Sentences with phrase «longstanding practice of»

She is a trained instructor in mindfulness - based stress reduction with a longstanding practice of meditation.

Embracing the connection between art and life, Shirley Goldfarb's paintings run parallel to her longstanding practice of journaling and recording video; documenting life in the café, at home and in the studio and providing a portrait of the unique persona she created after moving to France.

Google has had a longstanding practice of offering advertising relationships with key sites that allow them to embed their ads and profit from the partnership, but for the first time Google is going to put that advertising model in reverse.

In keeping with its longstanding practice of offering vehicles largely in «mono - spec» trim levels, options for the 2014 Honda CR - V are extremely limited.

As a result of the team's recommendations, Hightop examined its longstanding practice of regrouping for math in the elementary and middle grades.

The district's contract proposal phased out the district's longstanding practice of picking up the bulk of teacher pension contributions and increased union insurance premiums in exchange for a series of pay hikes over four years and a promise of no economic layoffs.

The layoffs announced Monday by Chicago Public Schools — 62 workers, 17 of them teachers — were far milder than feared earlier in the school year, but the district's plan to end its longstanding practice of picking up pension costs for teachers led to a fresh strike threat from the Chicago Teachers Union.

The salary schedule rewarded teachers for investing their time and personal funds in further education, and it ended the longstanding practice of paying men more than women and white teachers more than minorities.

These findings call into serious question the longstanding practice of using strict BMI cut - offs as the primary criteria for selection for bariatric surgery among patients with type 2 diabetes.»

In a unanimous vote that surprised even some of the members, a Legislature dominated by representatives from the suburbs voted to end the longstanding practice of giving nearly one - third of the sales tax money to suburban towns, villages and school districts.

The latter term apparently refers to Antonacci's longstanding practice of moonlighting as an accountant and high school basketball referee, which Mahoney decried.

«I would like to see changes that accommodate the need for our state taxpayers to be able to continue the longstanding practice of deductability of state and local taxes.»

BRINCKERHOFF: Working on the Garner case is a natural extension of the firm's longstanding practice of representing people who've been victimized by police misconduct and abuse of authority.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

Dr. King, the state commissioner, said the disturbing nature of these records was part of the reason he and other state education officials recently recommended a ban starting next school year on the longstanding practice of teachers» grading their own students» tests and would urge districts to improve monitoring on test days.

The Democrat says the longstanding practice of accepting cash bail is unfair, since it allows suspects with financial resources to go free while those...

The longstanding practice of giving some awards exclusively and routinely to senior civil servants and diplomats has also been widely criticised.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from Agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» he said.

BAIL: Cuomo has introduced legislation to eliminate the longstanding practice of requiring defendants to post monetary bail in misdemeanor and non-violent felony cases.

«Thrivent's longstanding practice of paying these representatives on a commission basis would — for the first time — be treated as a «prohibited transaction» under ERISA.»

An Amazon spokeswoman told CNBC in a statement the company has a «longstanding practice of not commenting on rumors and speculation.»

States had to shift from norm - referenced to standards - based assessments and to end longstanding practices of excluding students with disabilities and students with limited English proficiency from the state testing, reporting, and accountability programs.

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And given the longstanding and pervasive influence GE has had over the business world, its move could represent the beginning of the end for a practice that has been at the heart of how corporations have managed people for many decades.

Christians of all races can learn how longstanding policies and practices around housing, education, and criminal justice disproportionately harm some of their neighbors.

At the beginning of it, he gave expression to the agonising questions which must present themselves to anyone leading a movement to upset longstanding practice, and venerable tradition: «I have found it very difficult to justify my conscience; I, one man alone, have dared to come forward against the Pope, brand him as the Antichrist, the bishops as his apostles, and the universities as his brothels.

In part, Sims indicated in was pleasing that the panel had «given the core elements of Australia's merger laws a stamp of approval» and that its recommendation regarding concerted practices responded to longstanding ACCC concerns of a gap in the law.

A longstanding Indy 500 tradition, Carb Day was named way back when race cars had carburetors, which they could tune on the final day of practices.

