Sentences with phrase «close ties to the community»

Shannon and his family maintain close ties to the community and regularly participate in local business and charity organizations including a brain tumor research fund established in honor of his late wife Judy, VanMatre says.

Duke's Chowder House staff and Moscrip himself maintain close ties to the communities where they work.

As a capital - district Republican with close ties to the community, the youthful - looking jurist can fairly present as a hometown favorite, albeit in a vast sea of Democrats.

So, a completely fresh approach... and the new vision was to have those close ties to the community, which is very important, and reflect the local culture, history and the landscape, wasn't it?

Some have argued that nonprofit managers are likely to be effective because they have close ties to the community in which they are embedded and can enlist the energies of committed entrepreneurs, who devote all available resources to enhance student performance.

As a retailer with multiple services, an eco-friendly emphasis and close ties to the community, The Green K9 has found an innovative formula for success.

We have close ties to the communities we serve and passionately support our local animal related charities.

For Bruce Yonemoto and Haruko Tanaka, their mutual Japanese heritage and a media - soaked Southern California are rich sources of inspiration.Tanya Aguiñiga blends a keen vocabulary of modernist forms and a passion for traditional fiber and ceramic arts, maintaining close ties to communities of artists and craftspeople throughout Mexico.

And although Russell Hill, Ted McGonagle, Dan Wilkinson, and Lee Harris aren't household names just yet, they're seasoned experts who've pulled off impressive property fixes using a variety of skills and attributes: great instincts, hard work, creativity, commitment, and close ties to community business and government leaders.

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Take something as terrible as the surprising death of a close friend: you might be sad, but if you can find a way to construe that event as filled with meaning — perhaps it leads to greater awareness of a certain disease, say, or to closer ties with the community — then it may not be seen as a trauma.

Beyond Trump's tariff threats, investors have also been put off by the sudden departure of senior administration officials with close ties to Wall Street and the business community.

As a payroll processing company with close ties to the Harrisburg region, BCM Payroll Services, Inc. understands the specific needs of businesses in the Chambersburg community.

This means that InterVarsity seeks to foster close - knit communities, tied together by a common faith and a common vision of what that faith ultimately means for one another.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

He is close to Assemblyman Herman Farrell Jr., has also served in the Assembly for former members Al Vann and Thomas DiNapoli, and has ties to the black community.

The article notes that Assembly member Rivera has softened his rhetoric since the newly appointed Senator hired the Mirram Group, a consulting firm with close ties to the Hispanic community.

James has endorsed Cabrera in his September 9 Democratic primary challenge against Bronx State Senator Gustavo Rivera, a progressive with close ties to the LGBT community.

«Those weak ties serve as bridges between our group of close friends and other clustered groups, allowing us to connect to the global community,» say Josue Ortega at the University of Essex in the U.K. and Philipp Hergovich at the University of Vienna in Austria.

Unbelievably, given the violence that Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) endures in The Bad Batch and its ties to that which Miami Man (Jason Mamoa) dishes out, the film turns out to be something close to a love story — of two people discovering a rapport both in their shared cultural deprivation and fondness for a little girl who never knew a world before the one she calls home, the ironically dubbed Comfort community.

Digging into some California - focused work with the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ), we found that teachers at L.A. Unified's Social Justice Humanitas Academy (9 - 12) and UCLA Community School (K - 12) do just that by establishing collaborative leadership cultures driven by shared purpose, functioning as learners, taking risks to try creative new things, assessing performance, and establishing close ties with the community to learn about iCommunity School (K - 12) do just that by establishing collaborative leadership cultures driven by shared purpose, functioning as learners, taking risks to try creative new things, assessing performance, and establishing close ties with the community to learn about icommunity to learn about its needs.

Many of the elected BESE members have close ties to the business community already, even if Edwards appointed members do not.

Other factors that blossom from that trust are also crucial, including close communication with parents, strong ties with community service providers, effective use of data to identify and respond to problems, and ongoing team - oriented support focused on continually improving teaching practices.

Anjellicle Cats Rescue has close ties to the Broadway community.

I also maintain close ties with many veterinarians in the community in order to take a more holistic approach to dog training.

We have close ties with our communities, and many adopter families return to us for another pet.

The hotel has close ties to Seattle's arts community, and the Glassblowing package gives guests insight into the basic techniques of glassblowing.

I won't even deny that Live does have a more active community, just that your reasons for developing on the PS3 has nothing to do with that, it has more to do with the fact you haven't made a new engine since 2004 and your founders have close ties to Microsoft.

The Fifth Element, Istanbul's first public sculpture park which was co-organised with the fair, also opened this week in a bid to create closer ties with the local community.

This exhibit features works by regional artists with close ties to the local community and Brenau University.

First, Close went to high school and community college there before leaving for the east coast in 1962, but he never cut his ties to his hometown.

The exhibition catalogue, with essays by Ann Davis, the gallery's former director, and art historians Elizabeth Herbert and Jennifer Salahub, looks at everything from the spiritual underpinnings of abstract art and Nicoll's close ties with New York's arts community to the regional context of her production and its links with craft.

Together the delegation portrayed the true needs of U.S. - based communities, successfully pushed back on the Trump delegation to COP23 by revealing their close ties to the fossil fuel industry, and built momentum for climate action throughout the conference.

The FinCEN action against XRP II LLC (Ripple) took many by surprise early last month, although many in the Bitcoin community were not shocked to see an organization with such close ties to a digital token face backlash for «willful violations» of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and failure to implement appropriate anti-money laundering (AML) procedures.

In line with the positive influence of social support, the maintenance of close ethnic community ties has also been shown to be a protective factor to mental health in children and adolescents, alongside cultural and religious traditions which assist to restore continuity in the past and present (Punamaki, 1996; Rousseau, 1995; Sack, 1995).

There are long evolutionary ties to this system, as our ancestors lived in a time when being close to a partner and to our community meant the difference between life and death.

They are not usually representative of those Indigenous groups that can not demonstrate traditional ownership of areas covered by the land council or NTRB, nor do they always have close ties to existing Indigenous community service organisations.