Sentences with phrase «start by advocating»

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Before we get started, I do want to be clear: I'm not advocating being deceitful, but instead providing a number of options that will help you grow your business by adjusting positive perception of your organization — which if done effectively, can allow you to accomplish a lot with a little.

Founded by angel and venture investor Russ Shaw, Tech London Advocates (TLA) is an advocacy group that aims to support technology start - ups in finding new investment, new talent and achieving high growth.

After gaining several degrees, Leonel has become an advocate for his indigenous people's group, aiming to start the first university directed by Maya - speaking people.

Those wishing to advocate on behalf of any refugee issue can start by writing to Congress.

Not that I was advocating illegal behavior, but was recommending he write our state and district congressional representation to advocate legalizing it (he started it by saying he was going to write them to complain about how expensive his meds were).

«Sometimes you struggle to find the words, but it does feel like parents are comforted by your presence,» said Summer Kelly, a nurse and lactation educator who started the donor milk program at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge.

Start at 6 months (advocated by the American Academy of Pediatrics).

Disappointed by the medicalisation of birth and unnecessary intervention in hospitals, where labouring women were made to lie on their back, she started to advocate the use of movement and gravity to help labour and birth.

Let me start by saying that I am a breastfeeding advocate (I've even done a blog post about what some branches of Judaism say are the spiritual benefits of breastfeeding).

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So my first tip to you, as a breastfeeding mother who knows that to increase your milk supply and give your baby's digestion the best start to life you can is to have your baby weighed by someone who is also a breastfeeding advocate.

As it was, I listened to my pediatrician (who is unusually knowledgeable about this) and did something that every nursing advocate I have ever talked to says (backed by at least on well respected org) to NEVER EVER do — ie I started skipping the night time feeding and stayed away from the pump.

Just as I think it's well past time for the medical profession and hospitals to start dealing realistically and responsibly with the issues and risks presented by common practice (and mal - practice) in obstetrics, it's important for home birth advocates to deal reasonably and realistically with the issues and risks presented by home births.

She started Hurt By Homebirth to give parents a chance to tell their stories, in their own words, in a safe place where they would not be attacked by home - birth advocateBy Homebirth to give parents a chance to tell their stories, in their own words, in a safe place where they would not be attacked by home - birth advocateby home - birth advocates.

When I first started blogging I followed a few well known eco-bloggers and watched how they made a difference by advocating for change.

Definitely swing by the site, and if you're looking for a place to start, check out this contribution straight from the e.politics bunker, a ditty we're calling «Five Lessons for Advocates from Obama's 2012 Digital Campaign.»

«I started the Campaign for Fiscal Equity by walking 150 miles from New York City to Albany to advocate for our children's education,» noted Councilmember Jackson.

Then again, would he go cabeza - a-cabeza for Public Advocate with Rubencito, whom he thanked, by the way, for carrying on all the wonderful accomplishments HE started as BP (ouch!).

The public advocate's office, currently occupied by Tish James, will receive an extra $ 700,000 in the fiscal year starting July 1, administration officials revealed today.

The scorecard, started by then - Public Advocate Bill de Blasio...

Seeking to join them are the Women's Equality Party started by Cuomo's campaign, the Stop Common Core Party announced by Astorino and the Life and Justice Party, a group started by Michael Carey, its gubernatorial candidate, to oppose abortion rights and advocate for disabled people in state facilities....

ALBANY - Reform advocates say that when he takes office as governor Saturday, Andrew Cuomo can start fixing state government without waiting for legislative support, by using executive authority to order dozens of steps to improve ethics and openness, protect consumers and help the environment.

Fight Back NY, the new political action committee started by gay advocate Tim Gill and others that plans to aggressively target New York state senators who voted against the recent marriage equality bill, has officially launched.

Fight Back NY, the new political action committee started by gay advocate Tim Gill and others that plans to aggressively target New York state senators who voted against the recent marriage equality bill, has officially launched.The group also... Read

All told, the campaign contrasts sharply with the equally crowded Democratic primary four years ago, a far less ideological race and one dominated from the start by the battle between two outsize personalities: Mr. Cuomo and Mark Green, the brash former public advocate.

