Sentences with phrase «recent national efforts»

Keynote speaker, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. will discuss recent national efforts to address the impact of violence on children and families, including his Defending Childhood initiative.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

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China has made self - driving auto technology a national priority, but the recent U.S. fatality involving an autonomous test car is prompting calls for the Chinese government to slow down those efforts to ensure public safety.

Recent efforts in Europe to ban the face veil (the niqab or burqa) are not so much concerned with women's rights and security as they are with obtaining votes from an electorate that is increasingly xenophobic and anxious about national identity.

Thus the most heated debates in recent General Councils of the Assemblies of God have centered on efforts to qualify local sovereignty in favor of district and national councils.

When the play was revived on Broadway in 1995 by Tony Randall's National Actors Theater, Randall — citing recent renewed efforts by the Tennessee state legislature to restrict the teaching of evolution — asserted that the play is «much more timely today than when it was written.»

Further complicating efforts to move towards adoption of the PPE Monograph as a national standard is the recent issuance by the National Athletic Trainers» Association of a position statement (Conley KM, et al. 2014) recommending the use of its own version of national standard is the recent issuance by the National Athletic Trainers» Association of a position statement (Conley KM, et al. 2014) recommending the use of its own version of National Athletic Trainers» Association of a position statement (Conley KM, et al. 2014) recommending the use of its own version of the PPE.

As a result of my recent efforts to end the use of LFTB in USDA - procured beef for the National School Lunch Program, I've been chosen as one of eight finalists for Healthy Child Healthy World's 2012 Mom on a Mission campaign.

In response to the devastation caused by the recent hurricanes, the National Diaper Bank Network has been coordinating targeted relief efforts to get supplies to families and babies in need.

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Congressman Adriano Espaillat, the first Dominican - American to serve on the Hill, has lambasted President Donald Trump for his efforts to expel foreign nationals from the United States — but the formerly undocumented lawmaker defended his native country's recent moves to strip thousands of individuals of Haitian descent of their citizenship, policies Amnesty International warned have «created a human rights crisis.»

He thanked the envoys for briefing him on recent political developments in Burundi and expressed hope that all stakeholders in the country will resolve their differences peacefully and learn to work together for the development of their country even as he hailed the ongoing efforts by President Nkurunziza towards peace and national reconciliation in the country.

Cuomo insisted he is not concerned the National Guard will be spread too thin by the most recent efforts, saying the only way that would become an issue is if something extreme happened back home.

But with no pilgrimages planned to Iowa or New Hampshire and no stump speeches for Democrats elsewhere in the country, Cuomo's recent efforts to boost his national profile are more likely about his immediate re-election plans — though a future run for the White House can't be ruled out.

The campaign for this House seat is the latest display of disaffection from the conservative base over the national GOP's recent candidate recruitment efforts.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of class room instruction.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of classroom instruction.

Canada: This article details the recent efforts of Canadian University Libraries and the National Library of Canada to work towards better provision of library services to disabled students.

The latest of these efforts, a U.S. National Academies» report titled Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future, is also the best publicized of the recent studies and among the most ambitious.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogen.

The CRI iAtlas database is the first comprehensive effort in immuno - oncology to address the recent National Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel recommendation to establish a pan-cancer immune atlas that would help catalyze new research in cancer immunotherapy.

Featuring a cast including Michael Douglas, Robert DeNiro, Kevin Kline, and Morgan Freeman, there's a sleeper gem lying in wait there somewhere, but we'll see if Turtletaub can follow through more than on his recent rather schlocky efforts («National Treasure,» «The Sorceror's Apprentice»).

The experience in the 1950s and 1960s definitely led to the prohibition of such efforts in federal statutes — prohibitions that the Obama administration has violated in recent years by endorsing national curriculum standards and funding national tests and national curriculum frameworks together with related teaching materials and lesson plans.

And while aides say Moskowitz won't rule out a future mayoral run, she has focused her recent efforts on the national stage.

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

They discuss their recent protest efforts in the districts of state legislators who, at the behest of National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates, have all but eviscerated Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform plans.

