Sentences with phrase «common agenda of»

In addition, the Action Committee works to bring people together nationally around a common agenda of improved access to justice.

She is working on a manuscript on environmental justice and climate change and among her other publications is the co-edited volume Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and sustainability.

Connect grassroots organizations, advocates, educators, parents, and the business community, who may have different interests but share the common agenda of ensuring educational equity.

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Yet, it's a common bad habit for speakers to waste those precious opening seconds rambling pointlessly, telling a joke, reading an agenda, or apologizing needlessly, all of which fail to grab the audience's attention and motivate them to listen,» Price says.

The arrival of a new administration and a new Congress is a fresh chance to find common ground — and the private sector can be the connective tissue that brings both parties together around a new agenda for revving up growth.

Instead, they seek common ground based on an aspect of the change they are creating and how that will impact each individual's success and agenda.

A fairer common future includes a sustainable development agenda, advocacy for small states, empowerment of the 60 % of the Commonwealth population aged 30 and...

It's viewed better as a group of people, group of members who come together with a common goal and agenda, and a common sort of direction for how they want to help Bitcoin grow, help promote Bitcoin, in the face of challenges and push - backs from governments and other aspects of society.

The US wanted to achieve some concrete progress on reducing the US trade deficit with China, while China sought to emerge from the talks with a framework for further talks and some sort of common working agenda.

In tune with this global rhetoric, the United Front Government in its Common Minimum Program made eradication of poverty as its main emphasis along with a seven - point agenda for ensuring safe drinking water, primary education for all, primary health care, housing, food security, road networks and mid-day meals to be implemented by A.D. 2000.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

The two main agenda items were love of God, the theme desired by the 2007 Common Word initiative, and the dignity and rights of the human person, the theme preferred by Cardinal Tauran and prominent Catholic commentators.

«His efforts were the most explicit attempt by any Orthodox hierarch to join with evangelicals and other conservatives in a common social agenda,» North Park University professor Brad Nassif said of Jonah's nearly four - year tenure as primate.

When «The Gift of Salvation» speaks of «needlessly divisive disputes» between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals, it does not refer to the many weighty theological matters on which we still conscientiously disagree, such as sacramental theology, Marian devotion, purgatory, etc. «The Gift of Salvation» takes note of these matters, referring to them as «serious and persistent differences» which are «necessarily interrelated» with the affirmations we have made in common, and are thus future agenda items for us.

First, it would mean a more or less common agenda for theological reflection, though one with an almost infinite number of different tasks.

Objectivism and the Right Wing agenda both have in common intense self centered interest - which lies at the core of the Republican / Tea Party movement.

But besides party government, the impasse could be resolved in another fashion: the emergence of a common agenda.

Reform and reappropriation are always on the agenda, but to believe that there is some neutral ground from which we can rearrange the defining symbols and commitments of a living community is simply a mistake - a common mistake of modern liberalism.

An educated and worldly Muslim community leader like Rauf wants to build Muslim center close to ground zero, while the war and other thing is going, is this a common sense or decency have been exercise or just Muslims self - absorption and taking no responsibility of their own community conduct, they should not be crying like a spoil baby, when a ripple affect from their own conduct come back toward them (The Burning of Koran and fire attempt toward Muslim community were coming from his fake and insincere agenda on this building issue).

All this also requires encounter and dialogue with other religions in the region that aim at discovering through their respective heritages, a common ethical ground for the basis of a new society» (Human Rights: a Global Ecumenical Agenda, WCC 1993 p. 44).

Was there a common understanding of Christian witness that united both mission and dialogue, or was the World Council working on two unconnected agendas, each more or less indifferent to the other?

The event has a two - day educational seminar, where some of the big industry names will speak & debate on one common agenda «Bulk Beverage Market».

The most notable contribution of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union towards more environmentally sustainable systems has been the introduction of the agri - environment programmes in 1993, which now continue under Agenda 2000.

The lack of wingers was a common agenda on most of Arsenal fans lips after the game, but what is Arsenal's best formation.

At these historic summits a multi-stakeholder group of leaders (clinicians, consumers, policymakers, legislators, researchers, ethicists, and administrators) crafted a common agenda to address equitable access to high quality care across birth settings in the United States.

