Sentences with phrase «similar efforts at»

It is a partnership between the city of Oberlin and Oberlin College to: (1) create a sustainable economy driven, first, by the redevelopment of a 13 acre Green Arts District to USGBC platinumnd standards; (2) achieve climate neutrality; (3) create a 20,000 acre greenbelt for a revived local farm economy; (4) create an educational collaborative including the College, public schools, a Vo - Tech School, and a Two year College to prepare young people for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century; and (5) replicate our experience through a network of similar efforts at varying scales and circumstances nationwide.

Similar efforts at a global accord have failed in the past.

Nguyen said some members of Garfield's student government talked with students organizing similar efforts at Roosevelt, Ingraham and Nathan Hale but didn't plan any coordinated events between the schools.

In its place, he sees three similar efforts at using working groups to synthesize data for applied ecology.

The Human Rights Campaign, which played a big role in Cuomo's successful campaign to get gay marriage passed by the Legislature here in New York and has now launched a similar effort at the national level, released an undated letter signed by Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and 13 other mayors and governors that urged members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee to pass the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA), the bill to repeal DOMA.

(Echoes of a similar effort at The Mikado back in 1978's Foul Play.)

The project echoes the Artist Project, a similar effort at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which over a period of six seasons explored «What artists see when they look at The Met.»

Check out some recent submissions from an effort to get Dr. Bail's biased report entirely removed from the WSIAT record (a similar effort at the WSIB Appeals Services Division failed; in fact, the decision maker didn't even address it).

Not exact matches

The efforts of Internet.org, Google's «Loon For All» and other groups can now accomplish a similar task on a global level. Internet.org may be just a lot of talk at this stage, but the promise it holds is real.

And with each change made, calculate at least a rough return on investment (ROI) to determine if it was worth the effort — and whether similar changes in future make financial sense.

We saw a similar effort after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando when people across the country organized blood donations to help victims they had never met.

In fact, she said, she'd had a similar experience at Google, despite its very public efforts toward racial diversity and gender equity.

Stamos, who joined the social giant almost three years ago after a very public stint in a similar role at Yahoo, ran the team inside Facebook tasked with hunting down ads related to the Kremlin's efforts to sow unrest in the U.S. ahead of the presidential election.

in a similar fashion, Trump single handedly killed Broadcom's effort at a adversarial takeover of Qualcomm, citing national safety issues relating to Broadcom's Singaporean corporate lineage.

A similar paradigm was advocated a few years back when the Manhattan Declaration was rolled out, an effort that gave an additional place at the top to marriage.

Similar efforts have been launched in recent months against Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, for speaking at a Focus on the Family event; and Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, for agreeing to appear at a leadership conference sponsored by another Christian group, the Willow Creek Association.

An effort has been made to show that the teachings of the Qur» an are similar to those of the Sabians, a sect well - known in Mecca at that time.

This is similar to the way he brought Emmanuel Adebayor in from the cold at Tottenham in his former effort at football management.

It's eerily similar to the Fellaini effort but this time it's Bradley Johnson beating three Liverpool players to the ball to get a header in at goal.

When Klopp was hired, many predicted Lallana and Lovren would be among those to shine under the German tactician due to his previous efforts with a similar calibre of players at Borussia Dortmund.

«Overloaded and Underprepared» is a detailed documentation of those efforts, offering a practical, research - based road map to students, teachers, parents and school administrators on how to implement similar change at their schools.

Mass Audubon's efforts to control common reed at Rough Meadows complement similar efforts by others to control and prevent the spread of common reed and other non-native invasive plant species throughout the Great Marsh ecosystem.

A similar global commitment to assist Afghan government's development efforts beyond 2014 is expected at the international donors» conference on Afghanistan, to be held in July in Tokyo.

To this end, she commended the effort of Melcom, in «giving artists a platform to display their work at no cost» and called on the corporate entities to assist in a similar regard.

Generally speaking, the Assembly's proposal, which allows for the cap to be overridden by a 60 percent majority of a local school district and is directed particularly at areas with crushing property taxes like Long Island and Westchester County, is similar to that of the Governor, who said today that he applauded their efforts.

In addition to eliciting testimony from two current teachers with the education program who «have always been paid substantially less than what Percoco's wife was paid for performing similar work,» the government will likely seek to undercut the notion that the payments were bonafide by citing alleged efforts at concealment.

The mayor first convened a panel of progressive leaders at Gracie Mansion in April and announced plans to create an agenda similar to the Republican's «Contract With America» effort of the 1990s but focused more on income inequality.

