Sentences with phrase «facing public efforts»

Our study highlights the severe challenges facing public efforts to control mosquitoes and to manage and limit insecticide resistance.»

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But despite its best efforts, VMware itself is not a big player in the brave new world of public cloud computing, the shared data center infrastructure pioneered by Amazon Web Services (amzn), which is now facing heated competition from Microsoft (msft) and Google (googl).

Graduates are not only often the public face of a university, they also tend to be its biggest supporters, through their donations and volunteer efforts.

Even though the HHFKA had its origins in the George W. Bush administration, and even though its nutrition standards were recommended by the nonpartisan Institute of Medicine, it's Michelle Obama — and, by extension, her husband — who've been the public faces of this effort.

A concerted effort has gone into diversifying its public face, but what Nigel says still goes.

In a short interview today, Brynien said his efforts have saved jobs, even in the face of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's successful efforts to wring concessions from the state's second - largest public employees union.

Comrade Asifat who lamented over the growing rate of corruption in Nigeria, charged the current government to urgently intensify efforts in bringing to public the faces of those found guilty of corruption.

The effort on part of employers» and big business is yet another example of the race to the bottom mentality and how to vilify public employees rather than address the real problems that our local communities face.

In the weeks after superstorm Sandy, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano became the public face of the county's recovery efforts.

One of Ernst's major public - facing efforts for the past several years has been partnering with the Centers for Disease Control to develop Kidenga, a community - based surveillance mobile app to help detect mosquito - borne disease in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California, and provide users with the latest information on their area.

Currently, even when there's funding and momentum to develop a new GMO in the lab, public sector efforts often wilt in the face of the cost, time and political will needed to gain approval — leaving the successes to the giants, Qaim notes.

[10] They also face public hostility to their efforts to move in and control the market.

And many of these A-listers have taken advantage of their public positions to speak out about their illness in an effort to help end any stigma surrounding it, as well as offer support to others facing similar challenges.

A documentary about the University of California at Berkeley and the administrative efforts to maintain its academic excellence, public role and student - body diversity in the face of drastic budget cuts.

It's the early»70s and Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys, «The Americans») is a U.S. military analyst who has grown angry over what he sees as the discrepancy between the grim, deadly reality of a failing Vietnam War effort and the government's public face of inevitable victory.

Murphy argues that leaders will inevitably fail to find the right strategies for every situation, make occasional public gaffes, renege on commitments in the face of competing demands, be caught off guard and flummoxed as they struggle in a turbulent world, be misunderstood and unable to respond because of confidential information, and be rejected in their efforts to promote change or adopt new approaches.

The Little Rock, Ark., public schools are facing a cash - flow crisis that will force them to close next month unless efforts to secure an infusion of funds prove successful, the district's superintendent, Ruth Steele, said last week.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

At the New Branches School here, staff members and parents are struggling to keep alive their pioneering effort to create a new kind of public school in the face of a court ruling striking down Michigan's charter - school law.

I am saddened that my efforts researching and negotiating the work of public education seem meaningless in the face of current policy debates — and that last year's nationwide struggle over teacher tenure or this week's «debates» over teacher evaluation in New York arrive forcefully, demanding immediate reaction rather than initiative from educators.

Parents Will Risk Jail Time For Their Children's Education December 7, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Two Washington D.C. police officers are the latest to face jail time for committing residency fraud in an effort to ensure their children receive a quality education that was not available in their assigned neighborhood public school.

Some also say that the effort to reward higher - performing schools would come at the expensive of schools already facing a steep climb, in districts such as Milwaukee Public Schools.

This process can only begin with complete candor about the current status of public education in Texas, the progress of our reform efforts to date, the prognosis for achieving the essential universal educational proficiency of our children, and the daunting challenges that we face in doing so.

At a raucous 2013 public meeting in Poughkeepsie, King faced an auditorium of irate parents and teachers shouting him down, drowning out his efforts to respond.

