Sentences with phrase «organize efforts at»

In addition to helping NRDC fight for these basic rights, you can also organize efforts at home to protect the local environment.

Though not out of the woods until student achievement rises, the organizing efforts at Inglewood seem to be working.

Malloy summarized the situation saying he was needed because «folks [were] spending a lot of money to try and defeat an organized effort at school reform....»

Not exact matches

A drive to organize a union at a unit of Bloomberg LP has fizzled, and the employee leading the effort has been fired, Fortune has learned.

We saw a similar effort after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando when people across the country organized blood donations to help victims they had never met.

The Times details how former judge Tahani el - Gebali, former adviser Shawki al - Sayed, and Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and an outspoken foe of the Brotherhood, all pitched in cash and organizing efforts to wear at the base of the Morsi regime.

Kevin Burch, outgoing chairman of the American Trucking Associations Such efforts were on national display last week when President Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of fleet executives, drivers and other industry personnel — organized by ATA — on the merits of his tax reform plan at a stump speech in Harrisburg, Pa..

The best known effort was a college course (t itled «Renewing American Civilization») at a third - rate college that Gingrich nakedly used to recruit and organize conservative candidates, and to feed them his carefully constructed ideology and political slogans.

Another important California social issue at the time was the effort by migratory farm workers to organize a union and obtain minimal wages and benefits.

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

Despite all our energetic efforts to organize the universe and human events, those wonderful things simply are there, in their concreteness, winking at us!

Once market exchange has organized the various components of a society's efforts at production and provision, the processes of market competition draw all resources in their train, including people and their talents.

To overcome production constraints through collective research efforts, the first planning meeting of the Temperate Rice Research Consortium (TRRC) was organized by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at Suwon, Korea, on 2 - 3 May 2007 with the participation of scientists from 12 temperate rice - growing countries.

It takes monumental effort to plan or organize an event in the midst of days spent mothering at home.

Get your hands dirty at Shedd - organized cleanup efforts across the city on April 21 and help pick up litter, like plastic, on local beaches and neighborhood parks.

I finished the ad feeling uneasy and only after thinking about it for a bit did I realize what it was... I'm a breastfeeding mother that feels consistent judgment regarding my choice to feed in public, not necessarily wanting to cover my child while feeding, pumping at work for my «older child» and she's less than 1 yr old, organizing my life / job / childcare to prioritize our nursing relationship... I feel judgment and yet I'm making an effort to do the best for my baby.

Apropos of our conversation here about «message discipline» at protest marches, DeadElephant.ORG has just come across a new way to split the difference between uniformity and individuality, and it's worth considering for your own organizing efforts.

Cuomo at the occasion unveiled a renewed state push to aid storm - damaged Puerto Rico, organizing a rebuilding effort with SUNY and CUNY students.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is again playing an active role in his wife's effort to return the family to the White House, hitting the campaign trail hard on her behalf, with plans to appear at organizing rallies tomorrow at Rochester and Buffalo.

Besides Obama's online organizing efforts, the article also looks at a Google Ad campaign run by Emily's List in favor of Hillary Clinton and using search terms that didn't always involve politics.

Yes, progressive bloggers were vital for getting Lamont attention across the country and no doubt helped bring national news coverage and out - of - state donations, but the campaign itself stayed local: «focused on building a file of likely voters, organizing a turnout effort and circulating Lamont at events, including small gatherings in living rooms.»

At 8 a.m., more than than 100 community, law enforcement and religious officials participate in a «Cops, Community, Clergy» multi-faith prayer breakfast organized as part of efforts to improve community - police relations; Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, Manhattan.

At our training event, you'll develop a deeper understanding of what makes the most sense for your union local, civic engagement project, nonprofit, advocacy campaign or grassroots organizing effort.

Several newly elected council members, including Ritchie Torres and Helen Rosenthal, conceived and organized the series in an effort to change, or at least expand, the way the speaker is selected.

After a three - year organizing effort, a majority of nurses at Albany Medical Center voted to accept representation by the New York State Nurses Association.

Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

Efforts must therefore, be made to ensure a balance in the representation of media houses at the fora organized by the government to enable it send across its achievements and programmes.

