Sentences with phrase «larger voice in»

The state will support schools in meeting their ambitious goals through a statewide system of support, and allow teachers and school leaders a larger voice in determining the professional development offered by the state.

Instead, the report is expected to suggest that astronomers be given a larger voice in advising NSF's mathematics and physical sciences directorate and that NSF and NASA work more closely together — as they did successfully in BOOMERANG, a balloon experiment to study the cosmic microwave background (ScienceNOW, 30 April).

A new report from the Royal Society on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure student achievement.

As a worldwide membership organization, we also have a wide variety of ways for you to contribute and have an even larger voice in our leadership.

He said he is looking forward to participating in a new program where the inaugural class will have a large voice in how it develops over the years.

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This has much to do with a historically large and active organized labour voice, especially in textile - producing states, and a more combative media in both markets.

First, there were 125 men in one large room... The men were very considerate of each other, and I didn't hear a raised voice ever, much less an argument.

It's a saying that has helped my introverted side find comfort in large group meetings, overshadowed by loud voices that dominate the conversation.

With the rise of voice commerce tools like Alexa and Siri, it's no surprise that large online retailers (like Google, Apple, and Amazon) are focusing in on this trend.

Along the way, they've helped thousands of female technologists find a voice in a male - dominated industry and opened the conversation about inequities, large and small, woven into the fabric of the tech industry.

Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) is among the largest providers of video, high - speed data and voice services in the United States, connecting 15 million customers to entertainment, information and each other.

Unless he is the first over the wall in a large - scale Conservative jail break, Rathgeber's decision to resign from Stephen Harper's caucus and sit as an independent, means he will likely become a short - term political novelty, a dissident whose voice will be silenced as the political circus moves into another ring.

About Supply Chain Management Association As the leading and largest association in Canada for supply chain management professionals, the Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA) is the national voice for advancing and promoting the profession.

In our constantly changing retail marketplace, it's important for large companies to bring in and empower new voiceIn our constantly changing retail marketplace, it's important for large companies to bring in and empower new voicein and empower new voices.

It also gave the digital pioneer a strong voice in its overall operations, which has helped the world's largest retailer infuse itself with a bit of start - up thinking.

I also agree that Blogs will continue to be popular because in our age of consumer - generated knowledge, consumers love to voice their opinions as their way of leaving a small footprint on very large corporations or just simply expressing their opinions and feeling like they are heard.

The reason for choosing the hotels market as the first place to offer large - scale commercialisation of its own smart speaker is because hotel guests are likely to have more demand for such services, according to Du Haitao, product director of Alibaba's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Labs... A «Westin» branded hotel in Sanya in China's southern island province Hainan — part of the Marriott Group — is already testing the voice - command service.

Samsung, the world's largest smartphone manufacturer by volume in October acquired Viv, the highest - profile startup in the voice assistant category.

However, unlike their larger siblings, the Echo and the Home, the tiny driver in each the Echo Dot and Home Mini is really designed to handle voice commands and responses.

Consumers continue to flock toward voice technology in staggering rates, which demonstrates not only the lightning in a bottle that these smart speakers (Echo / Dot and Google Home / Mini) have generated, but ultimately showcase Voice's impact as a larger behavioral movement.

We, the Seoul Bitcoin Meetup, the largest bitcoin community in South Korea, founded in 2014 with more than 1600 members, would like to voice our staunch opposition to this November's proposed hardfork.

In my humble opinion, global financial conditions in the light of European instability will play a larger role in the Fed's decision to raise rates, which is why I maintain it will take a large number to give voice to those Fed voters wishing to raise rateIn my humble opinion, global financial conditions in the light of European instability will play a larger role in the Fed's decision to raise rates, which is why I maintain it will take a large number to give voice to those Fed voters wishing to raise ratein the light of European instability will play a larger role in the Fed's decision to raise rates, which is why I maintain it will take a large number to give voice to those Fed voters wishing to raise ratein the Fed's decision to raise rates, which is why I maintain it will take a large number to give voice to those Fed voters wishing to raise rates.

On the other hand, the islamic world lacks a single voice to answer with a single and credible voice to the concerns of the secular american society (which is very concerned about the lack of the concept of separation between church and state in large part of the islamic world).

