Sentences with phrase «proposed by activist»

Lagardere shareholders reject activist demandsShareholders in Lagardere SCA (MMB.FR) voted Thursday against motions proposed by activist investor Amber Capital to change the group's corporate governance.

MILAN, April 23 (Reuters)- A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia (TIM) and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

MILAN, April 23 - A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

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Consumer products maker Newell Brands has agreed to add three independent directors to its board, including one proposed by hedge fund Starboard Value, ending a months - long proxy fight with the activist investor.

Although Ottawa and industry associations continue supporting it, a consortium of activist groups called the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability has begun campaigning for an ombudsman reminiscent of that proposed by Mackay years earlier.

Democrats, liberal advocacy groups, and immigrants» rights activists have long been opposed to the idea, which has been repeatedly proposed by Republican lawmakers in recent years.

The proposed «Bring Business to Texas and Fairness in Disclosure Act» (the «Texas Act») is purportedly intended to «foster and promote the immediate and full disclosure of the individual ownership of persons who are activist investors» and «prohibit discrimination by a proxy advisory firm.»

Signed by the leading deal lawyer Martin Lipton and seven other Wachtell partners, the memo proposes that company boards consider adopting a bylaw prohibiting shareholder activists from compensating director nominees.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

That irony notwithstanding, antiwar activist John McConnell, having seen the pictures taken by Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders from the command module windows of Apollo VIII, created the «Earth Day flag» from one of those photos and in 1969 proposed a global holiday in celebration of the earth to a UNESCO conference being held in San Francisco.

«Another objection to moral relativism is called by Fred Feldman «The Reformer's Dilemma,» which describes the situation of an activist who sees a society in need of improvement and feels compelled to propose some alteration for its citizens.

I'm hardly a rabid anti-corporate activist, but when Nestle showed up in my small northern California town and tried to intimidate legal opponents of its proposed water bottling plant by subpoenaing their private financial records, I started investigating the company, and what I saw was not very encouraging.

An overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention tonight voted to scrap the the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activists.

Surrounded by a phalanx of supportive fellow City Council members and activists from the Real Affordability for All coalition outside City Hall today, Council Member Costa Constantinides called for more affordable units in the proposed 8.7 - acre, 1,723 - unit Astoria Cove rezoning that reached the Council last week following its approval by the City Planning Commission.

Founded by two young party activists, Patrick Ruffini and Mindy Finn, the site proposes to start by rebuilding the often marginalized conservative blogosphere.

Some of you might remember that I have always claimed to the only genuine English Democrat Party activist contibuting to this board and I am utterly dismayed by the very limited constitutional reform being proposed.

Daniel Roskoff, a longtime community activist who is managing Ling - Cohan's bid, proposed that the panel be reformed by «1) following American Bar Association guidelines for incumbents, 2) change the threshold for incumbents to a 75 - percent negative vote for rejection, 3) allow appeals, and 4) vet panelists for conflicts.»

Lib Dem activists oppose most of Andrew Lansley's proposed changes and want Clegg to exercise his influence by watering them down.

Ministers are proposing to scrap key stage 1 SATs and replace them with a new baseline test for reception children, but union activists remain unconvinced by the proporals and a lack of action over tests for older pupils.

Trish Gorham, president of the Oakland Education Association, said the actions of a small group of activists pale in comparison with the uncertainty created by some of the sweeping changes Wilson has proposed.

At the public hearing conducted by our Board on the proposed rule, there was testimony from fifty witnesses, the large majority in opposition, primarily representing the teachers» unions and advocacy groups, colleges of education, and assorted education activists.

Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on school choice, equitable access and the BPS budget.

Jennifer Fearing, California Senior State Director for the Humane Society of United States August 2012 You can be as relentlessly activist as you want to be, but you'll only be successful if the decision - makers and people who work with them can be persuaded by you to embrace what you're proposing.

Copies of the proposed ordinance will be mailed to veterinarians, animal rights activists and will be reviewed by the county's legal department before commissioners take any action.

For the most part, the legislation being proposed around the country is being promoted by a few very well - funded national animal - rights organizations and then embraced by local activists.

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.

La Kunsthalle Mulhouse presents Sous nos yeux («Before our eyes»), a three parts project proposed by Abdellah Karroum, associate curator featuring works by Adel Abdessemed, Gabriella Ciancimino, Badr El Hammami, Pedro Gómez - Egaña and Younès Rahmoun, and an intervention by the group LMDP (l'Autre moitié du paysage) in collaboration with social activists and cultural organisations.

The title is derived from a theory proposed in 1987 by American scholar and activist Raine Eisler.

Animal rights activists are up in arms about a proposed experiment which would try to better understand what factors may help people survive an avalanche — by burying pigs in snow to monitor their slow deaths.

Is it scientific or is it activist to shut down petroleum production to save people from starving due to AGW considering that 1 — the proposed solution causes the same problem and 2 — there is no attributable damage by agw?

CoalSwarm began in 2007 as an informal effort by journalists and activists to document over 150 proposed coal plants in the United States.

When solutions proposed by more «liberal» activists trigger their Marxism alarm, they should be challenged to offer solutions that don't.

NextGen is backed by Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmental activist who has committed a good deal of time and money to trying to defeat the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

But when he proposes links between his own historical field and that of climate science he drops all scholarly standards and quotes any old conference paper or telephone conversation he feels like; mad activists and conspiracy theorists like Oreskes and Powell; or Mark Maslin, a professor - cum - company director who combines his job at my old university as palaeontologist or geographer or climatologist (all descriptions of his expertise taken from «the Conversation») with that of director of Rezatec Ltd, a company set up by the Royal Society as a «Leading provider of data - as - a-service geospatial data analytics» to serve those who may be worried to death by forecasts of eco-doom to be found in the books and articles of Mark Maslin.

Lead by Kanahus Manuel and other activists from the Secwepemc tribes, volunteer builders from all over North America have began showing up to help with the construction of the tiny homes, which are being constructed on wheels so they can easily be moved along the proposed pipeline route according to where they are needed.

On that day, communities, civil society groups and other activists will organise various mobilisation actions — from street walks to the community forums, field visits to affected sites, exhibitions and press conferences — all of them united by the same message: No to fossil fuels in Africa, targeting the existing and proposed fossil fuel projects on the continent.

First proposed back in 1992 at the Earth Summit by the Government of Canada, it took activists from Oceana and and other conservation and ocean protection groups signing petitions by the thousands to get the UN to finally make it official.

But a secret government document leaked to green activists shows the officials last week proposed cutting emissions by 45 to 60 percent of 2006 levels by 2050 instead.