Sentences with phrase «first public efforts»

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This January, Tallinn, Estonia, took a radical step in its efforts to reduce traffic jams, and became the first capital in the European Union to offer its residents free public transport.

While it was Kathleen's husband Arthur who first came up with the idea for Tezos, refining it and pushing it out to the public quickly became a team effort.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

He does this in two important respects: the first is in regard to the standoff between the attempts to show that theology engages the whole person because it is something «subjective» and personal and the attempts to show that it does so because it is something «objective» and public; and the second is in regard to efforts to replace the picture of theology as a movement from theory to practice by new pictures of the relation between theory and practice.

It has been my ongoing involvement — as a pastor serving first a black congregation, then a Hispanic one, and now a largely West Indian and Haitian congregation — with the lives of inner - city families that has forced me to change the direction of my efforts as a public official.

The change comes on the heels of an ongoing four - year research effort first made public late last summer in Reveal: Where Are You?

In his efforts to teach in the public square, John Paul II did not» and First Things should not» flinch from this humbling but unavoidable truth.

Coffin first caught the public eye when he helped organize and then led the effort to desegregate the interstate bus system with what came to be called «Freedom Rides.»

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

Sonoma Seeks to Honor Chinese Laborers Who Shaped Wine Industry Immigrant Chinese laborers who planted some of California's first grapevines are getting the public acknowledgment that eluded them during the 19th century, when their backbreaking efforts helped establish the Sonoma Valley wine industry...

, 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.

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indPublic Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indpublic mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the Let's Move campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

It was during a press conference on Sept. 16, in response to a question about homeland security efforts infringing on civil rights, that Bush first used the telltale word «crusade» in public.

First, the growth of the professional public affairs industry and an increased effort by many organisations to infl uence politics and policy.

Some have argued that the British public are opposed to a larger effort to help, and that in any event such efforts are futile as we can not hope to support all those displaced by this conflict, nor can support for refugees resolve the crisis that has led them to flee in the first place.

Cuomo wasted no time in starting to drum up public support for this proposal, sending out an email touting this «first - in - the - nation» plan and how it is an effort to build on his administration's efforts over the past six years to «ease the burden on middle class families throughout New York.»

The Council's public tech division was a unit first created under Mark - Viverito as part of an effort to modernize the Council, increase outreach to communities of color and increase participation among communities typically less involved in civic activity.

Earlier this month, Governor Cuomo announced a series of new initiatives including the addition of 100 experienced investigators to the State Police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team; new efforts to make supplies of naloxone available to all first responder units in the State; and the launch of a targeted awareness campaign that will take place on all public college and university campuses.

The PEF president went first and rejected the governor's repeated claims that public employees have rejected efforts for them to share the burden of reducing the state's $ 9.2 budget deficit.

The effort had only a half - result: Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers agreed to create the first statewide public financing program which applied only to the state comptroller's race.

His public relations effort categorizes Commisso as «the first Albany Mayoral candidate in history to release his returns.»

During an infamous public hearing to discuss Michael Bloomberg's mixed - use plan for SPURA, Pisciotta witnessed first hand the bitter divisions that have sabotaged every redevelopment effort in the past 43 years.

It was the first time the public learned Silver, who has successfully blocked nearly every effort at tort reform in the Assembly, worked not only for a personal injury law firm, but also for a real estate firm.

Erie County Executive Chris Collins, Legislator Lynne Dixon and Public Works Commissioner Jerry Sentz announced today that the first phase of a total reconstruction effort on Eden Evans Center Road has begun.

Young people leaving school or starting their first job will be targeted by the government under efforts to encourage people to switch to public transport.

Indeed, in his efforts to raise a billion dollars of private money, Obama became the first presidential candidate in the general election in over 30 years to back out of public financing, an idea which is now more or less kaput.

