Sentences with phrase «major role the groups»

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Fortescue Metals Group has announced major changes to its leadership, with a new chief executive taking the reins and its directors taking a hands - on role to support an updated strategy that focuses on producing more higher - grade iron ore.
Alexandra played key roles in audits of IFRS, US GAAP and Russian GAAP financial statements of major Russian groups.
THE Internet has played a major role in helping the Bunbury - based Lamac Group win the annual Telstra Small Business of the Year Award.
Skeptics of the marches seized on the roles of major interest groups, suggesting that the students were unwitting participants in political warfare that should be reserved for adults.
Garlow, an outspoken evangelical who played a major role in organizing Christian groups in support of California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, spoke plainly: He would not be supporting the Republican in this race.
It is obvious that the leader plays a major role in helping groups to share their own feelings rather than to probe for underlying motivation.
But we may not have guessed that these groups now play a major role in our society.
Even the deliberations of the circuli minores, the small language groups that meet to refine the final report (and that played a major role in revising the disastrous interim report last time), will not be released publicly.
Churches have a major role to play in providing premarital groups, since clergymen perform millions of weddings each year.
The chief financial officer of Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates is being shifted from number - crunching to a new role running the operational side of the wine group's big United States operations as it undergoes a major distribution overhaul and eyes acquisitions.
We have a good group here but we still need to prove that we can be consistent to the end and play a major role in the Premier League.
Moyes has sent scouts out to Israel to monitor Isco's displays at the European Under 21 Championships and the former Valencia man hasn't disappointed, playing a major role in Spain's excellent group stage wins over Russia, Germany and Holland.
Democratic strategist Guy Cecil, who served as Clinton's political director during her 2008 White House bid, is poised to take on a major role at the super PAC — a move meant to send a strong message that donors who want to help her should give to the group.
With outside spending groups expected to again play a major role in New York's 2016 elections, the state Board of Elections has posted for public comment draft rules regulating such independent expenditure committees.
Obama plugged the federal government's role, with major oil and gas groups pressing the White House to confine regulations to federal lands and environmentalists equally as concerned about the president's commitment to renewable energy.
Bru Cormand, head of the Research Group on Neurogenetics at the Department of Genetics of the UB, affirms that «studies made with monozygotic (genetically identical) and dizygotic twins show that genetic factors play a major role in the aetiology of the disease.»
To gauge how universal Tetrahymena's germ - protection role might be, Brandl's group fed a colony of the protozoan another germ that's a major food poisoner, Listeria monocytogenes.
A new study examining the role of ethnicity in determining the age of onset and severity of ALD, and comparing risk factors for its progression among ethnic groups, has found that ethnicity is a major factor affecting the age and severity of different subtypes of ALD.
They are the first to map groups of autism - risk genes by function, and to identify where and when these genes normally play major roles in early brain development.
In another major role, University of Chicago statistician James Dignam, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics, has been named as a principal investigator for the Statistics and Data Management Center of one of the new NCTN groups.
A major contribution came from a group of investigators working in Vienna, including Stumpf and Wolfgang Petsche, who established the critical role of the medial septum in controlling hippocampal electrical activity, and worked out some of the pathways by which it exerts its influence.
One striking feature of vertebrates is the prominent role that vision plays in almost all major animal groups.
NO also plays a major role in the pathophysiology of pulmonary hypertension (PH), a group of diseases characterized by high pulmonary artery pressures and pulmonary vascular resistance.
However, unlike silent star Marsh, Parker's characters usually enjoy a satisfying «worm has turned» moment — one of her first major film roles was as the abused wife in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) A more self - reliant Parker was seen in the 1990 AIDS - related TV movie Longtime Companion, as the supportive «earth mother» to a group of urban homosexual men.
At a time when the major studios increasingly function more like IP management companies, the role of patrons like Kao, Megan Ellison (daughter of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison), Molly Smith (daughter of FedEx CEO Frederick Smith), and Teddy Schwarzman (son of Blackstone Group founder Stephen A. Schwarzman) becomes increasingly important.
Giving an untested director such as Chbosky complete creative control was still a pretty big risk on the part of Summit Entertainment, but if the casting (which includes a great group of young actors like Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller and Emma Watson in her first major post - «Harry Potter» role) is anything to go by, fans have nothing to worry about it.
«Some of the major issues students have to cope with are adapting to both organisational and structural changes within the school environment while socially trying to establish new social roles in new social groups.
Below you can see a screenshot from an onboarding course from Compass Group, in which the learner learns about different roles as they go on a virtual tour of a major London entertainment venue by clicking on hotspots, that is for instance, colleagues at work doing different jobs in different parts of the building.
Representatives of each of the four major partners met with our group to discuss their role in Boston's education reform and to share insights from their work.
