Sentences with phrase «for initiatives like»

We have to come together as a unified industry and show support for initiatives like the Purdue Canine Care Certified program, which ensures more uniform regulations and higher standards for breeders because, without them, we're simply going to have a dog shortage.

We lose a lot of money again (which we do not have); and we lose lot enormous social capital (all the connections to the marginalized kids and families in our local neighborhood) because of this decision that was made by local authorities of the city of Berlin, claiming to have no money for initiatives like us (we are not the only ones suffering from such decisions).

Editorial by Alan Stern and Marcia McNutt that advocates for initiatives like New Horizons that spark the curiosity embedded in the human spirit

This includes support for initiatives like Computer Science for All.

Not exact matches

Department stores like Macy's (m) have been talking changes and new initiatives for years, so next year is the time to put up or well, you know.

We also have monthly events like Fit for Fall, a fitness initiative that encourages employees to get active, eat healthy, and drink lots of water.

During a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, Zuckerberg reiterated much of what he covered during those hearings by explaining recent initiatives like increasing the number of employees who handle reviewing content for security and safety to 20,000.

Apple is following the likes of Amazon with its new health care initiative for the tech giant's employees and their families.

There are all sort of techniques to reduce the amount of time you spend in useless meetings, from team - wide initiatives like having employees «pay» for meetings and simple gizmos that nudge people to use their time more effectively, to personal strategies for winnowing the number of meetings you're obliged to accept.

CEO Howard Schultz is known for taking on big issues like job creation and education so the coffee chain's latest initiative centered around diversity and racial inequality was not a big departure from that.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

The initiative could position Israel as a leader in digital health globally and serve as a bellwether for things like population health and national genomic sequencing systems.

Aside from putting in their own money, Chan and Zuckerberg also plan to help push a movement to increase the funding for science initiatives like their own.

For every company like O2 or The Cut & Color Room embracing customer rewards initiatives, there are dozens of others still sitting on the sidelines.

Polman's defining initiative has been the 10 - year Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, which has included significant changes such as having 100 % of agricultural raw materials be sustainable by 2020, developing a framefork for fair pay, and investing heavily in hygiene promotion in developing markets like India.

While Google has been doing this for years with programs like Google Summer Code and Google Code - in, the new site brings all the initiatives together.

Trump met on Tuesday with around 20 executives of major companies like General Motors and IBM in an effort to ramp up support for the infrastructure initiative.

It will be part of Marvel's All - New All Different Marvel» initiative kicking off this October, which will include new comics for Marvel's superhero characters like Iron Man and the Avengers.

Weisler did voice optimism about new HP initiatives that could help revitalize the company like its newly announced 3D printers for industrial customers.

«Just like a manager can have one initiative and totally nail it, an actor can have one amazing role that's perfect for them,» says Tite.

This is the rationale behind initiatives like The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI).

We are now in what I like to call an «eat what you kill» environment, where the people who win are those who take the initiative without waiting for permission to create their own success.

Most provinces lack the democratic apparatus for citizen initiatives like Washington's, though there's little public conviction that alcohol sales need to remain nationalized.

Not surprisingly, the highest - ranked brands on our Canadian list fared well in these two categories — Canadian Tire, for instance, earned high marks for citizenship, likely because of community - focused initiatives like Jumpstart, its charitable - giving program.

As for the unexpected benefits of an initiative like Great Big Story, Morse believes that his team will learn things that will benefit its big sister CNN.

New initiatives like nation - wide delivery are a clear source of execution risk, but precedents are in place for investors to be optimistic.

Every step of the way, we have focused on making Government work better for business through initiatives like Startup America and BusinessUSA — groundbreaking programs that connect entrepreneurs to resources that can spur their success.

When we start coupling increased automation with initiatives like delivery, which isn't yet a proven construct for the company yet, the company is able to significantly cut costs, boosting margins and profitability as a result.

When Schultz references an education initiative he recently launched, in which Starbucks will cover tuition for its U.S. employees working more than 20 hours per week who enroll in an online college - degree program from Arizona State University, Tatum asks whether Starbucks considered paying for them to attend traditional, class - based institutions with proven track records and lower attrition rates, like Spelman.