Supports Governor Cuomo's efforts at the state level, announces topic will be subject of her first Public Safety Roundtable

For the first time, our community had rallied around one political candidate, and the result of our effort was intoxicating, along with the realization that our community was a «sleeping giant» and could make the difference in electing our public officials.

Flanked by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — whose «political revolution» had free college education as its cornerstone — Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his first State of the State proposal: making New York State public colleges tuition - free, in his latest apparent effort to burnish his progressive credentials ahead of a possible 2020 presidential run.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

A week before hoping to win re-election, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner hosted her first Twitter town hall, one of her few large public engagement efforts this campaign season.

Efforts continue to make County Government more accountable and responsive to the public, providing unprecedented access to county information and data with Marc himself hosting over 60 town hall and public forums in his first 3 1/2 years as County Executive.

Poughkeepsie... As part of the continuing efforts to get public input and increase community dialogue, Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro will host the County's first live Telephone Town Hall meeting tomorrow evening at 6 pm, following the release of the 2014 Tentative County Budget at 11 am on Wednesday, October 30th.

Local groups have been calling for a public use of the building for years, Singleton said, but this is the first time an official effort has been launched.

«He may actually have a conflict because as a member of the City Council, his first obligation is to the people of the city,» said Richard Brodsky, the former assemblyman who led a successful effort to reform the state's public authorities.

With the first new county executive in 16 years, Crist said McLaughlin is receiving numerous requests to attend public events and is traveling around the county more as part of his outreach efforts to county residents.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

Although the radio voice - communication part of the public safety efforts is proceeding, first responders will not have an emergency broadband data network anytime soon.

This sounds like FutureGen, the public - private effort to create the world's first coal - fueled zero - emissions power plant.

Dr. Sidwell and his fellow researchers noted that although there is emerging attention on efforts to educate the public in hemorrhage control techniques, this effort is the first attempt to assess whether an electronic module can be effective in educating a workforce.

«We commend the FDA for the effort in collecting and releasing these data to the public and we believe it is an initial first step towards reducing the disparities and lack of information on sex and ethnic differences.

Rzhetsky said that as the first reports of the flu begin to come in each fall, these tools could be used to help public health officials focus prevention efforts.

«A recent WHO report on IPV recommended that there is a clear need to scale - up efforts to both prevent IPV from happening in the first place and to provide necessary services for women experiencing IPV,» says senior author Peter A. Muennig, MD, MPH, associate professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

Dad may not be able to go to Mars himself this year, but his name can be put on the first ever public naming effort for Mars, and he'll know that it'll be going to Mars when Mars One launches its first lander mission in 2018,» said Alan Stern, Ph.D., planetary scientist, and founder and CEO of Uwingu; Stern formerly directed all science programs and missions at NASA.

The first batch of data from a $ 100 million effort to find signs of intelligent life beyond Earth has been released for public access.

In this document, openly available for download, we provide an overview of the effort; our framework for the first draft of the atlas; descriptions of the technology and data analysis tools available to build the atlas; an introduction to the Data Coordination Platform that will host the data for researchers worldwide; a deeper look at biological systems we plan to explore and map; and details on the organization and governance of the HCA consortium and its relationships to the public (including ethical considerations regarding organ and tissue donors) and to funding support.

A White Paper, openly available for download, provides an overview of the effort; our framework for the first draft of the atlas; descriptions of the technology and data analysis tools available to build the atlas; an introduction to the Data Coordination Platform that will host the data for researchers worldwide; a deeper look at biological systems we plan to explore and map; and details on the organization and governance of the HCA consortium and its relationships to the public (including ethical considerations regarding organ and tissue donors) and to funding support.

He also was the principal investigator for an NIH - supported initiative that was the nation's first statewide effort to involve the general public in discussion of the Human Genome Project's ethical, legal, and social implications.

At 12:30 p.m. today, at a joint press conference with the public genome effort, Celera Genomics will describe the first assembly of the human genetic code from the whole genome shotgun method.