Sentences with phrase «group focusing on issues»

I am pleased to announce the formation of a new adult psychotherapy group focusing on issues of emerging adulthood, including the themes of communication, commitment, identity, intimacy, and trust.

One lesson that emerged very early in our work: The model we had of ALA leadership raising the visibility and engaging in high - level talks — coupled with a strong, cross-interest working group focused on issues that were clearly on the minds of the library community and ALA members — has served us well.

I had a bit of a poke around here — specifically looking at Walley's criticism of Bayesian inferences and of course found a group focused on this issue — The Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (www.sipta, org).

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Deep policy divisions appear to exist between the business and labor groups: The report cites the «majority» of members preferring to focus on issues outside trade deficits in favor of a «mutually beneficial» trade deal, sentiments to which the labor union representatives dissent in favor of promoting U.S. investment and jobs.

Although there have been several recent cross-border attacks and incursions, the Eurasia Group team does not see a broader military conflict in 2017 given that both countries» prime ministers are focused on domestic issues.

«Jeb Bush has a big interest in Latin America, and I expect he would follow in the footsteps of [his] father and brother in being more internationally focused on trade issues,» says Todd McCracken, president and chief executive of the National Small Business Association, a business advocacy group.

He co-founded a group called BetterTO to organize discussions on issues facing the city — the first, held in March, focused on housing.

«Based on evidence gathered from focus groups and interviews conducted in U.S. coal communities, we argue that coal communities that have experienced mine closures have already begun an economic and social transition, one that is based on reshaping their culture and sense of identity,» wrote professors of Indiana University in a paper published in the March issue of Energy Research and Social Science.

Two, make charitable donations, both to humanitarian groups as well as to groups that are focused on issues like good governance and fighting corruption.

«We have a core IT supervision group... and within that group we created a new division that is focused on cyber security issues to strengthen our capacity to deal with these,» he said.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

An ad created by the pro-Trump Great America Alliance — a nonprofit «issues» group that isn't required to disclose its donors — casts Comey as a «showboat» who was «consumed with election meddling» instead of focusing on combating terrorism.

2/5 I have been focused on this issue, backing anti-NIMBY group SFBARF and speaking out frequently about the need to lower cost of housing.

«My sense is that the working group will likely be focused on the big picture policy questions, not the drafting issues» regarding DOL's rule, Mason added.

The issue: China's commerce ministry was broken in March into three separate groups each focused on different issues.

Investors have filed a record number of shareholder proposals on ESG issues this year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow shareholder advocacy group.

A working group is formed to focus on the issue and the alternative developed and deployed is in the interest of all parties.

Wirecard, an international group of companies with a focus on payment processing and card issuing, has officially acquired Citi Prepaid Card Services,...

CNN: Survey: Catholics divided on political issues, as adherent numbers decline As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

Washington (CNN)-- As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

It was clear that the women gathered often entered the struggle from different vantage points, they did not always agree with all that was spoken, but what could not be ignored was that there were some common issues that did draw them together — it was not accidental or designed that over one - third of the 4,000 workshops by different women's groups, from all regions of the world, focuses on the issue of violence against women — some of the best being organized by Indian women, What was at the heart of Huairou was the commitment of the women present to draw energy and support from each other — it was a consciousness that they were doing it all «for the common good.»

To finish, I would like to focus on some of the practical issues that impinge on all these groups.

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!

Since most social problems are vastly more complicated than the uninformed person even suspects, disciplined study in small groups, focusing on a particularly urgent social issue, can prepare people to act wisely.

The issue of a participatory conception of the public sphere leads communication experts to study group media instead of focusing on mass media only.

Sherman said a moderate denomination, to be successful, must focus on bedrock Baptist issues and warned against what he called «elitist» moderate groups that focus on single issues, like women in ministry or gay rights.

This dimension of American poverty has historically been overlooked, with policymakers — and many social justice groups, including Catholic ones — instead focusing solely on financial issues.

Amy currently runs a consulting firm focused on assisting businesses, associations, nonprofits and advocacy groups with legal issues, legislative and regulatory research, obtaining grants, and market analysis and trends.

