Sentences with phrase «encourage the start of»

Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»

The government, recognising obvious problems dealing with sexual violence crimes has started to implement some new policies to rectify the situation, including encouraging the start of more sexual assault referral centres.

There's even a package called the «Romance Retreat» — who knows, maybe it will encourage the start of a beautiful romance?

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Nowadays, while I still think much more could be done to encourage entrepreneurship in education, there are lots of tools and mentors to help you get started in business.

Though headquarters balked, Tesla in China was soon encouraging fleet sales orders of 100 or more cars from car - rental agencies and institutions, to jump - start demand.

Examining the success of entrepreneurial hotbeds like New York, Tel Aviv and Berlin, Creating Growth Clusters recommends the establishing of start - up delivery units to encourage prospective new companies:

So how can you as the boss untie this knot of skepticism and fear and begin to encourage your team to start thanking each other?

Small Business Saturday, happening this year on November 28, started as an American Express initiative to encourage consumers to shop small and local during the holiday season, but it is now a key piece of the major holiday shopping day trifecta.

Students are encouraged to join the program with the offer of a $ 1,000 starting bonus and additional $ 500 bonuses at three and six months into their placements.

Akbar Yungai started as a bellhop, working his way up to the front desk at Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel, and is now on the brand's elite Navigator program — where, instead of standing behind a desk, the 30 - year - old approaches guests and encourages them to leave the well - trodden tourist paths.

That's the motto of a new charity - Classes 4 Classes was started this year - that encourages students to give back by sponsoring kids in other classrooms all over the United States by raising money and resources.

According to Bloomberg, the company has started repackaging some of its products, like Frosted Flakes and Special K, into portable containers to encourage customers to eat them straight out of the box.

Instead, they encourage all entrepreneurs to be inspired by new technology, medicine, and start trusting that their moonshot ideas can help billions of people.

Four years later, buoyed by his own success and convinced of Linda's potential, he encouraged his future wife to start her executive search firm, Opportunities Plus.

Feld obviously isn't the only member of the start - up community encouraging young people to get their hands dirty early.

But, he adds that the city has been working hard to become Canada's «premier start - up hub,» through strategic student recruitment from schools like the University of British Columbia, and encouraging mentorship for entrepreneurs.

As people sobered up, Komisar became the conscience of a generation of start - ups that he encouraged to build businesses with a significant purpose beyond just making money.

The documentary will also highlight Buffett's philanthropy: He plans to give most of his fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and along with Bill Gates, started the Giving Pledge in 2010 to encourage other wealthy individuals around the world to donate their fortunes.

This record of success, coupled with the trend toward small - business start - ups and entrepreneurship in America, has encouraged both the SBA and its lending partners to continue to expand its loan programs.

«I really encourage businesses that are starting up to incorporate the triple bottom line approach,» says Christopher Ellinger, co-founder of Bolder Giving Initiative, an organization based in Boston and New York that aims to inspire and support donors to give at their full potential.

You can start by being passionate, aligning everyone on the company's goals, encouraging team members, and having an overall sense of fun in the workplace.

While even his critics, who launched the #NotNolan hashtag on Twitter, note that Bushnell played a huge role in starting the video game industry, they feel the timing is wrong to honor him, given the corporate culture he encouraged and the importance of the #MeToo movement over the past year.

Efti goes on to offer founders a list of suggestions to ensure that the people they hire can deal with the ambiguity and messiness of start - up life, including stressing this fact in interviews, encouraging employees to take ownership of their ideas, breaking down barriers between teams, and giving new hires some skin in the game in the form of equity.

But in a society like ours that bombards kids with advertising and continuously pushes materialism and a narrow view of success, how can you encourage your children to stop wanting more things and start being thankful for the things they already have?

«This encouraging start to the year shows that we are firmly on the path laid out in February that will take us above an eight per cent return on equity in the medium term,» said chief executive of the company Bill Winters.

The spread of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards» (IRGC) domain into the economy started in the early 1990s under Rafsanjani, who encouraged the IRGC to get involved in construction of the country after the 1980 - 88 Iran - Iraq war.

