Sentences with phrase «communities at national scales»

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The claims came as a Labour frontbencher warned there was «real alarm» at the scale of the problem - while comedian Eddie Izzard, who became a member of the party's ruling national executive committee (NEC), said they needed to «make amends» to the Jewish community.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

Launched in 2011, the National Summer Learning Project is looking at whether and how large - scale summer learning programs led by public school districts can help benefit children in low - income urban communities.

Our pivotal role is to lead a multidisciplinary consortium to provide schools and communities with technical expertise in: school improvement; teacher training and behaviour change programmes at a national scale; girls» education, protection and rights; community mobilisation and cash transfers; primary health care, school health and non-state slum education; and monitoring, research and evaluation in education.

Though not yet at the scale of the national civil rights movement, parent organizers around the nation are currently working in communities to ensure that historically marginalized parents and students can participate in local, state, and national education debates and decisions.

As our sesquicentennial approaches, we have set aside substantial funds for the celebrations, both on a national scale and at the community level.

ROC USA ® Capital, National Cooperative Bank (NCB) and MetLife, forge a $ 40 million financing partnership to structure a groundbreaking first mortgage acquisition / permanent loan product to finance resident - owned manufactured home communities (ROCs) at scale.

For her commission at Studio Voltaire, Calero has worked in residency in the gallery for six weeks creating a large - scale installation based on the Caribbean community of Los Roques, a Venezuelan National Park situated in the Caribbean Sea.

The National Weather Service published a detailed and valuable report yesterday examining factors contributing to the extraordinary loss of life in Joplin, Mo., after a great swath of the community was shredded by a tornado at the top of the enhanced Fujita scale of destructiveness.

Any attempt to regulate cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin must be on a global scale as national or regional rules would be hard to enforce on a virtual, borderless community, a director at Germany's central bank said on Monday.

This includes Australia's first thorough study of their current needs, which will give us a framework for looking at issues like aged care requirements, national reparations, and healing on a larger scale, for individuals, families and communities.

His clients have ranged from hedge funds working at scale to community - minded socially conscious developers involved in neighborhood stabilization projects and the National Community Stabilization Trustcommunity - minded socially conscious developers involved in neighborhood stabilization projects and the National Community Stabilization TrustCommunity Stabilization Trust or NCST.