Sentences with phrase «change advocate with»
He describes himself as a «climate change advocate with an eye on a better, brighter, cleaner, and more hopeful future for all of us.»
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Fifteen local broking, legal and advisory firms have teamed up to put forward their concerns with the ASX's proposed changes to its listing requirements, and to advocate three particular amendments.
Soon, President McKinley and the ruling Republican party changed their tune and advocated for Puerto Rico to remain a colony, with only token representation in Congress and governed by different tax laws than the mainland.
Automate as You Go As the size of your eBay - bound inventory grows, you may find that the processes and systems you had in place at the outset no longer serve you as well as you need them to, says Bastos, who advocates changing your system, despite the challenges that come with it.
But gun control advocates doubt that Trump really means what he says, after he ran for office warning that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would remove the constitutional right to bear arms and he rode into the White House with the firm backing of the NRA, which opposes most attempts at real change.
Rashad Robinson, executive director of online racial justice organization Color of Change, said in a statement late Tuesday that while he applauded Uber's newfound transparency, «the onus is now on Kalanick and Uber's leadership team to prove that all this public soul - searching isn't just a public relations ploy and to work with advocates and experts to meaningfully increase diversity at the company.»
After changing the company's stance on guns, Stack vowed to be become an advocate and visited Washington in March to meet with members of Congress.
But we will continue to fight and advocate for change in solidarity with them, in our own community.
The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (UCPN) has since changed its stance on the word however, advocating a change along with other political parties following the survey.
By thoughtfully advocating for changes in unjust systems, providing relief in areas of raw need, and empowering people within broken neighborhoods to love one another, the power of the Gospel to deal with individual sin and systemic injustice will be proclaimed to the watching world to the praise of our Father.
«In addition, as the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change works with the state government to deliver democratic dividends, we urge it to also assist in addressing the challenges to rule of law posed by these arrests and prosecutions, encouraging respect for press freedom and advocating for protection and justice for targeted communities in southern Kaduna.»
She understood humanity enough that, while she advocated her idiotic and wrongheaded sense of aesthetics to groups of intellectuals, and while she did seek approval from those same groups and hoped to change a few minds, she did not care (nor did she ever expect) the rest of us lowlifes to ever pick up the banner of Objectivism and run with it.
From his vantage point as president of Harvard, Bok analyzes the dilemmas of liberal education, showing how its coexistence with the demands of professional schools in times of change and uncertainty requires its advocates to set it on a sound course.
Wilson's first argument was against the cavalierness of same - sex marriage advocates, who propose a massive social change with little idea how it will shake out:
I urge you to join with me in advocating for effective change that makes Princeton a more affirming community.
The system advocates seem, in comparison, more at home in chaos, with its paradoxical promise of integrity.55 How the change from disorder to wholeness occurs is the second characteristic of organic systems approaches: organization development.
Maritain's talk of a «crisis» in Catholicism evident even before Vatican II was over seemed wholly out of touch with the council's great success at bringing about deep changes Maritain himself, as much as anyone, had long passionately advocated.
When the practice of sex - change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would often remind its advocating psychiatrists that with other patients, alcoholics in particular, they would quote the Serenity Prayer, «God, give me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage....
Meanwhile, those on the margins are typically working with less power, smaller platforms, thinner finances, and fewer numbers and in the face of subtle but pervasive stereotypes, prejudices, and disadvantages that make it nearly impossible to advocate for change without causing friction.
The program is based on sound research and does not advocate starvation diet but is more about changing lifestyle and habits to take with you into the future.»
The program was designed to provide chefs with the tools and support they require to be effective leaders and advocates for food - system change.
The strike zone also changes with the umpire, and although I don't advocate cheating, a pitcher has to take everything he has coming to him.
she is a committed attachment parenting advocate, and she exhausted every avenue — took him to doctors, co-slept, didn't co-sleep, slept with him on a futon on the floor, changed her bedding & blinds & diet, bought a slew of white noise generators, etc. the lack of sleep was affecting her marriage & her own mental health, as you can imagine.
ACOG's Ethics Committee, which produced the opinion, says that the burden of proof should fall on those who advocate for a change in policy in support of elective cesarean delivery (which replaces a natural process — vaginal delivery — with a major surgical procedure).
