Sentences with phrase «relations efforts from»

According to some polls, Americans were growing skeptical that man was causing global warming, a trend abetted by fierce public relations efforts from the fossil fuel industry and the Climate Gate non-scandal, which the media did a supremely poor job of covering accurately.

Not exact matches

Years of cultivating that reputation meant that when WestJet stepped up efforts to assist with evacuations from Fort McMurray, Alberta during its devastating 2016 wildfire, it felt like a natural step for the company, not a cynical public relations maneuver.

Most so - called variable expenses are really semi variable expenses that fluctuate from month to month in relation to sales and other factors, such as promotional efforts, change of season, and variations in the prices of supplies and services.

Winners also enjoy: National recognition as one of Canada's foremost Dealmakers Heightened market interest thanks to extensive media exposure in The Globe and Mail, Lexpert and Thomson Reuters publications Media coverage stemming from Deloitte's national media relations efforts The opportunity to engage in the high - level industry networking that fuels M&A transactions - Recognition at the gala awards ceremony, which is attended by leading investors, advisors and financiers - Year - round networking and educational opportunities, including access to valuable research, insights and best practices

Bob Bemis — the former MLS executive hired last year by Zillow to help the company improve its relations with brokers and multiple listing services — has left his position after 18 months, citing frustration in his efforts to obtain direct listing feeds from MLSs on Zillow's behalf.

This could be anything from payroll and accounting to ensure a smooth tax year to marketing or public relations to help grow and manage their advertising efforts.

The letter from the Council (which consists of forty representatives of the region's Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Jewish communities) warned that the SBC's efforts, «however well - intentioned,» might well «disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith - based prejudice.»

He does this in two important respects: the first is in regard to the standoff between the attempts to show that theology engages the whole person because it is something «subjective» and personal and the attempts to show that it does so because it is something «objective» and public; and the second is in regard to efforts to replace the picture of theology as a movement from theory to practice by new pictures of the relation between theory and practice.

It is after doing what is commanded, when everything has been done in the sphere of human decisions and means, when in terms of the relation to God every effort has been made to know the will of God and to obey it, when in the arena of life there has been full acceptance of all responsibilities and interpretations and commitments and conflicts, it is then and only then that the judgment takes on meaning: all this (that we had to do) is useless; all this we cast from us to put it in thy hands, O Lord; all this belongs no more to the human order but to the order of thy kingdom.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

It is the intent of this essay to bring together resources from psychology and ontology in an effort to clarify the relation of faith and reason.

If in fact God's relation to all persons is structurally identical, then the hypothesis arising from the effort to understand Jesus is undercut.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

Patty Rundall, of the British Baby Milk Action, a group that advocates for breastfeeding, and who also represents the Baby Feeding Law Group, which advocates for laws controlling marketing of infant formulas, sends this most interesting article from The Independent about the latest efforts by Nestlé (really, no relation) to prevent the UK Health Department from enforcing marketing restrictions on infant formulas.

The 10 page paper entitled, «International Cooperation in Relation to Tecnical Assistance: The Nigerian Experience», gave detailed account of efforts by the Commission at tracing and recovering all stolen treasures from the country's coffers.

All efforts to get confirmation from the Police Public Relations Officer of Borno State Command, Mr. Victor Isuku, proved abortive as his phone lines were inaccessible at press time.

While there's no apparent effort to force him out, Johnson may be sick of the gig and ready to be replaced after nearly 25 years on the job — and after a torrent of criticism of his low conviction rate and his poor relations with the NYPD for declining to prosecute cases that arise from certain types of stop and frisks, sources told the News.

«Losing Navarro at this critical time will hamper the countless efforts to reduce crime, lose momentum in implementing strategic crime prevention initiatives and damage already repaired police - community relations,» reads a letter sent to the department from dozens of community residents.

It mixes practical measures for protecting vultures with public relations efforts aimed at transforming vultures from symbols of doom to icons of the environment.

In fact, radicalization scholars have found that some extremist groups actively seek out harsh penalties from criminal justice agencies and governments, in an effort to exploit perceived overreactions for a public relations advantage that also aids their recruitment efforts.

A case has been made that the absence of effective governmental leadership is related to the effect of special interests on policy, as well as to public relations efforts by organizations that profit from the public's addiction to fossil fuels [237], [250].

Future research examining age in relation to people's attitudes toward, involvement in, and experiences with Internet romance would benefit from efforts to obtain more diverse samples and from more focused examinations of the broader socioeconomic contexts in which their samples are located.

While my reservations for Yates» final chapter stem from its positioning in relation to his previous efforts, Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is a notable achievement in commercial moviemaking and a pretty solid rebuke to the current Hollywood system of assembly - line blockbusters.

Though I can't prove a causal relation, I do think that the system discourages reform - minded people from running for the board and, should they win a seat, defeats their best efforts to improve things.

