Sentences with phrase «lack of advocacy»

In contrast to the lack of advocacy from Federal AMA leadership, Professor Fankum said if the plebiscite had gone ahead, it «had the strong potential» to do more harm than good, in causing significant mental health harms for same - sex attracted people.

Stories like Lockett's are tragic examples of how fear and shame compounded with a lack of advocacy can prevent people with AIDS from receiving appropriate medical and emotional support, even to this day.

Yet the lack of an advocacy group should not assign the history of any genocide to the equivalent of educational oblivion.

There is a lack of advocacy for tears, which amounts to a much larger systemic issue.

Silence and lack of advocacy, even if unintentional, is another way of undermining the message of welcome.

Compounding the lack of advocacy, when a member of Congress or a federal agency wanted to pick up the phone and «call bitcoin,» there was nobody on the other end of the line to answer.

That sparked the idea for Endeavor, the New York - based organization Rottenberg launched in 1997 with Peter Kellner, an investor who had witnessed the same lack of advocacy for entrepreneurs during a Harvard Business School trip to China.

Not exact matches

Sure, there's still a lot of fear around employee advocacy, but that mainly stems from a lack of understanding and education.

- + * A new Federal Reserve white paper reveals that the agency has taken an increased interest in decentralized digital currencies and has begun to recognize their beneficial characteristics, but stops short of full advocacy due to the technology's lack of maturity.

The lack of a readily apparent solution should not deter the DOL's advocacy for diligent research.

In 2015, the Prentice plan did not invest any new funding in FCSS despite advocacy by volunteer organizations concerned about a lack of resources to support Alberta's growing cities and communities.

«We are a growing population and one thing that has been lacking at the community center has been something to service the families and children,» said Richard Alalouf, director of South Florida Family Pride, a volunteer group that provides advocacy and support for LGBT families.

Note that Ivan is describing something very different than traditional mass communications: he's talking about working closely (no doubt frequently one - on - one) with people on Facebook and other networking sites over a long period of time to help build a cadre of very committed activists — something that most electoral campaigns (and even most issue advocacy campaigns) simply can't do, whether because of lack of time or lack of resources.

But Jenkins lamented that the commission, now full of Astorino political appointees, is not acting proactively as it was intended to, lacks a full - time executive director and added that he would work to re-establish advocacy offices for minority groups, which, he said, have also been marginalized under the Astorino administration.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER In a December 4 statement, more than a dozen major groups from New York's LGBT advocacy community came together to voice their «outrage over the lack of indictment in the Eric Garner case.»

More importantly, while Recchia's constituents were neglected and let down by his lack of action and advocacy, Michael Grimm gave Brooklyn and Staten Island residents, and millions of homeowners across the country, the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act, which lowered their flood insurance premiums and stabilized home values.

Dr. Benjamin said he has long detected a distinct lack of interest in elective office in young people, even those otherwise active in environmental advocacy and identity politics.

The Scottish microbiologist defended herself against long - standing charges of partisan advocacy for genetically modified (GM) crops, a lack of transparency in her office, and she touted several accomplishments.

«Legislators in Ohio have once again stood up for families that lack access to high - quality educational options, and we thank them for putting kids first,» said Betsy DeVos, Chairman of The American Federation for Children, a school - choice advocacy group.

Education Superhighway, a nonprofit advocacy group backed by tech entrepreneurs, estimates that 72 percent of America's schools lack sufficient Internet infrastructure for digital learning.

The lack of progress in the younger grades trickles up: More than half of English learners now in California high schools are «long - term English learners,» meaning they have been in public schools for six years without learning English, according to a 2010 report by Californians Together, a nonprofit advocacy group.

As I told UrbanFaith's Christine A. Scheller, this is just one more example of the NAACP's biggest problem: An organization which was once proudly and rightfully in the forefront of school reform in the last century lacks an education advocacy road map that supports systemic school reform.

Educators for Excellence, a teacher advocacy group, also suggested that the city's plans were un-novel solutions to a bigger problem: the lack of a teacher evaluation deal.

It's no secret that the education advocacy community is not happy with the direction of President Obama's education policies, though he seems oblivious himself to the depth and strength of anger he and his corporate reform front man, Arne Duncan, have inspired (for more on the President's seeming lack of awareness, read this great post by Diane Ravitch.)

