Sentences with phrase «about national efforts»

Learn more about national efforts to raise awareness about gender based violence throughout the year including: National Stalking Awareness Month (January), Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month (February), Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April), and Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October).

Read about national efforts to secure MIECHV reauthorization and plans for the next First 1000 Days statewide conference in 2018.

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Qualcomm's appeal tapped into gathering concern among some congressional Republicans and the Trump administration about U.S. national security and competitiveness with China, especially in advanced technologies — sentiment that already was fueling an effort to expand the power of CFIUS.

However, Paul Reilly, the Guild representative involved in the Bloomberg effort, says the union has no plans to file an unfair labor - practices charge with the National Labor Relations Board about McGlaughlin's dismissal.

«Boeing's challenge is an authentic business decision, yet Ottawa seems untroubled about once again playing Sir Galahad, not only intervening on Bombardier's behalf, but also putting the problem - plagued effort to buy new fighter jets on the line, solely for the benefit of a privileged Quebec family and the people they employ,» Kelly McParland wrote in the National Post.

But S.Y. Lee, a spokesman for the DHS, told Fortune that the government agency coordinates «national efforts to strengthen the security and resilience of critical infrastructure, working with our federal and industry partners across the country to raise awareness about evolving threats and promote measures to reduce risks to systems we all rely on.»

She's raising about $ 10 million to $ 13 million to build a stable for the horses and U.S. Park Police who work on the National Mall, and she's seeded the effort with $ 1 million of her own money.

New details about the National Security Agency's ability and efforts to decrypt digital information could raise concerns not only about the security of data held by business, but also the software and services marketed to protect that data.

While Lyft's attempt to raise awareness about the gender wage gap echoes similar corporate moves that capitalize on these national awareness days, the company has recently doubled down on efforts to fix its own pay parity issues.

Andy Brenner, head of international fixed income securities at National Alliance Securities, said in a note that the hiring of a special prosecutor «and talk about obstruction of justice being an impeachable offense» could push back efforts to enact Trump's tax reform and fiscal stimulus proposals for months.

The White House's disclosure about the case helped keep allegations about the president and the adult film actress in the national spotlight for a second day and marked the latest twist in the ongoing legal drama over Daniels» efforts to abandon a confidentiality agreement.

He emailed several different Trump campaign advisers to tell them about these efforts, and at least one campaign official — national co-chair Sam Clovis — appeared to encourage them.

(3) Know more about national and Nebraska efforts to redefine «education» in the 21st Century to include the first five years of life and learning.

It's about the determination of Republicans to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, National Public Radio and the Environmental Protection Agency - efforts that have absolutely nothing to do with the deficit.

Recent efforts in Europe to ban the face veil (the niqab or burqa) are not so much concerned with women's rights and security as they are with obtaining votes from an electorate that is increasingly xenophobic and anxious about national identity.

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.

Friday is National Manufacturing Day — a day set to address common misconceptions about manufacturing impacts by giving manufacturers an opportunity to open their doors and show, in a coordinated effort, what manufacturing is, and what it isn't.

ATLANTA, GA, November 7, 2005 - As part of its ongoing effort to set the record straight about carbs, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) jumped at the chance to have its national fitness spokesperson, Denise Austin, in Atlanta for this year's PMA show.

Thank you for your interest in learning more about U.S. efforts to reach our national goal of reducing food loss and waste.

About the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation As the philanthropic foundation of the National Restaurant Association, the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the industry's training and education, career development and community engagement efforts.

The «What My Father Means to Me» Essay Contest was created by the National Center for Fathering (NCF) in 1992 in an effort to raise awareness about the importance of fathering.

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.

Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee and one of the principal architects of the GOP turnout apparatus nationwide, said a top - notch voter identification and turnout effort matters more in a congressional race than a presidential one because there is «much less of a public dialogue» about individual House contests.

If your group is thinking about participating in Giving Tuesday, the effort first organized last year to create a national day of philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, you really need to know one thing: are these NEW donations or just early gifts of money your supporters were planning...

If your group is thinking about participating in Giving Tuesday, the effort first organized last year to create a national day of philanthropy on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, you really need to know one thing: are these NEW donations or just early gifts of money your supporters were planning to make anyway?

«We welcome the opportunity to share additional information about our affected populations as part of a national effort to develop a plan to study health outcomes in multiple PFAS - affected communities,» the letter states.

