Sentences with phrase «political efforts»

Not sure he wants to be responsible for running a statewide political effort at the same time.

His commitment to art as well as political efforts to bridge nations demonstrates his unique position as an artist and humanitarian.

We can prevent a breakdown of the food system, but it will require a huge political effort undertaken on many fronts and with a fierce sense of urgency.

The cliff ties political efforts to immediate results in a pressing and unavoidable way.

But more political efforts, like doing away with fusion voting and creating a publicly funded campaign finance system, could still be a tough sell.

Conventional political efforts to mitigate global warming, this trio argued, have fallen short.

Despite the slow, painfully inadequate political efforts to address climate change, we know that people are dying right now because of the pollution we continue to emit.

It seems like an obvious choice, but a huge political effort will be required to see that vision come to fruition.

It does not require any material changes to LegalZoom business practices, and is the realization of the enduring legal and political efforts of LegalZoom to increase North Carolinians» access to affordable, quality legal help.

And after working on various low - profile GOP political efforts in 2014, Cambridge landed a major job with a Mercer - funded Super PAC supporting Ted Cruz's presidential candidacy.

Facebook came under fire last month after it was reported that controversial political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica acquired the information of more than 50 million Facebook users and used that data to produce targeted advertisements for political efforts, including Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Author's Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better persuasion tool, but to scale meaningful...

Michael Stephens, an aide who recently left the committee after working for Obey for 3 decades, praises his former boss for defending peer review and opposing political efforts to steer funding to specific diseases.

Mueller is also questioning witnesses about whether Persian Gulf money had been used to fund political efforts by Trump, and is examining a failed deal for a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to the article.

The world is now nearly certain to warm by up to 2C compared with pre-industrial levels, with political efforts concentrated on [continue reading...]

But just in the same way that we always say to people «It's important to change your lightbulbs, but it's more important to change the structures of your energy system,» the most important thing that businesses can be doing is to join in a real concerted political effort to cause change — not letting the fossil fuel industry win through letting its vehicles like the Chamber of Commerce dominate the discussion.

By employing the same arguments — and the same players — that have cropped up in other political efforts to address climate change across the globe, the Galileo Movement is part of a pervasive, stubborn tradition, Graham said.

The UNFCCC treaty, which the United States has signed, serves as the foundation of international political efforts to combat global warming.

The world is now nearly certain to warm by up to 2C compared with pre-industrial levels, with political efforts concentrated on holding the potential temperature rise to no higher than that limit.

Similarly, state Republicans were less - than - enthused by the teacher's union's political efforts aimed at Grisanti.

«This is a large - scale political effort.»

Like Escobar, Lehder's political efforts also focused on defeating Colombia's extradition agreement with the US, which, after the 1984 assassination of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, allowed for immediate extradition of Lehder and other narcos if they were caught.

While this certainly does not mean we should stop legal or political efforts completely, it does mean that we should begin thinking about what it looks like to be the church in a «post-culture war» era.

Second, resources and serious political effort needs to be invested in reforming Kenya's security apparatus.

What can we learn about the future of fiscal squeeze in the UK (defined as substantial political effort to increase revenue or cut public spending or both) from looking at past cases?

Institutional navel - gazing after the rejection of the European constitution was followed by a momentous political effort at reform in the Lisbon treaty.

The funds will go from Thune's own re-election committee to the NRSC's coffers, where it will be turned directly into campaign ads and other political efforts toward hanging onto the Senate majority — which observers think may be threatened by the performance of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

: Dead politicians» zombie political efforts.

«Considering the fact that the population down here is exploding, it makes obvious sense that there needs to be some organized political effort,» said Patrick Kennell, who is also a member of Community Board 1.

She hired Sherman Jewett, a veteran Albany - based political effort, to advise her through 2016 and increase her visibility outside of Onondaga County.

I took conscious political efforts in my university days at Nsukka and Ife contesting and winning elections serving the students and the university communities and cutting my teeth in leadership training.

Pulling our troops out and allowing the country to adjust (thru their own political efforts and their own security efforts, with international guidance) is now the ONLY Winning Strategy.

But others feared a listing would cause massive economic harm in the 11 western states where the bird lives, and fuel political efforts to gut the law.

This has created a growing pessimism within the scientific community, with the Guardian reporting that almost nine out of 10 climate scientists don't believe political efforts to restrict global warming to 2º Celsius will succeed.

With the help of maverick CIA agent Gustav Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union.

And with that will come political efforts to shave down legislative provisions meant to protect lower - income families, such as requirements that schools use lotteries for admissions and prohibitions on tuition charges greater than the publicly funded allotment.

He highlighted the need for more African American and Latino educators to take leadership roles in the charter movement, and he challenged educators to understand the necessity to support current political efforts to promote school choice, even if you may disagree with other elements of the current administration platform.

Pechthalt points to the Vergara trial, and the broader political effort to weaken teachers unions and collective bargaining.

Because many of the laws regulating them are toothless — and because of an aggressive political effort to maintain that status quo.

There exists a national political effort to promote traditional vouchers, Education Savings Account (ESA) vouchers, and tax credit scholarship vouchers in the name of assisting students with disabilities.

It would take some strong political effort to make this happen, but perhaps Glory's failure could show how the funding of this parallel construction «insurance» is a smart use of money for the collection of vital science data.

I am so dismayed at the lack of public leadership on oil consumption among the Democrats, who can only seem to muster political will to respond to crises (and then, not eve) while merely chipping away at the oily beast by thwarting marginal political efforts by Republicans to gimmick their way back into office.

One former scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is stepping forward to blow the whistle on his former colleagues» alleged political effort to manipulate scientific data published just ahead of the United Nations» 2015 Climate Change Conference.

It appears as a nakedly political effort, turning any story about human - interest or a scientific development into a campaigning tool.