Sentences with phrase «ago at the initiative»

This Mass was begun five years ago at the initiative of a young priest returning from studies in Rome, who noted with no small amount of irony that it seems the only Mass one can not find anywhere is the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite as it is envisioned by the current Missale Romanum.

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He was addressing an intimate crowd at the StartUp Health Café in San Francisco about the White House Cancer Moonshot — the widely praised initiative he had begun leading just a year ago and that, only days from now, was slated to lose its potent «White House» prefix — when he began talking about his eldest son.

It got there by introducing Panera 2.0 a few years ago, an initiative that was meant to improve the experience at Panera's cafes by adding technology and operational improvements to help keep up with high transaction volumes.

And as an aside: All of the accolades goes to August Brunsman IV for having the initiative to start Students for Freethought here at Ohio State University over 13 years ago, then going on tirelessly to further the cause.

Once heralded by the governor as a transformative way to bring down energy costs for consumers while increasing jobs at upstate power producers, the plan announced more than three years ago has produced little progress on a core initiative: a nearly $ 1 billion project to run AC transmission lines around Utica or the Catskills and down the Hudson Valley to meet downstate's growing power needs.

Chesney, paralyzed more than two decades ago at age 15, launched an initiative to train and place people with disabilities in careers in the financial sector; the program receives funding from Kessler Foundation.

That was a decade ago before everyone involved with the new Match initiatives were even at the company.

When it began the laptop initiative six years ago, the district took a hard look at Internet filters.

I became aware of this fact some years ago, when I started writing about education issues and found that every reform initiative I read about — standards, testing, whatever — referred me back to a seminal text entitled «A Nation at Risk.»

Six years ago, the Pew Charitable Trusts launched a national initiative aimed at helping states provide access to high - quality pre-kindergarten for every three - and four - year - old whose parents want it for them.

That's why, over three years ago, we at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, along with our friends at the Center for American Progress, began a multi-year initiative designed to draw attention to the elephant in the ed - reform living room: governance.

Three years ago, they founded an initiative called Milwaukee Succeeds, which is aimed at bringing together leaders from across the city's various school «sectors.»

Legalization of the state takeover program was spearheaded two years ago by former state lawmaker Rob Bryan, who now sits on AAC's board of directors, and lobbying for the initiative was funded at least in part by John Bryan, the Oregon school choice booster (no relation to Rob Bryan) who founded the TeamCFA charter network.

More than two years ago, B&N launched a series of initiatives aimed entirely at bringing its customers into its brick - and - mortar stores, even those customers who were quickly embracing ebooks via the Nook.

With a number of financing initiatives aimed specifically at first time buyers, obtaining credit is no longer the challenge it was several years ago, even for the youngest buyers.

Many... MANY... animals have found comfort, relief, sanctuary, and second chances at Clay Humane thanks to your generosity and dedication to our first initiative those 40 years ago.

And in April 16, 2010 Ernesto Pepito, director of youth programs at the Center was invited by President Obama to serve as the youth voice on a panel about the America's Great Outdoors (AGO) initiative.

Proceeds raised from NADA Miami ticket sales will now fund two NADA initiative: the NADA Acquisition Gift for PAMM and the NADA International Gallery Prize, a program unveiled two years ago to support first - time exhibitors traveling internationally to participate at NADA's Florida fair for the following year.

The number of such non-state climate initiatives has been growing for years; there are over 11,000 climate commitments from cities, companies, civil groups, and investors in the Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action platform, which was launched just two years ago at COP20 in Lima.

The initiative was the brainchild of Dean Parnell, a partner at Sydney Mitchell and Chair of the Law Society's Dispute Resolution Committee, who said, «It is recognised by both our Committee and the local courts that junior lawyers are not getting as much regular court exposure as perhaps was the case ten years ago.

The two began their legal clinic initiatives three years ago as first - year law students when they created Valor Day at SU, an event where Central New York veterans and their families obtain a range of free professional services.

In her 13 - plus years at the firm, she has grown in her roles from chief talent officer, responsible for the firm's innovative people - related initiatives, to COO about two years ago.

I still remember my shock at seeing clichés similar to «I can work on my own initiative as well as part of a team» in 19 out of 20 applications I had received for the first role I was recruiting for when I started my recruitment career 10 years ago.

Ash: About four years ago the three regions made the conscious decision to try to come out with four to five — at that time, now six to seven — national - related press initiatives to discuss a segment of the real estate market.