Sentences with phrase «aided this effort by»

David Miliband said aid efforts by the country's officials have been «inadequate to the scale of the disaster» and warned the situation is turning into a «humanitarian catastrophe of genuinely epic proportions».

Study co-author, experimentalist Peijun Zhang of the University of Pittsburgh, aided this effort by developing a technique to purify the key proteins in the array and combine them in just the right proportions so that they assemble themselves in thin layers — allowing clearer 3 - D EM snapshots of their structural conformations and interactions with each other.

You can aid their efforts by clipping one of these dial padlocks designed with a pink ribbon to your gym locker to show your support and secure your belongings at the same time.

It wasn't long before companies got wind of this and began to «aid the effort by printing pleasant designs, fringes and borders on the fabric.»

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Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, who has pushed for immediate aid to struggling coal and nuclear plants, signed off on the order and said in an opinion that he expected the decision to be «only the first step in a more systematic effort by the Commission» to address resilience.

Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

Spain's leaders say they can not abide by any more tough measures and that efforts to repair the country's finances already qualify it for aid.

The steady leakage of plastic packaging into the oceans — at the rate of one garbage truck full of plastic per minute — has been aided by the lack of a unified global effort to reuse the plastic produced every year.

Those five principles comprise the ownership by partner countries of their national development strategies; the alignment by donors of their efforts with those strategies; the harmonization of donors» and partners» efforts at the country level; managing development aid for monitorable results; and mutual accountability by donors and their partners for their respective contributions.

At one point in the Channel 4 video, executives at Cambridge Analytica appear to boast about their efforts to aid Trump, referencing one ad campaign — called «Defeat Crooked Hillary» and launched by a super PAC — that Channel 4 said had gone viral online.

The Canadian Forces sent helicopters to assist in the effort to contain the blazes, and outgoing B.C. Premier Christy Clark announced of a C$ 100 - million fund, to be administered by the Red Cross, to aid those who've been displaced.

[Trump pledges swift Harvey aid, says effort will be unimpeded by threatened government shutdown]

The changes grew out of two efforts by states to aid consumers: a 2015 settlement negotiated by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the three credit reporting agencies and an agreement shortly afterward between the agencies and 31 state attorneys general.

In an hour - long, understated speech, punctuated by humor, Clinton called on aid groups to continue their efforts to champion diversity and the positive forces of interdependence while seeking the most effective ways to assist communities in the world's poorest places.

Last year, Buffett added that, «Our efforts to materially increase the normalized earnings of Berkshire will be aided — as they have been throughout our managerial tenure — by America's economic dynamism.

The DOLLAR INDEX is lower by 3.2 %, which is also in contravention of conventional wisdom as QE is done to weaken one's currency in an effort to aid the domestic economy.

We in the Houston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America are organizing aid efforts for those affected by the storm.

Such an effort can be aided by the assumption that values are not matters of fact, but are in some way «above» the realm of actuality and therefore have some kind of independent status.

His despair is that of weakness, a passive suffering of the self, in contrast to the despair of self - assertion; but, by the aid of relative self - reflection which he has, he makes an effort (which again distinguishes him from the purely immediate man) to defend his self.

This conviction actuates the effort to remove poverty, hunger, ignorance, and disease by economic aid.

Such an effort is found in the sending of aid in the spirit of Christ to the victims of communist tyranny and to other persons made hungry and shelterless by war.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In their efforts to curb the feudal magnates the kings were often aided by the bourgeoisie.

Data gathered by the teens will directly aid management and conservation efforts for a number of aquatic species.

Led by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Assemblyman Nick Perry, chair of the state Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, a delegation of legislators and staff embark today on a humanitarian effort to bring aid and support to residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The effort, the lawmakers said at a news conference, is aimed at satisfying the terms of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit — a claim for additional state aid to schools that is staunchly disputed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration.

At the same time, this is one of the more formalized and concerted efforts by Cuomo, harnessing the state committee that he controls, to aid Democrats who are running in down - ballot local races as he seeks another term later this year.

A federal judge in California on Thursday temporarily blocked an effort by the attorney for adult - film star Stormy Daniels to depose President TrumpDonald John TrumpUS ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report McCabe lawyer fires back at Trump: «You need to stop lying» MORE and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, over a $ 130,000 payment from Cohen to the actress before the 2016 presidential election.

A fundraising effort headed by the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation will extend its aid to the Caribbean following the devastating impact of Hurricane Maria, the foundation said in a release Monday.

