Sentence examples for unfriendly actions from inspiring English sources

Second, in strong investor protection countries, directors gain (lose) outside board seats following shareholder friendly (unfriendly) actions.

Responding to the reports on the delay with Abramovich's visa, the Kremlin claimed that Russian businesses often encountered "unfair and unfriendly" actions when applying to come to the UK.

But in a sign of slipping political relations, Russia's foreign ministry confirmed to the news agency RIA Novosti on Monday that it had expelled an employee of the German embassy in Moscow in response to Berlin's "unfriendly actions toward an employee of one of Russia's foreign institutions in Germany".

Executive compensation is inextricably linked to the shareholder-unfriendly actions Mr. Fink has identified; voting against pay packages infected by short-termism would help curb the problem.

In the US, too, more climate-unfriendly actions from a Republican-dominated Congress, like changes to clean energy subsidies, are on the cards, while President Obama's clean power plan to regulate power stations is under grave threat.

Unfriendly as these actions are, the Episcopal Church's top official, Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold III, appeared undaunted at a news conference on Tuesday, before he departed for the meeting.

According to a Kremlin transcript from the closed-door meeting, Putin began with a laundry list of Russian grievances toward the U.S. on issues pertaining to arms control and global security — noting that Russia often refrains from responding to unfriendly, unilateral U.S. actions.

Moscow called the expulsions an "explicitly unfriendly and provocative action" and warned that "appropriate response measures become inevitable".

In the campaign, he encouraged violence among supporters; pledged to prosecute Hillary Clinton; threatened legal action against unfriendly media; and suggested that he might not accept the election results.

Russian officials called the action an "unfriendly" provocation inspired by Western powers; the Poles said they had detailed proof that the Russians were spying.

"We intend to be clear in attributing the necessity for these actions to the exceedingly unfriendly business environment that now exists in New Jersey," Mr. Zimmerman said.