Sentences with phrase «paid support group»

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LONDON, April 25 - U.S. media group Comcast submitted a 22 billion pound bid for Sky on Wednesday, prompting the European pay TV group to drop its support for a lower offer from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox.

LONDON / NEW YORK, April 25 - U.S. media group Comcast submitted a 22 billion pound bid for Sky on Wednesday, prompting the European pay TV group to drop its support for a lower offer from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox.

«We're grateful for the support of our investors, ensuring our long - term vision of providing specialty care medical groups with a patient payment platform for getting paid quickly and in full.»

Nike Foundation and Unreasonable Group are supporting the ventures by paying their costs for taking part in the Girl Effect Accelerator.

Currently I work three jobs so I can support my family, I pay my taxes, I sometimes volunteer at the women's shelter downtown, I support my local community garden and I run a craft group.

Earlier this year, Sen. Claire McCaskill released the findings of a report that found that five major pharmaceutical companies paid millions to patient groups to support «amplified messages favorable to increased opioid use.»

Paid - time, audience supported syndicated programs, produced primarily by independent Protestant groups, supported by audience contributions, and aired on time purchased from individual local stations.

I want to pay tribute to all the church groups of different denominations who seek to serve the most vulnerable through the provision of food banks and other support.

And when someone inquires about renting the building for a wedding, a funeral, or a support group, we tell them they need to come to church on Sunday, sign release forms, pay a deposit and rental fee, and if they get approved, refrain from drinking, smoking, or swearing on the premises.

The insufficiency of work to provide self - sufficiency is behind the movement — backed by many religious groups — to ensure that all employers pay a living wage, which is generally understood to be the wage needed to support a family at or slightly above the poverty level.

But for those with families to support and lots of bills to pay, «the challenge becomes what kind of policies can help people move up,» says Kazis, senior vice president of Jobs for the Future, a Boston group that specializes in workforce development issues.

A second common feature in the mass mailings of paid - time religious broadcasters is the opportunity to participate in supporting the programs as a member of a select group of some sort.

While there is widespread support in the industry for cutting waste, and groups such as Marriott and All Bar One have already removed plastic straws from their businesses, many industry leaders are reluctant to back an initiative which would force consumers to pay more for their drink.

A group of consumer goods makers and retailers such as Tesco, Kellogg's, Walmart, Campbell Soup, Bimbo, Pick n Pay, Nestlé, Carrefour, and Unilever have supported the plan to simplify food date labels.

Instead of complaining about money, contracts, fan support, etc... How about the hairdryer treatment for our underperforming squad, get them to play together like a group of very highly paid professional footballers.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Some people who go through a divorce have a strong desire to help others based on their experience, and go on to form divorce support groups or communities or even paid services as a consultant.

During my first month post partum, I saw 3 lactation consultants, 1 lactation physician and attended numerous lactation support groups, some free, some paid.

Michael Pollan recently shared an interesting post from the Environmental Working Group («Healthy School Food: Pay Now, Save Later») which advocates a redistribution of farm subsidies to support more fruits and vegetables in school cafeterias.

Participants with support orders in place paid an average of $ 90.32 in child support in the month before the follow - up interview, significantly more than was paid by comparison group fathers (an average of $ 38.13).

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I continue to be a member of the same group helping new Mums where I can and supporting by paying my yearly subscription, and helping out at meetings.

Paying for a membership supports our group and our mission financially and allows you to check out up to two carriers per month from our lending library for the duration of your monthly or year - long membership.

Despite the charges and Carr's guilty plea, her fans still stand by her — even raising money for her on a Facebook page created by In Service to Women, a group that supports midwifery and now hopes to help pay for Carr's legal fees.

Case Study 1: Jane says «I have been involved in breastfeeding support for about 11 years, initially as a volunteer in a breastfeeding support group and then more recently as a paid peer supporter in a hospital running a post-natal telephone support service.

That's why API established the Reedy Hickey Scholarship Fund during API's 20th Anniversary Celebration — to support parent applicants dedicating themselves to voluntarily lead groups who can not afford to pay application fees, leader dues or support group dues.

The ads, which officials said cost close to $ 100,000, represent the first paid media campaign by Organizing for Action (OFA), the nonprofit group formed last month to harness Obama's campaign apparatus in support of his legislative agenda.

