Sentences with phrase «public battle for»

Hachette Book Group (HBG) and Amazon have reached a new agreement on e-book and print sales in the US following a very public battle for public opinion.

Hachette Book Group (HBG) and Amazon have reached a new agreement on e-book and print sales in the US following a very public battle for...

Of course, the last thing the new Browns want is to get in a public battle for a coach with Modell, and perhaps lose.

Not exact matches

Environmental groups have started a new court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

So far the battle has entailed more words than action, with the tax's supporters trading charged public comments with representatives of the tech companies such as Weinberg's Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, which represents Salesforce, Google, Pinterest, Twilio, and others.

«The current legislation is just the latest battle in what has been a long series of events for the past 150 years,» says Leslie Lenkowsky, professor of practice in public affairs and philanthropy, at Indiana University, in Bloomington.

Keystone has become a can't - lose battle for the environmental movement, with activists staging frequent protests against the pipeline and California billionaire Tom Steyer funding major advertising campaigns to move public opinion.

Among them are the dangers of building a media property around a single individual — Grantland was created for and by Bill Simmons, who left ESPN in May after a series of acrimonious public battles.

Fox News, for its part, appears to have tried to repair its relationship with Trump, although the Republican candidate has said that he won't appear for a Fox debate hosted by Megyn Kelly, the anchor he has had a very public battle with for the past few months.

A version of this article appears in print on, on Page A10 of the New York edition with the headline: Shrinking Newsrooms Wage Fewer Battles for Public Access to Courtrooms.

In the case of Whole Foods, Neuberger Berman lobbied for the activists to do the messy work of battling the company in public.

And after years of public battles and a very messy public separation from his second wife — which resulted in him moving out of Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence — his poll numbers sank and many New Yorkers were eager for a change at City Hall.

«This is par for the course for Dish, which has deliberately derailed 10 renewal negotiations since last year by engaging in unproductive discussions and contentious public battles.»

The visits were not just about economics; they provided the Islamic Republic with a long - denied public relations platform in the intensifying battle for ideological supremacy in the Middle East.

Grievances with a public company's board are typically fought in drawn - out proxy battles that can be costly and frustrating even for large shareholders.

He stepped off the board of eBay in March 2014 after public battles with Carl Icahn, an activist investor who pushed for the company to split with PayPal, its payments unit.

Two notable and highly - public examples include the relaxation of the «bona fide» office requirement in New Jersey permitting the use of virtual offices, and the very public federal court battle about New York Judiciary Law § 470and its office requirements for non-residents.

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

«For someone like me who has long campaigned for open and honest data in public life I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue,» she told the BFor someone like me who has long campaigned for open and honest data in public life I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue,» she told the Bfor open and honest data in public life I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue,» she told the BBC.

I hope that the family's legal battles will be resolved quickly so that a second season of their lives together can be filmed for public viewing.

As these battles were public and not private, I issued a public apology via the Sojourners God's Politics blog in 2010 (can't find the link as they revamped the site) and in my book Jesus Died For This?

Since his first arrest, Byle has been plagued by problems with Turkish authorities, including a five - year court battle for residency that ended, seemingly, in January 2015, when a court ruled that the government had not shown significant evidence that he was «a threat to national security and public morals» or that he had ever even committed a crime.

But the fundamentalists lost the battle for public opinion during the «Scopes Monkey Trial» in 1925.

During the great battles on the legalization of divorce and homosexual acts, the notable campaigners then were really distinguished public figures, for example: Bruce Arnold, mentioned above, Prof. Richard Humphries of the University College Dublin School of Law, historian Prof. John A. Murphy mentioned above, of University College Cork, the journalist Kevin Myers, the literary critic Prof. David Norris of Trinity College Dublin, former Reid Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, later President of the Republic, Mary Robinson.

The coming battle is really several different battles: a struggle within the Church to combat ignorance, misunderstanding and dissent; a political fight to maintain the freedom of religion for Catholics; and a public policy battle to form the law of the land.

I arrogantly declined to attend the local high school and college games; and with eyes narrowed and brows aloft I flipped from the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday TV battles to the public broadcasting channel for a film by Ingmar Bergman or a lecture from Chicago on recent trends in Bulgarian poetry.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

The laws, which are now being reviewed under a public comment period, will likely spark a legal battle over who would pay for burials and whether or not such rules should even be on the books.

This formula is perhaps better suited to rhetorical use in public discourse than for rigorous intellectual analysis (where the battle to vindicate natural law should continue), but «the received moral wisdom of the American people» is far from being an expression of empty propaganda.

In the battle for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter, Murray Goulburn approached the tribunal directly for authorisation, arguing the public benefit of creating an Aussie champion dairy producer outweighed the competitive detriment of allowing the transaction.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

One Of A Kind After courageously battling medical troubles more severe than the public knew, the incomparable Walter Payton lost his fight for life at age 45

Despite falling to Wake Forest 35 - 30 last weekend, the public is confident that the Seminoles can rebound to take down the Blue Devils by at least a pair of TDs, especially after the news that star QB EJ Manuel is expected to start after battling a shoulder injury for the past two weeks.

Moms and dads imagine big (public) messes, stressful tantrums and a long, drawn out battle for the... more

Moms and dads imagine big (public) messes, stressful tantrums and a long, drawn out battle for the bowl.

For those of us who stood with you and fought with you during the passage of the HHFKA, it would have been disheartening (though understandable, in my opinion) if you'd decided to wage this battle quietly and out of the public eye.

Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income students deserve the same respect and services as higher income students.

Where once we had a great battle of ideologies in public life, between the socialist left and the capitalist right, between authoritarians and liberals, now we have only the coffee house gossip of whether Keith Vaz will get a knighthood for his vote on 42 days and the identities of the «thirty women» Nick Clegg says he has slept with.

Stevens called on the government to recognise the strength of public commitment to the NHS and make good on the EU referendum battle bus commitment of # 350m a week for the service.

His unwisely provocative comments in public exchanges with Alastair Campbell on BBC Question Time and private ones with Owen Smith in the summer were in the context of the internal battle that has raged for a year.

The long - running battle between the Working Families Party and the NY Post continues this morning with an e-mail from the labor - backed party's executive director that uses the tabloid's latest anti-WFP editorial as a rallying cry for a statewide public campaign financing system.

Kolb was specifically referencing the highly public battle between the mayor and the governor over who's responsible for the downstate transit crisis, and, perhaps more importantly, who should be on the hook for paying to clean it up.

In the first term, Cuomo battled public labor unions over the Tier Six pension measure, cut a deal with lawmakers in the Assembly and Senate to draw their own legislative boundaries, capped property taxes and was hesitant to embrace taxing the rich that was called for by the nascent Occupy Wall Street movement.

The former chair of the public accounts committee discusses five years of fighting for taxpayers - and the ongoing battle over Labour's future.

While there may be some legislative twists and turns in the House of Lords, the battle for public opinion has been won by supporters of SSM, and by 2015 the fuss will largely have been forgotten.

That would be very good for the WFP in advance of the 2013 NYC mayor's race, and also for NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who — at the moment, anyway — looks to be the likely standard - bearer for the labor - backed party in the battle to succeed Mayor Bloomberg.

He uses it first to prevent any new spending commitment, having put aside the understanding of the damage caused by austerity that he showed in his Bloomberg speech in favour of a preference for building an image of fiscal conservatism — though by doing so he has allowed the government to win the battle for public opinion.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans, a Newsday review of public records shows.