Sentences with phrase «spearheading the effort in»

Bart Smith, cohead of the ETF Group at Susquehanna, is spearheading efforts in crypto for the firm.

Someone needed to spearhead the effort in teaching children the joys of sending racist and pornographic emails featuring animals.

Niou added, ``... I spearheaded efforts in the Assembly to restore funding to our neighborhood NORCs, NNORCs and settlement houses, which provide all - encompassing social services to our most vulnerable, and I am glad that our budget did not leave our seniors behind.

«I want to thank County Legislator Rich Andres for spearheading the effort in gaining the funds necessary for the new band shell,» said Mayor Pappas.

The company spearheaded efforts in the summer of 2015 to set guidelines on where drones should fly, and later in the year debuted a new design for its drone with a longer range (15 miles) and better tech, which allows the drone to avoid ground and air - based obstructions automatically.

• Assessed individual client suitability for fee - based platforms and spearhead efforts in the transition to managed portfolios.

Linda L. Piff, Esq., Co-Chair of N.J. Council of Collaborative Practice Groups, spearheaded the efforts in 2004 to bring collaborative law to New Jersey.

Following Rick Warren's vision for the Church to become more involved in mental health care after his son committed suicide, Seacoast Church is spearheading the effort in the Lowcountry.

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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.

First is that he spearheaded an effort to bring greater civility to debates in the House of Commons.

The maintenance and shutdowns crew, which does major repair work for a hydrogen production facility and metals refinery in Edmonton, also added to the company's revenue by spearheading an effort to expand the department's customer base.

The case in point, of course, is Tea Party Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who spearheaded an effort to tie the GOP's campaign to repeal Obamacare to the process of renewing funding for the federal government.

A 2013 Government Accountability Office audit in found a litany of problems with the recovery efforts spearheaded by the Clinton Foundation.

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 effort announced today is in its early planning stages, with the initial formation of the company jointly spearheaded by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a Senior Vice President at Amazon.

Making Microsoft an attractive resource to new companies is no small feat: While Nadella has spearheaded a massive effort to transform the company, it had to overcome a tough image of being stodgy, difficult to work with, and stuck in the past.

Three institutions are spearheading the effort; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark, the cryptocurrency exchange Coinify, and a think tank called Sustainia.

In this role, he spearheaded efforts to integrate innovative technologies to improve patient care across the health system, including telemedicine and mHealth initiatives.

CoinJanitor's CEO, Marc Kenigsberg who spearheaded the effort to partner up with CoinGate is excited to announce the partnership: «Our success in cleaning crypto will be directly proportional to the support we get from the wider crypto community.

Then they decided to spearhead efforts to get open housing in their community.

Strider, who helped spearhead Democratic faith outreach in 2006 and 2008 - when he directed that work for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign - said the party put substantially fewer resources and effort into faith - based strategy work this year than in any election since 2004.

«For Catholic outreach, a defining moment in this campaign has been (Mitt) Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate,» said Broderick Johnson, a senior adviser with Barack Obama's campaign who spearheads Catholic outreach efforts.

Musical front man for the prog rock bands A Perfect Circle, Tool and Puscifer, Maynard James Keenan also is spearheading efforts to elevate Arizona wines in the minds of wine connoisseurs worldwide and to champion his own wine label, Caduceus Cellars.

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.

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Tavill has been spearheading ConAgra Foods» sustainability efforts in the packaging arena for the last several years.

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...

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Tony Parker sliced and diced his way through the Warriors» defense to spearhead the Spurs» efforts to get easy buckets inside and in transition.

In the case of Norwalk, Connecticut, for instance, it was Diane Beltz - Jacobson, Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City, who, once a concerned mother brought the issue to the attention of governmental officials, spearheaded the effort which led to adoption of a concussion safety ordinance by the city.

FRAC spearheads efforts that improve and expand afterschool food, school breakfast, and other programs in the 1998 child nutrition reauthorization legislation.

Heller Nature Center staff spearheads the park district Leave No Child Inside efforts to get kids to spend more time in the great outdoors.

Several people involved in this effort spearheaded the successful push for same - sex marriage, including Cuomo's former chief of staff, Steve Cohen, and ex-aide Katherine Grainger, who is now working for Civitas Public Affairs Group.

But to spearhead efforts to support improvements in connectivity, density, and overall urban infrastructure will require new investment and finance.

«I fully support the efforts of spearheaded by courageous members of the State Senate to pass common sense gun laws in New York and today I'm asking all of my supporters to call Senator Golden's office and ask him to do the same.»

... nevertheless, Christie is enjoying significant influence in D.C., spearheading a new national anti-addiction effort, talking to the president several times per week, and recently spending much of two days in the Oval Office advising Trump.

The New York Legislature's Puerto Rican / Hispanic Task Force gave Cuomo an award recognizing his leadership in spearheading the state's effort to send manpower to Puerto Rico after the island was hit hard by Hurricane Maria.

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).

This month, the Internet Advocacy Roundtable is piping in some of the key players in these efforts from the Human Rights Campaign, which has spearheaded much of the national effort, and from the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which successfully challenged California's Prop 8 in federal court.

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.

It's an in - the - weeds job, but the vote counters at contested conventions have a crucial (and lousy) job, and Rick Lazio's effort was spearheaded by Lynn Krogh, the head of the state's Young Republicans chapter and a former George Pataki staffer.

After passing by a wide margin in the State Assembly, the bill was defeated by an eight - vote margin in the Senate despite a vigorous lobbying effort spearheaded by the Empire State Pride Agenda.

Senegal spearheaded efforts to deploy west African troops in The Gambia after Jammeh's departure, in order to secure a country whose military forces were riven with factions still loyal to the ex-leader.

The plan was spearheaded by Trinity Real Estate, the largest landlord in the area bounded by the Hudson River, Sixth Avenue, Houston and Canal streets, in an effort to make the neighborhood a more mixed - use one.

Mr. Bharara's office, as well as state prosecutors, have now also issued subpoenas to Nyclass, a group that donated to the mayor's campaign, and had spearheaded an effort to ban horse carriages in the city, according to Michael McKeon, a spokesman for the group.

(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.

Since the election, LeFevre has spearheaded the town's efforts for renewable energy and learned the ins and outs of the water / wastewater department.

As dozens of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have gained popularity spearheading a new movement for increased gun control after a gunman killed 17 people at their school in February, Kashuv has garnered a following among conservatives for opposing those efforts and emphasizing conservative legislative initiatives.

Others involved in this battle include the Marriage Equality New York PAC and the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington, DC - based lobbying group which recently hired Brian Ellner, a former aide to Mayor Bloomberg, to spearhead this effort.

Sherpardson spearheaded a similar effort in 2012 for former U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon, the mayor of Bridgeport, Bill Finch, made a comment about turnout in the state's largest city.