Sentences with phrase «launched this year aims»

While the new scheme being launched this year aims to cover one - third of the population, the wait is not over yet.

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Nearly a year ago, Walmart launched its startup incubator Store No. 8 with the aim of reshaping the retail experience through technology like virtual reality and drones.

Originally launched last year in the United States, Shudder aims to deliver quality horror movies not found elsewhere.

On Monday, Facebook launched a new product aimed at children from 6 to 12 years of age.

Last year, AG Hair took another gamble and launched a collection of texturizing products aimed at people who prefer the effortless «I woke up like this» look.

This year, he and his wife, former Lululemon design chief Shannon Wilson, launched Whil, a sort of startup that aims to spread the gospel of meditation.

Bankwest today launched its new charity, which will raise funds for community initiatives, as well as a scholarship program that aims to better the lives of Western Australians, and has pledged $ 1 million per year to the charity for five years.

The company is launching Vice Studios, a «global multi-platform scripted studio» aimed at developing original content that Vice can market around the world after the company signed content deals earlier this year to make its programming available in more than 80 territories by the end of the year.

The group made the call as part of a five - year plan launched on Wednesday with the aim of creating equality for transgender people in Britain, of whom there are an estimated 650,000.

The U.S. military is a launching a new mission this year, one that aims to ensure more of those who serve are also saving for their financial future.

At press time, the company was aiming for a year - end launch.

Delphi Automotive (dlph) will launch a small test fleet of automated taxis in Singapore next year, aiming to ferry passengers around a city district in one of the first real - world tests of automated rides on demand, the company said on Monday.

The talks, known as the Doha round, were launched six years ago with the aim of adding billions of dollars to the global economy and lifting millions of people out of poverty through trade liberalization.

Such concern has sparked the launch of the Obama administration's five - year plan to combat antibiotic resistance, as well as the Food and Drug Administration's new guidelines aiming to restrict antibiotic use in farm animal products, like meat and poultry, that make it to our dinner plates.

Now, the 79 - year - old Magna International founder is back in Austria and launching a new political party that aims to dump the euro, reform the country's tax system and cut down on bureaucracy.

Vice, which is aiming for 50 staff in Dubai by the end of the year, will launch a website and digital channel this summer and is in active discussions about a 24 - hour regional cable channel to be broadcast from the emirate.

A year ago, The Foundling began offering New York City's first digital divide programming targeted at the foster youth population, with an aim towards launching a new group of talented and diverse millennials into the workforce.

Launched three years ago to fight off the threat of deflation, the ECB's 2.55 trillion euro ($ 3.14 trillion) bond purchase programme has kept borrowing costs low to induce spending and investment, all with the ultimate aim of generating inflation.

Maid Perfect was launched last year by Lorna Good as a follow - on to her well - known Flying Domestics business.Flying Domestics is a casual cleaning service, while Maid Perfect is aimed at servicing larger homes on an ongoing basis.

These perks are included because Fueled Collective aims to foster a genuine sense of camaraderie among creatives — the same vision that inspired the launch of the flagship Fueled Collective in New York City five years ago.

Earlier this year, we announced the launch of a new company, EvoTeq, and signed two new business agreements as part of an investment in technology aimed at improving the lives of people living in the UAE.»

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters)- Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday he is selling about $ 1 billion worth of the internet retailer's stock annually to fund his Blue Origin rocket company, which aims to launch paying passengers on 11 - minute space rides starting next year.

Last year, Sobeys launched a three - year restructuring regime dubbed «Project Sunrise» aimed at achieving $ 500 million in annual cost savings by 2020.

With just 100 days to go before polling day in this year's general election, a Christian charity's launched a new website that is aimed at helping Christians decide...

This week's event at Gregorian University in Rome features the launch of a three - year program aimed at setting up «robust procedures» to handle allegations of abuse, according to organizers.

Launched 20 years ago, the seven principles aim to focus attention on the identification and control of microbiological, as well as chemical and physical food safety hazards, during production.

