Sentences with phrase «at national influence»

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, one of the most influential Democrats in his home borough of the Bronx and across New York State, today backed Assemblyman Michael Blake's bid for vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee — the latest sign formerly chilly County machine is warming to the second - term lawmaker's attempt at national influence.

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A national probability sample of 2,805 employed adults in the U.S. showed managers were more likely to consume alcohol at work, to be under the influence of alcohol at work, or to be suffering a hangover at work when compared with employees in low - risk occupations.

The election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.

Finally, companies» choice of where to do business across the globe is heavily influenced by a witches brew of complex, often contradictory governmental policies at national, regional and local levels.

Like that, we try to influence certain policies and programmes, which are conceived at a national level.

Enlightenment thought not only affected specifically political institutions, it also influenced the way the religious tradition would be formulated at the level of national culture.

«Representative of these various types were men like Roger L. Shinn, who succeeded Niebuhr at Union in the chair of Applied Christianity; George William Webber, founder of the East Harlem Protestant Parish and later president of New York Biblical Seminary; Truman Douglass, leading spirit in the affairs of the National Council of Churches and pioneer in church involvement in human issues; and Martin Luther King, Jr. «73 Niebuhr was at the apex of his influence in the early 1950s and was to remain there for over a decade longer.

Neoconservative critiques of the left achieved a visibility and thus an influence that earlier criticisms» notably those of William F. Buckley, Jr. and his colleagues at National Review» had not.

Where the Church is identified with these national state institutions, as is largely the case, its influence at the grass roots level reinforces the reign of these obsolete institutions and policies.

I would invite all of you, therefore, within your respective spheres of influence, to seek ways of promoting and encouraging dialogue between faith and reason at every level of national life.»

A second observation is that it is precisely at the national headquarters levels of the typical western church that the Inertia of church organization and staff exerts Its most debilitating Influence on the capacity of the church to effect change in its own program or in the policies of the economic and political institutions In which It Is enmeshed.

At least some of our citizens have come to see that the present organization of our economic life, including the corporation, threatens not only our democratic government, because of its inordinate political influence, but also our national character and form of life, because of its propagation of the idea of wealth as merely the accumulation of consumer goods.

Of course, the practical difference can not be ignored: Hindus are an overwhelming majority closely associated with political, economic and social power while Christians are less than 3 percent of the population without any realistic chance of economic and political influence at a national level.

While military supremacy may discourage predator powers and military weakness encourage them, national influence suspended only on military advantage is tenuous at best.

My hope and prayer is that as denominational leaders begin to understand the prevalence of abuse within the Evangelical community, many will be propelled to begin taking significant steps to influence substantive changes at both a national and local level.

I ate this spicy salad at a camp in the Gorkhi - Terelj National Park outside of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.The recipe shows the influence of northern Chinese and Russian ingredients (pickled vegetables) on traditional Mongolian cuisine (which emphasizes meat and milk dishes, not vegetables).

Since its introduction in 1995, the National Access Regime has influenced the way access negotiations occur across the economy, including in rail, airports, port terminal and grain handling facilities at ports.

But I do think there's a role for government at the macro level (where it already has great influence over our food) such as corn and soy subsidies, the National School Lunch Program (and the related use of surplus farm commodities), etc..

A study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in the US looked at the influence of both child care and the home environment on over 1,000 typically - developing children They found that parent and family characteristics were more strongly linked to child development than were child care features.»

Edwardson is a key player in influencing future strategy for research in the lab, as well as a valuable academic mind as Shedd continues to analyze previous studies conducted with partners at the University of Chicago, The University of Illinois and Argonne National Laboratories.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Climate change has certainly been good for the health of at least one ecosystem, judging from a piece that appeared in National Journal's Under the Influence blog this week:

Britain is at risk of losing even more influence in Europe unless it addresses the decline of UK nationals working for EU institutions, an influential group of MPs has said.

Asked about the influence of libertarian - minded leaders in the GOP, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said at a Republican governors forum Thursday that when it comes to national security, those who oppose National Security Agency programs that monitor Americans» electronic activity were jusnational security, those who oppose National Security Agency programs that monitor Americans» electronic activity were jusNational Security Agency programs that monitor Americans» electronic activity were just wrong.

Of course, it's well - choreographed moves like this one — not to mention his appearance at the «No Labels» event at Columbia University — that makes it hard to take Bloomberg at his word that he's really doing nothing else than trying to influence the national discussion and pull the polarized country back to the center.

This analysis was supported by Munira Murza, lead author of today's Policy Exchange report, who warned: «Islamist groups have gained influence at local and national level by playing the politics of identity and demanding for Muslims the «right to be different».»

