Sentences with phrase «big issue in our community»

«Internet safety is a big issue in our community.

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You'd be hard - pressed to find a more divisive issue in the craft beer community than Big Beer's recent shopping spree for small brewers.

Bringing in close to $ 800 million in total sales over the course of a cookie season, the cookie program enables girls nationwide to think big as they take action in their communities on issues they're passionate about.

We all deserve to worship Jesus in a community where we're allowed to wrestle with the big issues of faith.

Having tendencies towards being task driven (or at least bent towards finding my identity in performance) and having served in «professional» ministry for many years I found the issue of vision to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks towards real community and togetherness.

«This is becoming a much bigger issue in Australia as urban encroachment means agribusiness and expanding communities are located much closer to each other than previously.

«This is becoming a much bigger issue in Australasia and other countries worldwide as urban encroachment means agribusiness and expanding communities are located much closer to each other than previously.

«I know I have a bigger platform so I want to use it for those who don't have it,» - Fizdale on his role in community issues.

Many community activists and school administrators talk about race as a big factor in educational performance, and others mention economic issues — and those are factors.

The issue as to why I was not fortunate to be returned was not my making, I came from a very volatile community and predominant of then ruling party, most of the juggernauts of the party came from my constituency, namely FFK, Prof Ladipo, the Secretary of the acclaimed biggest party in Nigeria, Senator Omisore and others..

There has been much discussion of the big banks, the investment banks and all those sorts of issues, but we now need to laser in on how the banks serve local communities and the SME sector.

«We are talking about big issues that are affecting all of our different communities - how are we going to pay our way in the world, how are we going to ensure that everybody can achieve their dreams and realise their aspirations?

Assemblyman Sheldon Silver wrote a letter to a local newspaper in his Lower East Side district saying: «There is always more work to be done... My staff and I remain ready to assist community organizations and local constituents on issues big and small.»

Flanked by Assemblymember Millman and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Simon stressed her deep roots in the district and decade of experience as district leader, her progressive credentials and her work on community issues both big and small — from public transportation to traffic calming in Downtown Brooklyn, access to affordable housing and education, and saving Long Island College Hospital, to name a few.

«It's important to take an overall look at the big picture and ask whether how we are handling these security issues is costing us more in terms of negative impacts on research and connections with the international community than it is benefiting us.»

Here we are going to discussion on Jewish guys those are interested in make relationship with another community guys; everybody knows that in the present contact with friends from world location is not left a big issue.

Have students practice divergent thinking by describing an issue in the community and asking them to suggest all the people who could be affected by it, or give students a «big idea» question and ask them to think of all the possible answers to it.

The Big Life Group, linked to the Big Issue magazine, has set up a primary school, which will deliver high quality education and childcare to families in one of the poorest parts of Manchester while Everton, Bolton Wanderers and Bradford City are examples of a number of football clubs that have embedded their role in the community by leading the creation of new schools.

Education Secretary Justine Greening responded by saying that «no country in the world» has managed to «crack the issue of social mobility yet» and argued that «grammars can have potentially a transformational impact in some of the most deprived communities where we want to see the biggest changes».

And we'll look at how their own actions can make a big difference when it comes to issues of intolerance, bullying, and prejudice at school or in the community.

In partnership with OpenIDEO, an open innovation platform that catalyzes the global community around solving big social issues, we asked: How might we reimagine the cost of college in the U.S. and how it's paid foIn partnership with OpenIDEO, an open innovation platform that catalyzes the global community around solving big social issues, we asked: How might we reimagine the cost of college in the U.S. and how it's paid foin the U.S. and how it's paid for?

Grosso has big ideas about improvements to be made in the education system, many of them involving health and community issues.

The big issues for the Education Equality Project were school and teacher accountability, school choice, and merit pay, whereas the Broader, Bolder Approach emphasized linking what happens in schools to the broader environment within which children are raised, including their family and community economic standing, health and nutrition.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

But some of the biggest issues that we come across are in the book up space, which is informal credit provision in remote Indigenous communities.

I'm glad people are weighing in on this issue, because creating No Kill in poor rural communities and small towns that have few resources is the next big challenge for No Kill.

Sadly, in underserved communities in and around the greater Los Angeles area, the biggest obstacles to spaying and neutering pets — which is critical to preventing animal homelessness, suffering, and unnecessary euthanasia — come down primarily to issues of economics and geography.

What is the single biggest mistake animal advocates can make when trying to work with lawmakers on animal issues in their communities?

It's too big of an issue in this community not to, and once people learn about what's going on they sympathize and talk to their friends about it.»

Look I don't have the answers, hell I may not even have all the questions, but in my eyes the normalisation of gambling is one of the biggest community issues Australia faces and I am sure it is similar in other countries.

By the time we got to Copenhagen there were people who had mobilised in every country on the issue of climate change, where the biggest successes involved people just going out into communities and talking to each village by village, or college by college.

«Climate change is a big, vexing issue and it's really difficult to wrap your head around it from a global perspective, but when you can boil the impacts of climate change down to what it might look like in our lifetimes and in our communities, I think that really resonates with people,» Olson said.

«Not having a sense of community is the reason for many of the issues society has, and tiny houses are so much more than a cool space — they are just the tip of the iceberg in a much bigger conversation society needs to be having.»

While the climate issue is still poorly understood by the general public, we all need to promote the benefits of a real transition towards a sustainable and renewable system model: job creation, restoring democracy, community power - decentralisation of energy systems which are now mostly in the hands of big corporations, energy sovereignty, improved air quality and health, a better quality of life...

This issue in particular is one in which individual communities can make a big difference, so contact your city council and county officials.

The controversial Tether company, which is thought to be one of the biggest manipulators of Bitcoin's price, has issued another batch of 300 million USDT, causing another uproar in the community.

Wednesday the 10th of January saw young people from across Ireland flock to Facebook HQ Dublin to take part in the WebWise / Irish Second - Level Students» Union Safer Internet Day Ambassador Training session, a day where representatives from schools and groups from all corners of the country discussed internet safety and the big issues that affect them and their communities on a national and local level when it comes to the internet.

Dr Davis said the study found Wuchopperen had enabled a big increase in community leaders over the past 30 years, not only in a traditional cultural context but also in empowering people to lead on specific issues, such as maternal and child health.

Finding a community of parents of LGBTQ children can be a big help in working through these issues.

«Forget native title, forget employment — the single biggest issue that I am worried about in communities is mental health and if ice really spreads then it will be devastating,» he told the paper.

Access to healthy and affordable food and good health care is a big issue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, particularly those living in remote communities.

It highlighted one of the big issues she raised in her presentation, the loss of a «whole layer» of Aboriginal and Torres Strait families and communities: with so many grandparents missing because of stolen generation policies and much lower life expectancy.

No one is really sure how big an issue mental ill - health is in communities, although anecdotal evidence and smaller studies suggests it is a significant problem.

Forty - four percent of respondents report the lack of affordable housing in their community as a «big» or «fairly big» issue.