Sentences with phrase «several major efforts»

During his time at Parent Revolution, he has played key roles in several major efforts, including the parent empowerment campaigns at West Athens Elementary, 20th Street Elementary, and Weigand Avenue Elementary.

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Cuomo has made a number of public appearances across the state, continuing to promote economic development efforts, just as he did before U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged several of Cuomo's former close associates and two major real estate developers with bribery and fraud in connection with the Buffalo Billion and other projects.

One of Ernst's major public - facing efforts for the past several years has been partnering with the Centers for Disease Control to develop Kidenga, a community - based surveillance mobile app to help detect mosquito - borne disease in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California, and provide users with the latest information on their area.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

From the Human Genome Project, we have learned that teamwork really pays off when it comes to scientific discovery,» said Dr. Collins, who noted that over the past five years, the MIT, Washington University and Baylor centers were major participants in the highly successful public effort to sequence, assemble and analyze the genomes of the human and several other organisms commonly used in biomedical research.

Instead of getting pulled out in several directions, they make their partner a major priority and make more efforts to stay closer.

This isn't a major Dante effort, but his ability to make a good - natured satire that allows an audience to read it several ways at once is as strong as ever, and many of the sidelong genre notations are especially funny.

The only answer one can take away from Five Came Back, a somewhat choppy but unavoidably fascinating documentary about five major Hollywood directors who, after Pearl Harbor, left house and home and handsome salaries to spend several years in uniform making documentaries for the U.S. war effort, is yes.

It is a place where several major reform efforts are going on at once, making it a good prism for viewing school choice.

A meta - analysis conducted by Marzano, Waters, and McNulty (2005) found that several promotion - focused behaviors among school leadership are linked to higher levels of student achievement, including (1) serving as a change agent (challenging the status quo and leading efforts that have uncertain outcomes); (2) demonstrating flexibility (being comfortable with major changes and dissent); and (3) being an optimizer (encouraging innovation by portraying a positive attitude about teachers» ability to achieve what may seem to be beyond their grasp).

It also builds on the disaster assistance efforts President Obama approved in the last several days, including major disaster declarations, which make federal assistance - like these emergency relief funds - available to supplement state and local response and recovery efforts.

Intel has revised and revisited its mobile strategy several times in the last decade, but regardless of their efforts they have yet to see any real adoption from major handset and tablet vendors.

In June 2013, several major authors, though, announced they stand with libraries as part of a new effort called Authors for Library Ebooks.

Called an an effort to «optimize the work of all major libraries,» Russia's plan to merge digital collections of several libraries is seeing resistance.

So, faced with disruptive eBook technology that threatened their inefficient and antiquated business model, several major book publishers, working with Apple Inc. («Apple»), decided free market competition should not be allowed to work — together they coordinated their activities to fight back in an effort to restrain trade and retard innovation.

This denial comes in the wake of decisions recently made by federal judges in Vermont and California to block carmakers» attempts to strike down state tailpipe regulations; no doubt the lobbying efforts of several major companies, including Ford and Chrysler, helped «influence» Johnson's decision.In denying the waiver, Johnson chose to completely disregard the opinions of his staff who had recommended that he either approve it or authorize it for a trial period before reassessing it.

The e-mail exchanges among several prominent American and British climate - change scientists appear to reveal efforts to keep the work of skeptical scientists out of major journals and the possible hoarding and manipulation of data to overstate the case for human - caused climate change.

Koch has been identified in several published reports as a major financial supporter of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound in its efforts to stop the Cape Wind project.

Andrew worked to develop and enact the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act, as well as several major legislative and administrative efforts that supported deployment of the state's first 180 MW of wind power.

A recent Canadian radio appearance by Berkeley Earth founder Richard Muller has shed additional light on the role of Charles Koch, a major funder of the Berkeley Earth effort (and arguably the top funder of climate contrarians over the last several years).

Regulation Bangladesh — one of the few countries presently attempting to enforce a ban on cryptocurrency trading and use — has announced that several major state institutions will begin ramping up efforts to crack...

Samsung is set to play a major part in 5G deployment efforts in the United States following a number of lucrative deals it made with several wireless carriers in the country.

Managed all aspects of the documentation effort for several major applications, including decision support, registration and scheduling, as the sole writer in a fast - moving, dynamic development environment.