Sentences with phrase «past national efforts»

The commission, releasing findings from a two - year study, offered 10 recommendations to build on past national efforts and to ensure that everyone has meaningful assistance for essential legal means.

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Over the past decade, several high - profile 401 (k) fee lawsuits and DOL efforts to implement a fiduciary standard for professional investment advice have put 401 (k) fiduciary responsibility in the national spotlight.

Gibbons is a dedicated advocate for the restaurant industry, as evidenced by his many past and present positions at the state and national level such as at the National Restaurant Association, National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, and U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, and through his philanthropic national level such as at the National Restaurant Association, National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, and U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, and through his philanthropic National Restaurant Association, National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, and U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, and through his philanthropic National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, and U.S. Department of Commerce Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, and through his philanthropic efforts.

In an effort to continue learning the lessons from Baxter's development over the past year, Chelsea have also sent Jared Thompson out into the men's game before even properly establishing himself in Under - 23 football, securing a season - long stay at National League South side Chippenham Town.

In a written statement responding to the AAP's guidelines and recommendations, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) said that it that «agree [d] with many of the recommendations,» and pointed to its efforts over the past 20 years to minimize risk for high school cheerleaders, beginning with publication of its first guidelines for sideline cheerleading in 1988, which became the basis for the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, first published in 1992.

The local press have picked up on us in the past but we prefer to focus on a broader reach — as our audience are UK and world - wide and often the effort that goes into a regional story is the same as for a national one.

The resort to thinly - veiled attacks on past regimes and the effort made to run down their contributions towards economic growth and national development as a whole has long since fallen out of favour with the Ghanaian public.

Finally, PopVox doesn't charge organizations to participate, unlike at least one past effort to aggregate information on issues (National Journal's now - defunct Policy Council).

Okay, I cheated — lots of groups have been working online to organize and recruit the tax - disgruntled over the past few days, culminating in a national protest effort to launch as soon as everyone's back from the post office.

It closes memo closes with a powerful summary of how this grassroots operation is different from any national field effort in the past:

MIRA «is part of an effort across the National Institutes of Health to expand the agency's use of awards that support people based on their track record, not projects,» but the problem is that, «[o] n average, the new awards amount to a 12 % cut in a recipient's overall average NIGMS funding for the past 5 years, with much deeper cuts for some.»

In Glacier National Park, which has been at the forefront of the climate change response effort, rangers give a weekly «walk - and - talk» program on the past, present, and future of the park's namesake features entitled «Where Have All the Glaciers Gone?»

Over the past year, governments have been making pledges about how they will cut emissions, and one of the main outcomes from Paris will be a new agreement that codifies all those national efforts into international law.

Now in a collaborative effort between the arts and sciences, researchers at Kyoto University and Japan's National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) and National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) have used historical documents to garner better insight into the patterns of past solar events.

The vow to cure cancer brings to mind some past efforts, such as President Nixon's war on cancer of the early 1970s, and a pledge by Andrew von Eschenbach, former National Cancer Institute (NCI) director (2002 — 06), to eliminate suffering and death from cancer by 2015.

That's why, for the past 8 years, Science and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have co-sponsored annual challenges to promote cutting - edge efforts to visualize scientific data, principles, and ideas.

There have been many subsequent efforts to find the treasure — and even a Hollywood movie called National Treasure inspired by the tale — but Gillogly has seen nothing in the past 30 years to make him doubt his original assessment.

Over the past few years, researchers around the world have organized an effort to identify and save tissue archives from all the major animal irradiation experiments, and they have won support from a diverse range of funding agencies, including the European Commission, the US National Cancer Institute and the US Department of Energy.

For the past nine years at the Woodrow Wilson School, I have participated on the admissions committee, read and evaluated applications for admission to our Junior Summer Institute program and served on the selection committee for the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Programs, a collaborative effort between the United States Department of State and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Now Walker has a three - year, $ 870,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics program to learn how plants thwarted those past efforts and further, how plants firmly control iron in their systems.

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Their efforts gave rise to 2010's Dead Rising 2, a sequel that succeeded in expanding the Dead Rising concept with a larger playground, tweaked mechanics, and a weapon - crafting system that made zombie killing the new national past time.

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

Most faculties are overwhelmingly white, despite efforts by many school districts over the past ten years to actively attract minority teachers, according to the National Education Association (NEA).

Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams.

While more than 13 schools have either launched or expanded school voucher and tax credit programs in the past two years, efforts by National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to shut them down, either by voter referendums (as in Florida) or through lawsuits, are reminders of the challenges to expanding choice that remain.

And so, brushing right past the fact that Common Core was created by states rather than the federal government and does not impose specific texts or lesson plans, Jindal vowed to fight any efforts to impose a «national curriculum.»

