Sentences with phrase «effort aimed at»

The curriculum's strong emphasis on family involvement make the release of the findings timely, as October is «Let's Talk Month,» a national effort aimed at encouraging parents and their children to talk with one another about sex, sexuality, and relationships.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Planned Parenthood Votes are running a $ 30 million 2016 electoral effort aimed at the presidential race and Senate contests.

Apparently, the encryption used by Skype to send telephone calls over the Internet to any phone in the world, is pretty much unbreakable without thousands of hours of effort aimed at a particular Internet user.

They explain that termination shock is most likely to occur if a solar geoengineering effort aimed at suppressing a large amount of warming — say, the 0.5 degrees Celsius per decade expected in the high - end (RPC 8.5) carbon emissions scenario — was phased out suddenly and completely.

Caldeira said that the international collaboration of scientists (including scientists from China and India) undertook this research as part of a broader effort aimed at understanding the effectiveness and unintended consequences of proposed strategies for reducing climate change and its impacts.

Dr. Lubchenco also founded the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, a 10 - year - old effort aimed at turning talented young scientists into effective communicators with the media and policymakers.

Related I wrote about groundwater recharge projects in Florida in 2002, with the water management effort aimed at sustaining the Everglades and limiting flood and pollution problems around Lake Okeechobee.

There are no examples of a euthanasia rate being humanely lowered by a primary effort aimed at an increase in adoptions in the absence of effective spay / neuter programs.

The HSUS, on the other hand, is a multi-million dollar lobbying effort aimed at eliminating animal agriculture in all forms and turning us all into vegans.

They also reported that the fall 2004 campaign achieved over 91,000,000 consumer impressions through a national publicity effort aimed at educating consumers about the pet aging process, the importance of twice - a-year pet wellness exams, and encouraging pet owners to contact their veterinarian for more information.

Collaborating on the News from Ukraine A group of six news organizations and digital - media outlets have created a somewhat unusual collective effort aimed at reporting breaking news about Ukraine.

-- The proposals are part of an effort aimed at boosting young entrepreneurship — and also targeting millennial voters, many of whom flocked to Bernie Sanders during the primaries.

The Task Force definition of assessment literacy follows the 2015 launch of this website as part of NWEA's Assessment Literacy initiative, which is a multi-year effort aimed at advancing teacher preparation and professional development in the use of assessments to promote teaching and learning.

Rather his is a curatorial effort aimed at cataloging the knowledge assumed by literate speakers and writers (those who read the New York Times op - ed page, for example) and who take for granted that their audiences command the same base of knowledge and references.

This is an experimental effort aimed at gauging the expansion history of the universe and studying dark energy.

The two projects are facets of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Bench to Bassinet Program, a major effort aimed at learning more about how the heart develops and why children are born with heart problems.

Program, a major effort aimed at learning more about how the heart develops and why children are born with heart problems.

«While much additional research must be done to determine the feasibility of this nanoparticle approach as a vision restoration therapy, our results encourage further effort aimed at achieving this critical clinical objective,» said study co-author David Pepperberg, PhD, Searls - Schenk Professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at UIC.

JCESR will combine the R&D firepower of five DOE national laboratories, five universities and four private firms in an effort aimed at achieving revolutionary advances in battery performance.

This five - year forecast isn't like the ones that appear on the evening news, rather, it is a research effort aimed at improving climate models.

So they were pleased when President Barack Obama last night pledged a new, long - term effort aimed at repairing what he called «decades of environmental damage» to the region.

The school runs a mentoring effort aimed at reducing the traditionally high attrition rate among undergraduate engineering students, and Sebald views the 22 % women and 13 % underrepresented minorities among the school's 2600 majors as evidence of progress that the CSEM program can build upon.

Hubble's findings mark the next step in a major research effort aimed at understanding some of the strangest stuff in the cosmos.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. John Katko has authored his first bill in Congress, an effort aimed at beefing up security along the nation's northern border with Canada.

The NRCC added challengers to several entrenched Democratic incumbents in deep blue districts to its watch list — an effort aimed at broadening the playing field in advance of the November midterm elections.

