Sentences with phrase «into dozens of state»

The legalization of same - sex marriage in the United States is a relatively recent goal of the gay - rights movement, but over the last few years, gay - rights organizers have placed it at the center of their agenda, steering money and muscle into dozens of state capitals in an often uphill effort to persuade lawmakers.

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Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) The Florida state House on Tuesday rejected a ban on many semiautomatic guns and large capacity magazines as dozens of survivors of last week's school shooting headed to the state Capitol to turn their grief into political action.

With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR - 15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.»

Brewers Association sponsored the participation of two representatives of Craft Maltster Guild in NBIC activities, thereby spreading the geographic reach and relevance of the barley crop and malting and brewing business activities into dozens of additional congressional districts and states.

As a coach 1st Person ever inducted into the HEADFIRST BASEBALL HALL OF FAME Has Most Championships and Games Won in Headfirst History Coached the most players to move on to a 4 Year College Baseball Program Managed the 2007 Headfirst World Series team who won a National Title Managed the 2015 Headfirst Bercovich 24 World Series Team in Texas Runs multiple baseball clinics, camps and trainings for Headfirst Baseball Has created many connections with college scouts over the years for players Coached Varsity Baseball at Castro Valley High School for 3 years Coordinates «ESTL» program for players who need more development training Coached Events for USA Baseball with teams and showcases Was a Baseball Camp Instructor at Santa Clara University for 3 years Managed and Coached Headfirst Baseball teams now for 8 years Has trained and worked with players from all ages and all levels up to college Been a Role Model for dozens of players throughout the years at Headfirst Has been doing Baseball Private Lessons and Videos with players for 8 years Manages all «Bercovich 24» teams in the Headfirst Upper Division Program General Background Has been in charge of the Headfirst Upper Division as Coordinator since 2015 Received Bachelors Degree in Business at California State University - Eastbay Was the Leading Scorer twice for the only 2 seasons in Headfirst Basketball Huge Sports fan, has Season Tickets to the Giants, 49ers, Warriors and SharOF FAME Has Most Championships and Games Won in Headfirst History Coached the most players to move on to a 4 Year College Baseball Program Managed the 2007 Headfirst World Series team who won a National Title Managed the 2015 Headfirst Bercovich 24 World Series Team in Texas Runs multiple baseball clinics, camps and trainings for Headfirst Baseball Has created many connections with college scouts over the years for players Coached Varsity Baseball at Castro Valley High School for 3 years Coordinates «ESTL» program for players who need more development training Coached Events for USA Baseball with teams and showcases Was a Baseball Camp Instructor at Santa Clara University for 3 years Managed and Coached Headfirst Baseball teams now for 8 years Has trained and worked with players from all ages and all levels up to college Been a Role Model for dozens of players throughout the years at Headfirst Has been doing Baseball Private Lessons and Videos with players for 8 years Manages all «Bercovich 24» teams in the Headfirst Upper Division Program General Background Has been in charge of the Headfirst Upper Division as Coordinator since 2015 Received Bachelors Degree in Business at California State University - Eastbay Was the Leading Scorer twice for the only 2 seasons in Headfirst Basketball Huge Sports fan, has Season Tickets to the Giants, 49ers, Warriors and Sharof players throughout the years at Headfirst Has been doing Baseball Private Lessons and Videos with players for 8 years Manages all «Bercovich 24» teams in the Headfirst Upper Division Program General Background Has been in charge of the Headfirst Upper Division as Coordinator since 2015 Received Bachelors Degree in Business at California State University - Eastbay Was the Leading Scorer twice for the only 2 seasons in Headfirst Basketball Huge Sports fan, has Season Tickets to the Giants, 49ers, Warriors and Sharof the Headfirst Upper Division as Coordinator since 2015 Received Bachelors Degree in Business at California State University - Eastbay Was the Leading Scorer twice for the only 2 seasons in Headfirst Basketball Huge Sports fan, has Season Tickets to the Giants, 49ers, Warriors and Sharks

On Tuesday, the fate of Sheldon Silver falls to a dozen jurors who have spent the last three weeks listening to competing versions of how the former Assembly speaker wielded power for the last decade: with secretive calculations to enrich himself or with the same quirks, favor - trading and inherent conflicts that is irrevocably baked into the state government.

