Sentences with phrase «society representatives at»

Dental Society representatives at a legislative health committee meeting Thursday said they did not condone the tone of such letters.

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Much that is anything but true democracy may hide behind the fagade of representative democracy; on the other hand, a society which is not democratically constituted in the normal sense of the word may sometimes achieve what a democracy aims at.

On the other hand, Max Arthur Macauliffe, who was for many years a judge in India, resigned at the request of representative Sikh societies, and undertook the translation of the book.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

All exhibiting companies must have at least one company representative who is an active member in the Society.

To complete the ambitious project, Standard Holdings Ltd. provided a project manager; the Glenbow Foundation supplied a field representative; and the City of Calgary, various corporations and individuals made personnel and services available at little or no cost to the Society.

In two days, espnW and the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Project will co-host an espnW: Women + Sports Summit at which they will report the results of a survey in which a nationally representative sample of moms were asked what they wanted and needed for their kids from youth sports.

19 June 2017 — WHO has a significant presence at the 31st ICM Congress where over 4000 midwives, policy makers, donors, civil society and government representatives from 116 midwifery associations, representing 102 countries across every continent are gathering in Toronto.

The London School of Economics (LSE) recently apologised to Chris Moos and Abhishek Phandis, representatives of the student Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society, who wore T - shirts showing the popular «Jesus and Mo» cartoon at their freshers» fair last year.

The Electoral Reform Society has therefore teamed up with a range of universities to set up two pilot citizens» assemblies, essentially mini-conventions, which will bring representative samples of the population in the Sheffield and Southampton areas to deliberate on and decide where power should lie at a local level.

At noon, Sen. Tony Avella will hold a joint press conference with The Humane Society of the United States, fellow elected officials, a representative from the Jane Goodall Institute and others to urge the New York Blood Center to keep its promise to provide lifetime care to a colony of chimpanzees exploited by the center for decades of research and then abandoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Humanists and other secularists — including religious people who believe in a secular state — have long campaigned for an end to «religious privilege» and «religious discrimination»; at the same time, many Muslims have claimed that there is a prevalent «Islamophobia» in society; recently, representatives of some Christian churches are claiming that Christians are being «marginalised» as a consequence of «aggressive secularism» excluding them from public life.

«At this juncture, it has become necessary to ask all conscionable representatives of the Nigerian people, civil society activities, labour and its social partners, to stand up and be counted, by discharging their civic responsibility of exposing what is undoubtedly another hot pursuit against the Roghinga's of 21st century.

Dr Les King, another member of the ACMD, and Marion Walker, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's representative on the ACMD, resigned in protest at his dismissal over the weekend.

It is at odds with the aspiration for a more legitimate and representative second chamber and with affirmation of a plural society.

At a recent public hearing, several members of the engineering community, including representatives from the Erie Niagara Chapter of NYS Society of Professional Engineers and respected engineering firms, spoke against removing the PE requirement for the county's head of DPW.

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That was the message handed down by senior representatives of the federal agencies that fund much of the field's research in the U.S. during «town halls» with scientists here at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Last week, scientists and government representatives met at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre near Milton Keynes, UK, to discuss the issue, but they failed to reach a consensus, making the outcome of the January vote hard to predict.

The House of Representatives and Senate subcommittees that hold the purse strings for DOE and the Army Corps of Engineers received an additional $ 4 billion from the recent agreement to raise the budget caps, notes Michael Lubell, a physicist at City College of New York and a former lobbyist for the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C..

The Council shall consist of the members of the Executive Committee; two representatives from each affiliated society and active section; and no more than six members - at - large, one or two of whom may be elected annually by the Council for terms of three years from among the members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science resident in the Pacific Division region.

She has presented her research at numerous national and international meetings, including the Ecological Society of America, where she held leadership positions as co-chair of the Ecological Society of America's Student Section and representative to the Public Affairs Committee in Washington D.C. Dr. Gallagher has been recognized for her public outreach with a Public Impact Fellowship and for her teaching with a Steinhaus Teaching Award and Pedagogical Fellowship.

Dr Han is an excellent academic representative of his country and we all hope to see him and his colleagues at future meetings of the Society.»

While many civil society groups were competing to build their own image at the side events in the official Rio Centro tents and other locations, the so called Peoples Summit in the Flamingo Park was a chaotic demonstration that lead to thousands of civil society representatives from across the world being stranded and lost without any sense of direction or coordination.

Around 90 representatives from employers, trailblazer groups, training providers and educational associations and organisations attended the symposium at the Royal Society in London.

The group will have at least nine members, including a local veterinarian and representatives of the county's three humane societies.

It would be made up on representatives of Ohio family farms, farming organizations, food safety experts, veterinarians, consumers, the dean of the agriculture department at an Ohio college or university and a county humane society representative.»

