Sentences with phrase «several citizen groups»

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Several Cary homeowners and members of the Citizens for a Better Community, an activist group, told the board that they still back the effort to acquire the property and preserve it as open space.

According to Al Ahram, the Brotherhood had given Qatar a number of assurances in exchange for Doha's generosity including «technical support» for the Syrian opposition, the rotation — possibly to a Qatari citizen — of the Arab League Secretary General post, and «Egyptian approval of Qatari nominees on behalf of the Arab group in several international and regional forums».

Interest in this year's European Parliamentary elections has been growing steadily: citizens» groups and political organisations started organising election panels and public debates by January — several...

The Citizens Budget Commission, a nonprofit financial watchdog group, in a report last week, predicted that even with the planned fare increases, the MTA stands to post budget deficits in the hundreds of millions of dollars in the next several years without a new revenue stream to fund the subway plan.

For the past several months a dedicated group of our fellow citizens have volunteered their time and talents to review our charter and suggest improvements.

The group Rush Citizens Concerned About Hydrofracking has been pushing for the moratorium for several months.

Bannon is intent on unseating Flake, and David Bossie, the president's 2016 deputy campaign manager and the president of the influential conservative group Citizens United, has embarked on an effort to recruit several potential primary challengers, including former Rep. Matt Salmon.

There are several other challenges to that decision still pending in federal court, however, from citizens groups, the city of Oneida and the towns of Vernon and Verona.

A meeting was called of citizen groups and individuals in early 2002 as a result of shared problems and concerns regarding the approval of several solid waste and hazardous waste landfills by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) in 2001 and 2002.

There are several versions of NAEP intended to sample different groups of students — the nation as a whole, individual states, or large cities — but its overall goal is to provide citizens a snapshot of how we're doing as a country.

I have seen several articles advocating the benefits of bringing in senior citizens to read with young children, a major benefit for both age groups.

In the books featured in this article, poets represent the struggle of enslaved peoples for freedom, the fight of citizens for equal rights, and the search for personal and political identity, all across the span of several generations, cultural groups, and geographic locales.

The organization was formed by a group of concerned citizens with several years of experience in animal rescue.

ADLA was a member group of several citizens» ballot measure coalitions that banned cockfighting in 1998 and prohibited the inhumane confinement of farm animals in industrial agriculture operations in 2006.

Environmental and citizen groups have launched numerous legal challenges, and successfully stalled development of several coal projects.

AUGUSTA — After several years of trying, a group of citizens from the state's rural Unorganized Territories (UT) have won their fight to pass legislation that could give them greater say in the siting of large, industrial wind turbines in their communities.

In a decision that strikes a blow against the federal government's controversial practice of excluding industry from consent decrees with environmental citizen groups, a practice known as «sue - and - settle,» the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's approval of a consent decree between a coalition of environmental groups and several federal agencies in Conservation Northwest v. Sherman, No. 11 - 35729 (9th Cir.

The plaintiffs in the case, which include several environmental groups and four western U.S. municipalities, argue that the federally supported projects — including oil drilling, pipelines, and commercial power plants — contribute to global warming, which in turn affects U.S. economic interests and its citizens.

Naomi Schalit — Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting — July 2, 2015 AUGUSTA — After several years of trying, a group of citizens from the state's rural Unorganized Territories (UT) have won their fight to pass legislation that could give them greater say in the siting of large, industrial wind turbines in their communities.