A pro-European agenda for the age of Obama should be Lab - Lib Dem common ground.

The use of outside groups to buttress an official agenda is becoming increasingly common in state politics, and this is the second time during his five years in office that Cuomo has relied on an outside group for support.

«Professor Teachout has a radical «progressive» agenda that has nothing in common with the values of the 19th Congressional District,» Pascocello wrote.

ALBANY — At the top of the agenda for Andrew Cuomo's expert panel on Common Core standards was the question of how to improve public opinion.

In his own state of the city address Tuesday evening, Common Council Majority Leader Rennie Scott - Childress (D - Ward 3) offered up a ringing defense of Mayor Steve Noble's progressive «One Kingston» agenda and called on Kingstonians to embrace local government as a force for positive change and economic growth.

Those groups would like to scrap the Common Core as part of a reform agenda that would also target teacher tenure and boost charter schools and voucher systems.

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«We definitely think this is Governor Cuomo's opportunity to make good on his representations that public financing is a part of his agenda,» Common Cause's Susan Lerner said.

At noon, state Division of Veterans Affairs Director Eric Hesse outlines Cuomo's 2016 State of the State agenda, Amsterdam Common Council Chambers, Second floor of City Hall, 61 Church St., Amsterdam.

Also at 11 a.m., state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance Commissioner Sam Roberts outlines Cuomo's 2016 State of the State agenda, Oswego Common Council Chambers, City Hall, 13 West Oneida St., Oswego.

«Dan Donovan has proposed a pension fund reform agenda, which calls for common sense measures to increase the integrity of the pension fund, prevent fraud and increase transparency.»

A public hearing and vote on the City of Cortland's 2018 budget are on the agenda for tonight's (Tuesday) Common Council meeting.

It is a testament to the rough rollout of the Common Core agenda in New York, and perhaps even more so to the poor marketing of it, that there should be such unanimity of political opinion about it.

«The Board of Regents adopted its Reform Agenda in 2009 and the Common Core State Standards in 2010 in order to better prepare New York State students for college and career success,» Tisch said in a statement.

But as the Common Core has been grouped with other controversial issues by opponents serving a variety of larger political agendas, the union has also been joined by libertarians and even conservative Republicans in opposition.

The City of Cortland Common Council started Tuesday evening with a public hearing on its proposed budget for 2018, but later, several agenda items related to the budget had to be tabled until December 5.

She touted her «common - sense agenda» to close loopholes that expand gun ownership, saying that too many times she has «looked into the eyes and held the hand of people who ask, «Why?

In making his case, MacKay sent along the party's 2014 platform and legislative agenda which includes support for the Dream Act, a delay in Common Core implementation and support for raising the age of criminal prosecution to 18.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor who lives in Syracuse, said the concept is nothing more than a «bait and switch» plan to entice people enraged over the Common Core to vote for what he called the Republicans agenda of underfunding and privatizing education.

I support the common core agenda, but the way the Common Core has been managed by the board of regents is fcommon core agenda, but the way the Common Core has been managed by the board of regents is fCommon Core has been managed by the board of regents is flawed.

Oswego's Common Council, mayor and department heads saw firsthand what Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2014 agenda will look like, during a recent presentation of his State of the State address at city hall.

The Greens selected NYC Educator Brian Jones to highlight their opposition to Cuomo's education policies promoting privatization of the education system, including his promotion of the Common Core agenda and charter schools.

Akande said irrespective of present party affiliations and political positions, all Yoruba politicians must speak with one voice and present a common political agenda ahead of the general elections.

Following up on a resolution adopted by the State Committee of the Green Party at the party's nominating convention in Troy on Saturday, May 17, Green Party leaders sent a letter today to the Executive Board of the Working Families Party suggesting a joint meeting to discuss cooperation in opposing Governor Cuomo's conservative agenda and supporting their common progressive policy goals.

Lopes and other members of the city's all - Democratic legislative delegation say the figure seems far out of line for an elementary school renovation, and complained that they didn't learn about the estimate until it was listed on an agenda for the common council's monthly meeting.