Sentences with phrase «longtime leader in efforts»
Gro Harlem Brundtland, a longtime leader in efforts by the United Nations to improve the human environment --
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In last week's down - to - the - wire budget battle between the White House and Republican leaders, for example, it was a GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood — a longtime enemy of Christian conservatives — that emerged as a final stumbling block.
After moderate success in that election, Schneiderman quarterbacked then - State Senator David Paterson's effort to unseat longtime Senate minority leader Marty Connor, seen as an important step in changing the culture of the Democratic Party in the Senate.
Cabrera, who is a longtime foe of marriage equality and a leader in the effort that recently overturned the public schools» policy against church congregations using their space for worship services, has for years worked with the Family Research Council, an organization condemned as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Indeed, Skandera and Ruszkowski have started to highlight those efforts, in the form of a coauthored paper on investing in teacher leadership published in December by Chiefs for Change, a group of reform - minded state and district leaders of which Skandera is a longtime member.