Sentences with phrase «held to promote»

Monthly conference calls be held to promote collaborative learning.

These parties are held to promote the local music scenes of Morna, Funana, Batuque and Coladeira folk music styles, as well as the newly popularised Zouk music.

In the past year, it was not uncommon for a fund manager that bought and held to promote their extraordinary returns as alpha.

And the second part, seated underhand pass, uses isometric holds to promote core strength and stability.

The General Allotment Act or Dawes Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1887.154 It codified and expanded an existing practice in treaties, special acts and «informal» actions and has been described as «dividing Indian lands into individual holdings to promote assimilation by deliberately destroying tribal relations».155 An allotment was a piece of land, varying typically in size from 40 to 160 acres.

Not exact matches

It promoted a dance party featuring MC Hammer to be held in the vault at its headquarters.

News of Lucara's discovery of the Lesedi La Rona diamond (it was named in a national contest held in Botswana and translates into «our light» in the Tswana language) has helped invigorate a mining category that has languished in the wake of a global recession, not to mention a campaign by Blood Diamond star Leonardo DiCaprio to promote synthetic alternatives to alleviate working conditions of miners in Africa.

As president — a role he assumed in January — he holds the very same title that Tillerson held before he was promoted to CEO in 2006.

Republicans said they wanted to release the document to promote transparency and hold law enforcement accountable, but Democrats have characterized it as a thinly veiled attempt to distract the public and discredit the agencies investigating the president and his associates.

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Macmahon Holdings chief financial officer Sybrandt van Dyk has been promoted to the role of chief executive, following Ross Carroll's resignation in January.

Kellogg's chose to spend more money promoting a version of the ad featuring an alien instead, because it held up better upon second viewing.

Case's Rise of the Rest Tour visited nine Midwestern cities last year to promote entrepreneurship and hold pitch competitions.

For example, Whole Foods, Virgin Airlines, Krave, Destination Races, and Meb Meflezighi, winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon, have partnered to promote a contest aimed to drive consumers into Whole Foods stores where they can register for a drawing to win a trip to a participate in a half marathon to be held in Sonoma, California, wine country.

The President will continue to promote fair economic competition, and will make it clear that there can not be free and open trade if countries are not held accountable to the rules.

Most recently, the advocacy group held a Blockchain Education Day event in Washington, DC, in which members of Congress mingled with representatives from more than 70 leading companies in the blockchain industry to promote the use of new innovations like blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

G - 20: The Group of 20 major economies wrapped up their annual summit, held in Hangzhou, China, with a stronger commitment to coordinate policies to support growth and promote trade liberalization.

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this week the Minister of Finance held his seventh National Policy Retreat with business, academic and other «experts» to discuss job creation and economic growth, particularly «issues» related to «skill shortages, labor mobility, internal trade and promoting investment in Canada.»

Theranos, a privately held company founded by Ms. Holmes, 31, after she dropped out of Stanford at age 19, has been trying to swat down suspicions that the capability it has promoted — being able to do a wide range of medical tests cheaply and quickly using only a finger prick of blood — is more hype than reality.

About BSD - TEDA BSD - TEDA is a joint venture between the Beijing Science Park Development Group and Tianjin TEDA Investment Holdings created to promote the construction, development, investment and operation of the Sino - Canadian Low - Carbon Eco-District, a Canadian - Chinese cooperation project supported by the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban - Rural Development and Natural Resources Canada.

The primary function of the Cryptyk Foundation is to grow the Cryptyk community globally and hold regular membership events to promote the CRYPTYK open source platform to both customers and developers.

CorpWatch works to promote environmental, social and human rights at the local, national and global levels by holding multinational corporations accountable for their actions.

Our goal is to promote greater awareness and understanding of the industry — speaking to the enormous value it holds for businesses, investors and the economy at large — by providing data - driven research, resources, and discussion.

Like last September, we held a fashion show in Seoul to promote clothes from about 100 apparel merchants in Korea, whose products were simultaneously sold in a special promotion on Juhuasuan.

The Committee's sizable and still - increasing holdings of longer - term securities should maintain downward pressure on longer - term interest rates, support mortgage markets, and help to make broader financial conditions more accommodative, which in turn should promote a stronger economic recovery and help to ensure that inflation, over time, is at the rate most consistent with the Committee's dual mandate.

Blockchain infrastructure provider BitFury Group announced on Thursday a deal with Hong Kong - listed fintech company Credit China Fintech Holdings to set up a joint venture that will focus on promoting the technology in China.

Calomiris proposes (1) internal governance reforms that would decentralize power within the Fed and promote diversity of thinking; (2) policy process reforms that would narrow the Fed's primary mandate to price stability and require the Fed to adopt and disclose a systematic approach to monetary policy; and (3) other reforms that would constrain the Fed's asset holdings and activities so as to avoid actions that conflict with its monetary policy mission and that risk undermining its independence.

