Sentences with phrase «power by corporations»

The increasing concentration of the world's population in cities and the growing accumulation of political and economic power by corporations create new threats and opportunities for improving global health.

In fact Jenkins was part of a veritable army of accomplished and well - connected lobbyists and consultants that achieved something that was, in its way, spectacular: the flat - out capitulation of the mayor, after an almost unprecedented display of political power by a corporation in New York.

Not exact matches

Apple's Dominance In Tablets Ends This Year (IDC via ValueWalk) Smartphones and tablets powered by the Android operating system will challenge Apple's dominance in the tablet market, according to the latest analysis released by the International Data Corporation (IDC).

Now we are still being abused by corporations, though they do it with money, power, and corrupt politicians.

It feels good to be helping the «little guy» in a world powered by big corporations.

People, person, or persons as used in this Constitution does not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.

The nation's largest chain of drive - in restaurants saw system - wide same - stores sales rise 2.2 percent during the first quarter, powered by a 2.3 percent increase at franchise drive - ins, the corporation reported Monday.

q Proxy Solicited by the Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders — April 26, 2016 Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, Michelle M. Browdy and Christina M. Montgomery, or any of them with the power of substitution, are hereby appointed Proxies of the undersigned to vote all common stock of International Business Machines Corporation owned on the record date by the + undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, One International Drive, Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia 31402, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

Last September, a boutique firm in Washington, called Zerodium, which sells flaws to governments and corporations, announced a $ 1 million bounty for anyone who would turn over an exploit in Apple's iOS 9 mobile operating system — the same operating system used to power the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission has approved Dominion Virginia Power's plan to build a 1,588 MW, natural gas - fired combined - cycle plant in Greensville County, rejecting the assertion by groups representing independent Continue Reading

U.S. - registered mutual funds distributed by Putnam Retail Management A Member of the Power Financial Corporation Group of Companies ™

SVX is a not - for - profit corporation, powered by MaRS Discovery District, supported by TMX Group Inc., the Government of Ontario, Torys LLP, and many other partners.

Provided, however, that an incentive stock option held by a participant who owns more than 10 % of the total combined voting power of all classes of our stock, or of certain of our parent or subsidiary corporations, may not have a term in excess of five years and must have an exercise price of at least 110 % of the fair market value of our common stock on the grant date.

Portag3 Ventures is a Canadian - based venture capital firm sponsored by Power Financial Corporation, IGM Financial Inc., and Great West - Lifeco Inc..

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Rather than scrap Nafta's arbitration tribunals, regarded by some free - trade critics as secretive bodies that give private corporations unbridled power to challenge foreign governments outside the court system, the letter proposed to «maintain and seek to improve procedures» for settling disputes.

State share sales expected this year include those of power generation company EVN Genco 3, estimated to be worth about $ 2.2 billion in local media reports, and the divestment of additional shares in $ 9.6 billion Airports Corporation of Vietnam, currently 95 percent owned by the government.

Public Power Corporation chief executive Manolis Panagiotakis referred on Thursday to the prospect of a considerable reduction in the utility's operating costs as well as extensive changes in its organization and function after the completion of its new business plan currently being drafted by consultant McKinsey & Company.

The present paper assumes an historical perception that the Creation of God is being undone by the power of science and technology, which is being manifested in the form of powers of exclusive truth of scientific knowledge, unlimited technological know - how, and their economic and political organization, such as the transnational corporation and the state, including the military machinery.

It still decides how much power can be exercised by corporations, both domestic and foreign.

The result was the rapid buying up of stations by large networks, which made possible the centralization of power in the hands of only a few multinational corporations who now own every part of the broadcasting system — radio, TV, cable, and satellite.

The repudiation of odious debts would be an act of independence by the debtor nations that could greatly decrease the power of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to shape their economies for the sake of greater profits and power for transnational corporations.

If economic decision - making is by transnational corporations impervious to local interests, then the power that can be exercised locally is too limited to hold the interest of people.

The presence of the poor, locked into deprivation and oppression by the principalities and powers of the age — multinational corporations, technocracy, repressive governments, to begin the obvious list — stands as a reminder of the forces of darkness.

Too often, in order to fight against the power - hungry and destructive spirit of oppression that governs many nations and corporations, the church has adopted the very same ideologies and methods that are used by the organization we fight against.

During the last quarter of a century the large mass media corporations themselves have been taken over by even larger corporate powers.

But media monopoly is not nearly so visible when exercised through economic means, through power wielded by large corporations.

The modern theory, which swept away every authority except that of the State, and has made the sovereign power irresistible by multiplying those who share it... condemns as a State within the State every inner group and community, class or corporation, administering its own affairs; and, by proclaiming the abolition of privileges, it emancipates the subjects of every such authority in order to transfer them exclusively to its own....

