Sentences with phrase «years of calling for»

Following successful negotiations to the Montreal Protocol, EIA reflects on ten years of calling for a phase out of HFC gases.

The charity said in a statement: «After years of calling for justice to be done to the victims of genocide in Iraq, the UN has at last heard a plea for the forgotten minorities such as Christians and Yazidis who have been erased from their homelands.

Despite two years of calls for a structural overhaul, the new funding deal includes only modest revisions.

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On what he wants to see happen next: «I would advise [Obama] personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous «State Secrets» privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing.

«Despite the temporary pullback in production in the first quarter, we still expect our oil sands volumes for the year to be within our original guidance of 364,000 to 382,000 barrels per day,» he told a conference call with analysts.

Amazon now joins Apple, Google, PayPal, Visa, and a scary - sounding consortium of telcos who started something called Isis, who have all toiled for years to bring the idea of a digital mobile wallet to fruition.

Oregon's legalization of recreational pot two years ago created room for entrepreneurial cross-pollination in this fertile region abutting California's so - called Emerald Triangle, a well - known nirvana for outdoor weed cultivation.

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

A study of increases or decreases in rates of a disease across years, calculated for groups of people, is called an ecologic study.

Last year, the CBO published what it called «115 options for reducing the deficit,» and all of those painful suggestions were among them.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

For example, at the end of last year, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz called the risk of war between Russia and Ukraine a grave threat to his outlook.

But despite the Trump administration's call for urgency, data from the Customs and Border Protection agency actually show that arrests for illegal border crossing has been falling for years and now hovers near the bottom of a 40 - year low.

This year, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to lead fundraising with President Macky Sall of Senegal to raise $ 1.3 billion for the Global Partnership for Education, following emails, calls and tweets from members of Global Citizen.

Investment bank Jefferies called current prices unsustainable and said production declines across most of the important non-OPEC producers is likely to set the stage for an oil price recovery in the second half of this year.

Of those, only ten became so - called unicorns in less than three years, setting the speed record for all the rest.

While some viewers called it «gross» and «vulgar,» the spot racked up some 20 million YouTube views by the end of last year, at one point yielding one share for every nine views — proof positive that schoolyard humor never goes out of style.

In 2017, after years of failure, shareholders at my former employer, Exxon Mobil, passed a resolution calling for the company to outline its plans for dealing with climate change.

The billionaire has been a vocal critic of Gawker's former Valleywag column for years, calling the New York - based publication «the Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda,» among other things.

Out of that drive for answers came the idea for Scherf's 12 - year - old company, PrioHealth, and a program called MeMoves, which uses music, patterns and movement to help teach children and adults like Rowan to calm their nerves and make connections.

This year, Adidas has created what it's calling «the perfect sneakers for Oktoberfest,» a pair of $ 200 ($ 238) kicks designed to repel beer and vomit, as well pretty much any other liquid you can throw, drop, or pour on it, a process the company is calling «Oktoberfesterization.»

The U.K. government is to present Thursday a draft bill that will affect all kinds of laws that have governed the country for more than 40 years — the so - called Repeal Bill.

In addition to getting rid of the potential for so - called fast and slow lanes on the internet, as allowed by a federal court last year, the proposal would provide consumers with stronger privacy protections.

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.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

Activist investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital — a business partner with Valeant in its failed bid last year for Allergan — offered a spirited defence of the company in a conference call Friday that lasted nearly four hours.

Rep. Frederica Wilson made headlines last year when she criticised President Trump for remarks he made during a call to the widow of a fallen soldier.

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The company calls Jansen the world's best undeveloped potash resource and it expects it to produce ten million tonnes of potash a year for more than 50 years.

Sands told analysts during a conference call that depletions — alcohol sold by wholesalers and distributors — jumped by double digits for those recently acquired, premium - priced spirits and wines in the fourth quarter of the year.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

This is just the latest in a series of blows for the company, which began with a high - profile exposé from The Wall Street Journal last year that called the company's underlying technology into question.

In March of last year, after another successful Kickstarter campaign for a touchscreen stylus called the Cosmonaut, they quit their fulltime - design jobs to focus on running Studio Neat.

Disclaimer: The author has personally benefited from a number of CEO peer groups over the years and he currently runs a peer group for the CEOs of fast - growth companies called: The Inc..

So the 34 - year - old CEO and former time - management consultant reserves 8 a.m. to noon of each workday for calling and e-mailing potential customers and business partners — activities essential to building his online startup, Agent Finder, which matches home buyers and sellers with real - estate agents.

This week's American Inventor highlighted Michael Osayi, a 53 - year - old call center employee who had developed a version of the beloved national pastime that substituted numerals through nine for variously valued letters and called some legal issues into question.

During her freshman year of college, after being inspired by artisans she encountered on a trip to Italy, she started a jewelry business called Tramonti, the Italian word for sunset.

But the news is particularly ironic for Bitstamp, which gained popularity after the collapse of another exchange called Mt. Gox, which filed for bankruptcy last year after losing approximately $ 650 million in a cyber attack.

All of which encouraged Barclays to nudge up its 2017 call for global growth to 3.5 %, from an expected 3.1 % this year.

Swinburne has been called «the architect of Mifid II» for her role in shaping the far - reaching European financial legislation that took six years to complete and came into force in January.

Pet supply retailer PetSmart Inc succumbed to calls from some shareholders for a sale on Sunday with an agreement to be bought by a private equity consortium led by BC Partners Ltd for $ 8.7 billion, in the largest leveraged buyout of the year.

Sprint, for its part, said that some of the fired customers have called their customer service line more than 300 times in one year.

The call came after Tesla forecast a reduction of capital expenses for the year and affirmed that it will turn a profit in the second half of the year.

«This time of year there are often lots of groups of friends all renting out houses so we'll get calls asking us to throw a dinner party for 70 the next day.»

LONDON — A British teenager has been jailed for two years for compromising the email and phone accounts of senior U.S. government officials in what a judge called acts of «cyber-terrorism.»

Last year, Ubisoft released the Montreal studio's first mobile - only offering for the iPad called Monster Burner, an arcade - style game where you flick fireballs at descending crowds of monsters.

Incentive pay, also called flight pay, will increase for all officers, with those who have over 12 years of service potentially seeing the biggest boost, up to a maximum of $ 1,000 a month.

Sen. Rubio has discussed immigration during debates, but has not been asked about his participation in the so - called «Gang of 8,» which led a bipartisan push for comprehensive immigration reform just two years ago.

Analysts say some of the rebound is a result of what happened last year, when large numbers of advertisers put less into the upfront market and kept more of their spending for what is called the short - term «scatter» market, where ads are bought on an as - needed basis.

And if the bank continues to keep the ratio of its revenue paid as compensation lower than usual, it could result in savings of about $ 300 million for the company in the year, according to an estimate from Autonomous Research's Guy Moskowski in the bank's earnings call.