Sentences with phrase «than any institution around»

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The Girl Scouts of the USA has been around for more than a century, but for much of the venerable institution's tenure, if you wanted to get your hands on a box of Thin Mints or Samoas, you had to cross your fingers for a door - to - door visit from a local troop or a sign - up sheet to be circulated through your office by a supportive parent.

Through a wide variety of educational programs sponsored by the U.S. government, corporations, foundations and foreign governments, we annually work with thousands of U.S. and international educational institutions and more than 27,000 students, scholars and professionals around the globe.

In a year when banks around the world were raising equity capital to shore up their balance sheets, Goldman raised $ 15.1 billion for financial institutions, more than any of its competitors, according to Dealogic.

Institutions that must staff courses given at distant sites and odd hours are especially tempted to lean heavily on occasional teachers rather than regular faculty, many of whom don't like to move around or to teach after dinner.

Communities of faith will form around areas and aspects of mission, rather than serving the corporate strategies of religious institutions seeking to retain and expand their market share.

Since the World Bank affects poor people around the globe more directly than any other social institution, John Cobb's exploration is important for anyone concerned about how Christians can creatively engage economic issues and trends.

Financial institutions around the world eagerly bought them up — for what could be safer than mortgages backed by the American government, as those of Fannie Mae uniquely were?

By acquiring earth - spanning technologies, by developing products that can be produced anywhere and sold everywhere, by spreading credit around the world, and by connecting global channels of communication that can penetrate any village or neighborhood, these institutions we normally think of as economic rather than political.

Now in its 25th year, the Euromoney Awards for Excellence covers more than 20 global product categories, best - in - class awards and the best Banks in over 100 countries around the world by recognizing institutions that have demonstrated leadership, innovation, and momentum in the markets they operate.

As the ERC and research institutions around Europe celebrate the funding body's 10th anniversary, Science Careers talked to three winners, from 10, five, and less than a year ago, to discuss the impact the grant has had on their professional and personal lives.

Today more religious institutions around the world have pledged to some form of fossil fuel divestment than any other class of institution, said Harper.

In addition, this work fuels the birth of biotechnology businesses within the Bio21 cluster, a group of 15 institutions in and around Melbourne that cooperate rather than competing against each other.

The peace prize has gotten around the limitation by awarding the prize to an organization rather than an individual, and Norden says that the «physicists have been tempted... to give it to a whole institution,» such as CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland, but the Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the physics and chemistry prizes, «will not allow that.»

This year's CROS drew more than 8000 responses from postdocs in 68 U.K. higher education institutions, representing a response rate of around a quarter.

At more than 20 medical institutions around the world, physicians have been experimentally treating patients diagnosed with recurrent depression by bombarding their left cortices with magnetic fields.

Messick, a Ph.D. student in physics at Pennsylvania State University in State College, is one of more than 3600 astrophysicists and astronomers from 953 institutions around the world who contributed to the discovery.

Less than a year ago the Autism Genome Project (AGP) Consortium, a collective of more than 120 scientists representing various institutions around the world, reported in Nature Genetics that it had found similar chromosomal variants in several autism patients.

González is a professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University (LSU) and spokesperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that includes more than 1,000 scientists from more than 90 institutions around the world.

Widespread recognition of his technical accomplishments is reflected in more than 20 invited talks at international conferences, including a prestigious Gordon Conference, and more than 25 additional invited seminars at institutions around the world.

For more than a decade, the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans, POGO, has served as a forum for leaders of major oceanographic institutions around the world to promote global oceanography, particularly the implementation of international and integrated global ocean observing systems.

But as we have so much fear around the unknowns of childbirth and we move away from our families, as birth has moved into hospitals bound to certain practices needed to keep their institutions running, and the disparities in maternal and infant outcomes based on race become clear, doulas are more important than ever.

There are few sights in a movie more poignant than inmates in an institution — a prison, or a mental hospital — mooching around in tracksuits, because you know they're not going to be running anywhere anytime soon.

Although the students and campus look more like Hefner's guests at the Playboy mansion than a academic institution, the eager freshman barely has time to look around before stumbling across an Internet clip showing a robot attack in China.

Fedena, the flagship product of Foradian is an open source school management system used in more than 40,000 institutions around the world powering 20 million users.

Similarly to banking institutions that nowadays rely mostly on their IT systems rather than brick and mortar agencies to secure safe contact with their clients, educational publishers should build their competencies around the systems supporting creation, distribution and undisrupted usage of their new digital methods.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about tenure policies, paths to promotion, and clarity of procedure around both.