But his message for national Democrats was undercut by questions about his outspoken support for Governor Andrew Cuomo, an avowedly centrist Democrat, and the mayor's failed effort to help win the State Senate, despite the demographic advantages in New York State.

Tsedeye Gebreselassie of the National Employment Law Project, Senator Daniel Squadron, and 32BJ SEIU President Hector Figueroa, joined us to talk more about the issue of income inequality and the effort to build support for higher wages.

To its credit, the National Republican Congressional Committee saw an opening in many of these seats and invested resources in about half of them in an effort to expand the playing field.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon is hosting a District Outreach Meeting during National Poison Prevention Week (March 18 - 24) in an effort to educate adults and children about the risks presented in their everyday lives.

Erie County Legislator Edward A. Rath, III is hosting a District Outreach Meeting during National Poison Prevention Week (March 18 - 24) in an effort to educate adults and children about the risks presented in their everyday lives.

Efforts to ensure more transparency in the mining sector have been given a boost by Britain's decision to sign up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global organisation encouraging national governments to be more open about their dealings with the industry.

Cuomo reiterated that he's sending 100 National Guard troops to assist in the cleanup and recovery effort on the Virgin Islands, along with about 30 State Police troopers to provide security and guard against looting.

But with no pilgrimages planned to Iowa or New Hampshire and no stump speeches for Democrats elsewhere in the country, Cuomo's recent efforts to boost his national profile are more likely about his immediate re-election plans — though a future run for the White House can't be ruled out.

Last week, New York's chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) made an effort to further jumpstart the conversation, calling on women and men who currently or previously work (ed) in government in Albany and throughout the state to speak out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment or assault while on the job, citing the Legislature's history of quashing sexual harassment complaints.

Brian S. Brown (pictured), the president of the National Organization for Marriage, said in a telephone interview that the group planned to spend more money, about $ 30,000, on automated phone calls, additional mailings and get - out - the - vote efforts before the election, scheduled for Tuesday.

It is one key change in guidelines stemming from controversial federal investigations that resulted in efforts by prosecutors to obtain journalist records about reporting on national security issues.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of class room instruction.

In 2014, former Rep. Steve Israel (Long Island), then - chair of the national Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, panned Cuomo's efforts in an interview with the New York Times: «We had conversations several months ago with the governor's staff about helping to organize and coordinate a campaign and I didn't see the fruition to those conversations.»

Feldman, who says he was abused as a child actor, has joined CHILD USA as a national ambassador talking about the issue and has agreed to support the organization's efforts to get the Child Victims Act passed in New York.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of classroom instruction.

However a lot has been made of the fact that while both polls had an effort to take account of people's personal and tactical voting behaviour in their own constituency, they did so in different ways — Ashcroft asks a two stage question, asking people their national preference and then how they will vote thinking about the candidates and parties in their own constituency; ICM asked people the voting intention question including the names of the candidates standing in Sheffield Hallam.

In recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Legislator Lynne M. Dixon, Hamburg, declared October 20th Breast Cancer Awareness Day in Erie County in an effort to increase public knowledge about the importance of early detection, diagnosis and treatment.

The U.S. National Science Foundation — funded effort will tap extensive museum collections as much as possible, instead of freshly caught bird samples, and will sequence about 5000 short pieces of the DNA, focusing on regions that are very highly conserved among all birds.

To that end, the White House will announce that the University of California, Los Angeles, will launch a $ 10 - million effort that will support initial research informing the development of a future national surveillance system that would contain accurate figures about the incidence of youth sports — related concussions.

Over the past year, governments have been making pledges about how they will cut emissions, and one of the main outcomes from Paris will be a new agreement that codifies all those national efforts into international law.

Close examination of the Galileo Movement's arguments shows that the effort is recycling many of the same straw man arguments and distortions about the science that other groups have previously employed to scuttle a cap - and - trade bill in the U.S. Congress last year, a stricter emissions trading scheme in New Zealand three years ago and other regional and national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Currently no national move exists to curb PPI overuse, but «there are many efforts, mostly specific to institutions, to raise awareness about this issue and to try to limit nonjudicious PPI use,» Heidelbaugh says.

«In addition to funding rice sequencing, the [Thai] government is about to launch an effort that will move on to functional genomics,» says Apichart Vanavichit, a molecular biologist at Thailand's National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Nakorn Pathom, which is helping to sequence chromosome 9.