Sentences with phrase «u.n. umbrella group»

The Commerce Undergraduate Society («CUS») is the umbrella group for all the student organization in the Haskayne School of Business.

Dunning is chief economist for the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals, the umbrella group for mortgage brokers.

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

If offices around the country have to close their doors, that will be a tragedy,» said Reddy, an advocate with the evangelical umbrella group We Welcome Refugees.

The umbrella group includes a number of Sunni extremist organizations and has ties to al Qaeda in Iraq.

Although there are umbrella groups like Wisconsin - based Circle Sanctuary, most Wiccans practice their own blends of witchcraft.

Everything changed after the Vatican publicly scolded The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group for U.S. nuns, for allowing «radical feminist themes» to go unchecked a conferences and in their literature.

The «Coalition for Compassionate Care,» the umbrella group that fought the measure, was initially organized and funded primarily by Roman Catholics.

Even the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group which several western governments have recognised as the legitimate representative body for Syria, includes the Muslim Brotherhood, whose recent treatment of the Christian minority under President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt is hardly encouraging.

Later, these groups joined forces under an umbrella group called the Illinois Sustainable Agriculture Network (ISAN).

Multiple entities - the city of Highland Park, Moraine Township, Northern Suburban Special Recreation Association (also called the NSSRA), and the park district - are teaming up in preliminary discussions with Community Family Center, an umbrella group representing five social service agencies in Highland Park...

ESPA did max out its donations to McDonald after he, along with Sens. Stephen Saland, Mark Grisanti and James Alesi voted in the favor of the measure following a period of intense lobbying from a pro-gay marriage umbrella group, New Yorkers United For Marriage, and from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

From the Care & Support Alliance, a umbrella group comprising 65 organisations representing older and disabled people and carers

The class struggle left — organised in the Keep the Party Labour umbrella group and the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs — took a clear position against the document and adopted tactics to maximise unity with any part of the soft left prepared to defend any aspect of party democracy.

Pillars of the Orthodox Jewish community — like Rabbi David Neiderman of United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn, an umbrella group for Orthodox residents — have seen the opposition as thinly - veiled anti-Semitism.

In past years, Agudath Israel of America, an ultra-Orthodox umbrella group, and the Roman Catholic Church, have lobbied against Markey's efforts, voicing fear of a potential flood of claims, including some from long ago via the one - year window.

Having top performing districts be exempt from the law has already been floated by Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch — an idea that was roundly rejected by the New York State United Teachers, the umbrella group representing teachers unions.

Members of the umbrella group Fair Elections, which includes the influential WFP, had sent a letter to lawmakers on the panel, including Savino, asking that they be included.

First this week came the unveiling of the umbrella group NY Jobs Now, a coalition of unions, business leaders and elected officials who back the amendment.

The umbrella group formed to push for a system of public financing on a statewide level says some of its members are being shut out of a Senate Republican - backed hearing on abuses within the New York City system.

Fair Elections for New York, an umbrella group for several organizations that has the politically connected SKD Knickberbocker firm running its PR, is beginning an $ 800,000 ad campaign and plans several rallies around the state this month as lawmakers begin a two - week break from Albany.

The Democratic - led Assembly previously approved the measure favored by the Fair Elections umbrella group, a coalition of labor - backed organizations and other liberal - leaning advocacy groups.

It's not unusual that Let NY Work, the umbrella group pushing for mandate relief, is backing the plan, given that is expected to provide $ 79 billion in savings over 30 years.

The umbrella group released this morning what it's calling a preview of that ad campaign with a YouTube video that shows people wearing tape over their mouths, suggesting their voices are silenced by the current system.

The organizations formed an umbrella group with press done by Cuomo ally Jennifer Cunningham, New Yorkers United for Marriage, in order to consolidate lobbying efforts and follow a Cuomo - style brand of message discipline.