Dozens of residents turned out for the meeting, furious about recent events in Ramapo, including an FBI investigation into St. Lawrence as well as a state investigation alleging that town fire inspector Adam Peltz allegedly failed to report serious safety violations at several private schools.

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

A two - month examination of the practices of nearly two dozen Capital Region ethics boards revealed many of the panels meet only «as needed» and do not update their codes or proactively conduct investigations — throwing them into a state of dormancy that can last years.

«The basic problem at the state and local level is that there are dozens of these anti-discrimination provisions built into all sorts of laws,» said Ed Mechmann, a lawyer with the Archdiocese of New York.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing at least a half - dozen federal, state, and local investigations into his fundraising, accompanied by ugly headlines and the lowest approval ratings of his tenure.

More than a dozen state legislators, legislative officials and other insiders interviewed by the Daily News give credit to Preet Bharara for targeting Albany wrongdoing but are fuming over what they say is the powerful prosecutor's publicity seeking, tarring of the entire Legislature, and wading into governance issues far beyond the scope of his office.

Zephyr Teachout addressed a crowd of roughly two dozen supporters on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall before heading into court to face Gov. Andrew Cuomo's challenge of her New York State residency.

Later in the afternoon a half a block away, about a dozen people including Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan turned out for a «State of Our Community Meeting»... «When I go into our schools, our kids are saying the same things that the adults say.

Darr was among dozens of Republicans swept into office in 2010 in Arkansas, when his party won control of both chambers of the state General Assembly for the first time in more than a century.

The Ohio governor plunged into the heart of the state's political bubble, chatting with about two dozen Republicans from the Assembly at the stately Fort Orange Club and then walked over to the Capitol building itself to huddle privately with Republicans in the State Sestate's political bubble, chatting with about two dozen Republicans from the Assembly at the stately Fort Orange Club and then walked over to the Capitol building itself to huddle privately with Republicans in the State SeState Senate.

Vijg and his colleagues dove into the Human Mortality Database to examine whether the oldest of the old from four countries — France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States — were getting even more ancient with each passing year; they later broadened their analysis to an additional three dozen countries.

On a sunny day this past October, three dozen people file into a modest, mint - green classroom at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman to glimpse a vision of the future.

In the United States, Mayer counts a dozen universities — including the universities of Texas, Kansas, and Kentucky — that «are interested in providing compounds for industry and taking that compound even into clinical studies if they can.»

Half a dozen laboratories, including Beamish's, are studying the «supersolid» effect, but researchers still aren't sure which elements of the solid would condense into a single Bose — Einstein state.

In February 2009, frustrated by industry restrictions on independent research into genetically modified crops, two dozen scientists representing public research institutions in 17 corn - producing states told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the companies producing genetically modified (GM) seed «inhibit public scientists from pursuing their mandated role on behalf of the public good» and warned that industry influence had made independent analyses of transgenic crops impossible.

Dozens of states are already looking into the overprescription of opioids, and a multistate investigation is demanding information from the manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioid drugs in an attempt to determine whether the companies were engaged in any unlawful practices in the marketing and distribution of these drugs.

In 2013, California rolled up dozens of these categoricals and folded the money into a single state formula that deployed funds to districts on the basis of students and student types.

Mumford's actions resulted in dozens of otherwise - unqualified teachers getting into classrooms in three states.

A student initiative which began only five years ago as a gathering on a Saturday of two dozen students, had grown into a three day event that filled Askwith Auditorium, bringing together students and faculty from multiple campuses in the United States and in China to discuss the significant educational transformations taking place in that country, home to 17 percent of the world's children.

Parent activist Jeanette Deutermann states that she «was contacted by dozens of NYC teachers who were horrified by the scare tactics being used on parents in their schools, to coerce them into participating in this year's assessments.

