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BERLIN (Reuters)- The president of Costa Rica promised on Wednesday a fair trial in her country for a Canadian conservationist facing possible extradition over a campaign against shark finning, and tried to calm his fears of revenge attacks by Costa Rican shark fishers.

That said, both Smith and Moorhead are impressed by chief exec Des Hudson who arrived at Chancery Lane in 2006 to knock some shape into what was seen to be an organisation lurching from crisis to crisis — for example, a bruising encounter with the then Lord Irvine over its campaign against the Access to Justice Bill («irresponsible scaremongering») and the bitter recriminations following the departure of Kamlesh Bahl, the first Asian woman to become vice-president, who resigned following bullying allegations.

When Hudson walked into Chancery Lane back in 2006, the Law Society looked like an organisation in deep trauma that veered from one calamity to the next: a clash with the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, over its campaign against the Access to Justice Bill; non-stop criticism flowing from the profession's inability to get a grip on its handling of consumer complaints; and then there was the Kamlesh Bahl saga, a rancorous dispute with the first Asian woman to become vice-president.

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The Air Force has been conducting ongoing missions over Iraq and Syria, where US aircraft have led the air campaign against ISIS — though those operations have decreased considerably in recent weeks.

Federal investigators are reportedly looking into possible manipulation of Herbalife's stock and have interviewed individuals hired by hedge - fund manager William Ackman, who has been running a campaign against the nutritional - products company for over two years.

At least some of those concerns now seem to be playing out in a fight over how America's largest food industry group financed a campaign against a food labeling initiative.

The Orangutan snack was a spoof on KitKat for a campaign last year against Nestle and HSBC over the two company's dealings with Indonesian palm oil producer Sinar Mas, whom Greenpeace accused of illegal deforestation.

Though it's not over yet, the campaign against the Northern Gateway pipeline has been one of the most successful ever for B.C.'s environmental movement.

Hempton's recent campaign against Ackman has included questioning the way Pershing reports its performance and asking regulators to release documents about a probe it may have carried out into Pershing over Herbalife.

Common Cause, the left - leaning watchdog group, strongly believes that the McDougal payment was not a legitimate press function, and has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against both Trump and American Media Inc. over the payment, calling it «an illegal corporate in - kind contribution to the 2016 Trump campaign.»

David Hogg launched a campaign against Laura Ingraham over comments she made about him, and within hours, Ingraham apologized and described Hogg as a «brave victim of Parkland.»

Last year, Mr. Trump held off imposing tough trade measures against China because, he said, Mr. Xi was cooperating in his campaign to pressure the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong - un, over his nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Patrick Ruffini, a co-founder Echelon Insights, a Republican - leaning digital analytics and research firm, said the public outrage this week over the disclosures about Cambridge Analytica «feels like a double standard» against the backdrop of how the Obama campaign and other Democratic and Republican political operatives sought to use Facebook data during the 2012 and 2014 election cycles.

Veteran GOP operative Paul Manafort, who ran Trump's campaign over the summer, has been indicted on 12 counts including conspiracy against the United States, along with his business partner and frequent White House visitor Rick Gates.

For over forty years The Tablet has remained vociferous in its campaign against the teaching.

In the country a campaign against the move has started with a national newspaper calling on the decision to be over turned.

While the campaign is not the source of these numbers, even looking at the totality of those numbers compared against just the four startups listed above, the net job growth is still over 100,000 jobs.

«Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture,» writes Matthew.

Amid the furor over Akin's comments - for which he apologized this week, even as many Republican leaders have called for him to end his campaign - many anti-abortion activists have stuck by their stance against abortion rights in the case of rape.

Last year we started off our League campaign with a last gasp win over Palace at the Emirates, followed by draws against Leicester and Everton.

That sparked a hate campaign on Twitter against the identified alum, as well as a hashtag (# f *** bromero) that was trending in Las Vegas by the time the night was over.

They did face a couple of scares in the away games against Queens Park Rangers and Newcastle United, but you are going to have such fixtures over the course of a Premier League campaign.

Guardiola will face a real test over the Christmas period with games against Chelsea, Leicester, Watford, Arsenal, Hull City and Liverpool in December, while it's a tough start on the road for Jurgen Klopp who will take his Liverpool side away to Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea in their first three away games of the campaign.

To be fair, she does owe Arsenal a few favours after another season of awful injury blows and poor decisions from the officials and they do say that luck is supposed to even itself out over the course of a campaign, so maybe those penalties we should have had but were denied against West Ham and the latest minor knocks that have ruled out Koscielny and Ospina will be the last bits of bad luck the Gunners get, for a while at least.

The international break is over and Manchester Utd resume their Premier League campaign against Swansea.

It was the sort of substance over style performance not usually associated with a Rodgers side but the manager is hopeful that the draw against Ludogorets could kick - start their campaign.

