Sentences with phrase «many parallel efforts»

The number reflects the rapid adoption of drones by hobbyists and a parallel effort by regulators to get them to register those aircraft.

Parallel efforts can be found in other fields.

Küng would no doubt welcome parallel efforts from other traditions to develop the consensus that he and others claim already exists.

That this was a difficult, if not indeed impossible, undertaking had already been made evident by the parallel efforts of the Jewish thinker, Philo of Alexandria, who has perhaps the best claim to be the founder of classical theism.

Your purchases help empower women in Africa, and just yesterday FASHIONABLE announced that they're paralleling their effort in the U.S. via the new Miriam jewelry collection.

MTA board member Mitchell Pally, a frequent critic of Penn's current condition, said Cuomo's plan would streamline several parallel efforts to changes at Penn, which houses multiple transportation agencies and retail landlords.

Two parallel efforts, meanwhile, began this week to defeat Spitzer for city comptroller in the form of independent expenditure groups.

While OfA - NY focused on Philadelphia, our coalition, in a parallel effort, targeted closely contested Northampton and Lehigh Counties, coordinating voter registration drives, phone banks and canvass bus trips.

The authors note that, although there have been robust efforts to curb alcohol - related MVC mortality, there have been no parallel efforts to curb alcohol - related suicide in the U.S., which represents a major gap in alcohol - control policy.

It remains to be seen whether the EURYI awards, or the parallel effort by the ERC to be announced next month, will stem Europe's brain drain.

Parallel efforts are under way at many other universities — all sharing the common goal of restoring functions to people with disabilities.

«Yesterday the Commons Committee voted to undertake a parallel effort to examine the domestic and international regulatory frameworks that may be applicable to geoengineering.

It opens an unexpected link between the sizes of infinite sets and a parallel effort to map the complexity of mathematical theories.

Despite proposed cuts to the U.S. magnetic fusion program, a new report advocates a parallel effort to pursue fusion energy using the rival inertial confinement scheme.

A parallel effort on the science, technology and policy for water could prove to be of similar global benefit.

By making parallel efforts to achieve shared goals, and offering mutual encouragement in the process, working out together can significantly deepen emotional attunement and improve intimacy between two partners.

We went through another round in the early 90s with «New American Schools» — a purposeful effort by Bush 41, Secretary Lamar Alexander, and former Xerox head David Kearns to «reinvent» the school — and a parallel effort led by Chris Whittle in the private sector (the «Edison Project»).

Alongside a high - profile movement pushing employers to «ban the box» (BTB) asking about prior criminal history on job applications, a parallel effort has emerged to ban the box in the context of college admissions.

The Seoul stream project was integrated with a parallel effort to take away highways and improve public transportation.

Or maybe President Bush's parallel effort to extract «aspirational» climate goals from the «major economies» — a polite way of saying major emitters — will be the venue where progress is made.

In recent weeks I'd been in touch with two scientists involved with a parallel effort *, John Abraham of St. Thomas University, and Scott Mandia of Suffolk County Community College *, as they pondered various responses to the rightward shift in politics and the intensifying challenges to the vast body of science pointing to a human - heated planet.

To achieve this, many parallel efforts and proportionate funding increases would be required.

The Secretariat, augmented through the parallel efforts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aims to gain consensus through meetings and the discussion of various strategies.

While our focus here is on national assessments, and in the United States in particular, the project of improving such assessments is an international one, with parallel efforts in other countries or regions (e.g. UK Committee on Climate Change 2017, California's four Climate Change Assessments12); the need for peer learning between respective efforts is critical and often overlooked.

If the behaviour of recent temperature change is to be understood, and the mechanisms and causes correctly attributed, parallel efforts are needed to reconstruct the longer and more widespread pre-instrumental history of climate variability, as well as the detailed changes in various factors that might influence climate (Bradley et al., 2003b; Jones and Mann, 2004).

