Sentences with phrase «spearheading efforts on»

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

She has spearheaded efforts on the Know Your H2O campaign, and assisted with the No Border Sewage campaign.

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Johnson, who is «very bullish» on the future of cryptocurrency, has spearheaded research efforts in crypto at both Jump Trading and Jump Capital to help understand the nascent market.

Veghte had been spearheading the company's effort to split into two businesses, one focused on selling data center gear to companies and the other centered on selling printers and personal computers.

In an announcement on Monday, Facebook became part of a $ 14 - million effort called the News Integrity Initiative that is spearheaded by Craigslist founder and journalism advocate Craig Newmark.

The Organic Trade Association has spearheaded and underwritten two significant studies on organic trade in its effort to build a sound set of data for organic stakeholders and policymakers when they make their business decisions and design policy.

Two trade industry experts join forces with three key players in the supply chain to spearhead this engaging discussion on driving climate action, focusing on how the Climate Collaborative can support efforts to engage everyone that touches your...

The effort was spearheaded by a task force recommendation more than a decade ago to capitalize on the bike trail's passage through Batavia.

Aborn, the former Brady Campaign president, is credited with spearheading the effort to include the original ban on large - capacity magazines in the assault weapons ban.

(CNN)- Despite a disappointing showing by Republican Senate candidates on Election Day, the man who spearheaded the GOP Senate election effort is poised to take the number two position in the party's leadership behind Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, several GOP aides told CNN.

She is a consistent advocate for Smart Growth and environmental sustainability and has long spearheaded efforts to reduce the town's dependence on fossil fuels.

For the record, McKeon isn't just «supporting the current attorney general» for governor, he is spearheading the group «GOPers for Cuomo ``, which entails rounding up Republicans like himself to endorse the Democratic frontrunner and keeping political reporters up to date on his efforts.

The drumbeat over the controversial Caithness II power plant, proposed for construction in Yaphank, continues, with Republican Sen. Tom Croci spearheading an effort to get Gov. Andrew Cuomo to intervene in favor of the project with PSEG Long Island, which has put it on ice — along with any other new plants — indefinitely.

California and New York — where almost 1 in 5 Americans live — are on their way to raising their minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, and the activists who spearheaded those efforts are now setting their sights on other similarly liberal, Democratic - led states.

Read went on to spearhead an effort to abolish four departments this summer as part of an austerity budget.

At Manhattan office of NY Constitution.org, people are spearheading an effort to urge state voters in November to vote yes on the question of whether to hold a constitutional convention.

As the former chair of Economic Development, I spearheaded the effort for $ 1 million of county money to be used on water / sewer for the Kings Highway corridor.

State Assembly Member Linda Rosenthal and State Senator Brad Hoylman are spearheading the effort to bring their fellow legislators on board to demand that Governor Cuomo veto Port Ambrose.

In particular, Bergin was recognized for spearheading a public - engagement campaign on Dublin's rapid - transit system (the DART)-- an effort to generate interest in science and science careers.

Janet Brown was the director of OOS and along with William Carey, the AAAS Executive Officer, spearheaded the initial efforts on handicapped issues at AAAS.

Indonesia pledges to halt deforestation The effort, spearheaded by Norway and France, is designed to be an interim foundation for the formal strategy that would eventually be folded into the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change process.

He has spearheaded Mindful's community - building efforts within the mindfulness movement for the past five years, and is currently on the Advisory Board of the Center for Mindfulness at UMass, and the Boards of Directors of the Mind Fitness Training Institute (MFTI) and the Institute for Mindful Leadership.

Zero Dark Thirty (R for profanity, disturbing images and graphic violence) War on Terror docudrama, directed by Oscar - winner Kathryn Bigelow (for The Hurt Locker), chronicling the efforts of the CIA Agent (Jessica Chastain) spearheading the decade - long hunt for Osama bin Laden (Ricky Sekhon) culminating in his death during a daring, nighttime assault on his compound in Pakistan.

Announced in March, the project - which is spearheaded by acting titans Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks - is based on a true story in which journalists working for The Washington Post in 1971 raced to expose a massive cover - up of government secrets that spanned three decades, an effort that endangers their own freedom.

On Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix, the Gates Foundation released the third and final component of the Measuring Effective Teachers project, a gargantuan effort spearheaded by Harvard economist Thomas Kane.

