Sentences with phrase «pressured by activists»

The op / ed is Flanagan's most extensive remarks since the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference this summer has been pressured by activists groups and the mainline conference to align themselves with the rest of their party in the Senate.

Apple and Amazon were pressured by activists to stop streaming content from the National Rifle Association through the organization's NRAtv channel.

Whole Foods hired the advisory firm Evercore Partners earlier this year to defend itself from pressure by activist shareholder Jana Partners, which announced in April it had amassed an 8.3 percent stake and pushed for changes to the Whole Foods board of directors.

Active owners focused on performance: Expect pressure by activists and institutions for boards to control under - performing management to continue unabated.

(Bloomberg)-- Ashford Hospitality Prime Inc., a U.S. hotel owner that has been under pressure by activist investors, received an unsolicited offer from the Weisman Group to buy the company for about $ 735 million in cash...

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Huntsman abandoned its $ 20 billion merger with Clariant under pressure from activist investors led by Keith Meister's Corvex (through a vehicle called «White Tale»).

The bid was raised after the company was pressured by shareholders led by activist hedge fund Elliott Management.

Costs are both financial, including listing fees and the expenses associated with mandatory disclosures and other regulatory requirements, and less tangible, such as the perceived burden of quarterly earnings releases, the risk of being targeted by activist investors, and higher visibility that can result in political or competitive pressure.

Tenet Healthcare, under pressure from an activist investor, said on Tuesday it would explore a sale of its Conifer unit, and increase the size of its plan to cut costs by $ 100 million by the end of 2018.

Activists use their ownership stakes in public companies to pressure them to change in order to boost returns — whether by restructuring their businesses, shaking up management, or even putting themselves up for sale.

As if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltz.

Buoyed by an unquenchable thirst for short - term stock gains, traders and activist investors are mounting pressure on a wide array of companies to cut research and capital expenditures in order to increase stock buybacks and thus boost stock prices.

Bowing to the pressure, Chesapeake said this week that four current board members will be replaced with new directors chosen by two top investors, activist Carl C. Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management.

Major clients like Unilever and Procter & Gamble Co. have been cutting marketing costs under pressure from activist investors, while companies disrupted by new technologies have been shaving their advertising budgets.

I guess the lesson of Travis Kalanick's resignation as chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. is that you can be the visionary founder of a massive company, stay private to avoid the pressures of the public market, keep control of a majority of the voting power of the shares, and still be forced out in a boardroom coup led by activist shareholders:

Duperreault arguably owes his new job to pressure put on AIG by activist investor Carl Icahn, who has been agitating for new management to join the company and move to split it up and sell the parts to unlock value for shareholders.

Rent - A-Center Inc (NASDAQ: RCII) has been under pressure from activist investors to explore a sale, and said in early April it plans on reaching a decision by the second quarter.

A number of companies are sticking by the NRA, at least for now, including FedEx, which has been under activist pressure to end its discount for the NRA for over a year.

In a lengthy profile by Texas Monthly, he says that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein was eager to court his business when Whole Foods first came under pressure from an activist investor to look for a takeover.

Writing on his website, Scott Lively said that «pressure and harassment by LGBT activists», was the reason it was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual back in 1973, but called for it to be put back in.

A pioneering h0m0 activist Frank Kameny celebrated by fellow h0m0 the world over and honored by big O and his adm - in says the God of the Bible is a sinful h0m0pho bigot who needs to repent of his sinful h0m0pho.He was integral in pressuring the APA to reclassify gay activities as normal, has written to a pro-family organization that he believes bestiality is fine, as long as the animal doesn't mind.»

Doubling as an activist campaign to pressure companies to make changes, NCOSE produced a watch list, which includes several household companies used by millions of Americans daily.

Stephen Green in his book «The Sexual Dead End» describes how the Chief Superintendent in charge of the Metropolitan Police Community Relations Branch was «worn down» by pressure of Gay activists.

All this was refuted from those that were pressured by the gay activist groups to say there was such a thing as the gay gene.

Victorian farmers say they are being unfairly targeted by animal activists, putting pressure on their businesses and personal lives.

The chain insists that it didn't drop the toys due to activist pressure, but rather because consumers weren't influenced by the toy in the first place when choosing the meals.

