Sentences with phrase «important role of the state»

Although Head Start is a federal - to - local program structure, the Head Start and Early Head Start communities recognize the important role of the states in the formulation and implementation of policies and initiatives that affect low - income children and their families.

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The Bay Area Council Economic Institute and Central Valley Community Foundation today announced the launch of an in - depth study to examine Fresno's important role in the fast - emerging Northern California megaregion and how the arrival of high speed rail over the next decade will dramatically accelerate economic connections between Silicon Valley and the broader Bay Area and the state's fifth largest city.

«BitPay plays an important role in the crypto - currency ecosystem by helping consumers, businesses and other financial institutions seamlessly accept and transfer Bitcoin for goods and services in the real world,» stated Max Chee, Head of Aquiline Technology Growth.

To put it bluntly — and to focus solely upon the most important issue that I, as a Christian minister, must consider — I will state it as follows: Because Mormonism is a church of Satan, and Mitt Romney, in his leadership role (s) in this insidious and abominable cult, is a disciple of Satan, no Christian can support his campign.

To put it bluntly — and to focus solely upon the most important issue that I, as a Christian minister, must consider — I will state it as follows: Because Mormonism is a church of Satan, and Mitt Romney, in his leadership role (s) in this insidious and abominable cult, is a disciple of Satan, no Christian can support his candidacy.

Theories of modernization, despite the rather serious attacks to which they have been subjected in recent years, have been so prominent in the social sciences, and have played such an important role in our thinking about social change, that any effort to consider the changing relations between states and religious institutions must begin here.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

«The United States believes that communications satellites can eventually play an important role in the expansion and improvement of international communications and the fostering of international understanding...» (Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

A detailed critique of the mainline U.S. media is available elsewhere and is beyond the scope of this book.15 However, I offer these observations about the mainline media, which plays such an important role in shaping our understanding of the world and the role of the United States within it.

The proposal outlined in this paper, asking for religiously affiliated people to work together to face the issues of terrorism, violence and injustice, in not meant to diminish the important role that all other human agencies, state sponsored or voluntary organizations, groups and movements, have to play.

In the case of both illness and healing, we recognize that the state of our mind or spirit plays a very important role.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Dr. Bui Ba Bong, vice minister of agriculture and rural development, stated, «IRRI has played an important role as Vietnam's partner in rice research and development.

Several of the state's winegrowing regions and other organizations have sustainable and environmental programs, many of which provided the foundation for the statewide California Sustainable Winegrowing Program and all of which play an important role in the ever - expanding tapestry of the California wine community's efforts to produce high quality wine that is environmentally sound, economically feasible and socially equitable.

«State and federal regulatory agencies play an important role in food safety, and we hope that it will be reassuring to our customers that we are working cooperatively with the states of Texas and Oklahoma in taking the necessary steps to bring Blue Bell Ice Cream back to the market.»

As Rick Ackerly states in his book THE GENIUS IN EVERY CHILD, «Humans have a natural inclination to be decision makers, to be Selves, and we adults play an important role as children experience their interdependence with the world in ever - widening circles of complexity.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, state agencies, and anti-hunger, afterschool, and child advocates all have important roles to play in increasing participation.

BFHI has been shown to be very effective in increasing breastfeeding initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration in many countries, as well as improving mother's health care experiences and reducing rates of infant abandonment.12 Given the short and long - term benefits of breastfeeding to the infant, mother and society, implementing BFHI — alongside with the other objectives stated in the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding - continues to have an important role to play in health services worldwide.

Individual biographies are important because they provide insights into people's understandings of themselves and «the state», help us to appreciate how these understandings shift over time and space, and enable us to explore the role that involvement in grassroots politics plays in those shifts.

We felt this issue to be an important battleground in the debate over the question of the role of the state in delivering public services.

The concept of the trifecta is important in state lawmaking because in many states, the governor, senate majority leader, and house majority leader play decisive roles in the legislative process.

One of these firms, Blue State Digital (BSD), played a particularly important role in rebuilding the party's technical infrastructure after John Kerry's devastating defeat.

Whatever one thinks about the potency of the Big Society as a political message — and I have my doubts, as I have said before — it is based on a good Conservative principle: that the state's role is limited, and voluntary groups have an important part to play in helping society flourish.