Called «Younger than McCain», the website is being run by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director at the AFL - CIO and executive director of America Coming Together, a massive soft money effort organized around the 2004 presidential race.

Before then, this same member and another articulate colleague at a forum on corruption organized in Abuja by the Pyrates Confraternity, separately pronounced doubts about the commitment of the AGF to the anti-corruption efforts of the government on account of serial embarrassing defeats handed the government in key cases prosecuted by his office.

So our message — my message is that if the world wants to sustain the Earth — and it shouldn't be an if — the world needs to pay special attention about how to organize that effort and to do better at it than it currently is.

Beyond these organized efforts, Mulvaney also personally attempted sweeping cuts to the nondefense budget on at least one occasion.

Although the judge ruled on procedural grounds rather than the merits of the law, the decision gives hope to union organizers such as Andrea Jokisaari, a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who has been active in the years - long effort to organize the campus's research assistants, The Chronicle» s Vimal Patel notes in another article.

In our ongoing effort to foster communication and a frank discussion of challenges faced in developing postdoc policies, we organized a discussion at the 2002 AAAS Annual Meeting, held in Boston over President's Day weekend.

«We are completely elated,» says Joshua Zimmerberg, a researcher at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development who used most of his annual leave last year to help organize an effort to block the disclosure rule.

Corine Wegener, cultural heritage preservation officer for the Smithsonian Institution, said that organizing an international research community to study the primary causes of damage to cultural heritage in times of conflict will be critical to intervention efforts in Syria — a goal to be discussed at the September 19 meeting.

But at Rutgers, the faculty's own union «pledge [d] total support» to the organizing effort, according to its then - president, Lisa Klein, a professor of materials science and engineering and herself a principal investigator (PI) who has supervised a dozen postdocs over her 30 - year career.

Harvey Cohen, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine, organized the team of researchers, and Porteus will lead the collaborative effort.

The actions we are taking include (1) the development of new sustainable chemical technologies to reduce the magnitude and the impact of society's chemical and energy activities, (2) the development of a new multidisciplinary effort, The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (http://bcgc.berkeley.edu/) to organize and enhance sustainability activities on our campus and to reach out nationally and internationally for coordination and best practices transfer, and (3) the reconfiguration of the delivery and content of our educational curriculum and activities at all levels to emphasize sustainable green chemical practice, concepts and awareness so that all members of our profession advance the sustainability of our society through their work and decisions.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist Robert Martienssen was instrumental in organizing the international sequencing effort at its outset in 1996, and played a major role in interpreting the chromosome 4 results.

Now that I'm back, I've made a conscious effort to plan meals strategically, organize my refrigerator correctly, make ample use of my freezer, and cook root to stem whenever possible (here are seven easy ways to reduce food waste, if you want to try it at home!).

Of course there is a certain expectation that you'll see each other at home so you don't need to make the effort to organize spending time together, but actually it's this mentality that often causes couples to grow apart.

White, Exley, and Vincennes find themselves drawn into a tangled and sticky web of violence and betrayal following a multiple murder at a coffee shop that is believed to be part of an effort by Mickey Cohen (Paul Guilfoyle) to consolidate his hold on organized crime in L.A..

Critic Consensus: Raw, brutal, and bitter, Cartel Land offers a ground - level look at vigilante efforts to thwart organized crime at the Mexican - American border.

Courtney will play «Lieutenant - Colonel Cecil Hilton, the smart, efficient soldier tasked with organizing the effort to identify the tens of thousands of soldiers killed at Gallipoli.

The wage issue surfaced frequently at the conference, where participants described and debated efforts to organize, enlist support from parents, and unionize child - care workers.

BAEO was an exception, but its efforts were aimed more at recruiting students and parents to testify at the committee hearing than at organizing public rallies.

«Classroom Coordinators» Capitalizes on Community Talent The Classroom Coordinator (CC) program at one Minnesota elementary school is an organized effort to maintain a small - town, grassroots feel within the school community.

Chang looks at some posts on a Facebook page set up by the parents organizing one secession effort.

From making flash cards for students to use at home to organizing a Saturday morning homework club, PTOs and PTAs are zeroing in on academic needs and supporting teachers in their efforts to bring out the best in each student.