Sentences with phrase «major national groups»

Finalists this year include a wide variety of books from publishers large and small, hybrid presses, traditional houses, self - published authors, major national groups like the American Cancer Society and even The White House Historical Association.

And it's not clear if gay donors and major national groups like the Gill Action Fund will so focus their attention and money as aggressively in New York after their money yielded a one - sided defeat.

Not exact matches

And it would largely eliminate a major group of very real threats to national security.

Seven Group Holdings has upped its takeover bid for National Hire Group, after its initial offer of $ 3.00 per share was rejected by the target's major shareholder, Tasmania - based Caterpillar dealer Da

His duties include building a national network of fundraisers and courting major donors, who increasingly have more options amid the rise of outside groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums.

While attending Princeton, where he majored in public policy and international affairs, he founded the National Youth Association, an advocacy group for Millennials that now has 750,000 members.

These are some of the major findings of a Global Atlantic Financial Group national study of U.S....

National activist groups and students are planning two major protest actions next month: the National School Walkout on March 14 and the March for Our Lives on March 24.

In the 20th century major ethnic groups and even racial groups began to be represented on the national political stage and the election of the first Catholic president in 1960 marked the crossing of an important symbolic barrier.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

There is also a «Hispanic Patriots for Trump» group as well as the National Diversity Coalition for Trump, but this group doesn't include any of the major Hispanic surrogates we saw for Romney, McCain, or Bush.

In July l980 the National Council of Churches «Communication Commission and the National Religious Broadcasters jointly issued an invitation to key groups on both sides of the controversy to join in a major research project to get at the facts.

The challenge of the Morton Grove, Illinois, no - nonsense handgun law has the National Rifle Association and other influential «pro-gun» groups scrambling for a major counterattack.

Dzeko played for his national team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, leading the line for Bosnia & Herzegovina, but he was unable to help them make it out of the group stage in their first ever major international tournament.

Moving day at the Masters will feature several major champions just before the final group on Saturday at Augusta National, including Henrik Stenson and Rory McIlroy paired together for the third round.

As the head of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, he owns a number of north American sports teams, venues and radio and television networks - including the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League, the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer, the Pepsi Center, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Altitude Sports & Entertainment (regional sports network) and the Outdoor Sportsman Group of media companies.

Last fall I was approached by a National organization called City Dads Group that has helped start over a dozen dads groups in major cities across the country.

New York State's recent attempts to revise academic standards for elementary and secondary education appear to weaken or muddy major requirements in reading and writing, according to pro-standards groups at the national and state levels.

In fact, Stobart Group has announced a 100 - acre expansion to its current operation at Widnes that will generate an additional 4,000 jobs and create a facility for national and regional distribution purposes that is highly attractive to major retailers.

Instances of feverish demagoguery around Britishness and Englishness are evidently no longer confined to neo-fascist groups, but gradually being legitimated by major national newspapers, commentators and politicians.

Major corporations such as Conmed, Special Metals, Oneida Ltd., Utica National Insurance Group, PAR Technology, Revere Copper and Brass, Metropolitan Insurance Company, Fleet Bank and others serve to provide the needed economic diversity that government leaders indicate is the key to prosperity in Oneida County.

The formation of vigilante groups seems to be growing across the country, especially among the two major political parties — the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), despite concerns raised by the National Peace Council, the clergy and civil society groups over the existence of such groups.

In a statement signed by the National Leader of the foremost Igala group, Major General Patrick Akpa (rtd), the organization described the attack as an «affront on democracy» and an «intimidation of a constitutional arm of government» in Kogi State.

The 2017 budget was to ensure confidence in the economy — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:52 The cedi remains relatively stable against he major currencies — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:51 Interest rate in 2017 continue to decline — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:50 Inflation continue to decline in 2017 — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:48 We have returned to a robust growth after 2016 recorded the worst growth in three decades — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:47 The call to relieve our country and people from a wretched existence is urgent — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:45 The should not simply be a statement to share the national cake between different groups but it should capture how a nation comes together to meet the challenges of our time — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:45 We plan on providing opportunities as many Ghanaians as possible.

LAKE GEORGE The recent abrupt cancellation of a multi-band weekend concert at the Lake George Festival Commons has prompted the booking of a major national rock «n roll group to take its place.

Also at noon, Making Change at Walmart, along with Walmart - Free NYC and other groups, will hold a major demonstration in front of Trump Tower as part of a national campaign and day of action calling on Walmart to dump Trump and immediately withdraw all financial support for the 2016 Republican National Convention, Trump Tower, 725 5th Avenue, between E56th Street and E57th Street, Nnational campaign and day of action calling on Walmart to dump Trump and immediately withdraw all financial support for the 2016 Republican National Convention, Trump Tower, 725 5th Avenue, between E56th Street and E57th Street, NNational Convention, Trump Tower, 725 5th Avenue, between E56th Street and E57th Street, New York.

