Sentences with phrase «rights work as»

Hagan came to law with international human rights work as her goal.

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Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

If done right at work, it can actually be beneficial, rather than being the morale succubus it's known as.

Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and worked as a civil rights lawyer for a small Chicago firm.

Right now you're probably picturing him working as a scientist and wearing a white lab coat at work every day.

When you have a great new business idea or have thought of ways to profit by expanding an existing business, accessing the right finance you need to make the step is as important as making sure your plan works.

New features such as Windows Ink (Microsoft's dedicated set of tools to take advantage of pen peripherals in various apps like Word and the Edge browser), the new Surface Pen itself, and, more recently, Surface Dial (the puck - shaped accessory that works with Windows to add UI elements to select applications) make me think that the Surface Pro has cracked the right formula, and its software will get better as a result.

But stevia can be tricky to work with as it often comes with a bitter aftertaste, and it has taken beverage makers some time to nail down the right recipe to maintain a familiar and sweet cola taste.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

Right now, we're working on some initiatives in the family law field as well as other areas.

5 is a «Best Place to Work» for one simple reason: Our steadfast commitment to hire the right people, treat them as fully - formed adults, and point them toward a common vision of helping others.

Bury points out that a brand name has to work in many contexts — as a URL, a searchable company name and something that sounds right when spoken out loud — and shouldn't be so complicated that you're spelling it out for people.

Chika Oduah — Freelance: Oduah's work has been published in the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, CNN, and many more, and she serves as an outspoken advocate for women's rights in Africa.

Ideal candidates will come with ample resources for both finding such stories online and out in the field, as well as experience working with image rights.

So, work on developing a corporate culture that — as I've said before — tries to «catch employees doing something right,» and rewards dedication and initiative.

Al Gurg says that the Baidu story is a testament to the type of foresight that Dr. Tan has, including his approach to being focused on the scrupulous curation of potential investees to ensure that they are the right fit, as Toubayly explains and adds, «He doesn't go around investing in startups and then seeing which one will work.

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

He has received recognition for his commitment to pro bono legal services, including his work as one of the lead attorneys in a successful federal civil rights lawsuit protecting the voting rights of Georgia citizens.

A woman in Brazil has apparently won the legal right to masturbate at work — frequently — nd to watch porn on her work computer as part of that activity.

Terzi di Sant «Agata, who now works as an Italian diplomat and is affiliated to the euroskeptic, right - wing party Fratelli d'Italia, said the vote could direct inter-relations between Rome and Brussels in a valuable way.

For instance, if we determine that a team will need space to work collaboratively, such as on a set of sofas, then leadership needs to model that it's all right to sit down with a pillow.

Sometimes we find the right chord, and the role of work in your life is as important as it should be, and no more.

So if you're a manager, you have 10 direct reports; those people, they show up for work today just because they had the job yesterday, but you as their manager need to think, «Is that the right person for the next two years?»

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

For two legislative sessions, Indiana Democrats fought the divisive labor measure known as right - to - work.

And as we worked through finding the right land, getting the zoning, getting help from municipalities... the farther we went down that road the clearer it became that the Motorplex was something the market needed.

NeuLion's role boils down to three elements, Wagner said, which are disseminating the actual live - stream of the fight, as well as handling the entire transaction process for customers looking to pay to stream the fight through UFC.TV, Sky Box Office, or one of the other rights holders the company works with.

Pearson began his career as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., where he worked for 23 years, having landed a job with the prestigious firm right after graduating from his MBA program at the University of Virginia.

That's right, as I was working on my Inc. column back in the first half of 2015, I was writing almost everyday on a treadmill.

To this day, I don't always get that part right, but I get it right enough of the time so that we can continue to thrive as a company and enjoy the work we are doing.»

Smith, one of the great philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, wasn't the first to speculate about how economies work, but he's generally thought of as the guy who more or less got it right.

Away from the camera, she is a fashion designer and also works as a women's rights activist for the UN's Women's Political Participation and Leadership programme.

As a founder you focus on first identifying the right investors, then getting introductions and finally working through the funnel with each investor.

In one instance, he got an actress worked up to the point of hysterics and then put the camera right on her as she cried uncontrollably.

It's a word that, here, does not so much connote an actual small - business owner as a feeling — an image of the young worker in the 21st - century gig economy who DJs on the weekends and, while almost certainly doing underpaid and entirely precarious labour, has earned the right to work from her local coffee shop in the slouchy drop - shoulder crewneck of her choice.

To accomplish that, we support physicians and other health care professionals as they work to deliver the right care in the right place for their patients, our members.

Spencer has also said of virtual reality that he sees Scorpio's performance as «very attractive to some of the VR companies that are out there already,» adding that Microsoft has «architected it such that something will be able to plug right in and work.»

Content is the key to earning that right, and LinkedIn wants you sharing as much of your own as possible right inside the network, promising to reward the most well - liked, highest - engaged content by featuring it on its «Pulse» news channels, thus exposing your work to massive audiences you hadn't even dreamed of reaching.

However, as I've experienced myself, if you have the right temperament and you don't mind a little instability at times, you may make even more money and enjoy a greater sense of freedom and control over how much time you devote to work.

As more jobs came in, the Mirzas began hiring enough employees so that at least three translators worked on each job — including brief memos, billboards, or hefty insurance guides — to get the subtleties just right.

Recently, we adopted an amendment to our Constitution which cements our status as a right to work state.

«Our point is that if you are working and you are subject to rules that employees are subject to, then you are also need to have the rights that our legislature has said employees should have as well.»

Even if the hole is exactly as wide and deep as it needs to be, it has to be re-done if it's not in the right place, creating more than double the work for the team because you have to fill in the first hole,» Jerkewitz explains.

When I was walking around in these, it occurred to me that these are ideal shoes for people who travel for work, as you'd be able to go from running up and down airport concourses right into meetings, without worrying about getting blisters or tired feet.

The symbolism of turning Michigan into a right - to - work state is strong because it is the home of the U.S. auto industry and the place where autoworkers first began to demand better wages and working conditions in the assembly line automotive plants built by industrial barons such as Henry Ford in the 1920s.

Those skills paid off handsomely for the first - term Republican this week as Governor Rick Snyder signed into law bills co-sponsored by Colbeck that ban mandatory union membership, making Michigan the nation's 24th right - to - work state.

Snyder, a former computer executive who had campaigned as a moderate in the 2010 election, had said for nearly two years that right - to - work was too divisive for Michigan, but said he would sign a law if the legislature passed it.

Londoño's extradition comes as the center - right administration of Argentina President Mauricio Macri works to improve ties with the US after an at - time frosty relationship between Washington and Macri's predecessor, leftist President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Michigan's state legislature is expected to give final approval as early as Tuesday to new laws making it a «right - to - work» state despite protests from thousands of unionized workers.