Sentences with phrase «spent years supporting»

Lena is a national expert on immigration enforcement by local police, and she has spent years supporting organizers and lawyers around the country to fight unfair and often illegal detention of immigrants, and to push for pro-immigrant local policies.

That makes it all the more extraordinary that it spent years supporting a woman who surreptitiously married her ex-boyfriend after he suffered a catastrophic brain injury to gain control of his assets.

Tilted Scales Collective is a small collective of legal support organizers who have spent years supporting and fighting for

Not exact matches

Former defence minister and senator for Western Australia David Johnston has been appointed Australia's first defence export advocate, after the federal government committed to spend an additional $ 20 million every year to support the sector.

As part of the deal, which still needs approval from Congress, Saudi Arabia «expressed its intent» to spend $ 28 billion on defense technologies and programs by Lockheed Martin, which estimated the deal would support 18,000 jobs in the U.S. over 30 years — a figure that falls dramatically below Trump's estimate.

What we've spent a lot of time focusing on in the last year is making sure that we're able to deliver that technology in a way that is super-customer-friendly and that is supported at a level they feel like they need, and that's from both a sales and account coverage standpoint.

On the subject of supporting employees, Marc Benioff, who co-founded and heads business software giant Salesforce (CRM), shared that his company has spent roughly $ 3 million this year to adjust the salaries of its female employees to match that of their male counterparts.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

And while public dissatisfaction with the legislation has been focused on the notion that the Republican tax cuts are deeply skewed toward the wealthiest Americans and the corporations they run, Barkan, who has spent years galvanizing support for a more diverse and inclusive Federal Reserve, wants to remind Americans this legislation also includes cuts to their healthcare.

U.S. consumer spending barely rose in February amid delays in the payment of income tax refunds, but the biggest annual jump in inflation in nearly five years supported expectations of further interest rate hikes this year.

While completing his dissertation, Clark spent two years working for the central planning ministry of the then - socialist African nation, and the first of his four children was born there, with only a midwife present to support the birth.

You are determined to get your manager's support for this initiative and spend the remainder of the year qualifying for the program.

Projected job growth over the next 10 years is below the national average, so lack of spending power would make it hard for the city to support another small business.

To support these efforts, Chobani plans to spend 35 percent more on marketing next year, with the bulk of spending occurring in the first half of the year, said Chobani's chief marketing and commercial officer, Peter McGuinness.

The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would have to find about $ 43.1 billion to cover the full cost of the program because Ottawa already spends about $ 32.9 billion a year on support to low - income Canadians.

How she's sticking to this goal: «Like many startup founders, I've spent the first few years at WayUp working on things like user support (aka responding to every user's email), sales strategy, product road mapping and more.

We forecast that your portfolio will comfortably support your goals, including $ 60,000 per year in «basic» retirement spending.»

The federal government's going to spend a lot of money that supports the overall economy in a way that we haven't seen for a number of years,» Warne told Yahoo Finance.

Arash spent the first 14 years of his career at the biotech company Genentech, where he held a variety of positions in the Corporate Information Technology group, including Software Engineer, Project Manager, and Enterprise Architect, supporting the Manufacturing, R&D, Engineering, and Quality Assurance business units.

Musk spent the next two years tweeting support for any opensource Hyperloop developments.

We also think spending is being supported by the impact of cheaper gasoline, since the average Canadian household is spending about $ 600 less per year to fill their tank.

Do you want to help safeguard an industry that supports 26,000 BC jobs and has spent over $ 5 billion on goods and services over the last five years across 85 BC communities?

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

So even though I had this lovely notion that the government was supporting me while I spent a year nurturing my child, I was actually just collecting the monies I'd paid into the system over the years.

The Main Estimates consist of three components: Part I, which provides an overview of federal spending for the upcoming fiscal year; Part II which supports the Appropriation Act and provides details of the spending to be included in the Appropriation Act; and Part III which includes Reports on Plans and Priorities (RPPs), which provide details on the spending plans for all departments and agencies.

We have spent years building training, marketing support, product testing and development, business coaching, and well - established back office systems that are second to none.

The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law's open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.

With support from FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, hundreds of communities have spent tens of millions of dollars each year to purchase flood - prone properties from willing sellers.

The pick - up in consumption in the March quarter appears to be continuing and is being supported by further increases in consumer confidence; household spending increased by 2 1/2 per cent in the June quarter and consumer confidence is now at its highest level in 4 years (Graph 3).

