Sentences with phrase «scourge across»
The deals he and the legislative leaders struck earlier this week included a package of efforts to combat opioid and heroin addiction, a growing scourge across the state; a push to expand access to mammograms and other methods of breast - cancer detection; and an agreement on improving safety at rail crossings, which carried all the political excitement of, well, rail crossings.
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Perhaps most remarkable is the collective imagination of students across the United States, who dared to take on a challenge that their parents, aunts, and uncles had all but abandoned: stopping the scourge of gun violence.
«Heroin and opioid addiction is a terrible scourge that is devastating too many lives and families across New York State and directly impacting the 49th Senate District.
Cuomo, meanwhile, also plans to target the gang MS - 13, which in the interview Sunday morning called a «scourge all across the country.»
As Attorney General, I vow to partner with law enforcement, advocates, healthcare professionals, and experts across the state to put a stop to heroin's deadly scourge.»
As I've mentioned were working very closely with India on counterterrorism and we will work with all nations across the world to counter this scourge.»
He said the essence of the press briefing today aside giving account of efforts of the State Government in the one year, it was also a means to send a strong message across that the government would not relent until the scourge is completely stamped out.
In 2004, he started a quiet campaign to drum up funding to fight the scourge, which had continued on a global track predicted to take it across the fertile crescent and into Southern Asia.
Valerie Strauss offers comments on her blog today from teacher and SOS march initiator Anthony Cody and Parents Across America co-founder Rita Solnet on the need for an alliance between teachers and parents to stop the twin scourges of high - stakes testing and privatization that is destroying public education in the US.
Set across a handful of multiplayer modes and maps, it charts the resurrection of various dinosaur species and measures taken by an elite squad of specialist hunters to combat this prehistoric scourge.
Then they can focus on supporting our most powerful energy sources — coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro - power — in order to end the scourge of energy poverty that afflicts over one billion people across the world.»
However, the most prominent form of slavery — at any rate in Britain — is the widespread scourge of trafficking of women across national borders for sexual exploitation or for forced labour.
«Since Congress has failed the American people by ignoring the deadly scourge of gun violence, since we have failed the families of Stoneman Douglas just like we failed the families of Sandy Hook and Columbine and so many others, we owe it to students and teachers across the country to at least give them tools to help them identify dangerous behavior,» he said.
I say to our lawmakers: If you can't do something about this disgraceful scourge of gun violence in our schools and across our country, you should not hold public office.