Such policies might include providing more incentives for companies (both large and small) to invest in R&D and capital infrastructure, encouraging post-secondary institutions to better tailor their programming to meet market demand in terms of subjects and skills, and making Canada a more attractive country for foreign or start - up companies to invest in by deregulating industries that have no business being as regulated or as protected as they are, such as telecommunications, airlines, and broadcasting.

Some programs, like the Thiel Foundation, encourage students to drop out of school to start a company.

But he encouraged the team to think of deployment as a starting point, not an end goal.

The factory data added to reports on auto sales, housing and employment in suggesting the economy was regaining some speed, but probably not fast enough to encourage the Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates next month, as most economists had anticipated at the beginning of the year.

«To us, what this shows is that this is a business that had been in turnaround mode under new CEO Steve Easterbrook, and we are starting to see some of these positive results now both domestically and internationally, which is very encouraging,» Trip Miller, managing partner at Gullane Capital Partners and a McDonald's shareholder, told CNBC.

We're starting to see companies put more emphasis on employee wellness and work / life balance — whether it's providing designated «nap rooms» for employees, encouraging them to take advantage of their vacation time or simply giving them more flexibility in their work schedules.»

Still, this is the start — and the mere act of including A shares has encouraged a rush of funds to be launched to track a variety of China stock indices.

This program encourages Manitoba's young people between the ages of 18 and 29 to start their own full - time, year - round business and pursue self - employment as a career choice.

When I start to feel alone on this train headed toward financial freedom, I try to surround myself even more with encouraging resources and good examples of how I'm not alone and it will all pay off.

Importantly the poll also found that Canadians aged 18 - 34 actually trail Baby Boomers in RRSP ownership and contribution rates with only 43 per cent of young people holding RRSPs compared to 69 per cent of older Canadians, so there is an urgent need to encourage and empower younger Canadians to start saving.

«We were particularly encouraged to see fiscal discipline in light of the continued economic uncertainty seen elsewhere in Canada and the world, the establishment of a commission on tax competitiveness to evaluate current taxation instruments like the provincial sales tax, and proposed changes to the property transfer tax to start addressing housing affordability by increasing the exemption threshold and introducing a third tax rate on higher - valued properties.»

According to a new white paper commissioned by the Department of Defense, Beijing is encouraging Chinese companies with close government ties to invest in American start - ups specializing in critical technologies like artificial intelligence and robots to advance China's military capacity as well as its economy.

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Before you start thinking about launching any Facebook Ads campaign, I would encourage you to think clearly about how you will measure the performance of your ads.

Effective tax rates started diverging again in the late 1990s as globalization, the adoption of territorial tax systems and relatively high U.S. tax rates encouraged tax reduction schemes.

With the money earmarked for the Conservatives» proposal, our plan could reward and encourage the creation of more than 175,000 new jobs starting this January.

Take a few minutes at the start of ordinary business meetings or all - hands meetings to encourage personal sharing.

A truly generous person, the richest man in the world also started The Giving Pledge, along with his wife and Warren Buffett, which encourages the wealthiest people on the planet to donate most of their fortunes to philanthropic causes.

The early users were highly proficient at games and provided many ideas for the game's evolution («mods»), posting changes to the game on line, which encouraged others and started an upward spiral of sales, modifications and debugs.

From the start, this Administration has encouraged an ongoing dialogue with the leaders of our nation's businesses, large and small.

When Nestle lobbied to have the video removed from YouTube, Greenpeace turned the heat up a notch and encouraged supporters to start posting comments in protest on Nestle's Facebook fan page and to change their profile photos to modified versions of the Nestle logo (i.e. «Killer» instead of Kit - Kat»).

He focuses on construction start dates, since completion dates may occur after any wave of optimism that encourages construction may have passed.

Encouraged by these tailwinds, investors responded by increasing their exposure, pushing investment flows to emerging markets in March to their highest monthly level since the start of 2015.

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