Sentences with phrase «public battle with»

But many companies are still feeling sickly — and possibly not in the mood for a public battle with a telegenic activist.

In writing about the tragic career of poet John Berryman, whose agonizing and embarrassingly public battle with alcoholism ended with a leap from a Minneapolis bridge in 1972, she describes a man who wrestled with an unfinished novel about recovery while trying and failing to stay sober.

Hachette, currently entangled in a long and very public battle with Amazon, relies heavily... [Read more...]

Hachette, currently entangled in a long and very public battle with Amazon, relies heavily on fiction bestsellers.

For over a year, Alliance management has been in a public battle with UTLA over the unionization effort.

The former Alias star has been hitting the headlines in recent weeks due to her public battle with French businessman Jean - David Blanc, which...

Diagnosed with binge - eating disorder, a Boise DJ takes on a very public battle with obesity.

ALBANY — The very public battle with breast cancer being waged by celebrity chef Sandra Lee, Governor Andrew Cuomo's girlfriend, comes amid higher awareness of the illness, higher rates of diagnosed incidence, and lower mortality rates in New York.

Instead of engaging in an unseemly, public battle with the White House, the organization could be closely allied with a still - hugely popular First Lady to jointly advance the cause of improved school nutrition, able to take advantage of all the prime PR opportunities only someone like Michelle Obama can offer.

That's been due in large part to the work of new offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, back in the coaching spotlight after a very public battle with alcoholism

The company got into a public battle with Steve Jobs over the publication of pictures of a prototype iPhone that was found at a bar.

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.

«The court is going to decide this case based on the economic realities of the video distribution and content markets and not on President Trump's public battle with CNN.»

Dish is no stranger to public battles with TV programmers.

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.

The former president, Thabo Mbeki, has fought bitter internal and public battles with the fiery and controversial Jacob Zuma.

In the last 10 days, Mr. Cuomo has also engaged in fresh public battles with Mr. de Blasio, his longtime Democratic rival, calling elements of his record «repugnant,» threatening to declare a state of emergency in the city's public housing and working closely with the City Council to secure money for the subways that the mayor has resisted spending.

Some worried the state's program would yield disappointing results, similar to those reported in Michigan, Tennessee and Louisiana, all states that launched like - minded charter takeover programs in the last decade but reported lackluster results, financial headaches and public battles with angry parents.

[7] public battles with angry parents.: https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/tn/2015/12/21/asd-school-takeover-process-a-scam-say-parents-who-worked-with-asd/

Amazon had many very public battles with various states arguing that it's distribution warehouses did not constitute a physical presence of a retail operation.

The president of a foundation that controls funding for a cryptocurrency project called Tezos has pledged to «step back» from his role once the project is back on track, after months of dysfunction and public battles with Tezos» founders.

Not exact matches

Later chapters offer a detailed peek into how the Canadian media sausage is made, detailing the challenges of offsetting public funding with ad sales, the overwhelming importance of NHL hockey to the CBC's operating budget, Ceeb - style office politics and the uphill battle against the private channels of Corus, Rogers and Bell.

Of course, Ackman has waged a very public battle, teaming with Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX), to buy Allergan, resulting in Allergan filing a lawsuit against the hostile bidders and, now, the SEC is reportedly investigating the legality of the Ackman - Valeant bid.

The survey, which polled 1,002 U.S. adults, also highlighted the fact that the DOJ and Apple legal battle has become a hot topic in the public sphere, with 75 % of respondents saying they have heard a lot about it since the news came out last week.

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.

Apple, with the support of the entire tech industry behind it, successfully swayed public opinion in March in its legal battle against the Department of Justice.

Lawsuits have been filed in Delaware court, and the battle is public, with Diller calling names.

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.

«The public confidence is everything in this business,» he said, adding that the company faced an uphill battle persuading defense contractors to be open to sharing some sort of command and control with other drones.

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.

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.

The agreement, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday, comes days after Ackman resigned from Penney's board as part of a deal to resolve an unusually public battle between the activist investor and the struggling department store.

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).

But if the problem began, as I would suggest, with the courts, then the battle continues and will not end until the Supreme Court proclaims a new dispensation more respectful of the appropriate role of religion in the public square.

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.

President Reagan in a telephone conversation with Thomas Dine, Executive Director of the American - Israeli Public Affairs Committee, on October 18, 1983, mused about Armageddon, the final battle on earth: `... and I find myself wondering if — if we're the generation that's going to see that come about» (quoted in AG.

So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate (p13).

With their «establishment» battles securely won, Jews must now decide whether they can tolerate their own religious symbols in the public square, precisely where Christmas trees and crèches are already located.

Their son's battle with depression had been something only family friends knew about, but as his tragic death made headlines around the world, the Warrens» personal grief would be lived out in the public spotlight.

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.

All the more misplaced... are the efforts by some supposedly Jewish organizations to arouse, through their battles against Christmas symbols in public places, the ill will and resentment of Christians» at the very time when the Christian religion, more than at other times of the year, inspires its followers with irenic and philanthropic sentiments.»

:) It's also funny how once we become moms and we're in public — when we'd normally be a bit more shy or self conscious — nothing fazes us as long as we come out alive and conquering any battles we may have faced with baby.

The supermarket chain's healthy sales suggest the court battle with the competitor regulator has not materially damaged its reputation with the public.

AMR Managing Director, Oliver Freedman, said the change could be attributed to public awareness of financial issues, including the future of the Masters brand, teamed with ongoing public discussion about whether it was losing the battle against Coles and Aldi.

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

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.

In an OVC battle, the Panthers of Eastern Illinois are getting very little public love with just 18 % of spread tickets.

«It's a public park in a very high - density neighborhood, where many homes have small yards or no yard at all,» said Plotkin, 32, a Chicago emergency room physician who, along with some of her neighbors and Friends of the Parks, is battling to preserve the park and its more than 60 trees.

The hand sanitizer all over the place could be replaced with CleanWell or another option but I have to pick my battles and love the overall concept this public school is striving to teach the children.