Sentences with phrase «back national efforts»

To the extent that a nuclear plant's output is replaced by electricity from natural gas, the resulting emissions set back national efforts to achieve needed emissions reductions.

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Andy Brenner, head of international fixed income securities at National Alliance Securities, said in a note that the hiring of a special prosecutor «and talk about obstruction of justice being an impeachable offense» could push back efforts to enact Trump's tax reform and fiscal stimulus proposals for months.

New York will remain steadfast in pushing back against federal encroachment efforts like the [Office of the Controller of the Currency's] proposal to impose a one - size - fits - all national bank charter that increases risk and seeks to usurp state sovereignty.»

Restaurant chains with more than 15 locations will be required to comply with the mandate, but the National Restaurant Association (NRA) is fighting back, saying the mandate works against its effort for a national labeling sNational Restaurant Association (NRA) is fighting back, saying the mandate works against its effort for a national labeling snational labeling standard.

The international future of Russian - Nigerian left back Brian Idowu will take some time to be sorted out despite the efforts of coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr who has contacted the Amkar Perm man to...

In 1992, in response to epidemiologic reports from Europe and Australia, the AAP recommended that infants be placed for sleep in a nonprone position as a strategy for reducing the risk of SIDS.9 The «Back to Sleep» campaign was initiated in 1994 under the leadership of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a joint effort of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the AAP, the SIDS Alliance (now First Candle), and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommeNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a joint effort of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the AAP, the SIDS Alliance (now First Candle), and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommeNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommenational surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommendation.

«These efforts include National Prescription Drug Take Back Days and other initiatives like this one to facilitate the collection, and safe and responsible disposal of unused medications.

He also encouraged the youth that their efforts will not be in vain because the National Democratic Congress will come back to power in the next general election.

Okay, I cheated — lots of groups have been working online to organize and recruit the tax - disgruntled over the past few days, culminating in a national protest effort to launch as soon as everyone's back from the post office.

Both the government and parliament have failed to find the political will to cut back subsidies, and efforts to promote the hiring of nationals in the private sector and to downsize the civil service do not appear to have borne fruit.

Republicans have jumped on the document, obtained by the conservative National Review, as an effort by the Democrat's campaign to exploit voters, while Nunn's team is pushing back, underscoring that the document was»... a draft of a document that was written eight months ago» and was always subject to alternation.

The socially conservative New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms on Friday is joining a national effort to push President Donald Trump to back an executive order addressing religious freedom.

And he's also spoken of the effort to make New York the first in the nation to back the $ 15 wage for all workers as one that will have a national impact.

But he is also spoken of as a potential candidate for president in 2020 — a proposition he has sought to tamp down, even as he has dipped his toe into the national arena in pushing back against GOP - led efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Cuomo insisted he is not concerned the National Guard will be spread too thin by the most recent efforts, saying the only way that would become an issue is if something extreme happened back home.

STAMFORD - Republican gubernatorial candidate John McKinney says he supports national efforts to tax internet sales, backing a fix that has been considered in Congress repeatedly but never garnered the support to pass.

The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful lobby group for gun rights, said Thursday that it would support an effort to restrict bump stocks — an unusual move for a group that has long pushed back on efforts to impose new firearms regulations.

I am also leading efforts in the House of Commons to put tackling serious youth violence back on the national agenda, which I have discussed with Jeremy because it impacts on both our constituencies.

Part of a national effort, this local take - back program ensures the materials are disposed of properly which is extremely important on several levels.

«We have seen workers sacrifice and work at the highest international standards and not only have these combine efforts brought back the crippled national asset from the brink but have also restored national fuel security.

But Perez Williams launched a last - minute effort in April to force a primary, backed by Democrats from the national party in Washington.

Citing the Trump administration's efforts to scale back national parks, Cuomo vowed to open the largest state part in New York City, a 407 - acre plot of land on Jamaica Bay.

Elsewhere in North America, patchwork conservation efforts have brought wolves back in areas such as Yellowstone National Park, the northern Rockies, and eastern Washington and Oregon.