We're encouraged by this emphasis on quality teacher preparation, and appreciate the work of our partners from the National Board in spearheading this effort.»

Currently, Digital Promise (an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization originally authorized by Congress in 2008) is spearheading a national effort to develop what it calls an «ecosystem» of microcredentials or digital badges for educators, all of them competency - based, on demand, personalized, and easily displayed on one's web site or CV.

Her career spans from time as a front line bilingual adolescent crisis counselor, with La Raza Consortium, to spearheading national think tank efforts in education equity and social justice on the boards of Grantmakers for Education, the National Equity Project, and the National Coalition for Community Schools.

With few employees and a strong cadre of community volunteers spearheading a grassroots effort to secure funding and build our mission, our small group of social workers and educators worked largely on a local level in the Puget Sound region.

IAPSS thanks the AASA Advocacy team headed by Noelle Ellerson for their diligent efforts on Capitol Hill for spearheading a federal budget that adverted disaster for many services to our most needy students.

But adding play back into kindergarten after years of focusing on test scores is not always easy for teachers and principals, says Eva Phillips, the district's Ready Schools coordinator, who has helped Oates spearhead the effort.

«We know that TasteBook's half - a-million members are avid cookbook collectors who heavily rely on print cookbooks as tools and for inspiration,» said Lilly Kim, Associate Director, Digital Channel Development, who has spearheaded TasteBook efforts at Random House.

Sony Japan has been spearheading the design efforts and the Sony DPT team in the United States has offered feedback on what their business customers need.

The U.S. Treasury and Labor Departments will ask for public comment as soon as next week on ways to promote the conversion of 401 (k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams, according to Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Iwry, who are spearheading the effort.

The Humane Society will offer the public waived adoption fees on Saturday, July 23, as part of the nationwide initiative, spearheaded by NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations in an effort to find new homes for homeless pets.

She has experience with that kind of organizing going back to her work on TNR in Massachusetts in the early 1990s, when she founded a humane society that spearheaded TNR efforts in several towns.

She spearheaded the effort to protect this rain forest and continues to conduct important research at her on - site field station.

Dr. Downs is in charge of Emergency Medicine at Wilcox Hospital and spearheaded the effort to install rescue tube stations on our beaches.

Moving on to programming positions, Capps explained that he also spearheads the recruitment efforts at Epic Games.

At EA, Schappert helped spearhead the effort to boost the company's digital business through games for mobile devices, as well as social games on Facebook.

A spirited lobbying effort in Washington over the summer, spearheaded by a New York gallery and a group of committed artists, has apparently succeeded in staving off a total ban on the use of cadmium paints in the United States.

-- The United States Geological Survey Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative is spearheading efforts to develop a nationwide monitoring program so that if the pathogen does land on these shores, we'll be able to detect it and respond.

Scientist Who Spearheaded Attacks on Global Warming Science Also Directed $ 45 Million Tobacco Industry Effort to Hide Health Impacts of Smoking Former National Academy of Sciences President Admits Being Paid $ 585,000 by Tobacco Companies.

As part of this effort, Under Secretary Tara Sonenshine, our Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, is spearheading a global outreach campaign which we will launch December 4th on Wildlife Conservation Day.

MARLBOROUGH (Ulster County)-- In an effort to spearhead protection of Ulster County's famous «fruit belt,» Scenic Hudson has purchased voluntary conservation restrictions on two parcels of a multigenerational family orchard in the Town of Marlborough.

The intent of the working group is to spearhead a dedicated effort across the national and international climate communities to advance progress on identifying anthropogenic influences on weather and climate amidst the «noise» of internal variability.

While most of our energy has been focused on carbon pricing, we've also been spearheading an effort to raise awareness around biochar and carbon sequestration.

Campus Coordinator University of Wyoming ’17 She / Hers Meghann just finished up coordinating zero waste efforts at an annual social justice conference they have on the UW campus - the Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, including a zero waste event spearheaded by her and some friends the year prior.

On June 25 Scenic Hudson will honor State Parks Commissioner Carol Ash and the organization Parks & Trails New York for spearheading efforts to restore our magnificent state parks.

To help spearhead a lot of that, there's been a lot of grassroots efforts within Yahoo! — there's a group called the Green Team who have spontaneously gotten together and have come up with a lot of these ideas — but we're always looking for other ideas from outside people, or inside people, on ways that as a corporation, we can reduce our footprint.