Sentences with phrase «of large efforts»

The re-naming is part of a larger effort by the company to expand its visibility and presence in China.

The re-naming was part of a larger effort by the company to expand its visibility and presence in China.

Such sites have been part of a larger effort by foreign governments, particularly Russia, to spread propaganda and misinformation through the online services of U.S. tech companies.

Nintendo's theme park plans are part of a larger effort to diversify its revenue options beyond the business of dedicated video game hardware.

The Dream Defenders have several policy objectives aimed at helping marginalized people, but one of its larger efforts revolves around gun violence and ending Florida's «stand your ground» law.

His concern with the social location of poverty is part of his larger effort to understand the character of Christianity as it negotiated its place in a still durable classical culture.

This deal is part of a larger effort on the part of General Mills to reach a goal of $ 1 billion in organic and natural food sales by 2019 and to increase the number of organic acres from which it sources its ingredients to 250,000 over the next three years.

The campaign is part of a larger effort by Hilton Worldwide's flagship brand to combat «Vacationitis,» defined as an «epidemic creating high levels of stress and claiming countless hours of unused vacation time as it spreads among employees who have not taken enough time off this year.»

Cuomo said the fine for littering in the New York City subway system will double from $ 50 to $ 100 as part of a larger effort to reduce delays related to track fires caused by debris.

The subsidy is part of larger effort to reduce the state's reliance on fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy.

«Our protest today was part of a larger effort taking place around the state of protesting Senator Carlucci and all the IDC affiliated senators, demanding that they return to caucusing with the Democratic Party; the party they ran on and say they support.

Though it's one little piece of a larger effort to address them, she said, highlighting the study the department is currently undergoing.

This is part of a larger effort to form a continuous multi-use pathway along Erie County's Lake Erie and Niagara River coast line.

Like the man also known as «The Happy Warrior» — who served as governor in 1919 and 1920, and then from 1923 to 1928 — Cuomo has called for consolidations as part of a larger effort to increase government efficiency.

Scharff's group is part of a larger effort called Fair Elections.

The RNC memo is part of a larger effort to neutralize MoveOn as a key cog in the Democratic Party's national organization.

The grant is part of a larger effort to enhance connectivity between the Shawangunk Ridge, Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, Scenic Byway, and carriage roads and is designed to expand public access to the Mohonk Preserve Foothills.

A project of the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative, the Ithaca 2030 District is part of a larger effort in Tompkins County to reduce our regional greenhouse gas emissions 80 % by 2050.

Like the plan to site casinos upstate, Cuomo says it's part of a larger effort to use tourism to grow the upstate economy.

But Donaldson said that he believes the wording is part of a larger effort by county officials to push through the relocation plan.

The proposal is part of a larger effort to curtail three mega-towers in the Two Bridges area.

It's part of a larger effort to draw tourists to the area year - round, his office said.

The alliance is hoping to build two new entrances into Prospect Park from Flatbush Avenue, part of a larger effort to spruce up the area between Grand Army Plaza and Empire Boulevard bordering the Prospect Park Zoo, a spokesman from the group said.

But Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has charged that skyrocketing pension costs are bankrupting the city, dismissed the findings — as well as Liu, who released the study as part of a larger effort to protect public workers» retirement benefits.

Cathie Black's ouster is part of a larger effort to turn his third term around, political observers say.

Sunday's rally is a part of a larger effort coordinated by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Community Action Alliance on NYU 2031 to push the university's expansion to the Financial District.

It's part of a larger effort that seeks to encourage more electric vehicles and the infrastructure to support them.

By designating a particular day for such activities, citizen scientists feel part of a larger effort and are more likely make a commitment to participate, he said.

George, then 44, was trying to determine whether bacterial spores could survive in amber for millions of years, part of his larger efforts to trace the ancient origins of modern disease.

The policy change, unanimously approved last week by the eight teams» coaches, is part of a larger effort in the football world to reduce concussions and other injuries.

Like every government agency, NASA faces sharp cutbacks as part of the larger effort to tame the federal deficit; this was underscored in July, when the House Appropriations Committee stripped funding for the high - priority (and over-budget) James Webb Space Telescope.

Two of the largest efforts are the Human Microbiome Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health (See «Your Microbial Menagerie,» page 4), and the European Union's Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract.

What is less clear is whether Japan's plan to increase its nuclear output to supply 50 percent of all its electricity within two decades as part of a larger effort to trim CO2 emissions will still be followed

«Dr. Aplin's major research advance is part of a larger effort by the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center to develop new strategies for treating melanoma.

To that end, Evans is heading up the NCGENES clinical trial, part of a larger effort by three organizations, including the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

The research is part of a larger effort by Harvard and Columbia to provide local stakeholders with an effective tool to assess the public health costs from fires and guide policy decisions.

The study was part of a larger effort to look at the success of the composting program.

These changes are only part of a larger effort to «deconstruct the administrative state,» as former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has put it, and they reflect this administration's uniquely antiscience attitude.

The crusade was part of a larger effort to bring a better life to the people.»

He now says he is open to limited drilling as part of a larger effort to curtail volatile gas prices — provided it can be done in an environmentally responsible way.

Although this is not the first major health crisis that HealthMap has covered — the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic was one of its largest efforts — the Ebola outbreak has pushed the site in new directions in an effort to provide information for a variety of institutions, including the WHO, the United Nations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Our study developed as part of larger efforts to investigate Atlantic coast American Oystercatchers across their entire range,» explains Hostetter.

«This study is part of a larger effort to improve our ability to model microclimates in urban areas and other climate phenomena at decision - relevant scales,» Jones said.

The work is part of a larger effort to study what Antarctica was like before its glaciers formed.

De Bivort's work is part of a larger effort to understand why nature produces so much variability.

The research that led to these findings is part of a larger effort to better understand gene regulation and expression, carried out by the GTEx Consortium, a National Institutes of Health - funded group that includes researchers from around 80 institutions founded in 2010.

As part of a larger effort to address compensation at the Whitehead Institute, an ad hoc committee of postdocs, administrators, and faculty members was formed to identify and make suggestions that would improve the postdoc experience at the institute.

There, she has her own project investigating kidney and bladder regeneration, part of a larger effort to use a patient's own cells to regenerate failing organs.

The commission's proposal is part of a larger effort to improve the management and health of European fisheries.

The new study is part of a larger effort that Pollyea and his collaborators are pursuing to study fluid - triggered earthquakes and wastewater injection volume and their relation to population centers in Oklahoma, building codes, policy decisions, and industry regulations.