Sentences with phrase «much of the advocacy»

Although much of the advocacy had centred on industrial education, Congress included agriculture and home economics within its definition of vocational subjects.

Much of the advocacy literature on opening statements also focuses on plaintiffs and jury trials.

«People outside our profession don't know how much of law is writing — much of advocacy is done in the form of a strongly worded letter,» says Wheeler.

It would appear that much of their advocacy work in relation to the Don Dale abuse has been to advocate for their Chairperson's right to dismiss the reporting of such abhorrent abuse.

Voices for Children uses data from the American Community Survey in much of our advocacy efforts, and you can find it sprinkled throughout the Kids Count in Nebraska Report.

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However, despite his advocacy of nation - wide programs, Farrington has a simple message for Canadians thinking about their retirement security: «We hope that this ranking can be a rallying cry to employees to be saving as much as possible, as early as possible.»

Health Care: «I don't think there is much doubt as to where Senator Clinton is on the issue of health care,» says Raymond J. Keating, chief economist for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a small - business advocacy group based in Vienna, Virginia.

Similarly, mindsets surrounding customer success also need to shift: identifying and nurturing advocacy must become just as much of a priority as upselling and renewing.

When asked how much money would be spent on immigration advocacy, Lima declined to give a monetary figure, but said the advocacy efforts would be «as big of a deal» as tax reform.

It's not too much of an exaggeration to say the 2012 budget was inspired by, and might as well have been written by, Ethical Oil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealth.

So much goes into building and sustaining a successful employee advocacy program, yet one of the most commonly overlooked steps is determining how to evaluate and measure the varying degrees of engagement amongst program participants.

Given their focus on plant - based and cellular alternatives to animal products, much of GFI's work does not have a direct bearing on much of the animal advocacy movement, although they are contributing to a neglected and potentially high - impact area.

Yet much of the current advocacy of blacks» interests seems inconsistent with achieving equal respect for black Americans.

Still, much of the momentum around LGBT advocacy also resists such compromise.

U.S. policy toward Latin America has fluctuated between open support of dictatorships and hostility toward movements of liberation, and advocacy of a «restricted democracy,» in which a limited amount of political space is allowed so long as it does not rock the boat too much internally and in the hemisphere.

There is much advocacy around the issue of cost containment as we enter the great debate over health care «reform.»

The United Church of Christ has continually played an active part in media advocacy, devoting much of the time of their Office of Communication to media criticism, lobbying, and organizing community and legal - action groups against the television industry on behalf of disenfranchised groups.

She is founder of «Minister and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors» and appears to have done some much needed advocacy for victims of truly terrible crimes.

«This pretty much confirms what we've been saying, that the benefits of breastfeeding are great, and now there is proof that intelligence levels can be improved into adulthood,» said Kim Cavaliero, spokeswoman for the Schaumburg - based advocacy group La Leche League International.

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Few have achieved such remarkable success in as many different fields as Davis has: she is not only an Oscar and Golden Globe winning actor, but a world - class athlete (at one time the nation's 13th - ranked archer), a member of the genius society Mensa, and is becoming recognized for her tireless advocacy of women and girls nearly as much as for her acting accomplishments.

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So until our supporters have some way other than the Like button to indicate that they care about a story, advocacy appeal or other distressing Facebook post, much of what advocates post by necessity is going to under - perform the latest cute cat photo.

In general, as in so many other parts of the online advocacy space, readers aren't likely to pay much attention to you unless you have something of value to offer them.

The protesters appeared to be part of the advocacy group Vocal NY, though they chanted much of the same Occupied - inspired slogans and carried signs calling Dicker «The Mouthpiece of Gov. 1 %»

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Now, plenty of advocacy groups try to get their members and employees active online, and the question of whether NOM's activities cross any lines seems pretty much up in the air, based on what's in the article itself.

«We seek to align with other civil society organisations for a much more loud advocacy that ensures that people who are seeking to occupy the high office of our land do not have such questionable track record like Mr Mahama,» Ernesto Yeboah said.

Having MySpace involved could really make OpenSocial a more useful tool for U.S. political advocacy, since the site's audience in the States is so much larger than those of all the other social networking sites besides Facebook combined.

The Obama campaign's email strategy, and like so much else the campaign did online, built on the experience of previous political campaigns and nonprofit advocacy groups, relying on incremental improvements over past practice.

Party organizations are usually going to have focus much more on long - term list - development, and in that sense their position is more like that of a nonprofit or advocacy group than of a candidate.

Likewise, posting an advocacy action such as a «send an email to Congress» message to a Facebook page usually yields some results, but generally with a much lower action - rate than you'd expect from an email list of equivalent size.

Advocacy is different: without the urgency of a campaign, supporters are likely to tolerate fewer emails, and they may respond to those messages at a much lower rate than they did when the White House was on the line.

Other groups such as Progressive Congress News are similarly trying to use Twitter to raise the profile of content that's otherwise at risk of getting buried, something that I suspect we're going to see much more of in advocacy campaigns to come.

Australian Priscilla Brice - Weller has written up another cool use of maps for advocacy purposes, in this case to encourage the transition from incandescent light bulbs to compact flourescents (which are much more energy - efficient).

This month, the Internet Advocacy Roundtable is piping in some of the key players in these efforts from the Human Rights Campaign, which has spearheaded much of the national effort, and from the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which successfully challenged California's Prop 8 in federal court.

In general, as in so many other parts of the online advocacy space, readers aren't likely to pay much attention to you unless you have some kind of value to offer them.

And as anyone who's been using Facebook regularly for advocacy communications knows, text / link posts simply don't get much visibility these days, meaning that their new infographic would have dropped out of sight quickly.

The Unity Maps, developed by joint effort of several advocacy organizations, puts all of Inwood and much of the eastern half of Washington Heights into City Council District 10, while District 7's northern border would start at the George Washington Bridge and end farther south at 113th St.

It's a great (and timely) topic, with some many of us in the advocacy world looking at ways to put these online communities we've spend so much time (and often, money) building to work.

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Highlighting his well known community support and advocacy, he repeated he was «proud to now be a Democrat... but the privilege of representing our communities has and always will be about much more than party registration... this is my challenge, my purpose and my promise for the next few years.»

Too much post-referendum advocacy from the losing Remain side has learnt nothing at all from how and why the referendum was lost, the tone of «when will you idiots realise we were right about everything all along» very likely doing rather more to harden the views of late - breaking Leave voters than to engage them.

As for the DREAM Act, no matter how much supporters would like to see a «clean» bill pass, at least one member of the immigrant advocacy community recognizes the reality of the situation, which is that letting the measure come up for a vote in the Senate is likely a recipe for disaster — an all - but certain repeat of the bill's 2014 failure.

Loeb is a prominent backer of charter schools and the education reform movement, which the governor has embraced, much to the chagrin of public teachers unions and their allies in public education advocacy organizations.

«There is much unfinished business with water quality issues, improved public transit for the South Fork, the renaissance of the Southampton campus, and advocacy for the commercial fishing industry, among the many issues that will continue to be my priorities.»

«Public assistance is not that much money to take care of the family,» said Lee, a member of the advocacy group VOCAL - NY, prior to a City Council committee hearing on the issue Monday.

Although his offensive (more in terms of what he says than that he says it) advocacy of McCain certainly will cause Democratic senators to gag, he is a much more natural fit for the Democratic caucus and his vote on most issues (e.g., labor, health care, abortion) is much more closely aligned with the Democratic party than with the Republicans.

«We have much work to do, much advocacy on behalf of our city,» she told the lubricated crowd of county democrats.