Sentences with phrase «state efforts at»

Earlier State efforts at defining and measuring learning outcomes have not yielded much progress, thus compelling the GoI to commit to the development of a learning outcomes policy that will be applied to both government and private schools (note: state academic standards in the U.S. apply only to public school systems).

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

More broadly, she urged a joint City / State effort at expediting upgrades of the subway signal system and said that as mayor she would willingly increase the City's financial contribution to the MTA for such an effort.

Zuma is not a Nigerian patriot, contributed nothing to the Nigerian project and the Imo State effort at development.

Not exact matches

This isn't the first time the government has tried this clever strategy, but the effort has never reached across so many states at once.

The State Department's McCarrick balked at the suggestion by some analysts that the U.S. effort to expand its exports overseas could anger Russia.

There have been clean - ups and attempts at rectifying past mistakes — although the increasingly ideological and paranoid turn of the party - state may be obstructing these efforts.

The state government has announced a $ 40 million package to reduce charges at the Utah Point bulk handling facility by up to $ 2.50 per tonne, in an effort to help junior miners continue to export iron ore.

«At 7:32 p.m. local time today, US forces - Afghanistan conducted a strike on an ISIS - K tunnel complex in Achin district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, as part of ongoing efforts to defeat ISIS - K in Afghanistan in 2017,» US Central Command said in a statement, referring to the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ISIS - Khorasan.

After Trump won the presidency, Nicole Hockley, another founder of Sandy Hook Promise, said that the group would continue its efforts at the state and local level - and argued that, no matter who is in the White House, «I still don't think our country is ready yet for federal change.»

At least two states — Texas and Nevada — thought they were nearing a deal and redoubled their efforts.

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.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

The group has had a major impact at State Street, with mentorship efforts that have reached thousands of women.

Through her family's trust, she has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to the organization's efforts to defeat California's recreational marijuana proposal, given at least $ 30,000 to the campaign against Nevada's proposed legal weed law, and donated another $ 25,000 to defeat the pro-pot effort in Massachusetts, according to an analysis of state campaign finance filings by VICE News.

TRENTON — There's an effort in the New Jersey Legislature to put the state at the forefront of a growing new electronic industry: digital currency.

Sheri Vandermause, CMIT Solutions head of franchise development states: «We attribute our strong growth to the strength of our business model, the space in the market that we are in, and the fact that many talented executives are interested in having something of their own at this stage in their career — that allows them to see the direct benefits of their efforts.

After noting the concern of the FMFN and others for caribou, and the efforts of the proponent to mitigate the project's impacts, the AER panel states (at para 133):

The states could lead efforts to establish «uniformity and consistency» for the sale of annuities, said Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel, speaking at the Insured Retirement Institute conference in Washington this week.

This speech was political theater, a lobbying effort aimed at the president of the United States — a point Netanyahu all but admitted at the end.

At the same time, following the tentative nuclear accord with Iran, many Gulf states are ramping up their own production in what appears to be a somewhat desperate effort to maintain market share.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday proposed using federal money to help states freeze and eventually reduce tuition rates at universities — part of a broader effort to help students achieve debt - free college education within five years.

They are supposed to feel protective of their freedom to choose, to be outraged at any effort by state or church to curtail it.

Kimelman, a professor at Brandeis University, concludes in his analysis of the commission's report that «It remains to be seen whether a modern nation state, beseiged on so many fronts, can maintain such a demanding moral standard... If the Israeli effort to admit and rectify errors bears fruit, the lyricism «a light to the nations» may yet become reality.»

On August 9, 2011 at 1:53 pm, Stevie7 wrote me stating, «Even with clerical errors corrected, this is a lot of effort to say nothing meaningful.»

The White House has said that it does not plan on seeking a federal ban on conversion or «reparative» therapy, but, according to The New York Times, the President will «throw his support behind the efforts to ban the practice at the state level»...