But Koppell is apparently siding with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that feels the reunification of the warring Democratic factions in the Senate, which was engineered by the governor a few weeks ago as he started to significantly feel pressure from his own primary challenger, actress and activist Cynthia Nixon, is too little, too late.

Even though they have been given a free vote by their anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn, many Labour MPs will feel pressure from their constituency parties and local left - wing activists not to vote in the same lobby as the Tories.

UPDATE: Interestingly, this letter — which, as I noted above, is dated April 29 — was released on the very same day Schumer is facing pressure from gay activists over over whether a provision sought by same - sex couples will be included in the immigration reform bill.

Using the mic check style of call and response made popular by the Occupy movement, Brown says he and other activists will stay night and day to pressure lawmakers to add the funds.

Progressive conservatism pressure group Bright Blue launched its new, trendily titled book Tory Modernisation 2.0: The future of the Conservative party yesterday afternoon, which comprises progressive visions for the party's future by politicians, journalists and activists, a foreword by Francis Maude MP, and a quirkily - angled front cover the typeface of which looks suspiciously like Helvetica.

Think tanks, pressure groups and Conservative activists are appalled by the government's U-turn on tobacco.

Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill their promise to swiftly repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Activists then promoted community pressure groups to protect the «democracy and development» gains made by the mass movement during the PNDC era.

This significant turnaround by the Cuomo administration, which announced plans in 2012 to introduce fracking in New York's Southern Tier, comes after years of unrelenting pressure from community activists, including Greens across New York.

With a series of allegations faced by some Labour MPs, as well as a number of Conservatives, Corbyn has been under pressure to explain why he made Hopkins shadow culture secretary in 2016 after complaints from a party activist.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Continuing their pressure on Governor Andrew Cuomo to add $ 70 million in AIDS spending to the budget for the state fiscal year that begins on April 1, roughly 30 AIDS activists took control of a suite near Cuomo's office in Albany and began reading the names of the New Yorkers who -LSB-...]

Cuomo too has been under pressure to reunify the two warring sides from activists from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party who feel he has emboldened the Senate GOP by not doing enough to bring intraparty peace in the chamber.

General News of Wednesday, 9 May 2018 Source: classfmonline.com Hajia Fati is a known activist of New Patriotic Party (NPP) Social pressure group, OccupyGhana ®, has condemned the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for offering a «forced» and «half - hearted» apology over the assault of a journalist by a party supporter, Hajia Fati, at the party's headquarters.

While activists there are not as vocal as their counterparts in Europe or the United States, they have made an impact by encouraging transparency and pressuring local governments and industries to adhere to new national regulations.

Environmental activists said they are heartened by the number of countries that are moved to action but said pressure must remain on nations to both improve their targets and build a way in the Paris deal to regularly review and ratchet up carbon - cutting commitments.

Cynical self - preservationist Clive Owen, a government paper - pusher with an activist past, is pressured by a group of underground insurgents to forge transport papers for a very special person: a woman who may hold the key to the future.

Hotels and other public venues are frequently pressured to not rent meeting rooms to activists, who note that they have also been intimidated and followed by security officers.

According to reports by People's Daily Online, Jian Zhicheng, the director of Xinwu Animal Protection and Education Centre in Taiwan has committed suicide after facing pressure by animal rights activists.

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 those places where current retailers do exist, they are often vastly outnumbered and outspent by activists with a national network of support and a handbook that covers everything from proposing a ban to drumming up media attention and grassroots pressure.

Climate activists are trying to rally folks around an extreme agenda of halting new fossil - fuel projects, denying natural gas and oil industry's financial support by pressuring lenders and investors and pushing for a fast transition to renewable energy.

The event was also organised by CMEP, its second parent - a now dormant or defunct outfit operated by BBC reporter Roger Harrabin and climate activist Dr Joe Smith, and once funded by the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and pressure groups.

It has grown haphazardly, with isolated successes and failures... To have a political effect, the «extended peers» of science have traditionally needed to operate largely by means of activist pressure - groups using the media to create public alarm.»

And Baronnes now Bryony, ever the activist is also a board member of the 10:10 Campaign, which was behind the «No Pressure» blowing up sceptics, including children in a classroom, by their teacher, PR disaster..