In her book, Reign of Error, The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, Diane Ravitch claims the United States is facing an orchestrated and well - funded effort to destroy its public education sPublic Schools, Diane Ravitch claims the United States is facing an orchestrated and well - funded effort to destroy its public education spublic education system.

Finally, policymakers should consumer test any public - facing tool for the data set to make sure it is usable for students, parents, and organizations that assist with college access efforts.

Given the challenges facing public education and efforts to restrict — or in some cases, even eliminate — the governance role of school boards, the need for a strong and effective National School Boards Association never has been greater.

However... Despite all our efforts and goodwill, the context doesn't allow us to further support it inside our own public - facing Bookari apps.

We host on our website public - facing and retailer - focused standards of care and zoonoses prevention education documents, and our Fish & Wildlife Services - partnered Habitattitude effort educates the public on how to prevent their pet from becoming an invasive species.

For the most part the critical mass welcomed this return to realism and their passive disregard for homegrown modernism had knock - on effect; lack of attention led to public's lack of understanding, constituting what Davis would call the «cultural monopoly» he saw to be taking place in the U.S. Genuine efforts had been made to incorporate new formal elements and meanings into art but this progressive aesthetic spirit had eventually waned in the face of cultural provincialism, which was being «exploited... at the expense of progress.»

Through a major public awareness effort by the Conservancy and its partners, nitrogen pollution from sewage is now recognized as the biggest environmental threat facing Long Island.

Lois Gibbs, a mother of two who led community efforts to get nearby families relocated and seek compensation from the responsible company, became the public face of Love Canal and still leads an organization devoted to cleaning up such sites.

• Launches an effort to create sustainable and resilient hospitals in the face of climate change through a public - private partnership with the healthcare industry;

«We commend the bipartisan group of leaders including Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (CA), and Senators Joseph Lieberman (CT) and John Warner (VA) among others, and we stand behind them in their efforts to initiate and drive this critical piece of legislation that addresses one of the most important issues facing our nation today.»

In an effort to gain regulatory approval, project developers have scaled back the project's scope, faced environmental setbacks and had the project opened for public comment.

As previously reported by DeSmog, the GOP - connected firm DCI Group led the forward - facing public relations efforts for Dakota Access via a front group called Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now (MAIN).

Are you the face of their public relations efforts?

The campaign released it just as Mr. McCain was planning to give a major speech on energy policy today, and a day after Al Gore, the public face of efforts to slow the warming trend, formally endorsed Senator Barack Obama.

Of course, we'll still face the onslaught of fossil fuel industries» well - funded efforts to confound the public, and there will be politicians who will never give science the time of day.

Renewable Energy Credits Purchased for All Electricity Use Though recycling is really the public face of the Open's green efforts, in terms of environmental impact, its energy usage perhaps has far greater impact — USTA Senior Director of Corporate Communications & chair of green initiatives, Rita Garza says approximately 2000 MWh of electricity are used during the qualifying matches and tournament itself.

The American public faces significant, unmet legal needs that require considerably more innovation and other efforts to bolster access to affordable legal services, the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services said in a report.

In other words, this last - ditch effort to repeal Obamacare is at least partially about saving face with (or sticking it to) Donald Trump, who picked a very public fight with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and his cohorts after the last Republican bill died a loud death.

Facebook now faces a Herculean effort to restore public trust in its commitment to privacy and data protection, sources at the company have told CNN.

Across the country, people just like you are raising their voices and engaging in efforts to educate federal and state public policy leaders on the issues facing children and families.

What NAR can do is the same thing we've always done in the face of a long line of business models offered to consumers to sell their homes without the use of a REALTOR ®: Undertake renewed efforts to remind the public, and to encourage and help members inform their clients and customers, of the value they bring to the real estate marketing and sales transaction, and the problems and risks sellers may encounter in marketing and selling their home without using a REALTOR ®.»