Sentences with phrase «main advocates in»

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And small businesses, SBA partners, and advocates in Congress — Democrats and Republicans — fear that in its main line of work the agency is in fact doing less with less.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2015 / PRNewswire - USNewswire / — To protect Main Street from predatory lending, today a coalition of nonprofit and industry lenders, credit marketplaces, brokers, think tanks, and small business advocates launched the Small Business Borrowers» Bill of Rights at a special event in Washington DC.

For example, the kind of «biblical theology» sometimes advocated assumes that we should go forward by taking with utmost seriousness the biblical images or motifs — not the literal, textual stuff of Scripture, which would involve us in a kind of new «fundamentalism», but the main - line of biblical images.

In this essay I will unpack and scrutinize the main arguments for the legalization of homosexual marriage and bring to light the negative effects of measures demanded by advocates of legalization.

He became one of the main gun control advocates in the Senate after the Sandy Hook shooting.

I advocate 3 main meals and 2 snacks each day in order to stabilise blood sugar levels and boost metabolism.

All I'm advocating for is to actually let Rico get some snaps in passing situations where he can win with his athleticism against LBers; Witten would still be our main TE in this situation.

Learn who the main players are, and what their role is, in building afterschool meals into afterschool programming: School Nutrition Directors, Anti-hunger Advocates, Community - based Afterschool Meal Sites, and State Agency

The main goal in starting this little blog less than two years ago was to provide a place for you: the parents, grandparents, educators and early childhood advocates.

Morgan's main focus with food allergies is self - advocacy: empowering food allergic children to be their own advocates in every avenue of life — school, friends, flying, and yes, even the dreaded dating scene.

The rate of gun violence is also increasing and this has led to the development of organizations such as Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America whose main goal is to advocate for public safety.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

PRONACO; the main citizens» movement advocating for national restructuring based on democratic self determination and peoples» ownership of the Nigerian constitution said the interjection of the political class has reignited hope for national cohesion and political stability in the country

The main objectives of this to advocate for and to raise awareness on the full recognition of the rights and implementation of the Convention of the rights of persons with disabilities in Zambia.

The main defendants in the charge are a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Dele Belgore; and a former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman.

The main federal investigation, which covers fund - raising by Mr. de Blasio and his staff since his 2013 election campaign, is examining whether donors were promised or received favorable municipal treatment in exchange for their contributions.The nonprofit is in the process of closing down, the mayor said last month, explaining that its work advocating universal prekindergarten and affordable housing was finished.

But she remains the administration's main conduit to Mr. Cuomo, with whom the mayor himself barely speaks, and she is the main voice in the governor's office advocating for City Hall's priorities.

The rejected newsletters come as residents in the state's other main facility, the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy, are saying that they've been banned from participating in monthly conference calls where civil commitment issues are discussed with Bowers and other prison reform advocates.

Clegg told BBC1's Sunday Politics there was no reason to hold a referendum because the three main parties had each advocated Lords reform in their manifestos.

PRONACO; the main citizens» movement advocating for Nigeria's restructuring based on democratic self determination and citizens» ownership of the Nigerian constitution also urged the Federal Government to quickly set up a technical committee to navigate concrete strategy for national reconciliation and stability in the country in tandem with the spirit of June 12

ROCHESTER, NY (09/15/2008)(readMedia)-- VOICE / CSEA Providers, parents and childcare advocates will rally in front of the Monroe County Legislature (39 W. Main St., Rochester) on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 6:00 PM.

But interest appears to be growing, and thanks to the work of an enthusiastic advocate, ecologist Marten Scheffer of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the Dutch parliament adopted a motion last year asking the country's main funding agency, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), to set up a SOFA pilot project.

Our main goal is to represent all LRI graduate students and advocate for their unique needs and concerns in order to maximize academic and professional development

As a Nutrition and Wellness Coach, I advocate three main meals and two snacks each day in order to stabilize blood sugar levels and boost metabolism...

