Sentences with phrase «more tied to their communities»

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Some favoring the second strategy recognize that «[t] he equities are such that compelling some illegal aliens to leave at this point would be unduly harsh — many have been here for a decade or more, have strong community ties, and no longer have any meaningful connection to their native lands.»

The church is also being regarded as an important community of memory because the other sources of a rich narrative tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities — are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media, are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.

It has depersonalized social controls based on family and community ties and has contributed to the continuing negative attitudes that society holds toward homosexuality — the rationalistic and efficiency - oriented character of modern bureaucracies is thought by most of society to be inconsistent with more diffuse forms of sexual expression that homosexuality suggests to many people.

Perry's ties to Texas» black and Hispanic communities are largely built around faith - related issues such as abortion and gay marriage, on which polls show minorities tend to be more conservative than whites.

«Recreation is one of the means by which we try to build a Lockheed community, to establish ties that enable Lockheedians to work and live together more pleasurably.»

The NYC DOT unveiled a plan that would make all 13 Harlem River crossings more welcoming to cyclists and pedestrians in an effort to strengthen ties between historically underserved communities in northern Manhattan and the Bronx.

It remains to be seen if the proposal will be tied to measure that is more amenable to the business community, such as the new, less generous pension tier the governor included in the budget.

The latter study shows that the process of forming and changing opinions is intimately connected to the brain's neural hardware, where different parts of the brain are involved differently in shaping opinions, and the more beliefs are tied to community values, the more difficult it is to change them.

«If there's going to be more than one casino in the metropolitan area, then we should not deprive the upstate communities,» Bonacic said in a panel discussion at the Saratoga Institute on Racing & Gaming Law that attracted about 100 lawyers, lobbyists and others tied to the racing and gambling industry.

In India, the caste system is a center of identity at least as important (and longer lived) than the national government, in which your kinship and community ties to members of your jati a hundred miles away may be stronger and more relevant than your ties to people half a mile down the road.

It includes recommendations to provide direct funding incentives in the PBF model for the success of one or more at - risk student groups, to introduce measures that wouldn't punish institutions for experimenting with new programs to increase student success, and to better understand the impact of PBF on community colleges before a larger proportion of state funds are tied to the model.

Factors that are even more important in the propensity of a scientist with an NSF grant to start a business are the size of the grant, whether the scientist is tied into the business community, and whether the scientist had other outside funding.

With their strong ties to the community, local councils may also be more inclined to hire an inside person — an assistant principal, interim principal, or someone else from the community.

«I am thrilled about this news, because I think it will help to attract more students to the field of education and will further strengthen the ties between HGSE and the greater Harvard community.»

Some schools have adopted a more career and technical education approach while others focus on projects tied to community needs.

In addition the school has been made even more unsafe with the removal of Non-Teaching Assistants and classroom assistants who had ties to the community.

ASCD supports some of the proposed changes, including the push for stronger family and community engagement, the extended grant period to allow for more planning and pre-implementation activities, efforts to address school climate, and the focus on tying professional development to teacher evaluations.

Since poverty and race are closely tied in the United States, African - American and Latino students are at a significant disadvantage to the White students who tend to live in more affluent communities.

E3 Rochester's preferred model is a neighborhood community school, drawing in families and tying into the community in ways that give their students more stability and support, leading to better educational outcomes while also reviving devastated neighborhoods.

In Chicago, which has been subject to a variety of reforms over the years, research by Carnegie Foundation president Anthony Bryk and his colleagues found that schools with community school characteristics were more successful in terms of academic achievement in reading and math scores, and in reducing chronic absenteeism, along with other key indicators of student success.16 Spanning many years, the research concluded that successful schools had robust parent - community ties, a student - centered learning climate, and instructional guidance.

Concept auto inc is a respected used car dealer that has been in business for more than 20 years, with strong ties to the south florida community.

I hope that the feeling of neighbors knowing more about you than you'd like, or the sense of being tied to a community that you have outgrown strike a chord with readers in many places in the world.

As the ribbons wind» round us, the parents are telling us that blessed will be the ties that bind corporate interests to more community cooperation.

