Sentences with phrase «instituted new efforts»

We're very stingy with expenditures, and we've instituted new efforts to raise money, the most important of which is the new Editor's Circle.

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Working with academic institutions, incubators, accelerators, and startups, the institute hopes that its efforts will result in new breakthroughs, jobs and economic growth.

In the wake of waves of criticism, Facebook continues to institute more changes to its platform — including new stringent rules for those placing issue - based ads — in an effort to thwart future election interference.

Prompted by his continuing experience with the institute courses, he began a serious research effort, convinced of the need «to find new ways to talk about the congregational body that can provide deeper insight into its nature, and enrich conversation with and among its members.»

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and national rice research institutes in Bangladesh and the Philippines have joined with Helen Keller International (HKI), a leading global health organization that reduces blindness and prevents malnutrition worldwide, in a new effort to further develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential tool to reduce vitamin A deficiency.

The effort to institute cashless tolling along the state Thruway system should be separate from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to institute congestion pricing at key points in New York City, Republican Sen. Michael Razenhofer said in a Wednesday Capital Tonight interview.

Schneiderman's proposal comes as state lawmakers prepare to debate once again a public financing of campaigns on the state level that could see the adoption of a matching program based off the New York City system (Senate Republicans have blocked efforts to institute public financing).

More collaboration is needed between the several efforts under way to revitalize upstate New York's «legacy cities,» says a report released this week by a public affairs institute.

As part of her institutionally - focused efforts, over the past year Hellmann's institute piloted a new fellowship program to «foster leading thinkers of the future.»

The Blueprint is a cooperative effort among 16 NIH institutes, centers, and offices that supports the development of new tools, training opportunities, and other resources to assist neuroscientists in both basic and clinical research.

Toyota is building a new research institute to work on autonomy, while Audi, BMW, Ford and others also announced progress in their efforts to develop driverless cars.

In an effort to try to reduce outbreaks some farmers and manufacturers lately have instituted new practices, rather than waiting for tougher governmental regulations.

As director of the new DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California — one of three upcoming national Bioenergy Research Centers — Keasling will head the institute's efforts to support President Bush's goal of reducing U.S. gasoline consumption by 20 percent within 10 years.

Steiner — an academic with Oxford and Harvard degrees who also had pioneered new teacher training programs as head of Hunter College's School of Education — had «charged out of the gate galloping,» observes Meyer, instituting greatly tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 - 8 tests and initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum.

The funds will support summer training institutes for its teachers in eight cities — Atlanta, Chicago, Delta, Miss., Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Tulsa — as well as recruitment efforts on college campuses.

«This new series of institutes is part of our ongoing effort to support educators at all levels with important instruction on two of the most challenging topics educators are facing today: 21st century curricula and the Common Core State Standards.»

Noticing my efforts around developing leaders, the Schools Chancellor and Bank Street College of Education asked me to help create a principal's institute to recruit minorities and women to assume school and district leadership positions in New York City.

Last year, the group instituted new member levels and services; a voluntary breeder certification program; a new spay / neuter fund; a new Specialty Ferret of the Year award (with the first awards banquet to be held in March of 2009); and ongoing fundraising and public awareness for black - footed ferret conservation efforts.

A new category will be instituted from 2016 in its annual National Tourism Awards to recognise the best efforts made by all states ensuring cleanliness at their prominent places of tourist significance.

Since joining Rodale Institute in December 2010, he has brought heritage livestock back to the institute's 333 - acre farm, expanded and enhanced its research efforts, and launched Your 2 Cents, a national campaign to support and promote new organic farmers.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

Streamlined the development process by instituting the use of new frameworks, tools, and automations, thereby reducing development effort and time through highly reusable code, encouraging good practice, and increasing release frequency of working software.

«By putting in that little extra effort we will gain new members, more recognition within the industry and help take the institute to new heights and make it even stronger.»