There had been little organized opposition to Thomas's nomination and his confirmation seemed assured until a report of a private interview of Hill by the FBI leaked out to the press.

After the Reagan camp lost the Iowa caucus and fell behind in New Hampshire polls, Nancy organized a second meeting and decided it was time to fire Sears and his associates ; she gave Sears a copy of the press release announcing his dismissal.

Under pressure from organized labor and the National Party Baldomir advocated free elections, freedom of the press, and a new constitution.

A press conference soon was organized for November 15.

These organized offices and support systems include aides-de-camp, press officers, financial managers, speech writers, trip organizers, event planners, protocol officers, chefs and other kitchen employees, waiters, and various cleaning staff, as well as visitors ' centre staff and tour guides at both official residences.

The press conference was organized in such a manner as to ensure the widest possible dissemination of the libel.

Murder, Inc. ( or Murder Incorporated or the Brownsville Boys ; known in syndicate circles as The Combination ) was the name given by the press to organized crime groups in the 1930s through the 1940s that acted as the " enforcement arm " of the American Mafia and Jewish Mafia, the early organized crime groups in New York and elsewhere.

CAIR has conducted investigations, issued reports, held press conferences, filed lawsuits, and organized political action to protest aspects of U. S. counterterrorism policy.

" In support of this, he referred to " the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero .... As Eric Alterman reports in his recent book — a book that I'm proud to have helped make happen — part of the red meat strategy is to attack mainstream media relentlessly, knowing that if the press is effectively intimidated, either by the accusation of liberal bias or by a reporter's own mistaken belief in the charge's validity, the institutions that conservatives revere — corporate America, the military, organized religion, and their own ideological bastions of influence — will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence over American public life with relatively no challenge.

* Clay pots and vats discovered at a sprawling cave system in southern Armenia near the border with Iran shows signs of an organized effort to press and distill grapes during the Copper Age.

They contacted Thomas Noguchi, the Chief Coroner for the County of Los Angeles, who organized the body's removal ; Divine's friends were able to prevent the press from taking any photographs of the body.

Later that day at a press conference originally organized by Moscone to announce White's successor, Feinstein announced the assassinations to the stunned public, stating: " As president of the board of supervisors, it's my duty to make this announcement.

They can be in the form of groundbreakings, world record attempts, dedications, press conferences or organized protests.

Members all over the world would send information to NCLC headquarters, which would distribute the information via briefings and other publications. LaRouche organized the network as a series of news services and magazines, which commentators say was done to gain access to government officials under press cover.

In the 1989 – 90 Pittston Coal strike the wives and daughters of the miners organized themselves as the " Daughters of Mother Jones " and represented the strikers to the press.

In this position, Brooke gained a reputation as a vigorous prosecutor of organized crime, and coordinated with local police departments on the Boston strangler case, although the press mocked him for permitting an alleged psychic to participate in the investigation.

Students rallied and organized a protest against any type of censorship of the newspaper, calling for a free and independent student press.

The amateur press association ( APA ) was the first formally organized form of manga scanlation.

The radio would be a monopoly funded by a license fee and organized as a limited company, Radiotjänst (" Radio service "), owned by the radio industry and the press.

Nevertheless, it continued to be the only organized party to press for democratization.

Periodical press delivery in Russia was organized in St. Petersburg in 1838.

Evercare organized a press conference around Lulu to promote the company's cosmetic surgery services.

During the fortnight not only was the collusion between the staff and the traitor fully organized, but the press, furnished with more or less news by the War Office, spoke openly of Scheurer-Kestner's futile visit to Billot and launched a veritable tempest against the " Jewish syndicate ," which had bought a " man of straw " as a substitute for Dreyfus in order to dishonor the army.

Reporters Without Borders ’ primary means of direct action are appeals to government authorities through letters or petitions, as well as frequent press releases.

* Public statements, press releases, petitions, and speeches

As well as letters to the press ( some forty in all ) there were articles, satires, books, public speaking, fund-raising, petitions, meetings with émigrés and help for refugees.

