Sentences with phrase «informal group of»

She had adopted two children from Cambodia and belongs to an informal group of families who have similarly adopted.

Job Club Meetings A job club is a formal or informal group of job seekers who provide each other with job search advice and support.

The Magic Circle, according to the Law Society's Gazette, evolved out of the rather more prosaic - sounding «Club of Nine», an informal group of top law firms — Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Freshfields and Allen & Overy, plus four others deemed to be rivals for the best talent — who all agreed cosily, back in the 1980s, not to poach from one another.

That was one message that came through loud and clear recently in «Succeed in the New Law Firm Library Reality — Learn the Business Side of the Firm», a webinar hosted by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the informal group of law library managers of the Law Librarians» Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC)-LRB-...)

For some years now Slaw has acted as a repository for the memos and precedent opinions of the Toronto Opinions Group (TOROG), an informal group of lawyers primarily practising with the Toronto offices of the larger Canadian law firms, with an interest in third party (or transaction) opinion practice.

Brian co-founded, with Tim Opsitnick of Jurinnov, the Cleveland eDiscovery Roundtable, an informal group of lawyers, judges and academics that meets monthly to discuss issues surrounding electronic discovery, cybersecurity and data privacy issues.

I also think for people who are interested in the mastermind sort of concept where you have an informal group of advisors who help each other out, maybe 6 to 10 people.

It seems that two years ago almost to the date, I mentioned here on SLAW the discussions of an informal group of Toronto research lawyers surrounding the role of research lawyers in law firms.

The World Wine Trade Group is an informal group of government representatives with a mutual interest in facilitating the international trade in wine and avoiding the application of obstacles to international trade in wine.

The New York Times described the GCSCT as «An informal group of people working for big oil companies, trade associations and conservative policy research organizations» who oppose a treaty to fight global warming.

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow has been a member of Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC), an informal group of climate denying organizations, since 1998.

The Electricity Storage Network is a UK - based «informal group of manufacturers, developers, network operators and others interested in storage.»

This status was confirmed, above all, by emerging of New York School — an informal group of artists, poets, musicians and dancers who professed the principles of Abstract Expressionism.

Kazem was a member of the Emirates Fine Arts Society and is acknowledged as one of the «Five», (including Hassan Sharif, Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, Hussain Sharif and Abdullah Al Saadi) an informal group of Emirati artists who represented a vanguard of conceptual and interdisciplinary art.

He established himself in New York's art community by becoming a member (and later president) of The Club, an informal group of artists who represented the social and intellectual center of abstract expressionism in New York.

Mother of God (ca. 1950), part of an informal group of artworks that was included in his first solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in 1951, is a key example of the innovations Rauschenberg achieved in those years.

He further mailed them, unsolicited, to an informal group of friends, artists and curators.

During the early 1960s, in Los Angeles, he studied art and joined an informal group of avant - gardists including Noah Purifoy, Betye Saar, and John Outterbridge, of California's Funk Art Movement.

A Message from Greyhound Rapid Transit Greyhound Rapid Transit is an informal group of greyhound folks who help transport greyhounds from tracks or kennels to their final destination with a greyhound adoption group.

Greyhound Rapid Transit is an informal group of greyhound folks who help transport greyhounds from tracks or kennels to their final destination with a greyhound adoption group.

Let me call that informal group of countries the US dollar bloc.

This was an informal group of people who decided to take a lead in testing the case for an association and willing to put in the backing to get it off the ground.

Launched online in early 2007, Wikileaks is run by an informal group of open government and anti-secrecy advocates who want to allow people living under oppressive regimes, or with something to say in...

The two countries, both rich in tropical rainforests, signed their agreement this month after links were established in Britain at a meeting of the Tropical Forest Forum, an informal group of forest experts based at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London.

It became an informal group of four or five of us who had all determined that we weren't going to stay in academia.»

Even though this plan received full approval from the FAO, it was rejected at a meeting in Delhi of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, the informal group of donors that funds the IARCs.

Her name appeared among an informal group of 18 students who signed an anti-union email sent to the graduate student body a week before the vote; 14 of those signatories came from the sciences.

«It was based on that, that an informal group of leaders of the OPC (the Revolution Council) met and reviewed the incident alongside other stakeholders that include the NCC, and rightly disassociated the OPC from this action by Adams and his co-travellers.»

«We take more risks (in terms of the art we show) in this neighborhood and that's probably why it's going to take awhile before a lot of us can quit the secondary jobs we're doing,» says Kara Hughes, owner of Idao, a gallery at 1616 N. Damen Ave. and president of the West Side Gallery District Association, an informal group of 20 galleries.

While most communities have formal support groups, an informal group of parents going through the same stages may also be just what you need.

It could be in your church, your home, or as an informal group of friends, but plan something which invites people to explore the good news of Jesus Christ and God's love for them.

Bannon's rivals, led by senior White House adviser and presidential son - in - law Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn — and with the crucial backing of President Trump's daughter Ivanka — are an informal group of aides that has been pushing for the administration to take a more establishment - friendly turn.

Generally, congressional caucuses are informal groups of legislators with a common interest or issue.

These are informal groups of investors who meet in person to discuss investments, share experiences, and in some cases even make investments.

When the committees were first formed, there wasn't a postdoc association with specific goals, plans for action, timetables, or agreed - upon methods; the proto - PDA consisted of informal groups of postdocs interested in making things better for themselves and their peers.

They are large informal groupings of individuals and / or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change.

Ocean Communicators United (OCU) is an informal grouping of representatives of international, regional or national oceanographic research organisations that provides a forum for its members to share information, expertise, best practices and materials related to marine science communications.

However, professional communities — and not just informal groupings of teachers — are clearly important to nurture and sustain generative growth (Franke et al., 2001; Nelson & Hammerman, 1996; Wilson & Berne, 1999).

The majority of principals that we've talked to trust that their state will approach ESSA with good faith and full transparency and, as a first step, establish formal and informal groups of educators, including principals, to draft new plans for accountability and assessment systems.

Having instigated an informal grouping of legal heads from a handful of key competitors, O'Grady highlights the benefits of sharing knowledge and experiences with those whose interests are «aligned».

Not exact matches

When President Donald Trump appeared to chastise Republicans lawmakers and applaud Democrats during an informal meeting with a group of congressmembers at the White House on Wednesday, they seemed to have a hard time containing their emotions.

You should test your ad copy and other marketing via surveys, polls, informal focus groups conducted with a handful of your best customers, and direct attempts at selling face to face or to small groups brought together for that purpose, as well as split tests of headlines, offers, and prices via online and offline media.

Almost all the members of the group had represented either 7 - Eleven or Blockbuster, which is how they'd come to know one another in an informal network.

Although focus group interviews are informal, you should have a list of questions to help you direct the discussion.

When you identify the informal networks that exist within your company, more often than not the leaders of these informal groups are the ones who are actively looking for opportunities to Step Up.

Instead of traditional focus groups, Smart Design uses informal «girl chats» with wine and snacks to get women to open up.

Immigrants: The Mission Asset Fund, a nonprofit organization, can help foreigners who are part of lending circles, an informal group that pool funds for lending and borrowing among participants.

This process of getting access to informal networks of a relatively small investor group requires a heavy investment of time and money.

To combat such scams, a lot of informal groups within Nigeria have been created.

From early childhood to senility, the play group, the work group, and many other types of informal group association are molding attitudes.