Sentences with phrase «focused on issues around»

BitPay has been very much focused on the issues around transaction capacity on the Bitcoin network lately, which eventually led them to support the New York Agreement (also known as SegWit2x).

Beyond Borders, The Whitworth, Manchester The Whitworth brings together four artists, Raisa Kabir, Yasmin Nupur, Risham Syed, and CONA, in a year - long exhibition that focuses on issues around post-colonial identity, ruptured spaces, authenticity, displacement and belonging.

Clinics provide services in areas of law that most affect low income individuals and disadvantaged communities, and particularly focus on issues around which a low - income «community of interests» can coalesce.

See the snapshot of its key points here (pic below) and in this video, which seeks to focus on issues around strength, resilience, and protecting culture as well as alarming rates of continuing disadvantage on a number of indicators.

Not exact matches

Its 2017 budget is $ 940.7 million, with grants to seven regions around the globe focused on issues like economic governance and advancement, justice reform and human rights, according to the organization.

Created by Soros in 1979, Open Society is a grant - making foundation with branches and partners around the world and focuses on supporting democracies and combating issues of injustice and discrimination, among other causes.

Hollywood veterans also told Deadline that Fox Searchlight needs to keep the conversation around the movie focused more on the issue of race at a time when racial tensions in America have been on the rise.

Groklaw began as a standard law blog in 2003, when Jones began focusing on legal issues around the open - source community.

«Especially in peak operating times with resources focused on product, you don't have time to scramble around dealing with legal issues or broken machines without the proper teams supporting you.»

After extensive consideration of these issues, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) concluded last year that the focus should instead be on greater transparency of securities lending and repo activity and better disclosure to clients around the extent to which their collateral would be rehypothecated (FSB 2013).

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

HERE»S WHAT YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO... Every issue of the ABF Journal is themed around a core ABL industry topic including: risk management, bankruptcy trends and views from the bench, insights from specialty - lending shops, annual survey and ABL roundtable, cutting - edge solutions from ABL industry service providers, a borrowers» issue focused on the challenges facing middle - market CFOs, restructuring insights from turnaround managers, plus ABF Journal's year - end conference and capital markets issue.

The issue focused on Einstein's claim that the curvature of light as it passed around heavenly bodies was based on the curvature of space.

One draws upon the approaches of cultural anthropology in focusing on a society's value orientation around the issues of space and time.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

While Bread & Wine is a memoir that focuses on life around the table, Eat With Joy delves more deeply and directly into issues related to the theology of eating, touching on everything from food anxiety and eating disorders, to poverty, to obesity, to just and sustainable eating, to hospitality, to mindfulness, to communion.

Dubbed «Bonds that Matter» for its focus on these beginning - of - life issues, the ICRI's inaugural conference gathered scholars, activists, and students from around the country to Simi Valley, California last Friday to discuss the various ways in which these four practices violate children's rights.

As a people, we get so focused on one facet of an issue that we fail to really wrap our minds around the whole concept.

With today's increasing focus on sustainability and recyclability issues, AWA has seen that packaging print is innovating today across a broader arena than ever before — ready to become active partners for beer producers around the world.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

During the events of the weekend when the president said he preferred people linking arms in «unity» compared to kneeling in protest, questions also swirled about the lack of conversation from the White House centered around global issues, and why the president seemed intent on focusing on the sports world.

Short, concrete, and reassuring talks with young children, more detailed talks with middle age children focusing on their concerns and questions, and digging deep with interested teenagers around issues of values, inequality, and class divisions.

Through a number of events — organized on or around Labor Day — HMN will focus attention on the critical issue of preserving a woman's right to choose how and where she gives birth — a right that is rapidly disappearing.

Beyond technological limitations, key setbacks usually revolved around two issues: 1) a focus on data first, engagement and organizing second 2) top - down data ownership.

One solution to help meet increasing demand, and go some way to solving the unique issues around isolation from services in rural areas, could be to focus on increasing the number of smaller, satellite hospitals that are strategically located around existing central hubs in rural locations.

