Sentences with phrase «year campaign supported»

A Private Members» Bill introduced in the House of Commons by Nick Hurd MP, it came about after an unprecedented five year campaign supported by dozens of voluntary organisations, trade unions and other representative groups, parish and town councils and tens of thousands of individuals.

Not exact matches

Although Ottawa and industry associations continue supporting it, a consortium of activist groups called the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability has begun campaigning for an ombudsman reminiscent of that proposed by Mackay years earlier.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

U.S. intelligence agencies last year accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 election with a hacking and propaganda campaign supporting Donald Trump's campaign for president.

A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months before last year's election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.

You might have only one campaign a year that requires marketing support, for instance.

Kraft Heinz says it is doubling the marketing budget behind Oscar Mayer this year to support the «For The Love of Hot Dogs» campaign.

The La Pietra Coalition, a group of leaders advocating for women's advancement that last year launched The Third Billion campaign to support the scores of women entering the workforce, identifies four challenges that stand between women and equal opportunity.

«And you don't run national campaigns for as many years as Clinton has without some serious support from Wall Street.»

Johnson supported former Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the Iowa caucus campaign, and then former tech CEO Carly Fiorina after Perry quit the race last year.

At first, the campaign will run for about six to eight weeks and will be supported later in the year, as well as into 2019.

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

This was a year after University of Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan first obtained the data and around the same time that Cambridge Analytica, which was co-founded by Steve Bannon, sought out voter data with financial support from the Trump campaign.

Mr. Mulcair appears to be drawing lessons from this year's Ontario election campaign, where provincial NDP Leader Andrea Horwath was widely criticized from the left for not supporting a campaign for a $ 14 minimum wage in Ontario.

Tubbs has had support from the tech community in recent years — he received a $ 50,000 donation to his campaign for mayor in 2015 from Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, who he counts as a college friend from his Stanford days, and another $ 5,000 from Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang.

Pinterest released the numbers and new hire as part of an announcement marking the one - year anniversary of Pinterest Propel, an advertising program that offers brands and agencies one - on - one support for creative strategies and campaign optimizations.

To stay on the air, public broadcasting stations were forced resort to year - round fund raising campaigns, to accept forms of «underwriter recognition» that looked suspiciously like commercials, and to tailor their programming schedule to whatever corporate underwriters would support.

A few of them supported Bill Clinton in 1992, largely because Clinton campaigned that year as a democratic globalist.

The speakers of the House of Commons and the House of Lords both agreed that Parliament support the campaign, as it did last year.

So it is with these young people in mind that I ask you consider an end - of - year contribution to our «Support First Things» campaign.

World Vision's Lara Dewar, who travelled to India with Ms Markle earlier this year, thanked the actress for her support and praised her passion for improving children's lives and campaigning for girls» rights.

For some years now, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has been monitoring APL's support for small - scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the growing number of small - scale pastured pig farmers.

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But in fact the Brazilian state is already eight years into the campaign, and has achieved far more through persuasion and popular support than it could ever hope to via the statute book.

Meat Free Monday has been running for five years and there are similar campaigns in 35 countries, including in the USA where Meatless Monday is widely supported.

Three brand new product ranges, Batchelors High Veg Pots, Soup & Dippers and High Protein Pots, will be available in stores from mid-October and supported by a multi-million pound TV ad campaign kicking off in the New Year.

September is the time of year when restaurants across the nation team up and ask their guests to dine out and support Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign.

Brick House Tavern + Tap is partnering with Operation Homefront to support the «Taste Freedom» campaign for the third consecutive year between Memorial Day and July 4th.

The leader of Mexico's Social Democratic Party has said he supports 42 year old Cuauhtemoc Blanco bid to play in the Copa MX final, announcing that they will delay their campaign so the legend can play in the game.

My team were never challenging for the Premier League title when I began to follow them, and the joy I would experience when they would reach an unlikely cup final was immense, so I'm sorry if I don't feel any remorse for a fan who only followed a team when they were one of only two top sides challenging year on year, before enjoying an unbeatable Invincibles campaign in only his third term of supporting the side.

But with his contract set to expire at the end of the current campaign, Arsene Wenger has not only come out in support of his compatriot but has also claimed that he will be given a new contract at the Emirates, should the now 28 - year - old prove his fitness.

Sky Sports, as a member of TeamPride; a group of businesses and organisations who help bring the campaign to life, support the campaign all year round.

Over 27,000 people signed a petition in support of the campaign last year, with over 5,000 writing to their MP to ask them to back the petition in Parliament.

Luckily, mental health awareness campaigns have become much more frequent in the past few years, in an effort to eliminate stigma and improve support of those living with mental illness.

It would be wonderful if we can lend a little support to these and other organisations supporting anti-bullying campaigns, including this campaign from fellow blogger, Gammon and Chips, in the memory of a wonderful 16 - year old girl, Izzy.

Also in support of Farm to School, Slow Food USA launched a Time for Lunch campaign yesterday, to organize a national day of action on September 7 with grassroots Eat - Ins around the country, reminiscent of their monumentally successful event in San Francisco last year.

«We have been grateful for the support of Methodist Church members for the boycott campaign over the years and the interest officials have given this issue, but it was obvious to us from the beginning that the investment strategy would be exploited by Nestlé and so it has proved.

UNICEF wrote to Nestlé's then Chief Executive Officer (now Chairman), Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, defending Cracking the Code as supporting its own findings and set out several areas where Nestlé policies needed to change (it took years of campaigning to pressure Nestlé to change its policy on complementary foods, criticised in the UNICEF letter — see boycott successes).

I've been following the work of Baby Milk Action for many years and supporting their campaigns, such as the successful defence of baby food marketing regulations in the Philippines in 2007.

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

Now it has launched its #ParentOn campaign — the first global campaign of its kind in the brand's 50 year history - which is set to support Mayborn Group's vision for tommee tippee to become the Number One mum to mum recommended baby brand in the world.

«Wells Fargo is proud to support this year's Giving Tuesday campaign and the selfless work Five Acres does every day.

Five Acres provides a safe haven for over 140 children each year, and your support for our #GivingTuesday campaign will help us prepare to care for even more.

Your contribution to our year - end campaign supports Puppet Showplace Theater's mission to bring outstanding professional puppetry to diverse audiences through performances, workshops, and community outreach activities.

In recognition of National Breastfeeding Month (NBM), each year the USBC hosts a social media advocacy and / or outreach campaign inviting breastfeeding coalitions, member / partner organizations, and individual supporters to join online actions and conversations to build support for the policy and practice changes needed to build a «landscape of breastfeeding support.»

Picking up on this year's campaign themes, a group of midwives at King's College Hospital in London, including the Director of Midwifery, specialist midwives in Infant Feeding and myself, have come together to devise a campaign to support and celebrate breastfeeding at the Trust, and beyond.

Anything DMV related generally serves as a flashpoint for the GOP, but in this case, the Republicans might do well to recall that their NYC mayoral candidate, Joe Lhota, not only endorsed the IDs - for - immigrants idea during the campaign last year, but also said he supported the concept of letting them get driver's licenses — though he didn't plan to push that in Albany, should he have managed to get elected.

Of course, plenty of people have been «donating» their social media accounts for years, in that they've used them to promote campaigns they support (we certainly saw plenty of that in the 2008 race, and not just from Obama supporters).

With the most successful campaigns of the past several years in both the political and advocacy spheres having a viral component (remember that time all of your Facebook friends changed their profile pictures to equal signs to show their support for marriage equality?)

This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.