Sentences with phrase «called leading institutions»

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Egypt's Al - Azhar institution, a leading centre of Sunni Islamic learning, in January condemned the Charlie Hebdo cartoons but called on Muslims to ignore them.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

That's unlikely to come under a Trump administration, whose recent budget proposal calls for a $ 15.1 billion cut to the Tom Price - led Department of Health and Human Services, the department that houses the FDA, the CDC, Medicare and Medicaid, among other government institutions.

Why Bitcoin 3.0 really is Bitcoin 1.0 Over the past few months we've been bombarded with calls and visits from many leading financial institutions and other large global businesses, typically with the same questions: «Can you please explain to us what blockchains are?»

Yes, spiritual warfare on every front of Christendom and when these hit pieces come out against the men of God who lead these churches (institutions as you call them), I believe it aids and abets the enemy.

Since so little of this occurs in other institutions, the church is called to take the lead.

Twenty years ago a leading New Testament scholar in the United States, Robert Funk, took the bold step of moving out of the university institutions to establish what he called the Westar Institute.

Marriage generally does not support activities and friendships outside the couple, as I've learned in my research for The New I Do, leading some to call it a greedy institution.

Second Deputy Majority Chief Whip, Hon. Ibrahim Ahmed, who led the call on the Speaker, said the collapse of DKM and other micro-finance institutions in the Brong - Ahafo and the three northern regions has brought anarchy to the area.

On the account of the various financial impropriety crusade led by so called fringe financial institutions like the DKM Micro Finance, God is Love and several others through their activities and other engagement with the central bank of Ghana, a significant number of Ghanaians have huge sums of monies hijacked with no or little convincing information available to these helpless victims to curtail their anxieties, frustrations and disappointments.

Sensing how seriously the propensity of hate speeches could plunge Ghana into security crisis, some concerned Ghanaians are calling on the noble institutions like the Professor John S. Nabila - led National House of Chiefs, and the Ministry for Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs, to caution chiefs against inciting their subjects to violence, as means of airing their grievances.

«I did not expect to be talking at a symposium like this with that title under my name, but when the message came through two days before January 20 that my resignation letter had been rejected, I figured that I better figure out what to do in this new role and certainly celebrate the opportunity to continue to lead this great institution, this noble enterprise called the National Institutes of Health.»

The hostilities involve institutions (M.I.T. and Harvard versus University of California), gender (Doudna, Charpentier, Zhang), geography (east versus west coast) and what you might call über - institutions (the Broad Institute, which has become an empire of genomic research under Lander's direction, especially after his leading role in the Human Genome Project, versus the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, whose president, Robert Tjian, is based at Berkeley and has co-authored at least one CRISPR paper with Doudna, also an HHMI investigator).

This investigator - initiated phase II trial, called TOPARP - A, was led by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and also involved several other institutions in the UK.

The group, called the North American Consortium for Genomics of Fibrolytic Ruminal Bacteria, includes more than a dozen researchers from The Ohio State University (the lead institution), The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), Cornell University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Guelph in Canada.

Only Lead Applicants that have submitted the requested preliminary information through their host institution Research Office will be permitted to submit a proposal to the call.

That was viewed by many as a reference to Common Core, which spurred some conservative figures and institutions to decry the standards as a federal takeover of education and in turn led to the legislation calling for specifically opting out of Common Core.

It basically appears like student loans are fast becoming the next «ticking time bomb», similar to the mortgage debt problem which eventually led to the collapse of many large lending institutions, and paved the path for what has come to be called the «great recession».

Franchises like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft have become cultural institutions and tradeable names, and on the back of their success the CEO of leading game publisher Activision received an 800 percent pay raise, to nearly $ 65 million, last year.

The Hopper Prize The Hopper Prize is a grant - making institution and exhibition platform offering a series of individual artist grants totaling $ 5,000.00 USD administered through an open call juried by leading curators.

The Hopper Prize is a grant - making institution and exhibition platform offering a series of individual artist grants totaling $ 5,000.00 USD administered through an open call juried by leading curators.

Immediately following the Class of 2014's commencement ceremony we rallied together to show support for The Cooper Union's strong and unique identity as a tuition free institution for the study of architecture, art and engineering; and to call attention to the fiscal mismanagement and lack of accountability on the part of The Cooper Union Trustees, leading to the erosion of a 150 - year old tradition of free tuition made possible by philanthropist Peter Cooper.

In each place, the curators collaborated with an art institution and participated in a series of public events and open - calls, which led to the selection of the work of 36 artists, culminating in a snapshot of creative practice in America today.

These, in turn, lead to invitations from institutions for lectures and demonstrations, a performative aspect which naturally called for the creation of digital environments.

Once called the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle has worked for the most prestigious international publications, and has been the subject of exhibitions in both commercial galleries and leading public institutions around the world.

This need is not lost on the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate — a group of national finance ministers, former heads of state, and leading global economists — who called in 2015 for international financial institutions to develop a package of $ 1 billion over five years to support the world's 500 largest cities in reducing climate pollution and building urban resilience.

Boards of directors and officers of leading corporations and financial institutions call on our litigators for strategic advice.

As such, our litigators are regularly called upon by a wide range of the world's leading corporations, financial institutions, and private companies, along with their executives, boards, board committees, and directors, to handle any and all aspects of their litigation matters.

It may be that the professional institutions and the Academy of Experts could take the lead by calling in redacted reports from Adjudicators in order to test the quality of reports and build confidence in the use of Experts within adjudication proceedings.

Financial Manager — Duties & Responsibilities Manage daily operations, sales, and customer service activities for multiple financial institutions Oversee company expansion and branch openings in new markets and territories Manage client assets in excess of $ 285 million across a wide range of investment vehicles Design and implement professional development and employee recognition programs Consistently meet or exceed sales goals through networking, cold calling, and other tactics Represent company brand with poise, integrity, and positivity Develop a rapport with customers and orient them to various products and services Encourage high customer retention by maintaining friendly, supportive contact with existing clients Study internal literature to become an expert on products and services Conduct research on prospective leads and existing clients to assist in developing sales strategies Craft effective sales presentations and proposals, tailoring them to clients based on their specific needs and styles Negotiate and execute contracts with C - Level decision makers Maintain records of site visits to potential and existing clients to assist in assessing their future needs Collaborate with junior level sales people to develop action plans to govern their performance Make cold calls in a courteous, yet assertive manner that translates to sales results Recruit, train, and direct staff ensuring they understand the brand and adhere to company policies and procedures Maintain comprehensive records detailing pricings, sales, activities reports, and other pertinent data Strictly adhere to budgets and project timelines

Leading Aboriginal health experts have called on researchers, academics, universities, research institutions and private corporations, especially those with Reconciliation Action Plans, to make a stand in support of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Marie McInerney writes: Leading Aboriginal health experts have called on researchers, academics, universities, research institutions and private corporations, especially those with Reconcili... Read more