Sentences with phrase «record as an activist»

Besides having a long and impressive record as an activist in her community, she has a long history of involvement in disability organizations and advocacy.

Not exact matches

April 7, 2016 - Climate Change 2016: As Proxy Season Arrives, Shareholder Activists File Record Number Of Environmental Resolutions - International Business Times

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

As a long time activist for equal housing in the African - American community Mascia hopes his record will speak louder than his «hurtful» words.

A coalition of social justice and community activists Thursday demanded that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000, arguing that such an increase is unjustifiable given what they characterized as the department's poor record on solving homicides and making residents feel safe.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

Hunter has a great track record as a community activist, but I somehow doubt Rivera would be quitting his job with Gillibrand for this race if he did not believe that a victorious outcome over Espada really mattered to all of us.

It is no longer news that the much hyped human right activist, lawyer cum demonstrator turned flagbearer of the liberalist oriented New Patriotic Party Nana Addo has exposed himself as a dictator who can not repent and has broken all bad records set by his forerunners.

WFP activists had seized on a Siena College and later Quinnipiac University polls that showed an unnamed liberal challenger would draw votes away from Cuomo as discontent grew over the governor's economic record.

Prosecutors have to decide whether to charge the MPs or their agents, after a 10 - month investigation into whether party spending on an election battlebus that brought activists to marginal seats was wrongly recorded as national spending.

But it emerged that the activists had been campaigning on behalf of specific Conservative MPs, rather than the party generally, leading to claims that the spending should have been record as local expenditure.

She kept applying for chances to work with colleagues abroad, but in communist - era Poland, the government reviewed foreign - fellowship applications, and her activity as a Solidarity activist was a black mark on her record.

While he admits he «had no interest in politics» before joining Trent, the strong link between the university and the community, and his track record as a community activist, eventually led him into politics.

Although there is more to the company than Icahn, it is worth examining the activist investor's history and track record, as well as his typical motives.

Had record of advocacy for non-violent food nearly as long as careers in comedy and civil rights Dick Gregory, 84, remembered by most media as «a groundbreaking comedian and civil rights activist,» but also actively advocating a vegan lifestyle for nearly two - thirds of his life, died in Washington D.C. on August 19, 2017 from a -LSB-...]

Bringing together newly commissioned essays from leading activists, curators, and humanitarians, extensive photographic documentation, and an array of archival materials, the catalogues will serve as the comprehensive record for this groundbreaking exhibition and provide readers with an expanded historical and political context for the project.

The inclusion of the Chicago - based collective Public Collectors mixed - media installation on the life of audio recording enthusiast and activist Malachi Ritscher seems an unusual choice that brings up questions of activism and suicide, as Ritscher notoriously killed himself by setting himself on fire in public in 2002.

Also serving as a historical record is Bowers» Roundtable Discussion (2016) that features Patrisse Cullers (one of the founders of Black Lives Matter), Jennicet Gutierrez (an undocumented trans - immigrant activist), and CeCe McDonald (a trans - activist who served time in an all - male prison).

A film drawn from Smith's research on the influence of the music and life of Alice Coltrane (1937 - 2007), with recordings from signal Coltrane compositions, joins three works drawn from an area of Smith's work best described as activist response, a multiplicity of work rooted in Chicago, where Smith has lived since 2011.

«As we learned yesterday, we have just come through the hottest month ever recorded in human history,» said Bill McKibben, a climate activist and co-founder of 350.org, on a call with reporters Thursday.

Co-Chairs and green activists Zem Joaquin and Nadine Weil and Global Green President Matt Petersen welcomed guests with a video describing the organizations efforts, and notable guests such as Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, CSI: Miami's Omar Miller and multi-platinum recording artist Michelle Branch.

Science Corrupted: It's «the hottest year on record», as long as you don't take its temperature — Activist James Hansen's claims based on «pure conjecture» — Hansen's Climate Con: «The parts of the world which GISS shows to be heating up the most are so short of weather stations that only 25 per cent of the figures are based on actual temperature readings»

Senator Cruz introduced me as «an international bestselling author, a Top Five jazz recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist».

As record - breaking cold temperatures grip the United States, environmental activists come out swinging to defend global warming.

I know that some climate science / activists aren't «happy» with such mitigants (and often only work on the warming ones rather than the cooling ones), but it's interesting to see how the temperature record is currently reflecting them all being out on the table as we get closer to leaving the lower bound of 95 % confidence on a very expensive climate modeling effort that is hardly very old.

In particular: i) the emphasis on reconstructions of historical temperature records; ii) the over-sensitivity of climate models; iii) the exaggeration of positive feedback mechanisms and the opposite with respect to negative feedbacks; iv) the over-statement of second and Nth - order effects of warming on natural processes and society as «impacts»; v) the IPCC reports are not written exclusively by scientists, but in the case of WGII and WGIII especially, are, as has been discovered — by sceptics — written by academics from other disciplines, often without any remarkable expertise, and by activists, with particular agendas.

The National Lawyers Guild honored Howard M. Cooper as a one of its 2010 honorees as Lawyer of the Year, recognizing his «long and proud record of outstanding legal and activist work in the fight for political, social and economic justice.»

And Stoneman Douglas alum Matt Deitsch, who served as community outreach director for March for Our Lives and whose brother Ryan still attends the school, suggested that activists request town halls in person at elected officials» offices, video recording their answers.