Sentences with phrase «including several efforts»

A caravan of international and privately funded missions is on the horizon, including several efforts hoping to prospect for resources to aid future human missions.

The announcement includes several efforts to support servicemembers and veterans who were wrongfully foreclosed upon, wrongfully charged higher interest rates, and who were forced to sell their home for a loss due to a permanent change in service.

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His post goes on to list several techniques, including following your interests so that you enjoy the process not just the result of your efforts, focusing on self - improvement rather than external comparisons, and seeking empowering mentorship.

The passage about Telegram is included among several paragraphs describing Russian cyber efforts to hack Western political and commercial targets.

Google is putting more effort into its online store of late with several expansions, including a move into Canada with its music portion plus a deal with PayPal across a number of other countries.

Applicants can point to several kinds of experiences to demonstrate the above, including denial of equal access to institutions of higher education; exclusion from social and professional associations; denial of educational honors; social pressures that discouraged the individual from pursuing education; and discrimination in efforts to secure employment or secure professional advancement.

The company has also proposed several charter amendments as part of its efforts to adopt corporate governance best practices, including board declassification, providing for the removal of directors with or without cause, a reduced supermajority requirement to amend bylaws regarding special meeting rights and the elimination of supermajority requirements for certain provisions of the bylaws.

Several key producers, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, have been increasing production in an effort to defend market share ahead of the likely lifting of Iranian sanctions in 2016.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

Two Christian organizations were among several groups that spoke out against the town's efforts to prevent the mosque's construction and filed an amicus brief on the Islamic Society's behalf, including the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and the National Association of Evangelicals.

I remember a few years ago, several churches in my area got really involved in the Tennessee legislature's effort to amend the state constitution to include a ban on gay marriage.

Canadians have maintained a slight lead over efforts in the United States, partly because several of the early gurus of mass media, including Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, taught in Canada, and partly because Canada has a long tradition of media responsiveness to public interest, including the Canadian Film Board and the Canadian Broadcasting System.

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

Finally, the attendees talked about the power of and need for partnerships to solve the many reasons for food waste, including sharing stories of existing efforts like the three companies in the Midwest who are splitting the cost and use of an anaerobic digester, which turns food scraps into energy, and several food donation groups who highlighted the effectiveness of successful partnerships.

An avid supporter of her community, Ms. Welch champions the fundraising efforts of several non-profits including Special Olympics and local Illinois charities.

Howard's efforts, however, will be memorialized as several Twitter users (including the official Wimbledon account) created these beautiful #ThingsTimHowardSaves photoshops.

In addition to the contributions from the St. Francis families, the collection efforts also included items donated from several high schools and groups: El Camino, Rio Americano, Bella Vista, Woodcreek Aquatics, Oak Ridge, Jesuit, Christian Brothers and Stats Swimming.

Yesterday I wrote an impassioned post about efforts by House Republicans to gut the funding for several pieces of legislation that I personally value, including the new school food... [Continue reading]

Several stories drove this point home for us in August, including this one about the efforts the California dairy community is making toward supporting the Fuel Up to Play 60 program in the 2014 - 14 school year.

Fortunately, the effort necessary to include children in the completion of chores from an early age offers several potential benefits.

Yesterday I wrote an impassioned post about efforts by House Republicans to gut the funding for several pieces of legislation that I personally value, including the new school food regulations, the new food safety law and the new voluntary guidelines for marketing junk food to children, along with funding for food assistance programs like WIC.

§ § § Several CDC efforts are underway to continue supporting improvements in maternity care, including continuation of the mPINC survey, the EMPower breastfeeding project ¶ ¶ ¶ to support up to 100 hospitals in achieving Baby - Friendly designation, and continued support of state health departments to support breastfeeding initiatives.

Several people involved in this effort spearheaded the successful push for same - sex marriage, including Cuomo's former chief of staff, Steve Cohen, and ex-aide Katherine Grainger, who is now working for Civitas Public Affairs Group.

The WFP was also active in several races outside the five boroughs, including the Albany mayor's race, where City Treasurer Kathy Sheehan is poised to become the city's first female leader after defeating her primary opponent, former Councilman Corey Ellis; and Nassau County, where Tom Suozzi is one step closer to his effort to take back his old county executive post from Republican Ed Mangano after beating Adam Haber on Tuesday.

My inbox last night included several statements of anger over the fundraising effort, which funds the alliance's political action committee.

Schneiderman over the last several weeks has challenged a variety of Trump administration directives, including efforts to rollback Obama - era regulations on the environment.