By supporting initiatives like NextAI, Magna has the opportunity to help create a preeminent AI ecosystem which will ignite a new wave of opportunity for the Canadian industry, society, and entrepreneurs.»

Looking years out at the election calendar, Trudeau's strategists pushed early for federal - provincial initiatives like Canada Pension Plan reform, a health accord and the framework for fighting climate change.

Leaving initiatives like the Major Fairs Program (a $ 15 - million yearly subsidy for the Calgary Stampede and Edmonton's summer K - Days) wholly intact leaves plenty for Kenney to slice if he wins next year.

While industry groups like the American Petroleum Institute have only had praise for the new administration's initiatives so far, this time reactions are more lukewarm.

Not only are the taxes good, but there are lots of events where entrepreneurs can showcase and test their ideas — like the Technopark in Zurich, the Blue Lion initiative, Venture Kick and the Start - up Weekend for tech start - ups.

In less than a year, they will be the new normal for 34 countries in Europe — thanks to payments initiatives like SEPA, or the Single Euro Payments Area.

Initiatives like the Brooke Owens Fellowship and other FSLF programs are a great way for young people to connect with professionals who can serve as mentors, and who have already demonstrated success within the modern aerospace industry.

With initiatives like GST, the tax arbitrage available to the smaller traders will slowly erode increasing addressable market for the organized companies.

Several high - profile economists and pundits are both frustrated and perplexed that initiatives like cash - for - clunkers, the $ 800 + billion U.S. stimulus program, and Japan's 20 installments of government spending juice (over recent years) have failed to trigger anywhere close to the expected multiplier1 impact on economic activity.

There are new offerings, like Calvert Foundation's Women Investing in Women Initiative for fixed income and the PAX Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund or Morgan Stanley's Parity Portfolio for public equities, and initiatives like The Women Effect bringing a new community together to accelerate deployment of interested capital into gender - lens investment opportunities.

With growth expected at 20 % for the next half - decade and likely beyond, given the potential for Teavana in the $ 90B global tea market and other initiatives to increase the size of each patron's check, a price of 30x earnings today will look like a bargain in a few years.

But two obstacles stand in the way of moving from something like the WSGR term sheet generator to a broad - based document - assembly initiative for drafting contracts.

False starts and minor failures are inevitable for any company at this level, and it looks like BlackBerry is sailing into uncharted waters for a bumpy ride, hopefully this initiative will be worth for the shareholders, customers and for the company.

Women excel in important leadership areas like cooperation, communication, taking initiative and driving for results.

I have slightly mixed feelings about McFarlane's treatment of Hamm — on one hand, Trent seems like a good guy that took the kind of initiative that McFarlane recommends to launch his blog and turn it into a wildly successful site that he was able to sell for $ 1,000,000 +.

But given that several individual racial justice groups, as well as larger collectives like the Movement for Black Lives and the police - reform oriented Campaign Zero initiative, have all come out with various policy agendas targeting specific issues, this doesn't really hold up.

For anxious investors, Google X was also shorthand for the company's freewheeling spending — money sunk into initiatives that are unproven or that flopped, like Google GlaFor anxious investors, Google X was also shorthand for the company's freewheeling spending — money sunk into initiatives that are unproven or that flopped, like Google Glafor the company's freewheeling spending — money sunk into initiatives that are unproven or that flopped, like Google Glass.

But lest such a remarkable human resource like Filner be squandered by a party engaged in too many bold initiatives for overcoming blinkered pre-2009 conceptions of legality to keep track of, this George Will column shows us precisely where he is needed: at the head of the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

It is, indeed, something of an unusual event that an English bishop should base himself so firmly, not merely on the odd bland quotation here and there from whoever the current pope happens to be, in order to camouflage the true nature of some firmly secularist initiative, but on the spirit as well as the letter of entire magisterial documents, not least the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself — which, it will be remembered, we were all told by Bishop David Konstant was not for the likes of us, but for the bishops to read so they could tell us what was in it.

Among numerous non-Catholic constructive responses to last Year's Islamic Open Letter «A Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like God, Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence of the role of religion in social life, the opposition of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion of common initiatives for peace»

I get it that this is a coming out of the «theological closet» initiative for the American Atheist organization intended to reach like - minded individuals in concentrated cultural and religious neighborhoods.