Sentences with phrase «other interested people urging»

Earlier this month, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz convened a coalition of elected officials, healthcare and business leaders and other interested people urging action on Puerto Rico's debt crisis.

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Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

«So, we're urging everyone in Birmingham, across the West Midlands and beyond with an interest in dyspraxia to come along next month to find out more and to meet and mingle with other people with a shared interest in the condition.