Sentences with phrase «of earlier initiatives»

Reinhard added that Ulster County had already demonstrated commitment to cutting tobacco use with a series of earlier initiatives dating back to the early 2000s, including retail licensing for tobacco sales and a tobacco ban in all county - owned properties.

One of the earliest initiatives, the Young Executives Network, now has more than 1,200 members, providing a broad base for peer - group interaction and networking.

Not exact matches

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

Aptly dubbed «Zero Suicide,» the planned initiative (still at its earliest and informal stages) emphasizes prevention over reactive mental health treatment, with interventions focused on at - risk individuals the moment they show signs of possibly lapsing into suicidal ideation.

The latest initiative, dubbed QE3, involves buying US$ 40 billion of mortgage - backed securities every month indefinitely and extends earlier asset - buying programs.

Social entrepreneurship, the creation of new ventures with a social purpose, takes many forms, from clean energy start - ups to initiatives aimed at improving early education.

By expanding the focus of the SBIC program, the initiative encouraged investors to look at early stage companies and impact investing.

Fortune got an early look at the radical initiative and spoke with some of the key players backing it, including Novartis chief Joe Jimenez.

Early returns suggest a significant majority of voters in the State of Washington have approved an initiative to privatize the state's remaining government liquor stores.

Here is why the idea is a dark horse: Buffett himself played down the idea of buying a health - care business to tie into the initiative on CNBC earlier Monday.

Kotick spoke exclusively with Fortune about Activision's highly anticipated online initiative, parts of which will come to market early next year.

Reuters reported earlier this month that the carmakers were discussing a deal, at Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn's initiative, that would see Nissan acquire much of the French government's 15 percent Renault holding, as a prelude to a merger.

When Berkeley first agreed to offer an executive program in the early 2000s, the school decided on a partnership with Columbia because it was in the midst of a number of initiatives and administrators were concerned about stretching the school's resources.

But according to Pandora's new CEO — who quickly began implementing a number of changes to reinvigorate growth ranging from investments in Pandora's ad tech, marketing, distribution partnerships, and new content launches — most of their new growth initiatives are «still in early stages, and their impact will build over the course of 2018.»

These kinds of initiatives can offer early, fast victories for the delivery unit, showing stakeholders that it can produce results.

Before taking the helm of the PNC Foundation, McCradywas the architect of the firm's ambitious philanthropic initiative to boost early childhood education, Grow Up Great, which launched in 2004.

Take an earlier Trump initiative that at least kind of made sense — the decision to slap punitive tariffs on imported Chinese solar panels.

TIL, which typically uses its own resources or that of its deep - pocket parent BCCL to fund growth initiatives, had kicked off the uncharacteristic move of raising substantial external capital for MagicBricks Realty Services Ltd early last year when the digital real estate business in India saw the emergence of a host of new players backed by global investors such as SoftBank, News Corp and Tiger Global.

The FSA's press release describes the event as taking place «in accordance with an initiative of the «Multilateral Joint Research» project,» which was inaugurated in early 2017.

«Most of Alibaba's initiatives are in the early stages, with significant investment poured into video and payments recently.»

I Done This provided an opportunity for Envoy employees to take initiative in the early days — a necessary function of any fast - growing startup.

Having just attended the Angel Capital Association's Annual Summit in Washington the buzz is, Canada is further advanced than the USA on it's initiatives for capital formation for seed and early stage companies siteing such programs as Start - Up Visa, FEDDEV's IBI program and Province of Ontario's ANP (Angel Network Program) as examples.

As indicated earlier, PBO does not include the impact of the March 2011 Budget initiatives.

«The initiative, code named Kalamata, is still in the early developmental stages, but comes as part of a larger strategy to make all of Apple's devices — including Macs, iPhones, and iPads — work more similarly and seamlessly together.»

MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

Toronto, August 21, 2013 — MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

In early December 2013, Bezos made headlines when he revealed a new, experimental initiative by Amazon, called «Amazon Prime Air,» using drones — remote - controlled machines that can perform an array of human tasks — to provide delivery services to customers.

