Sentences with phrase «take on a number of issues»

While the show has successfully taken on a number of issues important to the left in recent years, such as help for Puerto Rico following the devastating hurricane last year and warning against the prospect of a President Trump, the tactics used to respond to the Apu controversy largely came across as tone deaf.

I recently spoke with Bruce MacEwen to get his take on a number of issues facing the legal industry and the practice of law.

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If companies are looking to attract tech talent, the number one thing they can do is take a stand on some of these social, moral and ethical issues.»

«Somebody coming in from the outside would bring fresh ideas but would also have to take some time to get up to speed on a number of those issues.»

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

So, if a business relies on a brand to make money, the risk in any «moral» position it takes on a social issue is exactly in proportion to the number of people who might take the opposite view.

The Trump administration on Wednesday issued a number of rules tweaking the health law as a potential replacement strategy takes hold, including loosening the penalties imposed on Americans who can't prove they've purchased health insurance.

Each point on the chart is calculated by taking the difference between the number of advancing / declining issues and adding the result to the previous period's value.

Barlow was much more prepared this time and took Smith to task on a number of issues of local concern.

A small but growing number of countries now have legal requirements for institutional investors to report on how their investment policies and performance are affected by environmental factors, including South Africa and, prospectively, the EU.36 Concern about the risks of a «carbon bubble» — that highly valued fossil fuel assets and investments could be devalued or «stranded» under future, more stringent climate policies — prompted G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in April 2015 to ask the Financial Stability Board in Basel to convene an inquiry into how the financial sector can take account of climate - related issues.37

Yahweh in hebrew means my Lord and is a common reference meaning supreme God.In the bible satan is referred specifically as the adversary in hebrew or slanderer in greek its quite clear there is no confusion.Satan is not in the same league as God he is sovereign in fact God has satan on a leash and limits his control particularly over his people as we read in Job.Christians need to realise that satan can influence us if we walk according to the flesh.In the case of David calling a cencus meant he gave in to his pride he wanted to know how many soldiers he had believing numbers would give him the upper hand and so Satan took advantage of his weakness and Davids choice displeased God.David of all people should have known as he as a young man had defeated goliath a mighty warrior and it was because of his faith and trust in God that he overcame.But it wasnt God that made David make that decision it was his own and satan tempted him and he gave in to that desire In the two verses there is no confusion if you understand how God and satan operate i did at one stage have the same issue with Jesus sending the demons into the pigs why would he help satan or at least it appeared that way?

The American Copy Editors Society is organizing a National Summit on Plagiarism and Fabrication, which will take place on April 5, and this has led a number of people to start thinking about plagiarism issues in advance of the event.

The following timeline shows a number of actions the government took in the past year, setting precedents and priorities on various issues, including sexual orientation, health care, and hiring decisions.

But on many issues there was in any case a pluralist approach: he was free to follow any of a number of options and take the open - ended discussion forward.

In the book I am writing on the Blessed Evangelical Mary, I take up a number of these issues in detail.

It takes but a little imagination to see how a wide variety of resources could be coordinated and brought to bear on any number of such issues.

I've been the food editor of the Norwegian American Weekly for a number of issues now, and before any more time passes, I thought I'd take a moment today to write an update about what's going on over there at the food section.

The USMNT needs to figure out how to get more of that talent to take the next step, but given the number of young players already starting to make an impact for some good teams, they may be on the cusp of having that issue figured out.

I base this opinion on the fact that at any given age, a huge number of babies will be displaying the same sleep «issues» (sorry for taking you back to 1992 with the lingo), no matter what their parents have done or are doing with regards to sleep.

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Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

Hon Adongo, a chartered accountant by profession, has been one of the few vocal MPs on the NDC side, taking on the government on a number issues bordering on its handling of the economy and governance.

While a number of state legislatures have called on Congress to propose a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United or address the related issue of corporate «personhood,» few have taken the route of asking Congress to call for a constitutional convention.

Along those lines, The Alt took a look at how our state and governor compare nationwide on a number of key issues.

Marcellino on Friday was the announced appointment of Majority Leader John Flanagan to chair the education panel, which will take up a number of high - profile school - related issues in the remaining post-budget legislative session.

Since then, lawmakers who represent areas with large numbers of state workers in their districts — the Capital Region and Long Island — have written to the Cuomo administration urging them to take action on the issue.