(CNN)-- Sitting side by side, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Vice President Joe Biden sought to highlight the Empire State's continued recovery efforts Tuesday, roughly a year after Congress approved billions in aid for the state left badly bruised by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

Chief among those considerations is the ongoing investigation into Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to help Democrats gain control in 2014, with the effort to funnel donations through county committees that wound up aiding candidates in battleground races being eyed by investigators.

They are increasingly taking action through civil litigation, complaints and petitions to state institutions — efforts aided by environmental NGOs, the media, and the effect of mass protest.Academic studies have drawn attention to the role the media, ENGOs and civil litigation as potential forces in aiding environmental protection implementation.

In the light of the crash in global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.

Farley, a partner at the equity firm Mistral Capital, launched her effort with a video that borrowed an argument recently deployed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo: New York State pays roughly more in federal taxes ($ 40 billion in 2016, she noted) than it gets back in federal aid — money, Farley said, that could be used to rebuild state infrastructure and boost education, among other things.

He has long expressed frustration with the efforts by public education and teachers union organizations lobbying and pressuring him to increase school aid.

The defence secretary, Phillip Hammond, made efforts before the last spending review to blend some of his budget with that of overseas aid, but was repulsed by the very tight international definitions of overseas aid set by agencies such as the OECD.

The Republican effort to hold the Senate is even more complicated by the upcoming presidential race, when more Democratic voters come out to the polls, aiding down - ballot races.

Channing flipped a switch to dim the lights of the Washington Square Park arch at 6:15 p.m. to symbolize how efforts to fight AIDS are hindered by laws punishing victims with the virus.

«They include efforts by city officials to aid the owner of a restaurant in Queens, a soundstage company in Brooklyn and a Brooklyn real estate developer — all donors to the mayor,» the Times reported, noting the restaurant owner is cooperating with authorities.

Pennsylvania Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, left, seen here campaigning in State College, Pa., in August, was aided in his successful re-election effort by a shift in his image over the past six years.

The effort is being led by state Democratic Party co-chair and close Gov. Cuomo ally Keith Wright, an assemblyman and Manhattan Democratic chairman who is being aided by some of the state's most prominent black political figures.

BY MICHAEL CAHILL CIA admits new technologies are aiding its efforts At a press conference earlier this month General David Petraeus, director of the CIA, said that the CIA is now employing sophisticated new spying techniques.

And while the enormous relief effort is challenged by communication issues and ground conditions, we are carefully and diligently working with local partners to ensure aid is safely and quickly delivered.

Thanks to the distribution of 400 million mosquito nets coated with insecticide, and hundreds of millions of testing kits and treatment courses, made possible by the committed efforts of the world's largest investors in the malaria effort, notably, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the World Bank, malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased by one third over the past ten years.

«The Nato summit will be an opportunity to exchange views, and, I hope, find agreement on a common way forward, taking into account the new US effort including more support for Pakistan, a greater effort to strengthen the Afghan police, more coordinated aid and visible steps by Kabul to fight corruption,» he wrote.

At the same time, gambling opponents pointed to the wording of the casino amendment that highlighted the potential benefits of gambling, including an increase in economic development and school aid as a sign the administration was trying to sway voters with non-neutral language (an effort to halt the amendment as it appears on the ballot was thwarted by a state judge this month).

«These efforts will enable countries to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals,» the report said.

Fred Dicker: «Cuomo's latest assault on Mayor de Blasio — a «humiliating» cut in state aid to the city — is prompting predictions that an infuriated de Blasio will reciprocate by backing efforts to dump the governor in 2018.»

At one point in the Channel 4 video, executives at Cambridge Analytica appear to boast about their efforts to aid Trump, referencing one ad campaign — called «Defeat Crooked Hillary» and launched by a super PAC — that Channel 4 said had gone viral online.

The Wandsworth factor and demographic change go in favour of making Tooting a Tory gain for Mark Clarke and the loss of Labour votes to the BNP looks like going to aid Simon Jones» campaign to oust Jon Cruddas in Dagenham and Rainham; «Mr Expenses», Alan Keen, is more vulnerable than the figures suggest in Feltham and Heston (the current projection shows his wife, Ann, being defeated in neighbouring Brentford and Isleworth); Tory candidate Ed Northover wrote only this week about his efforts to win Leyton and Wanstead from Labour, whilst ConservativeHome has previously noted the energetic campaign being waged by Chris Philp in the redrawn Hampstead and Kilburn seat where he is now in genuine contention.