NACO is proud to publish its first whitepaper with the objective to promote policy initiatives intended to increase the number of successful startup companies, jobs, and wealth creation by supporting early stage capital investment provided by Angel investors in Canada.

In defense of Yahoo's security, a company spokeswoman, Suzanne Philion, said the company spent $ 10 million on encryption technology in early 2014, and that its investment in security initiatives will have increased by 60 percent from 2015 to 2016.

The PRI initiative began in early 2005 when the United Nations Secretary - General, Kofi Annan, invited a group of the world's 20 largest institutional investors from 12 countries to join a process to develop the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

The government announced in early 2016 that it would do so as part of its wider fintech initiative.

-- The initiative, code named Kalamata, is still in early developmental stages but comes as part of a bigger strategy to make Apple's family of devices work more similarly and seamlessly together, according to the report

Bethlehem, West Bank (CNN)- Pope Francis extended an invitation Sunday to the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to travel to the Vatican for a «peace initiative,» after earlier calling for a two - state solution to the intractable conflict.

(A similar initiative had been taken even earlier by a group of Reformed women who had started a community in Grandchamp near Neuchatel in Switzerland.)

A Series of attempts and initiatives began in the early eighties to systematically articulate the faith in the context of the newly emerging Dalit aspiration for liberation.

Except among black Methodists in earlier times, churches owe their origins not to the initiative of home missions boards but to concerned laypersons or clergy who undertook «to raise the flag of Zion.»

Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev has followed his earlier initiatives in reducing nuclear weapons by making two announcements of momentous import: economically, socialism does not work, and politically, democracy is the road to the future.

This places the clergyman in an important position in that if he can recognize the existence of an emotional crisis in one who is communicating to him, he can often take the initiative and begin his work of crisis intervention early in the developing crisis and often forestall serious suicidal behavior.

Yet in contrast with earlier periods the nineteenth century was marked by freedom for individual initiative and liberty of association for a great variety of undertakings.

Earlier this week, Obama announced that he would increase funds for the office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives.

IKEA decided early on to share the progress and the results of its food waste initiative.

«The initiative stimulates debate but also promotes adoption and cross-fertilisation of the enormous amount of innovation taking place in packaging technology, whether in the form of early - stage R&D, fully launched solutions or cross-industry collaboration projects.»

André Shearer, CEO and co-founder of Cape Classics, says the funding has enabled the IEF to realise a key initiative — the establishment of the Indaba Montessori Institute outside Stellenbosch, for the training of Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers who will positively impact the lives of thousands of children.

Against Liverpool at the Emirates, however, the North Londoners need to start the game on the front foot and grab the early initiative against their opponents who are handicapped with a whole lot of injuries and not coming into this game in the best of shape.

Burnley started the better of the two after an early escape but by half time Swansea had wrestled the initiative away from us and we were the more relieved of the two sides to hear the half time whistle.

Playing in front of their fans, Burnley immediately took an attacking initiative as they were keen on grabbing an early goal.

Playing in front of their home crowd, Roma immediately took the attacking initiative as they tried to score an early goal.

However, lessons were learned from these early programmes and in 2004, the Texas Fragile Families initiative reported an increase in child support orders / paternity establishment among its participants (with a «dose» effect — the longer the young father was involved in the programme, the more likely he was to establish paternity / pay child support); and employment rates up from 50 % at the start of the programme to almost 70 % at six months and 80 % at one year (Romo et al, 2004).

Listen in to Part 1 of the summit as we break down Eric Erickson's model of psycho - social development and what WE as parents can do to ensure that our children are developing trust, autonomy, initiative and industry during their early years.

We are Science Teacher Leaders at St. Malachy School and part of the Early Elementary Science Partnership (E2SP) initiative sponsored by The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, The Field Museum, Northwestern, and Big Shoulders.