Sentences with phrase «state efforts in»

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The city joins state efforts in supporting educational programs that orient machinists toward engineering degrees.

State efforts in standards - based education over the past decade have had a positive, but modest, relationship with gains in student achievement.

Despite a series of federal and state efforts in recent months to get rid of the product, it remains in salons across the country.

Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealing them.

New York City's District 4 (by creating an extensive magnet system) and the state effort in Jersey City (by installing state officials at the top to remake a corrupt system) have taken different routes yet seem to have produced similar results.

Not exact matches

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.

After Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of the Gulf Coast and brought up to 50 inches of rain to parts of Houston, the US military and state National Guard joined in rescue and recovery efforts.

These civil rights abuses show the potential costs of state and local law enforcement assistance in federal immigration enforcement efforts.

All of their items are produced within the United States, are eco-friendly, and they recycle all of the drawing paper and products in an effort for caring for our planet.

«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» White House official Raj Shah said in an emailed statement ahead of the announcement.

It's unclear if the Trump Administration's efforts would affect cars produced in Canada or Mexico, which are party to the North American Free Trade Agreement along with the United States.

Nearly 200 nations, including the United States under President Barack Obama's administration, agreed in 2015 to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to combat climate change.

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.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

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.

In an effort to promote renewable energy in the New York, Cuomo also announced $ 1.4 billion in awards for 26 large - scale renewable energy projects across the statIn an effort to promote renewable energy in the New York, Cuomo also announced $ 1.4 billion in awards for 26 large - scale renewable energy projects across the statin the New York, Cuomo also announced $ 1.4 billion in awards for 26 large - scale renewable energy projects across the statin awards for 26 large - scale renewable energy projects across the state.

We may never really know: For only the second time since the beginning of the reconstruction effort in 2002, US Forces - Afghanistan has classified and restricted once - public information regarding the state of Afghan security forces, including «casualties, personnel strength, attrition, capability assessments, and operational readiness of equipment» — all key measures of the country's security woes.

France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

«We are hopeful that the premier's efforts to allow the voices of his citizens to be listened to will be successful, because it is very much in common with our citizens,» Inslee said, adding that residents in his state recently rejected proposals for both coal and oil ports.

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.

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

Australia's women retained their Olympic title by winning the 4x100m freestyle relay in world record time, with sisters Bronte and Cate Campbell swimming the last two stages to overhaul the United States, despite the efforts of Katie Ledecky on the anchor leg.

Spicer's comments regarding a crackdown came only hours after Quinnipiac University released a new poll, which found that 71 percent of all Americans would oppose efforts to enforce federal marijuana laws in states with legalization.

«We can watch very focused efforts to steal American information, to infiltrate the United States with spies — with people who are going to work on behalf of the Chinese government against America,» Pompeo said in an interview.

The state government has announced a $ 40 million package to reduce charges at the Utah Point bulk handling facility by up to $ 2.50 per tonne, in an effort to help junior miners continue to export iron ore.

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, a Republican, said his state joined the legal effort because «the president has exceeded the balance of power provisions clearly laid out in the U.S. Constitution.»

The efforts from the state and the company to retool the plant come after Fiat said in April that it would cut about 1,300 jobs in Sterling Heights on account of a major drop in sales for the Chrysler 200 midsize sedan.

For example, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, the SEC initiated business - continuity sweep examinations in an effort to better assess the general state of disaster preparedness and contingency planning among advisory firms.

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.

The effort has paid some dividends with 18 states and 20 cities increasing their minimum wage in 2018.

Dotcom spent most of the year battling extradition efforts to the United States, where he could serve 20 years in prison for running his Megaupload service, but so far, he's managed to beat — or least stave off — the rap.

In an apparent effort to court young African - American voters in South Carolina's Pee Dee region, Hillary Clinton staffers promised Jamie Harrison, the state's Democratic Party chairman, that his area would not be overlooked by ClintoIn an apparent effort to court young African - American voters in South Carolina's Pee Dee region, Hillary Clinton staffers promised Jamie Harrison, the state's Democratic Party chairman, that his area would not be overlooked by Clintoin South Carolina's Pee Dee region, Hillary Clinton staffers promised Jamie Harrison, the state's Democratic Party chairman, that his area would not be overlooked by Clinton.

«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.

Didi has also formed an alliance with Lyft in the United States, India's ride service Ola, and Southeast Asian startup Grab in an effort to compete with Uber's global dominance.

The Alliance wanted to limit that liability, but trial lawyers, a powerful constituency in the state, defeated that effort.

The proposal appears to be another prong in a U.S. effort to prevent ZTE and Huawei from gaining significant market share in the United States.

Some progress has been made toward those efforts in the U.S. — though it varies by state.

But while Iceland's government has made a concerted effort to ensure pay equity, efforts have stalled in other developed nations, including the United States.

In papers being filed with the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the restaurant group likened the rule to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed effort to curb sales of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces (473 millilitersIn papers being filed with the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the restaurant group likened the rule to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed effort to curb sales of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces (473 millilitersin Manhattan, the restaurant group likened the rule to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed effort to curb sales of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces (473 milliliters).

They were all there for a roundtable discussion intended to kick off a new binational effort called the «United States Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Business Leaders - Female Entrepreneurs», an awkwardly - named effort with the broad mandate of advancing women in the workplace.

«Tomorrow the president will announce the actions he has decided to take based on USTR's 301 investigation into China's state - led, market - distorting efforts to force, pressure, and steal U.S. technologies and intellectual property,» White House official Raj Shah said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.

But a first - place ranking in the cost of living category demands that state officials ramp up their efforts to attract new companies.

After Trump won the presidency, Nicole Hockley, another founder of Sandy Hook Promise, said that the group would continue its efforts at the state and local level - and argued that, no matter who is in the White House, «I still don't think our country is ready yet for federal change.»

Get - out - the - vote efforts have been intense in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis report on the effort to restore power to customers in the Sunshine State.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on efforts to restore power in the Sunshine State after Hurricane Irma.

Curiously, in covering this effort, USA Today published a map highlighting cities and states that should be out of contention, yet added a footnote about Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which both offer nondiscrimination protections although their state does not.

Perhaps most important will be whether the agreement will aid or hinder efforts to pass climate - change legislation in the United States.