Sentences with phrase «action groups in»

Baseline surveys were conducted with students and parents in Active Parenting of Teens: Families in Action groups in four schools and were re-administered one year later.

350.org, as you likely already know, is one of the largest and fastest - growing climate action groups in the world.

In this context the large number of net - works of Social Action groups in India have a very important function in the discourse provided they have what Gramcie has called an «organic» relation to such peoples» movements.

Some outstanding efforts are being made today, for example, the involvement of priests and nuns in the fishermen's struggle in Kerala and the participation of Christian action groups in organizing landless laborers in Tamil Nadu.

John Dickie, the director of Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the campaign launch.

One social action group in New York, as a result of the shocking facts about living conditions learned during a door - to - door survey in a slum area, became «fired up» about the need for low - cost housing.

I think the Baby Milk Action Group in the UK is doing an amazing job at protecting mothers and babies.

Indeed, Mark Harrington, who heads the Treatment Action Group in New York City, cautioned that without resources, he does not think the Administration is making a serious effort to improve the country's response to the epidemic.

Mark Harrington, a leading AIDS activist from the Treatment Action Group in New York, said: «This is a terrible result.

For inspiration, check out the Teacher Action Group in Philadelphia.

He's also a member of the climate change action group in the Anglican diocese of Aukland.

The Class Action team advises on litigation involving securities, competition, financial services, employment, IP, consumer and product liability issues and has established a reputation as a leading class action group in Canada.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, class action lawsuits by groups of independent contractors requesting employee status are becoming increasingly common; reports suggest that this is one of the hottest areas in employment litigation.

Lastly, the Group will continue its actions to pass on the rises in raw materials costs in its selling prices and the rollout of its operational excellence initiatives to partly offset inflation on its fixed costs.

This group includes wafflers who either don't have a lot of confidence in their decision making and hope by putting off choosing others might decide for them, or those who enjoy the feeling of being able to stand in judgment of others without committing to any course of action themselves.

In addition, Gawker Media Group is facing a flurry of other legal actions, but none as significant as the Bollea case.

The ministers agreed to create a working group to study Russia's «malign behavior» given concerns about Moscow's actions in Ukraine and Syria, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said.

When Vitter was in the House of Representatives he actually took calls from the DC Madam during roll call votes; later, Sen. Vitter expressed outrage over purported actions of the poverty group ACORN, where several staffers showed tolerance toward conservative operatives with a hidden camera who were pretending to be involved in prostitution.

The liberal - funded watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington complained to the GSA that it should terminate its deal or take legal action because the president had violated the conditions of the lease.

Trump's inflammatory press conference on Tuesday — in which he walked back his previous comments condemning of neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups by essentially conflating their actions at Charlottesville with those of the counter-protesters — accelerated the fallout.

Earlier this week, my 29 «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College participated in a focus group that led one of my students to remark that she had always thought they were a waste of time until she saw one in action.

On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

At times controllers are using Reapers, Predators or both «combined in a formation» as a more efficient way of using their sensors, according to Lt. Col. Eric Winterbottom, chief of the Commander's Action Group, U.S. Air Forces Central Command.

As a response, Endeavor finally took action in September by opening an office in Miami and assembling a board of local business leaders that includes execs from Virgin Hotels and Cisneros Group, one of the biggest privately held media companies in the world.

CIMIC Group has launched legal action in the United States against Chevron over cost blowouts on jetty and marine structures it built at the Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island.

TeleXitos is the Telemundo Station Group's national multicast network that serves as a destination for viewers who want to watch their favorite action and adventure television series and movies from the 1970s to 2000s in Spanish and without subtitles.

The organization calls the commitments generated within these working groups «turning ideas into action,» by creating clearly articulated, concrete goals to solve a problem in a measurable way.

According to Reuters, the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, was «charged with recommending how to balance security and privacy concerns» and will be recommending actions in the next two months.

In a letter to David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a progressive action group, Reid wrote:

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»

It's the most passionate group of successful action takers who are getting amazing results in their business.

«The children in the group who did a task in a way that made them laugh learned the target actions more than those in the control group who were not laughing during the learning period,» she reports.

Point Bridge Capital, a financial firm in Fort Worth, Texas combed through election filings to identify 150 corporations whose employees, management and political action committees have donated the most money to Republican candidates for office and any party - affiliated federal committees or groups.

What's become known as the «Group of 46» letter to Stanford Provost John Etchemendy was filed in the Phills suit, and accuses the dean of presiding over «reprimands, censures, curtailing of responsibilities, demotions, retribution for expressing concerns or raising issues, offensive behavior and decisions that have led directly to tangible employment actions such as dismissals, undesirable reassignments, forced resignations, and inequitable access to promotion opportunities.»

Representatives of two gun control advocacy groups, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety, plan to speak at more than 20 pride events around the country this weekend, according to a statement from the groups.

Moveon.org, a liberal political action group, immediately put out a statement denouncing Tester's vote, saying it was «yet another outrageous example of how our elected officials in Congress are beholden to the NRA.»

«Goldilocks Investment Company Ltd has filed legal action today in light of the continuing refusal by Noble Group Ltd to recognize legitimate legal rights of Goldilocks as a shareholder of Noble,» the investment fund, which holds an 8.1 percent stake in Singapore - listed Noble said in a statement.

To put that plan into action, Green needed to raise capital from a strategic investor, and on March 9, Indochino announced it had secured a US$ 30 million investment led by Dayang Group, a clothing manufacturer based in Dalian, China, and one of Indochino's existing production partners.

According to a 2013 study by the social action group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.

«Going forward, we will take action against any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people,» the company wrote in statement on Thursday.

«Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page reGroup after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page regroup and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,» Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315 - page report.

Some of the kinds of transactions that Bitcoin can support include so - called M of N transactions, which require agreement between a certain subset of a group, and can be used for escrow, mediation, or shared financial management; time - locked transactions, in which bitcoins are distributed on a strict schedule, useful for trusts or wills; and even data - conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real - world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.

Our Members are successful individuals who have committed to working with other business leaders and our Group Leaders to develop action plans for improving their success on all levels — in their businesses, as well as in their personal and family lives.

Some foreign investors, rather than crunching data on earnings and stock valuations to come up with investment strategies, actively mimicked the actions of China's so - called «national team» — a group of state - backed financial institutions that were tasked with propping up share prices in the height of the market rout.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

Protesters were also arrested in Minnesota and North Dakota, the activist group said, after the action early on Tuesday.

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

Simon Rice, group manager for Technology at theInformation Commissioner's Office, said in a blog on Thursday that «with 350,000 of these cameras sold in the U.K. alone last year, this is a threat that all of us need to be aware of and be taking action to protect against.»

A coalition of environment groups sued in May over the action, asking a U.S. court to stop Interior from issuing coal leases until it completes the analysis.