But he understood why the ticket has focused on the economy, in part because it's the main issue that Republicans believe have the best chance of hammering the president on: The key issue is the economy and I think Governor Romney will be able to turn it around.

He needs to focus on bread and butter issues like jobs and mortgages and public services and, above all, to develop a clear route map to growth, and stop fixating on the agenda of a liberal clique around him and barmy policies such as Lords reform and gay marriage, which people either don't like or don't care about.

At around 6 pm Harriet Harman, leader of the Commons and deputy leader of the Labour party, issued a statement which focused on party unity rather than an outright endorsement of Brown's leadership credentials.

While he did not directly reference the issues swirling around the travel ban, he did pledge to have New York lead the way on combating hate crimes, attention of which has been focused on since Trump's election.

But even as Cuomo focused on upstate cities like Schenectady, he was drawn into a conversation over national issues swirling around President Donald Trump's administration.

«I look forward to working with the team and helping as we focus on progressive issues around the country.»

Even though, as Cuomo focused on upstate cities like Schenectady, he was drawn into a conversation over national issues swirling around President Donald Trump's administration.

Speaking to a crowd of around 2,000 who waited for hours in the cold to hear the address at Cohoes High School in the Albany area, Clinton focused on economic issues, saying she'd push for rebuilding crumbling infrastructures, and mentioning the ongoing water crisis in nearby Hoosick Falls.

In making their deliberations about how to update the clock's time, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focused on the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, disastrous events such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and biosecurity issues such as the creation of an airborne H5N1 flu strain.

Outreach to policymakers and journalists is part of the association's ongoing Transformation Initiative, which calls on AAAS to ramp up advocacy around science - society issues, while also becoming more member - facing and focused on digital - first technologies, as well as innovation.

A congressionally mandated committee is holding public hearings on the issue, a series of recent symposia have focused attention on the small number of female researchers, and faculty women and sympathetic male colleagues around the country are debating the matter more openly with administrators (Science, 11 June, p. 1757).

Also, a video was created focusing on the issues revolving around mining and land degradation.

I am delighted to announce the publication of this two - part Special Focus Issue as it offers perspectives on many key questions that must be answered for this field to flourish and ultimately improve the lives of patients around the world.»

This week, during National Suicide Prevention Week, I hope all of us around the country are focusing on this issue and what we can do about it.

He received his masters in social work from the university of Kentucky and is a licensed clinical social worker focusing on addictions, relationship, and issues around dying and death.

But it also focuses on the interpersonal relationships of the team and the people around them and the issues that the industry has.

Tensing up when you talk about money, which shows an uncomfortable feeling around the subject because it is an issue they are focused on.

About Blog World Moms Network is a place where you can read about issues of parenthood from around the world focusing on topics of motherhood, culture, human rights and social good.

Past symposiums have focused on American elections on film (near the onset of the second Iraq War) and New Queer Cinema (around the time of Proposition 8, in an issue called «RS Prop 24»).

This surprisingly touching tragicomedy revolves around love and friendship, and it's a gem of low - budget British cinema that ignores discussing the political issues that come with societal collapse, instead focussing on something more emotive and soulful.

It continues making excellent work of allegory, focusing on guns and their effect on people (or apes) this time around — a particularly poignant issue this year.

The 14th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues of the United Nations (April 20 — May 1, 2015) in New York, brought together indigenous leaders around a table of intergenerational dialogue to exchange views and proposals regarding the priorities and the participation of indigenous people in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, highlighting challenges and creating strategies for strengthening the articulation in the consultation process of indigenous people on a development agenda whose innovative process focuses on the inclusion of everyone.

I want to focus on the qualities that define a Maker Education / Experience, rather than the tools, to address any issues around access and equity that might arise for groups, regardless of financial and material resources.

If you are leading or participating in a school - based program that helps young people explore teaching — in secondary or postsecondary — consider joining Educators Rising to connect with peers and experts around the country who are focusing on the same issues and challenges.

Johnson said that the main issues he is focusing his campaign around are changing Utah's education system and making Utah less reliant on the Federal government providing money for the state budget.