Sentences with phrase «ramp up pressure»

His comments will ramp up pressure on Facebook Inc and other technology companies that rely on the huge reams of data gathered from billions of people to power their products, services and sales.

We need to ramp up pressure on the government.

350Africa, together with partners, is building on the call started by Divest - Invest to establish a local group to ramp up pressure on the City of Cape Town to shift its investments and stand proud with nearly 100 other cities and local governments that have committed to divest from fossil fuels.

On Thursday, President Obama ordered government agencies to ramp up pressure on Iceland to end its slaughter of endangered fin whales, the second largest whale species.

I've spoken about Shu as if it's this charming and almost care - free platforming experience, but believe me, it isn't afraid to ramp up the pressure on the player.

It's not the first time Amazon has shuffled Kindle pricing to ramp up pressure on B&N.

It will ramp up the pressure for higher test scores in mathematics, and in the process narrow further the curriculum.

Cuts / freezes in federal or state aid just ramp up pressure on local systems (pressure to cover the funding shortfall).

The objective is to bring the coalition down as soon as possible by fair means or foul, and this week that means they abandon any attempt at impartiality or objectivity and ramp up the pressure on the Lib Dems in the hope of weakening the coalition.

Undoubtedly the Conservatives will appear united for a short while but this will not last, the backbenchers will not be placated for long by the referendum pledge and will soon ramp up the pressure, creating a more divided party than ever and forcing Cameron's hand.

David Cameron has sought to ramp up the pressure on the under - fire Jeremy Corbyn, telling the Labour leader «for heaven's sake man, go».

Burnham said it would send a strong message to EU migrants and ramp up the pressure on Theresa May.

The measure had been on the verge of being passed Wednesday, but was defeated late that night when many Democrats voted «no» in an effort to ramp up pressure to pass tougher rent regulations, which Republicans oppose.

#DivestNY will ramp up pressure on Stringer and New York officials in the weeks to come, including mobilizing for the People's Climate March on April 29, 2017.

Last Wednesday morning, the coalition announced that they were teaming with Gloria Steinem to ramp up the pressure in this campaign.

Arsenal's league campaign is realistically over in terms of Champions League qualification, but they can ramp up the pressure on Chelsea and, depending on the Blues» result, even overtake them with a victory.

With leaders Brighton playing on Thursday night this week this is a good chance for Newcastle to ramp up the pressure.

Liverpool have the chance on Saturday to ramp up some pressure on Manchester United in the race for second place in the League.

To make matters worse, the Gunners prepare to take on Chelsea in the League Cup on Wednesday night, and another setback in the first leg of that tie would ramp up the pressure on both Arsene Wenger and his players.

On Saturday we play host to West Ham and none of the teams around us play until later, meaning that three points for Arsenal will really ramp up the pressure, lifting us to within a single point of Man City, four clear of Man United, six clear of Liverpool, seven ahead of the spuds and eight better off than Southampton.

Whatever the reason, Wenger's words concerning Louis van Gaal in the pre-match press conference were definitely not designed to ramp up the pressure on his rival, the exact opposite if anything.

It's important to keep it an even contest for the majority of the game and then to ramp up the pressure late on.

They sit in eighth place in the Serie A table after 11 games, 12 points adrift of the top four, while they've been held to back - to - back goalless draws by AEK Athens in the Europa League over the last fortnight to really ramp up the pressure on Montella.

This move follows activist investor Starboard Value LP's letter to Yahoo on Wednesday ramping up pressure on Yahoo, taking aim at Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer and her leadership team and raising the prospect that a proxy battle is approaching.

As Elliott ramped up its pressure on Arconic, friends and colleagues of Kleinfeld, along with board members of Arconic, reported more suspicious run - ins: Others who live near the CEO were followed to a local restaurant by strangers who then approached the couple; they claimed to be considering investing with Kleinfeld, but first had a few questions.

NEW YORK, April 19 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday ramped up pressure on banks and insurers to revisit whether their ties to the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups harm their reputations and the public interest.

In late November, an Indore - Patna express train swerved off the tracks and killed around 146 people in what was deemed the worst train accident since 2010, ramping up pressure on Modi to invest in new infrastructure.

Since then, Gannett has been ramping up pressure on Tribune Publishing to «substantively engage» in discussions.

China has been ramping up pressure on Crypto.

It only came as they ramped up the pressure through desperation late on that Lukaku managed to get one back, but it was too little too late from the home side who were very poor on the night and arguably deserved to be knocked out over the two legs.

Senior Leicester City players reportedly met with the club's owners four times as they ramped up pressure on Claudio Ranieri behind his back.

Did make a couple of decent saves late on when City ramped up the pressure.

A stuttering start to the season ramped up the pressure on Wenger and exposed the holes in the Arsenal squad before a relieving win at Watford.

A lovely move between Benzema and Isco saw the Spaniard dink a ball through for Vasquez but he should have done better as he blazed his half - volley over the crossbar when well placed as Real ramped up the pressure.

Arsenal ramped up the pressure on beleaguered Everton boss Ronald Koeman with a 5 - 2 victory at Goodison Park.

The introduction of Craig Bellamy and Andy Carroll for Henderson and Dirk Kuyt ramped up the pressure on the hosts in the final 20 minutes.

The WFP, meanwhile, is also ramping up pressure on Cuomo to push the various factions in the Senate together.

Cuomo ramped up pressure on banks and insurers to revisit whether their ties to the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups harm their reputations and the public interest.

However, in this Reuters story, current S Korean president Moon Jae - In responded to a comment from the widow of former S Korean president Kim Dae - Jung that Moon should get the Nobel Peace prize, by saying that Trump should get the prize instead for his contributions by ramping up the pressure on N Korea.

The Senate's Independent Democratic Conference is ramping up pressure on Cuomo to sign a bill giving television shows a tax break for improving diversity in their writers» rooms.

The Jewish community is ramping up pressure on Cuomo not to abandon the EITC, though he said yesterday that both the tax credit and the DREAM Act, which he had linked in his budget proposal, have been dropped from budget talks.

As negotiations over the state's $ 150 billion budget sputtered on Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ramped up pressure on legislators to accept a deal.

The past weekend has probably ramped up the pressure still further.

Women in the Senate are ramping up the pressure on chamber leadership to pass legislation to address the issue of sexual harassment and discrimination in congressional offices.

Then the poachers apparently shifted their targets, because the elephants disappeared from eastern DRC and international attention had ramped up pressure on Zambia (because it wanted to sell stockpiles of ivory), said Bill Clark, an adviser to Interpol and a co-author of the new paper, in a press teleconference.

Charlotte school leaders are also ramping up pressure for a school bond package in the coming years.

From 8 - 12 May there will be several offline actions and events across Cape Town ramping up the pressure to get a divestment commitment from the city:

At the very least, Obama must reclaim the ability to frame the issue in terms of the strength of the science, and pave the way to toward ramping up pressure on the Senate to take action.

And, while firms aren't likely to drop too many partners off a cliff in terms of compensation, there are a number of ways they are ramping up the pressure on partners, from looking at only one year's billings to making it easier to move partners down the pay scale.

Typically a judge «tries to keep ramping up the pressure, but tries to avoid reaching the point where he has no choice but to send someone to jail.»