Sentences with phrase «make against a program»

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The real significance of the Google Patent Starter Program is instead more subtle, and should be seen against the backdrop of other moves Google is undertaking to change the economic incentives that have made patents such a problem for the tech sector in the first place.

And while that's not illegal, it is against the law to make false claims about the nature of the service or lie about being affiliated with the government's Direct Loan Program.

«For all 12 business support programs, no attempt has been made by the province to isolate the impact of provincial support against what would have happened without provincial funding,» the report said.

To make sure we give the broadest possible view of program quality, then, we've stacked our rankings up against those published by other major organizations and broken down which factors go into each.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Against this backdrop, the request for the $ 700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) appropriation was made the next day.

This time he thinks the Tories can be convinced to make changes, in addition to not increasing the annual contribution limit, like setting a lifetime limit on holdings that would be tax - free and making sure withdrawals count against income - tested programs like old age security and guaranteed income supplement.

With the creation of the G.I. Bill that year, the VA Home Loan Guaranty program was established, which guaranteed lenders against loss on mortgage loans made to veterans.

Against that background, one might justifiably ask whether it makes sense to have one economy (the United States) in a tightening monetary policy cycle, while the other (eurozone) presses on with its more accommodative easing program.

He argued against ending the Fed's bond buying program and urged the central bank to make a commitment to achieving its inflation target before starting to raise interest rates.

It was ruled against because governmetn funded programs like schools need to represent all beliefs, not just ones that include man - made gods.

«I was attacking the argument that gay people must be discriminated against — and anti-bullying programs that address anti-gay bullying should be blocked (or exceptions should be made for bullying «motivated by faith»)-- because it says right there in the Bible that being gay is wrong.»

You know — one of those old county pastors who would make a fool of himself defending Christ against a highly educated liberable, say a Jim Wallis, on a national TV program.

When the paid - time religious broadcasters do make the effort to defend themselves and their enterprise against their detractors, they do so by demonstrating how their programs further the mission of the church.

In 2010, Kelly won the Attorney General's Special Commendation Award, which recognizes the extraordinary efforts of an Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), an ICAC affiliate agency or an individual assigned to an ICAC Task Force or affiliate agency for making a significant investigative or program contribution to the ICAC Task Force.

«We make it a point to let customers know on every item we sell how the product stacks up against the Monterey Bay Aquarium's program called Seafood Watch.

The comment said that inclusion of multiple «gluten - free» symbols on the same food or any restriction against continued use of third - party «gluten - free» certification program symbols / logos could make it more confusing or difficult for consumers to identify foods that met the criteria of those third - party «gluten - free» certification programs.

But if you think you're making a valid point by comparing Gibbons against what looks like an entire athletic department complicit in a ongoing, years - deep culture of rape and assault of dozens if not hundreds of people (that goes for all three programs), then you have nothing valid to offer to this discussion.

The Broncos have made their bones as a national program by winning games against highly rated teams from bigger conferences.

It is up to parents to make sure that the helmet their child wears fits properly, maintains that fit over the course of a season, and has been properly reconditioned, and, if the football program does not buy impact sensors for the whole team, to consider buying one on their own, weighing the benefits of knowing the magnitude and frequency of the hits that their child is taking to the head against the risk that adding a two - ounce piece of plastic to the inside or outside of their helmet may void the manufacturer's warranty and NOCSAE certification or increase the risk that the protection the helmet's polycarbonate shell provides against skull fractures will be compromised;

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

Maybe «Wilma» and others like her, who are the real heroes in the fight for better school food, who do their work day in and day out without benefit of media adulation or hundreds of throusands of outside dollars to support their programs, might find comfort and inspiration in making their own Healthy School Food Continuum and reminding themselves of just how far they have come against overwhelming odds.

We have things like OSHA regulations that make it against the law to run a diaper trial program.

President Donald Trump's threat to unleash «fire and fury» against North Korea sent a shudder through Asia, raising alarm among allies and adversaries and, to some observers, making the possibility of military conflict over the North's nuclear program seem more real.

A South Buffalo man says victims of sexual abuse deserve more from the Buffalo Catholic Diocese than the voluntary program it established to help people who've made abuse claims against a clergy member.