Civil servants, the PM believes, have an enormously important role and must be given the freedom to carry it out, while secretaries of state, ministers and their teams should be allowed to sink or swim, express their views and get on with their missions.

Pharmaceutical products and technological innovation play important roles in the advancement of medicine in the United States, leading to improvements in public health and extended lives for our citizens.

It stated further, «The role of humans in economic development must not be overlooked, so it is important to leverage on the human resources of the state to generate ideas, establish enterprises and create much - needed goods and services.

«Given the important role public policies and services play in supporting individuals to make the most of their talents, we will consider legislating to make clear that tackling socio - economic disadvantage and narrowing gaps in outcomes for people from different backgrounds is a core function of public services,» the white paper stated.

I played an important role in achieving New York State's pioneering ban on fracking, while also urging our rapid transition to renewable sources of energy.

Recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Parkside Candy is another example of the important role state and federal historic tax credits play in revitalizing Buffalo's neighborhoods.

«As Secretary of State, Lorraine has been able to take the important roles of the Department of State — from real estate licensing to business incorporation to local government services — and combine them under the banner of better and more efficient service for the people of the State.»

Sen. Adams has worked with PEF on many important issues, and he has played a pivotal role in helping us build support for continuing the high quality state medical, research and educational services of Downstate University Hospital in Brooklyn.»

This question should be expanded to include the role of federalism and states right's generally as beneficial to liberty, self - governance and limited government that put important checks on potentially despotic and far away central governments.

«The juniors, the ministers of state do play a very important role,» says Akash Paun of the Institute for Government, who has written an excellent report on the challenges facing any prime minister about to reshuffle.

Conservative leader David Cameron has also stated that «the time has come to look at those [prerogative] powers exercised by ministers.Giving parliament a greater role in the exercise of these powers would be an important and tangible way of making government more accountable».

On economic policy and the role of the state there is, with some blurring and important space for nuance, a clear centre - left and a centre - right position.

The state senator has been an advocate for those who do not have a voice in the halls of government, playing an important role in 2009 and last year during the battle for same - sex marriage.

«We're looking forward to having that kind of contest where New York plays an important role in picking the president of the United States,» Cox said.

This state's role as the progressive capital of the nation is important to me and should be important to every person in this room.

President Mahama who disclosed these in a speech read for him by a Member of the Council of State, Mr Adenze Kanga, at the 31st edition of National Farmers Day held in Bolgatanga on Friday, said government recognises the important role the agriculture sector plays in the socio - economic development of the country.

Cuomo was so close to Pigeon — charged last week with nine felonies in connection with the alleged bribing of a state Supreme Court justice — that he gave him a key role in his 2014 re-election campaign despite objections from more important political aides like Joseph Percoco and Larry Schwartz, who considered him «untrustworthy and a little sleazy,» a source close to the campaign told The Post.

At a time of turmoil in Washington, I believe the states can and will play an important role and Governor Cuomo has the ability to find common ground when it's needed and get things done,» she stated.

Borgestedt, who works as an attorney for the state of Massachusetts, said non-scientists have an important role to play at the upcoming march.

UNEP plays an important role in developing scientific knowledge on the state of the global environment.

Most flowering plants need animal pollinators in order to reproduce, and bees serve that role for many important crops — including fruits, pulses, some vegetables and alfalfa — many of which were themselves introduced to the United States.

Cynthia Dougherty, EPA's director of ground water and drinking water, told a Senate panel today that the agency has an important role to play in bolstering state standards.

In addition to the images of the «city goddess» Tyche, the depictions of Augustus and Dea Roma deserve special attention, since they point to the important role of the Roman emperor and the personified goddess of the Roman state for the town of Doliche, which lies on the eastern border of the Roman Empire.

The growing role of natural gas in the United States» energy mix makes it more important to quantify the leakage.

Even more perplexing is that Washburn gives little thoughtful attention to certain critically important contemporary circumstances that directly impact and constrain the evolving role of academic institutions in the United States.

Mobility across the Atlantic, in both directions, plays an important role in this objective: Migrant researchers are often lynchpins of partnerships between Europe and the United States.