Sentences with phrase «of local efforts»

«Our understanding of the national context and access to national and state leaders can help frame research and evaluation of local efforts,» she explains.

Most of the local efforts are run during the summer by volunteers at public libraries or housing projects.

These sorts of local efforts are important — and not just for getting electricity to rural Africa.

There have been a lot of local efforts to help the people of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

In no way do I minimize the thousands of local efforts to bring some enjoyment to the world even now, in spite of the overwhelming dominance of global capitalism.

«Much of the volunteer work of Jewish young adults is comprised of local efforts to ameliorate disparities in economic resources and educational opportunity and often entails activities such as collecting, sorting, and distributing goods,» the polling analysis said.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be watching with interest as Central New York uses $ 25 million in state money to modernize local governments, a leader of the local effort said Thursday.

Not exact matches

Local government representatives from Perth's suburban north - west have visited Canberra in an effort to spark federal support for the growth of the region.

These civil rights abuses show the potential costs of state and local law enforcement assistance in federal immigration enforcement efforts.

While last week's budget vote cleared the way to begin the tax reform effort, 20 Republicans voted against it, citing issues with the elimination of state and local tax deductions and a massive expansion of the federal deficit.

And local efforts at changing that are not at all helped by businesspeople from affluent countries — with supposedly sophisticated markets and best - in - class business practices — show up with briefcases full of cash.

To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

But the effort, according to an outside organizer with the union, Local 32035 of the Baltimore - Washington Newspaper Guild, has «gone nowhere.»

To drive traffic to the stores we direct our efforts in guiding you to implement a variety of marketing tactics and the development of a Local Store Marketing plan which includes proven tactics such as on - site sampling, direct mail campaigns, bounce back coupons, loyalty programs and more.

To give your local business the best chance of ranking for local search queries, focus most of your SEO efforts on keeping everything about your site locally - focused.

«At 7:32 p.m. local time today, US forces - Afghanistan conducted a strike on an ISIS - K tunnel complex in Achin district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, as part of ongoing efforts to defeat ISIS - K in Afghanistan in 2017,» US Central Command said in a statement, referring to the ISIS branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ISIS - Khorasan.

It worked with the joint efforts of their blockchain technology partner and local digital identification solutions, which provided governments with identity cards.

We have tried a variety of marketing efforts including social media, local print and PR.

It closed in 1996 and held a few more events in 2010 and 2011 in an effort to revitalize interest in the space, but the local city council backed out of allocating funds to reopen it.

There are a host of last - minute disputes, but the Democratic Party has filed at least seven federal lawsuits in an effort to stop so - called «ballot security» campaigns by either the Republican National Committee, local Republican parties, the Trump Campaign, or Stop the Steal.

CDC director Tom Frieden attributed his agency's decision to issue the warning about the growing number of local cases and efforts to control mosquito populations, which haven't been ineffective so far.

«At 7:32 p.m. local time today, US forces - Afghanistan conducted a strike on an ISIS - K tunnel complex in Achin district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, as part of ongoing efforts to defeat ISIS - K in Afghanistan in 2017,» US Central Command said in a statement, referring to the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ISIS - Khorasan.

These efforts, along with advancements we're making in our strategy through building deeper clinical and local market capabilities, are moving us closer to our core objective of helping our members with their «whole health» so they can achieve their best health.»

Rather, the time, effort, and resources put into the startup scene show an aggressive effort by a community to take control of its destiny and begin building a new economy from the ground up by supporting local innovators.

After Trump won the presidency, Nicole Hockley, another founder of Sandy Hook Promise, said that the group would continue its efforts at the state and local level - and argued that, no matter who is in the White House, «I still don't think our country is ready yet for federal change.»

The effort will rally «the Chamber's broad network of business and professional associations, state and local chambers, small business members, and local advocates.»

Las Vegas is now one of four U.S. cities that has its own domain name, as part of an effort to boost local small business growth.

In addition, if you make an effort to recruit a wide variety of candidates — not just those who went to the local college or who match the ethnicity of the rest of your staff — your company is more likely to hire the best and the brightest in the labor market.

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Infrastructure spending could come, just as it did by the efforts of Van Rysselberge in Oklahoma City, from passing local sales taxes to fund those programs.

Still, Pynt hopes there will be a more focused effort to continue the push for a local food movement while preserving the heritage of Singapore's famously multicultural cuisine.

There are tax credits that businesses can take when they make efforts to improve the local environment starting within the confines of its own walls.

Members of the Trump campaign who worked on local community outreach unwittingly aided that effort, while the Russians paid to advertise the rallies on Facebook and Instagram, prosecutors said.

And though the Justice Department's push to overhaul troubled police agencies was a staple effort of the last administration, Sessions announced his desire to «pull back» on federal scrutiny of local law enforcement, winning praise from some quarters.

I spent the next day calling the local heads of USA Boxing, the national Executive Director of USA Boxing, the State Athletic Commission, and professional promoters in an effort to try and see how we could work something out.

Michael McNiven, Ph.D., a Managing Director & Portfolio Manager at Cumberland Advisors, has written a guide called, Personal Finance in a Nutshell, in support of our efforts to drive financial literacy in our local community and wider society.

The soft power initiative also has involved a coordinated effort to upgrade the quality of China's diplomatic corps, replacing an older generation of media - shy, stiff bureaucrats with a younger group of Chinese men and women, many of whom are fluent in English and comfortable bantering with local journalists.

But it's hard to know whether those efforts — or those of local boosters in St. Louis — are what's making a difference.

The race between automation and human work is won by automation, and as long as we need fiat currency to pay the rent / mortgage, humans will fall out of the system in droves as this shift takes place... The safe zones are services that require local human effort (gardening, painting, babysitting), distant human effort (editing, coaching, coordinating), and high - level thinking / relationship building.

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

«Additionally, LCEDC created a FlexJobs partnership for telecommuting opportunities, led efforts for the first annual Manufacturing Day with over 150 students visiting local manufacturers, and founded the Eastern Plains Economic Development Coalition to strengthen the perception of opportunity across Eastern Plains.»

Remote workers also help recruitment efforts by enabling companies to conduct national or even global searches for talent instead of being limited to the local applicant pool or to those prospects willing to relocate to your city.»

We are proud to partner with the Canadian Red Cross to create awareness of disaster preparedness in local communities and to support their response efforts when disaster strikes.

In combination, these efforts will stimulate job growth in the health technology sector, and increase the local and global adoption of Ontario - produced innovations.»

Top Starbucks executives and about 40 Philadelphia clergy and community leaders met in what local leaders say was the beginning of an effort to push the coffee company to play a leading role in addressing racial injustice.

As a major partner in the local recovery effort, Habitat for Humanity of Highlands County reached out to the people on that list and has begun working with families interested in becoming future homeowners.

Our efforts represent the single largest block of community support in the history of New Orleans, contributing more than 54,000 volunteer hours and investing more than $ 1 million in local projects like painting, landscaping, and building playgrounds.

Another way to participate in Small Business Saturday is to take part in it with a group of local businesses and make an even bigger effort.

Several of GlobalGiving's local nonprofit partners are responding to survivors» immediate needs and have asked us to help fund their relief and recovery efforts on the ground.

The tax had been in place since November 2009, in an effort to boost local trading and curb the flow of investment to overseas stock exchanges.