Sentences with phrase «as small groups around»

Last night, they got their chance, as small groups around the U.S. brainstormed ways to get education in the national spotlight and make schools» needs known.

Not exact matches

As the holiday shopping season kicks off — and merchants brace for another lean year — a small group of online entrepreneurs is setting up shop around one of retail's only bright spots: The gift card.

The managers were then grouped into small task forces around these goals where they worked directly with an executive to create solutions to these problems, which ranged from HR initiatives (resulting in things like new performance review methods and a new attendance system) to customer - level projects (such as a customer referral program).

Property developer and fund manager Aspen Group has revealed around $ 95 million in writedowns in its upcoming full - year results, but has reassured investors that its operating profit will only take a small hit as a result.

However, van Houten said on a call with the media that Philips» results would be barely affected as the business's revenue — at around 300 million euros a year - was small in the context of the group's top line of 24.5 billion euros for 2016.

Buffett may not be able to pull off as good of a all - around deal («Berkshire Hathaway Media Group: Financial Engineering Makes the Deal») as he did with Media General, but he certainly has the capital and the market logic — for many of the smaller papers, if not the metros — to make the deal work.

As an example, small groups are the result of someone looking around and feeling like there is a lack of community happening between people.

Giving and receiving: «Go around the small group standing in front of each person and give him a gift — a verbal or non-verbal affirmation of him as a person.»

I lobbed the question at James one evening as our small group members sat in a circle around my living room.

Just as Aimate sparked some lively conversation among our group, so it is meant to spark conversation in small groups around the country.

Our assembly as the Body of Christ is primarily a spiritual gathering into Christ, and so whether we gather in large groups or small, we can still know that we are assembled with all other saints around the world and throughout time (For more on this understanding of church, see my book, Skeleton Church).

The old model of them against each other and independent wholesaler supplied groups, has been spiced up by Aldi, Cosco, and the tide of competitive business models evolving both in store formats such as the convenience small stores around commuter points, and digitally enabled sales.

A small group of children crowded around 10 - year - old Ashley Osorio Monday as she held the instant camera photograph of her first day in this year's Chicago Park District summer camp program.

The inflamed sweat ducts look like small bumps with a red halo around them and can usually be found grouped together under a child's clothing and inside the folds of his skin, such as his neck, armpits, and groin.

From its beginnings as a small support group near Chicago, this year in October LLLI celebrates its 60th anniversary as the world's leading mother - to - mother breastfeeding advocacy organization, with a presence in over 70 countries and around 7,000 accredited LLL Leaders worldwide.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

The Lifting the Restrictions on Nest report comes after groups including the TUC, Age UK and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) wrote to Pensions Minister Steve Webb last month, urging him to lift the barriers around Nest as soon as possible.

The large conference room dwarfed the small group as they gathered around a swanky table that seemed intended for a board or partner meeting.

Until a few years ago we only knew of the existence of rings around the giant planets; then, recently, our team discovered that two small bodies situated between Jupiter and Neptune, belonging to a group called centaurs, have dense rings around them, which came as a big surprise.

Other human populations evolved from subsets of that diverse population, as small groups migrated around the globe just a few tens of thousands of years ago.

Conversely, Tg - hIAPP mice inoculated with WT pancreas homogenate (hereafter referred to as the Tg / WT group) only began to show small IAPP aggregates at around 20 wk of age (Fig. 3, A and B), in a manner similar to untreated Tg mice.

One group (including Debra Fisher, Bernie Walp, Howard Isaacson, Greg Laughlin, Javiera Guedes, and Paul Butler) are hoping to find planets as small as the Earth around both Alpha Centauri A and B within three to five years, by assembling 100,000 radial - velocity observations using an unused 1.5 - meter telescope and vintage equipment at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

In addition, these cards can be used as activities in small groups or even in an around - the - world station lab.