The union had opposed the district's effort to test changes to the system without negotiating the changes in teacher workload that came with it, and it unsuccessfully sought an injunction from the state Public Employment Relations Board to stop the program in 2011.

School administrators value good community relations, but achieving this objective requires concerted effort from all school staff.

It is necessary for LAUSD magnet high schools to put more effort into achieving racial integration so that students who attend these schools can benefit from integration and so that racial relations in society may be improved.

Meléndez is the highest ranking official from the Department of Education to ever address the Federal Relations Conference, and while NAESP's priorities are not always reflected in the Department of Education's proposals, we appreciate this department's outreach efforts and willingness to invite organizations such as ours to the discussion table.

The book will be supported by a major marketing effort from www.JohnSculley.com and a comprehensive public relations campaign.

A bizarre story indeed, but it wraps up the last of NTR's debt «issues»... and we're already seeing better market sentiment, and a renewed investor relations effort & much - improved results from the company ever since.

She describes the challenges of outdoor colony care through harsh Chicago winters, the time and effort that goes into completing a successful and safe relocation, neighbor relations in a range of communities, the vacuum effect that results when cats are removed from an area, and many other topics that arise when working with community cats.

Working with veterinary officers from across our member organizations, the Veterinary Relations Committee works to develop partnerships with professional veterinary bodies and to help further our education efforts regarding the positive impacts of pet health insurance on veterinary practice.

Urbanelli came to Montclair from the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, where she increased fundraising efforts and the professional staff, strengthened community relations, and led a successful strategic planning process.

And there are fresh recommendations from the Council on Foreign Relations on the need for meaningful domestic emissions curbs in the United States and continued efforts to make progress both among the established powers and those emerging as this century's giants.

In an e-mail exchange following my visit to the neighborhood nuclear reactors, at Indian Point, Richard Brodsky, a longtime politician from the lower Hudson Valley who is now teaching at New York University, described his concerns about the agency, in relation to efforts by Entergy Corporation to relicense this plant.

Another veteran climatologist, John Michael Wallace of the University of Washington, sees a similar message in extreme events in relation to the background push from greenhouse gases, but says efforts to demonstrate that today's heat waves are driven substantially by greenhouse heating can be a damaging distraction.

Below is a note sent to me by Vic Svec, who you heard from here earlier in the year in relation to efforts by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, a rising star in the Democratic Party, to deny permits for two proposed coal - burning power plants because of their potential contribution to global warming.

In the meantime, I encourage you to have a look at a fresh nonpartisan analysis and set of recommendations on climate policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, which calls for concrete steps by the United States as well as intensified efforts to build bridges between established and emerging economic powers.

«SoCalGas is proud to support Global Green in this effort to help California meet its air pollution and climate goals by taking methane from organic waste and using it to make renewable natural gas,» said Trisha Muse, community relations director at SoCalGas.

«Public health professionals need to be aware that the «sound science» movement is not an indigenous effort from within the profession to improve the quality of scientific discourse, but reflects sophisticated public relations campaigns controlled by industry executives and lawyers whose aim is to manipulate the standards of scientific proof to serve the corporate interests of their clients.»

«There's been a long process, over the past I would say 10 to 15 years, where China has migrated from a position where they initially saw the U.S.'s requests to have cooperation with China as efforts to derail China's development — to foist the burden of carbon emissions equally on China and the U.S., even though China's, historically and per capita, were way lower,» said Orville Schell, a scholar of Chinese history and director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S. - China Relations.

A case has been made that the absence of effective governmental leadership is related to the effect of special interests on policy, as well as to public relations efforts by organizations that profit from the public's addiction to fossil fuels [237], [250].

> For example, one of the clear resuls from the IPCC effort is that paleoclimate studies offer very little useful information in relation to the determination of climate sensitivity.

While the parade and the thumbs up from Johnson and Gordon (who has already appeared on Planet Green's «Greensburg») are obviously part of a public relations campaign, I fully support the effort.

Here's the best source I've found for tracking the fossil fuel and nuclear public relations efforts which are largely aimed at preventing real CO2 emissions regulations from being put in place:

This means that fossil fuel markets will shrink away to nothing... thus all the public relations efforts, which extend from politicians to grade schools to universities to the TV, radio and newspaper outlets.

John is currently advising a SME in relation to its efforts to extricate itself from an interest rate swap agreement which it was obliged to enter into by its bank.

As you can see from this brief list, a good social media effort by a law school requires involvement from diverse parties (admissions, student services, registrar, career services, alumni relations, marketing / external relations, faculty, IT, and, of course, students).

The Court ruled that the probate court must take into account the father's efforts to reestablish parental rights through the domestic relations court and the mother's attempts to block him from interacting with the children.

METHODS: Recommendations from the special issue were categorized and discussed in relation to the Social - Ecological Model and the... prevention efforts targeting individuals, relationships, communities, and society.