Sentences with phrase «national efforts like»

«We know from the success of national efforts like «Click It or Ticket» that combining good laws with effective enforcement and a strong public education campaign can — and does — change unsafe driving behavior,» said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland.

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«It's been 20 years, but it's got to be another 20 years because the only way we're going to end this is through concerted efforts and encouraging governments like the government in the Philippines, encouraging the national community, institutions like World Bank, encouraging major countries, but also just getting our hands dirty and doing it,» Evans told «The Brave Ones.»

Instead, Celenza focused his efforts on venues where his customers were already shopping: sporting goods and training equipment retailers, including national chains like Sport Chek.

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

New York will remain steadfast in pushing back against federal encroachment efforts like the [Office of the Controller of the Currency's] proposal to impose a one - size - fits - all national bank charter that increases risk and seeks to usurp state sovereignty.»

Thanks to national immunization efforts like these, global measles deaths have fallen more than 80 percent since 2000, saving a total of over 20 million lives.

«It sounds like another effort by this administration to really empower employers to hide pay discrimination under the rug,» Emily Martin, an attorney at the National Women's Law Center, told Bloomberg Law.

In California, efforts to expand the list of those who could petition for restraining orders to include co-workers and employers drew opposition not only from pro-gun groups like the National Rifle Association but also from the A.C.L.U.

Meanwhile, the World and National councils of churches, myriad regional and local councils, the many bilateral conversations, and unity efforts like the Consultation on Church Union have continued to do their work largely out of the public eye except for occasional moments of media - orchestrated controversy.

Like the national labor relations legislation of the 1930s, it represents a significant Congressional effort to find a path between laissez - faire and direct state intervention into social relationships.

There, she was responsible for all of Darden Real Estate activity including planning and directing real estate efforts for national brands like Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Longhorn Steakhouse.

Ozil is a class player and it's not like we have them in abundance.Sign Mikki and Abua and play them up top with Laca.Skill pace and desire in all of them.Ozil is at his best when he has technically astute players in front of him which is why he was voted German National Team Player of The Year 5 times in 6 years.Giroud - No movement and pace and only dangerous when attacking balls in the box.Despite what is said his hold up play is awfull and goes to ground like he's been shot with a Buffalo Gun at the slightest contact.Walcott - Pace but no brain.The stats tell a better picture of a player who was NEVER good or consistent to ever be considered anything other than average at best.Wellbeck - Good pace and effort but little to offer as a goalscorer.Back - up at best.This is what Ozil has had to work with (I have photo shopped Sánchez from my life forever).

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

«These efforts include National Prescription Drug Take Back Days and other initiatives like this one to facilitate the collection, and safe and responsible disposal of unused medications.

But the House seat has not been on the radar of national efforts to flip the seat to the Democratic column like those to the south, including the districts represented by Republican freshman Claudia Tenney and John Faso.

Taking his turn on GBC's Encounters with presidential candidates on Wednesday, he stated projects like the resurfacing and marking of Cape Coast roads, improvement of street lighting system, construction of the road to the Kakum National Park, construction of the new Cape Coast stadium, modernisation of the Kotokuraba Market and the construction of the John Evans Atta Mills Presidential Library were all part of efforts to make Cape Coast more attractive to tourists.

Like Loeb, she doesn't have a long history of involvement in state races — her previous donation in New York came in 2000, when she contributed $ 100,000 to a national effort to elect Republican state legislators.

Mayor de Blasio's work to push forward national policies through the U.S. Conference of Mayors and other partnerships is vital to our efforts to secure key federal funding for priorities like infrastructure and homeland security, and move forward an agenda that will lift up New Yorkers around the five boroughs,» Spitalnick said in an emailed statement.

It's part of a paid political theater effort the National Republican Congressional Committee is launching today in an attempt to tie Hochul — generally well - liked — to Obama, who is very likely to lose the GOP - leaning district in November.

He continued: «No one should be lectured by a hypocritical candidate like Mike Derrick who just accepted almost $ 3,000 in campaign contributions from wealthy Democratic mega-donor George Soros, and is angry that his 18 month effort dialing for national dollars has miserably failed.»

