Sentences with phrase «made to raise»

For all the progress made to raise awareness and end discriminatory practices, as specified in the law and the REALTORS ® Code of Ethics, the challenges for the industry and society persist.

Building a Grad Nation 2016 Data Brief & State Progress Reports This Data Brief highlights state high school graduation rate trends and the progress being made to raise graduation rates for key student subgroups.

Since 2010, when the decision was made to raise the cap on tuition fees to # 9000 a year, the National Union of Students (NUS) has become increasingly sceptical of the government.

educational efforts be made to raise the awareness among members of the Alberta bar of benefits of screening for family violence and the availability of standardized instruments for that purpose.

Looking back, I see that's what prompted a lot of the prints: the Metropolitan Museum's Mezzanine Gallery, under Danny Berger, commissioned Summer and Turkish Delight; In a Public Garden was made to raise funds for the Kunstverein, Dusseldorf, where Raimund Stecker curated a show of my paintings; Books for the Paris Review is self - explanatory; Norwich was intended to raise funds for the Elton John Aids Foundation but that never happened — instead, I made Two's Company for them; Sea was made to subsidise Thames & Hudson, who published the catalogue raisonné of my prints and Sunset was made as The Whitechapel Gift: proceeds to support the Whitechapel Gallery's education programmes.

(It's also worth noting that the work is part of a portfolio made to raise funds for Barak Obama's presidential campaign in 2012.)

But there's a twist here: Crunch Out was made to raise awareness about the real dangers of development crunch, and all proceeds benefit Take This, a mental health - focussed gaming charity.

Building a Grad Nation 2016 Data Brief & State Progress Reports This Data Brief highlights state high school graduation rate trends and the progress being made to raise graduation rates for key student subgroups.

This powerful documentary tracking the lives of five bullied students was made to raise awareness of the epidemic of bullying and stir people to action.

Efforts have been made to raise awareness and build the capacity of practitioners on global education.

Effort is therefore made to raise awareness about possible dangers among young people, while some states and cities have introduced bans prohibiting minors from using indoor tanning facilities.

Here's the best part: the Camper model was made to raise money to help support the U.S. National Parks Foundation.

The petition, which was posted on the Power of Ten's website and has been signed by over 4,000 people, was submitted to Legislator Ellen Jaffee, who will deliver it to Education Commissioner John King at the capitol building, a move made to raise awareness for issues in the troubled school district.

The Marlins, made to raise payroll and divide their shares with the MLBPA in 2010, only brought on minor league contracts and traded everyone who has ever come within 100 yards of Marlins Park.

After Oxford's victory at the first ever open water varsity, with both men's and women's team defeating their Cambridge counterparts, this year developments have been made to raise the profile of the event.

Successful efforts have been made to raise and maintain standards through the formation of the American Association of Theological Schools and its system of accreditation.

Vigorous attempts have been made to raise the standards of ministerial education and training.

During the last century there has been some tendency in certain groups toward relaxation of doctrinal standards, while efforts have been made to raise the educational standards.

With this introduction, a brief attempt is now made to raise certain issues, which, I believe, are indispensable in the quest towards the development of an informed and more elaborate discourse on identity:

While any project can be successful given the right combination of preparation and execution, any attempt you make to raise significant funds will most likely need a well - planned and well - funded marketing and PR campaign.

«Although we respect the personal choices that parents make to raise their children in accordance with their faith and culture, it would have been wrong to obligate taxpayers to pay for these private choices,» the NYSSBA stated.

Support for kinship caregivers and recognition of the sacrifices they make to raise the children of relatives;

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All you have to do is look at how every day there's a new investment made in Asia where it's not uncommon for a bike - sharing company to raise $ 300 million.

Casper, a company dedicated to making the process of buying a mattress as easy as possible, recently raised $ 55 million from investors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire.

In a rare sign of bipartisan support for just about anything on Capitol Hill, two bills both aiming to make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise money sailed through the House last night in landslide votes.

At a time when airlines were beginning to experiment with baggage fees and were discussing mergers, raising ticket prices and generally making the flying experience miserable, JetBlue was different; passengers like me loved them for it.

The ECB, however, said after its latest policy - making meeting Thursday that it still doesn't expect to raise its own interest rates until «well past» September next year — and even then, only if it is absolutely sure that inflation is back on track after a decade of undershooting.

An offer of that sort would make it more difficult to say the Trudeau government only is looking to raise more money.

A startup called eShares raised $ 42 million to make it easier for privately - held companies to issue shares to investors and employees.

Ben's ability to convey, in an easy - to - read, engaging, and thought - provoking way, his thoughts, fears, and struggles about raising money, rapidly growing, restructuring, and ultimately selling his company makes this a must - read for any CEO who wants to build and run a great business.

A whopping one in three workers listed getting a raise as a top priority this year, making it the most popular resolution, according to rate - your - company startup Glassdoor's Employment Confidence Survey.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

«Last year we did a Twitter campaign last year in the US to raise awareness, and people started doing crazy fun videos about the brand, and made it a lot of fun.

In order to maintain a competitive edge, retailers haven't been able to raise prices to make up for lower sales lest they scare away those searching for the best deals, noted Preston.

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

• GrafTech International, a Brooklyn Heights, Ohio - based firm making graphite electrode products, filed to raise $ 100 million.

Like many post-recession pros, I rotate through freelance and contract gigs to earn dough, which made me give serious side - eye to a recent Glassdoor study finding that 89 % of 18 - to 34 - year - olds would prefer more perks to a pay raise.

Possible reforms could include raising the full retirement age for Social Security to 70 for workers who are currently under age 40; cutting benefits; increasing payroll taxes on workers; increasing Medicare premiums; and making Social Security benefits more progressive — meaning cutting benefits for high - income workers, while preserving payouts for low - income earners.

Impossible Objects has raised $ 6.4 million for industrial 3 - D printers that can make lightweight ready - to - use airplane and car parts.

That doesn't leave Square a lot of wiggle room if the credit card companies decide to raise interchange fees: «Because we generally charge our sellers a flat rate,» higher swipe fees «could make our pricing look less competitive, lead us to change our pricing model, or adversely affect our margins,» the company said in its prospectus.

It also makes your strategy more real; now, rather than just saying you want to raise money, you have to think about how that's going to happen, how much you need and how you'll use it.

One, it's the same as raising capital, but you don't have to give away equity or decision - making control.

«We made a grand, bipartisan bargain in Simpson - Bowles to reform entitlements and raise taxes,» Cote tells Fortune, noting that prior to the Great Recession, the ratio of debt to GDP was 35 %.

When American Express raised the annual fee on the Platinum Card by $ 100 last year, the company made it up to users by adding an extra $ 200 in value to the card's benefits in the form of a statement credit toward Uber rides.

And to do that, we need to make sure we raise the debt limit.

They can look for win - win ways to raise labour standards to make workers better off and more productive.

The trouble with that setup is that it could, as the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) trade group recently warned, substantially raise premiums for the sick and medically needy, who would stampede over to the more generous Obamacare - compliant plans and thus make those plans far more costly.

Pets help to provide social support to people, raising their self - esteem, making them more outgoing and even helping them create healthier relationships with human beings.

Every party will need to explain how they will make up the lost funds: cut spending, raise taxes or run a deficit.»

Clinton said she'd raise the minimum wage, though to an unspecified level, as part of a comprehensive package that would make companies «share profits with the workers who helped to make them.»