California Schools Flunk Education Group's Ratings California is sorely lacking when it comes to school reform, failing to adopt policies to limit teacher tenure and use student test scores in teacher evaluations, according to a rating of states issued Monday by a high - profile education advocacy group.

A similarly scurrilous bit of advocacy dressed up in scientific clothes — this one fortunately lacking media coverage — appeared on the National Education Association website.

An advocacy organization that analyzed dozens of school districts» inaugural improvement plans under the state's new school funding law praised the level of community involvement but criticized the lack of clarity in the finished product.

This lack of trust is reinforced when public officials cozy up to wealthy hedge fund operators, venture philanthropists, and school privatizers, take their marching orders from astroturf advocacy groups, or «rent» supporters, as recently happened during school closing hearings in Chicago.

That task has been made all the harder, said Shelly Spiegel - Coleman of Californians Together, an education advocacy group, by the lack of timely advice or direction from national or state proponents of Common Core.

«Authors have suffered from a lack of organized advocacy,» the intro to the petition on the site reads.

Susan Eng, vice-president of advocacy for the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) agrees that aging Canadians have a lack of financial awareness, but she says it may have to do more with generational differences than cognitive changes.

That lack of transparency has been a hallmark of the forgiveness program, said Natalia Abrams, the executive director of Student Debt Crisis, an advocacy group.

Modern American environmentalism shares two unusual characteristics with the animal advocacy movement: a need for allies to speak on behalf of those who lack political power of their own (ecosystems, farmed animals) and a strong focus on consumer change (recycling, veganism).

At the ASPCA, we call it Cruelty Intervention Advocacy (CIA), a holistic intervention approach that takes into account how the societal challenges pet owners often face — including poverty, housing restrictions, lack of transportation, and limited resources — profoundly affect the animals under their care.

This is not a job for United Nations agencies, because they are for advocacy and not to denounce and, if it is necessary, to accuse countries and governments using media and Internet tools, reports, etc. due to the lack of accountability and effectiveness in disaster risk reduction (particularly of schools).

In my own background, I was exposed to the idea that advocacy is a form of bias — a lack of impartiality — and is consequently antithetical to Science.

Their lack of understanding of the other essential skills has been demonstrated repeatedly by the alarmists (including the advocacy climate scientists) who post on Climate Etc..

Nothing to do with the data, lack of transparency, advocacy - led research, wild overclaims, models running hot, or legitimate differences in opinion as to how to interpret the data.

Speaking as the leader of the Generalized - Knowledge - Sponge Party, it is my worthless opinion that my own lack of trust in the proclamations of scientists, and particularly advocacy scientists, is constructed from the incredible number of «truths» springing from scientific research that I have watched be abandoned in the last fifty years.

The complete lack of objectivity and the blatant advocacy of an a priori position are stunning.

In fact, it was that lack of specificity that IMO, (with me not being a position to evaluate the science of his presentation)-- that places him squarely in an «advocacy» position.

Unfortunately, for lack of better alternatives, many litigators find themselves forced to use a heads - down document coding tool for case analysis, deposition preparation and trial advocacy.

«Law is about advocacy, but I «ve suffered a severe lack of confidence due to being mocked because of my accent,» she says.

Adding to this site's archived case summaries addressing advocacy by expert witnesses, reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, soundly criticizing an expert witness for a lack of objectivity.

For a profession built around the subtle art of advocacy, it has been regrettable that so much was made of Grayling lack of legal qualifications and that — sometimes by inference and sometimes not — he was a bit thick for the distinguished office of Lord Chancellor.

Cullen, who teaches a course on leadership at Santa Clara University School of Law, explores the relationship between advocacy skills, at which lawyers excel, and leadership skills, which they often lack.

«We close this discussion with a reminder to counsel - all counsel, regardless of practice, regardless of age - that zealous advocacy does not equate with «attack dog» or «scorched earth»; nor does it mean lack of civility... (Citations omitted)... Zeal and vigor in the representation of clients are commendable.

It is also argued that the lack of procedural safeguards under MCA 2005 — for example, the limited availability of advocacy — is difficult to reconcile with Art 12's call for appropriate and effective safeguards.

Legal research and advocacy group Coin Centre has spoken out against the ruling, saying it is «deeply unsatisfied with the lack of justification provided by the IRS» and that the case «sets a bad precedent for financial privacy.»

According to CoinCenter, a non-profit research body and cryptocurrency advocacy center, the primary reason behind the SEC's decision was the lack of adequate regulations in many overseas crypto markets.