Sentences with phrase «community and state conventions»

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His church, the 1,000 - member Riverfront Baptist Church, partners with many groups, including the Fellowship, the moderate - led state conventions and the Willow Creek Association (created by Bill Hybels's Willow Creek Community Church outside Chicago), to provide resources for evangelism and spiritual growth.

Last week I posted about how during the Democratic National Convention's Lesbian and Gay Caucus Rep. Barney Frank (D - MA) laid it all out on the table and stated quite frankly in my opinion and may others the Log Cabin Republicans is bunch of «Uncle Tom's» for backing the GOP, a party that despises the LGBT community.

The Nigerian Army as the «Best Public Institution in Nigeria of the Year Award», to THE NIGERIAN, was the collective decision of its fans and readers to commend all the officers and men of the Nigerian Army for their relentless sacrifices in combating terrorism, extremism and separatism within the rules of engagement and best human rights convention in its pursuit of defending the territorial integrity, sovereignty of the state and the numerous corporate social responsibilities like provision of pipe borne water, educational support, medical assistance to various communities and the internally displaced persons in Nigeria, as well as sanitation exercise and construction of roads.

(announced Mar. 24, 2016) 54 elected officials and community leaders including... Matt Claman, Alaska State Representative Elvi Gray - Jackson, Vice Chair of Anchorage Assembly Bill Sheffield, Former Alaska Governor Fran Ulmer, Former Alaska Lieutenant Governor Katie Hurley, Clerk to the Alaska Constitutional Convention and Former Alaska State Representative William and Abbe Hensley, Former Alaska State Representative and Alaska State Senator Chuck Degnan, Fisherman and Former Alaska State Representative Michael Wenstrup, Former Alaska Democratic State Party Chair Patti Higgins, Former Alaska Democratic State Party Chair Don Gray, Former Alaska Democratic State Party Chair Heather Kendall - Miller, Native Rights Attorney

Samuels had funded a push to pass the convention referendum in order to usher in changes to state government, including overhauling campaign finance laws and providing protections to the LGBT community and bolstering the rights of women.

At 10:30 a.m., the Community Health Care Association of New York State holds Community Health Center Grassroots Advocacy Day with community health care supporters to seek help from lawmakers and regulators, Meeting Rooms 2 - 4, Empire State Plaza Convention CenterCommunity Health Care Association of New York State holds Community Health Center Grassroots Advocacy Day with community health care supporters to seek help from lawmakers and regulators, Meeting Rooms 2 - 4, Empire State Plaza Convention CenterCommunity Health Center Grassroots Advocacy Day with community health care supporters to seek help from lawmakers and regulators, Meeting Rooms 2 - 4, Empire State Plaza Convention Centercommunity health care supporters to seek help from lawmakers and regulators, Meeting Rooms 2 - 4, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Albany.

While association opposes it, the legal community elsewhere has been supportive of it, including the state and city bar associations, who have said that holding a convention is a chance to update the state's governing document.

Before heading to visit their local elected officials, they first heard from union, community and legislative leaders at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center.

State legislators addressed members at the convention center just before the educators fanned out to lobby their local elected officials to call for an increase in school funding, more Teacher Centers, an end to the charter equity gap and further expansion of the Community Learning Schools initiative.

On 1 August Ireland became the fifteenth, and last, member of the European Patent Convention, which now brings together all Community states, the four members of the European Free Trade Association, Austria, Liechtenstein, Sweden and Switzerland, and the Principality of Monaco.

Washington, DC: March 23, 2010 — Fareed Zakaria, author, journalist and host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, will moderate a discussion among industry leaders on the state of biotech hubs and innovation around the globe during the upcoming 2010 BIO International Convention, the world's largest gathering of the global biotechnology community.

School nurse «lobbyists» heading from the Wisconsin Association of School Nurses Spring Conference at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center to the State Capitol for meetings with legislators!

«Because our community loves animals and was even named «Best Dog Town» in the United States in 2014, we believe the City should reconsider participating in a convention that has invited a person who defends puppy mills, which are widely known to abuse and torture thousands of dogs across the country and have led to the majority of states enacting laws to crack down on them.&States in 2014, we believe the City should reconsider participating in a convention that has invited a person who defends puppy mills, which are widely known to abuse and torture thousands of dogs across the country and have led to the majority of states enacting laws to crack down on them.&states enacting laws to crack down on them.»

