Sentences with phrase «upstart campaign»

Samsung's relationship with Korindo, a South Korean conglomerate that has cleared thousands of hectares of Papuan rainforest, made it a target of Mighty Earth, an upstart campaign group that in 2017 also went after Burger King for deforestation in dry forests in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, as well as chocolate buyers for forest clearing in West Africa.

State party leader Ed Cox, an early opponent of the Trump campaign, has proven to be a «good leader, a good soldier» in getting behind the upstart campaign.

Doyle is running an upstart campaign, focused on ethics, environmentalism, and more.

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

Not exact matches

During elections in Spain last year, campaign messages and press reports highlighted purported links between the Venezuelan government and Spain's upstart leftist party, Podemos.

You saw it in Apple's «1984» Super Bowl spot, in which a lone, colorful rebel dares to resist a monochromatic horde of IBM users, and in Virgin Airlines» cheeky campaigns, in which a fun and sexy upstart thumbs its nose at staid and respectable airline brands.

In 2016, Natasha received the Upstart Business Journal Upstart 100 Award and the Aiming High Award from Legal Momentum for pioneering a shareholder campaign on gender pay equity.

I think campaigns will find they have less and less control of the message and the community, and that more and more amateurs will create upstart communities which, in many cases, they don't give over to the campaign.

Those upstarts are likely to learn from this experience that they should do what they want, and ask the campaign to get out of the way.

The July filing with the state Campaign Finance Board revealed that state Assemblywoman Barbara Clark (D - Queens Village) and state Sen. Shirley Huntley (D - Jamaica) will be facing competition during this fall's primary from upstart Democrats Clyde Vanel and Lynn Nunes, respectively, who challenged other longtime incumbents in last year's City Council races.

The occasion will remind Hinchey old - timers of the early campaigns for state Assembly, where the skinny upstart from Saugerties charged five bucks for beer and hot dogs.

The upstart left - leaning third party had likely provided the margin of victory in the primary with an aggressive door - to - door campaign that party member and Ward 5 Alderwoman Jennifer Fuentes said was meant by state party leaders as a test of the WFP's ability to take on a Democratic Party machine and win.

As WAMC's Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne reports, the governor only recently began campaigning against his upstart opponent.

At a rooftop fund - raiser on Fourteenth Street on Monday evening, Zephyr Teachout stood on a low wooden table and talked about the «open - source principles» of her upstart Democratic campaign against Governor Andrew Cuomo.

So was the upstart Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

For Bernie Sanders, reports said he was trying to emulate the campaign that liberal upstart Zephyr Teachout ran in the 2014 gubernatorial primary, and expand the support she got in many of

The campaign has exposed division amongst the GOP over whether to support the more moderate Republican candidate or the upstart third - party challenger whose stances are more in line with those of the conservative base.

Teachout, the upstart Democratic candidate appealing to the more liberal wing of the party, was in Syracuse Thursday in the midst of a whistlestop campaign tour and accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of being subservient to the two cable giants because they've contributed heavily to his campaign.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose upstart presidential campaign toppled Mitt Romney in Iowa and nearly brought down John McCain in South Carolina last year, wants people to know he's every bit as serious as other potential presidential aspirants, and suggested there's a double standard when it comes to how some in his party treat him and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

And with upstart distributor Amazon Studios making big moves, he'll surely have good support for an awards season campaign.

We get that it's the season for political sniping and that the Obama administration wants to hobble Gov. Rick Perry's upstart presidential campaign, but Duncan should shelve the hyperbole if he wants to be effective as the nation's top educator.

Campaign - finance laws protect political insiders by making it harder for upstart citizen groups to form and bring new voices to public debate.

But the upstart brand defied odds by combining a laser - focused design direction with a quirky marketing campaign featuring hamsters driving the flagship Soul small CUV introduced in 2009.

Already one potential future premier, John Cummins of the upstart BC Conservatives, is proposing to kill the carbon tax, apparently believing the public mood has changed since then - NDP leader Carole James campaigned in 2008 on a promise to «axe the tax» — and handed the BC Liberals a third straight majority.