Feet «n» Tricks International Limited, organizer of the just concluded Nigeria National Freestyle Championship, in conjunction with its major sponsor, GAC Motors, Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) and VFD Group, have fulfilled their pledge as a brand new saloon car was handed to the 1st Prize Winner in the male category of the competition, McCarthy Obanor

Fayose governor challenged the DSS to tell Nigerians those who sponsored the Tuesday protest in Abuja by a group that called itself National Support Groups for Good Governance, (NASUGG), saying «When protesters went round major streets in Abuja on Tuesday, protesting against Governor Wike, where was the DSS then?

General News of Wednesday, 16 May 2018 Source: dailyheritage.com.gh File Photo: A group of NDC supporters The formation of vigilante groups seems to be growing across the country, especially among the two major political parties — the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), despite concerns raised by the National Peace Council, the clergy and civil society groups over the existence of such groups.

The CPF is a national Party Group that gives members the opportunity to discuss the major policy challenges facing Britain.

Major companies — electricity giant Huaneng Group and state - directed China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC)-- have responded to the government's goals, looking to build utility - scale wind farms throughout the country, according to engineer He Dexin, president of CWEA.

The National Commission on Energy Policy's report presents an overview of major issues — such as allowance allocations, offsets, trade and costs — that will be followed in the coming weeks by the group's detailed recommendations and proposals.

Scope of the problem A National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study released this spring shows that 14 percent of patients with drug - resistant major depressive disorder experience a remission of symptoms after rTMS treatment compared with a control group, which reported a 5 percent rate of remission.

HEU has formed a well - structured curriculum that is characterized by the main subjects of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application as well as distinctive, related disciplines with matching support and reasonable structural layout: 12 first - degree doctoral stations, 27 first - degree master stations, 56 under graduate majors, 13 post-doctoral mobile stations (research station), 1 national key discipline of the first - degree subjects, 1 national key discipline of the second - degree subjects, 11 defense featured subjects, 7 special defense majors, 4 characteristic profession stations of the Ministry of Education, 1Heilongjiang provincial key discipline group, 11 first - degree subjects.

This vital element could become sparser in soils of major agricultural regions as the climate changes, an international research group announced online February 21 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

According to Tan Khee Giap of the National University of Singapore and colleagues at University of California, Davis, and Curtin University, in Bentley, Australia, existing major city indices can be divided into two groups.

A group of plant biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University, the University of Tokyo, the Gregor Mendel Institute, and the University of Kentucky, has reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, on their discovery on how the plant's egg cells initially lose their skeletal pattern upon fertilization and are reorganized by two major cytoskeleton components in the cell, microtubules (MTs) and actin filaments (F - actin).

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

The Alliance brings together the efforts of the major National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)- funded Model Organism Database (MOD) groups, and the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium, in a synergistic integration of expertly - curated information about the functioning of cellular systems.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Nov 16, 2015, shed light on efforts to accurately date the period when major mammalian groups first evolved.

Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have contributed to every major IPCC assessment since the organization was established in 1988 by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization, and scientists from PNNL's Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division are currently contributing to all three working groups of the AR5.

The last major critics group to announce their winners this awards season, the National Society of Film Critics have chosen David Fincher's The Social Network as their favorite movie of 2010, shocking absolutely no one.

Grouped under three major headings — State and Federal Policy, System Resources, and Quality Programming — the recommendations and workshop summaries cover local, state, and national elements required for a high - quality system.

The zero draft ignored the hundreds of submissions made by national governments, civil society organizations and major groups and came up with a document that even shocked government negotiators who called for greater imagination by the UN Secretariat for Rio +20.

Gates is a major supporter of the Hope Street Group, a national think tank and consulting firm that formulated the language for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program, which is opposed by many teachers and union leaders.

Today, NCATE has 33 member organizations, including the two national teachers unions; the major subject - based associations in English, math, social studies, and science; and policy and administrator groups (see Figure 1).

Nigel Watson, Northumbrian Water Group Information Services Director, said: «Northumbrian Water Group is really excited to be leading this fantastic celebration of creativity, working with some major global and national innovators.

The National Business Consortium for the Gifted and Talented, as the group called itself, proposed to carry out an ambitious scheme incorporating one of the new President's major themes — the enlistment of the national business community in «partnerships» with those championing important social causes, in this case the advancement of programs for gifted schoolcNational Business Consortium for the Gifted and Talented, as the group called itself, proposed to carry out an ambitious scheme incorporating one of the new President's major themes — the enlistment of the national business community in «partnerships» with those championing important social causes, in this case the advancement of programs for gifted schoolcnational business community in «partnerships» with those championing important social causes, in this case the advancement of programs for gifted schoolchildren.

Interest groups ranging from the National School Boards Association to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, from the National Governors Association to the major civil rights groups, all issued statements of approval.

WASHINGTON — Hispanics remain the most undereducated major segment of the nation's population, according to a report issued last week by the National Council of La Raza, an umbrella organization for Hispanic groups.