IPAC also took a number of decisions in a press statement issued to the media on Tuesday.

Prosecutors called it all a bribe deal intended to influence Joseph Percoco, who later took a number of steps — mostly via email — to help the company with a couple of its snags on issues before state government.

, he envisions a form of government that among other things includes the dissolution of the state, and indeed also a large number of citizen juries, selected by lot, that take decisions on public policy issues.

Finally, on a number of issues, especially on benefits for immigrants, EU immigration and social housing, DUP voters tend to take a kind of UKIP - lite position, sharing similar positions to UKIP voters, if not quite as strong.

Still, Ogden noted, a number of key issues central to the 2015 agreement remain unresolved — like what legal form the deal will take, how countries will prove they are making progress on mitigation targets and how much money wealthy nations will pony up to help poorer ones cut carbon and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

Writing in the June 2017 issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other species.

I am dealing with autoimmune issues (PMR) for which I take a number of medications including prednisolone, severe osteoarthritis in both knees, and am 3 years post breast cancer having had all the chemo and radio therapy and am now on aromatase inhibitor therapy.

Sore joints, eczema, headaches, low energy, digestive issues — if you suffer through any of these on the regular, you're probably tempted to brush them off as annoying but not that big of a deal.Yet if your symptoms are chronic or don't have an obvious cause (like a gnarly workout that you can link to muscle aches), one doctor warns you shouldn't take them lightly because they could be hints that a more serious health storm is brewing.According to Parsley Health founder Robin Berzin, MD, all of these complaints could be early signs of autoimmune disease: a broad category of ailments that are plaguing a rapidly growing number of Americans, especially women.

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Examined Life (Unrated) The current mindset of America is the subject of this documentary, directed by Astra Taylor, which takes a number of leading academic intellectuals like Cornel West, Peter Singer and Anthony Appiah away from academia and into the streets of America where they weigh - in on cultural issues ranging from consumerism to individualism to modern morality.

As a result, the number of respondents who took the neutral position dropped on almost every issue from what had been observed in prior years.

For example, the data revealed that bullying is the number one issue students want to take action on, 88 percent of teens view bullying as a problem, gender slightly alters student's perception of the problem, and charter schools fair slightly better in the bullying problems.

While this study was limited by the number of participants who self - selected to take part, the researchers are hoping to secure additional funding to expand it nationwide, to gather reliable large - scale, nationally - representative data on this issue.

Welner takes issue with one of these, arguing that Florida's OPPAGA study is based on questionable assumptions regarding the number of students who were induced to leave the public school system because of the STC program.

There are a range of critical issues, such as: the implementation of the reauthorized ESEA (now called The Every Student Succeeds Act) which includes new flexibility for states in designing state standards and accountability systems as well as a hard cap on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities taking alternate assessments on alternate standards; regulations on disproportionate identification of minority students to special education; and, the goal to transition more disadvantaged students into college and careers that will have a significant impact on some of the most vulnerable children.

In response to such legislative inaction, Secretary Duncan took bold steps to foster reform — most notably by issuing ESEA waivers to states who signed on to support his priorities, such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the removal of statutory caps on the number of charter schools.

As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

* UPDATED As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

Unlike some other states that didn't take a break from their accountability system and touted the Common Core as «this is what Arne Duncan wants,» the California leadership consistently put up a fight against the feds on waivers and a number of other issues... I actually accused them in another EdSource opinion piece of treating us like «Southern sheriffs.»

A Systematic Review on Improving Rehabilitation Outcomes for Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Individuals with Disabilities Number 31 This issue of FOCUS describes a systematic review that was conducted to address a critically important research question about cultural competency by taking stock of the current literature and evidence.

Critics on the left have taken issue with a number of things surrounding the standards (you can read a post about eight problems with the Core here), saying that there was not enough input from educators into the drafting of the Core, that the standards are not based on any research, that they ignore what is known about early childhood development and much more.

Over the last eighteen months, the Department has set an aggressive safety agenda, proactively taking on a number of critical safety issues, including distracted driving, pilot fatigue, and transit safety, as well as holding automakers accountable for vehicle defects.

Plus, a lot of the cards that issue instant credit card numbers upon approval are travel rewards cards, which can eventually help relieve some of your stress by helping you take your next vacation on points and miles instead of cash!

That's why we're detailing each bank's policy on issuing instant credit cards numbers — some make it easy, while others take a bit of work.