The federation uses a combination of media interviews, press conferences, speeches, presentations, petitions and publications to advocate its political views.

This phase is marked by moderate techniques of protest such as petitions, public meetings, press campaign, etc.

The press reports of Stanković's pending arrival to Juve sparked the club's fans into protests and online petitions as they would neither forgive his turning down the club back in January 2004 nor his exuberant public celebrations after the 2005 – 06 Serie A title was stripped from Juve and handed to Inter following the Calciopoli scandal.

* 1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.

Ralph A. Rossum, writing in the San Diego Law Review, notes that the debate over the amendment's adoption lacked " any serious or systematic considerations of its potential impact on federalism ... The popular press, the party platforms, the state memorials, the House and Senate debates, and the state legislative debates during ratification focused almost exclusively on expanding democracy, eliminating political corruption, defeating elitism and freeing the states from what they had come to regard as an onerous and difficult responsibility.

Brewster, in a venture financed by Thomas Brewer, acquired typesetting equipment about 1616 and began publishing the debates through a local press.

He allowed free debates in Parliament to be held and published, relaxed press censorship, and appointed the Liberal Émile Ollivier as Prime Minister in 1869.

His key success was to protect the freedom of the press by gaining passage of a bill to remove the power of general warrants and to end Parliament's ability to punish political reports of debates.

In addition, Members of Congress frequently cite GAO's work in statements to the press, congressional hearings, and floor debates on proposed legislation.

This change began by allowing free debates in Parliament and public reports of parliamentary debates, continued with the relaxation of press censorship, and culminated in the appointment of the Liberal Émile Ollivier, previously a leader of the opposition to Napoléon's regime, as ( effectively ) Prime Minister in 1870.

On November 24, 1860, he granted to the Chambers the right to vote an address annually in answer to the speech from the throne, and to the press the right of reporting parliamentary debates.

The precise impact of Kahn's proposal on the Kennedy-Nixon debates during the 1960 presidential campaign is unclear, but his ideas did receive national press exposure.

On October 2, 1988, the LWV's 14 trustees voted unanimously to pull out of the debates, and on October 3 they issued a press release to explain their decision:

On October 2, 1988, the LWV's 14 trustees voted unanimously to pull out of the debates, and on October 3 they issued a dramatic press release:

Since the late 1970s, despite periodic reversals, media in mainland China have frequently criticized party cadres and have published debates on such fundamental issues as the rule of law, freedom of the press, and universal human rights.

This issue, when brought up with the general public several weeks later, immediately caused an uproar from the press and became one of the hottest debates on the Internet in China due to the still painful memory of foreign humiliation epitomized in the destruction of this " Garden of Gardens ( 萬園之園 )".

" As an " unstoppable Usenet poster who could carry on simultaneous debates about Ibsen, Chomsky, artificial intelligence, and Kate Bush ," he became an " online legend " who would also get cited in the national press as an expert on usenet.

The movement has received international press coverage as a result of high profile activism of their members, has become increasingly vocal, visible and organised, and has played a powerful role in family law debates.

* Public data: government reports, official data such as budgets, demographics, hearings, legislative debates, press conferences, speeches, marine and aeronautical safety warnings, environmental impact statements and contract awards.

On October 2, 1988, the LWV's 14 trustees voted unanimously to pull out of the debates, and on October 3 they issued a dramatic press release:

Putin's campaign press service announced that he decided not to use the free radio and television time provided to all candidates and not to take part in TV debates.

Joyu would often get into argumentative debates with reporters during his press conferences.

She also entered the New Hampshire primary for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination in 1992, and gained some press coverage for frequent heckling of Bill Clinton's campaign appearances after she was excluded from the New Hampshire Democratic debates.

** Green: Party leader Jim Harris calls a press conference regarding his lawsuit against the broadcasters who plan on excluding him from the national televised debates.

At a 1987 press conference announcing the commission's creation, Fahrenkopf said that the commission was not likely to include third-party candidates in debates, and Paul G. Kirk, Democratic national chairman, said