Sentences with phrase «recent vocal advocate»

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CEO Tim Cook, has been a vocal advocate for streamlining the tax system and allowing companies (including his own) to return billions of dollars in foreign earnings without incurring a major U.S. penalty — and Cook has taken that message personally to Congress and the White House in recent months.

Yet while Prime Minister Harper said during his recent visit to China that his work as a vocal advocate of human rights in China is «paying dividends,» critics remarked no one important was listening.

In recent years, some animal advocates have become more vocal about the treatment of rats, though with presently limited success: in the United States, they're still not technically considered animals under the Animal Welfare Act, and attempts to have them covered by laws requiring humane treatment of wildlife have been mocked.

The number of businesses advocating climate action is growing, and they're becoming more vocal — witness Johnson & Johnson and Nike's recent demand that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce stop opposing the House climate bill.

The app itself still features the very same design that some vocal users have been advocating for replacing in recent times and while it's currently unclear whether Google is truly working on such an overhaul, some of its other mobile services recently started receiving similar revamps.