More than three years after announcing an industry milestone of 99 % ethically sourced coffee, Starbucks has announced the launch of a pilot program with select coffee farmers in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Rwanda, aimed to demonstrate how technology and innovative data platforms can give coffee farmers even more financial empowerment and share real - time data along the journey of coffee beans within the supply chain.

Dannon has been extending the Activia range with a dessert version launched last year and this year, a granola - blend aimed at the breakfast market called Parfait Crunch.

The ISA has launched a Strategy for Irish Gin 2018 - 2022, which aims to promote the worldwide growth of Irish gin over the next five years by -LSB-...]

launched a small, highly successful hotel and casino, aimed at locals, onthe northern outskirts of Las Vegas; he would cash out in 2000 in order tobuild the 703 - room Palms, which the family opened a year later (and which doesnot take bets on NBA games).

Coogan is aiming to have the new Partridge series written by the end of the year with a view to it launching on BBC2 next spring.

A year - long «Chinese Vote» project was launched, aiming to generate greater interest in political participation, through a series of workshops and conferences.

Johnson launched a London - wide rental standard two years ago, with the aim of signing up 100,000 landlords across the city.

In that spirit, your TechBytes author has launched a new consulting practice, aiming to use my 15 - plus years of experience in the field to help electoral and advocacy campaigns leverage the power of online and digital tools to achieve their goals.

In January 2010, «Start4Life» was launched with the aim of helping frontline staff deliver the Healthy Child Programme, supporting pregnant women and the parents of 0 - 2 year olds in establishing good feeding and activity habits for babies, to help reduce the risk of obesity in later life.

The release also informs us that this advertising launch is the Chamber's third campaign in the 2012 cycle and is part of the organization's largest voter education and grassroots mobilization effort in its 100 year history, aimed at highlighting candidates» positions on issues critical to the American recovery.

New Jersey, for example, launched a $ 725,000 grant program last year to improve accessibility for electric car drivers, with the aims of increasing the number of electric vehicle charging stations, according to NJ.com.

Mayor de Blasio has also invested in numerous initiatives to support our DAs» essential efforts — including an additional $ 2 million per year to the Special Narcotics Prosecutor and $ 10 million to the Anti-Violence Innovation challenge — and launched expansive initiatives aimed at reducing opioid misuse and overdose deaths across the City, in close partnership with local elected officials.»

Seeking to reassert itself as a political force following a year of internal turmoil, the AFL - CIO is launching a campaign aimed at bringing grassroots pressure to bear on Republicans in 10 statewide races.

«Launched early last year by the Vice President, this programme aims at creating a platform for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME).

Former vice president Al Gore will launch a three - year, $ 300 million campaign Wednesday aimed at mobilizing Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, a move that ranks as one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history.

Five years of work on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus has come to fruition with the launch of a new innovation center aimed at bringing life - saving technology to the medical market sooner.

A new program aims to launch the careers of diverse life scientists — including women and members of other underrepresented groups — by providing up to 8 years of support, covering both the postdoctoral training and junior faculty stages.

An online project launched earlier this year aims to create a network of monitors across the U.S. and Canada to get a better idea of where bumblebees are thriving — and where they're not.

The next year, NASA provided the Kepler team with a budget of $ 299 million and aimed for a launch date sometime in 2006.

Congress launched the debate last year by passing the 21st Century Cures Act, which aims to accelerate biomedical research.

«The RCOG does not accept that stillbirths are unavoidable tragedies so last year we launched Each Baby Counts, a complementary programme to MBRRACE which aims to reduce by 50 % the number of babies who die or are left severely disabled as a result of incidents occurring during term labour.»

It has been especially pro-active around the mitigation of carbon emissions and last year, along with the International Tourism Partnership (ITP) and 12 major hotel chains including Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott and Starwood, launched the Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative, which aims to help hotels reduce, measure and communicate their carbon footprints.

The Genographic Project, launched in April 2005, is a five - year genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from over 100,000 people across five continents.

However, there's not yet enough scientific data to guide safety programs such as the Hit Count Initiative launched last year by the Sports Legacy Institute, which aims to set a threshold for a «safe» number of hits to the head, the report finds.