Sentences with phrase «of bold initiative»

«As part of our bold initiative to increase fuel efficiency by 25 percent across the entire Kia model line - up by 2020, a plug - in hybrid was a critical addition to our offering.

The bigger question is whether Obama, once in office, will conclude that the government can't now afford this kind of bold initiative.

During his 45 - minute outline of the bold initiative, in which he repeated the phrase «pass this jobs bill» more than a dozen times, Obama described reforms to create new construction projects, restore American schools, and cut the payroll tax in half.

One of the greatest digital publishing coups happened earlier this year when J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, displayed some of the boldest initiative yet by retaining the digital rights to her works, separating from her agency, and making her ebooks available exclusively through her own website, forgoing the percentage that would have gone to the major ebook distribution retailers.

One of the greatest digital publishing coups happened earlier this year when J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, displayed some of the boldest initiative yet by retaining the digital rights to her works, separating from her agency, and making her ebooks available exclusively through her own website,... [Read more...]

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But to effectively align team members behind each new strategy initiative, you must often take the bold step of putting other projects on hold.

The report also said the two clashed over some of Chesky's bold ideas — to expand into flights, for one, and other new initiatives that required a longer - term path to profitability.

«He does have a lot of bold ideas and initiatives, and he pursues them all with zeal,» Kneis says.

«McDonald's plan is a bold vision that will help preserve the effectiveness of these critical medications to fight infections and keep us healthy,» Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, said in a statement.

The Hunter Hub is the University of Calgary's new initiative to engage and immerse students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community in a culture of entrepreneurial thinking, challenging them with a new and bold approach to teaching, learning, discovery and knowledge - sharing.

Spearheading several bold initiatives to embrace diversity and support the elevation of women into leadership positions, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Circle (WLC) has quickly grown to become one of the largest women's business networking groups in Canada.

Quantum Leaps helps fuel the global growth of women's enterprise development through bold strategic initiatives, and identification and sharing of best practices.

But lest such a remarkable human resource like Filner be squandered by a party engaged in too many bold initiatives for overcoming blinkered pre-2009 conceptions of legality to keep track of, this George Will column shows us precisely where he is needed: at the head of the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

It urged «all concerned to take bold initiatives to stop the spiral of violence and death.»

His bold initiative, we were told, contributed to raising the level of moral discourse in public policy.

He might have offended his critics less if he had more often used the analogy he gave James G. Blaine when explaining his course on Reconstruction: â $ ˜The pilots on our Western rivers steer from point to point as they call itâ $» setting the course of the boat no further than they can see; and that is all I propose to myself in this great problem.â $ ™ â $ œBoth statements suggest Lincolnâ $ ™ s reluctance to take the initiative and make bold plans; he preferred to respond to the actions of others.

Our BOLD Signature Coffee is proud to be part of Cafe Femenino Foundation, an all women farmer initiative.

As an ever - growing number of natural product companies take action against climate change, a new awards program recognizes leadership and bold initiatives.

«Thank you very much for providing this opportunity to me to express my profound gratitude to His Excellency John Dramani Mahama for taking this bold initiative of granting me pardon...»

It might just be that an initiative of this nature has the potential to become the bold, transformative proposal still missing from Miliband's agenda.

Let's go to the people of this state, let's be bold, let's go to them in November with a bond referendum with a smart schools initiative lets invest $ 2 billion in providing the technology of tomorrow today to bring our classrooms up to speed.

Initiatives like the Power 4 Puerto Rico Coalition, a direct response to the urgent need to mobilize in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, are bold signposts that change is afoot.

East End state Assemblyman Fred Thiele (I - Sag Harbor) called the proposal «bold and unprecedented,» noting that it builds on the recent extension of the Community Preservation Fund, a 2 percent tax on real estate transfers in the five East End towns that was enacted in the late 1990s and now features a provision mandating that 20 percent of those monies be used toward water quality initiatives.

Mr Anyidoho noted that during the NPP administration, President Kufuor had a strong team from the Eastern region in his government such as current NPP Flagbearer Nana Akufo Addo who was a Cabinet Minister, Hackman Owusu Agyemang, Felix Owusu Agyepong, Osafo Marfo who was also served as Finance Minister, Yaw Barimah and the likes never thought of establishing a University in their home region and wondered why President Mahama wont be praised for taking the bold initiative of establishing a University in the region.