It was a big reason why Bill Walsh moved to Washington, D.C., and joined the National Guard as a young man — only to be surprised when his father followed him to Washington when he was elected to Congress in 1972, Jutton said the children may not have realized it at the time, but their father was always teaching them, and probably the biggest influence behind their careers in public service.

Larry Levy, dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, says Trump will have an influence in the down ballot races.

It needs to educate and organize voters, encourage grassroots activism, and influence the actions of Democratic leaders at the local, state and national levels.

Officials at the authority have not explicitly explained how they selected the subsidized projects — Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, the Kingsbridge National Ice Center in the Bronx as well as Empire Outlets and Lighthouse Point on Staten Island — except to say that state - created Regional Economic Development Councils and local legislators, in theory, have some influence.

«Rather than trying to assess the probability of an extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate change) altered the severity of the impact of the event,» notes Dorit Hammerling, section leader for statistics and data science at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research.

In addition to sharing these personal perspectives, we'll also shine some light on broader topics, looking, for example, at how the overlap of peak childbearing years with what is typically the period of greatest productivity in a young scientist's career influences institutional (and national) practices and policies.

Other scientists, led by Thomas Knutson, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, looked at 2012's hot spring temperatures over the eastern United States and also found that human influences contributed about 35 percent to late spring heat that year.

«This study shows that local events like forest die - offs in one part of the globe influence climate and ecology in other, often distant locations,» said Tim Kratz, program director at the funding agency, the National Science Foundation.

The Coordinating Center structure had been unpopular with many at CDC because it diminished the influence of national centers under its umbrella.

Dietz led a study of household energy consumption, published online August 31, 2010, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, that looked at the effects of programs trying to influence energy use, many of which were very effective.

The ultimate composition of any national observatory is likely to be influenced by meetings held Friday at ANL prior to the annual Society for Neuroscience conference, Yuste says.

Another principal investigator for the project, Laura Pan, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., believes storm clusters over this area of the Pacific are likely to influence climate in new ways, especially as the warm ocean temperatures (which feed the storms and chimney) continue to heat up and atmospheric patterns continue to evolve.

The National Science Foundation - funded study, published in the April 27 issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, looked at how marine communities change across natural gradients to better understand the influence of the three climate stressors.

Babies are born without bacteria in the gut, and so it is interesting to identify the influence dietary factors have on gut microbiota development in children's first three years of life,» research manager at the National Food Institute Tine Rask Licht says.

(S. Ferguson, A. R. Dahale; B. Shotorban; S. Mahalingam; D. R. Weise, «The role of moisture on combustion of pyrolysis gases in wildland fires,» Combustion Science and Technology, 185: 435 - 453, 2013; and Yashwanth, B.L.; S. Ferguson; B. Shotorban; S. Mahalingam; D. R. Weise, «Numerical investigation of influence of moisture content on thermal behavior of heated wood,» Paper 070FR - 0208, presented at the 8th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, May 19 - 22, 2013)

«Apparently, the national conversation really is one conversation, at least among those able to participate in social media; even if they do not interact with each other, the evidence indicates that they are being influenced in similar ways by the news media.»

«Apparently, the national conversation really is one conversation, at least among those able to participate in social media; even if they do not interact with each other, the evidence indicates that they are being influenced in similar ways by the news media,» Harvard University professor Gary King and his colleagues write in the Science paper.

In the National Institutes of Health - funded study, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist identified and evaluated six rare gene variants within the beta2 - adrenergic receptor gene, the gene that may influence the response to beta agonist drugs.

As UCSF's first vice chancellor for science policy and strategy, Keith Yamamoto leads efforts to anticipate the needs of an increasingly dynamic biomedical research endeavor, and to position UCSF optimally, by working within the university as well as influencing and shaping science policy at the state and national levels and beyond.

A multidisciplinary team led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Chuck Long found that, at least in the continental United States, changes in clouds and cloudiness have a greater influence on brightening than any decrease in aerosol amounts alone.

A team of researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Utah has determined that cigarette smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can both influence oxidative modifications on specific proteins in blood plasma.

A research team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Maryland, Beijing Normal University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that increases in air pollution's tiny particles in the atmosphere have a strong influence on cloud development, which affects weather and climate.

Researchers at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, part of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, worked to pull out different factors that could have influenced the chances of such a winter, to see which ones upped the odds and which didn't.

Ekaterina Dobryakova, PhD, research scientist at Kessler Foundation, received a grant for $ 408,000 from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to study factors influencing disabling cognitive fatigue in the MS population, toward the goal of developing novel endogenous treatments.