Sentences with phrase «group called attention»

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His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

Yet few paid attention at the time, even though the group specifically called out Facebook's quizzes in 2009.

Simpson noted that the site took action after a Russian - controlled Facebook group was caught running ads for a 2016 event called «Stop Islamification of Texas» but suggested that when the news cameras were not paying attention, similar content was ignored.

Brandon White of bullion dealer BMG Group in Ontario calls attention to a recent report in the major Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda by two journalists who were given an exclusive tour of the vault containing Russia's gold reserve.

Those calling attention to the disparity in reactions have also highlighted the work of the Dream Defenders, a Florida - based group founded after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012, arguing that it helped pave the way for the current student movement for gun control.

Rightly calling attention to the extremely high level of violence in Colombia, Rivera failed to mention the group responsible for 70 percent of that violence: the paramilitary forces which, although ostensibly private and illegal, receive aid and cooperation from Colombia's army and hence, indirectly, from the U.S. Neither did Rivera mention the 2 million people who have fled from the fighting and the aerial fumigation of their farms.

We are today called upon to be in solidarity with many other groups who are made helpless in modern society The needs of the handicapped should receive serious attention.

(CNN)- Showcasing alleged hate crimes, physical threats and profiling, a diverse group of ethnic organizations has coalesced to bring attention to what they call discrimination against Arabs, Muslims, Sikhs and others in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Despite laments over their decline, such groups remain an important force in American life — indeed, the recent attention devoted to their so - called decline may actually help their vitality as it emphasizes their importance.

Whitehead's concept of Society thus explicitly calls attention to the essential orderliness of social relations; that is, groups of existing things are related socially because those things share a particular order among themselves.

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But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

By calling attention to that tactic in your article you may have saved the progress your PAC group has made in the last few months.

In March, when I first wrote about how the biotech rider — called the Monsanto Protection Act by its vocal opponents — undercut the constitutional concept of separation of powers, it seemed hardly anyone (other than the usual advocacy groups) was paying attention.

This was all called to our attention this morning via Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group, who is an astute student of state political history.

Form an interest group which uses peaceful protesting and information campaigns to call attention to certain issues and force political parties to take a side.

While it's not clear if Mr. Grimm indeed could have «passed comprehensive immigration reform» in 17 minutes — one of the suggestions on the list — the blog nonetheless provided the Democratic group an opportunity to call attention to controversies and positions they hope to wield against the Republican as he seeks re-election in a competitive, Staten Island - based district next year.

A variety of activist groups and City Council members gathered outside City Hall on Wednesday morning to call for attention to their respective causes.

(The ties between the group and the governor have now drawn the attention of at least one prominent good - government group: The «unique relationship,» as NYPIRG's Blair Horner called it Tuesday morning, is potentially problematic from an ethics standpoint and should be officially disclosed.)

To bring further attention to their calls for reform, the groups held a press conference.

Those species with bigger hyoids live in single - male groups, so it makes sense to invest in what the researchers call «precopulatory traits,» that is, their courtship strategy of attracting the female's attention.

The group said they called attention to the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus, which was founded last year to promote a nonpartisan approach to addressing climate change and urged offices to get involved.

Michael Slezak calls attention to the difficulty Polynesian groups would have encountered sailing eastwards across the Pacific, against the south - east...

Organized by an Asheville, N.C. - based environmental group called the Dogwood Alliance, the protest is the latest move by activists to draw attention to the wood pellet industry's growth in the South, where they allege forests are being chopped down unsustainably so European nations can meet renewable energy targets.

«All the NIH can do is call attention to these problems and how important this group of individuals is to the future of biomedical research,» Ginsburg said.

The finding also calls attention to the special medical needs of older drug users — a group that, until now, hasn't garnered much notice.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

Housed in a brain region called the thalamus, a group of brain cells called the thalamic reticular nucleus, or TRN, had been suspected to control the brain's ability to pay selective attention to cues from the outside world.

Array Operators Array operators pay attention to multiple computer screens that monitor the health of the antennas, answer radio calls from technicians in the field, work with observers and scientists whose tests or observations are running, and field questions from tour groups that may be passing through.

