Sentences with phrase «organized effort by»

«Paint the Parks» is an organized effort by artists to support, preserve and give back to the national and local treasures that inspire us.

A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing.

The Mayo Clinic SCAD Registry was created in 2010 in response to an organized effort by an online community of SCAD patients who sought more research on their condition.

He also said there was no evidence of an organized effort by unions or others to discourage police from making arrests or writing summonses, but he has also encouraged NYPD brass to instruct officers to re-engage, reportedly threatening to take away days off and other work benefits.

Even in the absence of organized effort by church leaders there are enormously important things which any layman can do to discover, to act upon, and to communicate the gospel.

Rationing is an organized effort by a public or private institutions (e.g., Medicare or a private insurer) to equitably limit the availability of some desired or needed medical treatments in the name of preserving the economic sustainability of the institution as a whole or equitably distributing a scarce resource.

The well ORGANIZED effort by Florida school students demanding gun control has GEORGE SOROS» FINGERPRINTS all over it.

BEIJING, China — Five employees of a company accused of selling expired beef and chicken to McDonald's, KFC and other restaurants in China were detained by police Wednesday after an official said illegal activity was an organized effort by the supplier.

Fast food workers who were part of an organizing effort by unions and progressive groups are jubilant.

One reason why I think the organizing efforts by the union were successful and a tentative agreement was reached is the platform the union created around bargaining, «The Schools LA Students Deserve.»

Not exact matches

But the guild has recently upped its efforts to organize the story - shapers behind some of the biggest hits on TV, and these cases have been seen by many in the labor law community as a hardball tactic in that crusade.

According to a Defense Department memo obtained by Military Times, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness will direct «an effort to form a working group to determine changes to military personnel policies necessary to provide the Military Departments increased flexibility to organize, train, and equip more ready and lethal forces.»

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..

We in the Houston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America are organizing aid efforts for those affected by the storm.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

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.

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.

From this empathy should arise an acknowledgement of the well - organized tactics employed by the dominant culture to suppress Black progress and economic upward mobility leading to a mobilized effort to address them with the gospel.

In recent years the clergy have found their place in the greater security of a welfare society, as shown by the provision of Pension Funds for the clergy (such as the efficient Church Pension Fund in America, organized in 1917) in lieu of earlier efforts to relieve their distressed widows and orphans.

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.

That's where Brown was a month later, attending something called PirateFest, a three - day confab organized annually by the ball club in an effort to convince the citizenry that this year's team will be better than last year's team, and you should buy your tickets now.

In an effort to make it easier to grab what we want quickly, I try to organize each bin by what it contains (for the sake of my sanity, we'll pretend that my husband listens when I tell him what style of diaper is in each bin).

The meeting, the first large - scale effort to address prostitution in Wicker Park, was organized by five neighborhood groups.

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.

The curriculum is quite comprehensive; taught by a hodgepodge of veteran operatives and campaign professionals who donate their experience via lectures, webcasts, and grassroots campaigning exercises — all in an effort to raise future leaders equipped with skills in fundraising, community organizing, communications, and legislative action.

We are a non-partisan grassroots effort, organized by bankers.

My old Austin buddy Chris Cosart passes along this Newsweek column by Howard Fineman, who compares Hillary and Obama's websites and more traditional offline organizing efforts and finds Barak's lacking.

The former chairman is also working on «GOPers for Cuomo,» an effort organized by ex-Gov.

I expect the legislative leaders and DiNapoli will express solidarity with the unions — particularly the state comptroller, who owes no small part of his victory over Republican Harry Wilson last year to the efforts on his behalf by organized labor.

«By creating this law we organize the efforts of law enforcement and media outlets to ensure rapid response in the event that a person with dementia is reported missing.»

De Blasio has been bedeviled by a criminal probe of an effort he helped organize in 2014 to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democratic state Senate candidates.

St. Lawrence went on to explain the board's friendliness to gun owners had been made apparent by efforts to organize ham shoots for county residents and establish a gun range for law enforcement personnel.

He also said that any effort by a Trump administration or a Trump - stacked Supreme Court to restrict access to abortion would «create an extraordinary upheaval» and that «we have to organize people to fight back.»

«People are clearly concerned by the rise in the number of slashings and stabbings, so we are organizing this town hall meeting on public safety in an effort to inform the public about how to best protect themselves,» Peralta said.

By the end of the day, Democratic Party officials were organizing additional demonstrations in Ohio and Indiana, where an effort is underway to trim benefits for public workers.

Casale isn't the only Republican to point to organized labor's efforts, driven in part by the constitutional - convention question, as a possible cause for the GOP's poor showing.

Donations identified by The Buffalo News underscore the intense interest in this year's election as well as the organized effort to upset control of the board by ousting members of the majority.

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.

The video series, which was organized by the advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, is intended to rally support for a possible legislative effort to legalize same - sex marriage in New York, according to an earlier statement from the group.

Asked about any formal or organized effort to discourage enforcement activity, Bratton said, «I'm not aware of any formal encouragement by union leadership in this matter.»

An organized effort formed, led by high - profile unions and advocates that focused on the state's «botched» implementation of the Common Core rather than the standards themselves.

The P Street Project is an effort by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee to build upon the progressive movement's online organizing of the past few years and move into the business of registered lobbying.

The press conference, organized by the Empire State Pride Agenda, and featuring several out gay members of the City Council as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer, highlighted what have become familiar benchmarks in the long - stalled effort to win statewide civil rights protections for transgender and other gender - nonconforming New Yorkers.

Depending on how the conservative - leaning court rules, the case could have a significant impact on the organizing and spending efforts by public - sector labor groups.

From noon to 2 p.m., state Education Commissioner John King Noon and AFT President Randi Weingarten discuss efforts and proposals to overhaul public schools during a lunch organized by Teaching Matters and moderated by Columbia University Prof. Jeffrey Henig; Harvard Club of New York City, 32 W. 45th St., Manhattan.

Hundreds of people rallied outside the Connecticut State Capitol on Sunday as part of protests organized by Democrats across the country to highlight opposition to the Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The effort, organized by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a top policy objective, drew three Democratic senators and one Republican, James Alesi, to the cause on Monday.