Sentences with phrase «about local efforts»

We'll talk about some local efforts, local successes in school discipline reform and school policy reform, and some of the challenges to implementation.»

The Dashboard aims to give supporters information about local efforts and let people see how their efforts compare with those of other volunteers.

Pittsburgh and Atlanta residents also proved to be the most knowledgeable about the efforts to land the project, with 31 percent of Pittsburgh residents saying they had heard about local efforts compared to 27 percent of Atlanta residents — the highest levels among the 19 locations.

Not exact matches

To give your local business the best chance of ranking for local search queries, focus most of your SEO efforts on keeping everything about your site locally - focused.

CDC director Tom Frieden attributed his agency's decision to issue the warning about the growing number of local cases and efforts to control mosquito populations, which haven't been ineffective so far.

Many cross-border solutions enable merchants to optimize these efforts by educating them about local holidays, sales seasons and more.

When asked about the issues plaguing the company before he took over, Khosrowshahi said that he wanted Uber products to be stronger for the local population and will invest his efforts in doing so during his term as CEO.

Top Starbucks executives and about 40 Philadelphia clergy and community leaders met in what local leaders say was the beginning of an effort to push the coffee company to play a leading role in addressing racial injustice.

Manafort's last consulting assignment in Ukraine ended less than six months before he started working for the Trump campaign: He spent at least a month in Ukraine advising the Opposition Bloc ahead of local elections in October 2015... In [July], Manafort made a previously reported effort to patch his soured relationship with [Russian oligarch] Oleg Deripaska,... [and] offered to give private briefings about the campaign to Deripaska.

That effort has heated up recently, and Geppert says the group of about 15 local philanthropists has pledged more than half the money needed to buy the newspaper assets.

Many companies put a lot of effort into promising markets without doing their detailed homework about duties, local taxes and ROI.

The Justice Department is making efforts to notify COINTELPRO victims, and under the Freedom of Information Act citizens may succeed in finding out about intelligence activity directed against them (a local ACLU office can help).

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

His chapter on the efforts of the Christian Coalition to elect candidates to local school boards is titled «Religious Fascism,» although he says nothing about the agenda of the group that remotely justifies the use of that ugly word.

I started Oui, Chef a few years back as a means to chronicle my efforts to teach my kids a few things about cooking, and how their food choices over time effect not only their own health, but that of our local food

Positive Wine Industry Survey Results, but PR Efforts Still Needed: Survey results released by Sonoma State's Wine Business Institute last week ran contrary to the impression given by several recent stories about the wine industry clashing with locals about vineyard and winery development

We've talked before on The Lunch Tray about efforts by school districts to source at least some of their produce from local or regional producers.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

Cuomo in a question - and - answer session with reporters after his speech said he would commit about $ 500 million to the shared services effort and, without naming Astorino, said a hypothetical county executive hasn't convened local government leaders to take necessary stops to reduce costs.

I've seen a well - groomed local email list with 1,000 members raise $ 1,000 from one email because the people on the list were sufficiently engaged — they wanted to be there, they cared about the candidate, and the candidate made a genuine effort to connect.

Beau Tidwell, the state Democratic party's spokesman, said he saw a local blogger's post and tweeted about it Wednesday morning in an effort to figure out who the reporter was.

In addition to Mr. Skelos, a healthy string of ambitious Democratic citywide and local elected officials have made the soup - ladling trek, which says nothing of their efforts to pay tribute to other prominent Jewish social service organizations but also speaks volumes about the community's growing political significance.

At the December, 2009 edition, Charles Lenchner and I had a great conversation about applying the lessons of the ’08 Obama campaign to local political campaigns and issue advocacy efforts, and it lives on still through the magic of online video.

Such a case occurred on Long Island in 2008, when leaders of the Suffolk County Conservative Party sniffed out that members of the local police union were switching their party enrollments in an attempt to bring about the defeat of a county sheriff who was seen as cooperating in an effort to downsize the department.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo talked about joint efforts to cut goverenment costs on a local level at a meeting in Melville on May 4, 2017.

