Sentences with phrase «led several efforts»

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Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

Thanks to the work of several dogged journalists, and despite the NFL's best efforts to subvert the truth, we now know that repeated blows to the head experienced in the normal course of football play can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a type of brain damage resulting in early onset dementia and severe (and, in the worst cases, suicidal) depression.

Falwell returned to St. Martin on one of several Samaritan Purse trips, just days after he left, to continue to minister to locals leading recovery efforts.

Canadians have maintained a slight lead over efforts in the United States, partly because several of the early gurus of mass media, including Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, taught in Canada, and partly because Canada has a long tradition of media responsiveness to public interest, including the Canadian Film Board and the Canadian Broadcasting System.

Frank led an effort that made King Arthur a national brand by the turn of the 21st century; several years ago he and his wife, Brinna, sold the company to us, the employee - owners.

That effort, largely led by Sohn, achieved its fulfillment on May 7, 1988, when a $ 22,000, 6» 5 bronze statue of Trice depicted as a student reading his famous letter was dedicated on campus in a ceremony attended by several of his relatives.

Linfield started the game brightly and could have taken the lead in the first half but for Vivan's efforts in La Forita's goal as he kept out several efforts.

The away side put on an aggressive display since kick of as they created several chances before eventually taking the lead through Marco Reuss» effort on 32 minutes.

«The operation which lasted several hours in the Forest in Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna State that led to the release of the two (2) South African Nationals was made possible through coordinated efforts led by Commissioner of Police, Kaduna State.

Klein, a Bronx Democrat who leads the growing, seven - member conference, sharply rebuked the efforts over the last several days by mainline Democrats to unify the conference by involving Cuomo and putting public pressure on him through various left - leaning advocacy groups and the Working Families Party.

In an effort to meet the needs of the Broome County Department of Social Services (BCDSS) Welfare to Work (WTW) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Broome County Urban League (BCUL) along with several community based organizations have come together and will offer their expertise and resources with work experience activities (WEP) leading to employment and self - sustainability.

We specially commend the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, for his focused leadership of the 8th Senate, which has produced several legislative actions that have positively affected the lives of Nigerians, promoted good governance and advanced ongoing efforts by the APC - led administration to rebuild the country.

Sugarman, who was appointed by Gov. Cuomo, wrote that the effort on behalf of the Dems was led by de Blasio and his team and included a group of influential political consultants and labor unions close to the mayor, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, several of the candidates who were helped, and the Ulster County and Putnam County Democratic committees.

According to him, several efforts made by the retirees to attract governments attention through these past years has proved abortive and called on the Ayade - led government to see to their plight by ordering their payment.

The governor, who quietly advised the G.O.P. - I.D.C. coalition that led to Republican control of the Senate back after the 2012 elections, opted not to strenuously endorse several competitive Democrats in 2014, and some party members say he hindered their efforts to elect Marc Panepinto in Buffalo (though he would eventually win).

«Effort of the commissioner and his team through vigour, dedication, utmost professionalism and passion for the job, led to the arrest of the 30 suspected criminals and recovery of several weapons, he said.

Some Democratic strategists have taken note of apparent GOP advancements in voter registration, coming after Republican - led efforts in several statehouses to pass voting laws that Democrats say discourage core voters such as minorities and students.

Recognizing the need to address that challenge, several leading Latin American conservation organizations working in the Amazon basin recently met in Quito, Ecuador, to review regional jaguar conservation efforts and outline priorities to maintain healthy jaguar populations in the Amazon in perpetuity.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

He credits Rincon with her sustained efforts in spite of several setbacks that might have led others to quit and give up on the work.

This initial effort led to host country - specific «survival guides» for new Marie Curie Fellows in several countries.

For several years, the research team from the Turku Centre for Biotechnology lead by Professor Johanna Ivaska has focused their efforts on understanding how cancer cells move and invade surrounding tissue.

The energy programme is a collaborative effort of several research councils with the engineering and physical sciences councils in the lead.

This led to the establishment of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank in 1957, along with similar efforts in several other countries.

Several astronomical measurements have corroborated the existence of dark matter, leading to a world - wide effort to observe directly dark matter particle interactions with ordinary matter in extremely sensitive detectors, which would confirm its existence and shed light on its properties.

Guenther has received numerous awards and leads several national and international scientific efforts.

Efforts to reduce industrial emissions of lead have been ongoing for several decades.

Friday, Oct. 21, 6:25 - 6:40 pm, Ballroom ABC, West Building Remarks by Senator James Cowan, Parliament of Canada For several years, Senator Cowan has led efforts in Parliament to pass a new law to prevent genetic discrimination in Canada.

