Sentences with phrase «with signature petitions»

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Women's rights group UltraViolet has organized a petition with 13,000 signatures asking Amazon to remove the controversial figure's menswear line from its offerings.

As the one - month - old petition neared its goal of 1.5 million signatures, Snap responded and encouraged users to stick with the app and learn its technology.

A week of protests over concerns for public safety preceded the spraying, with protesters marching outside city hall and circulating an online petition that gained thousands of signatures.

The company came up with the mildly unwieldy name of Smunday, and have created a Change.org petition to be sent to Congress and the Senate if it reaches 100,000 signatures.

South Korea said on Wednesday it will take firm action against illegal and unfair acts in cryptocurrency trading after a petition with 280,000 signatures was sent to the presidential Blue House.

The proposals provoked more than 2,600 public comments, petitions with more than 330,000 signatures, and letters from at least 119 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and 19 U.S. senators.

Over 17,000 sign petition against Indian crypto ban: A petition with over 17,000 signatures was tabled against Indian Reserve Bank's much - criticized move of banning cryptocurrencies in the country.

In the fall of 2009 a petition, organized by Fellow of the American Physical Society, Roger Cohen, and containing the signatures of hundreds of distinguished APS members was presented to the APS management with a request that at least the truly embarrassing word «incontrovertible» be taken out of the statement.

d. Sending e-mail with charity requests, petitions for signatures, or any chainmail - related materials.

We collected hundreds of signatures from the school community on a petition opposing mixed - sex bathrooms; we hosted a talk at Nova on the harms of transgenderism; and we sent a letter to the school board with a long list of students who wouldn't be permitted to use a mixed - sex bathroom.

There's a petition at Change.org with nearly 1,200 signatures asking for the company to change their name.

Along with this letter and signatures, a petition on Change.org now has more than 1,000 signatures from InterVarsity alumni, who've worked there over the years.

Students at Northern Arizona University are the latest to push for the greener, healthier choice with a bid to gather 1,500 signatures on a petition in support of meat - free dining one day a week.

As noted by the Liverpool Echo, a petition has been launched to remove Owen from his position with it already attracting 8,000 signatures.

There has been public outcry since the Latics were first linked with Evans and an online petition campaigning for the 26 - year - old not to be signed had 22,500 signatures by early Monday morning.

A big thank you to all the people who signed the petitions and all the sweet people on Twitter who helped to further the cause with their invaliable retweets and signatures!

But when that parent bands together with other, like - minded parents, or when that one concerned citizen starts an online petition and garners thousands of signatures, then they become a force to be reckoned with.

I spoke this morning with Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree's office and was pleased to learn that she has now submitted her sign - on letter to USDA with the signatures of 41 Congressional representatives, all of whom support the request expressed in our Change.org petition that USDA ban all use of Lean Beef Trimmings, aka «pink slime» in ground beef destined for the National School Lunch Program.

A group of Cary residents called Citizens for Better Communities collected a petition with about 1,900 signatures asking that the Park District condemn the property, Renner said.

With recycling books from their school library tucked under their arms, David Erlandson and Dan Clark stood up before the school board members of District 75 last week and presented them with a petition and a long list of big, careful signatures written on school notebook paWith recycling books from their school library tucked under their arms, David Erlandson and Dan Clark stood up before the school board members of District 75 last week and presented them with a petition and a long list of big, careful signatures written on school notebook pawith a petition and a long list of big, careful signatures written on school notebook paper.

On Tuesday, Coppens brought the Village Board a petition with the signatures of approximately 100 neighbors.

Oliver launched a campaign — backed by a 270,000 - signature petition — for school meals cooked with fresh ingredients.

Needing 2,353 signatures - 10 percent of the park district «s registered voters - citizens submitted petitions with 2,920 names to the park district on Aug. 20.

Local health club owners, including Dan O'Donnell of Riveria Country Club in Orland Park, have presented petitions with 800 signatures from residents opposed to the project.

Residents, who in March approved a property - tax increase to finance a 20 - year park renovation and expansion program, presented the Park District Board of Commissioners on Wednesday with a petition with 120 signatures supporting open space.

A petition with 120 signatures supporting open - space development of Union Creek was presented to Park District commissioners last month.

