Sentences with phrase «expand our efforts at»

The most straightforward — and likely the least controversial — method for improving water productivity that Grant and his co-authors suggest is expanding efforts at reducing freshwater consumption, such as replacing single - flush toilets with dual - flush toilets or installing high - efficiency shower heads and washing machines.

Not exact matches

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

The State Department's McCarrick balked at the suggestion by some analysts that the U.S. effort to expand its exports overseas could anger Russia.

It's just unfortunate to see a brand with the resources and reach of Facebook aim so low at a time when there's so much opportunity to expand its content efforts.

«A hiring freeze at the FDA would conflict with and do significant damage to these bipartisan efforts to fill vacant positions and expand the scientific and technical workforce needed for a robust review of drugs and medical devices,» wrote Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Mycoskie imagines all his efforts (he also funds one employee - suggested social venture project a month, at $ 10,000 a pop) as part of an expanding ecosystem.

Now valued at $ 45 billion, the private company is flush with cash and is spending big in an effort to expand into other devices.

Blue Apron is selling its meal kits at some Costco stores, its first deal with a retailer and an effort to expand to customers beyond the online...

While many companies started out using social media to get the word out about products, the most successful have significantly expanded their efforts to engage their customers at every step of what we call the «customer corridor,» touch points that start when a potential customer first learns of a product and extend through the moment they opt to make repeat purchases.

A former senior executive at Nestlé, he has grappled with two dangerous realities threatening Tim Hortons that could derail plans for the new, merged company: Tim Hortons» growth strategy of blanketing the Canadian landscape with new stores has hit a wall, yet its efforts to expand into the U.S. have been a resounding failure.

Amanda Tarpey, senior vice president of digital product leadership at Nielsen said of this partnership: «Our work with Hulu has been a collaborative effort to further expand Nielsen Total Audience measurement across connected devices, and we're excited to include Hulu in Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings given its position in the market and connection with the consumer.»

A strategic go - to - market approach that orchestrates personalized marketing, sales, and success efforts to land and expand at named accounts.

This divergence of interests expands over time as executive's efforts to compensate themselves at the expense of shareholders compound over the years.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

Although discussions of monetary policy since the crisis have mainly had to do with the quantity of money, and central banks» efforts to expand that quantity so as to stimulate spending, the effects of the crisis, and of governments» response to it, on the quality of money, and especially on the investments its holders have been funding, deserve at least as much attention.

At Hewlett - Packard, an effort to bring «all hands on deck» was not quite a ban on working from home, but an effort to bring previously home - based workers into HP's newly expanded office space.

«These classes were so successful at generating interest in and potential real - world solutions for advancing plant - based foods that in August 2017 UC - B launched an entire, permanent «Program for Meat Alternatives» that will expand their efforts to explore this field, starting with a class entitled «Plant - based Meat 2.0.»»

Profits at Japanese automakers have surged in yen terms as the Japanese currency weakened against the U.S. dollar over the past year, helped by a mammoth Bank of Japan effort to expand the money supply and ignite inflation to end years of economic stagnation.

Over at Public Discourse, Greg Pfundstein and Meghan Grizzle report on the latest decision by the Gates Foundation to put more than $ 4 billion behind efforts to expand the use of contraceptives worldwide.

The Hawaiian Isles Kona Coffee Co. was joined in the 1990s by its sister brand, Hawaiian Isles Water Co., as an effort by Michael Boulware to «get ahead of» the bottled water market, which was greatly expanding at the time, his son says.

«At Oceans Omega, we have a lot of know - how on the technology side gathered through years of experience and ongoing efforts to expand our offerings,» Berl says.

At Truly Good Foods, we continue to expand our efforts to provide safe quality food products to our customers through ongoing investments in food safety improvements.

Originally facilitated by Ninkasi's own Local Distribution team, the brewery's local distribution arm, the expanded partnership will allow Ninkasi Local Distribution to focus its efforts on maintaining and growing Ninkasi's draft business at on - premise establishments — restaurants and bars throughout Eugene.

«These classes were so successful at generating interest in and potential real - world solutions for advancing plant - based foods that in August 2017 UC - B launched an entire, permanent «Program for Meat Alternatives» that will expand their efforts to explore this field, starting with a class entitled «Plant - based Meat 2.0.»»

