Sentences with phrase «number of initiatives last»

There were number of initiatives last year that will have an impact in the coming years, including:

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Thanks to a number of significant global initiatives, breastfeeding rates around the world have slowly risen over the last few decades.

A number of state Senate Republicans weren't happy with a breakaway group of Democrats aligned with them after they voted en masse against a GOP budget proposal last week that included many initiatives the independent Dems had sought.

In a video showed at the W.F.P. convention last night, Cuomo expressed support for a number of key progressive initiatives, like allowing municipalities to raise their minimum wage, an issue he balked at previously.

With the initiative method, an amendment is proposed by a petition signed by voters equal in number to 8 % of the votes for all candidates for governor at the last gubernatorial election.

While many of the governor's proposals were known before he gave his address, unveiled over the last week in news conferences and press releases, among the new announcements were a number of New York City - specific initiatives, including several aimed at boosting each of the «outer boroughs.»

A number of state Senate Republicans weren't happy with a breakaway group of Democrats after they voted against a GOP budget proposal last week that included many initiatives they had sought.

By the initiative, a total of 114 roads were either constructed or rehabilitated two per each of the 57 Councils in 2016, while in a bid to consolidate on the massive infrastructural drive of his administration, Governor Ambode last Thursday announced readiness to increase the number of the roads from 114 to 181.

Since taking office last January, the Trump administration has rolled back a number of Obama - era initiatives, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and repealing the Clean Power Plan, a policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plants.

«When I was thinking about REMIX last spring, I knew the dean was intending to continue the Fulfilling the Promise [of Diversity] initiative and I thought that any number of these Monday night sessions would align with those questions and themes,» Seidel says.

Atlanta — Educators from 13 Southern states and a number of regional associations met here last week to share information about legislative initiatives in the field of early - childhood education.

New evaluation systems, new standards, online assessments, personalized staff development, data driven decision - making and many more — in the last few years, districts around the country have had to adopt and integrate an increasing number of initiatives.

Over the last number of years, a number of initiatives have been piloted with a view to identifying how a structured information process might be developed e.g. meetings with parents who are enrolling their children in primary or post primary schools, or parents who are seeking the establishment of a special class or home tuition for their children.

Last October, Marvel Comics launched its Marvel NOW initiative, which was designed to lure in new readers by offering new titles featuring classic characters (Uncanny Avengers, Indestructible Hulk) and resetting the numbering of several ongoing series, with each new issue # 1 being designed to be a good jumping - on... [Read more...]

In support of this trend, Disney announced a number of mobile initiatives last week that indicate their continued investment in mobile devices.

In support of this trend, Disney announced a number of mobile initiatives last week that indicate their... [Read more...]

Around this time last year, a number of ambitious lawmakers began planning for a future in which public school students in the US went wholly digital, much like initiatives in other parts of the world.

In addition, as part of our 2025 Save Them All initiative that started last year, we launched an enormous data collection effort to examine the country's shelter numbers county by county.

Both the Marketing and Tech team have been working extremely hard to deliver a number of new projects and industry leading initiatives over the last 12 months.»

Discussions around this issue have resulted in schemes such as PRIME — a social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms in September last year, which will see participating firms provide an annual number of work experience placements to eligible students that is equivalent to 50 % of their trainee intake.

The number of new initiatives has increased — including last week an ECI aiming to strengthen EU citizenship in the face of Brexit — and new ECIs are being strongly supported, with the Ban Glyphosate ECI gathering almost 700,000 signatures in less than 3 months.

The accelerator has started a number of initiatives in South Africa, holding mini-bootcamps last year, and there have been suggestions more full - scale programmes are in the offing.

Following months of cagey quarrels within the Bitcoin community over a controversial software update known as Segwit2X, the scheduled update was abruptly suspended last week, after a number of leading cryptocurrency entrepreneurs decided to withdraw their support for the initiative.

Spurred on by Vancouver's announced intention last fall to ask for a membership vote at its March AGM, the provincial task force brought forward a number of initiatives for industry reform.

These changes, while not dramatically expensive for consumers, compound on a number of other initiatives over the last year to reduce risky borrowing, such as the mortgage stress test for high - ratio buyers, an increase to the required minimum down payments and tighter underwriting for banks.