Sentences with phrase «past year mission»

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The Dragons» Den argument speaks to something of a mission Kopke has embarked on in the past few years to affect change in Canada's business culture.

Patagonia has released several documentaries over the past few years, a unique strategy to spread its longstanding mission of supporting environmental activism.

In addition to hiring 5,500 veterans in the past two years, Starbucks has been on a mission to help bridge a disconnect between the military and civilians, while honoring the service and sacrifice of veterans and military spouses.

LOUISVILLE, KY — Trucking Moves America Forward, the industry - wide image and education movement, reported significant achievements in the past year in its mission to change the public perception of the trucking industry.

The mission to San Francisco, China and Singapore builds on the more than C$ 1 billion in investment leads and sales that Alberta government trade missions have generated over the past two years.

This is what has given many Sci - Fi writers the idea of the long - distance traveller returning to Earth after what to him was a ten year mission, only to find that the Earth he or she knew was long in the past.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

Hence Latin America has become the most popular mission field in the past 50 years.

This retelling struck me, because it reflects my own journey over the past 4 - 5 years in my understanding of Jesus, grace, and missions.

Over the past year, Southern Baptists went to church less, gave less to missions, and baptized fewer people.

These two major theological contributions, one from almost thirty years ago, and the other from almost twenty years ago, indicate that concerned theologians have been wrestling with the issues of baptism conversion, and mission, without loosing track of what had happened in the past, while at the same time trying to discern what was happening in their immediate context.

And the leaders of those churches are ready and able to articulate what this new sense of strength and self - confidence implies with regard to the traditional structures of relationship to the churches of the West, The challenge they pose is the fruit of our labors in world mission over the past 180 years.

We've got teams going to Costa Rica, medical mission trips to Haiti, Jamaica, and Colombia, and have raised $ 5 million in the past seven years to build clean water yard facilities, new schools and provided seed, grains and tool to help the Sudanese get back on their feet.

For the past 75 years, Utah - based Associated Food Stores» mission has been to strengthen and support its independent members.

Organic brand Foodstirs is on a mission to reenergize the baking mix category and has expanded its retail presence from 400 to 7,500 stores in the past year.

«We feel lucky to have had the unwavering support of Senator Stone as our county supervisor for the past ten years and are excited to work with Supervisor Washington on our continued mission to influence positive change in the community.»

to Mission Viejo and Orange County, California area would allow for greater sponsor exposure, more hotel and tourism options while still being minutes from the US Army, Marines, National Guard and Navy command locations who in past years have been key contributors to the event.

Our mission at MomsTeam, as it has been for the past eleven years, is to empower sports parents through education.

For the past two years, Amador Valley has worked with a mentor to guide the school as the team works to fulfill its mission «to establish an environment of dynamic relationships within our community in order to support our students on their journey to define their own success.»

I've been on a mission over the past year to stop yelling at my kids and to help others stop yelling at theirs.

Part of the group's mission is to probe campaign finance records at the New York State Board of Elections, which has failed to even appoint a staff investigator for the past couple of years.

For the past few years, some members of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency have been far too interested in overreaching policies, diverging from the central mission of the ECIDA.

«For the past year, I have made it my mission to create my own truly delicious margarita.»

Cuomo began his announcement this way: «Every single day for the past three years, I've gone to work with one mission: to represent the people.

Here was the undisputed Tory hero of the past four years — a man with a mission, a crusader, an obsessive, who has shown the courage to hurl himself into the task of salvaging Britain's ruined schools system in a fashion no other holder of his office in modern times has attempted.»

For the past five years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) weapon physicist Greg Spriggs and a crack team of film experts, archivists and software developers have been on a mission to hunt down, scan, reanalyze and declassify these decomposing films.

2017 had plenty of other updates from exciting missions of years past.

The shallow, salty seas spotted in 2004 evaporated from scientists» view of early Mars within a few years, but even so, the past decade's half - dozen martian missions have finally delivered.

The first ExoMars mission, the Trace Gas Orbiter, launched this past March, and will attempt to nail down the existence and source of methane gas, which has mysteriously come and gone over the years.

The Pioneer 10 space probe — the farthest - traveling man - made object in the universe — came to the end of its mission this past year, after a quarter of a century of scientific exploration.

Over the past hundred years or so, these scientists have made it their mission.

For each of the past couple of years, Congress has given the agency's planetary - sciences division tens of millions of dollars more than it asked for, and directed it to spend the money on Europa mission concepts.

In the next few years, the array will also scan for artificial radio emissions as part of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) at lower, neglected frequencies than past SETI missions.

David Boulos and Mark A Zamorski «Contribution of the Mission in Afghanistan to the Burden of Past - year Mental Disorders in Canadian Armed Forces Personnel, 2013»

Despite repeated promises over the past 18 years, the US Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) is unlikely to deliver on its mission to develop and demonstrate an advanced nuclear reactor by the mid-21st century.

Imaging, of course, has been a prime objective of the major planetary missions over the past 25 years.

NOAA has been loaning out its Puma drones to the Coast Guard for Arctic missions for the past several years, including the past three summers onboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy.

I have had personal involvement with this team and their progress for the past few years, and am I extremely proud of their efforts to advance this mission...

For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has produced unprecedented three - dimensional views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, providing scientists with valuable data on how polar ice is changing in a warming world.

Wang says the scope is still working today, and the team are awaiting a decision to continue its mission past the end of this year.

For most of the past 15 years, a mission to return to Europa has lingered in a perpetual early - study phase, trapped between the shifting and often conflicting priorities of successive Congresses and presidents.

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Specifically, five Saturn - related concepts are contending for the next New Frontiers mission, a program that in past years yielded the New Horizons Pluto spacecraft, the Juno Jupiter orbiter, and the asteroid - return spacecraft OSIRIS - REx.

NASA's Inspector General's Office released a report in September 2016 which found that commercial crew missions would likely be delayed until 2018, three years past the original target date.

Twenty - five years ago, this month, Space Shuttle Atlantis flew a mission which harked back to the past and set in place a cornerstone to enable the exploration of the future.

For context, the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto is visiting a Kuiper Belt object on January 1, 2019, whereas the Voyager missions that launched 40 years ago won't escape the Oort Cloud for at least another 14,000 years.

But even with those hiccups, the past five years (that's 20 times the planned lifetimes of the rovers) have yielded many insights into the planet's past and present and taught mission controllers numerous lessons about running a mission from millions of miles away.

At a Congressional hearing earlier this year, Rep. Adam Schiff (D - Burbank), whose district includes JPL, lambasted what he said amounted to «cannibalizing the Mars program, which gets closer to unlocking the secrets of Mars» past with each mission and discovery.»

Over the past 30 years, the scope of the CNWRA support has grown to provide technical and programmatic assistance to the NRC staff and their agency's mission to protect public health and safety, and the environment.

ESA's Rosetta mission is providing unique insight into the life cycle of a comet's dusty surface, watching 67P / C - G as it sheds the dusty coat it has accumulated over the past four years.