The «details tucked into dozens of plans being turned in to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos this week were hammered out by a hodgepodge of elected and appointed officials — from governors and legislators to state school board members and local superintendents — during sometimes sparsely attended meetings, caucuses, and task force sessions.»

And dozens of schools, including three in Madison, will take part in the state's new teacher evaluation system, which takes into account student test scores.

Two dozen public schools in Detroit will not be forced to close after the school board voted to enter into an agreement with the state of Michigan.

Interestingly, while the document on file with the State Department of Education is missing dozens of text changes, the offensive language limiting transfers into the school, unless a child is reading at or above grade level, has mysteriously been removed from this «final» copy.

Nationwide, the federal government and giant philanthropies such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are putting hundreds of millions of dollars into underwriting work in dozens of states and cities on better ways to select teachers, monitor their work and pay them.

The state's decision to change both the way it tests students and the way it translates student scores into a ranking means that dozens of schools saw their standings sink or soar by 50 or more percentage points between 2014 and 2016 — far more movement than experts say can be explained by typical changes in schools from one year to the next.

More than three dozen teachers,» including many who [had] just been rated «highly effective» by the New Mexico Public Education Department, working in the Albuquerque Public School District — the largest public school district in the state of New Mexico — turned to a burning bin this week, tossing their state - developed teacher evaluations into the fire in protest in front of district headquarters.

In the past year, the school has taken in dozens of Central American students, about one - eighth of the school population, who crossed into the United States unaccompanied by a parent or guardian.

Across the country, dozens of states and school districts have proposed or instituted changes in the way they evaluate teachers to take into account how much their students improve on standardized tests.

Inflation, the state of the secondary mortgage market, the cost of consumer goods, and dozens of other factors all come into play here.

For example, a high - profile story about the suicidal owner who released dozens of dangerous exotic animals into an unsuspecting public in Zanesville, Ohio, spurred the creation of that state's Senate Bill 310, which specifically targeted snakes in the pet trade (for more about SB 310, click here).

For a change of pace, drive a dozen miles or so up into the hills and you'll find a beautiful forest of coastal redwoods in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.

(It's a long story, involving yet more lies by Cooper Union to the New York State Education Department, but suffice to say that it ended with dozens of distraught parents crying in the admissions office, after they were told that the program their children had been accepted into didn't actually exist.)

**** Following almost 6 months of solid graft, 8 hearings in 4 States and the ACT, dozens of witnesses and almost 500 submissions, the Senate Inquiry into the great wind power fraud delivered its «doorstop» final report, which runs to some 350 pages — available here: Senate Report The first 200 pages are filled with -LSB-...]

In testimony before the US Senate in 2003, he stated: It is the consensus of the climate research community that the anomalous warmth of the late 20th century can not be explained by natural factors, but instead indicates significant anthropogenic, that is human influences... More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the northern hemisphere in past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millennia.

In addition, Todd acts as U.S. general counsel to a variety of startups and European companies conducting business in the United States, and has advised dozens of European companies in connection with the expansion of their businesses into the United States.

We do this by asking you the same kind of questions that a life insurance company would, and then tapping into our extensive knowledge of dozens of the best life insurance companies in the United States (including Guarantee Trust Life).

Previous stories offered up head - scratching spin on the school shooting at Sandy Hook (which Jones states was a false flag operation carried out by government operatives) and a train wreck carrying dozens of Republican congressmen (which Jones attempts to spin into a devious plot by democrats to kill congressional rivals).

WASHINGTON The United States on Friday charged and sanctioned nine Iranians and an Iranian company for attempting to hack into hundreds of universities worldwide, dozens of firms and parts of the U.S. government, including its main energy regulator, on behalf of Tehran's government.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN)- The Florida state House on Tuesday rejected a ban on many semiautomatic guns and large capacity magazines as dozens of survivors of last week's school shooting headed to the state Capitol to turn their grief into political action.

More than a dozen states have recently enacted legislation promoting small - scale agriculture, and a smaller number, including Hawaii, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Oklahoma, have looked into or introduced incentives to encourage people to pursue backyard food production on residential property, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.