Sentences with phrase «comprehensive agenda of»

Second is the linkage between homosexuality and a comprehensive agenda of social change.

This priority has given rise to an ambitious and comprehensive agenda of reforms to make the global financial system more resilient.

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THE National Competition Council this week released a comprehensive stocktake of reforms undertaken by various State governments, as part of their yearly review of progress by States in implementing reform under the Hilmer competition policy agenda.

A comprehensive nutrition response has been stalled by a lack of data on the scale of the problem and ongoing political crises in Colombia that are dominating that government's agenda.22 days ago

From âpihtawikosisân: The Canadian government continues to mouth platitudes about its supposed dedication to this relationship, while it slashes funding, ignores our emergencies, pulls out of comprehensive land claim discussions, «consults» with us and then ignores everything we told them, all while pursuing a hard - line agenda which accepts only termination as a result.

While religious leaders have the attention of politicians and the media, they must advance a comprehensive agenda for urban change informed by the principle of subsidiarity.

Even if one regrets the neglect or absence of a comprehensive agenda and the pursuit, instead, of single - issue and single - candidate concerns, and regrets even more the lack of a governing political philosophy, the times and issues are such that open debate must be welcomed on as broad a platform as possible.

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action have outlined their 8 Millennium Development Goals for WBW2014 under the slogan «Breastfeeding: it is a vital, life saving goal... to fight poverty and promote healthy and sustainable development in a comprehensive way by 2015... this year's theme responds to the latest countdown by asserting the importance of increasing and sustaining the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in the post 2015 agenda, and engaging as many groups, and people of various ages as possible.»

«The speaker laid out a comprehensive agenda this week on issues like education, reproductive rights and criminal justice reform, so we have a lot of work to do here in Albany and that is what we will be focusing on,» said Michael Whyland, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx.

Also at 11 a.m., NYC's eight leading transportation advocacy organizations release a comprehensive transportation agenda and announce a plan to share the list of priorities with every candidate running citywide office, outside the City Hall R train stop, Manhattan.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D - NY, is introducing a comprehensive election reform package as part of his 2018 State of the State agenda.

If the Obama campaign can continue to promote a comprehensive energy agenda and follow through with the second stimulus relief package, I think Dems will be seen as the ones who are taking the side of «regular people».

The agenda seeks to address women's health issues with the passage of the Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act and codifying abortion rights into state law.

In The Public Interest is a comprehensive research and policy center committed to promoting values, vision, and agenda for the common good and democratic control of public goods and services.

The GOP released the guiding principles of its health - care agenda in June, but did not release a comprehensive legislative blueprint at that point.

They say Cuomo's «New NY Agenda,» a «comprehensive» campaign platform that includes 85 pages of summaries and footnotes, barely touches or entirely misses many issues of concern in minority neighborhoods, and that Cuomo and his aides have not reached out to them.

Given this, and given that we are entering a future of sparse public money, the true litmus test of the Comprehensive Spending Review / Pre-Budget Report (CSR 2007) is of whether it progresses the reform agenda.

The NY Works Agenda also includes pursuing a comprehensive gaming plan and enacting a new tax credit to incentive the hiring of inner city youth.

«This new task force is part of a comprehensive agenda — along with fighting for stronger rent laws in Albany — to protect tenants and prevent harassment.

'' The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure; passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades, resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle - class New York taxpayers; approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods; and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.»

That's a not - so - subtle dig at Nixon's campaign strategy thus far: She paints Cuomo as a fair - weather progressive, pointing to past positions that he's since disavowed or avoided, but she hasn't offered a comprehensive policy agenda of her own.

The agreement includes support for a comprehensive New York Works Agenda that will create thousands of jobs with new investments in New York's infrastructure, passing a fair tax reform plan that achieves the first major restructuring of the tax code in decades resulting in a tax cut for 4.4 million middle class New Yorkers taxpayers, approving $ 50 million in additional relief for areas devastated by recent floods, and reducing the MTA payroll tax to provide relief for small businesses.

Before any vote, leadership should lay out a clear course of action for the upcoming session and beyond including a comprehensive policy agenda, communications strategy, and long - term path for the Assembly Republicans to attain a majority in the chamber.

We still need to elect Green progressives who, because they are independent of the corporate power structure, can carry through a comprehensive progressive reform agenda.

In another use of executive action to advance his education reform agenda, Cuomo earlier this month announced that his education commission also will do a comprehensive review of the implementation of the Common Core.

He told the local party chairs and other officials assembled he would place comprehensive immigration reform at the top of his agenda as majority leader.

