Sentences with phrase «public pressure over»

Still, Democrats in the mainline conference are banking on public pressure over the presidency of Donald Trump.

The move came amid public pressure over implementation screw - ups and amid a multi-million-dollar media battle between the soda industry and public health organizations.

Not exact matches

A lot of times companies or brands are taken over or go public and they're suddenly under pressure to make it new and fresh to placate investors.

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».

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.

Facebook has named a new head of U.S. public policy as the company deals with ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and increasing pressure over privacy around the world.

The President has been subject to public and private pressure campaigns over releasing the memo and told a lawmaker who urged him to release the document on Tuesday not to worry.

But the understandable anxiety of American Jews over the future of Israel — especially when they hear of rocket attacks by terrorists against villages in northern Israel (and of Israel's massive retaliation)-- should not lead American Jews to think that unceasing pressure against the president, the Congress and public opinion in this country represents the best means of ensuring Israel's future security.

Public debates over farmgate milk prices will take place across Britain over the next couple of weeks, as producers and campaign groups look to maintain pressure on retailers and processors.

«This is a really proud moment for every one of them because protecting public health triumphed over industry pressure.

Klein, a Bronx Democrat who leads the growing, seven - member conference, sharply rebuked the efforts over the last several days by mainline Democrats to unify the conference by involving Cuomo and putting public pressure on him through various left - leaning advocacy groups and the Working Families Party.

Over the weekend, Dan Padernacht, the candidate who had refused to heed Samuels» call and pressure from a plethora of Rivera backers (WFP, 1199, NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, state Demoratic Party Executive Director Charlie King et al) to quit the race, finally decided to throw in the towel, saying King had played a key role in helping him get there.

But the debate over public financing is a complex one for the Senate, with Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein facing pressure from liberal advocacy groups to deliver on the issue.

For Ms. Mark - Viverito, passing the legislation would provide a capstone to her reform record that includes new laws to create civil penalties for certain infractions, like public urination, and pushing for the closure of the Rikers Island jail complex, a stance that helped pressure Mr. de Blasio to agree to close the facility over the next decade.

He bowed to intense pressure to quit and save his party further embarrassment and damage from the row over his payment of hundreds of thousands of pounds of public funds to his wife and two sons.

Meanwhile pressure continues to build against Coughlan, who has been under fire since April over retweets he sent from his personal Twitter account, including one made public this week that stated, «Unless you're my wife don't call them «our» children.

The controversy over banker bonuses last came to the public eye with the controversy over RBS chief executive Stephen Hester's bonus, with public pressure forcing him to refuse it.

The watering down of the snooping proposals came as a result of Tory and Liberal Democrat backbench pressures, but many Lib Dem MPs were keen to get stuck into a public argument over civil liberties.

Under growing pressure from lawmakers and the public to reveal more about the spread of covert Russian propaganda on Facebook, the company said it's turning over more than 3,000 Russia - linked ads to congressional committees investigating the Kremlin's influence operation during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Ratcheting up the pressure in a bitter battle between New York City and the state over health care costs, the city's public hospital system is planning on suing New York State officials over a payment of some $ 380 million in federal funding it says the state is unlawfully withholding.

This has been preceded by a flurry of media headlines, subjecting him to an open - air political trial and a trial in the court of NPP public opinion supported with earlier pressure from some leading Members of New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Government, to commence prosecution of former NDC Government appointees including Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni for alleged acts of corruption for over a year now.»

Kenneth Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, solemnly unveiled a six - count indictment this afternoon against the NYPD officer who shot and killed Akai Gurley, striving to show the public his office was not pressured by the police protests that have roiled the city and nation over the last year.

De Blasio cited other examples of what he perceived as revenge, including inconveniently timed pressure from the state for the city to increase transit funding and a fight over money for public housing.

Two powerful groups representing young people have joined forces to pile pressure on the Labour leader over his refusal to offer the public a referendum on the final EU deal.

«Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time,» said Leah E. Cahill, Ph.D., study lead author and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass..

The agency is confronting pressure from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to streamline and speed up the drug application process, budgetary concerns stemming from relatively stagnant public funding over the last several years, and disputes over subjects ranging from biological warfare to the regulation of genetically modified foods.

The Obama administration had received immense public pressure from industry and Republicans over the rule, which they argued would trample an already weak economy.

Saddled with delays, reshoots, a crew member's drowning, a very public battle over its budget and content, and the failure of «John Carter» earlier this year means the movie is under immense pressure to perform for the Mouse House.

He claimed the education system is facing a «perfect storm of both decreasing public confidence and increasing pressure in the system as the greater emphasis on end - of - term exams creates even more work for examiners over the summer».

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

School funding chiefs and academy trust bosses have been under increasing pressure to crack down on excessive executive pay following a public backlash over rising academy CEO pay in recent years.

After covering climate for over twenty years, my sense is that there will be no single new finding that will generate headlines that galvanize public action and political pressure.

We put pressure on Nebraska's Public Service Commission, which had the final say over whether the pipeline would be permitted to be built in Nebraska, in advance of their hearings in August.

The debate over APS's RFP is one example of how clean energy advocates are pressuring utilities to alter their procurement practices and open them up to more public scrutiny as renewable resources and storage become increasingly competitive with conventional generation.

As the Wall Street Journal and other conservative media hyper - ventilated over the hacker leaks they referred to as the «Climategate Scandal»; Nature quickly retaliated in defense of Anthropogenic Global Warming with a scathing editorial titled: «Climatologists Under Pressure» stating: «Stolen e-mails have revealed no scientific conspiracy, but do highlight ways in which climate researchers could be better supported in the face of public scrutiny.»

Over the past year, corporations have come under increasing public pressure to stop using tar sands oil.

Facebook is facing mounting pressure over Cambridge Analytica's behavior, spurred by public accusations from former research director Christopher Wylie.