Sentences with phrase «partners as a barrier»

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«We are inclined to view it as posing greater trade risk for all types of energy, particularly if other nations establish new trade barriers against U.S. products,» Washington - based research firm ClearView Energy Partners LLC said in a report Monday.

Six good practice «taster sessions» from our conference At the Fatherhood Institute's Engaging fathers as partners conference in central London on Thursday 11 November 2010: Martin Clement, team manager from the Children in Need service at Islington Children's Services talked about the «Breaking down barriers» project, which is attempting to bring fathers to the fore in social work practice.

Dad can also act as a barrier, protecting his partner from well - meaning people who do not think that breastfeeding is a good idea.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women, their partners, and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding.8 — 10 Piper and Parks11reported that mothers who were single, smoked, and did not participate in childbirth education classes were less likely to exclusively breastfeed.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

«As a country whose long - term economic recovery relies on the health of our exports and our regulatory environment being attractive to global investors, it would be a colossal surrender of power to walk away from our largest trading partner, increase uncertainty, erect trade barriers and diminish our influence.»

This borough's 16,429 small businesses employ 66,300 New Yorkers, but as my Red Tape Commission found, too often government has been a barrier to success, rather than a partner in growth,» New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer said.

of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to understand how personal factors including women's social norms, perceived beliefs, social support and personal barriers such as untreated mental health, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and health system factors, including whether women receive HIV and obstetric care together or separately, contribute to HIV outcomes.

Safety, information and intention are the three most occurring issues people face when meeting a potential partner online and HerSmile was created as a solution to these barriers.

She wants them to know that age or any other barrier they perceive as real won't stand in the way to getting their desired partner.

Experts believe that after 40 dating is something where partners do their best to spend maximum amount of time together, where long distance can act as a strong barrier.

«Councils must be regarded as education improvement partners and not a barrier to change.

Participants explored the main elements, principles, key characteristics, and barriers to engaging students as partners in CTE.

NG2 partnered with Epiphany Learning to take New Hampshire to the next level of personalized learning as it tackles long - standing educational barriers to personalized learning - that of grades.

As we address the challenges and barriers to student success, we look to partner with community groups to build a strong network of education advocates.

An essential measure for Meaningful Student Involvement is to deliberately acknowledge and conscientiously address the barriers to engaging students as partners throughout education.

Meaningful Student Involvement changes can be apparent in school when students and adults address personal challenges and organizational barriers together, leading to healthier, more school democratic cultures where everyone can be engaged as partners.

By removing barriers to adoption such as cost, hours, or location, as well as implementing more open and friendly adoption processes, shelters expand the pool of adopters and invite their communities to become their partners in lifesaving.

«We understand the financial barriers that many students face today and, through a true collaborative effort with AVMF as our partner, and all the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and AVMA in the selection process, the Pfizer Animal Health scholarship program allows us to help alleviate some of that burden.»

By removing barriers to adoption such as cost, hours, or location, as well as implementing more open and friendly adoption processes, we invite our community to become our partner in lifesaving.

Heron Island was chosen to be the preferred location partner of the survey due to its prime location on the Great Barrier Reef, as well as thanks to its first class diving and snorkelling conditions.

For example, as Legal Week reports, Weil Gotshal broke the $ 2 million barrier for partner profits in 2007, up from last year's number of $ 1.9 million.

For decades, she balanced a high - profile, barrier - breaking career as a politician and big - firm partner with the demands of parenting.

At Neuberger & Partners LLP, we can step in and act as a protective barrier to help you face an investigation by your profession's governing body.

Partners can remove barriers such as understanding and talking about the unconscious biases around women's readiness for partnership; assisting women to bridge between maternity leave and returning to full - time practice; experimenting with flexible work arrangements for both men and women that do not reduce profitability and many other workplace initiatives that will assist women to stay in the law and help firms become more profitable.

Charles Urquart, partner at Clyde & Co, says: «Whilst this decision is good news for employers, as the fee related barrier to entry to bring employment tribunal claims remains in place, it will not be welcomed by low paid employees who feel obligated to bring a claim but who may be priced out of doing so.»

«This year's results reinforce that women in private practice continue to face barriers to reaching the highest positions in their firms — as equity partners and members of governance committees,» said Stephanie Scharf, report author, Past President of The NAWL Foundation, and Partner at Scharf Banks Marmor LLC.

The pay - per - sale business model stands in stark contrast to the firm's traditional digital advertising platform as it completely eliminates the financial barrier to entry for potential partners and is likely aimed at combating the stateside e-commerce dominance of Amazon.

The funding will help the startup advance on what might be its core barrier to mainstream adoption as stated by TechCrunch's Romain Dillet - attempting to secure mainstream partners.

«Civil rights groups and others view ban - the - box initiatives as important toward re-entry efforts by ex-offenders, the argument being that these measures reduce unfair barriers to employment for those with criminal records,» said Montserrat Miller, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Arnall Golden Gregory.

Strategies to Increase Birth Parent Engagement, Partnership, and Leadership in the Child Welfare System: A Review (PDF - 438 KB) Casey Family Programs (2012) Explores barriers and proactive strategies to engaging birth parents with child welfare services and referrals for services, developing connections between birth and foster parents, utilizing birth parents as agency partners, and drawing on birth parent experience in an advisory capacity at the organizational level.

Recognizing problems such as transportation barriers, difficult work schedules, and competing financial issues can help practices effectively communicate and partner with families.

This multidimensional, broad - based framework helps promote father engagement across all levels of society and strategically tackle the diverse barriers that fathers face as they try to become better parents, partners, and providers by providing supports ranging from employment skills to low - income, noncustodial fathers, to reentry services for fathers recently released from incarceration.24 The OCF helps coordinate a variety of programs and events to promote father engagement.

Rates of infidelity in «monogamous» relationships are also alarmingly high, hovering between 20 - 55 %, depending on what time frame you ask people about (e.g., having ever cheated versus cheated in the last 5 years).3 Sadly, when cheaters cheat, they typically do not take protective measures to reduce sexually transmitted infections 100 % of the time.1 Then, when they have sex with their primary partner, they rarely use barrier protection (e.g., condoms); this puts all partners at risk for diseases such as syphilis and HIV.

Excessive device usage acts as a barrier to quality communication, which leaves partners feeling ignored or unimportant.

Shame, isolation, humiliation, and the lack of willingness to participate from a partner, sometimes to the point of extreme dismissiveness, as well as the expense, create barriers to obtaining the assistance needed in order to restore a happy and healthy sexual life.

With a warm, collaborative and motivational approach, Sabrina partners with her clients to identify unseen obstacles serving as barriers to reaching goals, managing difficult circumstances, experiencing satisfying relationships and living the abundant life offered through Christ.

This workshop is aimed at reviewing the model, with additional attention given to the potential role of shame as a significant barrier to forgiveness (both self and other) and full injury resolution, as well as the associated importance of grief processing as a means and opportunity for the partners to re-define the post-injury relationship as a new safe haven within a new shared narrative.