NEW YORK, NY — Independent Democratic Conference Leader State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) unveiled the IDC's bold and comprehensive housing agenda to members of the New York Housing Conference at a luncheon event on Thursday.

«The Council's budget recommendations are the culmination of dozens of comprehensive budget hearings and reflect the needs of all New Yorkers while also planning for our City's future,» said City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, in a Monday statement accompanying the Council's budget response, which will form the agenda over the next three months as it negotiates a final budget with the mayor's office by the June 30 deadline.

How did former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg succeed in achieving so much of his «comprehensive and far - reaching» public health agenda?

The pilot project established a comprehensive scientific and technological roadmap to serve as the basis for the research agenda of the GRAPHENE Flagship — covering electronics, spintronics, photonics, plasmonics and mechanics, and supporting areas such as graphene production and chemistry.

A comprehensive interdisciplinary communications program to popularize science and generate involvement in a national action agenda of survival is necessary.

Campbelltown Performing Arts High School (CPAHS) has implemented a highly successful whole school innovation and improvement agenda through the strategic and comprehensive implementation of action learning (AL) projects over 10 years.

New York «had set forth a clear and comprehensive statement of its vision,» wrote one reviewer, who noted that the «ambitious agenda» would be helped by «the extensive authority over public education held by The Board of Regents» and «the large network of 37 District Superintendents who oversee Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).»

«This is the single largest and most comprehensive investment in research by any Australian Government and it builds on the $ 189 million we announced last year for computational infrastructure and astronomy facilities as well as the $ 150 million per annum of indexed funding certainty we delivered in 2016 for the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy under the National Science and Innovation Agenda.»

At the same U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting, Paul Reville presented an overview of his newly formed Education Redesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and outlined its comprehensive children's opportunity agenda.

Florida's application reads: «Florida is better poised than any other state to implement RTTT successfully because Florida has learned from prior reforms and has built a valuable knowledge base of what is necessary to implement a successful comprehensive RTTT agenda.»

«In Monday's State of the State address, Governor Ducey introduced an ambitious, comprehensive education agenda built upon a simple but vital premise: «focus on what really works.»

In a national survey of public schools, the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and Public Agenda (2007) found that if given a choice between two otherwise identical schools, 76 percent of secondary teachers and 81 percent of elementary teachers early in their careers would rather be at a school in which administrators strongly supported teachers than at a school that paid significantly higher salaries.

There are tentative steps towards this, with the New Schools Network report highlighting the apparent success of so - called «gromps», schools that «combine the academic standards of an old - fashioned grammar with the inclusive ethos of a modern comprehensive», but these are cherry - picked statistics with a warped methodology to suit a pre-existing Toby Young - shaped agenda.

Comprehensive sex education is «the only way to combat heterosexism and gender conformity,» Schneider proclaimed, «and we must make these issues a part of every middle and high - school student's agenda.»

These comprehensive books give advice and guidance for both Teacher and Pupil sessions covering ideas such as Circle Time, Charters of Behaviour, Peer Mediation, Writing an Agenda and even music for School Council songs.

When it comes to pushing their pro corporate education reform industry agenda, there has been no doubt where Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor stand, but this latest move to ensure their agenda becomes part of Connecticut's five year comprehensive education plan is perhaps their most offensive move yet.

He has ensured that there is a comprehensive understanding of a cohesive education reform agenda across the Senior Officers he leads and continues to champion the work of highly effective school leaders, systems and a «level playing field» for the students served in public education.

The Commission's report calls on federal education leaders to formulate a more comprehensive education agenda that recognizes and responds to the deep and troubling impacts of poverty on students and their ability to learn.

This tells us that even though the [resistance] movement was strong enough to highlight one specific and temporary aspect of the «reform» agenda; it was not able to make popular the comprehensive critique of the whole process.»

This week's agenda includes: Layoffs / Additions of Classified Staff for 2017 - 18, Web content accessibility for people with disabilities, Comprehensive School Safety Plans, Civics Instruction — College, Career, and Community Readiness, and more...

First on your agenda should be a trip to Critter Doctor Animal Hospital for a comprehensive physical examination by one of our veterinarians.

Responding to demand, extra sessions on OTAs and online marketing are being added to a comprehensive agenda which features seminars on investment, extended stay hotels, mixed - use developments, and future prospects for the sector, as well as a case study, cocktail party and tour of local serviced apartment developments.

This is all besides the point: what is important here is that a new gallery of such size with a really comprehensive, diplomatic and forward thinking agenda has opened with a ton of cool stuff in it.

In January, the governor announced a «comprehensive agenda to combat climate change» that called for aggressive increases in energy storage, development of at least 800 MW of offshore wind resources and new energy efficiency targets.