Sentences with phrase «groups spearheaded the efforts»

«We were all affected by 9/11, but the mainstream media has not always covered our stories,» said Sapreet Kaur, executive director of The Sikh Coalition, one of the groups spearheading the effort.

While those three groups spearheaded the effort, consultants from the nation's two largest teachers unions, members from ACT and the College Board, education experts from 48 states (including Mississippi), and 10,000 public comments all played a role in the final standards, published in 2009.

The New Jersey Council of Collaborative Practice Groups spearheaded the efforts toward passage of the act with the support of its eight practice groups, consisting of hundreds of collaboratively trained professionals throughout New Jersey.

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Bart Smith, cohead of the ETF Group at Susquehanna, is spearheading efforts in crypto for the firm.

Students of the era helped organize the Student Volunteer Movement, under the initial sponsorship of Dwight L. Moody, and spearheaded the massive American foreign missionary efforts that reached their peak around World War I. Administrations also often encouraged Protestant denominational campus groups as well as their Catholic and Jewish counterparts.

Several people involved in this effort spearheaded the successful push for same - sex marriage, including Cuomo's former chief of staff, Steve Cohen, and ex-aide Katherine Grainger, who is now working for Civitas Public Affairs Group.

Niou cited Kavanagh's «vast amount of state government experience,» including his efforts as part of a group spearheaded by former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg to push for gun control.

Mr. Bharara's office, as well as state prosecutors, have now also issued subpoenas to Nyclass, a group that donated to the mayor's campaign, and had spearheaded an effort to ban horse carriages in the city, according to Michael McKeon, a spokesman for the group.

Others involved in this battle include the Marriage Equality New York PAC and the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington, DC - based lobbying group which recently hired Brian Ellner, a former aide to Mayor Bloomberg, to spearhead this effort.

For the record, McKeon isn't just «supporting the current attorney general» for governor, he is spearheading the group «GOPers for Cuomo ``, which entails rounding up Republicans like himself to endorse the Democratic frontrunner and keeping political reporters up to date on his efforts.

This month, a group of scientists spearheaded by Wanner launched an international alliance to consolidate global E. coli modeling efforts, dubbed the International E. coli Alliance.

Other corporate positions in Baxter included the spearheading and execution of innovation efforts which led to the creation of a global innovation council, corporate incubator group and implementation of innovation processes globally to drive growth for the corporation.

(In French and English with subtitles) Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Unrated) Feminist documentary chronicles the extraordinary efforts of the group of visionary women who spearheaded the peace movement which led to the end of Liberia's decades - long civil war and the rise to power of Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state.

BestPrep, a philanthropic state business group, spearheaded an effort that renovated an old science building for school use.

With few employees and a strong cadre of community volunteers spearheading a grassroots effort to secure funding and build our mission, our small group of social workers and educators worked largely on a local level in the Puget Sound region.

Bill Lucia of EdVoice, a Sacramento - based educational advocacy group that helped spearhead opposition efforts, said the bill had started out with good intentions.

Joining the 600 - plus - horsepower all - wheel drive 2 +2 GTV coupe at the top of Alfa's lineup, the 8C will compliment Ferrari's no doubt even more powerful mid-engined offerings in the next decade, while Maserati spearheads the group's electrification efforts.

The Canadian ETF Association (CETFA), an industry group that represents the country's ETF providers, is spearheading an effort to enable mutual fund advisors to offer ETFs to their clients ETFs.

Efforts to prevent drilling are being spearheaded by human and environmental right group Global Witness, whose Jean - Luc Blakey said, «Tourism is a big industry in Uganda, and drilling for oil in Lake Edward could seriously jeopardize that.

A spirited lobbying effort in Washington over the summer, spearheaded by a New York gallery and a group of committed artists, has apparently succeeded in staving off a total ban on the use of cadmium paints in the United States.

The intent of the working group is to spearhead a dedicated effort across the national and international climate communities to advance progress on identifying anthropogenic influences on weather and climate amidst the «noise» of internal variability.

To help spearhead a lot of that, there's been a lot of grassroots efforts within Yahoo! — there's a group called the Green Team who have spontaneously gotten together and have come up with a lot of these ideas — but we're always looking for other ideas from outside people, or inside people, on ways that as a corporation, we can reduce our footprint.

The $ 35 million «clean coal» campaign, spearheaded by a coal industry front group called American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (formerly known as Americans for BalancedEnergy Choices), is nothing less than a nationwide effort to paint coal white.

SCOTUSblog is very much a group effort, spearheaded by the husband - and - wife team of Tom Goldstein and Amy Howe, who founded it in 2002.

• Secured procurement of $ 2,500,000 materiel handling equipment for new 240,000 square foot warehouse distribution centers at Joint Repair Parts Command and General Depot Command • Succinctly managed 71 deployment taskings for Eighth Air Force personnel; always 100 % on - time Deployment Requirement Manning Document delivery to base Installation Deployment Officer • Coordinated with Air Force Global Strike Command on tasking verifications — slashed deployment shortfalls by 50 % • Co-lead with item manager on critical B - 52 brake mission capable issues; production up over 60 % — kept 76 B - 52s combat primed • Spearheaded transfer of 439 Headquarters Eighth Air Force weapons to 2 BW — vital assets valued at $ 290,000 available for redistribution • Remarkable leadership; revamped Eighth Air Force deployment process — slashed late responses by 65 % and reclamas by 25 % • Prepped 175 9MMs and 266 M16s for Combat Arms Training and Maintenance inspection — 100 % compliant for 1st time in 2 years; reorganized annex space — 40 % more • Oversaw 2 peninsula wide Staff Assistance Visits; assessed 5 sites and $ 1,800,000,000 War Reserve Materiel program; 497 findings 98.4 % fixed — Air Support Group prepped to ace Unit Compliance Inspection • Launched premier vehicular support to NASA and FEMA teams during Space Shuttle Columbia crisis • Quickly transitioned flight from Strategic Command exercise to wartime status in aftermath of September 11th attacks — 27,000 gallons of JP - 8 issued to Air Force One and escort aircraft; base efforts lauded by President

Linda L. Piff, Esq., Co-Chair of N.J. Council of Collaborative Practice Groups, spearheaded the efforts in 2004 to bring collaborative law to New Jersey.