Ms. Peppler - Moyer has held several leadership positions within both The ESOP Association and the Employee Ownership Foundation, the Association's affiliated 501 (c)(3) Foundation dedicated to promoting employee ownership in America.

He was promoted to Assistant Vice President, Research in January 2013, and currently holds the position of Vice President, Research, as of June 2014.

In order for VOW operators to be in the position to offer the kind of Commission savings, that have been promoted by the Competition Bureau within their pleadings — and why would they want to unless it was absolutely necessary — would it also not hold true that in a industry such as organized real estate that is grossly oversaturated with members that VOW's would not only have to hurt some existing competitors, but would need to accomplish this to an extent where the figurative wall will rise up and thus represent a literal «barrier to entrance» into the real estate industry?

The rule, which grew out of the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial oversight law, was intended to promote transparency so citizens in some of the world's most impoverished countries can hold their governments accountable for the wealth generated through mining and drilling.

As you may know, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will soon be on «a nationwide (USA) speaking tour next month to promote the project and encourage interfaith dialogue,» and at least one member of your faith chastised the Imam (in a public online forum) for not holding open meetings.

The New York Times: Seeking to Clear a Path Between Yoga and Islam As a community activist in Queens, Muhammad Rashid has fought for the rights of immigrants held in detention, sought the preservation of local movie theaters and held a street fair to promote diversity.

Clearly, you do not hold high regard for Christianity, saying it «provides little to no help in advancing out lives, promotes discrimination and hatred, and doesn't improve quality of life in any significant manner.»

Call upon representatives of the various religions, sects and denominations to confront all forms of religious bigotry, villification, and denegration of what people hold sacred, as well as all speech that promote hatred and bigotry;

Today, Bibles are published by the church and their use is promoted, priests are not allowed to hold political office, and members are encouraged to read the Bible and worship in their native language.

Within it, for authority to remain itself and not be transformed into some other form of social control, those who hold it must reflect, embody, and promote shared beliefs and intentions.

He said he was and he promoted his communist style of atheism in order to hold on to power.

«In the past, the lack of infrastructure designed to promote female voices would have held them back; but today, women who are gifted to teach, lead, or encourage have opportunity to actualize these gifts in a public way.»

While it is vital that Christians hold one another accountable for working for the glory of God, we should be careful of using God's name carelessly or in vain in order to cover for our reluctance to promote our work....

The cohort of women most captivated by that ideology now holds influential positions, and the organizations that promote the worst ideas of 1970s feminism continue to be handsomely bankrolled by its chief beneficiaries — the vast, profit - making abortion industry, the sex industry, and the organizations that promote aggressive population control.

You people are very misinformed, only police, military and a very select few class 3 ATF licensed gun dealers can have automatic assault rifles, and the horrible terrible people at the NRA spend millions a year teaching gun safety, gun responsibility, gun training and promote legal gun ownership, a gun is a firearm, a tool that only becomes a weapon when the one holding it intends to harm another, until then it's a gun.

The fact that you could only come up with two «champions» of Atheism, with one of those still in doubt (Einstein still held religious beliefs), doesn't do much to promote your point.

«And although the view that Muslims have been the perpetual victims of Christian aggression down the ages rests on a falsification of history, I reject the equal and opposite fantasy»» promoted by biased and uninformed Christians» «that holds Islam to be a uniquely violent religion.

But it has also promoted a distraction of mind in the reader, so that, perhaps precisely from respect and admiration for China and Persia, the thinkers of the middle ages, the four universal monarchies (a discovery which, as it did not escape Geert Westphaler, has also set many a Hegelian Geert Westphaler's tongue wagging), he may have forgotten to inquire whether it now really did become evident at the end, at the close of this journey of enchantment, as was repeatedly promised in the beginning, and what was of course the principal issue, for the want of which not all the glories of the world could compensate, what alone could be a sufficient reward for the unnatural tension in which one had been held — that the method was valid.

Speaking hours after a terrorist attack killed 21 people in a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would hold an interreligious meeting in October in Assisi, Italy, to discuss with other religious leaders how religion can promote world peace.

A declaration by an international conference held April 12 - 24, 2005 in Kericho, Kenya, regarding globalisation and ways to promote ethical, moral and spiritual values for the common good.

Citizens believe in God, but their liberal religion has few holds on duty (this is not a book to cheer liberals) and rigorous sectarian religion promotes few impulses toward the public good; rather, it stands off, supporting privatism beyond church, individualism in the public zone and incoherence overall.

While the White House's broad vision to «protect and vigorously promote religious liberty» holds promise for people of faith, it lacks some of the specific conscience safeguards that many conservative Christians wanted to see.