Sentences with phrase «economic groups such»

Ongoing collaboration with cities and other stakeholders to ensure connections to transit, as well as programming that increases access for people in all racial and socio - economic groups such as progressive pricing, hiring commitments, and safety and engagement efforts.

Not exact matches

What Pattison says publicly is seldom as interesting as what he does, however, such as making Glen Clark, the former B.C. premier who many blamed for the province's «dismal decade» of economic stagnation, his group president and, along with deputy chairman Michael Korenberg, heir apparent.

The group's vice president for international economic affairs, Linda Menghetti Dempsey, told a congressional subcommittee in April that such an effort would be «at once both a radical idea and, in our estimation, the most pragmatic and effective way forward» on trade with China.

As such, the most effective approach to building public support is to craft a trade agenda that aligns with the economic interests of the general public and the long - term economic prosperity of Canada as a whole, rather than focusing on the narrow interests of some business groups.

So, to bring such groups together, they try to avoid religion altogether and turn to some supposedly shared interest, like economic development,» he says.

Attempting to redress such problems all too often simply compounds the difficulties of certain groups, and even of entire populations, in their efforts to maintain or improve their standards of living in the face of a hostile political or economic environment.

In the case of a specifically religious group such conflicts are particularly frequent as their very emergence may represent a protest against certain political, economic, or moral conditions.

While the character of certain movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct from an economic, political, or cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

In the latter case the structure of the religious group will at no point coincide with other orders such as the social, economic, or political.

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

Wilson hopes that such race - neutral proposals might become the basis for a new political coalition of groups pressing for economic and social reform.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

When the «depressed classes «awaken to their rights and begin the struggle for social and economic equality, and when the members of the «aboriginal «tribes, who have been peacefully secluded for centuries from the main stream of Indian nationalism, join with others in demanding their rights, fundamentalist groups and the monied classes oppose such moves.

Supported by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

Created by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

An interdisciplinary group of experts analyzes the candidate profiles and chooses 10 finalists based on their work in areas such as culinary innovation, health, nutrition, education, the environment, the food industry, social or economic development, among others.

No doubt many of you in the audience who work do have access to paid leave, but certainly the lower socio - economic groups never will as long as access to such an entitlement is decided on by the employer rather than mandated by the government.

It's such a big (and often hidden) economic behemoth that it's impossible for any politic group or party to be completely extraneous to its influence, be it for tangible economic advantage or for pure electoral strategy.

And during a time of general economic turmoil, we have had countless concerns voiced earlier this year about the rising Olympic budget from the likes of PAC chair Margaret Hodge to public protest groups such as Our Olympics and the Counter-Olympic Network.

Major corporations such as Conmed, Special Metals, Oneida Ltd., Utica National Insurance Group, PAR Technology, Revere Copper and Brass, Metropolitan Insurance Company, Fleet Bank and others serve to provide the needed economic diversity that government leaders indicate is the key to prosperity in Oneida County.

Unshackle Upstate, a business - backed group that has been critical of the governor, in a statement urged no changes be made to the Regional Economic Development Councils, such as requiring members to disclose financial information, which has been floated by some lawmakers.

Cuomo was endorsed by the lobby group in 2010 and embraced in his first term a number of key economic measures such as a cap on property tax increases and has limited spending in the state to under 2 percent in his budgets.

The group in its statement made available to the Nigeria Politics Online and signed by Executive Director Adetokunbo Mumuni, Said that, «Budget padding in fact is corruption, as it is implicit in corruption offences such as abuse of office, attempt to embezzle, divert, and misappropriate public funds, conspiracy to act corruptly, and illicit enrichment, which are recognized under the UN Convention against Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party, and included in national legislation such as the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act and the Fiscal Responsibility Act.»

Officially called the «Task Force on Evaluating Economic Development Tax Expenditures,» the group brings together liberal activists such as Javier Valdes of Make the Road with budget wonks, such as Michael Dardia of the Citizens Budget Commission and James Parrott of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.

But most differences between the six partitions are not explained by an obvious label such as age, ethnic group or economic status.

Members will also include other political and economic heavyweights, such as Pascal Lamy, director - general of the World Trade Organization, and Ratan Tata, former head of the eponymous Indian business group.