Wendland has a longstanding interest in the entanglements of evidence and ethics in obstetrics: how people marshal evidence selectively to support ethical claims and «common - sense» conclusions about appropriate and inappropriate practices.

The justice department lawsuit alleges a longstanding pattern and practice of sexual harassment from landlord Doug Waterbury, who owns about 50 rental properties in Oswego County and the Sterling Renaissance Festival, Sylvan Beach Amusement Park and Santa's Workshop in North Pole.

«This turns upside down the longstanding compensation practice of home care agencies with respect to live - in aides, and raises questions about how providers are supposed to compensate their aides going forward,» said Emina Poricanin, an attorney with Hodgson Russ LLP, the firm that represented the New York State Association of Health Care Providers.

Outrageously, some State Police officers told investigators that such joy rides were a longstanding practice and don't interfere with official responsibilities — suggesting this type of risky violation of rules could have been going on across the state for years, the source said.

Cuomo spokeswoman Melissa De Rosa confirmed the governor's office consulted with the Board of Elections on all six of the ballot proposals as part of «longstanding practice.»

Shift in MTA Capital Funding Responsibility: The Executive Budget inappropriately asserts that responsibility for MTA subway and bus capital improvements should rest solely with the City of New York, contrary to longstanding practice and understanding, and would require a seven-fold increase in City capital contributions to the MTA.

The GOP housekeeping committee has a longstanding practice, which predates Dadey's chairmanship, of listing the payroll processing company as the recipient of payments for wages, Dadey said.

2003 Walter Reich, for his longstanding devotion to human rights issues, particularly his role in making known the abuses of psychiatry in the Soviet Union and spearheading an international effort to condemn such practices.

The inspiration for this project was informed by a longstanding body of BU research into crisis news and the resulting Aftershock Nepal project is an excellent example of professional practice and research blending together.

«There is a very longstanding tradition in psychology of distinguishing between automatic or really well - learned, well - practiced behavior and intentional, controlled behavior,» Egner said.

The longstanding practice was designed to fund military research with commercial potential or allow institutions to build new research infrastructure with funding they had won from the European Commission but would only get on completion of the project, Andradas explains.

My work would not have been accomplished without the longstanding support of Deborah, who has stood by me in advocating and backing my medical practice.

As the spirit of activism attempts to upend longstanding Hollywood paradigms, efforts at more inclusive filmmaking practices is a trending topic.

A school district in Tempe, Ariz., has dropped its longstanding — but illegal — practice of asking students their citizenship status and requiring many foreign - born students who live in the district to obtain student visas before enrolling in school.

The longstanding tradition of summative assessment final exams as the way to measure a student's cumulative understanding remains a common pedagogical practice.

By selectively leveraging the most applicable practices and strategies from the fields of Instructional Design, Network Theory, Agile Design, Entrepreneurship, Team Dynamics / Management, and Information Systems, the education technology team at MSU Denver is reshaping a longstanding paradigm within higher education, one which has gone relatively unchanged for decades.

And while there are, of course, examples of longstanding institutions and practices that are deficient and / or are founded on unjust principles, I find that longevity more commonly reflects a positive equilibrium.

In the matter of sexual harassment, I and others have written about the ill - conceived substitution of university conduct codes, unreasonable evidentiary standards, and star - chamber procedures for longstanding law - enforcement practices.

The inclusion of language in ESSA to assess educational progress via multiple measures of success, a longstanding ASCD priority, might incentivize SEL policies and practices at a quicker pace, notes David Griffith, ASCD senior director of government relations.

Reason number two has to deal with modern conservatism's longstanding problem in dealing with the racialism that is America's Original Sin, which still perpetuates itself in American public education through policies and practices such as zoned schooling and overuse of suspensions and expulsions.

In spite of the longstanding use of this data, some doubt was cast on the practice when a program analyst from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent an e-mail to Wake County school officials stating that the use such data for student assignment purposes might violate privacy laws.

But given the union's longstanding support of policies and practices that have harmed kids, especially those from poor and minority backgrounds attending traditional district schools the union's locals have long dominated, neither it nor Weingarten can claim to be working to reclaim a promise it never made.

But the education systems in each state have deeply entrenched practices and longstanding patterns of how performance is evaluated.