back in 2010 an extremely successful activist investor, Ramius... now Starboard Value, tried to turn the company around.

During Burns» first years as chief executive the Hawaiian Humane Society came under vehement activist criticism for allegedly sidestepping conflict with legal animal use industries, cockfighters with connections in high places, and especially ---- and perhaps most controversially ---- with the longtime Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources policy of trying to purge the islands of feral cats, mongooses, and other non-native wildlife.

Only very recently has activist pressure on animal control agencies rallied by, among others, Winograd's No Kill Advocacy Center, incited some of the most troubled agencies to try to inflate their «live release rates» by simply leaving dogs at large.

In seeking to sue ExxonMobil and other oil and gas companies for contributing to climate change, San Francisco hired the one lawyer who has spent the last decade conspiring with activists to try and figure out a way to blame individual companies for global warming.

«Instead, the authors — and other «Keep It In the Ground» activists — just want to attack a handful of companies and try to extract value from their shareholders in court.»

The other way enviro - activists try to support the «industry - corrupted skeptics» accusation is to say leaked industry memos prove it.

The relevance of your point is that sometimes activist climate scientists try to to hijack the scientific, rhetorical, and policy successes of biologists and other scientists.

While environmental activists and some politicians claim «the debate is over» and call for immediate action to reduce man - made greenhouse gas emissions, others say the science points to only a very small human impact — too small to warrant concern — and the costs of trying to prevent global warming far exceed the benefits.

I certainly would not have described him as any sort of activist as I tend to think that epithet applies to those ill informed zealots we see roaming the streets trying to get us to sign up to some sort of petition or other to wreck western economies by cutting carbon to unrealistic (at present) levels

So why would you care what is in his emails, other than to try to establish a spurious equivalence between an independent blogger on the one hand, and a network of state - funded UN-sponsored politico - scientists and journo - activists on the other?

The only other case I've seen directly challenging the laws was Sevier v. Thompson, No. 2:16 - CV -659-DN-EJF, 2018 WL 1378803 (D. Utah Jan. 26, 2018), where some anti-gay activists tried to overturn Obergefell by suing to force Utah to let one of them marry a computer and three of them marry each other.

«People may try to label certain candidates as activist or conservative, but I don't think those or other labels are helpful,» he says.

Seems that the last straw was a series of cyber attacks on Google and others trying to steal proprietary information, and trying to read the gmail accounts of human rights activists.