The national legal campaign is being organized by Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor who told POLITICO that she has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent months to get the effort off the ground.

Recent efforts by states to make their educator accountability systems more rigorous represent a «seismic shift rarely seen in education,» according to the National...

Together, we can work on national issues, as E4E members across the country have done, while continuing to focus on local issues that affect our students and us, including our recent efforts on contract negotiations, early - childhood education, and the passage of a state Dream Act.

Teach For America, a nonprofit organization in the AmeriCorps national service network, recruits recent college graduates and professionals to teach in high - need communities for two years in a national effort to improve student achievement.

Two crucial misconceptions have framed recent efforts to improve the quality of U.S. schools: (1) the conflation of achievement with learning accompanied by the misuse of achievement data, and (2) the erroneous belief that meaningful changes in school quality can be coerced through a national regimen of testing and accountability.

Recent national reform efforts, from No Child Left Behind to Race to the Top, have conflated student achievement with student learning — but they are not synonymous.

One of the most exciting recent developments in efforts to improve nutrition and health in afterschool and summer programs is the promulgation of a set of Standards for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity3 by the Healthy Out - of - School Time (HOST) Coalition, a national coalition of leading organizations in the fields of out - of - school time and health and nutrition.

In recent years there have been increased awareness efforts about GMOs and in 2010 National Non-GMO Month was created.

Here are some recent rescue items from around the globe Animal lover offers $ 4,000 reward for safe return of man's German Shepherd Florida HERO rescue dog Echo looks set to get his paws on another national award recognising his life - saving efforts Rescue Group Raises Awareness About «Backyard Breeders «The most courageous dog in the United States - they do...

Based on our participation in numerous national coalitions focused on animal / shelter overpopulation issues; our work in shelter medicine, shelter research and as a major animal welfare grant maker; and our 100 + years as a direct service provider in New York City as well as our more recent direct participation in intensive, collaborative efforts with more than 10 ASPCA partner communities across the United States, the ASPCA has determined that a number of indicators should be tracked to understand progress in decreasing the number of animals at risk.

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 promised to produce a Chinese translation of my recent post on an effort to protect the elephants in and around Amboseli National Park in Kenya from the fresh wave of poaching driven by relentless Asian demand for ivory.

Both the rhetoric and the actions have provoked despair among many who fear a Trump presidency will tip the planet toward an overheated future, upending recent national and international efforts to stem emissions of heat - trapping carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil and natural gas.

From the 1991 «Ice Campaign» run by the coal and utility industries to the Marshall Institute's bogus «Study» of 1998 (which was designed to resemble a National Academy of Sciences document) to the recent efforts of ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy to eviscerate efforts to address the climate crisis, in tandem with the Bush White House, the fossil fuel lobby and its ideological supporters have waged a relentless campaign of deception and disinformation to confuse people about the reality of warming - driven climate change.

In an effort to continue building on five straight years of record ridership, as well as the recent publicity given to train travel by Barack Obama, Amtrak is dubbing May 10th «National Train Day.»

Please join ABA ROLI «s Country Director in Mali, Olivier Kambala wa Kambala, for a discussion on Mali «s transitional justice process, drawing from his most recent work to integrate community - driven priorities into national reconciliation efforts.

A recent event hosted by Hogan Lovells illustrated the key trends impacting African compliance with national and international anti-corruption efforts, including the approach taken by international prosecutors.

Though efforts to facilitate speedy redressal of disputes are underway — the most recent being establishment of special commercial courts to settle high - stake commercial disputes as well as constitution of the National Company Law Tribunal and its appellate body — I encourage parties to have in place a strong mechanism for international commercial arbitration, at the outset.

A recent article in the February 2012 issue of the American Bar Association's Journal highlights national efforts to create more predictable alimony awards.

Top firms such as Stewart Information Services Corp., LandAmerica Financial Group Inc., The First American Corp. and Fidelity National Financial Inc. have made a concerted effort to expand their international business in recent years.