Sentences with phrase «powerful contributions of»

The Tate Modern's exhibition Soul of a Nation highlights the powerful contribution of African American artists working in the era of Civil Rights and Black Power.

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Less celebrated are these innovative companies» contribution of powerful but low - tech productivity hacks to help managers and owners get more done in less time.

This powerful calculator showed that I have a 78 % chance of meeting my goal of $ 40,000 per year in retirement based on my current savings, spending habits, and projects retirement contributions.

«They illustrate the powerful contributions that women's businesses make to the economic growth of this nation.»

These were very powerful contributions to the conversation of changing times.

Perhaps Johnson's most powerful contribution is his demonstration that American Catholic thought has lacked clarity on the issue of intervention.

This would imply the grateful recognition of the powerful sources of moral insight available through the experience of the Jewish people and the revitalizing power resident within the Christian Gospel, but also the rightful and needful contributions of other peoples and historic religions to the fulfillment of the highest potentialities in existence.

Still, there was a time when Dawkins enjoyed a deserved reputation for his contributions to the popular exposition of evolutionary science and theory without yet having acquired his entirely undeserved reputation as a powerful advocate for atheism.

In September 2013, the Convention considered the question of extending the vote in Presidential elections for citizens resident outside the jurisdiction; this was passed by a strong majority, with powerful contributions made by video - link from Irish citizens resident in a range of other countries.

It's not wholly surprising, given that Lopez was a once - powerful (and feared) powerbroker who received contributions from no doubt thousands of different donors over the years.

The lion's share of his political contributions come from real estate industries, including some of New York's most powerful developers.

The debate was initiated by Fiona Bruce MP and included many powerful contributions from a variety of Conservative MPs.

The two trials laid bare many of the secrets the commission might have uncovered — with testimony about the vast, almost unilateral power exercised by legislative leaders, the way powerful real estate interests dole out campaign contributions, legal referrals and jobs to line politicians» pockets and maintain access, and how money is hidden by evading disclosure laws and funneling it through relatives, law firms and title fees.

That's consistent with the Cuomo campaign statement that they have focused on large dollar contributors, but still surprising and a powerful demonstration of the effect of New York's high contribution limits.

A hefty 11th - hour campaign contribution from a powerful labor union, the Communications Workers of America, to the Nassau County Democratic Party to help Assemblyman Todd Kainsky's Senate campaign is raising eyebrows in light of the fund - raising scandal that has engulfed de Blasio.

Amid an ongoing FBI investigation into state - level political corruption, a powerful lobbyist is accused of directing illegal contributions and unreported gifts to an unidentified group of state politicians.

Dan Loeb, who with his wife made $ 114,000 in contributions, is the chairman of the board of Success Academy, New York City's largest and most powerful charter school network.

A hefty 11th - hour campaign contribution from a powerful labor union to the Nassau County Democratic Party is raising eyebrows in light of the fund - raising scandal that has engulfed Mayor de...

A hefty 11th - hour campaign contribution from a powerful labor union to the Nassau County Democratic Party is raising eyebrows in light of the fund - raising scandal that has engulfed Mayor de Blasio, The Post has learned.

According to state campaign finance records posted Monday evening, the Democratic State Central Committee of CA accepted a total of $ 1.59 million in campaign contributions on Sept. 19 — with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from the state's powerful labor unions, representing teachers, firefighters, engineers and nurses.

Democratic Party central committees in the counties of Del Norte, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, and Yolo accepted the max - out contribution from one of the state's most powerful public employee unions.

Syracuse University physicist John «Jack» Laiho describes why «penguin decays» provide powerful probes of new physics: «In the observation of a rare decay, because contributions from the SM are relatively small, there is a good possibility that contributions from new virtual heavy particles may be significant.

The combination of portability, the employer's matching contribution, and its tax - deferred status makes the 403 (b) a powerful way to save for the future.

Weak lensing is a phenomenon that provides a powerful technique for mapping the changing contribution of star - forming galaxies as tracers of the cosmic web.

This combination proved to be a powerful tool to disentangle convoluted IR spectra — which contain contributions from the whole protein — by assigning each part of the spectrum to the amino acids that contribute to it.