(ISTOCKPHOTO) In addition to counseling, behavioral conditioning, coaching, and support groups, four drugs — brand names Adderall, Dexedrine, Ritalin, and Concerta — are commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, sometime simply called ADD) in adults and children.

In addition to writing another, as - yet - untitled social satire à la Get Out, he's turning his attention to television, excavating our deepest horrors with an HBO series (produced with J. J. Abrams) about the Jim Crow South called Lovecraft Country; another one centered on a group of 1970s Nazi hunters, Black Klansman; and then, of course, a reboot of The Twilight Zone, where he can take his specific talent for merging horror, social commentary, and a dose of sci - fi and apply it to the revered TV series, which he will re-imagine with X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg.

To call attention to some district schools that have adopted blended learning and boosted student outcomes, we at the Christensen Institute have partnered with the Evergreen Education Group to profile district schools with measurable positive student results from having adopted blended learning.

The Second Step curriculum emphasizes impulse control (the ability to control and manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, including listening, focusing attention, following directions, using self - talk, being assertive, identifying and understanding feelings, respecting similarities and differences), empathy (conversation skills, joining groups, making friends), anger and emotional management (calming down strong feelings, managing anger, managing accusations, disappointment, anxious and hurt feelings, handling put downs, managing test anxiety, resisting revenge, and avoiding jumping to conclusions), and problem - solving (playing fairly, taking responsibility, solving classroom problems, solving peer exclusion problems, handling name calling, dealing with peer pressure, dealing with gossip, seeking help when you need it).

A poster of the shared agreements can be displayed and when necessary, called attention to when a student or group needs a reminder.

Parents from Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford stood on the steps of the Capitol in Hartford Monday morning to call attention to charter and magnet school state funding discrepancies they see as unfair to their children.The group asked legislators to...

It reflects an emerging national consensus on the importance of studying teachers» work before giving job security or raises, said Timothy Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group that published a report last year calling attention to weaknesses in teacher evaluation systems.

It's a national group with a strong Tennessee presence that is focused on calling attention to the most egregious of education policies.

Individual institutions, state university systems, AACTE state chapters and their leadership group, and our accreditor have all called attention to this persistent problem.

When a surprising mental breakdown draws too much attention from a secret government group call the Order, 17 - year - old Dakota discovers that her so - called boring life isn't so boring... Read More

There is one group of fish retailers should give special attention to, and they are called the «reef - safe» category.

Gamer's Voice, a pressure group founded to act as a conduit between gamers, media and the Government, have announced that they will be bringing problems regarding Call of Duty: Black Op's to the attention of the Government agencies that protect consumers rights in the UK.

Founded by a group of eager gamers from Sweden with a dream to become game developers themselves, the company attracted much media attention in 2006 when it released (initially with little fanfare) a tech demo that was disguised as a game called Penumbra.

When the four works were brought together in a group show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1985, Abigail Solomon - Godeau wrote that Williams's «insistence on site - specificity, both in a geographic sense (the city represented by the tourism photo is changed to represent whatever city the work is exhibited in) and in an institutional sense (the work is conceived to call attention to the museological «frame») militates against the neutralization of the works» politics by the art institution that houses it.»

This underground group developed a near - fanatical following which took part in a controversial cultural production strategy called «Posing,» where member artists appropriated the identities of their more well - known contemporaries in order to create attention for new work.

Any Given Sunday showcases a small group of artists who call attention to sports related imagery as a way to explore cultural topics such as the mass media, celebrity, race, and gender.

It lets me call attention to a halfway decent painter, a theoretically top - heavy group show, and their limits.

Johnson's book, Kirsh writes, calls attention to «a group of women artists who were active in Vienna's art world around 1900 but were entirely written out of later historical accounts.»

2012 has been an incredibly busy period for Lyken receiving continued Press attention with two solo exhibitions; a solo album called Bit Rot; a fashion collaboration with Che Camille; The «Forms & Spaces» interventions with Teo Moneyless Pirisi around Scotland; remixes, group shows and murals including See No Evil in Bristol where he was among 30 handpicked artists whos work was viewed by crowds of 50000 attending the worlds largest Street Art Festival.