Sentences with phrase «state efforts as»

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Experts say efforts have been made recently to convey North Korea as a normal state, presenting Ri and Kim as a more traditional «first couple.»

Several organizations have emerged as leaders in the effort to help minority entrepreneurs in the United States.

Critics of Clinton's campaign strategy have said her efforts (or lack thereof) in those three states — traditional Democratic strongholds that were carried by President Donald Trump — highlighted the Democratic presidential nominee's biggest problems as a candidate.

As President Donald Trump steps up efforts to engage North Korea in nuclear disarmament talks, the State Department is in the most turmoil since the president's inauguration.

Lacking a ground game in the state, as he did across the country, Trump relied on state and local parties, such as Ferrance's, to drive the get - out - to - vote efforts.

The Czechs previously sold 15 Czech - made L - 159 light combat planes to Iraq and sent instructors to train pilots for the planes as part of international efforts to help Iraq fight Islamic State militants.

Under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, adopted in most states, information counts as a trade secret if it meets three criteria: The information must have independent economic value to people outside the company, the information must be generally unknown and unlikely to be discovered by lawful means, and the owner of the secret must make efforts to maintain the secret.

Now it appears as though these same hackers used the State Department cyber intrusion — which has been ongoing despite the department's best efforts to block and wipe it — as a beachhead to gain entry into the White House's computer systems.

Still, recommendations and findings from reviews have proven helpful in states such as California in shaping preventive efforts that have reduced maternal mortality rates.

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed though anti-labor legislation even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

Indiana is the latest Midwestern state where Republicans have pushed labor legislation with safe voting margins even as the efforts have drawn large protests by union backers and spawned recall efforts.

«Russia as a state will continue to spare no effort to protect the interests of our companies abroad,» Peskov said.

The offering is the latest from Google's Next Billion Users division, an internal effort to make internet services more accessible to people in countries where technology infrastructure is not as fast or affordable as in the United States or Western Europe.

«Russia as a state will continue to spare no effort to protect the interests of our companies abroad,» said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

«At 7:32 p.m. local time today, US forces - Afghanistan conducted a strike on an ISIS - K tunnel complex in Achin district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, as part of ongoing efforts to defeat ISIS - K in Afghanistan in 2017,» US Central Command said in a statement, referring to the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ISIS - Khorasan.

The state even quotes an anonymous former Oracle employee as claiming that the company had an elaborate «behind - the - scenes effort» to convince Oregon that hiring such a manager would only serve to delay the project.

As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

Brookfield Property's efforts to buy GGP have come as mall owners across the United States are struggling as a result of many retailers losing out to e-commerce firms such as Amazon.com.

Michelle McNamara's tireless efforts to find the serial murderer and rapist known as the Golden State Killer paid off with the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo.

MÅLOV, Denmark, Nov 21 (Reuters)- Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is stepping up its efforts to treat obesity, seeking to tap into a potentially huge market as prices for its established diabetes drugs come under pressure, particularly in the United States.

MÅLOV, Denmark, Nov 21 - Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is stepping up its efforts to treat obesity, seeking to tap into a potentially huge market as its established diabetes drugs come under price pressure, particularly in the United States.

A U.S. - led coalition has been launching airstrikes on Islamic State militants and facilities in Iraq and Syria for months as part of an effort to give Iraqi forces the time and space to mount a more effective offensive.

On the elections front, Zuckerberg highlighted efforts to identify misinformation and remove «tens of thousands» of fake accounts sharing content related to elections in France and Germany, as well as a special Senate election in the United States.

Video streaming company Netflix Inc. on Wednesday launched its services in 130 countries, covering almost the entire globe except China, as part of efforts to counter slowing growth in the United States.

The referendums come amid shifts in American opinions on marijuana in recent years that have energized efforts to legalize cannabis, a drug that remains illegal under federal law even as Colorado and Washington state have been given the go - ahead to experiment with legalization.

In addition to appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, Penney last year added showrooms for and mattresses at some 500 stores in its efforts to become less reliant on apparel, bolster its home goods category, and frankly, to capitalize on the years - long sales decline at Sears, once the leading seller of appliances in the United States.