He argues that some pigmentation genes have such a powerful effect that they override the combined contributions of many weaker genes — a phenomenon that would render the new study's simple gene addition inaccurate.

But perhaps his greatest contribution — greater even than his explanations of Darwinism — is his steadfast explanation - cum - celebration of the scientific method as civilization's most powerful tool for arriving at truth.

Applications of next - generation sequencing, combined with powerful yeast genetics, now create tremendous opportunities to investigate both global contributions and specific roles of ncRNAs in genome regulation and phenotypic variation.

One of the areas that is known is that genetic factors have a powerful contribution to its origins and there have been genes implicated at the last count on all 23 pairs of human chromosomes.

The current study finds the p16 (Ink4a) cell population largely consists of SAMs, thus providing powerful argument in favor of significant contribution of SAMs to aging.

To handle the vast amount of data generated by the observatories, BL intends to innovate powerful open source software that will enable members of the general public to make a material contribution to the project by creating their own search tools, and donating unused CPU space to boost the projects computing prowess.

Péter Ábrahám, research advisor at Konkoly Observatory and the leader of the Hungarian MATISSE project emphasizes that «the successful Hungarian contribution to MATISSE shows a good example for a synergy between high - tech instrument development and world - class scientific research using the most powerful astronomical instruments.

The opportunity to stay at the edge of the latest research, while helping scientists make valuable contributions to the lives of millions of people, is a powerful motivator for Kopacz.

More than this, The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is (like Kitano's cinema) an evocative and powerful contribution to film culture.

HCSS Budgeting is a powerful budget planning and forecasting tool that automatically updates with the latest financial information from the Department for Education (DfE), HMRC and the Education Funding Agency (EFA) that schools need to be aware of such as rises in teachers» pension contributions.

Furthermore, outdoor learning makes a powerful contribution to the broader curriculum and the development of «character».

Responsible citizens: Schools trips provide powerful learning outcomes for young people which contribute to a sense of belonging, feeling valued and the ability to make a positive contribution in their community and society at large.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

«Through collaborative inquiry, Emmett has demonstrated, in an unassuming way, the powerful contributions that reflection can make to the sustenance of professional growth and passion.»

One of the most powerful ways in which districts influence teaching and learning is through the contribution they make to feelings of professional efficacy on the part of school principals.

The Executive Development Program serves as a unique and powerful contribution to the advancement of education.

Your contribution will have an immediate impact on teaching and learning and help us continue to provide the powerful enrichment experiences that are transforming the lives of 800 Paul Cuffee students every year.

By providing a forum to blend these experiences, teacher candidates will make powerful contributions to the literacy development of their students.

These personal accounts of Michie's awakening as a teacher will inspire you to face the challenges of reaching, managing the behavior, and building the cultural competence and critical consciousness of students, while the contribution of student voice will serve as a powerful reminder of critical importance and value in hearing, knowing and seeking to understand the lives, perspectives and culture of your students.

WHEREAS, schools will host an event on National Parent Involvement Day, Thursday, November 15, 2012, to honor the powerful contributions that parents and caregivers make to support the success of students and to reinforce awareness of the invaluable role that parents and caregivers play in supporting student learning and public education, and honor their contributions to student success; and

Broadly, this work highlights the importance of the social context in which students learn, and makes conceptual, methodological, and practical contributions to the study of social networks and their powerful influence in educational settings.

With homework dominating all other categories of math instruction, the researchers argue that the time spent going over homework can be «time well spent, making unique and powerful contributions to students» learning opportunities» only if the discourse in the classroom is done in purposeful ways.Their recommendation?

The 8 - speed STEPTRONIC sports transmission, fitted as standard equipment in the new BMW X4 M40i, is responsible for the transmission of the energy supplied by the most powerful M Performance gasoline engine to date, making a significant contribution to the dynamics of this M Performance vehicle.

However, there are no details available that can quantify just how powerful the panel is or how much of a contribution it can make to the overall page turn figure sans the e-reader's internal memory.

The iRex Digital Reader finally offers a way for companies and individuals to cut out the billions of pages of printed paper they produce each year, making a powerful contribution to the environment.»