Sentences with phrase «became major initiatives»

He points to the motivational success of Google Inc.'s encouraging engineers to spend 20 % of their time on side projects of their choosing, some of which became major initiatives.

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Cleaning up London's air has become one of Mayor Sadiq Khan's major initiatives.

She launched a product called HomeQuote Explorer, one of her first major initiatives since she became chief executive a year ago.

Private finance initiative deals were introduced in 1992 under John Major but became widespread under Tony Blair.

A major initiative to save water voles has been launched after experts warned that they could become extinct in parts of North Wales in the next ten years.

While the success of these initiatives has varied, several of these journals have become major players.

(One major source has become the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative.)

In 2008 Unilever announced that it will make a shift to using sustainable palm oil, as soon as the first supplies become available.This major initiative is one that will have a significant impact, not just on climate change but also on the sustainability of the rainforest.Unilever's intention is to move to 100 % certified, sustainable palm oil by 2015, and we will also support an immediate moratorium on any further deforestation in Indonesia linked to palm oil cultivation.

Institutional theories take a different view, arguing that schools (like other major social service sectors) are so constrained by public expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come easily.

SETDA developed this new report, «Transforming Data to Information in Service of Learning,» to raise awareness about the major K - 12 data standards and interoperability initiatives underway to address this gap and to offer recommendations for how K - 12 education can become more responsive to educators and better targeted toward individual student success.

The initiative's overall aim is that by 2020, science - based target setting will become standard business practice and corporations will play a major role in driving down global greenhouse gas emissions.

We are currently handling, amongst several major assignments in this area, a significant cross border M&A, advising on a major initiative involving joint ventures between Nigerian entities and European entities and statutory framework for operations in an important sector of the agricultural economy which is expected to become a paradigm for the entire Nigerian Agricultural economy.

Corporate philanthropic initiatives — such as providing World Cup tickets to Brazilian boys from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — allows Coca - Cola to market their products to children and families in the favelas, even as obesity is becoming a major problem in Brazil, linked with high consumption of soft drinks.

Cleveland, Ohio - based Developers Diversified Realty Corp. became the first U.S. REIT to announce a major development initiative targeting the Russian Federation and Ukraine in May.

Realtysellers says that it recently entered into a joint initiative with BNV Real Estate Inc., a Bell Canada affiliate, to launch Real Estate Plus (www.realestateplus.ca), «a website which provides users access to property information available on the MLS... (and)... Realtysellers» major lenders agreed to restart the provision of financing so it could once again become operational for the first time since late 2006 when it had been shut down as a result of the CREA initiative,» says the Statement of Claim.