Sentences with phrase «building block effort»

We have a soil health campaign as part of the Building Block effort.

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But the lawsuit is also in line with ongoing efforts by legacy telecoms to block competition, including lobbying at the state level to prevent cities from building their own broadband networks.

While these building blocks are essential to women's progress, equally essential are linking mechanisms that connect the organization's efforts for maximum impact.

Our efforts represent the single largest block of community support in the history of New Orleans, contributing more than 54,000 volunteer hours and investing more than $ 1 million in local projects like painting, landscaping, and building playgrounds.

«It's critical the government renews its efforts to secure a balanced recovery, using investment and trade as its building blocks.»

Ensuring all children receive the fundamental building blocks of an early education has been a top priority of mine and I am thrilled we are moving forward with this joint effort.»

Following Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.'s endorsement of challenger Gustavo Rivera in the 33rd District Senate race earlier today, incumbent Pedro Espada Jr. stood in front of the Kingsbridge Armory and railed against Diaz's efforts to block the creation of a shopping mall at the long - vacant former military building.

The study is meant to build upon other efforts aimed at women in the workplace, including a provision that sought to eliminate a loophole in state law that blocked employees from discussing their salaries.

Chaired by Ambassador Michael Froman, the US Trade Representative, the Hearing is part of efforts by the U.S. government to put building blocks in place for the next phase in its economic relationship with Africa.

Off - topic questions included the mayor's proposed budget and the potential cost of open labor contracts, a timeline for settling the open labor contracts, the Build it Back program, the administration's «comprehensive review» of the city's Sandy recovery efforts, release of Bishop Findlayter's arrest report, the mayor's September promise to visit a carriage horse stable before acting on his pledge to ban carriage horses and the administration's community development block grant application.

A lot of neighborhood events, a lot of house parties, block parties, all sorts of things to build support, and not just financial support, to get the volunteers and people to be active in the campaign, and this was a great kickoff to that effort,» de Blasio told Lehrer.

Last week, genomics pioneer Craig Venter announced that his team has passed an important milestone in its efforts to create a bacterial cell whose genome is entirely synthetic — constructed chemically from the building blocks of DNA.

In the mere three years since it was set up on the outskirts of Paris, Genethon has chalked up one success after another in the international effort to map the 24 different human chromosomes — a key step in spelling out the three billion nucleotide building blocks that make up the human genome.

Haroun Tazieff, a French vulcanologist, criticised the Italians» efforts to build barriers, and suggested blocking the lava's exit from the mountain instead.

The effort, which would harness an automated synthesis machine he and his colleagues developed to snap together molecules from a set of premade building blocks, could cost $ 1 billion and take 20 years, Burke estimates.

Their crisscrossing paths and collective efforts have nonetheless led to a clear - eyed understanding of how neurons — the brain's cellular building blocks — form and function and how ion - conducting channels control the flow of electrical signals through the nervous system.

UNLV is commemorating World AIDS Day this December by recognizing the efforts of professors across multiple disciplines who are investigating the disease from the smallest building blocks of human genomes to its cross-continental impact on various communities.

But Langdon's research shows that their efforts could be for naught because ocean acidification could eat away at the building blocks those corals will need to flourish (or at least survive).

One key aspect that her research group has devoted its efforts to over the past 15 years is expanding the toolkit of building blocks to include fluorinated aliphatic amino acids to improve the pharmacokinetic and physicochemical profiles of peptide / protein - based drugs and materials, respectively.

The article offers information on the 21st Century Skills (P21) movement for K12 education in the U.S. Topics include the mission of the movement to promote 21st century readiness to the K12 education system of the U.S., the efforts to integrate 21st Century Skills into elementary education, and the «building blocks» of 21st Century Skills.

We're starting to see examples, including efforts by a partnership between the National Paideia Center at the University of North Carolina and New Visions for Public Schools in New York City, of how these modules can serve as building blocks to create new courses.

Mainstream automakers have thus far focused their efforts on step - by - step buildups of the adaptive cruise control and lane departure control, building blocks necessary to bring automation to the nation's highway system.

The public nature of Esparza's process — and the community effort that he engages to create the building blocks of his installations — is a unique opportunity to produce new work that bears distinct ties to our region.

The project symbolically explores the complex network of forces and concerns giving rise to these simulations — from the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty to efforts to understand how the building blocks of planets and life were created — and their relationship to the techno - romantic sublime.

The sum total of her efforts created a Babel - like space where one might recognize the building blocks of language though the literal content was obscured beyond comprehension.

Here is the ugly reality: None of our efforts to preserve and retrofit vintage buildings will be sustainable if we don't find ways to stop working on an ad - hoc, building - by - building basis We need to move upscale and start focusing on blocks of homes, distinct districts, or even entire neighborhoods.

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But the inability to consider and aggressively pursue opportunities that take advantage of their education might actually compromise their long - term efforts because the real - world learning from that first job as a career building block is missing.

It takes alot of effort and money to clean up a building, let alone a whole block or area.