Sentences with phrase «successful effort by»

The movement also needs to do better in taping the growing Parent Power movement for potential board candidates; as seen in Adelanto, Calif., where the successful effort by families to take control of Desert Trails Elementary School also fueled the defeat of two members of the district's board, there are families more than ready to take on traditionalists who want to keep the status quo quite ante.

Franco plays both Vincent and Frankie Martino — a role that requires a little camera magic and a considerable if not always successful effort by both the actor and the writers to ensure that we don't constantly mix them up.

Black - footed ferrets, a critically endangered species native to North America, have renewed hope for future survival thanks to successful efforts by a coalition of conservationists, including scientists at Lincoln Park Zoo, to reproduce genetically important offspring using frozen semen from a ferret who has been dead for approximately 20 years.

There is precedent, he noted, pointing to largely successful efforts by NGOs to preserve South American rainforests by purchasing their development rights and allowing the native trees to stand.

Van Roekel said the conference provided an important counterpoint to the anti-union activity in some states, showing both the value and the lessons of successful efforts by «all the adults in the system» to find solutions on behalf of students.

But since the 1960s, successful efforts by teachers» unions to pass state laws forcing districts to bargain with them, along with school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Proposition 13, have led to states taking a more prominent role in all aspects of education.

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One reason for our successful campaign is we focused our efforts on email marketing by sending newsletters to our subscribers.

She decided to make a concerted effort to develop her staff into one that was engaged and invested in the company by teaching a half - day workshop on the basics for making a business successful.

Trucking Moves America Forward (TMAF)-- a cooperative effort by American Trucking Associations (ATA), the Owner - Operator Independent Drivers Association, the Truckload Carriers Association and manufacturers of trucking equipment, was celebrating its second successful year as well as kicking off another ambitious education campaign.

By and large those efforts were successful.

The «largest and most successful known effort» by a Kremlin - connected troll farm was to protest the man Democrats say may have colluded with Russian officials to beat his opponent.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

«I was surprised and gratified that so many people told me they were hoping we would be successful; it is clear by all the interest focused on our efforts that many of our laity understand the need for and importance of such a cathedral for Catholics in Orange County.»

He goes to great lengths to show that the effort to overcome the consequences of idolatry by obedience to law is not successful.

Again and again we have remarked that some of the chronic evil seemingly inseparably associated with mankind has displayed several of its colossal dimensions among peoples who have called themselves Christian, but that repeatedly efforts to counter this evil, some of them at least partly successful, have been put forth by men and women inspired and sustained by Christian faith.

During this period generally successful efforts were made by the states either to take over all the colleges or at least to secure strong representation on their boards.

Building on major trends and successful regional efforts, the wine community joined together to create the Sustainable Winegrowing Program, administered by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance.

Find out how successful your sustainability efforts are in your brewery by reviewing the 2015 Sustainability Benchmarking report and utilizing the online tools developed by the Brewers Association and Antea Group to record and study your efforts.

I was impressed by Ralph Wiley's portrayal of the two men and their successful efforts to overcome hard times and turn them into positive experiences.

Failures moan that successful people get their breaks not through their own efforts but through some vague notion of dumb «luck» When we were humiliated 6 - 0 by Chelsea, they played during the weekdays but we didn't.

The only inference we could take away from those stats is that Per Mertesacker, who has been woefully out of form this season following Germany's successful World Cup campaign, has not helped his central defensive partner's cause by being too slow and getting caught out of position too easily, forcing Koscielny into making that last - ditch effort to save his side from conceding.

That same game plan was employed by Minnesota United in the Quakes home opener, and San Jose's total team effort to press the Loons and rotate possession through the attackers and midfielders was successful.

Indeed, efforts in the House, if successful, would begin to dismantle the national school meal program through the use of state block grants, a proposal that's been sharply criticized by anti-hunger groups and the School Nutrition Association.

Among the new communication efforts are peer group counseling programs in which successful breastfeeding mothers are enlisted to help others in areas where high infant - mortality rates might be reduced by nutrition from breastfeeding.

