Sentences with phrase «with public pressure»

Hansen even succeeded, with public pressure from his nightly news performances, in forcing NASA to change its media policies to his advantage.

The world's largest oil companies are increasingly faced with public pressure to do something about their impact on climate change.

Animal right groups credit that OIG report, combined with their public pressure in Congress and with the Obama administration, for finally compelling federal action.

The controversy over banker bonuses last came to the public eye with the controversy over RBS chief executive Stephen Hester's bonus, with public pressure forcing him to refuse it.

He says with public pressure this could easily be fixed.

Democrats are corrupt because they could win this game with public pressure by saying if the Fed raises rates, your credit card payments go up, your car payments go up, the value of your house declines, bankers profits increase (not that they aren't too high already).

Not exact matches

Amazon apparently disagrees with me, or is at least bowing to public pressure on the matter.

In July, Puerto Rico ignored pressure from the Centers for Disease Control and sided with public concerns about naled's safety when it decided against using the insecticide.

I think he saw it — the political pressure that really resulted from public pressure, or people saying things as simple as, «I drive around the city and I can see with my own eyes that the lights are not synchronized.»

We envy them all and want to emulate them but know that they are just people dealing with struggles of a different magnitude from the pressures of going public, the pressures of pricing competition, the pressures of over-reaching of journalists and regulators and the pressures of activist public shareholders with short - term expectations.

March 25 - Remington Outdoor Co Inc, one of the largest U.S. makers of firearms, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday to carry out a debt - cutting deal with creditors amid mounting public pressure for greater gun control.

«Horowitz will call this an effort to be «transparent,» but the response from the public will be the same — that it is a response to political pressure,» said Frank Montoya Jr., a former FBI special agent who retired in 2016 and worked closely with the former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

The 25 - year - old star recently opened up to INSIDER about how she copes with the urge to drink and the pressure to stay sober in the public eye.

The act has also put pressure on small private firms — those that were poised to go public, and others that are dealing with a shortage of accountants.

With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill now the worst in US history, public pressure is growing on BP to contain and remove the ever - spreading slick.

A few months earlier, Beijing had applied similar pressure on European nations, this time to join with it in an unprecedented public call to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.

If «Tromc» made its public debut with this call, it was nevertheless The Los Angeles Times that took center stage in what we may call, probably briefly, the Lagos Gambit (POLITICO: «L.A. Times poised to get big push from Tribune as sale pressure lingers»).

Facebook has named a new head of U.S. public policy as the company deals with ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and increasing pressure over privacy around the world.

But rather than caving under the pressure, Hogg and his friends have flourished, using humor, restraint, and public pressure to engage strategically with their trolls.

On hand will be several of our Sector Leads and analysts to review and discuss S&P Global's research related to credit pressures facing U.S. states and local governments, with a focus on pension issues and emerging risks / trends in public finance.

When Airbnb and Amazon become the self - proclaimed voices of public morality — a trend we're seeing in America more broadly — the pressure on megachurches to act with no less magnanimity is even stronger.

Coming off a year wracked with public scandal, Khosrowshahi is under a great deal of pressure to turn the company around in 2018.

«Virtually anyone running a public company in that group could not deal with the pressure from their constituents,» Schwarzman said.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

Mismatched skills versus available jobs, rising crime, and public pressure are forcing Sweden to reassess integration strategies and work with employers to find new long - term solutions.

Resentment is growing not only towards those who ran up the debts — Iceland's bankrupt Kaupthing and Landsbanki, with its Icesave accounts, and heavily geared property owners in the Baltics and central Europe — but also towards the foreign advisers and creditors who put pressure on these governments to sell off the banks and public companies to insiders.

Resentment is growing not only toward those who ran up these debts — Iceland's bankrupt Kaupthing and Landsbanki with its Icesave accounts, and heavily debt - leveraged property owners and privatizers in the Baltics and Central Europe — but also toward the neoliberal foreign advisors and creditors who pressured these governments to sell off the banks and public infrastructure to insiders.

If the sequester happens, the most likely scenario (as I see it) is that public pressure will result in some House Republicans allying with the House Democrats and a large majority in the Senate to restore the cuts after some face saving compromise that doesn't save the Republicans much face.

Absent strong public pressure, the Congress may be unable to sustain a critical posture toward the executive branch with its insistent claim that national security requires public trust in secret power.

Pressure had been building on the Vatican to proceed with criminal charges against Wesolowski, a Polish native ordained by Saint John Paul II, since the accusations against him became public.

Although religious pressure groups are able to influence policy makers to act in ways that are in harmony with the values of particular religious communities, this plays a secondary role in relation to most public issues.

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

The trend towards digitization goes together with political and industrial pressures to shift from public - service type information and telecommunication services to a competitive environment for the trading of these services by private market operators.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

The Church could no longer interfere with the Government just as the Government could no longer interfere with the Church, but through voluntary reform groups the Christian citizen could, by moral pressure and a majority legislation, see to it that public morality was kept at a high level.

He stated that public pressure has forced Jordanian environmental organizations to sever their contacts with Israelis.

The campaign event was ignited off the back of the public and political pressure created by the broadcast of video images on 60 Minutes supplied to the media outlet by Animals Australia showing issues with heat stress related mortalities for sheep, on a 2017 shipment to the Middle East.

The supermarkets and suppliers have had a testy relationship of late, with political and public pressure mounting for them to do a deal.

«You have to remember, he came from a very poor family, and suddenly, when he was 16, still basically a child, he was thrown into the public eye and faced with a lot of pressure,» says his friend Valdano.

Still, more racing and the lack of pressure that comes with the world championship might make for a refreshing change, and could be a good place to try out new things on the public — we don't want a repeat of «elimination qualifying» again!

The rookie's carnival style and the public pressures to rush him into the lineup did not sit well with some of his older teammates, either.

Widespread concern and public pressure — combined with growing science on arsenic's toxicity at low doses — should have spurred the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the cereal industry to take high - arsenic cereals off store shelves.

Challenge Success currently works with 130 public schools, Pope said, helping to educate students, parents and counselors on alternatives to the current pressure paradigm.

With public policy being created to restrict new mothers» access to formula, the pressure to breastfeed is very real and very prominent.

This has no connection with Baby Milk Action and shows how public awareness of Nestlé malpractice keeps up the pressure on the company.

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The Harvard School of Public Health says,» It's hard to argue with the health benefits of a diet rich in vegetables and fruits: Lower blood pressure; reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, and probably some cancers; lower risk of eye and digestive problems; and a mellowing effect on blood sugar that can help keep appetite in check.»

(Faced with this pressure, and perhaps also to resuscitate LAUSD's public image — which has been battered quite a bit on «Food Revolution» — the new Los Angeles schools superintendent announced yesterday that he'll ask the LAUSD board in to consider a flavored milk ban.)

The report argued public anger and consumer pressure were helpful tools for convincing large companies to behave more responsibly, with the widespread outrage at tax dodging by Starbucks and Amazon being notable examples.