Lerner said her group supports a pay raise — but with conditions, such as becoming a full - time Legislature and forgoing all outside pay.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE As government funders increasingly pay for biomedical interventions that prevent HIV infections, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and provide less support for behavioral interventions that increase condom use and alter sexual behavior, the funding landscape for AIDS groups may shift and they will have to change how they interact with their HIV - negative -LSB-...]

«She's an insider because she has all the money support from all the vendors and special interest groups that perpetuate the «pay to play» culture,» Maragos said in an interview.

Other groups with very close ties to Ferreras, Mark - Viverito and Espaillat were paid by Ackman or his surrogates to support the campaign, including the Dominico - American Society of Queens (DAS), which has received tens of thousands of discretionary dollars from Ferreras, and Make the Road New York, which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from both CM Ferreras and Speaker Mark - Viverito.

And I have been clear that I will work with any group of Senators who have real economic development and jobs - encouragement ideas, who plan to bring substantial tax relief to the people who elected me, who have compassion for the poor and respect for the middle class, who support the improvement of public education and a plan to ease the burden of tuition - paying parents across New York.»

As 1010 WINS» Stan Brooks reported, the group — including U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) and Nydia Velazquez (D - N.Y.) gathered on the City Hall steps demanding that City Council Speaker Christine Quinn allow the paid sick leave bill to come up for a vote in the Council, insisting there is enough support to pass it.

«If you're getting paid to influence public policy, you should have to report,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, in supporting JCOPE's new measure.

Lerner, with Common Cause, says her group supports a pay raise, but with conditions, like becoming a full - time legislature and forgoing all outside pay.

The League will be the first outside group to run ads in the campaign (aside from the national political parties) since May, when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce paid for a $ 131,000 two - week ad blitz in support of Buerkle.

A business group that supported his agenda, the Committee to Save New York, spent lavishly on ads during his first two years as governor; when the group went dormant this year, the State Democratic Party paid for ads promoting Mr. Cuomo's agenda.

At 11:30 a.m., U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will speak at the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce's International Women's Day Event and build support for her paid family and medical leave legislation, XO Group, 195 Broadway, Manhattan.

The Group maintain that the problems low paid workers face are more often than not to do with poor support from the system, rather than the actual contracts themselves.

On Monday morning, while Mr. de Blasio was testifying, the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Democrats who collaborate with the Republicans, released a survey in which they said 75 percent of city subway riders supported the city paying for half of the subway action plan.

The Independent Democratic Conference, a group of eight state senators elected as Democrats who have lent their support to Senate Republicans, are facing escalating backlash from advocates around the state — some of whom are paying more attention to local politics in the face of a Donald Trump presidency.

The political party has to set up a party secretariat in virtually every ward, state, and at the national level, pay staff, promote its brand and its agenda, organize meetings, pay sitting allowances, support candidates, run media advertisements, arrange receptions and entertainment, pay for logistics, buy vehicles, pay for air travels and road transportation, the organization of rallies and campaigns, reserve some tidy sum for lobbying at all levels including the lobbying of the media and other groups in civil society.

Candice Giove, a spokeswoman for the independent Democrats, said the group was «proud of its record of achievements,» listing its support for gun - control legislation, a $ 15 minimum wage and paid family leave, among other issues.

Cherie Messore, with the Independent Oil and Gas Association, a gas industry lobby group that is helping pay for the ads, says the spots are aimed at showing there's support for fracking.

Many progressive groups, meanwhile, largely stood down in their criticism in order to support Cuomo's push for a $ 15 minimum wage and a paid family leave program.

The group did not engage in electioneering or pay for ads that supported or opposed any particular candidates, de Blasio's aides said.

At his campaign - kick off in January, he produced «Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon, who told reporters that she was supporting de Blasio because «the group of people that don't have that paid sick leave is disproportionately women.

The independent political group recently paid $ 460,000 to air an ad linking Schreibman's support for Obamacare to supposed tax hikes and «unelected Washington Bureaucrats» in charge of seniors» health care.

Expat and pensioner groups said it was absurd to liken Britons supporting themselves overseas to immigrants coming to the UK without the means to pay their way.

Citizens United Political Victory Fund, the political action committee affiliated with the group Citizens United, said today it will pay for the robocalls in support of Tenney's campaign.