Close ties between the corporate world and the media can affect content in rather subtle ways: «The most powerful influence, possessed by all [media corporations], is the power to appoint media leaders.

This was partly because of its power as an ideology and partly because of the increasing control of the political order by those who would profit from this shift, the transnational corporations.

The treaty seeks not only to confer power to corporations at the expense of governments and communities, but also to secure such power by providing a new and unique avenue for legal redress.

Both groups reflect the sense of helplessness felt by the average individual in seeing himself or herself crushed by the Behemoth of power represented by all the levels of government bureaucracy, the wealth of massive corporations and the ubiquitous impact of the press, the radio and television.

Hercules, Caesar, Colleoni: there is symbolized brute strength, military power, political power, economic power, the power to enslave and destroy; the power of international arms sales, nuclear stockpiles, oil cartels and transnational corporations; the spiritual power of imposed belief and religious triumphalism demanding obedience and maintaining an uncertain peace by the balance of terror, whether by threats of hell or atomic apocalypse.

The Bill was introduced as a Private Members Bill by Senator Nick Xenophon The Bill would provide the Court with the power to order a corporation to reduce its market share, where the corporation has been found to have contravened subsections 46 (1) or 46 (1AA) of the Act.

The inquiry relates to a bill introduced by Senator Nick Xenophon which would provide the Court with the power to order a corporation to reduce its market share, where the corporation has been found to have contravened subsections 46 (1) or 46 (1AA) of the Act.

The much - vaunted «right to be forgotten», ruled upon by the European Court of Justice in 2010, he pointed out, is in fact a right not to feature in Google search, implying that one corporation now has the power to decide who is visible in our society.

A report released on Wednesday by state lawmakers tallied the top limited liability corporation givers to political campaigns, finding they range from top real - estate companies to high - powered law firms.

The Corporation is unique among British local authorities for its continuous legal existence over many centuries, and for having the power to alter its own constitution, which is done by an Act of Common Council.

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Assemblymember Kavanagh, Chair of the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee, held a press conference with Energy Chair Amy Paulin, Corporations Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz, Environmental Conservation Chair Steve Englebright, and other Assemblymembers to question the lack of transparency by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding massive subsidies to a large corporation to operate upstate nuclear power plants that are set to take effect on April 1.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has increased the supply of gas to the power sector between January 2017 to January 2018 by 88.89 %.

The move, which was first contemplated relocation to the site in 2008, would create a «one - stop» center for developers by bringing the ECIDA and its tenant, the Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, under the same roof as the Buffalo office of the Empire State Development Corporation and the New York Power Authority.

The coalition calls on the Governor to restore the power to State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for all state contracts exceeding $ 250,000, an end to non-academic contracting by state - controlled non-profit organizations, the creation of a comprehensive «database of deals,» and a prohibition against state authorities, corporations, and affiliated non-profits doing business... (read more)

The coalition calls on the Governor to restore the power to State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for all state contracts exceeding $ 250,000, an end to non-academic contracting by state - controlled non-profit organizations, the creation of a comprehensive «database of deals,» and a prohibition against state authorities, corporations, and affiliated non-profits doing business with their board members.

The nation's largest state - owned power corporation — which runs 16 generation facilities, including the Niagara Power Project, and owns more than 1,400 miles of transmission lines — is controlled by the Cuomo administrapower corporation — which runs 16 generation facilities, including the Niagara Power Project, and owns more than 1,400 miles of transmission lines — is controlled by the Cuomo administraPower Project, and owns more than 1,400 miles of transmission lines — is controlled by the Cuomo administration.

In December 2009, the LIPA Board of Trustees approved power purchase agreements with BP Solar International Inc. and enXco Development Corporation, thereby creating the State's largest source of solar power on Long Island by introducing approximately 50MW of clean renewable energy generated on Long Island onto LIPA's electric grid.

Under the budget language approved by lawmakers the Canal Corp. is «reconstituted» as a «subsidiary corporation of the Power Authority.»

This selection weighed against the selection of Zach Carter as Corporation Counsel (because he reportedly befriends disgraced public official John L. Sampson, but was a John Gotti, Jr. slayer and Abner Louima defender and knows that «Stop & Frisk» is not racial profiling when done right) may suggest bi-polarity for the mayor - elect, but I trust not paranoia for me as I am at a befuddled disadvantage on what to expect next: but we can ask a de Blasio agreement with Gov. Cuomo that neither of them will be involved in selecting the next Council Chair (because that would not only be unlawful but power prejudice ugly in these times of moral decay by the elected).

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

In December, the state of California approved a deal in which utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric would purchase 200 megawatts of power from a space - based system that will be deployed by Solaren Corporation by 2016.

At least six power plants, including Dongfang Electric in the city of Deyang where building collapses killed at least 100 workers and trapped hundreds more, have been damaged by the quake, according to the State Grid Corporation of China.