Holmstead's full history includes parallel efforts to block or weaken other EPA rules.

California is also working on this aspect of the issue, where the legislature is considering parallel efforts to protect legislative staff and lobbyists from harassment by lawmakers.

Not exact matches

Egypt devalued the pound by 13 % in March in an effort to close the gap between the official and parallel rates but the move failed to boost dollar liquidity or close the gap.

Local efforts by GDB and other Puerto Rican debt issuers to reach a debt restructuring are running in parallel with plans in the U.S. Congress to draft legislation aimed at solving the island's economic crisis, possibly by allowing it to restructure debt and putting its finances under federal oversight.

There will also be a parallel call for benefits, professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on - demand labor life, but such efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast for human - scale responses of accountability and responsibility.

Ukraine will expand financial and other sanctions against Russian individuals and companies, paralleling U.S. efforts to punish Moscow for its...

In Addition: A parallel determinant is China's effort to lessen its holdings of U.S. dollar reserves, by signing infrastructure agreements (denominated in yuan) with countries participating in its massive, long - term New Silk Road project.

The primary task of the exegete of the parables, then, is to set the parable in its original context in the ministry of Jesus so that, by an effort of historical imagination, he may grasp the crucial point of the parable itself and then find the parallel or analogy to which it is directed.

It requires no great leap of creative imagination to see the parallels, at least with respect to their social placement and psychology, between the rescuers then and anti-abortion efforts such as Operation Rescue now.

Church leaders» efforts to attack the scourge of degeneracy, feeblemindedness and poverty ran parallel to and often joined forces with the work of the American Eugenics Society.

However, a current major effort of computer research is towards the development of parallel processing.

They show parallels that are not readily apparent, and become apparent to the larger populace only after a steady effort to make the thing known.

Kuyper's efforts led to the establishment of a variety of explicitly Christian organizations parallel to their secular counterparts.

Parallel with the effort to use the Russian Orthodox Church to counter revolution was an awakening in the inner life of the Church.

This fuller investigation would seem to permit serious discussion of some of the more technical and detailed teachings of the encyclical, though of course the Pope would discountenance public protests and efforts to erect a «parallel magisterium» of theologians.

For parallel to (and in some cases generating) the explosion of historical knowledge about American Catholicism has come an effort to put that knowledge — better, a distinctive interpretation of that knowledge — to various partisan purposes in today's struggles over the meaning of orthodoxy, authority, and ministry.

Clotfelter and Cook say that the lottery is «a risky experiment to determine whether a system that allocates rewards on the basis of luck will undermine a parallel system that allocates... on the basis of effort and skill.»

One important advantage of defining theology as I have done, rather than as reasoning about God, is that it makes possible the recognition of the close parallel between the efforts to articulate Christian faith and similar efforts in such movements as Buddhism.

Their unlikely journey parallels the dramatic transformation of school lunch from a patchwork of local anti-hunger efforts to a robust national feeding program.

Forward NY, meanwhile, is launching a parallel online effort meant to raise cash from business leaders and women's groups.

The second - largest party — which would be Labour — can also start parallel talks to try to form a coalition of its own in an effort to reach the magic number of 326.

In parallel with continuing efforts to open the Chinese economy, these restrictions on investment protection were gradually lifted, and by the time China entered the WTO, any newly negotiated BITs by and large resembled the format used by a broad number of countries in the world.

As the group was gathered at City Hall, a parallel voting reform effort was being advanced in the state capital as well.

In some respects, it's a parallel to what happened in the Assembly in January, when the effort to oust Sheldon Silver as speaker was pushed for by a group of relatively new members hungry for change in the chamber.

In U.S. history, the two most notable efforts to develop religious communities that served much of the role of the welfare state to its members that most developed countries provided through government to its citizens, have been the Roman Catholic Church, which has developed a large parallel education and health care system, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints, which uses tithes to finance a wide variety of services and economic supports for members of the Mormon community.