Sentences with phrase «organized groups in»

There are similar organized groups in the Midwest and on the East Coast.

Some organized groups in support of parents exercising the «opt out» option are against the Governor's proposal to make test scores count for over 50 % of the teacher's performance ratings.

The highly organized groups in this context have indeed engineered a massive transfer from the less fortunate to themselves.

Because this question seemed important to me, I organized a group in the mid 80s, initially with the intention of bringing the MSEW up to date.

Michael Whitten is organizing a group in Austin, Texas.

This organization «is a membership - based community organizing group in the West Humboldt Park (WHP) neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.

The Casey Foundation developed the guide as a service for community organizing groups in cities where it is active.

Find out if there's a local organizing group in your community fighting school closures.

The Montgomery County Student Alliance was a 1,000 - member student - led education organizing group in Maryland in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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After the group has left, spend some time formalizing your notes and organizing them in a way that recaps the meeting and covers the major takeaways.

Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Police in Barcelona estimated that 350,000 people had attended the march while Societat Civil Catalana, an anti-independence group that organized the protest, put the number of demonstrators at 930,000.

The region's violence is in large part driven by drug trafficking and organized crime — in Mexico, fragmentation of criminal groups has stoked more bloodshed in recent months.

When not hoisting kids onto his lap in a Kelowna, B.C., mall, Tom Kliner has appeared in commercials and movies, organized international Santa conventions and formed Internet support groups (or «wreaths») for the Claus community.

We never asked them to write a story; we simply organized a great meal and shared some drinks with a group of people interested in what we were up to.

It's suspected the two cartels cooperated to some extent in the 1980s, organizing an armed group to fight kidnappers and working to stabilize the drug market and divide up territory in the US — the Medellin cartel took Miami and South Florida, while the Cali cartel controlled New York City and parts of the northeast.

Assange also signaled changes in the way WikiLeaks is organized and funded, saying the group would soon open itself to membership.

About 14 years ago, I posed a question to my advisory council of clients — a group I had organized to serve as consultants for the advisory practice I launched in 1987.

The differentiator was that Google + allowed users to organize contacts in groups, but Facebook did something similar shortly afterward.

By the 1980s, organized crime groups controlled nearly all of the ready - mix concrete supplies in the New York area.

It's prudent for Brain Corp. to frame its machine as non-threatening in the eyes of organized labor groups.

He co-founded a group called BetterTO to organize discussions on issues facing the city — the first, held in March, focused on housing.

Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»

While they had great success defeating prepaid doctor groups, AMA leaders realized that that if they continued knocking down private attempts to organize health care, government officials would step in to manage the medical economy.

InSight Crime spoke with Guadalupe Correa - Cabrera, the author of the 2017 book «Los Zetas Inc.,» to discuss the genealogy of the Zetas, how they rose and fell from power, and where the group stands today in the context of Mexican organized crime.

As prepaid doctors groups gained in popularity, the AMA took notice and began organizing to combat them.

According to the story, major white supremacy groups used Discord to organize protests and rallies, including one carried out in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of a 32 - year - old civil rights activist.

What happens in the real world is that organized groups end up bending the sovereign power of government toward transferring resources to themselves, away from the less organized.

Instead, he took a job organizing meetings in the U.S. and Europe with Youth for Christ, a group he helped found.

«In Guerrero, police, both state and local, pose little obstacle to organized crime groups,» Adam Isacson, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), told The Daily Beast this month.

«The typical hackers in cryptos have been organized groups [as opposed to] lone attackers.

«If you believe you are attractive, you tend to think you belong in a higher social class yourself and believe, accordingly, that hierarchies are a legitimate way for organizing people and groups.

More than 350 small business organizations supported the nationwide initiative with more than 50 Chambers of Commerce and 60 groups organizing events and activities in support of the day.

For their part, industry groups said they welcomed the addition and hoped Emanuel would soon lead the board to undo Obama - era policies, including allowing employees to organize in «micro-unions» and holding franchisors responsible for franchisees» violations of labor law.

When someone wonders whether Mozilla should offer an organized program to help train volunteer developers, this voice quickly chimes in: «Maybe we can find a way to have smaller groups that self - organize and then get together.»

In recent years, Godane had consolidated power, dissolving Shabaab's Shura council and turning the group's secret police into its primary organizing mechanism.

Asked in late June about the effect sanctuary - city policies have on efforts to combat transnational organized crime, Flordia Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said he didn't believe getting rid of them would solve the problem such groups posed.

Prosecutors who specialize in terrorism, narcotics trafficking and organized crime, led by the acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division, will bring prosecutions designed to restrict the flow of money to terrorist groups, Sessions said.

Coulter said in her email that she is still planning on speaking at the university, and the spokesman for Young America's Foundation, a conservative national group that helped organize the event, said Coulter is planning to speak on April 27.

In today's environment, there are an abundance of well - funded and sophisticated hacking groups out there, many with nation - state or organized crime affiliations and interests, who are looking for any way possible to defraud or steal information from American business interests.

Podesta, noting that he and a small group had done a «first cut of people,» offered the list organized «in rough food groups.»

LincolnLabs, the fledgling group that organized the event (which was held in San Francisco in July), hopes to connect the two professions so that they can create start - ups, push their political ideology and help achieve more success at the ballot box.

In Bangladesh, workers, mostly women, work long hours for minimum wages that labour advocacy groups say keep those workers trapped in poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditionIn Bangladesh, workers, mostly women, work long hours for minimum wages that labour advocacy groups say keep those workers trapped in poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditionin poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditions.

A large group of Norwegian employees organized a biking group to train for and participate in Nordsjøritt (North Sea Ride), an annual cycling competition that involves a 60 mile ride from Egersund to Stavanger.

The comments, made at a conference organized by a leading U.S. health insurer lobbying group, stoked speculation over what steps the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may take to rein in lofty prescription drug costs.

In addition to launching the Asia Pacific Youth Council in 2016, APF Canada has organized a variety of student - focused engagements, including the Asia Connect Student Working Groups (2016 - 17), the Building Bridges: Connecting Asia and Entrepreneurship event (2017), and the ASEAN Dialogues (2017 - 18In addition to launching the Asia Pacific Youth Council in 2016, APF Canada has organized a variety of student - focused engagements, including the Asia Connect Student Working Groups (2016 - 17), the Building Bridges: Connecting Asia and Entrepreneurship event (2017), and the ASEAN Dialogues (2017 - 18in 2016, APF Canada has organized a variety of student - focused engagements, including the Asia Connect Student Working Groups (2016 - 17), the Building Bridges: Connecting Asia and Entrepreneurship event (2017), and the ASEAN Dialogues (2017 - 18).

«We definitely teamed up,» said Madison Knoop, 18, who organized a rally of 2,500 in Montpelier, Vt., with the support of groups dominated by adults.

In 2016, CLSA Americas organized over 500 roadshows and hosted over 6,500 hours of meetings with investors through non-deal roadshows, group meetings, field trips, and company conference calls.

He is also on the Advisory Council of the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA) and a regular participant in the bipartisan Securities Regulation Working Group organized by the Heritage Foundation.

I was studying the role of public participation in resource project decision - making in New Zealand, and came across a local group organized as Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) which had become the front of opposition to the Trans - Tasman mining proposal.