Sentences with phrase «used by campaigners»

Perhaps this is no surprise, because as George Monbiot and others have shown, the methods used by campaigners on nuclear bear all the hallmarks of the methods used by anti-science climate change «deniers».

The rhetoric used by some campaigners is hard to undo: already today I have seen the YA writer Malorie Blackman racially abused on Twitter for lamenting the nation's choice.»

Groundgame, an app for election canvassing that integrates voter data with «geospatial visualization technology,» was used by campaigners for Trump and Brexit.

Not exact matches

It was the same app provider used by Brexit campaigners.

Jeremy why don't you look into open air campaigners organization for training they have a wonderful program for street outreach using a sketchboard and other materials I had a friend who used this approach on streets of new York city for 30 yrs had great success OAC website is http://www.oacusa.org they have training and or you can go to major and get trained by one of their field people

Sayara Thurston, campaigner with HSI / Canada, said: «By moving away from the use of gestation crates, it is clear that major retailers are listening to the concerns of their consumers.

The following film from Corporate Accountability International and The Story of Stuff is being used by water campaigners to encourage people to return to using tap water.

This would be good for pro-hunting campaigners but it would have let the government off the hook by relieving them of the need to use the Parliament Act and to introduce a potentially unpopular ban just months before a general election in May 2005.

Human rights campaigners have hit out at the plans by Enfield council, in London, which could see certain mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs with a limit of 8mph banned from using the pavement.

The underlying logic of this stance is articulated with characteristic clarity by Larry Bartels, who has written: «In a world where most campaigners make reasonably effective use of reasonably similar resources and technologies most of the time, much of their effort will necessarily be without visible impact, simply because every campaigner's efforts are balanced against more or less equally effective efforts to produce the opposite effect.»

They would also abolish the use of the legal method by which evidence of British officials» involvement in torture and rendition was first brought to light, campaigners from human rights group [Reprieve said.

The spending that has been found to be in violation by the Electoral Commission was used to bring Conservative campaigners into the tightest marginal election battles.

The BMF, as a long campaigner for safer crash barriers for motorcyclists, was concerned that given the large numbers of motorcyclists expected to use this route, such a road should not have steel or wire - rope safety barriers but have instead the latest, motorway - standard, concrete barriers and this has now been confirmed by Lancashire County Council.

Proceedings were also watched from the public gallery by former F1 boss Max Mosley, who became a campaigner against the tabloid press after he was exposed using prostitutes.

Conservatives are likely to draw attention to Labour's own commitment in government to creating a hostile environment, a phrase first used by Alan Johnson when he was home secretary in the last year of the Gordon Brown government, but campaigners insist that cracking down on illegal immigration could be done with better border checks rather than internal policing of status alone.

A policy similar to the one used by Australia was among the key pledges made by Vote Leave campaigners such as Boris Johnson ahead of the referendum on June 23 - but the new Prime Minister, appointed after the vote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worked.

Brexit campaigner Shahmir Sanni told Channel 4 that the British referendum's «Vote Leave» campaign spent over its legal limit by using the Canadian data firm called Aggregate IQ — adding that the company had links to Cambridge Analytica.

The ruling is the result of a case brought by privacy campaigners Privacy International that challenged the collection and use of bulk data by security agencies GCHQ, MI5 and MI6.

Whilst there has been opposition from anti-CCTV campaigners, the use of surveillance in the classroom is often welcomed by students, staff and parents alike, with a reported 90 per cent of secondary schools in the UK now using them.

Previous attempts by a campaigner to discover this information, using freedom of information laws, were rebuffed due to «commercial sensitivity».

The use of traction control (ASR) reduces the high loads created by the torque fed to the rear tyres, and helps the driver to modulate the V12 TDI engine's power delivery, particularly in wet conditions, which represents a new dimension even for season campaigners.

Dr. Somerville was on the team attacking that premise, but he offered a definition of the word «crisis» that was very different than those used by many climate campaigners, including former Vice President Al Gore.

That's why I see little merit in descriptions of the reinstatement as an exoneration — a word used by Michael E. Mann, a Pennsylvania State University * climate scientist who, like Gleick, has become a prominent campaigner for action on curbing greenhouse gases.

A clear focus is the research center run by the agency's star climatologist, James E. Hansen, who has variously been hailed and attacked for becoming a prominent campaigner against coal and oil use.

The move to increase renewable energy use and the transparency Facebook have shown about energy usage and carbon footprint has been welcomed by top eco campaigners, Greenpeace International.

He talks about how the message that there isn't a carbon budget left in his view is best communicated by climate action campaigners — drawing a parallel to the anti-nuclear movements» refraining from using the mushroom - cloud in their campaigning because it they thought it would put people off.

Bill McKibben, a high - profile climate campaigner with 350.org, said: «For scientists, conservative by nature, to use «serious, pervasive, and irreversible» to describe the effects of climate falls just short of announcing that climate change will produce a zombie apocalypse plus random beheadings plus Ebola.»

-LSB-...] In a letter sent today to Channel 4's head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, a coalition of anti-GM campaigners based in the developing world led by India's Vandana Shiva accused the filmmakers of using only two «southern - based commentators», both of whom are «funded by major GMO [genetically modified organisms] companies».

The story has been picked up by the Daily Mail today, with the headline «Leading climate change group used Greenpeace campaigner to write «impartial» report on renewable energy».

Later that year, the then Director of the Tyndall Centre, Professor Mike Hulme warned that the language being used — not just by the media, but also by politicians, campaigners, and scientists — in the discussion around climate change was increasingly removed from anything scientific, and was likely to encourage people to switch off:

This episode illustrates the growing level of interest in a study that will be analysed closely by climate campaigners and sceptics, and will be used by politicians to justify future policies.

The hearings were presided over by three judges: Brett Fleishman, senior finance campaigner for 350.org; Aurélie Trouvé the co-president of the french branch of «Attac», an international movement working towards social, environmental and democratic alternatives, and Marie Toussaint President of «Notre affaire à tous» an organisation that specialises in using law as an advocacy tool to protect the environment and the climate.

The framework advocated by leave campaigners actually would follow this route of amending the Act, but in order to cover aspects such as ending the Court of Justice of the European Union's jurisdiction and to re-impose immigration controls before the use of Article 50 and the eventual repeal of the Act.

By the time of its effective demise in Canada (there are a few old campaigners left who continue to use it, but they are few and far between) there weren't many who were good at it.

The pro-choice campaigners used a mixture of «yuck» («it's horrible to think of people dying of degenerative conditions that will be cured by research on hybrid embryos») and old - fashioned stridency («it's my body: why should you tell me what I can and can't do with it?»).

The media controls public perceptions, it is a tool used by pressure groups, campaigners, marketers, and politicians alike to exert influence and to weaken their opponents by ensuring that it is their message that dominates.