It was the governor's longest State of the State address so far — by about a minute — and, according to Tom Precious, of The Buffalo News, «offered a toned - down plate of major spending ideas,» and «made no bold pronouncements for historic spending initiatives, as Cuomo did last year with promises for record education funding from Albany.»

ALBANY — After a State of the State tour that sketched bold initiatives and laid down rhetorical markers, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a less - enviable task today: settling the bill for all of it.

Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement, «We applaud Governor Cuomo for taking the bold step of removing New York State from the Secure Communities initiative, which, despite its name, has become a sore subject for those who work day and night to make our neighborhoods safer.

Since coming into office, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has deployed some bold initiatives aimed at curbing the corruption menace in order to assure the investing public of the safety of their investments.»

And in talking about the government's emphasis on developing the biomedical sciences here, Brenner sings the praises of the republic's bold initiatives.

«This was done in a way to dramatize the scope of this change, and generate support for a bold initiative,» he says.

«The SMA Foundation is taking a bold initiative to identify markers of disease severity in spinal muscular atrophy,» noted Richard Finkel, MD, a principal investigator for the trial at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The 2011 - 2012 CEOSE (Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering) report requested that NSF launch a bold new initiative for broadening participation (BP) with the goal of eventually having the participation of NSF - supported scientists and engineers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields mirror the population of the Nation.

This includes the clearance of previous collections in the next two to three quarters; launching new campaigns and initiatives; presenting an impactful and bold collection at London Fashion Week in September; extend the new style to other product lines and lowering price points to reach a wider consumer base; and renewing the store network progressively.

With the dominance of superhero films in the past decade, it was also quite different in the mid-90's, as Hollywood star Wesley Snipes, who was in a wave of box - office hits that skyrocketed him to superstardom, took a bold initiative to make a film about the Black Panther, which was supposed to release many years ago.

In terms of its production and special event exhibition, The Turning is, overall, a very bold initiative.

While the specific criteria for participation differs across our various programs, for all of our initiatives we are seeking passionate, bold, risk - taking, and creatively rigorous artists compelled to see their vision through to audience.

«Parent trigger» laws are among the boldest of new initiatives and they provoke considerable controversy.

Even that seemingly conciliatory approach could backfire in the absence of a bold Israeli initiative to sincerely negotiate an end to the Palestinian - Israeli conflict.

In a bold, new initiative the future of contemporary learning and teaching is visible in the newly connected classrooms of Years 7 and 8 at Delany College, Granville, thanks to a first of its kind partnership between Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta and Telstra.

The foundation promotes initiatives to expand parental choice and equal opportunity in education to help spur the bold transformation of the national K - 12 system of public education.

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In some ways, these changes strengthened NASDC's claim of being a bold new venture in education reform, since few privately funded initiatives had ever committed to so ambitious a program.

The Mind Trust is building a network of the nation's highest - impact education initiatives, helping to launch life - changing schools, and advancing bold plans for transforming the city's education system.

And over the next year, American School & University profiled a number of school districts and states that were taking bold initiatives to improve their learning environments.

Any useful system of evaluation, including these bold California initiatives, will have measures of student performance and progress along with other important indicators of teacher effectiveness.

From there, the project took on the name, AF Greenfield schools, to signal the bold sense of possibility that the initiative embodied.

As we position our schools to grow and thrive in the 21st century, we continue to implement our strategic initiative, Pathways to Excellence, to chart a fresh, bold course for our newly regionalized school system that will ensure excellence in all aspects of Catholic education throughout the Archdiocese.

Last summer's early plan, published in the Los Angeles Times in August, outlined a bold initiative to fund a massive expansion of independent charter schools.

The bold initiatives they proposed demonstrated that the future of transportation is not just about using technology to make our systems safer and more efficient — it's about using these advanced tools to make life better for all people, especially those living in underserved communities.

And while Singles hasn't exactly been a major industry disruptor I believe it lays the foundation for some of the bigger, bolder initiatives Amazon is planning for the future.