Murdoc's Take: The main advocates of this diet believe that we should eat food in the purest form that nature has provided for us with absolutely no level of processing.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

But if you look at the data in Amazon books, you will see that the bestselling books about the Common Core are «skills - centric» ones that claim to prepare teachers for the new language arts standards by advocating techniques for «close reading» and for mastering «text complexity» as though such skills were the main ones for understanding a text no matter how unfamiliar a student might be with the topic of the text.

Its main purpose was to make it easier to pass bond issues for public school funding, and district advocates say that most voters were not aware of the provision («buried in a little Easter egg,» as Folsom put it) requiring public schools to offer charters their unused space.

Although the changes were intended to hold school officials accountable for the educational experiences of disadvantaged children, Congress left intact a short clause in the main K - 12 education law that, in practice, has failed to ensure that money from the federal Title I program only supplements state and local money, researchers and advocates said at a conference here last week.

Advocates in Colorado also helped achieve a major funding equity win last year by sticking to a main message: all public school students deserve equal access to public resources.

«Low Enrollment of Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools Main Retaliation Against Parents for Advocating: An Emerging Trend»

Furthering Diversity in K - 12 Schools through Student Assignment Date: June 1 Host: Center for Education and Civil Rights — Penn State University Location: Washington, DC (Georgetown Law School) Main contact: Erica Frankenberg, [email protected] Description: School leaders will work alongside one another, advocates, and researchers on various aspects of designing, implementing, and sustaining student assignment plans that promote racial and socioeconomic diversity.

The main criticism of our campaign cited in the article is that we have too many endorsements from outside the union — which only highlights how much support we have in the community and among social justice advocates.

I did feel Patrice was fairly accurate in her observations, but what really stood out to me was that Patrice's main concern was to advocate for Ginny.

Copia had one of the most elaborate booths at CES in the main hall that advocated their new social reading platform for Android, Apple, Windows Tablets, Windows Phone 7 and others!

Amazon's Kindle keyword field in KDP is one of the main reasons why I advocate distributing your eBook via KDP rather than through a third - party distributor.

Developed by Mars Petcare, the main goals for the Better Cities for Pets initiative include advocating for fewer pets in shelters, more pet - friendly places in cities and happier, healthier lives for both people and pets.

Advocates are also available to assist in applying for protective orders at the Tulsa County Courthouse in downtown Tulsa and at the Sapulpa (Creek County) office (19 N. Main)

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The main influences came from his contemporaries Joseph Beuys and Georg Baselitz, postwar tendencies in Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual art, but Kiefer is most regarded as an exponent of the Neo-Expressionism derived from Minimalism and abstraction, advocating representational and symbolic visual language.

Im an open source advocate, but my main focus in the past has been on both hardware product development and software.

I expect those who advocate divestment themselves continue to use fossil fuels as their main sources of energy in their day - to - day lives — automobiles, trains, planes, electricity, petrochemicals, thermoplastics, modern pharmaceuticals... and the list goes on.

Main Entry: so · cial · ism Pronunciation: \ ˈsō - shə - ˌli - zəm \ Function: noun Date: 1837 1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods 2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state 3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.

He was speaking at an event organized by The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the main group advocating climate change skepticism in the United Kingdom.

The AGW hypothesis isn't what YOU say it is — politically and in the public's eye it is what the main advocates say it is.

Apparently you refuse to respond to Al Gore celebrity status as a main advocate [perceived authority] RE: the theory of man - made CO2 caused global - warming - who is a famous politician w NO formal scientific training [FYI: Gore's far more famous the either Dr Dyson & even most of these 49 ex-NASA vets]- nor will you respond to IPCC Head Pachuari's lack of expertise in climatology.

In 2007, McKibben — who heads the nonprofit group 350.org, which advocates for policies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases — had asked Hansen to give him a target that the world should try to achieve for the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the main warming gas.

Does the alternative to our method which Samanta et al. advocate, or the recent update in the MODIS satellite data (to version 5 from version 4), make any difference for the main conclusion of our paper?

Their main duties are to advocate and advise clients on legal matters and thus, they are involved in almost every aspect of everyday life.

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