The NCC directive is therefore nothing but a huge effort aimed at enforcing the obnoxious provisions of the bill through the back door.

Kallos, along with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, will be speaking this weekend at the start of #CodeAcrossNYC2014, a betaNYC hackathon effort aimed at creating tools for use by community board and City Council members.

Committed to the effort aimed at achieving a terror free country, the Service sustained its counter terrorism / insurgency operations.

Currently, Syracuse police don't have a policy or enforcement effort aimed at panhandlers, said Syracuse Police Capt. Richard Shoff.

Jenkins and Wardally are expected to develop a well - funded grass - roots and media - outreach effort aimed at convincing black voters that electing Stringer, not Spitzer, is in their long - term interest.

When the law takes effect, Ulster County will join more than a dozen localities statewide — including Orange, Rockland, Sullivan and Albany counties — that have raise the minimum age for tobacco purchases, according to the Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation, which is championing «Tobacco 21,» a national effort aimed at raising the age to 21 nationwide.

Funding included in the recently passed state budget will allow New York City subway cars to be repaired more quickly, Cuomo said while unveiling an effort aimed at improving service for a transit system notorious for frequent breakdowns.

The labor - backed party has Facebook ads posting today, part of a broader effort aimed at pressuring the eight - member bloc as Democrats hold a numeric majority in the state Senate, but do not have the votes to form a governing coalition.

The Preservation League of New York is launching an effort aimed at finding new uses for the many vacant industrial buildings dotting upstate New York communities.

A Christmas advert's been produced by a spectrum of Christian organisations including Premier as part of a coordinated effort aimed at challenging this year's secular based festive supermarket ads.

Buffet is supporting a financial literacy effort aimed at children in elementary school.

This speech was political theater, a lobbying effort aimed at the president of the United States — a point Netanyahu all but admitted at the end.

That could suggest that recent efforts aimed at curbing widespread over-prescribing practices could be having an impact.

The company plans to use the money to fund sales, marketing, and other efforts aimed at persuading big companies to use Gigster.

Outrage over the financial crisis, coupled with the perception that Wall Street executives» performances have not justified their pay, led to legislative efforts aimed at curbing executive pay, compensation - related shareholder lawsuits and a tremendous amount of negative press coverage.

But unlike most Silicon Valley billionaires, Mr. Thiel openly supports a wide array of eccentric philanthropic and social efforts aimed at radically altering life as we know it.

TALLAHASSEE — Three months after 13 elderly residents in a South Florida nursing home died because of sweltering conditions following Hurricane Irma, lawsuits and legislative inaction are holding up efforts aimed at preventing such deaths in the future.

Efforts aimed at further expansion of access to financial technologies such as Blockchain to facilitate their adoption through financial institutions.

The Facebook exec's tweets followed Mueller's release of indictments against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian businesses for what Mueller called a wide - ranging effort to undermine the 2016 presidential election, including efforts aimed at «supporting the presidential campaign of then - candidate Donald J. Trump.»

The efforts aimed at softening this blow to the sugar industry range from shifting to other high yielding crops or planting ornamental flowers, to converting sugar lands into prawn or fish ponds.

Fulfilling Fatherhood highlights the need for more understanding of the needs of HIV positive people and for more emphasis on «positive prevention», an essential ingredient in linking efforts aimed at HIV prevention and care.

In order to get a more complete picture of the infant formula marketing efforts aimed at new mothers, we collected and categorized all print and email infant formula marketing received by one US mother during her pregnancy and first few months postpartum.

Long Island educators continue to struggle in their efforts aimed at making schools safer and calming the nerves of students, parents and faculty still jittery after the deadly Valentine's Day shootings in Florida.

Tourism efforts aimed at promoting Niagara Falls and the Erie Canal stand to lose more than $ 1 million annually in funding under President Trump's proposed fiscal 2019 budget, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will fight that move.

The Union has described as unsatisfactory, efforts aimed at addressing corruption in the first year of the New Patriotic Party administration.