An astonishingly terrible debut, Killing Gunther follows several assassins, led by Taran Killam's Blake, as they come together to take down a fearsome and mysterious hitman called Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger)- with the film detailing the oddball crew's ongoing efforts at finding and killing Schwarzenegger's slippery character.

Efforts to limit teachers» collective - bargaining rights led to mass protests in several states.

In my piece from January, I cited several studies on accountability which all came to similar conclusions: School rating systems can help focus schools» attention on the students who need the most help, and those efforts lead to improved short - and long - term outcomes.

This flood of legislation, along with new rules in many states allowing for more charter schools, pioneering union contracts in several cities and a state - led effort to rewrite the nation's academic standards, have made this spring a watershed period, said Jon Schnur, an education adviser to the Obama campaign who helped design Race to the Top.

The effort to improve educational standards and make American students more competitive with their international peers was led several years ago by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, with backing from the Gates Foundation.

A meta - analysis conducted by Marzano, Waters, and McNulty (2005) found that several promotion - focused behaviors among school leadership are linked to higher levels of student achievement, including (1) serving as a change agent (challenging the status quo and leading efforts that have uncertain outcomes); (2) demonstrating flexibility (being comfortable with major changes and dissent); and (3) being an optimizer (encouraging innovation by portraying a positive attitude about teachers» ability to achieve what may seem to be beyond their grasp).

When Appalachian State University opens its Academy at Middle Fork to 300 chosen elementary students in Winston - Salem this August, by some accounts, it'll be one of several pioneering, university - led efforts bound to turn around test scores for lagging North Carolina children in the coming years.

Families Empowered collaborated with its school partners in this work, leading the effort with high - quality digital and printed collateral, an engaging mobile - friendly website to host the application, and a public relations campaign which earned several media appearances.

«The Montezuma - Cortez RE-1 school board is leading a district engaged in whole system improvement efforts as well as targeted turnaround with several elementary schools.

In addition, Dr. Koenig has served as the lead software project manager for several technology - focused efforts for high - stakes K - 12 assessment systems, including the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and ELPA21, whose solutions featured the development of RESTful web APIs for vendor assessment delivery system compliance, prototype development of assessment delivery frameworks, and database design and development.

Jafet is an active member of her community and has led several grassroots efforts focused on increasing civic and political participation among the Latino community in Whittier.

In the context of several school - university partnerships and university interdisciplinary collaborations she has developed, Dr. Heaton is leading efforts to build the capacities of preK - 8 teachers and studying their learning.

The Office of Intelligence, Security and Emergency Response (S - 60) continues to lead DOT's joint efforts with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement 25 activities identified in the Transportation Systems Sector - Specific Plan and to implement several near - term deliverables related to cyber incident coordination.

Several states leading the adoption and deployment of SWZ Project Coordination efforts have been identified and information on their practices and points of contact are available.

A massive digitization project involving the cooperation of two governments and the crusading efforts by several individual stakeholders led to the donation of the Hemingway Collection to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in 2008.

However, we do note that several leading card issuers are ramping up their new customer acquisition efforts:

Ubisoft have given up some more information on Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, the game will be shipping in late 2010 and is actually being developed by several Ubisoft studio's at the same time; «Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is a worldwide production effort led by the Ubisoft Montreal Studio in collaboration -LSB-...]

In the past year alone, Akunyili Crosby — whose first name is pronounced «nnn - jee - deh - car» — has participated in several group shows (including the Whitney's current portraiture survey, «Human Interest») and five solo efforts (at L.A.'s Hammer Museum, Mark Bradford's Art + Practice, the Norton Museum of Art, the Whitney's billboard project and London's Victoria Miro Gallery, where she'll make her solo European debut in October), while earning a spot on Foreign Policy's 2015 list of the Leading Global Thinkers.

The lead room of juvenilia, for example, includes, along with several hopelessly studentish efforts, an early «painterly» Spot painting; a lineup of colorfully painted pans (Granny Clampett meets Haim Steinbach?)

Several updates below Needless to say, there's been a big and promising shift in tone and some substance in global warming diplomacy of late — led by the paired pledges of China and the United States to intensify efforts to curtail heat - trapping carbon dioxide emissions.

California has led the effort to introduce cross-border cap and trade on large industrial emitters with several other states and with four provinces in Canada.

I have made several efforts to spread the glad tidings at Hot Topic, but the filthy mood of the blogmeister there has led to a situation where even quotes from the IPCC will be censored.