«Government spending on infrastructure and a moderate increase in business investment, which began to recover in 2017, are forecast to support economic growth next year,» RBC noted in its end - of - year forecast.

If the balance grows at three per cent per year after inflation and Sid spends it over the next 25 years from age 65 to 90, it would support payouts of $ 3,300 per year before all capital and income is exhausted.

After spending 11 years in sales in the Bay Area, Garth co-founded Jigsaw.com where he ran sales, business development, client support, and the customer community.

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).

Partial years of withdrawal are recorded if combined portfolio value at any year is not enough to support expected retirement spending at any year.

Arterburn, of the 46th Aviation Support Battalion, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade at Joint Base Lewis - McChord, said he has likely spent more time at the bowling alley than at home since he was eight years old growing up in Olympia.

GFI is entirely supported by grants and donations.79 Their three largest donors provided a total of around 25 - 40 % of their funding in 2016, and we would expect those donors to provide a similar, perhaps slightly larger, amount of funding in 2017 — though GFI's intention is to raise significantly more money overall.80, 81 GFI's fiscal management strategy is to spend each year what it raised the prior year; this enables them to budget on a rolling 12 - month timeframe.82, 83 Overall, we think that while their funding sources are not especially diverse, they do rely on a relatively broad donor base and take a responsible and sustainable approach to their finances.

In addition, spending plans over the next three years (before the February 2018 full budget modifies them further) sees B.C.'s taxpayer - supported debt increase by over 17 %, and our debt - to - revenue ratio increase from 82 % to 93 %.

That sum, if spent over the 28 years to her age 90, could support an income of $ 22,920 per year.

A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: «We continue to spend around # 90 billion a year supporting people, including those who are out of work or on a low income.

«The money spent on a single STM team for a one - to two - week experience would be sufficient to support more than a dozen far more effective indigenous workers for an entire year.

«We're committed to supporting parents with the cost of bringing up children, we've doubled free childcare, Child Benefit is available for all children in a household, and we continue to spend around # 90 billion a year to ensure a strong safety net for the most vulnerable.»

Santa Claus is part of a Indocrination program that has been on - going from 500 years ago to maintain the status quo of white supremacy, people grow up totally conflicted when they realize their hard earned dollars is the real Santa claus that they willingly spend and too their kids continue to support the Lie.

«We've doubled free childcare to help parents into work, and continue to spend over # 90 billion a year on support for those who need it, including those who are bringing up a family or on a low income.»

A case in point: With the support of my mother and my aunts, I spent nine years weaving together into one story key family events of the past 120 years.

Oh... forgot you Proving... I wasn't referring to what he said... on the surface, it's fine to have a point of view... whether I agree with it or not... but when you are A) in a position of influence and B) spending money to fight the opposing view... and it's to stop two people who love each other from wedding in the eyes of their Lord, then it is hate... if your ignorance allows you to think my comments are stupid... so be it... and one last point about slavery... whether it was Democrats or Republicans who supported, or fought against slavery... many justified slavery because of their perverted interpretation of the bible... most people can't tell a simple story from one person to the next... but so many foolish Christians think they know exactly what the bible is saying w / o any doubt... forget the fact that it's been translated and passed for 1000s of years... yup you must be right that God is against two people loving each other... He must have made a mistake with those folks huh?

«After spending over 20 years in the corporate world, the amount of support we as a company have received — all of our connections in the industry — has been really amazing.»

Prior to joining Huddle House, Jenkins spent more than 28 years in the commercial real estate industry, serving in various real estate roles for Advance Auto Parts, McDonald's Corporation, and Panda Restaurant Group, where he supported both corporate and franchise development.

Inspired initially by her German grandmother's traditional approach to cooking, and a passion for the healing effects of food, Tressa Yellig has spent the last six years building a community around nourishing foods through her retail shop, product line and community supported kitchen, Salt, Fire and Time.

After spending two years in management serving several locations in Southern California he moved into a beverage support role at the home office in 2007 officially taking over the beverage program as Director in September of 2014.

This will fester on and on till we get rid of the real problem WENGER hes the cause of our demise why does the board still support him he must have big friends on the board any other manager would have been sacked years ago but not Wenger does he run the club or what????? And Ozil the useless German hes the worst player on the field no commitment, and along with a few others he should be sold we have the money, months ago it was said we had in excess of 160 million to spend where did that go we only spent 50 m.