(CNN)-- In an effort to look at cultural differences across the United States, a data analysis company selected two words that it felt exemplified an American cultural divide and analyzed their usage on Twitter.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

However, as Billy Graham stated at Lausanne's International Congress on World Evangelization, while efforts at social justice are important, they are «not our priority mission.»»

African governments have also suffered from deliberate efforts, at the behest of aid agencies with powers over development dogmas, to «shrink the state.»

Sandro Magister points out that Pope Benedict appointed, as his own replacement at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop William J. Levada, one of the four bishops responsible for the effort against sexual abuse committed by priests in the United States.

More determined efforts at collaboration between the UK and the Scottish government seem necessary to strengthen the bonds within a unified state, which is the option the Scottish electorate have chosen, albeit that democracy can never deliver the answer that everyone likes.

The reasons for this are complex, and have at least something to do with Vatican II's efforts to re-valorize the lay state as a path to holiness.

Despite the euphoric rhetoric of its ambassador's speeches at the UN, the United States has blocked all efforts by uncommitted and socialist nations to bring the problems of organization and policy of communications satellites before that Committee, thus frustrating the Committee and the recommendations of the ITU.16.

Having grown up in the disproportionately Christian state of Kerala in southern India and studied at a church - run school, Narayanan condemned the Hindu nationalists thought to be responsible for violence against Muslims and resisted efforts to shift the secular education system.

The what of Christian belief is an attempt to state all that is implied in the whom of Christian belief; and the history of the Christian Church may be read, at least in part, as the constant effort of succeeding generations of believers in Christ to think out and think through the full implications of the new relationship to God established in Christ and enjoyed in the fellowship of Christian believers in Him.

For the most part, the Marxist parties seem to reflect the effort by competing communal groups to form majorities that can keep Hindu and Muslim militancy at bay while taking some modest strides toward a welfare state.

At state schools, at least, efforts were made to represent Catholicism and Judaism as well as ProtestantisAt state schools, at least, efforts were made to represent Catholicism and Judaism as well as Protestantisat least, efforts were made to represent Catholicism and Judaism as well as Protestantism.

CNN: Study: People tweet more about church than beer In an effort to look at cultural differences across the United States, a data analysis company selected two words that it felt exemplified an American cultural divide and analyzed their usage on Twitter.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In a survey of such efforts, the Wall Street Journal reported that «to decide what to teach, state education boards generally round up diverse professionals — who arrive at an acceptable list of values to be taught.

Monsignor Eleuterio F. Fortino, under - secretary at the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has stated that the proposal was «fully shared» by the Vatican.33 This means that in spite of all efforts for unity the plurality of churches persists in history.

Observer wrote on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 2:32 pm, stating, «Mark, Yep, keep ignoring what the Bible says about the rich so that more effort can be made by Christians to trash others like gays or doctors performing legal operations.»

This year's breakout drama This Is Us has been renewed for two more seasons, in an effort to keep you in a state of constant tears through at least 2019.

At the State Department Thursday, Desbois received recognition for his efforts with a certificate of appreciation, the first awarded by Hannah Rosenthal in her role as the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

During this period generally successful efforts were made by the states either to take over all the colleges or at least to secure strong representation on their boards.

It is among the first companies in the United States to have the landfill diversion efforts at its plants verified by NSF International Strategic Registrations, a major milestone in the food industry.

Gibbons is a dedicated advocate for the restaurant industry, as evidenced by his many past and present positions at the state and national level such as at the National Restaurant Association, National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, and U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, and through his philanthropic efforts.

At one time it concentrated its efforts only in states west of the Mississippi, but today Annabelle Candy is working with other vendors to extend its distribution channels farther to give consumers across the United States a chance to become fans of its unique confecstates west of the Mississippi, but today Annabelle Candy is working with other vendors to extend its distribution channels farther to give consumers across the United States a chance to become fans of its unique confecStates a chance to become fans of its unique confections.