Malliotakis» plan calls for action in several categories, including expanded legal efforts to compel hospitalization via use of «Kendra's Law,» review expiring orders of protection, scrutinize mentally ill inmates before release, expand mental health courts and psychiatric capacity of hospitals, support relevant non-profit agencies and greatly expand the number of supportive housing units.

Several newly elected council members, including Ritchie Torres and Helen Rosenthal, conceived and organized the series in an effort to change, or at least expand, the way the speaker is selected.

But several members of the Onondaga County panel - including some who started off sharply critical of the rushed process - praised Mahoney's efforts to bring leaders together.

Governor Cuomo's administration was dealt a blow today in their ongoing effort to negotiate contracts with several state employee unions, including the two biggest ones, PEF and CSEA.

Sugarman, who was appointed by Gov. Cuomo, wrote that the effort on behalf of the Dems was led by de Blasio and his team and included a group of influential political consultants and labor unions close to the mayor, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, several of the candidates who were helped, and the Ulster County and Putnam County Democratic committees.

The hedge fund manager also made donations to several additional GOP efforts, including $ 209,600 apiece to the Republican State Committee and Senate Republican Campaign Committee.

Cuomo has ramped up his efforts in the last several weeks to push for the new bridge construction, which includes blasting out a series of news releases from a variety of public and elected officials, including ex-Gov.

Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

Republican leaders in the state Senate did not respond to requests for comment on Hoylman's bill, but on Wednesday they defeated an effort by Senate Democrats to force a vote on several gun control measures including a bump stock ban.

New York Communities for Change (NYCC): A vibrant community organization of working New Yorkers united for social and economic justice, NYCC has worked with the UFT on several organizing and social justice initiatives, including our historic campaign to organize New York City's 28,000 family child care providers and our ongoing effort to bring charter school teachers into the union.

The Mayor, Governor, Senator and Secretary answered several on topic questions, including why the approved projects do not include any in Brooklyn and Queens and whether actions taken by «other jurisdictions» are sufficient, when will the resiliency efforts be complete and when will the majority of Build It Back homes be completed, what complexities Secretary Donovan saw when his Department approved the Build It Back program and why is New York City slower than Nassau and Suffolk Counties to deliver post-Sandy assistance to homeowners.

In addition to the summer youth jobs, there are several other changes from Mr. de Blasio's proposed executive budget — including an extra $ 250 million for the city's Retiree Benefit Trust Fund for 2017, an effort to protect the city in the case of a fiscal downturn.

A source close to Cuomo said, «This is another pathetic effort by a disgraced Eliot Spitzer — a guy who admitted frequenting prostitutes when he was prosecuting pimps, and who is lucky to have escaped not one but several criminal charges, including federal money - laundering — to rehabilitate himself.»

Republicans have been unsuccessful in their efforts to win the District 37 seat for some time, including several well - financed and highly organized runs against previous incumbent, Latimer.

He recalled several efforts supported by Western powers to derail the process, including the deportation of one million Ghanaians from Nigeria under Shehu Shagari's administration.

Peace offerings being discussed include allowing Labour MPs to elect several members of the shadow cabinet, and appointing staffers to the leader's office who are respected by rebel MPs in an effort to improve relations.

But almost two months after the administration announced that Schwartz had been tasked with mounting a taxpayer - funded probe, the public remains in the dark about several other aspects of that effort — including how much it will cost.

As the legislative session was winding down, Nathan Schaefer, the executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA), was careful not to tip his group's hand regarding the fall elections and took pains to credit the efforts of several IDC members, Avella included, for trying to move the GENDA and SOCE legislation.

Bannon is intent on unseating Flake, and David Bossie, the president's 2016 deputy campaign manager and the president of the influential conservative group Citizens United, has embarked on an effort to recruit several potential primary challengers, including former Rep. Matt Salmon.

In 2014, the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, filed a legal petition asking the US Fish and Wildlife Service to expand its grizzly recovery efforts into new territory in several western states, including California.

Hellmann has co-authored several climate assessment and adaptation planning efforts, including the biodiversity and ecosystem portions of the Chicago Climate Action Plan and the 2014 National Climate Assessment.

Crowley points out that several organizations — including Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership, WeForest.org and natureisspeaking.org — have put forth a great effort to plant trees and vegetation on the island.

Read about how attempts by postdocs to gather data at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), sparked survey efforts at several other universities, including the University of Cincinnati and UC Berkeley.

The working group hopes other institutions will join their efforts, but trainees should know that some universities, including several of those represented in the working group, already share their data publicly, Pickett says.