Sentences with phrase «on widespread demands»

Yesterday, the Senate Banking Committee held the first of its hearings on widespread demands to reform the Federal Reserve to make it more transparent and accountable.

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China's recent slowdown has raised widespread concerns that any weakening demand there for goods and raw materials from the rest of the world could weigh on the entire global economy.

I was prickly about people's demands on «my time,» especially when they interrupted silence or prayer, and I was bugged by what seemed to be widespread spiritual sloppiness in folks who considered themselves religious.

These reports sparked widespread demand for transparency on the part of the social media giant: to reveal the truth of these reports and to give some insight into how the use of its platform in that was was made possible.

The widespread popularity of single - striker formations such as 4 -3-3 and 4 -2-3-1 demands that a team's most advanced attacking player must be capable of leading the line on his own.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

... High - performing countries» emphasis on «perform procedures» runs counter to the widespread call in the United States for a greater emphasis on higher - order cognitive demand.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Fourteen years after its founding, Edison is running 157 of some 95,000 U. S. public schools, NHA enrolls 30,000 students in 51 charter schools, and KIPP, despite its extraordinary fame and widespread demand, has so far bestowed its esteemed brand on just 53 schools.

On demand training supports organizations that have a widespread workforce or even just remote workers that work separately to the rest of the business.

Yet, widespread implementation of children's participation in these initiatives has been further complicated by the paucity of information on children's use of the Internet and the great demand for awareness (see Media Awareness Network's Web Awareness: Knowing the Issues, 2000).

«When you have widespread electronic distribution of books, whether e-books or print - on - demand, all of the barriers of entry disappear,» said Ted Weinstein, a San Francisco literary agent.

HIGH - DEMAND HOT LIST: Lai's Inside Out and Back Again (2011) racked up the honors from both Newbery and National Book Award committees, and it also landed on the New York Times best - seller list, so her latest is sure to generate widespread anticipation.

«Although Apple now holds the vast majority of tablet PC market share,» Jacobs added, «the plethora of other brands that have, or will soon be launching, their own tablets are sure to capitalize on what at this point appears to be widespread consumer demand for very thin and very light devices with exceptional battery life and a primary focus on portability and content consumption.»

Yet a new era of threats and opportunities — including widespread attention due to be focused on the Hudson River Valley with the 2009 quadricentennial celebration — demand new efficiencies and resources.

While there is widespread agreement that the physical market factors of supply and demand are primary contributors to natural gas prices and volatility, there also is growing interest and concern about the influence financial market factors, particularly commodity speculation, have on natural gas prices and volatility.

Advised employment practices liability insurer concerning application of prior notice and other coverage defenses against Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demand that insured contribute to multimillion dollar relief fund to avoid threatened class action on behalf of alleged victims of widespread sexual harassment, in Massachusetts.

Xakia was created in response to a widespread research project targeted at understanding the daily demands on in - house legal team management.

It's not clear if this level of demand is because the shutdown problem is more widespread than Apple's letting on or because there are millions of iPhone 6S phones in the wild that were manufactured between September and October 2015.

Patent trolls place a widespread burden on innovation, often sending identical demand letters to dozens of small companies at once.

The report finds that demand, though widespread, will be most felt in sought - after markets in the South and West, including Arizona, Georgia and Nevada, and in markets on the East Coast, such as in New York and Virginia.