We offer educational seminars on a variety of topics... If you would like to submit a request for a representative of Jefferson County Humane Society to speak at an upcoming event at your School, Group, Public Function, or Organization — please send an e-mail to: [email protected]

There will be a discussion on adding a wing to the animal control building when Osceola County Humane Society meets Thursday.Under discussion will be the need for a quarantine wing at the county shelter on Kissimmee Park Road.The panel of guest speakers will include Dr. David Andrix, Dr. Ric Austin, Dr. Bill Ackerman, a representative from the county animal control, Osceola County commissioners Jim Swan, Larry Whaley, Randy Sheive and Mike Bast.The meeting, open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. in the Humane Society Bingo Hall, 127 Broadway, Kissimmee.

I was one of a group of people who objected to the mule diving act at the Lake County Fair.I read in the Lake Sentinel that a representative from the state attorney's office and a representative from the Lake County Humane Society were there to see a demonstration to decide if it was cruel and should be stopped.

THE LAKE County Planning and Zoning Commission voted against the Leesburg Humane Society's proposed animal shelter for abused, abandoned and injured animals.Other than one representative from the society, no one was allowed to speak in favor of the shelter at the zoning hSociety's proposed animal shelter for abused, abandoned and injured animals.Other than one representative from the society, no one was allowed to speak in favor of the shelter at the zoning hsociety, no one was allowed to speak in favor of the shelter at the zoning hearing.

During a session at the World Pet Association's (WPA) recent Groomer Supershow in Las Vegas, WPA president Doug Poindexter and representatives from International Pet Groomers, Inc. (IPG), the International Society of Canine Cosmetologists (ISCC) and the National Dog Groomers Association of America, Inc. (NDGAA) described a protocol that includes standards for animal housing and handling, equipment, and facilities with a focus on safe operations and attentive animal care.

In the summer of 2007, I and thirty - two other representatives and clergy members from a myriad of different religions were invited by the Best Friends Animal Society to gather at their compound in Utah and work on a «Religious Proclamation for Compassion Toward Animals» (signed in Washington, D.C. in November of that year).

The remaining four dogs will arrive in Orlando on January 22, 2017, also at 5:17 pm, and be transported to Tampa by Humane Society of Tampa Bay representatives.

Upon arrival at the Lihue Airport, a Kauai Humane Society representative will meet your pet (s) at the terminal to complete an inspection.

He participated as BTIA's representative on various national committees including the most recent, on the Inter-American Development Bank's Civil Society Consulting Group for Belize (on which he was still serving at the time of his passing), and on the Board of the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT) from 2010 — 2013.

As the 1999 American representative at the Venice Biennale, she addressed topics of slavery and oppression in American society, with an installation that used walls embossed with Braille, which caught a dazzling red powder as it slid down from above, literally making language visible.

The attention toward the collective's activities and ethos is particularly representative to understand a new era of art production in which Colab could serve as a model of decentralization, pluralism, and autonomy, both in the cultural field and in society at large.

[ANDY REVKIN says: I was at the first Conference on the Changing Atmosphere in Toronto in 1988, but mainly recall the worried look on the representative from the Maldives, and the statement by Michael McElroy of Harvard, quoted in my 1988 Discover Magazine article on the greenhouse effect: «If we choose to take on this challenge, it appears that we can slow the rate of change substantially, giving us time to develop mechanisms so that the cost to society and the damage to ecosystems can be minimized.

Political Representatives and Civil Society Groups Demand Canada Support Kyoto Continuation at Cancun Climate Talks (Climate Action Network Canada press release): http://canadianyouthdelegation.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/political-representatives-and-civil-society-groups-demand-canada-support-kyoto-continuation-at-cancun-climate-talks/

Civil society representatives belong at the UNFCCC climate negotiations — they are the lifeblood of the process, giving it legitimacy and providing expertise.

UN Climate Change News, 5 May 2018 — International negotiators, representatives of civil society and youth put their heads together at climate talks in Bonn, Germany, this week to look for ways the Paris Climate Change Agreement can boost education, awareness, engagement and cooperation in the...

UN Climate Change News, 5 May 2018 — International negotiators, representatives of civil society and youth put their heads together at climate talks in Bonn, Germany, this week to look for ways the Paris Climate Change Agreement can boost education, awareness, engagement and cooperation in the fight against climate change.

It can be used as a tool to support policymakers and representatives of civil society in their efforts to imrpove environmental management and further promote sustainable development at the country level.

Thursday, July 24, 1:07 PM: I respond to Monckton and all the original recipients of my article, suggesting he read my comments a bit more carefully and addressing the following points and stating clearly at the end that I was * not * writing as a representative of the American Physical Society...:

He says a task force was formed at the time and two Law Society representatives were chosen as members, «but that task force never met.»

LSB is governed by a territorial Board of Directors comprised of a Government of Nunavut representative, a Law Society of Nunavut representative, three regional representatives, and two members - at - large.

The conference will be held at the Royal Society of Medicine on Monday 24 November and would appeal to parents, education providers, disability charities, clinical commissioning group representatives, social care providers, clinicians, care agencies and care providers, GP's and health professionals, court of protection deputies, personal injury and clinical negligence solicitors.

On October 24 2015, Senegalese NGO CONAF — the National Committee for Literacy and Training — convened civil society representatives, public health practitioners, village chiefs, civil registry officials, and religious leaders at the launch ceremony for its program to improve women and children's access to civil registry in the region of Diourbel.