Baby Friendly Hospital Consultant - Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center: In 2003, Glendale Memorial Hospital retained my services as its exclusive outside consultant to facilitate its successful effort to become the first hospital in Los Angeles County to be certified as Baby - Friendly by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.

If you are not successful and you become exhausted by these efforts, ask for someone else to take over for you.

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

Current efforts at the National Assembly, if successful, will have reduced the number of the unemployed by more than 65 percent.

«I think what you see here are efforts by people who are so adamantly opposed to engaging in tax reform because they love the status quo and they're protecting the status quo that they don't want us to be successful in regards to tax reform,» he said.

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

Ms. Meng is also a successful fundraiser, evidenced by the $ 1 million she has in her State Assembly campaign account (which isn't transferable to her congressional efforts).

If successful, the effort by Sen. Jack Martins (R - Old Westbury) and Assemb.

The mediation efforts undertaken by Turkey between Israel and Hamas, and by Qatar between the different Lebanese factions in 2008, probably represented the highest points of what can be considered an overall successful foreign policy course.

The tax cap, which was promoted and signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2011, has to date been the most successful effort to limit property tax growth.

Mr. Lander believes that the effort late in the campaign to discredit candidates linked to Data and Field Services, the consulting wing of the Working Families Party, was fueled by resentment that the «WFP has been so successful at promoting progressive issues for over a decade, and has supported very good candidates.

The initiative was inspired by such successful land bank efforts as 13 Chambers Street in Newburgh.

A day or so before the state budget was passed last week, Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, a Kenmore Democrat, stopped by the Capitol's press room to share with a reporter details about three recipients of his successful pork barrel requests that he said will support entrepreneurship to global trade efforts.

Pennsylvania Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, left, seen here campaigning in State College, Pa., in August, was aided in his successful re-election effort by a shift in his image over the past six years.

President Buhari, while thanking God for the good rains, the successful efforts of the Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, an indigene of Benue State, whom he described as «a great asset in my government,» said his administration would continue to empower farmers with loans by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The Human Rights Campaign, which played a big role in Cuomo's successful campaign to get gay marriage passed by the Legislature here in New York and has now launched a similar effort at the national level, released an undated letter signed by Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and 13 other mayors and governors that urged members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee to pass the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA), the bill to repeal DOMA.

The measure, backed by Queens Democratic Sen. Michael Gianaris, was inspired by former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's successful effort to have his legal fees repaid by the state after he was found not guilty following a federal corruption trial.

For the record, Stewart - Cousins remains hopeful that her effort to be included in the closed - door budget negotiations — a cause that has been taken up now by people outside the state Capitol — will be successful before the April 1 deadline.

But it wasn't until April, when a state investigation found NYRA officials knowingly cheated bettors out of $ 8.5 million by failing to reduce the legally set track «take - out,» that the effort was successful.

Her rise has coincided with a leftward shift by Cuomo, including a push for college affordability this year and a successful effort last year to raise the minimum wage to $ 15.

Their efforts were not successful: Seats were won by only 2 of the 9 candidates endorsed by the Barclays, and by 9 out of 12 candidates the Barclays had denounced as undesirable.

Cuomo isn't in any way totally cut off from normal Democratic areas of strength, finding support at a rally celebrating a successful unionization effort by nurses at the Albany Medical Center, and using his appearance at Al Sharpton's National Action Network convention to announce the plan to restore voting rights for parolees.

The races for Mayor, Public Advocate, Comptroller, Borough Presidents, and City Council members may be currently overshadowed by the presidential election, but the new city campaign finance filings further reveal who is planning to run for which seats in 2017 and the extent to which candidates for local positions have been successful in their fundraising efforts.

A similar effort by officials in Rochester and Monroe County has proved successful.

Samuels noted he had been a part of the successful effort to flip the Senate into Democratic hands in 2008 (he served as finance chairman for the DSCC), but added «we screwed it up» by letting Espada and expelled ex-Sen.

I have spent the last 36 years working as a law enforcement officer in Rockland County and have been successful by working together and coordinating efforts with the town and village police departments to provide the best public safety services possible for our residents.