Sentences with phrase «political calls have»

Two huge political calls have shaped British politics in recent times.

Not exact matches

As well as being popular with journalists and members of Russia's political opposition, Telegram has also been used by the Kremlin to communicate with reporters and arrange regular conference calls with President Vladimir Putin's spokesman.

Before the White House intervened on Tuesday, Qualcomm had been working its political ties behind the scenes at least since December, according to a revealing «tick - tock,» as we call such stories in the media biz, by Wall Street Journal reporters Ted Greenwald, Kate O'Keeffe, and Tripp Mickle.

The so - called populist movement — in which people feel they aren't being heard by their governments — has led Britain to vote to exit the E.U., or Brexit, while far - right political candidates in France and the Netherlands edge closer to winning their upcoming presidential elections.

A former investment banker, Macron had pivoted to launch a new political party — called En Marche (Onwards)-- as recently as last year.

But a first read of the new draft (and, notably, it's still being called a «draft») and a number of skeptical lawmaker statements suggests this is one legislative rabbit that political wizard Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could have trouble pulling out of his hat.

Questions about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called for the prime minister to step down.

The Italian crisis — the country's powerful political leader, the comedian Beppe Grillo, would probably call it «commedia dell «arte» — offers plenty of interesting trading opportunities as long as you don't fall for the incongruous idea that this is the end of the euro area.

Given recent political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, who has called climate change a hoax created by the Chinese, Patagonia decided to take their donations to a new level.

Trump, during the primary campaign, as he took on 16 Republican rivals, had called Yellen's tenure «highly political» and said the Fed should raise interest rates but would not do so for «political reasons.»

In presenting the photographs, Jones said Syrian President Bashar Assad's government «has sunk to a new level of depravity» with the support of Russia and Iran and called on the two countries to use their influence with Syria to establish a credible cease - fire and begin political talks.

U.S. Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, has likened digital political advertising to the «Wild, Wild West,» and he and others have called for legislation to impose disclosure requirements similar to what is required in the United States for political ads on television.

The current scandal may be the country's worst yet, with Prime Minister Najib Razak facing increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing last month to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

CloudFlare, probably the most prominent DDoS - protection outfit out there, has for a couple of years been offering a similar free service called Project Galileo, for the benefit of journalists, as well as political and artistic websites.

Malaysia's shares and currency have been hit with a toxic brew of declines in the prices of its commodity exports, especially palm oil and crude oil, as well as what may be the country's worst - ever political scandal, which has spurred protests calling for the removal of the prime minister from power.

The social media giant's privacy practices have been under the microscope ever since news emerged that a U.K. political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica managed to pull the personal data from 50 million Facebook users.

With popular and sometimes violent uprisings daisy - chaining their way from Tunisia to Egypt to Libya and beyond, protesters in the so - called MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) have given fresh meaning to the old «domino theory» of political revolution.

Earlier this year, a company called Event Shares filed a prospectus for a Republican Policies and a Democratic Policies fund to invest in companies that will benefit from the respective parties» political agendas (neither has launched yet).

Other political figures such as Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar have also called for investigations and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) scrutiny into Mylan.

Protests quickly moved to target Iran's political leaders and calls have been made for the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down.

«This moment calls for compassionate people from across the political spectrum to have a difficult and honest conversation about comprehensive immigration reform.»

In her letter, Warren pressed her call for the SEC to develop a political spending disclosure rule, something she said White has refused to do.

If political leaders differ with judges over existing law, Gorsuch wrote, politicians always had a clear constitutional remedy: «It's called legislation.

Hannity has called the alleged corruption within the FBI «the biggest political scandal in American history» and suggested on his Wednesday night show that he had inside information about the memo's contents.

His party, called the National Latin Movement, had a «fascist - populist program [that] called for radical changes in Colombia's political landscape.»

The federal government has called on businesses, local and state governments, and residents of the tourist areas to help fund the program, and the rule of law and political institutions still need to be strengthened, said de la Madrid.

Those efforts would come as Prime Minister Najib faces increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing this week to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

«And I'm not an entrepreneur, but I have great respect for them,» Schmidt said, calling out the shareholders in the audience, as well as donors, political players and all citizens generally.

«In a conflict, which is a political and democratic conflict, I wanted to call this election if that was a guarantee that it could have happened with normality.

And we did it all legally together with the industry when we had a political party in Sweden called the Pirate Party — which was a real party, with more than 7 % of all votes.

President Obama has long lamented the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision for allowing a torrent of unregulated money to flood the political process (specifically, he's called the ruling a «threat to democracy»).

What Ottawa isn't considering, at least not publicly, is the return of economic conditions that would dramatically impact government revenue, not to mention a total financial meltdown that would require emergency stimulus spending (or a political need to meet calls for stimulus).

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for companies, bureaucrats and the political class to work more closely together so Japan can win in robotics, batteries, renewable energy and other new and growing markets.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

Yet those who are calling for these new types of guilds contend that there is little choice but to explore fresh approaches, given that unions have been losing steam for decades amid an increasingly hostile political environment.

Calls for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained data on more than 87 million Facebook users from quizzes that were supposed to be for academic research.

Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips has been called chubby on social media, and her colleague, Health Minister Sarah Hoffman was criticized by a political rival for being «morbidly obese.»

From the very outset of his political campaign through the beginning of his presidency, Mr. Trump has maligned Mexicans by calling them rapists, criminals and undesirables.

«I personally would not call it a political slush fund; I'd call it a timber industry slush fund.»

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

Call us naïve, but this is the economic debate that Canadians deserve, and our political leaders should be having, in the lead up to the 2015 election.

That the clause has not been invoked for 56 years, and doing so wouldn't remotely comply with what Trudeau has called a «social licence» — a fashionable, non-legal concept swaddled in political fleece that means popular support for government projects — but still, that's how the country works.

It's the Times itself, of course, that has done so much to spark the current conversation around harassment with its exposés on Harvey Weinstein and Louis C.K.. There's probably no loftier perch in all of political journalism from which one could teach the trade and enlist young women into the calling — or, as the case may be, betray them.

It also poked Facebook by calling attention to the controversy that has surrounded the company since March, when it was revealed that the social network had allowed a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to harvest the information of up to 87 million Facebook users.

By 2011, he had taken a leading role in advising Trump on his growing political ambitions, launching a website called «Should Trump Run?»

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

«They said the decision was made on the eve of a presidential meeting, that the political conditions had changed, and there were no longer the conditions to keep negotiating as we had been,» Mr. Lopes said in a conference call with journalists on Wednesday.

We heard politicians talk about three separate bills throughout the two days: The Honest Ads Act to regulate online political advertising; The Consent Act, which would require users to opt in to share information with tech companies versus sharing it by default; and a similar sounding bill called the Browser Act.

Calls for peace talks with the Taliban continue in Afghanistan especially by one former insurgent group leader who has been brought into the political process.

Yesterday's hearing later took on a bizarre tone when Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican who sat on the panel and has received political contributions from the energy industry, at first apologized to BP for what he called his government's «shakedown,» and then, under pressure from his own party, apologized to everyone for the apology.