A small group of members has been meeting to discuss the School to Deportation Pipeline, how immigrant and undocumented youth in schools can face immigration consequences such as detention and deportation when law enforcement are allowed in and around schools or involved in school discipline related matters.

SLCs include structures such as freshman academies, multi-grade academies organized around career interests or other themes, «houses» in which small groups of students remain together throughout high school, and autonomous schools - within - a-school, as well as personalization strategies, such as student advisories, family advocate systems, and mentoring programs.

Create a positive student culture around online and small group learning Assist with the creation of individual learning plans for each student enrolled at GMC Maintain frequent communication with students and their support network regarding academic progress Dress professionally and uphold all school policies Perform other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal

When I began making almost all of my literacy assignments open - ended and had students do them on the computer, I saw two important benefits: (1) Students» completed assignments told me a lot about them as individuals; and (2) While each learner worked at his or her own computer, I was able to move around the classroom and have one - to - one and small - group conversations.

Despite its wild body and supercar - troubling 496bhp / 413 lb ft powertrain, the Design Vision GTI is still based around the MQB chassis architecture that underpins the mk7 Golf as well as many other VW group small cars.

During one of the last big kerfuffles, wherein Amazon tried to push around a number of small POD publishers into making them use their own in - house print service (Angela Hoy and Booklocker fought back on that one and won) many of the other indy authors that I was hanging out with as part of our on - line support group) tried to put more of our efforts into marketing our books through Barnes & Noble, and to Borders.

The Gulf Islands National park is group of small parks part or all the way around some of islands and covers 36 square km (14 sq mi) and 15 islands as well as islets and reefs.

More than 60 hand - picked resorts around the world are included in the new wellbeing collection from Kuoni and Wellbeing Escapes, with holidays suited to single travellers as well as couples and small groups.

You can have them swimming around in small groups, chilling together under hangovers or rocks and even have them following you being curious as in to who you are and why are you there.

San Miguel Island, together with numerous small islets around it, is defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block 3010, Block Group 3, Census Tract 29.10 of Santa Barbara County, California.

Our accommodation is on our own 500 acre farm, where we give you the option of staying in our unique hostel or roll out a swag under the stars, we have small groups (maximum 13), we sit around the campfire playing the didgeridoo, you will enjoy six healthy meals including a barbecue dinner, we travel in a four wheel drive vehicle and get to and from the island on our own charter boat as we search for dolphins on Backstairs Passage.

Travcoa offers three styles of luxury travel experiences: discover worldwide destinations in a small - group averaging 12 like - minded guests and our exclusive Dine - Around Program with an Escorted Journey; travel privately on a pre-set itinerary for two people, or as many as you wish with an Private Journey; or have one of our Custom Journey Planners handcraft a Custom Journey to your exacting specifications.

Featuring a choice of large open plan, fully self contained units and smaller self contained cabins, Ash's Holiday Units and Cafe is a popular destination for large and small fishing groups, national and international around Australia travellers, or simply as a relaxing holiday destination for singles and family groups — and there is full bitumen access from Cairns and Mt Isa which means that anyone can get there!

It's here that the small player count irks me a tad, though, as four players make it awkward to defend and attack, whereas around eight per team would have allowed for the forming of little groups to run diversions, launch strikes and muster a defense.

Centering around a small group of survivors trapped in the aftermath of an undead invasion in the 1950s, players swap freely between three characters as they either attack or trap zombies.