Over the past several years, Tennessee has ramped up its teacher leadership efforts, with both its department of education as well as local and national nonprofits establishing fellowships for classroom experts to support the implementation of college - and career - ready standards and serve as instructional coaches for colleagues.

We can put an end to our edu - masochism: If researchers spend more effort on assessing our own states» successes and failures in improving student performance and less on trying to draw lessons from countries with very different social and educational contexts, they are sure to spark a much more productive national educational policy debate than we have had in the past decade.

In the past, national efforts to improve education have been directed by the federal government and have emphasized resources or organizational structure.

The shift toward accountability policies for schools over the past two decades — first introduced in some states, and made national under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), signed into law in 2002 — has been an important part of these efforts.

Jaime has led accreditation efforts at her school for the past decade, sat on standards committees for the National Board for Professional Teacher Standards and Educators Rising, and has worked as part of the AZ Teacher Solutions Team since 2011.

Over the past 7 years, faculty at UC Davis have committed significant time and effort into transforming the School of Veterinary Medicine into a national leader for veterinary regenerative medicine.

A variety of efforts have been undertaken over the past few decades to create a platform for shelter data reporting, yet no national or centralized system exists for consolidated shelter data until now.

Previously, Best Friends performed painstaking manual data collection that revealed the estimated number of dogs and cats euthanized in the U.S. has dropped from 9,000 to 5,500 per day in the past six years — an important statistic that highlights why a national, uniform data collection effort is so important.

In fact, gas chambers in the whole country are almost a thing of the past, thanks to efforts by national and local animal organizations, including The HSUS, which have worked to get rid of them for the euthanasia of dogs and cats because they don't provide a humane death.

Following Caravan's day tour of Arenal volcano, your Costa Rica tour includes a visit to leatherback turtle nesting grounds in Leatherback Turtle National Park, Guanacaste, where Costa Rica has made impressive efforts in the past two and half decades to protect the endangered giant leatherback turtle.

Recent responses have come from Jerry Saltz, who has ranted in numerous articles about the inequity of women in the arts, artnet News, which has run several stories that have brought gender imbalance in culture into mainstream dialogue, and in March, shortly after launching the lauded Women, Arts and Social Change exhibition, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC) launched # 5womenartists, a month - long invitation to post information about women artists, past and living, in a communal effort to trumpet them across social media; participants included the Guggenheim and the New Museum in New York, and the Los Angeles Country Museum in LA.

I find it hard to reconcile talking points of the current Republican leadership on the irresponsible burden placed on future generations by the ballooning national debt and deficit with derisive attacks on efforts to move past finite fossil fuels, to conserve fuel, to spur innovation and basic research and to treat the risks from accumulating greenhouse gases the same way the party treats the risk of fiscal breakdown from building financial obligations.

The progress seen at COP22 and over the past year on various fronts including transport, agriculture, buildings, energy and resilience, as well as among the business community, can provide an essential complement to national government efforts toward achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

It is meant to honor the past 50 years of national and international engagement, efforts and progress to increase literacy rates around the world.

We have tried for the past three Congresses to enact a renewable portfolio standard at the national level, but those efforts have met strong resistance from utilities and from the current administration.

Ongoing efforts are being made to recover information on the past observing practices of the various national weather services and to apply adjustments as appropriate.

Coordination with local, state and national politicians — including former Rep. Joel Hefley (R - Colorado Springs), who was the original congressional champion of Browns Canyon legislation — and involvement of local businesses, organizations and individuals over the past 15 years drove efforts to protect the unique landscapes that make Browns Canyon special.

Over the past few years, SquareOne Villages (SOV) has emerged as a state and national leader in this effort.

During the past eight years, one of the signatures of the Obama Board was its effort to expand the application of the National Labor Relations Act's relevance to non-union workplaces.

Over the past year and a half, the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) have been serving as strategic allies in a national effort to bring lasting changes to the criminal justice system, also known as the Safety and Justice ChNational Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) have been serving as strategic allies in a national effort to bring lasting changes to the criminal justice system, also known as the Safety and Justice Chnational effort to bring lasting changes to the criminal justice system, also known as the Safety and Justice Challenge.

SCL's effort is being driven by a former aide to now - departed national security adviser Michael Flynn, who served as an adviser to the company in the past.

Wade said he has been inspired by the efforts of the Douglas students and others around the country, including during this past Wednesday's National Walkout Day.

As reported in the Campaign Steering Committee's 2013 Shadow Report, [104] Queensland [105] and New South Wales [106] have made deep cuts to their general population health expenditure with detrimental impacts on the national effort to close the gap in the past year.