Additionally Food Banks Canada works with governments to advocate for effective policy change that will alleviate poverty in Canada.
While there are no case studies documenting these changes, the revised programs serve as models showing what other districts can accomplish, especially with the help of parent advocates:
Yesterday I shared with you a Beyond Chron piece by school food advocate Dana Woldow («School Nutrition Association Pushes Fruitless Position «-RRB-, in which Woldow criticized a recent position paper released by the School Nutrition Association («SNA») calling for various changes to the new school meal regulations.
Among the modifications advocated by the SNA are: removing the new requirement that students take a fruit or vegetable with their meal; changes to the whole grain requirements; and extending the comment period for the interim final competitive food (school snack) regulations that are to go into effect this summer.
From the professionals putting in long hours to the advocates bringing mental health awareness to the national stage, this year's honorees inspire us with their passion for changing the way we understand and treat our children.
Advocates suggest that such early toilet training enhances interaction and communication between parents and babies, prevents diaper rash, avoids the struggles associated with diaper changing, saves money on diapers, and is better for the environment — as 22 billion disposable diapers end up clogging landfills in the U.S. each year.
In our school district in Boulder, CO we are blessed to have Chef Ann Cooper, who is a BIG advocate for healthy foods and also a huge change maker in school lunches with her Chef Ann Foundation.
In 1920, for example, one pediatrician, clearly an advocate of late introduction of solids, called the early feeding of solids («early» being six months at this point) the new «liberal diet» and registered his opinion that the «traditional timetable» was still the best for babies.101 Yet by the mid-1920s several doctors were noting in medical journals that, with the relatively recent discovery of «vitamins,» it was necessary to change an infant's feeding timetable.102
Daily we are advocating change with the way we live our lives.
We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.
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«For all community advocates and educators concerned with food justice issues, Lunch Love Community is an insightful and creative documentary that will help you open up a rich dialogue around changing the food system for the better.»
The center has supported thousands of women to achieve their breastfeeding goals since its inception, performed lactation research, provided education on lactation topics to both parents and professionals, advocated for changes in breastfeeding policies and provided lactation therapy for the treatment of infant sucking problems and maternal breast and nipple problems with an over 95 % success rate.
A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.
For 12 years, advocates have tried to change that limit with the Child Victims Act, and for 12 years, the act has failed before reaching a vote on the state Senate floor.
Also at noon, Community Access and advocates gather to mourn the death of those lost to fatal emotionally disturbed person encounters with the NYPD and call for meaningful change, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
American academic Philip Tetlock has been at the vanguard of advocates for change, with his project on political prediction.
Bill Samuels, a longtime Democratic campaign donor and good - government advocate, has created a political action committee with $ 500,000 to push for a constitutional convention in which the public could radically change how Albany operates.
LGBT advocates speaking with the Washington Blade couldn't identify any incidents of LGBT job discrimination at ExxonMobil, but nonetheless said a change in company policy is necessary.
We assist clients in advocating with both houses of the legislature including through testimony, meetings and stakeholder engagement to protect beneficial elements of the budget or encourage changes
Advocates also want to change the formula for Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements to the island to correlate with those provided to states.
-- Political columnist Errol Louis reviews Sheldon Silver's «other offenses» — Advocates want changes in the city's proposed e-bike rules; «In case it isn't obvious by now: Mayor de Blasio should have talked with delivery workers about electric bikes rather than declaring war on them.»
SilentHunter, Some of the differences are that a newspaper is publishing an account and a dossier; that this is going to an independent complaints commission which the police do not control; that both supporters as well as opponents of the government will ask questions about this - in parliament, on blogs, and in many other places - no doubt pushing for an inquest with a jury, and be pushing for broader changes in policing to ensure its consistency with the human rights legislation we now have (such as those being advocated by Stuart White here on Next Left).
We were given the opportunity to adopt the AV system in a 2011 referendum, yet it was decisively rejected, with 68 % of voters opting for No on a 42 % turnout, in part the result of the abject failure of electoral reform advocates to craft a convincing case in favour of change.
THE BRONX — A decision by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to allow the NYPD to implement changes to how police interact with the public — instead of passing legislation to mandate it — is wrong and will be challenged, City Council members and police reform advocates say.
«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.