Recognizing that the program could pit communities against one another, Hofstra University president Stuart Rabinowitz, co-vice chairman of the Long Island council, said, «This will be an open process... Everyone will get a chance to make their pitch.»

The tuition plan joins additional policy proposals rolled out by Cuomo this month, including a tax credit program to make childcare more affordable, investments in JFK Airport and charging infrastructure for electric cars and stronger safeguards against wage theft, cyber threats and the financial exploitation of senior citizens.

In 2o13, Schneiderman filed a $ 40 million fraud case against Trump on the grounds that he violated state education laws by making it seem like Trump University, his unlicensed real estate seminar program, was a real university.

Alli, a former Chairman of Odu'a Investment Company Limited and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in the state, while speaking in Ibadan, the state capital during a live radio program on Fresh FM, «Political Circuit» and monitored by DAILY POST, informed that it was certain that many people were making money in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents, the development he said had made it difficult for the President and the security agencies to defeat the insurgents totally.

The Democrats had secured an independent ballot line, the Save Medicare line, which the party said offered voters a chance to make a statement against Republican efforts in Washington to cut that and similar programs.

Stony Point — Welcomed by community officials and residents, Governor Andrew Cuomo made an appearance at the New York Rising's first Stony Point meeting to mark the first steps toward a long - term, state - supported program to rebuild parts of the town and fortify it against future storms.

Critics note he made no mention of the fact that some of his signature upstate economic development programs have been under a federal probe that led to criminal charges against 10 Cuomo associates.

BREEZY POINT — Frustrated residents still recovering from Hurricane Sandy railed against the city's Build It Back program, along with other city agencies and decisions made after the storm, at a town hall sponsored by the city comptroller Wednesday night.

Watling: It will sort of, possibly, there are some sort of frameworks out there that make it very easy to write a program that links against [a] particular, if you've got an RSS feed, for example, that like, you have a news service that might provide headlines and stories; you can set up an application that — a custom application — that might do something peculiar.

A machine learning algorithm programmed to identify images of coffee cups might compare photos of random objects against a database of coffee cup pictures; by examining more images, it systematically learns the features to make a positive ID more quickly and accurately.

But while a decade - long slump in tourism has resulted in scant state support for conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animals.

«We had to make sure the game is safe and well tolerated — to see that kids wouldn't get bored and throw the iPad against the wall,» says psychologist Scott Kollins, who directs Duke's ADHD program and helped run Akili's pilot study.

They excluded the DHS bill, which includes funding for the nation's immigration and border security programs, in protest against White House moves to make it easier for some undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States without fear of deportation.

Among other accomplishments, this milestone - based program made possible the development and clinical testing of antisense therapy against a common gene mutation in ALS, the first application of antisense therapy to any neurologic disease.

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Even though I could make a lot more money selling supplements than by selling this program, it's just plain against my morals to rip people off like that.

Cast against high - minded promises of lunar colonies and Mars missions, the space program — with all its current troubles — should make the answer to the following question seem pretty obvious.

Vice Principals Season 2 premieres on HBO Sunday, September 17, against the Emmys, which makes for oddly great counter programming.

Make routine quality - assurance assessments by observing after - school programs and rating them against your list of quality standards using a standardized tool.

Third, while making a legal case against the inclusion of faith - based schools, Markell wrote that «the government should not be in the business of funding programs or institutions that promote one religion over all others.»

But, as Dockterman discovered when he enrolled in the Ed School's doctoral program — admittedly unsure of how he was going to make greater impact in education — he was not against technology in education after all, and he began investigating the question, how can educators leverage technology in teaching?

A union - led coalition of local and national groups has launched a campaign against Ohio's charter school program, hoping to stir up enough controversy to make charter schools an election issue.

Schools have made big changes against a tight clock, a consequence of the program's genesis: the 2009 stimulus package, which sought to pump job - boosting federal money into the economy.

Part of this nastiness has evolved through the ridiculous promotion of fast - track - made teachers — pitting this group against real university prepared teachers who study children and their development in education programs.

So why would anyone argue against a program that makes me a better teacher?