Focusing on the issue of high food consumption and wastage of food in the UAE, Emirates Environmental Group organised its 7th Session of Community Lec

• A brief, inexpensive US intervention (one prenatal session, in separate gender groups focusing on psychosocial issues related to becoming first - time parents) was associated with reduced distress in some mothers at six weeks postpartum.

• A brief, inexpensive US prenatal intervention (consisting of one prenatal session with parents in separate gender groups focusing on psychosocial issues of first - time parenthood) was associated with mothers» reporting greater satisfaction with the sharing of home and baby tasks post partum (Matthey et al, 2004).

The group is not exclusively focused on pregnancy loss but is involved in a lot of activities related to miscarriage and stillbirth awareness, such as the MISSing Angels Bills that have been considered or passed in many U.S. states with the idea of granting parents the right to receive a state - issued certificate of stillbirth recognizing the loss of a baby to stillbirth.

Despite what the name implies, the group focuses on perinatal (pre-birth) issues as well.

They focused a lot on how breastfeeding was going / troubleshooting breastfeeding issues during our one - day, three - day, two - week, and six - week follow up appointments, and gave me information about support groups and lactation consultants we could meet with ASAP if we needed additional support.

Hand in Hand is actively seeking to partner with groups and organizations focused on families, supporting parents, and providing solutions to one of the core issues that can cause dis - connected children — lack of strong parental relationships.

Their study, published in the April 18th issue of The Lancet, focused on the incidence of rotavirus infection (both with and without symptoms) in a group of 200 infants born in a low - income neighborhood of Mexico City.

Finally, I think that the move towards abstraction has been catalysed by the need to overcome what people see as the dead end of identity politics and its parochial focus on particular group experiences to the exclusion of wider issues of democratic solidarity.

Western New York's largest business group, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, once again plans to focus its lobbying efforts on core issues familiar to its members: the high cost of doing business in the state, the need for more trained workers and the importance of encouraging investment in the region.

However it is important to note that only a small proportion of civil society groups are involved in the protests; namely those groups that are based in Bujumbura who are focused on governance and human rights issues and regard themselves as watchdog responsible for holding the government to account.

Mr. Boateng who was speaking at a focus group discussion on the «Post 2015 District Level Elections», organized by the NCCE with support from the European Union, to refresh the minds of participants on the country's decentralization concept, stressed that the issue was detrimental to the decentralization process of the country.

«We have so many unanswered questions about the sustainability of our water supply,» said Germain, whose organization is facilitating the Western Long Island Aquifer Committee, a coalition group focused on water issues.

An ad that never ran got plenty of media coverage and took attention away from the issues on which the group wanted to focus voters (though all the attention also boosted the group's membership, so it wasn't exactly a total loss).

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

But in 2015, the Campaign for One New York decided not to register as a lobbyist because the group was mainly focused on launching The Progressive Agenda, de Blasio's somewhat failed effort to make income inequality a central issue in the 2016 presidential elections.

In 2011, Stephen Berger, an investment banker who had previously led a task force on Brooklyn hospitals, issued a report focusing on the same set of hospitals as well as Long Island College Hospital, which was eventually sold to real estate developer Fortis Property Group.

Less than a year later, Cuomo shut down the panel, and within months the New York Times reported that internal commission documents showed «the governor's office deeply compromised the panel's work, objecting whenever the commission focused on groups with ties to Cuomo or on issues that might reflect poorly on him.»

On Wednesday night, the SU chapter of Democracy Matters, a national student group that focuses on campaign finance reform, invited Williams to discuss his thoughts on the issuOn Wednesday night, the SU chapter of Democracy Matters, a national student group that focuses on campaign finance reform, invited Williams to discuss his thoughts on the issuon campaign finance reform, invited Williams to discuss his thoughts on the issuon the issue.

In addition to support from labor unions and supporters of public financing of political campaigns, Senate Democrats are expected to receive strong organizational support from groups that focus on women's health and workplace rights issues.

The group said further: «Our governor is now a parrot who must talk at all times in and out of season; we believe that Mr Governor should devote more time to think on how to move Ekiti forward instead of focusing and dissipating his energy on irrelevant issues.

Joyce says he expects the group to focus on a variety of issues.