Sentences with phrase «petition calling for changes»
MPs will debate a decision to exclude expressive arts subjects from the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) this afternoon, after more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling for a change in the rules.
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Folsom, an American who worked for Bain & Co. in Tokyo after college before founding one of the first private equity firms in Japan, hired the biggest Japanese law firm and petitioned the court to change the bankruptcy to a so - called «civil rehabilitation.»
His point is that once fans start petitioning sponsors just because THEY don't like the particular creative direction, then those very same sponsors are less likely to listen when a more serious situation deserves attention or calls for change
Only three weeks after launching my Change.org petition asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop the use of so - called «pink slime» (or lean, finely textured beef — «LFTB») in ground beef destined for school food, we've seen some truly extraordinary changes take place.
An online petition calls for the removal of the Christopher Columbus statue from Columbus Park in Buffalo, and for the park's name to be changed, as well.
But earlier this year, more than 60 percent of voters signed a petition calling for constitutional changes to be drafted that would allow Kagame to stand again.
The City Hall Plaza press conference, hosted by the Hispanic Federation, called for a laundry list of federal actions, including implementing «a federal investment plan», eliminating Jones Act requirements that goods shipped between Puerto Rico and other places in America be transported on U.S. ships with U.S. crews, changing the U.S. bankruptcy code to allow Puerto Rico and its government related enterprises to file bankruptcy petitions and urging President Obama to «explore a Federal Reserve loan» and «oppose severe austerity.»
This announcement comes in response to a petition signed by over 150,000 people calling for Heartland's corporate funders to drop support of the organization, which recently ran a billboard campaign in Chicago comparing those that advocate for solutions to climate change to «murderers, tyrants, and madmen.»
Under the parent trigger law, which was passed in 2010, parents at a chronically underperforming school that meets certain criteria can call for reform if a majority of them sign a petition requesting a specific change.
Parents signed a petition to take over the school through the state's Parent Empowerment Act, often called a «Parent Trigger,» which allows parent groups to push for sweeping changes and even create a charter school.
They had parents sign two petitions, one calling for parents to jointly run the school with the district and listing changes they wanted, and a backup petition demanding conversion to a charter school.
«It's been a long time coming,» said Prakash Amarasooriya, who launched a petition late last year calling for the change.
An online petition is already calling for her removal, claiming she hasn't made change fast enough.
«In Part 1 of 2, Los Angeles artist and activist Kysa Johnson talks about: the various platforms and outlets for her activism, and how donating money, signing petitions and watching protest - based movies gave way to attending the initial protest in L.A., the Women's March in Washington, a protest at LAX airport, artist political group meetings, [and] phone calls to Congress; how her «being active» was a necessary reaction to the extreme change in the political landscape, and how protests... matter because the visibility and solidarity of resistance is a key arm of resistance that lets those in power know that you're angry.»
In response, we launched a petition calling on the Antarctic Place - Name Committee to name the iceberg «ExxonKnew 1» for their role in deceiving the public about the nature of climate change.
Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon himself is calling on people around the world to add their voices to the petition demanding a fair and effective climate change agreement: Climate Deal Smart Investment for the Future Calling efforts to combat climate change some of the «smartest possible investments we can make in our future,» the Secretary - General raised the call to calling on people around the world to add their voices to the petition demanding a fair and effective climate change agreement: Climate Deal Smart Investment for the Future Calling efforts to combat climate change some of the «smartest possible investments we can make in our future,» the Secretary - General raised the call to Calling efforts to combat climate change some of the «smartest possible investments we can make in our future,» the Secretary - General raised the call to action,
TriplePundit credits the change of heart to a petition on Change.org that collected more than 100,000 signatures calling for the Grand Canyon Park Service to «do its job and protect our public land by immediately banning plastic bottles from the canyon.»
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Last Thursday Percy Hatfield (Windsor - Tecumseh) presented one more petition from injured workers calling for changes to Ontario's workers» compensation system.
The petition also calls for the Criminal Code to be changed to redefine the offence of impaired driving causing death as vehicular manslaughter.
As you'd expect, Uber lobbied fiercely against the proposals during the three - month consultation period — dubbing them «bureaucratic» and encouraging its users to sign a petition calling for TfL to drop the proposed changes.
Kite Bullen, 17, West Broward high School (left) and Gabrielle Arcia, 17, West Broward High School (right) create posters with instructions for the Fighting For Executive Action Booth where they encouraged students to call and email representatives to fight for change and join the March for our lives petitifor the Fighting For Executive Action Booth where they encouraged students to call and email representatives to fight for change and join the March for our lives petitiFor Executive Action Booth where they encouraged students to call and email representatives to fight for change and join the March for our lives petitifor change and join the March for our lives petitifor our lives petition.
A Mozilla petition is also calling on Facebook to change its app permissions to make it harder for apps to harvest data in this way.
I also want to acknowledge Howie Dennision for his prior and ongoing advocacy with the APA and Jason Hofer for the prior petition he wrote calling for change.