Sentences with phrase «national attention last»

Paul Boyer recently voted for SB 1062, the infamous discrimination bill that received national attention last spring.

Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian who describes herself as a conservative, gained national attention last year when then - GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich rejected a chapter she had written on man - made global warming from his book on environmental issues, which is set to come out after the November elections.

Pipeline opponents garnered national attention last month, when some 40,000 protesters (according to organizers) assembled in Washington, D.C., to urge the White House to take a stand against fossil fuel emissions by vetoing the project.

Nolan's comments come as leaders of Long Island's anti-testing movement, whose boycott efforts captured national attention last year, are expanding their campaign as the April testing period approaches.

He recently lost his newly hired communications director, Allyson Gollust, and a top aide garnered unwanted national attention last week for reading from the personnel file of a fired state worker who claimed he was sacked after praising the administration in the media without direct permission to speak.

Leaders of Long Island's anti-testing movement, whose boycott efforts captured national attention last year, are expanding their campaign of encouraging parents and students to opt out of the state's standardized Common Core assessments, scheduled for next month.

Nolan's comments come as leaders of Long Island's anti-testing movement, whose boycott efforts captured national attention last year, are expanding their campaign as the April testing period approaches.

The issue of mandatory arbitration for harassment cases gained national attention last year when former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sued network president Roger Ailes over alleged sexual misconduct.

Not exact matches

Over the last two years, the movement has brought national attention upon the issue of minimum wage, with a special focus on how much fast - food chains pay workers.

They've gotten a decent amount of national attention during the last couple of years — not directly because of their music, but because the members are 12 and 13 years old.

Otherwise, the last few days Juventus turned attention to Lukaku but the Belgian national team player said that he doesn't want to go in that direction.

Rooney catapulted to national attention when he scored his first Premier League goal — a last - minute winner against Arsenal — five days before his 17th birthday.

Cleveland has been commanding attention in recent years thanks to the success of the Cavaliers basketball and Indians baseball teams and for playing host to high - profile events like the last Republican National Convention.

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.

Republican congressional candidate George Phillips, whose effort to oust veteran Democratic incumbent Rep. Maurice Hinchey has garnered national attention of late, told me without hesitation during a CapTon interview last night that he will definitely be voting for Carl Paladino on Nov. 2.

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.

«If folks and been paying attention over the last couple of weeks, we've heard that the governor, thanks to the governor, now folks from the Kingsbridge National Ice Center will meet all thresholds in order for them to satisfy the leasing agreement,» Diaz Jr. said.

Last month a similar encounter with Florida border patrol agents on a Greyhound bus gained national attention after a woman was detained in Fort Lauderdale.

The last time I can recall Palin involving herself here in the Empire State was when she backed Conservative / Tea Party darling Doug Hoffman in last year's NY - 23 special election, which gained national attention.

The report draws special attention to Ethiopian national and UK rendition victim Binyam Mohamed, who Amnesty claims was rendered in 2002, tortured in Morocco and has spent the last four years at Guantanamo.

Late last month, an intense back and forth between two New York Congressmembers quickly gained national media attention.

Cheers and jeers filled the room as the board discussed how to handle Paladino, a Buffalo developer whose comments about President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in an Artvoice article last week garnered national attention for their racist nature.

Ever keen to provide comprehensive coverage of developments in the Conservative Party, here are details of some proposals outlined by shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey in a speech to the London Libraries Conference at the end of last week, but which have not received any attention in the national press.

Hoffman, who has lost ground among fellow Republicans since his unsuccessful attempt at retaining the NY - 23 seat for the party in a special election last fall that drew national attention, has retained the support of the state Conservative Party.

For members of Troop B, it was also a time to reflect on the past year, which included national media attention in the wake of the escape of David Sweat and Richard Matt from the Clinton County Correctional Facility last June.

The spotlight on dynamic systems is a major shift for agencies like the Army Corps, which in the past paid more attention to engineered solutions, Bostick said last week during an event at the National Academy of Sciences that focused on the state of resilience in the country.

This is because over the last 20 years a number of countries have focused national attention on their students excelling in the areas of math and science education as a way for their country to create a highly - skilled workforce, allowing the country to compete in the increasingly competitive global economy.

His brother Mark, a former NASA astronaut who gained national attention after an assassination attempt on his wife, former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D — AZ), was a guest at last year's speech.

My attention was piqued on February 8 when 86 leading evangelical Christians — the last cohort I expected to get on the environmental bandwagon — issued the Evangelical Climate Initiative calling for «national legislation requiring sufficient economy - wide reductions» in carbon emissions.

Last year this trend drew national attention when the New York Times and This American Life reported on the 2015 shooting of Alan Pean.

Washington — Despite the scant attention paid to vocational education in the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell said last week that the nation's vocational system is nonetheless an important educational concern and should become an equal partner with college - preparatory programs.

Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called attention to the accomplishments of Roman Catholic education and the problems it faces during his keynote address to the 100th convention of the National Catholic Educational Association last week.

About 400 educators, human - services professionals, and officials of religious organizations gathered at the 10th annual «working with families conference» late last month to plan strategies to grab national attention for problems in their rural communities.

A Delaware Superior Court judge has ordered the Indian River school board to take another vote on whether to dismiss Adele Jones, the mathematics teacher whose firing last year attracted national media attention.

A shoutout during Bill Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention last week is bringing new attention to a program called Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youth.

The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on the same day.

It reflects an emerging national consensus on the importance of studying teachers» work before giving job security or raises, said Timothy Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group that published a report last year calling attention to weaknesses in teacher evaluation systems.

Colorado received a little national attention for last night's monumental rejection of Proposition 103, a statewide sales and income tax increase sold as a revenue generator for K - 12, preschool and higher education.

Last year, a young Florida woman named Denisha Merriweather garnered national attention.

Although national attention has been focused elsewhere, there have been dramatic improvements in equality of school funding over the last two decades, many spurred by a series of state court rulings demanding more adequate school funding.

The new Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, Lisa Lucas has worked tirelessly, as she told PW last year, to «get the media to pay more attention to books.»

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The CFHS launched a ground breaking multi-stakeholder report titled «Cats in Canada» late last year to draw national attention to the plight cats face across the country.

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National governments might not give such matters much thought — though the last seems to have caught the attention of mayors.

Climate adaptation has experienced a dramatic increase in attention since the last National Climate Assessment and become a major emphasis in biodiversity conservation and natural resource policy and management.

I thought I would draw attention to a stark example of a national newspaper in the UK repeatedly claiming that global warming has stopped, using exactly the flawed reasoning that you have highlighted — a columinist for «The Sunday Telegraph» has made this claim nine times in the last six months — most recently last Sunday (see halfway down: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/06/nbook106.xml).

This last aspect is of particular interest since it brings to the attention of the reader a unique phenomenon, i.e. the negative influence that the EU integration process in criminal matters may have for the quality of national and regional legislation.

As I pointed out in a column last year at Above the Law, three conferences form a triumvirate of national legal tech conferences that draw the most attention and biggest headcounts: ILTACON, which is just around the corner, Aug. 13 - 17, in Las Vegas; Legaltech New York, which is Jan. 30 to Feb. 1, 2018; and ABA Techshow, which this year is March 7 - 10, 2018, in Chicago.

Flint, Michigan, for example, has received recent national media attention over the last several weeks for its unsanitary, undrinkable water supply.