Sentences with phrase «first public action»
NYC will offer a free app this summer that warns smartphone users about suspicious activity on their devices — one of the first public actions by the NYC Cyber Command unit that de Blasio established last year.
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In his first public statement, the former sheriff's deputy, criticized for not entering the high school to stop the shooting, defended his actions.
It took the public's call for action after the Parkland shooting to shame Scott and the Florida Legislature into passing the state's first new gun restrictions in decades.
Richard Land, head of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, criticized First Baptist's action.
One of his first political actions was to make christian prayer mandatory in public schools.
«70 Acting on this belief, Wallis led his Sojourners community in over forty public actions during the first six months of 1977, protesting such issues as the use of torture, the proliferation of nuclear armaments, and the government's repressive housing policies.
We live in an age of collective outrage, where misdeeds committed by public figures — the kinds of actions that were once easily forgotten or never exposed in the first place — can become global trending topics in a matter of hours.
This will be their first opportunity to do so, and the public will expect nothing less than strong and appropriate action to be taken against the exporter involved in this breach of regulations.
FFA's actions are a renewal of its protests throughout 2012, when it urged a public boycott of firms including Dairy Crest and First Milk, and blockaded Muller and Arla factories, preventing deliveries for several hours.
It's an attempt to open the sport up to the general public and for many in the city - centres of the above, it'll be their first opportunity to see an F1 car in action.
The first week of NFL action is in the books and, as we explained in our most contrarian betting article for ESPN, that has historically created value based on overreactions from the betting public.
Baby Milk Action worked with Richard Howitt MEP, who appears in the first Mark Thomas film, on the first public hearing into corporate malpractice held by the European Parliament's Development Committee.
, President Obama established the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to develop a national action plan to mobilize the public and private sectors and engage families and communities in an effort to improve the health of our children.
The U.S. Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding notes that several health organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Nurse - Midwives, American Dietetic Association and American Public Health Association all recommend that most infants be breastfed for a minimum of one year, with the first six months exclusively breast milk.
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)- Part III - Chapter 11 - Breastfeeding Nutrient adequacy of exclusive breastfeeding for the term infant during the first six months of life (2002) Geneva, World Health Organization Full text [pdf 278kb] The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review Geneva, World Health Organization, 2001 Full text [pdf 1.06 Mb] Report of the expert consultation of the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding Report of an expert consultation Geneva, World Health Organization, 28 - 30 March 2001 Full text [pdf 122kb] The WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Feeding Your Baby From Six Months To One Year Your guide to help you introduce food to your baby Adapted and reproduced with permission of Peel Public Health, Region of Peel A Practical Workbook to Protect, Promote and Support Breastfeeding in Community Based Projects Health Canada, Ottawa, 2002 This workbook is intended to assist the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) or similar community based prenatal projects to identify strategies and specific actions to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in a population health context.
Cuomo's actions were illegal, done under the cover of night behind closed doors, ABSOLUTELY NO PUBLIC INPUT WAS ALLOWED, and he did it to be the first in the US to pass any gun control legislation before Obama!
In our first year, we passed sweeping ethics reform, opened the books on Senate expenditures for the first time in history, and made every legislative action the Senate takes available to the public.»
During his first official meeting as a Buffalo School member, a Buffalo woman brought her own bat during the public comment session to «combat any actions that are not in the best interest of the students.»
«I appreciate the public recognition of the actions of myself and my fellow officers yesterday,» First Precinct Officer Ryan Nash, 28, said outside his Long Island home.
To recap, there are three big ideas underpinning the concept, according to government speeches and documents: first, a focus on enabling civic action; second, a focus on»em powering communities»; and, third, the opening up of public services, allowing a wider range of organisations (private and voluntary) to deliver services.
For the first time in Bill Ryan's 10 years of public service, Syracuse and the owner of the Destiny USA mega-sized shopping mall are not facing legal action.
The traditional good government groups like the League of Women Voters and NYPIRG are joined by a number of unions, and for first time a national group, the Public Campaign Action Fund.
Respondents misplace their reliance on Smith v. Allwright, 321 U. S. 649, and Terry v. Adams, 345 U. S. 461, which held not that party affairs are public affairs, free of First Amendment protections, see, e. g., Tashjian v. Republican Party of Conn., 479 U. S. 208, but only that, when a State prescribes an election process that gives a special role to political parties, the parties» discriminatory action becomes state action under the Fifteenth Amendment.
And that same commitment is the reason why one of my first acts as Prime Minister was to establish the ground - breaking racial disparity audit - investigating how a person's race affects their treatment by public services, so that we can take action and respond.
Headteachers have voted for strike action for the first time ever later, but union chiefs say it is still «not too late» to resolve the public sector pensions impasse.
In addition, SILVER thwarted the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption so that it would not learn of his illegal outside income, first by filing legal motions on behalf of the Assembly and taking other action to block the Moreland Commission's investigation into legislators» outside income.
The Business Council's political action committee also endorsed Cuomo last fall and it was the first time the fiscally conservative business group endorsed a candidate for public office.
CSEA's first legal action involving the transfer of public nursing facility operations to a local development corporation was filed last month, challenging action by Onondaga County.
New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.
