Sentences with phrase «affect real change for»

This issue explores advocacy through coalitions and how teaming up with other organizations and stakeholders can affect real change for school librarians.

The Millennial generation features there as being the one who will affect real change for the country, for exactly the reasons cited in this blog.

Not exact matches

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

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Strategy seeks for concrete ways and means to affect change that will move the real toward the ideal, the bad toward the better, the intolerable toward what is at least bearable.

And Molo claimed the real estate firms that hired Goldberg & Iryami received excellent representation, and that Silver pushed for changes in omnibus real estate legislation in 2011 that favored tenants, not Glenwood (who prosecutors said was not adversely affected by the bill).

-- The impact the Trump administration will have on the real estate industry: How protectionism, bank deregulation and changes to the tax structure will affect the NYC market — Looking at the post-peak luxury new development market: Selling in an increasingly competitive landscape — Gauging the commercial slowdown: Amid a shift in activity and broker reshuffling, what's next for the market?

Climate change is real, it's here and it will be affecting the planet for a long, long time.

«The real culprit affecting tomato flavor is a production system that picks tomatoes before they are ripe,» because that changes the ripening process, he says, interrupting for instance the conversion of starch to sugar.

It is my honor and privilege to have been a pioneer in the natural beauty world to help people on their journey, affecting real change on the individual level, in commerce, and for the earth.

Meanwhile, Dave must continue to give the appearance of Mitchell in command, but soon discovers that he might actually have a chance to affect some real - life change in the country, starting with getting the First Lady, Ellen (Weaver, Working Girl), to fall in love with him for the first time, all over again.

Without establishing collective stakes in the efforts — and rewards — of data - driven decision - making, educators will struggle to affect the kind of real, comprehensive institutional changes that establish the conditions of possibility for student improvement.

The co-founders of Misool and Misool Foundation, Marit and Andrew Miners, brought their passion for the ocean to bear and have shown how everyday people can affect real change.

Moreover, changes in models often affect climate simulations in ways that are understandable in physical, real - world terms; increasing an ocean - model's resolution, for example, makes the simulated Gulf Stream stronger, and thus enhances heat transport to the North Atlantic.

«I have a real concern about the speed at which the changes being implemented by the Clean Power Plan will affect my work location and my life,» wrote Ameren Missouri's John Cooper, a shift supervisor at the Meramec coal plant scheduled for shuttering in 2022.

These data show that the world's weather does change on a short time scale, but once you account for that, the imprint of global warming is still there, still real, and still affecting us all.

A decade was chosen as a real measure for human activities and the way we are affected by relatively short periods of changes in the climate.

For example, a recent U.S. federal interagency assessment recommended a value of $ 25 per ton for 2015 (in 2010 $) with the tax rate rising at a rate of about 2 to 3 percent per year in real terms (roughly reflecting growth in world output potentially affected by climate changFor example, a recent U.S. federal interagency assessment recommended a value of $ 25 per ton for 2015 (in 2010 $) with the tax rate rising at a rate of about 2 to 3 percent per year in real terms (roughly reflecting growth in world output potentially affected by climate changfor 2015 (in 2010 $) with the tax rate rising at a rate of about 2 to 3 percent per year in real terms (roughly reflecting growth in world output potentially affected by climate change).

This was a delayed start in the first place, but bearing in mind the significance of these changes, the number of people and practices affected and a real need for consultation, one wonders if October 2013 would be the more sensible date for implementation.

A large firm with significant fixed costs (buildings, insurance, technology and other infrastructure, for example) will find it hard to make a real change to this number without also affecting some of the intangible factors — client experience, staff turnover, etc..

The beta versions aren't the real reason for the fast draining battery and high temperatures (even though that's what David Marcus first tried to downplay it as), it was a server - side change that caused almost every single person with Facebook or Messenger installed to be affected.

This means organizing your resume in reverse - chronological order to highlight your career path and demonstrating a track record of how you've «affected real change or produced results in past work,» highlighting times you have introduced a new process, suggested a new function for a team, or took the lead on a project; anything that goes beyond «checking the boxes» of your job description.

Reconciliation Action Plans (RAPs) provide a road map for organisations to affect real, positive change within organisations and across the communities in which they operate.

NAR's Broker Involvement Program, which helps coordinate calls for action on state and national real estate legislation, has been able to affect significant change directly related to brokers» bottom - lines.

While few of these changes affect real estate agents directly, the proposal will certainly affect their clients and their transactions in many ways and likely affect the housing industry significantly for at least a period of time as it is implemented.

Thousands of U.S. businesses could be affected by a proposed regulatory change that would substantially shift the way they account for the real estate they lease, and could have a seismic impact throughout the American market and beyond.

With new leadership at the local, state, and federal levels, we must anticipate and prepare for possible changes in policies that affect housing, homeownership, and real estate investment.