Edwards Brothers Malloy has had strong ties to the community dating back more than a century.

I'm thinking, though, that it might be more expeditious to just work on the policies and procedures, work at re-establishing community ties, work at recruiting and supporting volunteers, work at achieving the same goals we all want, than to have it stall while trying to figure out how to label what it is we're doing.

KCK AC (relating to your example of the great work HSGKC has done) is also impounding more animals that it can serve - hence the reason they have to be sent somewhere else so those resources are tied up unable to serve their own community.

The more your site appears at the top of search results tied to your community and region, the more clients your practice will attract.

I also maintain close ties with many veterinarians in the community in order to take a more holistic approach to dog training.

I won't even deny that Live does have a more active community, just that your reasons for developing on the PS3 has nothing to do with that, it has more to do with the fact you haven't made a new engine since 2004 and your founders have close ties to Microsoft.

Some of the more interesting ideas come in the form of a community level that unlocks once everyone as a collective has reached a certain amount of coins, and a tie in with Fable: The Journey, that'll allow you to transfer coins over when it's released.

The White Room aims to build strong ties with the local community through hosting a variety of receptions, exhibitions, and workshops, designed to showcase traditional arts, new trends, and more.

More and more, we find that fairs such as Frieze complement what we do in our bricks and mortar space, playing a vital role in our program and serving as important platforms to strengthen relationships and create new ties across the international cultural community.&raMore and more, we find that fairs such as Frieze complement what we do in our bricks and mortar space, playing a vital role in our program and serving as important platforms to strengthen relationships and create new ties across the international cultural community.&ramore, we find that fairs such as Frieze complement what we do in our bricks and mortar space, playing a vital role in our program and serving as important platforms to strengthen relationships and create new ties across the international cultural community.»

Building on the «Do What You Love» culture of modern labour economics, the home for Airbnb Pavilion is not so much about the traditional notion of a community that's tied to a physical space but the «home» icon of an online portal that's mediated in the interests of its administrator where Do More of What They Love lives.

This survey exhibition consists of over 40 artworks in all media by Western New York artists selected from the substantial art collection of Gerald Mead, and focuses on artists with current and historical ties to the Rochester community, whether current residents or with connections to RIT, Visual Studies Workshop, the George Eastman Museum, Nazareth College and more.

Social, political, economic, and sectarian strife — combined with more personal issues like family and community ties, as well as financial well - being — influence the choice to start over elsewhere.

Transportation is much more than just getting from point A to point B. It's the network that ties together our churches, our workplaces, our homes, our schools — linking communities and providing mobility to people and goods throughout the state.

CHICAGO (JUNE 13, 2013) Speaking to a global audience at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting, Global Green USA today announced its Commitment to Action to implement its catalytic «Solar For Sandy «program, which will equip five or more community facilities serving low income residents in New York and New Jersey neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Sandy with grid - tied, back - up solar energy systems.

A life of meaning is more deeply tied to a valued sense of self and one's purpose in the larger context of life and community...

State judges often have strong ties to the local community, so a strong letter of recommendation from a local school could have more clout than an Ivy League recommendation.

Nevertheless, Twitch with its profound ties with the gaming community, displays a rewarding prospect for Amazon to convert live streaming into a more important part of its business by resorting to the Prime membership and its online retail association.

«As far as the Bitcoin community is concerned, from what I've been able to tell thus far, they seem to be really interested in funding more technology - related things or more liberty - type, freedom - type things,» said Connie Gallippi, the founder and executive director of the BitGive Foundation, which coordinates and facilitates Bitcoin giving tied to the environment and global health.

However, Twitch, with its deep ties to the gaming community, presents a lucrative opportunity for Amazon to turn live - streaming into a more significant part of its business by tying it to the Prime membership and its online retail network.

respecting the broader family ties in Aboriginal communities and how that might mean finding ways to accommodate more visitors in the ED

First of all, many other families with children live here, making Ledyard a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family - oriented services and community.

Neighborly relations have declined in the U.S. since the 1950s, for reasons sociologists don't quite know, and lack of local ties is bad for crime and a community's ability to organize for their interests, to say nothing of leaving you stranded when you need one more egg.