The official, Harry Nespoli, chairman of the Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella group of unions, said that Mr. Bloomberg had become «a dictator» and that «the mayor has set back labor relations 40 years.»

Mario Cilento is president of New York's AFL - CIO, an umbrella group for the state's major unions.

Lisa DellAquila, co-executive director of True Blue NY, an umbrella group that is supporting grassroots challenges to IDC members across the state, said her group's members would still support those primary challenges.

The Conference Board — an umbrella group of school boards, administrators, parent - teachers associations and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT)-- said New York's school districts would need a minimum state aid boost of $ 1.2 billion next year to maintain current services.

The Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella group of New York City unions, voted in support of a proposal championed by de Blasio that the mayor says will generate $ 3.4 billion in health - care savings.

Democratic Comptroller Tom DiNapoli was endorsed on Monday by the New York State AFL - CIO, an influential labor umbrella group.

-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.

And Long Island commuters are already more subsidized than most: In 2012, LIRR fares are expected to make up 45 percent of the train lines» operating costs, according to NYPIRG, the umbrella group that includes the Straphangers Campaign.

Senate Republicans were described by nervous business groups as moving to put the mandate into Cuomo's budget because of Catsimatidis» influence and heavy lobbying from Senate - connected biofuel interests, including the National Biodiesel Board, a producers» umbrella group that includes United Metro and Midwestern soybean farmers.

Brown is expected to avoid speaking at any event staged by the pro-UK umbrella group Better Together because it includes the Conservatives.

While Mr. de Blasio and his schools chancellor have softened their rhetoric toward charters, Ms. Moskowitz and her allies with the charter umbrella group Families of Excellent Schools have consistently accused the Department of Education of «failing» black and Hispanic students.

Carl Korn, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers, a statewide union umbrella group, also welcomed the release of more test data.

They are naive,» said Jordan Marks, campaign manager of the umbrella group New Yorkers Against Corruption.

The Municipal Labor Committee is an umbrella group representing 99 unions covering more than 300,000 New York City employees.

Borough President Katz and Assembly Member Markey are hosting the press conference in their capacities as co-chairs of the World's Fair Anniversary Committee, an umbrella group that includes elected officials, the City's Parks Department, the Queens Tourism Council and the participating cultural organizations that will be hosting World's Fair Anniversary events.

An umbrella group of wealthy business leaders and politicians is embracing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for an overhaul of campaign - finance laws and the adoption of a public - matching system similar to what is in place for New York City.

Borough President Katz and Assembly Member Markey hosted the press conference in their capacities as co-chairs of the World's Fair Anniversary Committee, an umbrella group that includes elected officials, the City's Parks Department, NYC & Company, the Queens Tourism Council and the participating cultural organizations that have worked for the past six months to organize and coordinate a fun, exciting and hopefully memorable series of events to celebrate the anniversaries.

The announcement came as a welcome surprise for Queens groups like the Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy, an umbrella group composed of many civics that had been advocating for what is known as the Unity Map.

That's what our campaign has been about: local constituents,» said the Rev. Jason McGuire, a leader of the Coalition to Save Marriage in New York, an umbrella group that opposes same - sex marriage on social and religious grounds.

One result was the establishment of an umbrella group for nanotechnology — the Nano Portal at Southampton.

Both the US and European teams are working under an umbrella group.

Investigators tend to lump most remains into the broad umbrella group of «Hispanic,» but Baker says that in fact, skulls from Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru are all different.

By comparing 400 morphological features, such as the shapes and numbers of teeth, in the new fossil with those in 68 other specimens, the researchers have now placed the 73 - million - year - old creature in the Eutherian evolutionary tree, an umbrella group that includes placental mammals.

«We're trying to get the private sector involved earlier in the process,» says Robert Szabo, a lawyer for the Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition, an umbrella group representing water districts, county governments and farm and industry groups.

Among the fiercest critics is the African Academy of Sciences, an umbrella group for the continent.