Staff members can also communicate remotely with each other, which allows PLCs to transcend geographic borders and form a community based around a particular subject, such as math, rather than an institution.

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

She doesn't deserve books any more than any other individual in her institution — I mention the doctorate to remind you, if you're unconvinced, that reading is important enough to people that they'll spend time, money, and years for it, and arrange their life around the study of it.

It was these institutions, rather than any geographical or climatic advantages, that set the West on the path to global dominance beginning around 1500.

More than 600 institutions, encompassing thousands of libraries, around the world now use EBL.

Although these banking options are sporting lower rates, they are still relatively higher than the average interest rates you may encounter at banks and financial institutions around the nation.

Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving more than 47 million customers around the globe.

Georgia Aquarium is one of the top visited cultural institutions in Atlanta with more than 2 million annual guests and visitors from around the world.

Beginning in October, more than 60 institutions around Southern California — the Pomona College Museum of Art among them — will unveil a string of exhibitions devoted to the art of postwar Los Angeles.

Eichhorn's piece — and Steiner's curtailing of Koenig & Clinon's hours — recall Asher's proposal for the 2010 Whitney Biennial, to keep the museum open around the clock for a week (the Whitney agreed to three days, citing «budgetary and human resources limitations»), in reverse: rather than expand hours to promote inclusiveness, to welcome new people in to the institution, these works freed time for (mostly) modestly paid workers while slowing down an art calendar that overflows with action.

EXPO CHICAGO / 2012 GARNERS WIDESPREAD ENTHUSIASM AND SUPPORT FROM DEALERS, COLLECTORS AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS 27,000 People Attended the Inaugural Exposition EXPO CHICAGO Returns to Navy Pier's Festival Hall September 19 - 22, 2013 (Chicago) EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art welcomed more than 27,000 people to the inaugural event that featured 120 exhibitors from around -LSB-...]

Drawing significant institutional attendance, Frieze New York 2018 welcomed more than 200 groups from leadership and stakeholders at leading art museums and institutions from around the world.

Any lingering concerns about the change in the fair's dates — moved up from May to March, and starting on Friday instead of Wednesday — were addressed during the brief, three - hour V.I.P. preview on the first day, with what many veteran attendees said were larger - than - usual crowds of wealthy collectors and delegations from major art institutions around the world.

Over its three week - run, Performa 09's innovative program will break down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, film, television, radio, graphic design, and the culinary arts, presenting over 110 events in collaboration with a consortium of more than 80 of the city's leading arts institutions, 40 curators from around the world, and a network of public and private venues throughout the city.

Since 1992, CCS Bard has presented more than 50 museum exhibitions in the CCS Bard Galleries, many of which have traveled to institutions around the world.

Best known for expanding the architectural possibilities of fabric, Knodel has created grand installations for institutions around the world for more than three decades.

In her video Little Frank and His Carp 2001 (Tate T12324), Fraser performed as a visitor rather than a docent, walking around the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao listening to the institution's official audio guide and enacting a series of increasingly sexual gestures in response to descriptions of the building's architecture.

Cases like this can make an artwork seem considerably less interesting than the machinery of art and institutions that revolve around it.

During his life, George Eastman donated more than $ 100 million to educational and arts institutions, public parks, hospitals, dental clinics, and charitable organizations around the world.

«Students around the world are making it clear that the institutions entrusted to prepare them for the future can not simultaneously bet against their future by profiting from corporations that plan to burn many times more carbon than our atmosphere can safely absorb,» said Klein.

The study, led by Kostas Tsigaridis, an associate research scientist at Columbia University and at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Maria Kanakidou, professor at the University of Crete, Greece, brought together 71 scientists from 49 institutions, 31 different global models of various degrees of complexity, and observational data from more than 1000 stations around the globe acquired over the past few decades.

Europe can expect to see a surge in local resistance, like that witnessed in the UK, Romania and Poland: more than 370 grassroots organisations from all around Europe published last week a letter expressing strong concern about the promises not kept by the EU institutions to put in place a regulatory framework that would guarantee a so - called safe and sustainable development of this industry in Europe.

This is much more than a petting zoo.I came across a flier for Quite Contrary After School Farm at Johnnies - a local cafe / institution that is itself a huge supporter of local food and crafts to the extent it has its own flock of chickens running around the yard / neighborhood.

Indiana, which contains 2 % of the US population, already has four ABA - accredited law schools, including two «top 30» institutions, both of which feature legal unemployment rates for their grads of around 40 %, and which are currently placing only 20 % to 25 % of their graduates in firms of more than ten attorneys.