Sentences with phrase «to campaign against someone»

Facebook claims he's on a «fishing expedition for material to use in his longstanding campaign against the prime minister of Cambodia.»

Hecker said the success of the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria meant the A-10s could be deployed to Afghanistan instead of Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, where they would otherwise have been based.

A massive terror attack in Paris carried out by militants associated with the Islamic State earlier this month prompted France to ramp up its campaign against the group in Syria and enlist the US's help in identifying ISIS targets on the ground in Syria.

The ongoing #MeToo and Time's Up movements may make it seem like celebrating IWD is a no - brainer for brands, but in fact, the campaigns against sexual harassment and sexism have raised the bar, says Erin Keeley, CMO at Mono, an ad agency.

Political instability and dangerous conditions in Syria have made it difficult to wage a large - scale public health campaign against infectious diseases like polio.

«I am pleased that our employees are protected and will continue their work under new ownership — disentangled from the legal campaign against the company.»

In June 2013 Dove and agency partner Ogilvy & Mather Brasil took home the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity's highest honor, the Titanium Grand Prix, solidifying «Real Beauty Sketches» as the viral campaign against which others are judged.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

It doesn't matter if you think you're supposed competition is difficult to campaign against.

The film alleges that the COS was only declared tax - exempt by the IRS after it waged a decades - long campaign against the agency, which included filing dozens of lawsuits against both the organization and individual IRS workers, and hiring private investors and fake journalists to dig up incriminating information about individual IRS workers.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) is among a broad range of human rights groups planning to protest at Downing Street on Wednesday afternoon.

The campaign, which runs until June, has been in the works for nearly eight months, and was «developed before the killings of Canadian soldiers last fall in Ottawa and St. Jean, Quebec and Canada's decision to take part in the coalition campaign against ISIS,» writes Marketing's Danny Kucharsky.

The Air Force has been conducting ongoing missions over Iraq and Syria, where US aircraft have led the air campaign against ISIS — though those operations have decreased considerably in recent weeks.

«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Both Grillo and Berlusconi campaigned against the austerity measures implemented by technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti at the urging of Germany's conservative chancellor Merkel.

The French official said the Turkish offensive in northern Syria «must stop,» saying it is threatening the broader U.S. - led military campaign against the Islamic State group.

Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

«They're not thrilled that he's already jumping ship to run for higher office because that's exactly what he campaigned against and what he promised he wouldn't do, be a ladder - climbing career politician,» Petersen said, noting a JTD strategies poll that found half of Missouri voters think Hawley could be using his attorney general career as a stepping stone to higher office.

Trump finally closed down his years - long «birther» campaign against Obama in a speech in September of last year.

No amount of bureaucratic gymnastics will hide the problem permeating Afghan security forces and the contours of the flailing campaign against the Taliban from the American people.

«So the question that we're asking is not only is there a light - attack capability off the shelf that we can use that can increase lethality and readiness, but is there also a shareable network that allies and partners who are already with us and those that may choose to join us... in the campaign against violent extremism, can we actually get into a new, shareable network that allows information to flow at a far faster rate so we can take out the enemy?»

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his campaigns against oppression and genocide.

For months government officials have waged a campaign against Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow - based maker of popular antivirus software.

That's helped Marc Cohodes, an American short - seller, to wage campaigns against Canadian companies Concordia International and Home Capital.

Left appears to be digging in for a long campaign against Shopify.

Stolen documents published online by WikiLeaks included several emails between top Democratic Party officials that showed them discussing how to undermine Sen. Bernie Sanders» presidential primary campaign against Hillary Clinton.

That's anathema to many entrepreneurs, such as Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, who has mounted a very public campaign against overturning Net neutrality.

More recently, de Gaulle was involved in France's contribution to the air campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, codenamed Opération Chammal in France.

And, through the entire episode — from the original accident, to the earliest photos posted on Instagram, to the final revelations about when she would perform — it became clear that Underwood was now the victim of online abuse, a target for trolls who had started a new campaign against her.

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney aren't just campaigning against each other anymore — they must defend against hundreds of attackers sniping from the sidelines.

Though it began with snack bars, Kind has branched out to granola clusters, breakfast bars and fruit bars, saying that it still uses» a nutritious food as the first and predominant ingredient in every food product» by avoiding artificial flavors and preservatives and campaigning against added sugar.

Policies are also most cost - effective when the costs are transparent, but when you see the NRDC campaigning against Keystone XL by telling Americans that their gas prices might go up, you know just how politically palatable a transparent price at the pump will be.

Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

Cooper campaigned against the law and promised to scrap it should he be elected governor.

Although so far businesses have used interactive disks to boost corporate images or espouse causes (such as a campaign against software piracy), Time magazine recently contracted with one production service to prepare its entire 28 - page (in print) rate card on an interactive disk.

Federal investigators are reportedly looking into possible manipulation of Herbalife's stock and have interviewed individuals hired by hedge - fund manager William Ackman, who has been running a campaign against the nutritional - products company for over two years.

House Speaker Paul Ryan staunchly defended the controversial American Healthcare Act that passed the House of Representatives last week, claiming that allegations about people with preexisting conditions losing insurance are false and that the Democratic Party had engaged in a smear campaign against the bill.

«WrkRiot is considering legal action against a disgruntled former employee who has launched a slanderous campaign against WrkRiot and some of its employees via social media,» the post begins, going on to accuse the former employee of attempting to extort $ 50,000 from the company.

(The Liberals have the added advantage of having campaigned in an election for the changes they now propose, whereas the Conservatives had campaigned against the changes Flaherty introduced.

He dismissed the U.S. - backed military campaign against Islamic State in Syria as «only a few raids», and said a more comprehensive approach was needed.

«We wanted to campaign against corporal punishment, compulsory chapel, games and Latin,» Branson says.

Earlier this year, President Obama had no qualms about using de facto scare tactics to campaign against Brexit.

«I'm not going to campaign against someone who I've been a friend with and worked with,» Sen. Bob Corker says of Democrat Phil Bredesen.

Protesters have been buoyed by the recent success of Native American groups and environmentalists in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale fields into Texas.

Bee pointed out that NBC continued their relationship with Trump as host of «The Apprentice» franchise as he fervently rolled out his «birther» campaign against President Barack Obama — essentially condoning «a race - baiting demagogue,» in Bee's opinion.

A tech - savvy and surefooted negotiator, Cohn has since led more than 30 shareholder campaigns against the likes of Compuware, BMC Software, and lately EMC, becoming one of the most powerful and effective activists in the finance industry.

His London mayoral election campaign, where he was widely accused of running a racist «dog - whistle» campaign against Sadiq Khan, appeared to have hurt his support among left and liberal - leaning voters.

Getting rid of negotations is an extension of Pao's ongoing campaign against gender bias in Silicon Valley.

This is why today I am launching a «Withhold - the - Vote» campaign against John J. Hagenbuch.

Google announced on its blog on Monday that it will match every dollar of donation with two dollars in a new public giving campaign against Ebola.