Sentences with phrase «series of actions taken»

Mr. Goldman's letter, which calls for President Bongo to overturn Ona's sentence, is the most recent in a series of actions taken by the Goldman Prize calling for justice for Mr. Ona.

PROCESSES are series of actions taken by institutions to ensure that resources are used effectively.

Under a series of actions taken over the past year and a half by the New York State Board of Regents, the body that oversees P - 12 education, higher education, and teacher certification, the doors have been opened for nonuniversity programs to prepare teachers at the graduate - degree level.

«The declining rates are clearly connected to a series of actions taken by the U.S. government to make it progressively more difficult for people to enter the country,» says Victor Johnson of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, which released its own survey last week showing similar trends.

As we've already outlined, your digital strategy is the series of actions you take to help you achieve your overarching marketing goal.

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Executive coaching is a process between an individual senior manager and a coach in which the coach helps the manager in a series of meetings to think through key issues at work, and then to take decisive, confident and reasoned action.

The problem is, they don't have a concrete plan of action or a series of steps that would take them from where they currently are to where they wish to be.

That's when «you take a series of actions that ensure you don't get applications from people of color,» he said.

[5] This action was not taken in a vacuum: It followed a series of earlier US complaints to the WTO against the EU and UK and ensuing counterclaims aimed at conserving duties on steel.

By that definition, your strategy document should map out the series of actions you're going to take to achieve your goals, based on your research to this point.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently took a series of actions confirming views expressed late last year by CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad that» [d] erivatives contracts based on a virtual currency represent one area within [the CFTC's] responsibilities.

Thankfully, it is not only the government realizing the extent of the porn epidemic but churches are starting to take action by providing small group studies and recovery programs, like the Conquer Series, that are designed to break the cycle of pornography and provide sexual discipleship.

It struck me as unfortunate that it took an expensive series of hearings following a number of unfortunate social traumas for such combined action to take place.

While Bunnings» recent Homebase acquisition is under the spotlight following a series of negative reports from Merrill Lynch, action sports retailers Billabong International and SurfStitch may have more to be worried about as UK consumer spending takes a dive.

Brenham, TX — Blue Bell Creameries, the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry have entered into voluntary agreements outlining a series of steps and actions Blue Bell will take as part of its efforts to bring Blue Bell Ice Cream products back to market.

Team Sernick enters their 2nd stint in the All Sports Series Playoffs and they will take on the newcomers Team Herzog who are getting their first piece of All Sports Series» Playoff action.

On another parenting forum I was on, one of the mothers had come up with a series of steps to get cooperation using the phrase «you need to ~», with the idea that it encouraged children to take responsibility for their actions.

Pressure mounted for Fox News to take action against its top - rated host, Bill O'Reilly, as a series of prominent companies pulled advertising from his show and a leading women's rights group called for his ouster.

Cuomo promised record transparency when he took office in 2011, but through a series of actions he has tightly centralized and restricted the release of information from state agencies, pushed for the automatic deletion of email records after 90 days and once sent aides to screen records that reporters requested from the State Archives.

Over a million public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.

«The proposed implementation delay of two more years, on top of seven years of work undertaken already, is the latest in a series of cost - avoidance actions taken in regard to this high need and grossly underserved group of children,» Nayowith wrote.

«Whether it is business attraction and expansion, creating affordable housing, expanding our cultural footprint or enhancing Jamaica's livability, today's action plan presents a series of specific steps the City will take to unleash the potential for the betterment of all who live, work and visit the area.»

I've worked with the FSA, the European Commission, the Co-op and Lloyds to facilitate this deal and it is one of a series of actions we have taken to open up a banking market that became less and less competitive whilst Labour were in office.

In return, Joseph Percoco took a series of actions intended to benefit CPV, prosecutors say — namely, he helped it secure emission reduction credits and tried to help it obtain the lucrative power - purchase agreement.

Mr. Silver was convicted on charges that he had obtained nearly $ 4 million in illicit payments in return for taking a series of official actions that benefited others.

Cuomo's public announcement came at a Monday rally for a statewide, $ 15 minimum wage, and is the latest in a series of executive actions that Cuomo has taken to that end.

He was convicted of a felony for taking the illicit payments in return for taking a series of official actions that benefited others.

In the same series of tweets, Trump suggested that people hurt financially by a reporting error made by ABC News» Brian Ross should take legal action.

Through these actions and the related intensive series of meetings that have taken place with those who administer to the Chinese scientists, EMBO has developed a useful expertise in the area.

What are the series of actions that you're going to take as a result of that declaration?»

«A summary of the panel's report, published today by the European Commission, says a series of «corrective actions» needs to be taken in HBP's governance, the way it collaborates, and its communication.»

To find out, they asked people from a sample of 987 diverse participants recruited through Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform to think about either the pride they would feel after taking pro-environmental actions or the guilt they would feel for not doing so, just before making a series of decisions related to the environment.

A series of recent reports by NSF's internal watchdog highlighting spending irregularities by NEON Inc. drew congressional scrutiny and generated pressure on NSF to take action.

She anticipates a series of regulatory reform bills that will require more analysis from the agency before it can take any action like restricting chemicals.

A player with suspected concussion is now taken off the pitch for a series of cognition, balance and memory tests; if the player passes they can return to the action after just 5 minutes.

The report, which included a recommendation on advancing regenerative cellular therapies, proposed a series of viable legislative actions that Congress could take to help streamline the process by which safe and effective medical products are developed and delivered to patients.

«Reach for the Peaks» is the newest addition to The Prouty Challenge event series, a series of athletic events which brings people together to take action in the fight against cancer.

Unfortunately, thinking of healthy living as a series of sacrifices you need to make in your day - to - day life will never empower you to take action!

Business Shareholders of Exxon Mobil and Chevron have voted to reject a series of resolutions aimed at encouraging the companies to take stronger actions to battle climate change.

It seems, in retrospect, that a film adaptation was the natural course of action for WB to take, especially given that they owned the property outright thanks to a series of corporate mergers during the 1970s.

A gorgeous looking, content - heavy slice of space shooting action with a deep plot, set in a lore filled universe that has taken years to mature during a decade since the Galaxy on Fire series premiered in the mobile market.

Adapted from the Vertigo comic book series comes The Losers, an action movie about a group of badass ex-CIA black ops operatives who go on a rogue mission to take down the corrupt individual who tried to kill them.

 Trine 2 takes the first game's beloved triad - the powerful knight, the swift rogue, and the crafty wizard - and puts them into an all - new adventure filled with more action, more puzzles, and the introduction of online support for the series's popular cooperative 3 - person gameplay.

If the look of these screens puts you in mind of arcade actioners like Gauntlet Legends, that's because developer WayForward Technologies has openly stated it'll be taking a more action - oriented tack when it launches the series on Vita.

What was once a short burst of action in an uneasy novel becomes a sharp deconstruction of storytelling that takes the series right back to its reality TV roots.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

This electrifying series takes us out of the action in Hell's Kitchen and places us in the rich, vibrant neighborhood of Harlem.

But before he lets his staff at Kojima Productions take over, he wanted to reinvent the series and make it a contender against Western action games — V instead of 5, as in Victory.

But it left a lot of lingering questions for those familiar with the series fearful of what originally appeared to be a «Westernized» take on the complicated action - RPG.

By the end of the month, Tambor had released a statement loosely apologizing for his actions, and that statement also included what many took to be a resignation from the series: «Given the politicized atmosphere that seems to have afflicted our set,» he said, «I don't see how I can return to Transparent.»