«He ensured that I was not cheated out by the exclusion of my name from the LLB class list at the Faculty of Law after my first university exams when I had qualified for placement on the programme by merit... His actions almost 43 years ago contributed in no small measure to my position, my passion for the defence of truth, fairness, integrity, transparency and merit in public life, and he must be publicly acknowledged for once.»
MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep - deprived Democrats realized what was happening.
During the meeting, Borough President Katz also noted the one year anniversary of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan's April 15, 2015 launch and outlined major milestones of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan in the past year, including the activation of the Bronx - Flushing - Jamaica Q44 Select Bus Service that serves 44,000 New Yorkers daily; the newly - restored paths at Rufus King Park that are part of the first phase of the Park's major capital improvements; redesigned storefronts of local businesses along Sutphin Boulevard (with more on the way); a $ 138,000 «Building Community Capacity» grant toward the formation of the Jamaica Arts Alliance; the release of an RFP to activate the 168th Street Garage into a new, mixed - use development, with the City to announce the winning bid shortly; the launch of the «Jamaica Avenue Streetscape Improvements» study to determine the cost and scope of additional seating, increased plantings and improved pedestrian circulation in the area; and free public Wi - Fi on track by July in the Downtown Jamaica Corridor, the first area in Queens to host LinkNYC.
According to the report's findings, «enforcement actions» — including ones for low - level crimes like fare beating and public urination — have also decreased in the first few months of 2015.
We need not look far across our own continent to see that action to tackle our budget deficit is both urgent and necessary, and this is only the first step in a long road to restoring good management of our public finances.»
Censure does not bring any legal consequences, but is a form of public shaming by the House, and the first action below expulsion.
This study, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, is the first to use financial investors» actions, rather than self - reported opinions, to investigate the trans - Atlantic difference in public opinion on climate change and the environment.
In fact, the panel is charged with providing «recommendations as to actions that can be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of shale gas extraction processes and other steps to ensure protection of public health and safety,» according to Chu's memo (pdf) laying out its mission, which must deliver «immediate steps to be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of fracking» within 90 days of its first meeting.
The EPA's stance, however, was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2007, and one of the first actions of Lisa Jackson, the new EPA administrator under the Obama administration, was to declare CO2 and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare and release a proposed endangerment finding largely built on the earlier ignored analysis.
He and the public relations person would share the duties of executive director, and their first official action would be to decide on a fair compensation package.
The case for action rests on the realization that for the first time since the beginning of the Enlightenment era in the mid-17th century, the very idea of science as a way to establish a common book of knowledge about the world is being broadly called into question by heavily financed public relations campaigns.
Although that day is still a long way off, it's much closer than it used to be, thanks to this year's first steps toward personalized medicine, says Kathy Hudson, director of Johns Hopkins University's Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. «For a long time, all the action in genomics was in the lab,» she says.
The audience was energized to learn they were the first public attendees to see the sci - fi action flick, which opens March 28.
The game's first public demo featuring multi-class action will be playable at the Bandai Namco E3 booth.
She more or less goes her own way in teaching the course, but after the first year of «Civics in Action,» the Boston Public Schools introduce standardized, districtwide midterm and final exams for it, and Levinson worries how her students will do.
First, the Public Service Act 103 of 1994 restricts eligibility of employment in public sector to citizens and permanent residents.13 Second, the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 prioritises and optimises employment of South African citizens who are previously disadvantaged by apartheid policies in what is termed «Affirmative Action Measures (AAM).&Public Service Act 103 of 1994 restricts eligibility of employment in public sector to citizens and permanent residents.13 Second, the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 prioritises and optimises employment of South African citizens who are previously disadvantaged by apartheid policies in what is termed «Affirmative Action Measures (AAM).&public sector to citizens and permanent residents.13 Second, the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 prioritises and optimises employment of South African citizens who are previously disadvantaged by apartheid policies in what is termed «Affirmative Action Measures (AAM).»
«Today's collective call to action puts the interests of our nation's 50 million public schoolchildren first, and shows how important it is for Congress to keep up the momentum and move forward on the long overdue ESEA modernization,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA Executive Director.
«If any local school had 20 percent of its families withdraw their kids from the school in the first six months, I think the public would be demanding immediate action and intervention and assuming there's something really wrong in that school,» he said.
By Julie Underwood If high school football players — or other public school athletes — choose to «take a knee» during upcoming competitions, the First Amendment will support their action.
Meanwhile, the press release quoted the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), which was founded by Achievement First's Jonathan Sackler [the same Jonathan Sackler who held a $ 40,000 fundraiser last May for the political action committee affiliated with Governor Malloy] as saying, «We welcome [the New York charter school association] and look forward to working with the Network to further ensure that the voices of communities, families and students who demand more quality public school choices are heard loud and clear in Connecticut.»
And now, when he was sixty - five years of age, the very political class he'd so attacked and hounded and scorned from his redoubt, mocked without consideration or respect for the ties of family or friendship (and he'd lost quite a few friends as a result; even a few relatives no longer spoke to him), that very same political class had decided to put the gigantic Colombian machinery of sycophancy into action to create a public homage that, for the first time in history, and perhaps the last, would celebrate a cartoonist.