In a unanimous decision, it welcomed «any measures which increase the involvement of individual trade unionists in the Labour Party» and, as had been advocated by Len McCluskey from the start, specifically agreed Miliband's proposal that «individual political levy paying members of trade unions be encouraged to «opt in'to associate membership of the Labour Party as part of the drive to build a Party of mass membership.»

Indeed this is the approach favoured by the EU and Norway has gone further, advocating that projects should only be eligible to supply CORSIA if they start in or after 2020.

The 78 - year - old outdoorsman — who started the multimillion - dollar company by selling rock climbing gear out of his car in 1960s California — has been a vocal advocate for environmental causes throughout his career.

In a new subplot that just got started, Billy and Anvil were hired by gun control advocate Sen. Stan Ori (Rick Holmes).

This fascinating documentary shows how the self - possessed jurist, who started as a lawyer for domestic abuse victims, continues to advocate for women by emphasizing rights they possess but of which they might not be aware.

Respected actress, passionate advocate for plenty o» causes, loving wife of Tim Robbins... and it all started by serenading a man creature with «Toucha - toucha - toucha - touch me» in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Increasing starting salaries in teaching has been advocated by, among others, the National Education Association, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, and the authors of a heavily publicized 2007 report by McKinsey & Company on the characteristics of the world's most effective school systems.

Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

The organization was started by an endowment, and though they get additional funding from other sources, the endowment allows them to do their core work of advocating on behalf of students.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak and let me start by thanking the NAACP for its long history of advocating on behalf of people of color.

In an effort to start a new school that provides the type of education being advocated by education reformers like Tony Wagner, Sir Ken Robinson, and Daniel Pink, I am preparing a charter application for Da Vinci High School which will provide an opportunity for students to discover their passions and pursue them.

They started with a blueprint that laid out what students should know by the end of high school that was written by Achieve, a nonprofit that advocates for better standards and tests, and by the testing groups College Board and ACT.

For parents, The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids: How to Understand, Live With, and Stick Up for Your Gifted Child by Sally Yahnke Walker, contains all sorts of good advice for getting started advocating (and just plain living with) your gifted children.

We start early to unlock each child's potential by creating schools and programs, advocating for public policies, and researching and sharing what we learn.

One of those powerful advocates, nationally and in Tennessee, is the influential Americans for Prosperity, the right - wing issue group started and funded by the billionaire Charles and David Koch brothers.

We will advocate for solutions that maximize quality learning time and that prioritize equity by increasing better start and end times for all schools.

Bender and other voucher advocates have argued from the start that no such discrimination exists, an argument Bender says is enforced by the DOJ's closure of the investigation.

Now, authors and anti-censorship advocates have taken action against PayPal through a Change.org petition started by author D.C. McMillen.

I understand Amazon's position / motivation, and I understand what Apple is hoping to accomplish by encouraging the publishers to adopt this sort of Agency Model vs the one Amazon advocated before this all started.

I'm starting to advocate for a tiered system — make ebooks accessible by selling them cheap for «disposable» files, then offer the purchaser an inexpensive «upgrade» option for a keep - able file.

The «Debt Snowball» method, advocated by financial guru Dave Ramsey, starts with paying off the smallest debt first, and working up to the next smallest and so on.

So i turned to our partner site CardRatings.com which was founded by consumer credit advocate Curtis Arnold, and focuses on making credit cards easy to compare — their credit card comparison table is a good place to start.

A contrarian view is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led the way to relaxed underwriting standards, starting in 1995, by advocating the use of easy - to - qualify automated underwriting and appraisal systems, by designing the no - down - payment products issued by lenders, by the promotion of thousands of small mortgage brokers, and by their close relationship to subprime loan aggregators such as Countrywide.

A good place to start is the 50/30/20 guideline advocated by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a bankruptcy expert, and her daughter Amelia Warren Tyagi in their book, «All Your Worth.»

Advocates of the bucket approach would encourage this couple to start by putting between $ 48,000 and $ 72,000 in short - term reserves, such as bank accounts, money market funds and certificates of deposit.