Sentences with phrase «national attention by»

Earlier this week, a «rare bear» who caught national attention by accurately predicting the last housing crash in 2005 returned to the headlines.

To make this possible, Indego partnered with PayNearMe, a three - year - old Sunnyvale, CA - based startup that first gained national attention by bringing their unique cash - payment system to an established form of mass transit — Greyhound.

Mr Renzi rose to national attention by calling for the «rottamazione» (forced retirement) of the old Party leadership, which he deemed at least partially responsible of the sorry state of the country.

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Strikingly, for all the media attention on the case (propagated by Shkreli's troll - y Twitter antics and relish for stirring the pot), the trial verdict had nothing to do with the drug price hike that thrust him into the national limelight.

Hillary's fiery commencement speech, the first ever by a Wellesley student, won her national attention — a spot in Life Magazine's feature on the class of 1969 and a speaking invitation to the League of Women Voters.

One study by the U.S. National Institute of Justice found that «after only 20 minutes of watching and evaluating monitor screens, the attention of most individuals has degenerated to well below acceptable levels.»

That meant an administrator appointed by Ottawa would run the Cree community of 1,800 on James Bay, where a crisis of abysmal housing began drawing national attention in late November.

The Canadians who have been affected by the oil shock deserve the government's attention, but their economic suffering does not alone make the case for a large national fiscal stimulus initiative.

According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, small businesses spend 156 hours working on Form 1065 and Schedule C. Make those hours worth it by focusing attention on commonly overlooked deductions.

Launched by the province of Ontario and run by the Ottawa Board of Health, it is program on the proverbial chopping block that is worthy of national attention...

My attention was drawn to a link to an article by a lieutenant general in the Romanian Securitate, published in National Review online, where the whole thing is credibly explained.

I am grateful to Professor Patricia Benner of the University of California Medical School (San Francisco) for calling my attention to the model proposed by Stuart E. Dreyfus in «Formal Models versus Human Situational Understanding: Inherent Limitations on the Modeling of Business Expertise,» Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Contract: F 49620 -79-C0063), National Technical Information Service, February 1981, AD - AO97468 / 3.

Once visited by as many as 7,000 on Sunday mornings, Coral Ridge shrunk to 1,400 — 1,500 regular attendees as Kennedy's attention turned to national politics.

For better or worse, we find ourselves at a moment when considerable national attention is being given to the morality of capital punishment, and readers of First Things in recent months have also been invited to reflect upon the issue in an essay by Avery Cardinal Dulles (April) and in a later exchange between Dulles and his critics (August / September).

Conkle's documentary has won a gold medal in a national competition run by the University of Missouri, and Mr. Wright has garnered international attention, appearing on numerous television programs.

Moreover, the report on cloning by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC)- prepared in response to a request from President Clinton - gave considerable attention not only to law and philosophy but also to religion.

A 1985 report on «Violence and Sexual Violence in Film, Television, Cable and Home Video» by the National Council of Churches of Christ suggested that the churches give «priority attention» to the «glut of violence and sexual violence» in the media.

«Approximately 80 billion pounds of food waste is discarded in U.S. landfills each year and the issue is now getting national attention following the announcement of USDA and EPA's first - ever national food waste reduction goals in September,» said Patti Olenick, Sustainability Manager for Weis Markets, Inc. «In order to achieve a 50 - percent reduction by 2030, corporations everywhere will be looking to do their part.

With a distribution network operating in fifty states, the US Beverage portfolio of premium brands has attained nationwide attention by providing the US consumer with a variety of premium imported beers as well as national and regional craft beer brands.

Do you feel disrespected by a lack of national attention, Alabama?

McCoy previously has been critical of Colin Kaepernick, who sparked the protests in the NFL when he took a knee during the national anthem to bring attention to systematic discrimination against black Americans by the police.

The UCI World Tour is composed of 37 events, including the three three - week grand tours, but also 20 one - day races that are attended by the best riders and receive much greater attention in places like, say, Belgium and the Netherlands, where winning on the famed and treacherous Paris - Roubaix cobblestones can make you a national hero.

For all of the attention and notoriety brought to the program by the eye - popping numbers generated by senior quarterback Jake Browning, the 2014 NorCal Division I champion is much more than the state and national records its three - year passing phenom has accumulated.

Not, however, by Shirley, whose blog of a recent road trip for the team's website — funny and candid by the standards of the typical «inside look» — got extensive attention from the national press.

Park accomplished her feat at the tournament in which the golf was overshadowed all week by the owner of the Trump National course in Bedminster, N.J. President Donald Trump, clapping for the winner from his glass - enclosed box above No. 18, was the most notorious witness to the final - round theatrics and garnered most of the attention even before arriving at his summer White House during Friday's second round.