In the Downstream Sector, Dr. Baru explained that in the last one year, NNPC had stabilized the market with sufficient products availability across the Country through modest local refining efforts as well as the Direct Supply Direct Purchase, DSDP, scheme, which he observed had saved the nation about N40billion in 2017.

Follow this link to read more about her efforts to bring mandate relief to Erie County: Supporting New York State Assumption of the Local Share of Medicaid

Erie County Legislator Joseph C. Lorigo recently met with business owners and employees across his district during his «25 Businesses in 25 Days» tour in an effort to learn about the commerce that is the foundation of the towns and villages he represents and promote these great local businesses.

At the NEC meeting, MP Ian Lavery, the party's election coordinator, gave a presentation about the party's local election campaign effort, saying the slogan would be: «Standing up for you.»

Entrants were asked to interpret this year's theme in a vibrant, eye - catching way in an effort for contestants to learn more about storm water pollution prevention and how it keeps pollutants out of our local waterways.

Rather the locals took aim at the lackluster efforts made by Oxitec and the Malayan government to consult and notify the public about the trials (see «GM mosquitoes wipe out dengue fever in trial» and «Letting the bugs out of the bag»).

On Saturday Brown will sit on a panel about regional and local efforts to uphold U.S. Paris goals.

He recommends «social reconnaissance,» making a conscious effort to learn about current events, the local area and local issues in order to have topics to discuss.

«The grant will fund setting up infrastructure [for efforts to] connect groups and junior scientists around the country with our group and each other; helping local groups organize meetings and workshops by providing full - time logistical support; and beginning to look through the data that exists about the scientific enterprise [so that] we can... advocate for change,» McDowell tells Science Careers by email.

The $ 45 million project combines forestry and mining with efforts to gather knowledge about medicinal and other plants from local Indian communities living in a 3400 - square - kilometre reserve.

«Given all that is known about preventing heart disease, it is critical that public health communities work with local communities to support efforts to improve heart health,» said public health researcher Mark Ommerborn, lead author of the study.

Communicate to citizens and particular stakeholders, including local communities, youth, governments, civil society, and the private sector, about the value of snow leopards and their ecosystem, and sustain the effort by celebrating 23 October 23 each year as the International Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leopard.

By supporting STEM education efforts at BTI and other local institutions, Galvin aims to get young children excited about science and engineering.

About TBI Research at Kessler Foundation Nancy Chiaravalloti, Ph.D., is director of Neuroscience & Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research and project director of the Northern New Jersey TBI System (NNJTBIS), a collaborative effort of Kessler Foundation, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and local hospitals.

Rather the locals took aim at the lacklustre efforts made by Oxitec and the Malayan government to consult and notify the public about the trials (see GM mosquitoes wipe out dengue fever in trial and Letting the bugs out of the bag).

We want to help you promote research, get the public excited about cell biology and improve the perception of scientists in your own local efforts.

Last weekend I made an enormous effort to get out of bed early about 7 (ish) I wanted to visit our local «junk» market, and then after that a «Vintage fair sale» When I have an incentive like vintage shopping I will sometimes arise at 6.30!

When it comes to finding that suitable partner you will put hours of effort into trying to find someone suitable whilst out and about on the local dating scene.

Meskada (R for profanity, violence and one scene of sexuality) Crime thriller about a small - town detective's (Nick Stahl) effort to bring to justice the killers of the son of a powerful, local socialite (Laura Benanti).

I can just imagine what it was like the day Tom Hanks (Cast Away) decided to make Larry Crowne, his latest directorial effort about a man who loses his job at a local department store and goes back to school.

These efforts were about curbing local control run amuck.

Thanks in part to these grassroots efforts, Room to Read can boast some astonishing results: During its seven - year existence, the organization has opened nearly 5,000 school libraries and about 400 schools, donated more than 1.4 million English - language books, published 146 local - language titles, and touched the lives of roughly 1.5 million students in developing countries.

And in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, they worked with the Waste Collectors Union sifting through trash in an effort to learn about recycling and then hosted a student environmental conference with more than 60 local university students.

In the Wall Street Journal, Stephanie Banchero notes that, while significantly outspent by teachers unions, Democrats for Education Reform and Stand for Children have spent about $ 3.5 million on local campaigns in an effort to challenge the power of unions.