Local Attractions: Flyers Skate Zone 1 mi SandCastle Baseball Stadium 1 mi Beach and Boardwalk 2.5 mi AC Casinos 3 mi AC Convention Center 3 mi AC Medical Center and Community College 3 mi Amtrax 3 mi Greyhound 3mi NJ Transit bus system 3mi Absecon Lighthouse 4 mi Ripleys Believe It or Not 4 mi Steele Pier 4 mi Ocean Life Center 5 mi Social Security office 5 mi The Shore Mall 5 mi Noyes Museum 6 mi Atlantic City Intl Airport 7 mi NJ Tax office 7 mi Air Force Base 8 mi Shore Memorial Hospital 8 mi Stockton State College 8 mi Storybook land 8 mi Hamilton Mall 12 mi Renault Winery 16mi Come and Stay at Ramada West Atlantic City!

Real Estate / Housing Convention, Mexico City, Mexico; DLR Group Retreat and University, Bain Bridge Island (Seattle), WA; National Association of State Park Directors, Santa Fe, NM; East Coast Green Meeting the Architecture 2030 Goals, Atlantic City, NJ; A Better World by Design, Providence, RI; 2010 UNM Distinguished Alumnus Award Keynote, Albuquerque, NM; Austin Community Design and Development Center (ACDDC), Austin, TX; Earth Advantage Institute Green Day Forum, Portland, OR; Tulane School of Architecture Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Delegates from sixty - eight States and the European Community have finalized the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and other Forms of Family Maintenance at the 21st Diplomatic Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law.

The «minimum harmonisation» exception was reaffirmed in Opinion 1/03 on the Lugano Convention, where a full court summarised the exception's rationale by stating that «the Court did not find [in Opinion 2/91] that the Community had exclusive competence where, because both the Community provisions and those of an international convention laid down minimum standards, there was nothing to prevent the full application of Community law by the Member States» (pConvention, where a full court summarised the exception's rationale by stating that «the Court did not find [in Opinion 2/91] that the Community had exclusive competence where, because both the Community provisions and those of an international convention laid down minimum standards, there was nothing to prevent the full application of Community law by the Member States» (pconvention laid down minimum standards, there was nothing to prevent the full application of Community law by the Member States» (para. 123).

It has stated that it is U.S. policy to «deter child abductions» and that «the Convention's purpose [is] to prevent harms resulting from abductions,» which «can have devastating consequences for a child» and may be «one of the worst forms of child abuse» that «can cause psychological problems ranging from depression and acute stress disorder to posttraumatic stress disorder and identity formation issues» and lead to a child's experiencing «loss of community and stability, leading to loneliness, anger, and fear of abandonment» and «may prevent the child from forming a relationship with the left - behind parent, impairing the child's ability to mature.»

The categories that are exempt from the automatic deportation scheme are: (i) those who are presently exempt from deportation altogether; (ii) cases in which deportation would breach an individual's rights under the Human Rights Act 1998, the Refugee Convention, or the Community treaties; (iii) those individuals the secretary of state believes were under the age of 18 on the date on which they were convicted; (iv) those subject to extradition proceedings; and (v) those subject to mental health legislation.

The Union shall respect fundamental rights, as guaranteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed in Rome on 4 November 1950 and as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, as general principles of Community law.

Considering that the international community should contribute, together with the States Parties to this Convention, to the safeguarding of such heritage in a spirit of cooperation and mutual assistance,

The State of Nicaragua is actively responsible for violations of the right to property, embodied in Article 21 of the [American Convention on Human Rights], by granting a concession to company SOLCARSA to carry out road construction work and logging exploitation of the Awas Tingni lands, without the consent of the Awas Tingni Community.

The Committee reaffirms all aspects of its decisions 2 (54) and 2 (55) and reiterates its recommendation that the State party should ensure effective participation by indigenous communities in decisions affecting their land rights, as required under article 5 (c) of the Convention and General Recommendation XXIII of the Committee, which stresses the importance of securing the «informed consent» of indigenous peoples.

The Committee reaffirms all aspects of its decisions 2 (54) and 2 (55) and reiterates its recommendation that the State party should ensure effective participation by indigenous communities in decisions affecting their land rights, as required under article 5 (c) of the Convention [ICERD] and General Recommendation XXIII of the Committee, which stresses the importance of securing the «informed consent» of indigenous peoples.

A further obligation may also be said to arise under Article 7, as the State party is obligated to educate the community about the Convention and the obligations it creates: see further below in relation to reconciliation.