That March, after the NCAA began aninvestigation of Oklahoma over accusations that Sampson had made illegal callsto recruits, Sampson left for Indiana and was replaced by Capel, a former Dukeguard who had coached Virginia Commonwealth to a 79 — 41 record in four years.As soon as he arrived in Norman, Capel heard about Taylor's brother, who wasjust starting to draw national attention as a high school junior.

The likes of Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao have been brought to Old Trafford by the Dutchman, who is now focusing his attention on his fellow countryman Strootman, a favourite of his during his time in charge of the Netherlands national team.

Munchie gets a lot of attention — from locals commenting as the truck drives by to interest from national media outlets, the buzz helps raise awareness of and engagement in the district's school food service program.

Today, as we celebrate SpankOut Day April 30th — an annual observance founded by the Center for Effective Discipline (now part of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center) to bring attention to the need to stop physical punishment of children and promote nonviolent discipline — I want to encourage everyone to take this movement a step further than ending spanking as a discipline method.

Our attention has been drawn to what purports to be a report by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI).

Their method is much more thorough and uses information from local by - elections to estimate the National Equivalent Vote and pays attention to the actual shares of the vote in the different county council divisions last time.

De Blasio has seized hold of the national debate over the removal of confederate monuments by ordering a review of all possible «symbols of hate» in the city — once again grabbing national attention while simultaneously putting himself in a tricky situation.

In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).

«Our attention has been drawn to news making the rounds that the National - Protest - March slated for Monday, February 6, 2017 has been canceled by Innocent Idibia popularly known as 2Face.

Mayor Bloomberg's proposed plan to limit the sale of soda and other sugary drinks to containers that are 16 ounces or less has drawn national attention, been widely criticized by editorial boards and columnists, and has made him a target for attacks from several groups including the Center for Consumer Freedom which ran an full page ad in the New York Times.

The increasingly ugly battle for the Brooklyn Senate seat vacated by Carl Kruger has attracted national attention as the clock ticks down to the March 20 special election.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked its members to ignore attacks by former first lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings since she is working to douse the seeming public attention on the troubles in opposition New Patriotic Party.

A campaign about education in the northeastern U.S. targeting a specific elected official may not hold my attention with content that calls out a particular politician by name (they're not MY rep, after all), but if the content also contains stats that I find relevant to education discussions where I live, then suddenly even a regional campaign can be relevant on a national scale.

The state Conservative Party is so far sticking by Hoffman, but GOP leaders are wondering if the lack of national attention on NY - 23 in the upcoming general election could mean last year's Tea Party cause célèbre no longer has sufficient star power to carry their banner into the race.

A coalition of history buffs led by National Parks Conservation Association and The Pew Charitable Trusts, highlighted the nearly $ 1 billion in deferred maintenance at sites across the state to call attention to the dire maintenance backlog at National Park Service.

Republican Julie Killian, a former Rye city councilwoman, is taking on Democrat Shelley Mayer, an assemblywoman from Yonkers, in a contest that has generated national attention and sparked millions of dollars of spending by the candidates and their allies on both sides of the aisle.

Public radio reporter Karen DeWitt (who is employed by WXXI News) asked the Democratic governor whether he was considering new policies in light of the national attention on sexual misconduct, as well as the recent resignation of a state economic development official who was under investigation for harassment.

Whereas, These unambiguously racist, morally repugnant, flagrantly disrespectful, inflammatory and inexcusable comments by Mr. Paladino have garnered both local, national, and international attention that reflects negatively on the Buffalo Board of Education, the City of Buffalo and its leadership and its citizens, the State of New York, and every decent human being in America and abroad who has been shocked and offended by his words; And,

In the statement jointly signed by their spokesmen, Yusuph Olaniyonu and Turaki Hassan, they both stated, «Our attention has been drawn to reports in a national daily insinuating that there was a disagreement between Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker, Rt..

Following an election that had one of the largest gender gaps in history, women are more likely than men to say they are paying increased attention to politics, according to the latest national survey by Pew Research Center.

Let me start by expressing my profound gratitude to the National Assembly and the House Committee on Police Affairs in particular, for the attention accorded the «Nigeria Police Trust Fund» Bill so far; in view of the setbacks encountered by the previous National Assemblies to pass the Police Trust Fund Bill into Law.

Katie Cusack spent time on the picket line and with the families of the workers impacted by the long strike that garnered national attention and stoked concerns about environmental safety.

The governor's speech gained him attention beyond New York; the Democratic National Committee distributed the text, and it was praised by Democrats in other states.

«These unambiguously racist, morally repugnant, flagrantly disrespectful, inflammatory and inexcusable comments by Mr. Paladino have garnered both local, national and international attention that reflects negatively on the Buffalo Board of Education, the City of Buffalo and its leadership and its citizens, the State of New York, and every decent human being in America and abroad who has been shocked and offended by his words,» Jay wrote.

Myrick's idea drew him national attention, but it was widely panned by critics, particularly members of the Senate GOP conference, who basically shut down any possibility of discussing it as part of the state's efforts to combat opioid abuse.