The bomb threat that forced the local Jewish Community Center to evacuate both its buildings, on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo and North Forest Road in Amherst, late Monday morning was part of a nationwide effort that saw at least 10 such centers targeted with similar threats, according to local and national officials.

Eliot, 54 — son of ailing real - estate magnate Bernard Spitzer — further promised to «use his best efforts» to ensure that Silda gets to stay in their tony Fifth Avenue apartment at no cost to her, or else move her to «a replacement residence of similar size, location and quality.»

The Cuomo administration loosened state rules on local craft wineries in 2011 to encourage more off - site sales, and followed with similar efforts aimed at breweries in 2013 and at cider makers and distillers in 2014.

He has since launched a reform petition drive that is similar to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's NY Uprising PAC effort, although Koch has had better luck at getting candidates — including Cuomo himself — to sign on.

(WBEN) Now that state officials have announced plans to get rid of the toll barriers and go all electronic at the Grand Island Bridges, the push is on to have a similar «drive now, pay later» system at the Lackawanna and Williamsville barriers, and the effort just might get a boost from a template that funded startup of Buffalo's Canalside.

Lotz is leading a three - year effort, known as the Frontier Fields project, to stare at six massive clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope and hunt for the seeds of galaxies similar to our own.

At his Center for Open Science, launched in January, he is coordinating several initiatives to make psychology more transparent and reliable — initiatives that could both restore confidence to his beleaguered field and influence similar efforts in other sciences.

In 2005 organizers of the BWF / HHMI program put on a «train the trainers» course in an effort to encourage similar programs at institutions across the country.

A similar effort for heart attack care nationwide could start with looking at what differentiates hospitals from one another, and what the low - cost / low - mortality hospitals can teach their peers.

Practicing what he preaches, McFadden collaborates with Ron Merrill at the University of Washington, Seattle, and he touts some of Australia's formal collaboration efforts like Australia's Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs), which bring together partners with different backgrounds (e.g., commercial, research, university) to achieve a similar scientific goal.

Unfortunately, neither may get its wish: if the fuel has indeed formed a puddle, radiation levels may be too high for would - be deconstruction workers to approach, necessitating entombment efforts similar to those at Chernobyl.

Other, similar archival efforts posted their results directly to the web at reocities.com and internetarchaeology.org.

HOT yoga may just be a waste of effort, offering little benefit over similar yoga at a normal temperature.

Diet sodas can be no more than 25 percent of the items offered, the directive says.There should be «ample choices» of water, «soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or non dairy milk,» says the directive, which also covers fat and sugar content in vending machine snacks.It's all part of Newsom's effort to combat obesity and improve San Franciscans» health, similar to a national effort being championed by first lady Michelle Obama.The mayor's administration points to studies linking soda to obesity, including a UCLA one released last year that found adults who drink at least one soft drink a day are 27 percent more likely to be obese than those who don't, and that soda consumption is fueling the state's $ 41 billion annual obesity problem.

My resting HR is still pretty normal, but my exercise HR seems to be higher at a similar effort as in the past.

Yet... Hiromasa Yonebyashi's latest effort is the first film of a subsequent studio; «Studio Ponoc» founded from his former employers at Ghibli hence the character designs look so similar honoring their past legacies in this latest animated offering from the Japanese.

It's ultimately hard not to feel a twinge of disappointment at Reservation Road's decidedly less - than - compelling vibe, as the film features a premise that should've resulted in an electrifying, thoroughly compelling piece of work (somewhere along the lines of thematically - similar efforts 21 Grams and In the Bedroom).

When I spoke to the duo on July 11, 2011 at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco, we talked about the team effort that worked to bring the the novel to publication, as well as a similar team effort that brought it to the screen.

Noting that other professional schools — such as those in medicine and law — teach a set of core competencies that are shared across the profession, Lagemann led an effort to create a similar curriculum at HGSE.

They concluded, «The hope that we can systematically turn around all troubled schools — or even a majority of them — is at odds with much of what we know from similar efforts in the private sector.»

Black students continue to be disciplined at school more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, according to a new report by Congress's nonpartisan watchdog agency, which counters claims fueling the Trump administration's efforts to re-examine discipline policies of the Obama administration.

At a time when Democrats and Republicans are divided on many issues, it's particularly noteworthy that efforts to address teacher shortages have been largely bipartisan affairs, with similar bills introduced by both Democratic and Republican governors and legislators.

New York City's District 4 (by creating an extensive magnet system) and the state effort in Jersey City (by installing state officials at the top to remake a corrupt system) have taken different routes yet seem to have produced similar results.