But this election is different for SEIU and AFSCME, with the core group of five candidates also being backed by the Chicago Teachers Union — which played a major role in recruiting Garcia and has pumped more than $ 570,000 into aldermanic races so far — and United Working Families, a coalition of liberal organizations formed in July.
TripAdvisor also plays a major role in safety concerns for women in both groups, but especially with Canadian women where 51 percent check the review site before booking in comparison to only 39 percent of American women.
Tank / DPS / Support Blinders: And while I'm on the subject of unnecessary developer tropes, could we finally see some major online games where the designers start with a clean slate, creating the grouped character gameplay that is optimal for that game's unique IP regardless of whether it fits into the «holy trinity» roles or not?
The report, the result of a survey of some 1,244 groups that received NEA funds, found that 77 % of respondents agree that the internet has «played a major role in broadening the boundaries of what is considered art.»
Museum - quality historical shows have also always played a major role in the gallery, with rigorously curated exhibitions focusing on specific moments in art or thematically arranged groups of work, and featuring pieces on loan from a variety of institutions and private collections (which are very often not for sale).
14 Feb 2017 IMMA announces programme for 2017 IMMA announces a major international group exhibition in 2017 examining the role of spirituality in art «As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics» alongside landmark solo exhibitions from Nan Goldin (US), Vivienne Dick (IRL), Jac Leirner (Brazil), Rodney Graham (CA) and William Crozier (UK / IRL.
The gallery has exhibited many major modern British artists and designers over the last century, and has played a considerable role in the promotion of many influential artists and artist groups of the twentieth century.
This fully illustrated catalogue accompanying Charlesworth's first major survey in New York features series such as Stills (1980), a group of 14 large - scale works rephotographed from press images that depict people falling or jumping off buildings; Modern History (1977 - 79), which pioneered photographic appropriation; the alluring Objects of Desire (1983 - 88) and Renaissance Paintings (1991), which continued Charlesworth's trenchant approach to mining the language of photography; Doubleworld (1995), which probes the fetishism of vision in pre-modernist art and marks Charlesworth's transition to a more active role behind the camera; and her final series, Available Light (2012).
«Peabody plays a major role in industry efforts to block action on climate change, with its own lobbyists and PR campaigns, as well as through front groups it supports like ALEC,» says Annie Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace USA.
The spread of Wahhabi doctrine - fanatically hostile to Shi'ite and Suffi Muslims, Jews, Christians, women, modernity, and much else - plays a major role with respect to Islamist terrorist groups: a role similar to that played by angry German nationalism with respect to Nazism in the decades after World War I. Not all angry German nationalists became Nazis and not all those schooled in Wahhabi beliefs become terrorists, but in each case the broader doctrine of hatred has provided the soil in which the particular totalitarian movement has grown.
The new report outlines the role of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) in defining the future of Europe's energy policy — a group established by the European Commission but made up exclusively of gas industry interests, including major gas and oil companies such as Engie, Enagas and OMV.
The report outlines the role of the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) in defining the future of Europe's energy policy — a group established by the European Commission but made up exclusively of gas industry interests, including major gas and oil companies such as Engie, Enagas and OMV.
Likewise, selected members of the national REDD group, from both NGOs and private developers, formed a technical group which played a major role in helping Peru's Environment Ministry draw up its Readiness Preparation Proposal submitted to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility.
Simpson Thacher's role as the main adviser to major client Blackstone Group is being challenged in Europe, as the private equity house looks to widen the pool of firms it uses for important mandates.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's role as the main adviser to major client Blackstone Group is being challenged in Europe, as the private equity house looks to widen the pool of firms it uses for important mandates.
Another aspect of Bill C - 69 that is concerning to groups such as Ecojustice is there could be a greater role for some regulators in the impact assessment of major offshore energy projects.
Clifford Chance (CC) and Cobbetts have played major roles on a # 225m bond issue for Midlands housing company Longhurst Group.
As in the 2004 presidential election, soft money groups are already expected to play a major role in 2008, reports The Boston Globe.
Business Litigation Group lawyer Thomas J. Donlon's «Silly Lawyer Tricks» column in the journal played a major role in winning that award.
Managing partners and members of executive committees in the more financially and professionally successful law firms that are organized into substantive departments and / or practice groups for the delivery of legal services strongly support the concept of having practice leaders assume a major role in their firm's efforts to: (1) increase the productivity levels of all timekeepers within their practices, (2) increase the economic contribution of their practices to the firm and (3) assume primary responsibility for communications to and from members of their practices about firm economics, priorities and business issues, as well as practice growth and client development initiatives.
Since joining the organisation two decades ago, Odegaard has added value to Suncor across a number of roles including vice president for project services in the major projects group and vice president for corporate and legal affairs.
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