Sentences with phrase «than these community representatives»

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If Hillary Clinton is elected, that will likely spell a continuation of the status quo, with a Republican House of Representatives thwarting Democrats from accomplishing the goals that run counter to the interests of much of the business community, leaving free - market enthusiasts no worse off next year than they are today.

Understandably, there is a disproportionate number of younger users but overall, the Ethereum community appears much less representative of the global population than one might hope.

Nor can it be genuinely founded if it thinks in terms of the «dialogue» between states rather than between peoples, between the representatives of states rather than between the responsible and tested leaders of genuine communities.

This is a higher proportion of women than would be representative of either Israel or Rome in a comparable group during the first century A.D., and gives evidence that the equalitarian spirit of Jesus was already at work in the Christian community.

Again, however, he is usually selected on the basis of community leadership, rather than expertise in matters of mental health, or how representative he is of the community being served.

More than 200 representatives from the academe, the health and nutrition community, local government, and policymakers participated in the forum, held on July 23.

As our elected representatives come together in Albany this winter to craft this year's state budget, I want a document that speaks to our hopes rather than our fears and creates policies that will benefit every New Yorker — and there is no better declaration of intent than funding our community libraries.

That's according to Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, who was among more than 65 environmental group representatives who pitched ideas to state Senator Ken LaValle earlier this month, during his annual environmental round table at Suffolk County Community College's culinary arts center in downtown Riverhead.

Instead, he appears content to leave more than one million people — many living in poorer, minority communities — without representatives in one of the two houses of the state legislature.

This first of its kind conclave is scheduled for Friday, April 24th from 8:30 am to noon and will bring more than 100 representatives from the two counties to the Mohawk Valley Community College Alumni Center to identify priority health issues and those partnerships and strategies that can best address them.

As a voter and a local leader, I work to elect representatives that will be strong advocates for the interests of my family and for my community, rather than for single - minded interest groups.

All Community Board Districts in Queens are made up of more than one City Council District, and Borough President Katz has steadily moved toward making Community Boards more representative of all the City Council Districts within their boundaries.

Data were drawn from a representative sample of more than 22,000 Canadians, the 2012 Canadian Community Health Study: Mental Health.

An international team of more than 100 scientists, policy makers and community representatives, led by international conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), today published a new report outlining the vital steps needed to save the Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) from extinction.

View her as an individual rather than a representative of a particular race of the community.

In this regard, I am fortunate that the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Adhealth) provides information on the friendship patterns of a nationally representative sample of more than 90,000 students, from 175 schools in 80 communities, who entered grades 7 through 12 in the 1994 school year.

Governors are volunteers, such as parents or community representatives, so the decision to «strike» is a symbolic move rather than a refusal to carry out paid work.

The hearing, chaired by U.S. Representative Dale Kildee (D - MI), examined the potential effects of President Bush's plan to slash $ 281 million — 26 percent — of funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC), a federally supported afterschool program that provides services to more than 1.5 million children and their families.

CCSA has created more than two dozen Fact Sheets on a variety of key charter school topics that are a great tool for schools to use in outreach to parents, elected representatives and the greater community.

Our campaign includes more than 50 education advocacy organizations plus teachers and school administrators, representatives of charter schools and traditional public schools, urban and rural interests, business and organized labor, faith - based groups and community groups.

However, the PROSPER Act's approach to accountability ignores important lessons from state performance - based funding systems, many of which have been shown to funnel limited state dollars to well - resourced institutions that enroll the most affluent and academically prepared students while failing to support institutions that serve a more representative community.2 Rather than applying an immediate penalty through the blunt instrument of an artificial threshold, an effective accountability system would reward colleges that enroll and graduate Pell - eligible students while providing underperforming and underfunded institutions the time, resources, and support they need to improve.

This week, reflecting their constituents» views, more than 110 Representatives signed a letter calling for increased funding for Community Learning Centers.

The Redesign PD Partnership is a professional learning community that includes representatives from more than 30 leading education organizations.

A + was originally comprised of more than 100 citizen leaders, including community and business leaders, parents and representatives from local foundations and higher education.

School board members, especially those in large districts, are more representative of the communities they serve than state legislatures and members of Congress.

Rambo is the 2015 Military Dog Representative Having served more than 600 missions as an explosives detection military working dog with the Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) at the Corps» air station in Cherry Point, N.C., Rambo, a German Shepherd Dog, represented the Military Dog category sponsored by the Zoetis RIMADYL K - 9 Courage Program.

The only theme I can detect behind its organization is that the PMA thinks it has neglected this material, as well as Philadelphia's large African - American community and others who would like to see a more representative selection of art history than it has been presenting — and is determined to change.

These points were recently emphasized in a set of guiding principles for including forests in climate change issued last month by the Forests Dialogue on Climate Change, a coalition consisting of more than 250 representatives of governments, forestry companies, trade unions, environmental and social groups, international organizations, forest owners, indigenous peoples and forest - community groups.

In March, more than 80 representatives from industry, the environmental community, suppliers, think tanks, state and federal government, and academia convened at Harvard to discuss issues related to unconventional resource development.

I think Marburger lost credibility with non-global-warming-deniers on the Hill and with the science community by giving the impression that, when pressed on global warming, he was speaking more as a representative of Bush - Cheney than as a true intellectually independent scientist.

The puzzle of a representative judiciary is that many want a diverse bench because more varied experience will enhance judicial decision - making, and yet many worry about a representative judiciary precisely because it may mean judges will decide based on their identity or community affiliation rather than based on the facts and law before them.

All governments have, to some extent, consulted and are consulting, with Indigenous peoples and representatives of communities, even if it is no more than is usual for the relevant department to undertake in the process of policy - formulation.

Associations of chronic illness with depressive symptoms may be stronger in clinical convenience samples than in representative community - based samples, because clinical samples may overrepresent highly distressed young people seeking treatment for their chronic disease.

Because the univariate effect of the representativeness of the sample was lost in multivariate analysis, we conclude that this effect was based on a confounding variable (the use of control groups rather than test norms in community - based studies with representative samples).

This pattern of change in means over the decade between the 2005 study and ours appears consistent with the small, but significant, increases observed between 2007 and 2012 in the self - report subscale means for Total Difficulties, Emotional Symptoms, Peer Relationship Problems and Hyperactivity - Inattention (but a decrease in Conduct Problems) in nationally representative New Zealand samples of children aged 12 — 15 years, 28 and with a similar increase in Emotional Symptoms and decrease in Conduct Problems between 2009 and 2014 in English community samples of children aged 11 — 13 years.29 The mean PLE score in the MCS sample aligned closely with that reported previously for a relatively deprived inner - city London, UK, community sample aged 9 — 12 years19 using these same nine items, although the overall prevalence of a «Certainly True» to at least one of the nine items in the MCS (52.2 %) was lower than that obtained in the London sample (66.0 %).8

Approximately one - third of men and one - half of women reported being extremely, moderately, or slightly dissatisfied in their relationships indicating the sample was more distressed than would be expected in a randomly selected and representative community sample (one - sixth of men and one - fifth of women; O'Leary et al. 2007).

Using a representative community sample of 308 16 - year - olds from the Child Development Project (Dodge, Bates, & Pettit, 1990), we tested and corroborated the hypotheses that participants with relatively low anxiety and high APSD scores would display poorer passive avoidance learning and less interference on a spatially separated, picture - word Stroop task than controls.

REALTORS ® sent more than 140,000 letters in the last three months of 2004 asking their senators and representatives to pass the NAR - backed Community Choice in Real Estate Act.