«As a national model, we must maintain our upward momentum to end gender and racial inequality through public policy that celebrates our diversity,» Council Member Cumbo said at the rally, pointing to other city and state efforts like the municipal identification card program and a higher minimum wage.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

A proposal to study a mysterious object, with no guarantee that the effort will pay off at the end, is not very appealing to agencies like the National Science Foundation, which expect well - defined goals and concrete results from the research projects they support.

«This is a fairly niche effort in lung cancer care, and we'd like to see a national level clinical trial at some point,» he said.

Natural wonders like tumbling waterfalls, jutting rock faces and banks of wildflowers have long drawn visitors to America's national parks and inspired efforts to protect their beauty.

Efforts include the National Institutes of Health Diabetes Genome Anatomy Project and another NIH - sponsored venture, the International HapMap Project, which is creating a map of regions in the human genome called haplotypes, where the underlying DNA influences common diseases like diabetes.

On one side of the question are policy experts like National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and George David Banks, a special assistant to the president for international energy and environment, who caution that a departure from the globally popular deal could complicate Trump's efforts on trade and security issues.

Computing experts at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to help discover what computers of the future might look like, from next - generation supercomputers to systems that learn on their own — new machines that do more while using less energy.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human innational weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human inNational Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

«There is an ongoing effort to populate databases like the National Center for Biotechnology Information's (NCBI) Genbank,» said Pfrender.

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

He has continuously demonstrated technical leadership, brings teams to success in efforts ranging from leading proposal teams for projects like UltraPERL and Visibuilding to his current role leading critical laser development at the National Ignition Facility.

We should not be surprised, then, if this weekend sees both the Los Angeles and New York groups throwing their weight behind «The Social Network» — already cast, despite the patronage of a beleaguered middlebrow institution like the National Board of Review, as the cooler, more credible alternative to «The King's Speech» — in a concerted effort to keep the ball in its court.

Despite Mike's best efforts, I'm afraid that national standards and assessments still sound like a really bad idea.

First, an effort that began as a bipartisan, state - driven enterprise, spearheaded by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, started to look to skeptics like a federally - inspired, politicized project.

Fourth, engage key allies like Teach For America, New Leaders for New Schools, and national and local foundations to ensure the effort has the human and financial capital needed.

A fundamental problem with national standards efforts, like Common Core, is that they are attempting to impose a single vision of a proper education on a large and diverse country with differing views.

Both were well liked, effective in bipartisan efforts, and extraordinarily well wired into national networks of influence.

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I would like to thank the Governing Board and the National Center for Education Statistics (16) for those efforts to explain more fully what the test scores show.

In 2008, a national organization called the Character Education Partnership published a paper that divided character education into two categories: programs that develop «moral character,» which embodies ethical values like fairness, generosity and integrity; and those that address «performance character,» which includes values like effort, diligence and perseverance.

Develop standards and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security, like science, technology, and foreign language, by expanding the Common Core State Standards effort.

Like Gary Mendell, Stacie Mathewson has also turned personal tragedy at the hands of addiction into a significant national effort to improve prevention science, practice and policy.

The consensus around this «education for economic growth» paradigm, to use language popularized by state Gov. Jim Hunt, was particularly sustained in North Carolina, though like - minded efforts in other southern states shaped national education politics in the 1980s and 1990s.

It is also an issue because, like the Obama administration's signature reform effort, Race to the Top, there is an (implied) emphasis on cooperation with AFT and National Education Association affiliates.

In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

The Broad plan, and others like it, funded by groups such as the Walton Family Foundation, are instead part of a coordinated national effort to decimate public schooling by rigging the system against neighborhood public schools and the students they serve.

And make no mistake — it is a «movement» — with people like Michelle Rhee leading the charge and hundreds of millions of dollars being pumped into the national effort.

Although some organizations with national sounding names make up their stories, I have no reason to doubt the ASPCA tale of Brutus, and I have no reason to do anything but commend ASPCA for that effort and others like it that they make to save animals.