This webinar featured the findings from a joint report entitled Expanding Access to Early Head Start: State Initiatives for Infants and Toddlers at Risk and highlighted two states» efforts to expand...

This 2012 joint report, Expanding Access to Early Head Start: State Initiatives for Infants and Toddlers At Risk, by ZERO TO THREE and CLASP draws on newly conducted research on state efforts to exp...

The 2012 Expanding Access to Early Head Start: State Initiatives for Infants and Toddlers at Risk report by ZERO TO THREE and CLASP draws on newly conducted research on state efforts to expand and e...

The 2012 joint report, Expanding Access to Early Head Start: State Initiatives for Infants and Toddlers at Risk by ZERO TO THREE and CLASP draws on newly conducted research on state efforts to expand...

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie called the effort to strengthen oversight of economic development programs «an admirable goal» but said a measure aimed at expanding the authority of Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will first be aired with his Democratic conference members.

To support private sector efforts in expanding access to housing, the Ministry of Finance will partner with banks, pension trustees and securities market players to start a process of developing and deepening the local mortgage and housing finance market to offer affordable mortgages at subsidized interest rate beginning with public sector workers.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

Long Island lags far behind in providing quality state - funded prekindergarten education, and greater efforts must be made to expand those services to the youngest learners, state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said Tuesday at a conference in Woodbury.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today signed legislation to expand unlimited sick leave benefits for public sector officers and employees who developed a qualifying health condition as a result of their heroic response to 9/11 rescue, recovery, and clean - up efforts at World Trade Center sites.

Speaking Monday at a City Hall press conference, Malliotakis outlined a twelve point plan, available on her campaign website, which includes extensive legal efforts at locating and mandating treatment of mentally ill persons, building 30,000 units of supportive housing and expanding the psychiatric bed capacity in City hospitals.

Several newly elected council members, including Ritchie Torres and Helen Rosenthal, conceived and organized the series in an effort to change, or at least expand, the way the speaker is selected.

Senate Democrats in a news conference at the same time pushed back against the effort to expand charter schools, which included a fiery response from United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.

Assembly Democrats have increasingly chaffed at any efforts to expand or enhance charter schools in the state — a policy that in general is also backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

In Albany, lawmakers have been debating a variety of measures that seek to reduce gun violence or bolster school security, ranging from bans on bump stocks supported by Democrats and some Republicans to GOP - led efforts to expand school resource officers at schools in New York.

Zemsky said SUNY Poly's mission expanded beyond research and development labs at its Albany campus that were central to chip manufacturing, an effort that attracted IBM, GlobalFoundries, Tokyo Electron and Applied Materials.

Now Start - Up New York looks to expand the same approach throughout the state, relying particularly but not exclusively on efforts at other SUNY campuses.

At the same time, the agreements were notable for what they did not include: expanding ride - hailing companies to service upstate New York and the long - sought effort to end the practice of unlimited donations through limited liability companies.

Efforts last year to expand ride hailing to other parts of the state faltered in the Legislature, and Cuomo pushed to have the measure taken up in a special session that failed to materialize at the end of the year.

Also at 11 a.m., Reps. Adriano Espaillat, Suzanne Bonamici, José Serrano, and Don Beyer will introduce new legislation to expand safe zones to prohibit immigration enforcement efforts at various public locations, House Triangle, (Capitol East Front), Washington, D.C.

The deals he and the legislative leaders struck earlier this week included a package of efforts to combat opioid and heroin addiction, a growing scourge across the state; a push to expand access to mammograms and other methods of breast - cancer detection; and an agreement on improving safety at rail crossings, which carried all the political excitement of, well, rail crossings.

To build on the expanded flu vaccination efforts at the local level, Governor Cuomo previously directed the New York State Department of Health to authorize enhanced reimbursement for counties statewide.

He described the expanded after school programs as, together with universal pre-K and the community schools program, part of his efforts at broadly improving the school system.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation to expand unlimited sick leave benefits for public sector officers and employees who developed a qualifying health condition as a result of their heroic response to 9/11 rescue, recovery, and clean - up efforts at World Trade Center sites.

The U.S. economy expanded at a 3 percent annualized rate between July and September, advancing President Trump's goal of faster economic growth and potentially providing a tail wind to Republican efforts to overhaul the tax code.

At a certain point, all of the attackers and naysayers need to stop questioning Dean Skelos» credentials on his meaningful and effective efforts to expand his majority through smart politics.