Sentences with phrase «similar federal effort»

Its lean budget — $ 1 million per year over the next 5 years — will likely preclude large - scale studies, but backers hope it will demonstrate the value of publicly funded gun research and perhaps help build support in Congress for a similar federal effort.

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A spokeswoman for Shoppers Drug Mart delivered a similar take in February in its efforts to persuade the federal government to allow pharmacists to sell medical marijuana.

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The Cable Telecommunications Association of New York issued a similar statement on behalf of its members, saying it supports a bipartisan federal effort to address net neutrality.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan thanked the commission for its recommendations and indicated that the department could build on its work to marshal resources from across federal agencies to serve «zones of poverty» through efforts similar to the Promise Neighborhoods grant competition.

With new federal guidance allowing rural schools to replace one requirement of the federal models — as long as that modification meets the original intent and purpose of the grant — states may want to explore improving rural school leadership through efforts similar to those of NW RISE.

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is making similar efforts to clarify its policies and ease lender concerns.

The Americans for the Arts Action Fund will use the funds to educate the US Congress and other decision makers about the value of the arts and arts education to all Americans in every part of our nation and urge them to fully fund the NEA for fiscal year 2018, plus all the other federal cultural agencies and efforts such as the Artist Museum Partnership Act which would allow artists the same tax benefits for donations of their own art as a collector currently gets when gifting a similar work to a museum or educational institution.»

More importantly, the Midwest, in forming their own coalition similar to those in the east and west, puts further pressure on the federal government to match the states» efforts to fight global warming and develop domestic clean technologies.

Increasing the quantity and quality of habitat for pollinators is a major part of this effort — with actions ranging from the construction of pollinator gardens at Federal buildings to the restoration of millions of acres of Federally managed lands and similar actions on private lands.

Furthermore, Art. 90b of the Criminal Code prohibits disparaging the constitutional organs of the German state (the Bundesrat (federal council), the Bundestag (Federal Parliament), the federal government and the federal constitutional court) or similar organs of a federal state «in a manner detrimental to the respect for the state» which «thereby intentionally supports efforts against the continued existence of [Germany] or its constitutional principles&federal council), the Bundestag (Federal Parliament), the federal government and the federal constitutional court) or similar organs of a federal state «in a manner detrimental to the respect for the state» which «thereby intentionally supports efforts against the continued existence of [Germany] or its constitutional principles&Federal Parliament), the federal government and the federal constitutional court) or similar organs of a federal state «in a manner detrimental to the respect for the state» which «thereby intentionally supports efforts against the continued existence of [Germany] or its constitutional principles&federal government and the federal constitutional court) or similar organs of a federal state «in a manner detrimental to the respect for the state» which «thereby intentionally supports efforts against the continued existence of [Germany] or its constitutional principles&federal constitutional court) or similar organs of a federal state «in a manner detrimental to the respect for the state» which «thereby intentionally supports efforts against the continued existence of [Germany] or its constitutional principles&federal state «in a manner detrimental to the respect for the state» which «thereby intentionally supports efforts against the continued existence of [Germany] or its constitutional principles».

Only two weeks after the first video's release, the U.S. Senate took the first of many congressional votes to disqualify Planned Parenthood health centers from eligibility for federal funds; some congressional efforts would have empowered states to take similar action.

«The zeal with which Federal officials carried out policies of discrimination in the early days of the Government's housing effort has not been matched by a similar enthusiasm in carrying out their current legal mandate of equal housing opportunity,» the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights wrote in its assessment of the fifth anniversary of the Fair Housing Act.