Sentences with phrase «public pressure in»

Animal right groups credit that OIG report, combined with their public pressure in Congress and with the Obama administration, for finally compelling federal action.

It is probably going to take either public pressure in the vein of a group of educators, politicians or big name celebs taking to the media to get them to back down even a bit.

As the war ground on, there was enormous public pressure in the North to negotiate with the South, and any peace treaty would surely have preserved slavery.

Nevertheless, governments are, in principle, subject to public pressure in ways that corporations, especially TNCs are not.

Not exact matches

In July, Puerto Rico ignored pressure from the Centers for Disease Control and sided with public concerns about naled's safety when it decided against using the insecticide.

If the public starts to doubt, it may demand higher wages or payments to compensate for expected price increases, or delay investments or purchases in anticipation of deflationary pressures.

As Bloomberg pointed out last month, Spotify's recent deal to raise $ 1 billion in convertible debt valued the company at roughly $ 8 billion and put additional pressure on the streaming service to go public.

Founded in 1997, Noise Solutions is an engineering - driven outfit that sprang up in response to mounting public pressure from communities located near mine sites and oil - drilling operations.

That's another big learning: I see companies go public too quickly and then feel pressure to show profitability and can't invest in growth the way they could had they stayed private.

And in a turn that is likely to be most significant for his campaign, in 2014 he was indicted for corruption, on charges stemming from his veto of a $ 7.5 million appropriation for a public integrity unit, seen as a bid to pressure a district attorney to step down.

When the company went public in 2004, Page and Brin publicly declared that Google would never sacrifice long - term goals in response to pressure from shareholders.

The state, which has the highest incarceration rate in the country, is feeling the pressure of a massive criminal justice budget, and is already slashing funds for public defenders.

The outcry after the shooting has sparked public pressure on corporations who offer discounts to the NRA as well as asset managers who invest in gun manufacturers.

The chain was bumped to the # 3 spot in the industry by Wendy's at the end of last year, and the pressure to succeed is on as it prepares to go public again.

Of course, in those two cases, the employers» hands were forced by enormous public pressure.

«Horowitz will call this an effort to be «transparent,» but the response from the public will be the same — that it is a response to political pressure,» said Frank Montoya Jr., a former FBI special agent who retired in 2016 and worked closely with the former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

'' (If) we rounded up 100 creative, career - oriented women, it is likely that perfectionism would be rampant, especially if we measure the pressure to be perfect that we have called socially prescribed perfectionism, and the need to seem perfect when presenting the self in public,» Flett told us during a summer Sunday morning e-mail chat.

The 25 - year - old star recently opened up to INSIDER about how she copes with the urge to drink and the pressure to stay sober in the public eye.

Daniel Feldman, a special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan under Obama, said the Obama administration found it more effective to pressure Islamabad over safe havens «in private than in public, and to keep the long - standing Indo - Pak rivalry from playing out in Afghanistan».

In addition, sales of our products are affected by pricing pressure, political and public scrutiny and reimbursement policies imposed by third - party payers, including governments, private insurance plans and managed care providers and may be affected by regulatory, clinical and guideline developments and domestic and international trends toward managed care and healthcare cost containment.

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.

After an initial public offering in March that gave it a theoretical market value of $ 27 billion, Snap is facing considerable pressure to show that it can increase revenue, and quickly.

Interview summaries released previously by the FBI also show at least one official in the State Department telling investigators that there was pressure by senior department officials to mislead the public about the presence of classified information in Clinton's emails ahead of their public release.

With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill now the worst in US history, public pressure is growing on BP to contain and remove the ever - spreading slick.

A few months earlier, Beijing had applied similar pressure on European nations, this time to join with it in an unprecedented public call to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.

I truly believe that it's time, after almost a decade of prosperity in the public markets and the global economy, that we put pressure on the entrepreneurial community as a whole to start focusing on making money versus raising money.

This is because the province has accumulated a large public debt that given the prospects for an economic slowdown and / or rising interest rates will potentially increase fiscal pressure via debt service costs which in 2016 - 17 totaled $ 11.7 billion or just over 8 percent of total government spending.

If «Tromc» made its public debut with this call, it was nevertheless The Los Angeles Times that took center stage in what we may call, probably briefly, the Lagos Gambit (POLITICO: «L.A. Times poised to get big push from Tribune as sale pressure lingers»).

Both in private and in public (and on Twitter), Trump has mocked and harshly criticized Sessions since he recused himself from oversight of the Russia probe, in an apparent effort to pressure him into resigning.

In this, Google is like Facebook and lots of other recently public companies that have chosen to avoid good - governance pressure (return capital!

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

On hand will be several of our Sector Leads and analysts to review and discuss S&P Global's research related to credit pressures facing U.S. states and local governments, with a focus on pension issues and emerging risks / trends in public finance.

Following the financial crisis of 2008, the government passed new laws circumscribing how lenders could be compensated, and public pressure provided an additional incentive for lenders to reign in the practices that had made them rich during the housing boom.

When Airbnb and Amazon become the self - proclaimed voices of public morality — a trend we're seeing in America more broadly — the pressure on megachurches to act with no less magnanimity is even stronger.

There was public pressure for federal action in many areas, and the White Paper on Employment and Income advocated federal responsibility for these areas.

The NRA has come under considerable public pressure for the influence its lobbying has cultivated in Washington, D.C..

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:

However, I think the awareness - raising effort is primarily directed at the public, and in particular those who can, by way of investment choices (whether as a shareholder or a tourist), put economic pressure on those decision - makers.

Management at a public company is under a great deal of pressure to meet quarterly earnings forecasts, because falling slightly short can cause a significant drop in the stock price.

New accounting rules are likely to show that public pension plans could face hundreds of billions of dollars in additional liabilities, putting new pressure on state and local governments to act.

Coming off a year wracked with public scandal, Khosrowshahi is under a great deal of pressure to turn the company around in 2018.

«Virtually anyone running a public company in that group could not deal with the pressure from their constituents,» Schwarzman said.

The pick - up in the WCI data in the second half of 2003 partly reflected the spreading out of increases in wage pressures to a broader range of industries, after having been concentrated in public - sector and related industries earlier in the year (Table 17).

In somewhat of a surprise move, Nunes's committee unanimously voted on Monday to release Schiff's memo — putting pressure on Trump to make it public within five days.

Prior says that «as the aging population starts to jeopardise the sustainability of current healthcare funding it will place increased pressure on both public and private payers to find cheaper, more efficient ways of delivering care, and where possible reduce the need for care in the first place.»

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

But it'll also be decided in part by public pressure.

The NRA has lately remained defiant in its unequivocal pro-gun stance, despite growing public pressure for lawmakers, regulators, and, increasingly, corporate America to do something on guns.

Co-presented by Scotiabank and KPMG, the WXN awards celebrate and highlight the professional achievements of women across the country in the private, public and not - for - profit sectors at a time when corporate Canada is under growing pressure to promote more female leaders into senior management and corporate director roles.

Resentment is growing not only towards those who ran up the debts — Iceland's bankrupt Kaupthing and Landsbanki, with its Icesave accounts, and heavily geared property owners in the Baltics and central Europe — but also towards the foreign advisers and creditors who put pressure on these governments to sell off the banks and public companies to insiders.