Sentences with phrase «major initiatives came»

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National Bank also highlighted that major maintenance initiatives are planned at Syncrude Canada Ltd., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.'s Athabasca oil sands project and Suncor Energy Inc.'s base plant — which cumulatively could reduce industry oil output by 650,000 barrels per day in the coming months, easing some of the stress on full pipeline networks.

When T - Mobile teased its Uncarrier Amped initiative prior to the June 25 announcement, his invite let on that the carrier would be «amping up several of our most wildly popular Uncarrier moves in a major way — making them even bigger, even better, even ballsier» in the coming weeks.

Another major initiative has recently come from Konrad Raiser.

From David King in this morning's Gotham Gazette, Technology Helping to Pry Open Government: Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to unveil a major open data initiatives as early as this week — Sunshine Week — coming on the heels of the announcement earlier this year ofOpenBudget.ny.gov, a portal that allows citizens to look up the state's finances.

They repeated many of their familiar talking points about the state's major energy initiatives — that R.E.V. saves billions of dollars a year for ratepayers, that hundreds of megawatts of solar would soon come online, and that the current power grid is inefficient and unnecessarily costly.

But, when it comes to other major Obama legislative initiatives, there's no guarantee that all 58 Democrats (or 59 if entertainer Al Franken winds up being seated in the Minnesota race) stick together or that the same trio of GOPers can be relied on to cross party lines.

Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

He must ask Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to launch a major campaign (as part of the I - 3 initiative, perhaps) to give schools incentives to take advantage of new technologies that are rapidly coming on line — broadband, powerful computers, 3 - dimensional presentation of material (ala Avatar), and open - source curricular development (ala Wikipedia).

Montgomery started a teacher diversity initiative in late 2014, but major changes in overall composition have not come quickly.

Institutional theories take a different view, arguing that schools (like other major social service sectors) are so constrained by public expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come easily.

In its place, Vallas announced a major new initiative called the Twilight Program, an «alternative education and credit recovery program» which provides students with the ability to come in a use an E-Leaning computer program to access credit granting classes.

With major new initiatives coming out of the agencies represented here — Blair on new production, Aitken Alexander's international expansion, and what is, in fact, a BBC production deal for Curtis Brown, as well (on Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)-- I hope to return to more of this panel's discussion of the agent's developing role in the business in coming days.

One of the major announcements coming from Valve's «Steam Dev Days» event is that Gabe Newell wants the Steam Greenlight initiative gone.

It is an initiative where creatives come together to raise awareness for the beauty and fragility of our oceans and collaborate on projects that can end their destruction, it addresses major threats towards our oceans, the most important ecosystem of our planet.

What's notable now, however, is that many major businesses — including Coca Cola, and grocery store chains Tesco, Iceland and the Co-op — have come around to supporting such an initiative, which would see «reverse vending machines» installed in grocery stores and other public places, providing refunds for returned empty bottles.

New Trucking and Freight Initiatives Interestingly enough, of the two major initiatives that came out of RMI's Transformational Trucking Charrette, one focuses on developing a national freight strategy (to include trucks, rail,Initiatives Interestingly enough, of the two major initiatives that came out of RMI's Transformational Trucking Charrette, one focuses on developing a national freight strategy (to include trucks, rail,initiatives that came out of RMI's Transformational Trucking Charrette, one focuses on developing a national freight strategy (to include trucks, rail, and more).

RP: I think people did not anticipate the extent to which the Republicans would be hard - over in opposition to moving any of a number of major policy initiatives of the administration — or that the Democrats would be so flummoxed in terms of coming to any kind of internal consensus among themselves, and so unable to govern, so unable to move an agenda.

China and the United States» initiatives are a major step forward and make an agreement more likely to come out of the climate meeting in Paris.

The Alexander Street Master Plan Area is a redevelopment initiative that will have a major impact on the Yonkers waterfront for generations to come.

The last major federal initiative came in 1994, when the Clinton administration worked with Congress to create Early Head Start, which serves pregnant women and children from birth to age 3.