The Russians allegedly communicated with a Texas - based grassroots organization that advised them to focus their efforts on «purple states» such as Colorado, Florida and Virginia that could be swayed to vote for Trump.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

The sunken «living room» is lined with tables fashioned from reclaimed wood from a farm in Arkansas, as well as a 12 - person communal table built from the tractor tread of a decommissioned CAT Excavator, in honor of the State of California's effort to reduce high emissions from old equipment.

So far the wind power giant has focused its efforts with European companies, since the governments of the region do not oppose green energy with the same vigor as they do in the United States.

Mr. Lighthizer brought such trade cases against foreign actors for decades as a lawyer for the steel industry, and he has criticized the World Trade Organization for interfering in what he sees as the United States» efforts to enforce its own laws.

Walmart bought Asda in 1999 for 6.7 billion pounds — then worth about $ 10.8 billion — as part of an effort to expand beyond the United States.

Hannity described the Cohen raid as «an all - hands - on - deck effort to totally malign and, if possible, impeach the president of the United States.»

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin is among the Republicans from outside California who have contributed to the campaign to repeal the state's gas - tax increase, showing the effort has national interest from GOP leaders who see it as a way to boost their party's chances in the Golden State for this year's elecstate's gas - tax increase, showing the effort has national interest from GOP leaders who see it as a way to boost their party's chances in the Golden State for this year's elecState for this year's election.

announced the reconfiguration of the Senate NATO Observer Group on Wednesday afternoon, stressing that Senate leaders, senior officials from the State and Defense departments, as well as U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison, were fully behind the effort.

President Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.

The foundation's mission is, as stated on its website, «to prevent Virginia Tech - type shootings through education and advocacy; to employ comprehensive educational efforts to expand community and student awareness of campus safety issues; and to offer compassion, support, and hope to those affected by violence.»

The move marks yet another notable effort taken by the Singapore government to promote the application of blockchain tech as part of its wider push for the city - state's fintech development.

«In connection with the offering, Munchee described the way in which MUN tokens would increase in value as a result of Munchee's efforts and stated that MUN tokens would be traded on secondary markets.»

By Anna Irrera (Reuters)- State Street has tested a blockchain system that it hopes can be used to streamline the securities lending process as the financial industry accelerates efforts to adopt the emerging technology.

LONDON — Iran will start reporting foreign currency amounts in euros rather than U.S. dollars, state media said today as part of the country's effort to reduce its reliance on the U.S. currency due to political tension with Washington.

The next twelve months promise to be an exciting time for anyone with an interest in the commercial space industry, as private ventures ramp up their efforts to pull off a crewed test mission in accordance with stated timelines.

Some 52 % of executives said that they are finding it requires much harder work to raise much less money as compared to 2008, whereas 45 % state they are still able to raise similar amounts, though it requires a lot of hard work and effort as compared to the good old days.

I caution that the economic situation still remains a very serious concern as President Draghi continues to build the ECB balance sheet in an effort to bail - out the fiscally weak states of Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and others.

Hiring is expected to rebound in the fall as the states of Texas and Florida resume cleanup efforts in the wake of hurricane season.

In this article we'll use forest fire management policy as an analogy to discuss whether market forces should be allowed to burst speculative bubbles, «clean the forest floor,» and quickly return the market to a natural state, or if governments and central banks should try to «put fires out» in an effort to slowly deflate speculative bubbles which, if allowed to burst, might harm the broader economy.

The purpose was — as we warned and the pro A. 2 debaters denied — to set the stage for state funding of Stowers and other efforts in the fields of ESCR and human cloning.

Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)

Around WWI (i.e. 1920ish), Britain agreed to split the land we know as Jordan and Israel today into two parts — an Arab state and an Israeli state — to reward them for their efforts in defeating the Ottoman Empire (re: Balfour Declaration of 1917 / Churchill White Paper of 1922).

And insofar as truth remains relevant to the efforts of the liberal state to resolve these contests, it reduces truth itself to what can be known through the empirical or quasi-empirical sciences.