The most contentious issue this year was whether to highlight economic groupings of nations, such as high or low income, and illustrations showing how each group was contributing to the growth of greenhouse gas emissions were particularly controversial.

The economic consequences of such health problems may be considerable, according to a report published November 8 by the Oxford Health Alliance, a public health group.

Individual differences represent potential power imbalances between and among group members, such as different economic resources, different education backgrounds, different religious or political views, etc..

Economic evaluation estimated a return on investment that exceeded $ 2,500 per participant on outcomes such as increased likelihood to graduate from high school, lower rates of K - 12 grade retention, lower rates of initiating sexual activity, and less criminal activity among group participants (Lee et al., 2012).

The adult intervention will be delivered through mental health consultation and parent groups, and will use parenting as a platform for addressing a broader set of issues related to workplace skills and economic stability, such as planning, goal - setting, coping with stress, and managing personal and professional relationships.

Some of the money goes to ostensibly independent research groups, such as a $ 250,000 grant to the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice (which has migrated to the University of Colorado at Boulder, which received another quarter million in direct funding), a $ 255,000 grant to the Economic Policy Institute, a reliably pro-labor «think tank,» and a $ 50,000 award to Phi Delta Kappa, which publishes a journal highly protective of union interests.

Second, NCLB relies on a simplistic difference in the proportion of proficient students between a minority group and the White peers, ignoring confounding factors such as social - economic inequities and differences in school qualities.

Although the documents are organized chronologically as the years just before or during the Civil War, the archive contains rich material for teachers and researchers interested in exploring other important themes in American History, such as slavery, immigration, ethnic groups, women's lives, reform movements, economic development, and political culture.

Educational technology can help students develop important social and emotional skills and character traits, but the market for such tools is currently underdeveloped, concludes a new report from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group.

Both children with disabilities and children from low socio - economic groups may not have an extensive understanding of social conventions and may need instruction in conventions such as:

Summary: Ed tech can help students develop critical social and emotional skills and character traits, but the market for such tools is currently underdeveloped, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group.

Consumer behavior analysis is the study of economic entities such as individuals, groups and organization and the process used by them to purchase any product or a service.

As such, the true strength of ability to explain what is going on decreases, while economic becomes an odd «inside game» for a funny group of mathematicians trying to make sense of an idealized world that bears little resemblance to our own world.

Franklin Street Works will be working with five New York City - based guest curators in 2017 and 2018, originating six new group exhibitions around themes such as: shared strategies of the labor and LGBTQ movements; economic and political refugees; ways artists animate desire in abstract painting; art that explores political and personal paranoia; and more.

The group exhibition «Resistance After Nature» tracks the practices of artists who imagine and construct alternative approaches to such entangled ecological, political, and economic issues as Indigenous sovereignty and water rights, the fossil economy, ocean acidification, and deforestation.

Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) is a pro-climate and pro-labor group advocating that such workers get a deal like the 1944 G.I. Bill: three years of full wages and benefits, four years of education and retraining, and job placement in community economic development programs.

«The objectives of democide include the disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups; the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity; and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.

Economic barriers such as homeownership exclude historically disenfranchised groups from participating and benefiting from state and federal tax credits for homeowners that have invested in renewable energy products for their home.

While increasing the volume of data and products available to all Members by providing these additional data and products, it is understood that WMO Members may be justified in placing conditions on their re-export for commercial purposes outside of the receiving country or group of countries forming a single economic group, for reasons such as national laws or costs of production; Members should provide to the research and education communities, for their noncommercial activities, free and unrestricted access to all data and products exchanged under the auspices of WMO with the understanding that their commercial activities are subject to the same conditions identified in Adopts (2) above; Urges Members to:

Likewise, groups such as the World Economic Forum (WEF), the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the International Energy Association (IEA) have produced studies of the shortfall of current clean energy investment.

The benefits to poor and working - class Americans of such an economic stimulus program are clear, but the idea is also business - friendly enough to have attracted support from prominent Democratic moderates and other centrists, including the group Republicans for Environmental Protection.

Arguably, answers to such questions should not be sought in Protecting Vulnerable Groups in the first place, since it is a book on the (case) law; other, i. e. sociological, economic, etc. books, many of which are cited in Protecting Vulnerable Groups, are better suited to address these overarching concerns.