«With the establishment of Land of the Leopard National Park, in conjunction with other conservation efforts, we can now start to focus on how to begin bringing them back.»

The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in the effort, has just received a whopping $ 41.5 million in 2015 to study the vital mass of tissue that sustains a developing fetus.

Even if mounting a television station on the back of a bird offered no benefit to national security, the whimsy of it, as seen in this program, would easily justify the effort.

Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.

Unhappy with the low level and wide variation in state standards, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, with the financial backing of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the political support of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), formed a consortium in 2009 that invited each state to join in an effort to set Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Falling short in its efforts to raise new capital to finance a proposed national chain of private, for - profit schools, the Edison Project has announced a scaled - back plan that will focus initially on managing public schools.

Just a week ago, Scott Walker survived a recall, beating back the rapacious efforts of the National Education Association and its state affiliate, the Wisconsin Education Association (WEAC) to recall the Wisconsin governor who had the moxie to work with the state legislature to eliminate collective bargaining for teachers.

Prudence, backed by our history, calls for us to be prepared for another national effort to improve the schools.

FairTest, the traditionalist outfit which has been a key player in NEA's efforts to roll back No Child's accountability provisions and standardized testing, received $ 40,586 in 2014 - 2015, while National Board for Professional Teaching Standards collected $ 310,000 during the same period.

As with the soundly defeated plans for a national test, this would once again be an effort to go through the back door to a national curriculum without open discussion as to whether this is a desired national goal.

Opponents of the nation's teacher unions won a landmark victory last year in a California lawsuit that challenged tenure protections, a case that became the beginning of a national effort to roll back teacher tenure laws in state courts.

The leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, Paul Whiteman, backed the plans for a more «joined - up» approach, with schools» efforts to «narrow the gap» being linked to businesses, employers and local community initiatives.

The effort to improve educational standards and make American students more competitive with their international peers was led several years ago by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, with backing from the Gates Foundation.

Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board's General Counsel's office gave a boost to the SEIU's $ 15 million - plus effort to unionize the fast food industry by backing SEIU's outrageous legal theory on franchisees.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

Now a new national high school redesign effort has been launched, this one backed by $ 50 million from the Emerson Collective, whose president is Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of the late Apple titan, Steve Jobs.

As part of its ongoing efforts to give back to the sport, Westminster at its 2018 Show, will donate $ 5,000 each to three AKC recognized National Breed Clubs to support their dog rescue activities.

«Paint the Parks» is an organized effort by artists to support, preserve and give back to the national and local treasures that inspire us.

This is just a quick Labor Day weekend look back at a story I wrote in 2005 assessing Bhutan's effort to adopt gross national happiness as its main income and perceptions of happiness.

The new initiative by the National Center for Science Education and related efforts were already beginning to push back.

After successfully passing a budget amendment back in May that basically forbids the Pentagon from acknowledging climate science — despite the fact that the Department of Defense considers doing so to be vital to national security — his newest effort prohibits both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from spending «to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.»

People tended to see efforts to hold back Mother Nature as futile, Krosnick said... Krosnick presented the results of the survey March 28 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. http://news.yahoo.com/even-doubters-want-prepare-global-warming-203510651.html

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And now, after 46 years away from their native habitat, decedents of those rescued rhinos have begun making a historic journey back to the Serengeti recently, in one of the «most ambitious» relocation efforts ever undertaken.According to a report from The Telegraph, five rhinos were transported from a conservancy in South Africa to their native home in Tanzania's Serengeti National Reserve via a Hercules C - 130 aircraft.

Since joining Rodale Institute in December 2010, he has brought heritage livestock back to the institute's 333 - acre farm, expanded and enhanced its research efforts, and launched Your 2 Cents, a national campaign to support and promote new organic farmers.

At the same time, learning and action at the local scale can translate back (especially through organizations such as Second Nature, and efforts such as the US National Climate Assessment) to impact national and international undersNational Climate Assessment) to impact national and international undersnational and international understanding.

«Now, in a national project backed by $ 2.7 million in grants, BMC today will launch an ambitious effort to replicate its program in every state.