-- Nintendo previously made Zelda games by making small areas and connecting them together — For Breath of the Wild, the team first had to figure out what needed to be placed on the map — Groups were created out of the over 300 devs to work on specific sections of the world — Game Informer's demo starts at Serenne Stable — Yammo runs this place — Link can rest in bed and restore health here — Stable also lets you store horses, meet with merchants, NPCs — Stables are located throughout the world — Each one is run by a distinct character — You can spend rupees on a more expensive bed, giving you an extra heart the next morning — These hearts are yellow and can't be recovered if you're hit in combat — Spending time by fires in the world passes time — Dynamic weather system in the game, with the world reacting as a result — Ex: when it starts raining, NPCs outside the stable quickly go inside — Beedle is back to sell you goods — Have to be careful during a thunderstorm, since your metal items can attract thunder — Metal weapons and shields can be discarded or thrown at enemies — Link can get killed by lightning — Difficulty dips / spikes depending on where you are, since you can go around it and avoid it until you're stronger — Over 100 Shrines — You can find an item that identifies Shrines — Discover a Shrine for it to be a fast - travel point — Shrines also give a Spirit Orb — Trade in orbs for unknown items — Dedicated team handled animal A.I. — Bears, wolves, deer move through the snow — You can get overwhelmed by enemies quickly — Link can keep multiple horses at a time — Affection / loyalty important with horses — Feed and take care of horses to raise their stats — Can call horses over to you, but horses need to be within a certain proximity to be called — Horses can be killed by enemies — Aonuma «wanted players to choose their own path», so no companion character in this game — Stamina meter encopasses sprinting, paragliding, climbing — Meter can be upgraded, but Nintendo won't say how — Different shields have different speeds and level of control for snowboarding — Can mine rocks which can be solid for rupees or used for crafting — Can place stamps to mark areas of interest — 100 of these symbols can be used on the map, including sword, shield, bow and arrow, pot, star, chest, skull, leaf, diamond — Every style of weapon has a unique set of animations and feel different — No invincible weapons in the game, Nintendo says — Zelda can get mad at you and scold you — Players can see the ending without seeing everything from the story — A certain element was added in the game to make for a more cohesive storyline — Most difficult Zelda game to make — Aonuma is still finding new things in the world

The fine art industry, as most people understand it, is built around a small group of people who have managed to control the messaging around how art is sold.

Almost all of Bernhardt's two - dozen solo shows, some of which saw her covering walls with advertisements from Spanish bodegas or collaborating with Jdia, oftentimes — as in her current exhibition — activating the space by covering the floors (in this case, with burlap coffee sacks), have been downtown, in small group shows, and around the globe.

A free public lecture (7 — 9 pm, 2 February 2017) as part of Testing Ground: Master Class, which invites leading international artists to share their expertise with a small group of emerging artists from around the country.

There will be quite a lot of walking around places of interest as well as chances to sit and enjoy the company of a small group.

A new educational initiative launching this year as part of our annual Testing Ground for Art and Education, Testing Ground: Master Class invites leading international artists to share their expertise with a small group of emerging artists from around the country over a five day intensive, led by artist Doug Fishbone.

The collective will also host intimate public Dialogues with contemporary thinkers and participants in special interior and exterior spaces around the city, as well as conduct a series of Ink Gathering walks with special guests and small groups of enthusiastic visitors.

In the early 1930s, as part of a small group of abstract artists in New York that formed around the Polish émigré artist, John Graham, he became friends with Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning.

Mr. Bush's initiative was criticized by some countries and environmental groups as kind of an end run around international climate - treaty negotiations that involved all countries, small and large.

As links to the folder were passed around on blogs and online communities, a small group of people sorted through the emails, picking out a handful of phrases that could be seen as controversial, and developing a narrative which they pushed to the media with all their combined strengtAs links to the folder were passed around on blogs and online communities, a small group of people sorted through the emails, picking out a handful of phrases that could be seen as controversial, and developing a narrative which they pushed to the media with all their combined strengtas controversial, and developing a narrative which they pushed to the media with all their combined strength.

Private KM teams Imagine this: a small group of lawyers (as few as five, up to around 20, ideally about 10), each potentially in a different type of environment — a large law firm, a small boutique, a sole practice, an in - house department, a law faculty, whatever.

We've provided lots of soft seating to allow for quiet, comfortable reading as well as napping, interspersed around both floors of the library, usually in front of windows, in small groupings (total 40 seats) and in one large, attractive «den» - like setting (16 seats).