Sentences with phrase «said the program aims»

Rob Adams, the program's director, said the program aimed to be a «central clearinghouse for helping entrepreneurs transform ideas and technologies developed on campus into start - ups.»

Steyn said the program aims to build infrastructure that is a critical and important step to its plan to jointly develop and integrate an on - demand network of autonomous vehicles.

Youth Theater Director Kristin Parry said the program aims to expose homeschooled children to the arts and was launched during the second semester of the 2016 - 17 school year, drawing 28 students.

In a recent article on law.com, Ford & Harrison's managing partner said the program aims to close the practical - skills gap of law school education and increase value to clients, and hopefully enable associates to handle meatier matters more quickly.

RAV Cranbourne Centre Manager, Mario Avice said the program aimed to strengthen father / child bonds and develop confidence in the men as positive role models; while offering informal clinical support and a conduit to other family relationship services, such as counselling.

Not exact matches

Still, Roth says she plans to roll out a more affordable one - day program aimed at people traveling through Europe or for local Finnish women.

Taylor said the Assistant Coaches Program, one of several league initiatives aimed at finding former players work, was established to help players fine - tune their skills, make connections, and, hopefully, find work on the other side of the ball.

That measure would be aimed at making it more difficult for employers like low - wage fast - food restaurants to access the program, the stakeholders say.

She said a decade - old U.S. program aimed at automating customs barely does anything as a result of this.

Friese said they range from large shows to smaller events aimed at a specific group within the industry, as well as sponsored award programs.

Starbucks says it aims to donate 100 % of what is left over at participating outposts, estimating it will be able to donate almost 5 million meals at the end of its first year participating in the FoodShare program.

US technology industry officials said they expected the Trump administration's list to target products that benefit from Beijing's «Made in China 2025» program, which aims to upgrade the country's domestic manufacturing base with more advanced products.

«This program denies ride requests to fraudulent users who are violating our terms of service — whether that's people aiming to physically harm drivers, competitors looking to disrupt our operations, or opponents who collude with officials on secret «stings» meant to entrap drivers,» the company said.

It needs more places, Professor Schreuder says, and is aiming for 20,000 students, with significant growth expected also in professional masters and PhD programs.

Throughout the 1980s and 90s, it was kind of a «scared straight» meets «just say no» program aimed at kids.

Robinson said they aimed to focus the program on «our communities, our «under - served» communities,» and that the entrepreneurship grant would also go toward financial literacy training.

Microsoft already been targeting startups through the Startup Zone (and related programs such as the Startup Accelerator), but Lewin says that was aimed at venture - backed companies with global ambitions.

Siemens AG, the German industrial giant, said Sunday that it will have cut a total of about 15,000 jobs world - wide by the end of the next business year, defining for the first time the scope of the reductions it plans under a two - year restructuring program aimed at boosting profits.

«Our aim is to complete a program that would normally take four years and do it in half the time, while still doing it right,» said Dag Reckhorn, Vice President of Global Manufacturing at Faraday Future.

As well as missing revenue forecasts, Alibaba announced a $ 4 billion share repurchase program over two years, which it said was primarily aimed at offsetting the impact of the company's share - based compensation programs and other factors that could dilute the share price.

Training programs still continue to be focused on finding, probing, presenting, and the likes all aimed at persuading a buyer to hear what a company has to say.

The SBA says their aim for this program is «to ensure that qualified small business exporters do not lose viable export sales due to a lack of working capital.»

But before attempting an answer, I should say that I understand «ideology» pejoratively as «the integrated assertions, theories and aims constituting a politico - social program,... with an implication of factitious propagandizing...» (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary).

Federal programmers said poverty had structural causes, yet the main aim of antipoverty programs was to enhance the skills of the poor, not to recast society.

«In our continued efforts to enhance and develop our staff, Hi - Lo offers a management trainee program aimed at attracting highly ambitious and talented personnel both externally and internally to become the future managers of Hi - Lo Food Stores nationwide,» the company says.

The programs, aimed at teenagers and adults, are a first for the district, said Robert Penn, general superintendent of the parks.

Because CHA basketball leagues are aimed at their residents, Park District officials say they realized there was an interest in such a program well outside the boundaries of public housing.

In response to written questions, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegetables.

This gives parents more dignity and flexibility than programs like food stamps, which are aimed at the poor, he said.

Offered from 3 to 6 p.m., the program also aims to meet the needs of working parents by providing constructive, safe activities for their children after school, officials said.

The aim of all the programs is to teach parents how to treat children positively, «and in so doing prevent child abuse,» said Anne Gormly, who was chairwoman of the board of Champions for Children when Mr. McEwen became executive director.

DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican who has been at odds with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said he spoke with Democratic Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle during the Legislature's break this month on the bill aimed at enhancing oversight to the governor's key economic development programs.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie called the effort to strengthen oversight of economic development programs «an admirable goal» but said a measure aimed at expanding the authority of Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will first be aired with his Democratic conference members.

Cutting nearly $ 1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their needs, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administration.

A top - ranking Suffolk County police official said she is proud of the arrests the department won't have to make and the crimes it won't have to solve — thanks to more than a dozen police programs aimed at keeping kids safe and out of trouble.

In New York, the Seneca Strong program aims to help rehabilitate people with drug addictions by reaching out to them through peers, fellow Seneca Nation members who have experienced addiction and are in recovery, Colburn said.

Joe Seeman, a MoveOn organizer from Saratoga County, said the protest was aimed at defeating Buerkle in the November election and preserving the Affordable Care Act, the health care program passed under the Obama administration.

The resolution took direct aim at Cuomo's recently announced program to offer free college courses to inmates in the state's prison system, which the governor has said he would implement through executive order.

(CNN)- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday he plans to pull his state out of the Common Core academic standards, announcing an executive order aimed at blocking the testing program in the state.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has said he would not back an extension of the program that includes measures aimed at bolstering charter schools.

The next phase of the state's Buffalo Billion program — aiming to kickstart projects like Metro Rail extensions and Outer Harbor development — stands merely a 50 - 50 chance of success of getting through the Legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a visit to the Queen City.

But as for the program's original aim of diversifying the legislature's racial, gender and socioeconomic makeup, the results are inconclusive, he said.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday that $ 18.5 million in state funding approved earlier this month will expand Long Island programs aimed at cutting off MS - 13's gang recruitment as he marked the anniversary of the slayings of four young men in Central Islip.

We aim to be truly universal,» said Denise Ferrara, associate director of Middle Country's universal pre-K program.

She also took aim at the broad set of tax breaks called Start - Up NY, saying that the program uses SUNY campuses to create benefits for corporate shareholders, even as support of those campuses is gutted.

Member of the M / WBE team and State Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson said, «New York's M / WBE program aims to level the playing field for women and minority - owned businesses, and this task force will help guarantee a more equitable and successful state procurement process.

State Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson says the program called Health Homes, is aimed at the people who have the most complex Medicaid charts.

As the corps considers public comment on the new permit, Pew is spotlighting living shorelines across the country, said Laura Lightbody, program director for the foundation's efforts aimed at reducing the impact of weather - related catastrophes, such as floods and hurricanes, on the U.S. economy, communities and environment.

For a physician, Broussard said the value of a training program is lessons in research methods and thinking scientifically, and learning to ask whether the story in your project and funding application makes sense and has logically supported specific aims.

One novel approach is akin to a Fitbit for language, said Caitlin Molina, executive director of Providence Talks, a program that aims to close the word gap citywide.