Sentences with phrase «fighting against initiatives»

Not exact matches

At least some of those concerns now seem to be playing out in a fight over how America's largest food industry group financed a campaign against a food labeling initiative.

The initiative has already led to positive outcomes in the fight against illegal fishing in protected marine environments.

Sadly, these initiatives are fought tooth and nail by anti-gay groups (sadly pretty much all of which identify as Christian) who want to claim (against all evidence) that being gay makes you more likely to commit suicide not anything that you suffer as a result of being gay, just some arbitrary offense against God thing.

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

An active national leader in the fight against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God's Love We Deliver, and the Bed - Stuy Campaign Against against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God's Love We Deliver, and the Bed - Stuy Campaign Against Against Hunger.

The activities of the SAVE FOOD initiative play an important role to fight against food loss and food waste, mainly by raising awareness and by providing platforms to discuss on the issues of food loss and waste.

Its various fields of activity in the fight against food waste were also illustrated in presentations of selected initiatives from business, science and politics at the seven - day Innovationparc Packaging, a hallmark interpack event.

This initiative is funded through donations, fundraising events, and the net proceeds from the sale of the multi-hued Sock Out Cancer socks symbolizing the fight against cancer in all its forms.

In 2017, Poloncarz appropriated an initial $ 500,000 for county anti-poverty initiatives and further expanded the fight against poverty through the establishment of the Erie County Poverty Advisory Committee, along with conducting the first Poverty Summit in August.

Such bold initiative would also improve public confidence in the fight against corruption.»

While appreciating the General Overseer of RCCG Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and his wife, Folu Adeboye for dedicating efforts and resources to treat and rehabilitate people who have gotten addicted to one form of drug abuse or the other through the centre, the Governor said it was inspiring and instructive that the duo and others behind the initiative thought it necessary to use the platform of the church to join in the fight against the social menace.

This was as he lauded RCCG and its leadership for deeming it fit to join the fight against the menace of drug abuse, just as he assured that the State Government would support the initiative to achieve the desired results.

For us, World AIDS Day is such an initiative, where uniting in the fight against HIV must begin with accepting scientific evidence for the basis and treatment of HIV / AIDS, and acknowledging human responsibility and endeavour as the way to reduce harm, to prevent unnecessary suffering and deaths, and to combat prejudice and discrimination.

According to him, initiatives taken by Government towards the fight against corruption and steps taken to pass the Right to Information (RTI) Bill were geared towards enhancing accountability and national development.

The President of the National House of Chiefs also commended government for other initiatives such as the industrialization policy and the fight against corruption and environmental degradation.

Clinton and Huckabee have collaborated on initiatives such as the fight against childhood obesity.

«All I'll say is that I fought in battle to defend Dan Donovan's right to support John Kasich for president and to then vote against every single one of President Trump's major initiatives,» he said, arguing Donovan was trying to deflect from his voting record.

The initiative is an extension of Biden's 2016 appointment as head of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative, an assignment President Barack Obama extended, aimed at pulling together federal agencies and private, academic and philanthropic organizations to identify new cancer research topics, break down barriers slowing advances and pinpoint necessary investment areas to advance the fight against cancer.

Beside the climate change mitigation goal, the initiative contributes to many other challenges as biodiversity conservation, food security, governance and fight against land degradation.

All profits from the sale of the brand's bestselling fragrances (Romance, Midnight Romance, and Tender Romance) from September 27 to October 31 will go to the Pink Pony Fund, a global initiative in the fight against cancer.

The gang fight against Proposition 14, an anti-gay initiative; Babylon gets bombed and Michael nearly loses his life; Justin and Brian contemplate a future together; Mel and Lindsay reunite.

Some of the initiatives that we will be helping to spread awareness on will be making health and medication accessible to those in need, helping to achieve universal education and last but not least fighting against poverty, corruption and terrorism.

On this day, governments around the world are reminded of their prior agreements of the agreements that they have made on an international level in order to sustain the initiative of fighting against poverty.

Mark Pudlow, spokesperson for the Florida Education Association, the teachers union that has fought pitched battles against many of Florida's recent initiatives, acknowledges the result of Florida Virtual School's approach: «[It] never developed the kind of mistrust that tends to be associated with other reform ideas.»

While the union, called the Washington Education Association, has not yet taken a position on this initiative, it has fought hard against prior attempts to legalize charters.

Our goal is to link reform at the local and state level so that states can put the powers they do have to their highest and best use, and local leaders with ideas and initiative will not constantly fight against state law and administrative actions.

Walmart and the Walton family have spent millions fighting against universal preschool in California, supporting public school voucher programs in various cities, and other conservative initiatives.

The fight against school closings in Chicago travels to Rahm's house... The fight against privatization in Puerto Rico just begins, as the Governor and Education Secretary announce their initiative, and the Legislative Assembly takes up a charter law.

Rebalance IRA Managing Director Scott Puritz joined legendary Vanguard founder John Bogle, and other industry leaders, in the continued fight against unfair retirement investment practices at the recent launch of the groundbreaking initiative «Campaign for Investors.»

Also recently there were a few bold initiatives to fight against puppy mills.

This year, the citizen lobbyists will focus on a slate of animal initiatives, including legislation to end the shooting of exotic mammals held captive in fenced enclosures, a bill to strengthen penalties against animal fighting, and legislation to crack down on cruel puppy mills.

One of the WSAVA Foundation's key projects is the African Small Companion Animal Network (AFSCAN) initiative which is supporting the development of the veterinary profession across Africa and playing a key role in the fight against rabies on the continent, together with partners including charities Worldwide Veterinary Services (WVS) and Mission Rabies.

Pet Project Rescue believes that spay / neuter initiatives are essential in the fight against pet homelessness and the number of unwanted animals dying in shelters.

Their national initiatives are focused on keeping community cats safe and out of shelters with trap / neuter / return, battling commercial breeding operations, and fighting discrimination against pit bull terriers.

Every time a Sustain: Green biodegradable card is used, a tangible contribution to the fight against global warming is made through carbon offsets, and applied to reforestation projects in Brazil's Mata no Peito rainforest initiative.

Friends of the Earth groups have fought long and hard to make this initiative a reality and it's a testimony to the work done by African civil society in the fight against energy poverty.»

Billions of dollars are committed each year to the international fight against climate change, but the majority of these funds focus on mitigation initiatives, mainly renewable energy, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

[Translate] From First Nations activism to innovative city initiatives, the West Coast is leading the fight against global...

Until February, Christine Harbin spent much of this decade fighting against state and federal clean energy initiatives for organizations...

Oberg then demonstrates how such criteria could be applied to some actual examples of legislative initiatives — for instance, the Environmental Crimes Directive, the Market Abuse Crimes Directive, the (at the time of writing the book) proposed «PIF» Directive (i.e. on the fight against fraud to the Union's financial interests by criminal law), which meanwhile has been adopted — and demonstrates how sometimes the legislative initiatives and proposals would have failed his proposed testing.

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The new EFF initiative seeks to document these threats and fight back against them.

It also leads the fight against anti-choice ballot initiatives.