Sentences with phrase «on advocacy rather»

With a clear emphasis on advocacy rather than economic forecasts, the forum will cover local and state issues, highlighting REALTOR ® expertise and establishing members as a valuable resource.

Still, as soon as OFA decided to focus on the advocacy rather than the electoral space, at some level they became just another player on a very crowded field.

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Rather, it cited something called the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which it describes as «an advocacy group focusing on the restaurant industry.»

Rather than spend the resources to chase paid outlets and influencers, brands should focus on advocacy, which can produce better results in a shorter amount of time.

But imagine, on the basis of their record of advocacy, the America that would be created by Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Frank Rich of the New York Times.

It says, «Many pro-life advocacy efforts have focused on the legal status of abortion, rather than addressing prevention of unplanned pregnancy and the needs of pregnant women and families.

After five years of watching bad science, defensiveness from both sides, and extremist advocacy rather than balance, I've written an article which is an appeal for nuance on the issue of low carbohydrate diets.

But perhaps the biggest game - changer in the way breastfeeding advocacy is handled has been the concept of educating women on the risks of formula feeding rather than the benefits of breastfeeding.

Facebook has also been a target lately of online advocacy rather than just a conduit for it: MoveOn.org and others have been smacking the company upside the head over its Beacon application, which shows on your profile and news feed the products you've recently purchased from participating vendors (hmmmmm, wonder why he needs all that itch cream?).

Looking back at the last month or so of posts, I realized that the usual mix of pieces on advocacy, elections and (occasionally) digital political culture had swung almost entirely over to election coverage, and that too often I was basically chasing the story rather than trying to write something original.

Stressing the importance of his appointment as co-Chair of Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons for SDGs, which was announced on 11th April, 2017, by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, President Akufo - Addo indicated that the appointment was not about him, but rather about Ghana as a mark of trust in her leaders.

[55] Thorpe writes that Home owed his appointment to Stuart's advocacy rather than to any great enthusiasm on the Prime Minister's part (Churchill referred to him as «Home sweet Home»).

Critics said the advocacy group should have visited individual teacher - prep programs and talked to graduates and students, rather than relying on syllabi.

You frequently hear AACTE champion the virtues of advocacy — of making your voice heard to help land you a place «at the table» rather than «on the menu.»

Shavar Jeffries, the mouthpiece for a corporate funded, New York based, charter school advocacy group that calls itself «Democrats for Education Reform (DFER)» uses the space to urge Connecticut legislators to DEFEAT a bill that, if passed, would require Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration to develop an honest and effective teacher evaluation system rather than continue with Malloy's present program that is dependent on the results of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

That's why IBPA's Advocacy Committee recently published an Industry Standards Checklist for a Professionally Published Book — a two - page document developed to support independent publishers and self - published authors, but also to urge an industry in flux to acknowledge that books ought to be judged on their substance rather than their business model.

I'd like to expound more on some of Hali and I's advocacy — responsible travel, support for local tourism, learning how to immerse in cultures rather than just passing by, even voluntourism.

Perhaps rather than thinking that anyone can claim ownership over the definition of responsible advocacy, we should focus more on identifying the biases (that, IMO, affect all advocacy) and stop objecting to the advocacy of others, on principle, even as we advocate ourselves.

I encourage people to read the Morgan Stanley report (rather than the rosy report on it by an advocacy group that FAN links to.

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Connaughton's advocacy in favor of voluntary rather than mandatory limits on greenhouse gases has continued.

The BC Civil Liberties Association and other advocacy groups have called for a ban on airport body scanners, or a switch to new software that would eliminate the problem by displaying a stylized image rather than an actual picture, highlighting the area of the body where objects are concealed in pockets or under the clothing.

For that matter, the quality of advocacy does not presuppose a fee based on an hourly rate at all, rather than some other basis for compensation.

Law schools should not be focusing on appellate advocacy but rather on delivering legal services to an increasingly disenfranchised public, and a corporate world increasingly skeptical about the value of outside counsel.

However, the limited capacity of the organisation was also due, in part, to the lack of clarity members had about their roles, the relative inexperience of the secretariat and a lack of focus by the members on internal structures rather than external advocacy.

Unless there is a re-engagement with Indigenous Australians on the basis of mutual respect and equality, with clear processes and certainty of structures for Indigenous representation and advocacy, it remains uncertain whether the new arrangements can produce tangible, significant and lasting benefits rather than amounting to little more than an administratively complex repackaging of existing programs.