Sentences with phrase «launch similar efforts»

Here are their letters, a lesson plan to help launch similar efforts in other communities, media coverage, and more.

The Human Rights Campaign, which played a big role in Cuomo's successful campaign to get gay marriage passed by the Legislature here in New York and has now launched a similar effort at the national level, released an undated letter signed by Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and 13 other mayors and governors that urged members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee to pass the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA), the bill to repeal DOMA.

The committee, launching a similar effort to its Democratic counterpart, is launching radio ads, robocalls and other measures to try to put pressure on the Democrats.

Argentina, Mexico, and Chile have launched similar efforts, but even with big budgets and expansive bureaucracies, the same education underachievement persists.

He launched similar efforts in San Diego and in Guilford County, N.C. prior to his 2009 arrival in Houston.

Not exact matches

Others are working in the same area, even if no one else has launched a similar commercial effort.

Slingshot, its sophomore effort that launched in June, had one distinguishing feature that saved it from a similar clone status: In order for users to open a message on the service, they had to first «sling» (i.e. return) a message of their own back to the sender.

Similar efforts have been launched in recent months against Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, for speaking at a Focus on the Family event; and Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, for agreeing to appear at a leadership conference sponsored by another Christian group, the Willow Creek Association.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bigger.

He has since launched a reform petition drive that is similar to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's NY Uprising PAC effort, although Koch has had better luck at getting candidates — including Cuomo himself — to sign on.

Argentina's Ministry of Science has launched an ambitious effort to place scientists throughout that nation's public policy arena to ensure scientific knowledge informs government decision - making and becomes a proving ground for similar programs across the globe.

At his Center for Open Science, launched in January, he is coordinating several initiatives to make psychology more transparent and reliable — initiatives that could both restore confidence to his beleaguered field and influence similar efforts in other sciences.

About a dozen research groups recently launched a new effort called PlioMIP2, or Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 2, to model the climate of a time somewhat similar to today in the mid-Pliocene, about 3.205 million years ago.

While 2010 appropriation documents instructed NASA to continue with the Constellation effort, the October law, known as a reauthorization, calls it instead a «Space Launch System» (SLS) although the requirements are similar.

Several months ago, she launched Project Start (@psyougotthis), an effort to galvanize women to begin a running journey, similar to the one she started about a year ago.

In visiting the Volunteer State, President Obama pledged to provide two years of community college free for «responsible» students, seeking to build off a similar effort the state had already launched for Tennessee residents.

Earlier this year, the state of Washington launched the Open Course Library, a collection of open source textbooks for the state's 81 most popular college courses, and California has just proposed legislation that would fund a similar effort there.

But along with a similar initiative launched last year by the administration to expand educational opportunities for Native American kids (and slowly revamp the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education), the new effort does bring attention to the low educational achievement among young black children — especially young black men — and reinforces Obama's generally laudable record as School Reformer - in - Chief.

Vendors scrambled to launch tablets similar to the iPad and the smartphone platform on which they based their efforts did not translate well at all to larger devices.

The phone maker apparently opted to reduce the battery capacity of its latest flagship in an effort to make it slimmer, similar to how it handled the recently launched successor to the Moto Z Play.