«The wildlife is very fragile,» Mike Sullivan, a resident who submitted a petition with 156 signatures opposing the park, had said at a prior board meeting.

The reason that the petition is getting so much media attention — along with almost a quarter million signatures in a mere seven days — is that, for many Americans, this is their first real wake - up call about Big Food.

We're delivering our petition to Obama in person this evening, along with hundreds of allies, tens of thousands of petition signatures, and one message: don't back the settlement.

The petitions come with very specific requirements for use, such as the times they can be circulated and the definition of a valid signature (read more).

Each of the 97 petitions that have crossed the signature threshold so far have been carefully reviewed by experts here at the White House and in agencies across the federal government, and the majority have already been answered, with more coming every week.

Good government groups, including Common Cause, Citizen Action, and NYPIRG delivered a petition with signatures from more than 2,000 New Yorkers to Flanagan's office shortly after the press conference.

While there are exemptions for those working in sectors with a shortage, the move has caused public backlash, with a petition reaching more than 100,000 signatures and prompting a debate in parliament.

Wagner, a Hudson Valley lawyer, says he's also filed 3,225 petition signatures this week with the state Board of Elections in order to achieve ballot access.

Before leaving, Kwatra did not set up a paid signature - gathering operation, a source close to the campaign said, because Kwatra was tasked solely with handling day - one media, and did not at any point have a hand in the petition drive.

Dell Smitherman, a former Local 1199SEIU political director, filed petitions with 4,000 signatures — four times the number required to get on the ballot — to take on Sampson, who was indicted for allegedly stealing from housing escrow accounts and making false statements.

Spitzer himself spent the afternoon talking to reporters, speaking individually to only seven or so voters — and leaving in a taxi with about that many signatures on his own petition sheet.

After Spitzer appeared Monday afternoon at his petition drive with no staffers in tow — and few volunteers canvassing the area — questions remain about whether his hurried campaign will be able to collect the 3,750 signatures from registered Democrats required to qualify for the ballot by the midnight deadline this Thursday.

In Southeast Queens, former City Councilman Leroy Comrie filed petitions with 5,800 signatures to take on Smith, who was accused of trying to bribe his way onto the 2009 mayoral ballot.

VID plans to sponsor a street festival June 17, with the opportunity to hand out literature and secure signatures on petitions.

Three former campaign workers for Bronx Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo's reelection bid were charged with forging nearly 100 signatures, including Derek Jeter's and Kate Moss», on the candidate's primary ballot petitions.

Opponents of the project say they have the support of over 30 grassroots community and environmental organizations (attached list) and a petition with over 1300 signatures which they will deliver to Governor Cuomo, who banned fracking last month based on public health concerns.

Davis, a third - time runner, turned over a petition with 1,893 signatures but the county election board rendered some invalid, which put the final number of signatures below the necessary 1,000, Syracuse.com reported.

Off topic questions the Long Island Railroad and possible strike, the City's contingency plans and role in the event of a strike, whether the petitions supporting continued operation of horse carriages, with 40,000 signatures recently delivered to City Hall affect his thinking on the topic, what the 66 donors to Campaign for One New York expect from the mayor, whether he plans to take any additional vacations this year, what initiatives Campaign for One New York will next focus on, the status of the review of the 911 system upgrade and, concerning his trip to Italy, whether he is packed, whether he's packing his own bags and what food he is most looking forward to.

THE BRONX — Three former campaign workers for Bronx Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo's reelection bid were charged with forging nearly 100 signatures, including Derek Jeter's and Kate Moss», on the candidate's primary ballot petitions, according to the Bronx District Attorney's Office.

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi has filed nominating petitions with more than 22,000 signatures while his opponent in the Democratic primary, Adam Haber, filed almost 7,000 signatures.

Three former campaign workers for Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo were officially charged with fraud for allegedly forging signatures for the Bronx Democrat's re-election petitions.

Antonio Delgado of Rhinebeck beat everybody to the state board of elections with a photo of him holding some 6,000 petition signatures.

Hours later, over 100 New Yorkers rallied at Comptroller Scott Stringer's office, delivering a divestment valentine with thousands of petition signatures urging the City's pension funds to divest coal, oil and gas holdings.