Sentences with phrase «few years of advocacy»

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The group hailed the new mental health support as a legislative «victory» - one of the few they have seen in four years of ceaseless advocacy to tighten America's gun laws.

Things were different a few years ago, when email advocacy was relatively new, but unless they've been stingy with their email addresses, activists these days are buried under a slew of messages every week.

Highlighting his well known community support and advocacy, he repeated he was «proud to now be a Democrat... but the privilege of representing our communities has and always will be about much more than party registration... this is my challenge, my purpose and my promise for the next few years.»

So far, eight states have policies requiring them to do a similar analysis, most of them adopted in the last few years, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a research and advocacy group that supports higher standards for schools of education.

As Ed Week reported: «Californians Together, a research and advocacy group for the state's 1.6 million English - learners, is the brain trust behind this bill and catapulted the long - term ELL issue into the national spotlight a few years ago with its report showing that large numbers of such students were languishing in California's public schools.

Most of these laws have passed in the past few years partly due to parent advocacy groups pushing for change.

Self - published authors have done a lot of advocacy to be considered professional authors in the last few years, and as a result of that, self - publication is now counted as publication for the purposes of award eligibility.

B&N was blacklisted a few years back by several women's and children's advocacy groups because they were selling this kind of porn.

Cats Protection's Advocacy Manager Jacqui Cuff (pictured right) added: «Over the past few years, we have been contacted about a worrying number of issues that our supporters and the general public want us to raise with the Welsh Government.

Cats Protection's Advocacy Manager Jacqui Cuff said: «Over the past few years, we have been contacted about a worrying number of issues that our supporters and the general public want us to raise with the Scottish Government.

The BPTC is a 1 - 2 year vocational course designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge needed to successfully practice as a barrister.the study of evidence, litigation, sentencing and advocacy are just a few of the topics you will cover.

Over the last few years, more than 500 foster children in long - term care have found permanent homes when judges and others changed their practices as a result of the advocacy of Appleseed and others.

My interest in the subject of humour and advocacy began at an Advocate's Society lunchtime session a few years ago.

Engineers are a good example of best practice because they split out the advocacy function a few years back and the commitment of PEO to regulating in the public interest became very clear.

Cruz caught Mercer's attention a few years ago at a meeting of the free - enterprise advocacy group Club for Growth.

«We have had our own youth advocacy program for a few years, and decided to implement Teen Council because we are tired of reinventing the wheel!

Although a few small changes have been made to the laws within the last few years, due to exposure and the efforts of advocacy organizations, there has not been significant progress.

In addition to utilizing our MLS system, being a member of our board also affords one the opportunity to be a part of the community and join us for our annual Christmas party & golf outing - where we raise RPAC funds as well as money for Food for the Hungry; attend any continuing education classes we may offer - usually free, advertise in the board sponsored home magazine, join us in our Consumer Advocacy outreach campaign that goes on all year long - that also helps cover the new NAR Core Standards Certificate such as: donate / participate with charities such as Food for the Hungry, Habitat for Humanity, Toys for Tots, Habitat for Humanity build, etc. just to name a few perks.