They kicked off their Spring Series campaign with a 1 - 1 draw at home against newly - promoted Brighton & Hove Albion, and picked up further points in the following weeks with wins over Watford and Oxford United and the Bees are hoping for more of the same this weekend.

The FA - PGMO anti Wenger Arsenal manage team PL Title win in 14 seasons campaign has led to the FA enforcing the no any anti-PGMO referring comment by PL club managers, players and the media rule been put in place by the FA particularly to strengthen the PGMO appointed match officiating officials to stop an Arsene Wenger manage team from winning the PL Title again after the invincibles team should have been the fight the anti Wenger Arsenal fans and the media ought to have fought against the FA - PGMO to stop them in their clandestine policy to stop Arsenal if the media and the Arsenal AAA fans are interested to see justice prevails over injustice.

United dropped points against the likes of Burnley, Hull City, Sunderland, West Brom and Leicester over the course of the campaign, results which ultimately cost them from achieving anything more than a top four finish.

Disgruntled Arsenal fans have really ramped up their protest against manager Arsene Wenger recently and in order to pressurize the Frenchman to leave the Emirates Stadium at the end of the current campaign, supporters even collected funds to fly a plane over the Hawthorns last Saturday urging their legendary boss to leave.

Erratic results against the league's lesser lights plagued Liverpool's 2016 — 17 campaign (they conceded twice or more to non-top-six rivals on 10 occasions), but since conceding twice in a 3 - 2 victory over Leicester in late September, Liverpool haven't conceded more than one goal against a team outside of the top six.

An U21 debut followed in December, and in a climactic end to the 2013 - 14 campaign, Musonda opened the scoring in Chelsea's U21 Premier League title decider against Manchester United at Old Trafford, while also getting on the scoresheet in the Blues» FA Youth Cup final triumph over Fulham.

The Gunners opened their campaign with a win over Preston, before hammering Southampton in the fourth round, but then they had easy ties against non-league sides Sutton and then Lincoln City in the following round.

The Guinea international offers a mesmerising blend of qualities - how many players could average 2.6 tackles and 2.6 interceptions over a German league campaign, and score the kind of winner that the 22 - year - old did against the Ivory Coast in an African Cup of Nations qualifier in June?

The Premier League side played with 10 men for over an hour against Birkirkara after James Tomkins was sent off, and will resume their campaign at home next Thursday.

For this match, the visitors were still in pre-season mode with big question marks about their fitness over 90 plus minutes of football against the 2014 ACL Champions who are more than two - thirds into their A-League 2016 - 17 campaign.

Arsenal get their Premier League campaign up and running against Crystal Palace at the Emirates stadium on August 16th, and will be going into the match in high spirit following their 3 - 0 thrashing of City over the weekend to clinch their first trophy of the season.

But this belief derived mostly from many instances of individual display over the course of the last few campaigns and rarely from the complete team performance we saw against CFC.

Neville saw Hazard opened his account for this campaign in the 2 - 0 win over Leicester City, while he also went on to dominate in the match against Everton.

Arsenal target Andrea Belotti has been in sensational form during the current campaign and the Torino striker further increased his stock over the weekend after scoring a stunning eight - minute hat - trick against Palermo.

With a home record in the Champions League that includes a draw against Bayern Munich, wins over Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Villarreal, Borussia Dortmund, Marseille; a proven - manager in European competitions in Rafa Benitez and great support and atmosphere generated by their supporters during those Champions League nights, Napoli could go a long way in future Champions League campaigns, provided they use the Europa League to boost their individual co-efficient by eating easier opposition and enabling slightly easier Champions League groups in the future.

* Republican governors watch automated production process * Say campaign against «pink slime» unwarranted scare SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb., March 29 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the U.S. beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

The reaction is also part of a backlash on the right over first lady Michelle Obama's campaign against childhood obesity.

Bettina I love your work against the pink slime companies trying to hide that crap in our kids (and our own) food, for the people who don't like pink slime being labeled that think of a pr campaign where the slimer from ghost busters is green and has a heartfelt conversation with kids on how mean old bettina is trying to stop him from coming over to play at lunchtime!

Danny Tarkanian may be campaigning against Harry Reid, but he's clearly trying to run with the memory of Ronald Reagan: This ad has shown up all over the blogosphere (I saw it on HuffPo and Burnt Orange Report today, for instance — neither of them remotely a Republican site — ...

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last week launched new salvos against Republican Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney over their votes in support of the American Health Care Act, the House GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Any calculation over what narrative the Clinton campaign should employ requires at least an estimation of who she might be up against this fall.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's campaign has deployed his hometown county GOP chairman, John Jay LaValle, to push back against shots fired over the past 24 hours by state Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King and «boss» (as per Team Levy) Jay Jacobs.

Saujani's campaign did not dispute the numbers I've presented here, but insisted she'll have sufficient funds to fight hard against Maloney over the next eight weeks.

The ASA recently ruled in favour of the British Humanist Society over complaints against its campaign slogan: «There's probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.»