Regrettably, a voice as influential as Christianity Today is addressing some of these questions in a simplistic and tendentious manner that reflects an ignorance of, or indifference toward, the larger discussion.

He had a voice that carried, a burning intensity that showed in his carriage and conversation, a large frame, and the broad, thick hands of a farmer.

For several years now, a chorus of voices (growing larger and louder as we approach the 500th anniversary of Columbus» voyage in 1992) has assaulted every certainty, except the date, about the Columbus story.

The local church must more intentionally structure its life so that it becomes a decision making community in which members have a large voice.

In large part, sexual morality has been transformed by the aesthetics of pop culture, with its rhetorically loaded narratives of liberating the marginal and giving voices to the victims.

He was a bright little creature with a rather large head; but a delicate face and a sweet voice, and there was a perfect charm in him.

One voice in this contentious mix is that of Tariq Ramadan, a charismatic French - speaking Swiss intellectual who has a large following among Europe's young Muslims.

Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of a large, charismatic congregation in Maryland, is one of the leading voices in black religious conservatives.

In this larger context the idea of revelation as a voice speaking behind the voice of the prophet is too narrow.

The larger worry for Lammers» and it is a worry worth pondering» is that religious voices in public may be heard simply as another «interest group.»

Chicago, the archdiocese next largest to Los Angeles, has been relatively unscathed, and Francis Cardinal George has clearly emerged as the senior voice of the Church in the U.S., now that Cardinal Law and the late John O'Connor of New York are gone.

Your respect for the authentic voice of Jesus that is still to be found in and under the multiple layers of the synoptics strikes the right note against those whose view is characterized by PAUL LARGE and everything else, a pale footnote.

Nate's is a large - muscle, shovel - and - shoulder - work, dark - night - of - the - soul kind of keening that leaves him at daybreak covered with the dust and dirt from which we humans come, quite literally a voice crying in the desert.

In the largest climate march in history, over 400,000 people made their voices heard at the People's Climate March on the streets of New York City on Sunday, with thousands taking part in solidarity events in 166 countrieIn the largest climate march in history, over 400,000 people made their voices heard at the People's Climate March on the streets of New York City on Sunday, with thousands taking part in solidarity events in 166 countriein history, over 400,000 people made their voices heard at the People's Climate March on the streets of New York City on Sunday, with thousands taking part in solidarity events in 166 countriein solidarity events in 166 countriein 166 countries.

«Those of us who provide organic produce constitute the largest segment of the organic food business but this segment often lacks the voice it deserves in either organic - focused or produce - focused organizations.

About three years ago, I went to a function for my husband's employer, and we were in a very large parking lot filled with lots of people, when I heard very loud and clear, a woman's voice call to my husband from clear across the parking lot, and as she was calling out to him, she was in a full wave.

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out... [Continue reading]

But the overabundance of extracurriculars is only one small part of the larger, disturbing phenomenon Madeline Levine chronicles in her voice - of - reason - ish new book, Teach Your Children Well, which was excellently reviewed this weekend in the New York Times by Judith Warner.

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out by politicians, lobbyists and the School Nutrition Association.

The issue of a «Family Aquatic Center «at Newton Park in Glen Ellyn drew large crowds in the spring, as local residents voiced strong opinions on both sides of the matter.

As I explained in that post, students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet their voices often go unheard in Congressional debates about how the program is funded or should operate.

So many fantastic, insightful, and profound things have been written already, a chorus of voices sharing all the best from the largest gathering of women bloggers, held this year in one of the most stunning cities I've ever visited.

Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block - walkers and pro-Obama voices in their own communities.

This trend provides opportunities for advocacy organizations engaging in these larger public policy conversations to become live video broadcasters, and add their live video — and voices — to the public and media's news consumption.

To give just three examples: in the ideas section, we see the ways in which citizen intellectuals, scholars, and the mass public have used the larger post-reform discursive space to add their voices to the debate about China and the world.

Men's voices still generally have a larger impact on society, not only because they speak more and are more assertive, but also because men are systematically advantaged in relations of power.

An early voice to raise the alarm about the emerging threat of Nazi Germany, she was an outspoken critic of appeasement, telling the House in 1933 that the NSDAP were «inflicting cruelties and crushing disabilities on large numbers of law - abiding peaceful German citizens, whose only offence is that they belong to a particular race or religion or profess certain political beliefs.»