Sentences with phrase «thing at the state level»

Benson Abounu that the Idoma people are not being marginalised in the scheme of things at the state level, reports from the state suggests, serious marginalization is ongoing in the state.

«It is clear that many things at the state level could be reformed to lower costs for taxpayers,» Fled said.

Same thing at the state level.

To get involved in fixing things at the state level, join the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools (www.excellentschools.org) and sign the Penny for Kids petition (www.apennyforkids.org).

Not exact matches

And certain things are better done on the federal level than at the state level: national defense, a monetary system, interstate commerce (including highways and aviation), the National Park System, and international diplomacy.

State - sponsored hackers had a big year, the Middle East continued to spiral out of control, numerous beloved public figures died, and venture capital stopped gushing at its previous levels, among a long list of other things.

This in turn suggests the possibility that at some level some sort of monism is inescapable, and that if the monism of Christ is rejected, the monism of the State» or of the Majority or of the Party, which amounts to the same thing» is the most readily available alternative.

The intense debate in the United States since September 11 about the meaning, history, and contemporary applicability of just war theory» much of it conducted in the pages of First Things» has been instructive and for the most part at a high level of conceptual and ethical sophistication.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

Isn't it «breaking a fly on a wheel,» however, to work up a lather of righteous indignation over a state of things in the business of breeding dogs that is far more egregiously conspicuous at most other levels of our society?

«If Financial Fair Play does not fulfil its role at a European level, the state must be able to step in and take the decisions to check and verify where the funding for these sorts of things came from.»

«SNA really promotes the importance of research, of building networks and using resources — connecting people on the ground with those things at the state and national level to create opportunities,» said Lacy.

we'll soon know) and «Online Politics at the State Level,» two things you CLEARLY want to learn more about.

There's some great things we've been working on at the city level that I think we can only further at the state level.»

Since the Republicans all but washed out on Election Day at the state level, losing every statewide contest and nearly deadlocking the Senate (although things are looking up for them there), Cox has been focusing on the House successes whenever anyone criticizes his leadership and suggests he should resign.

While he says good things could result from the people calling for a convention, he's frightened about the «really bad things [that] could happen,» citing the conservative climate now prevalent in politics at both the state and national levels which has the potential to revert or even repeal existing protections, such as the Forever Wild provision.

«Why am I not accusing Katsina State government, because it is doing their best but unfortunately at the federal level, things aren't working the way they should.

«When I served on the college Board of Trustees, as well as being in student government, there were a lot of things going on at the state level that I advocated for, such as student tuition [assistance] and transportation.

«If two giants at the national level fought and one lost, how does that translate to your victory in Ogun State that is making you with your foolish boys who do not know a thing to be rejoicing?

Elections are run at the state level, so a state - gerrymandered election could alter that balance of power in the state legislature, which would effect things like voter - suppression measures, enactment and enforcement of campaign finance regulations, and the ability of elections to be monitored and for rules to be enforced by non-partisan (or partisan) entities.

Administration officials said the true deficit number at the start of the process was $ 4.4 billion and that keeping state spending to the 2 percent cap level — which got things down to a $ 1.7 billion deficit — took a combination of spending cuts and proposed tax increases.

Mujica said Cuomo's budget amendments would also «decouple» the state tax code from the federal tax code to, among other things, allow individuals who do not itemize deductions at the federal level to do so on their state returns.

And once more, I have executive experience from having been a governor, so I understand these issues of decoupling [utility rates] and of the issues of doing solar carve - outs and the other things that have to happen at a state level.»

Thanks for the info, I found 2 weeks ago, that I have a hard time of burning fats... versus carbs during training or maybe something else was going on (there was has been a change in my workouts from morning to evening too)... but I started eating 75g or so of carbs at night (with same training intensity,, mostly aerobic with 2 days of «speed») the following week my energy levels were back to normal... not sure I do so well in ketogenic state or perhaps I wasn't as balanced as I should have been (carb, protein, fat) or my body just isn't acclimitized to those things yet (ketosis)... working on it though...

Haven't seemed to break out of that and into an alkaline state... even while daily drinking my «Cell Power» that helps balance PH: https://positivepowernutrition.com/products/cell-power/ I perform urine ketone tests first thing when I wake up and am typically at the extreme acidic level.

With a goal to have all students reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade, Arizona's Literacy Director Terri Clark seized the opportunity to utilize the 16 memos, sharing them with partners as well as the communities that signed on to work with Read On Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundations.

It's one thing if Congress goes along with such an approach — and if states are given a reasonable amount of time to demonstrate that their own standards are in fact set at a college - ready level.

She believed that regardless of the changes we made at the state level, she could never expect great things for her child.

«Because of our national reach, we know what great things people are doing at a state or network or classroom level, so we want to highlight that.»

The single best thing that could happen to American education in the next few years would be for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to begin regularly reporting state - by - state results at the twelfth grade level.

While powerul at the policy level, state - level advocacy networks are limited politically when things get big and struggle with command and coordination issues among different states.

Variation at the state - level — involving tuition rates, state scholarships, and licensure requirements, among other things — makes it important for school counselors, teachers, and other academic advisors to be aware of the opportunities and restrictions available to DACA - enrolled young people in their localities.

Much the same thing happened at the state level, as states began to carve a role for themselves in the provision and regulation of public education.

Still, he added, «We do as a state have state standards, things we believe it's important that kids should understand at different levels.

«The mayor talks quite frequently about the fact that there's no one panacea, there's no one thing that will fix our schools, there's a lot of things that need to be done both at the local level and the state level,» said Arielle Goren, the deputy communications director for the mayor's office.

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

States and districts are actively planning to use these dollars to bolster their human capital strategies, and there is momentum at the local level to do things better and smarter in order to accelerate student achievement.

So, you know continuing on the theme here that Kate has started with regards to equity and the need to perhaps have greater content knowledge in order to close those gaps and help those students to get on the trajectory to college and career, I'm wondering if we can hear from other panelists about things that you're seeing that teachers want as a part of the personalized professional development that you all are offering in Maryland at the state and school level.

The first thing you'll notice at the instrument cluster is the tachometer is replaced by the new Vehicle Energy Gauge that indicates the system power levels and regenerative energy capture, and below we have the battery state - of - charge replacing the engine temperature.

If you think of peering into the depths of the universe as like looking down from the hundredth floor of the Empire State Building (with the hundredth floor representing now and street level representing the moment of the Big Bang), at the time of Wilson and Penzias's discovery the most distant galaxies anyone had ever detected were on about the sixtieth floor, and the most distant things — quasars — were on about the twentieth.

NC has some unique things going on at the state level that keep the price artificially low, however.

It's Time for Animal Welfare Organizations to Value Dogs Over Corporations 11 May, 2018 It's a common thing for people in animal welfare to speak out about breed - discriminatory policies, whether they be at the county or state level, or even housing restrictions...

Another thing that would help a great deal would be to have agencies at the state level that would inspect and report on shelters, similar to what we have now for nursing homes.

S217 does nothing to improve animal well - being, as that would still be regulated at the state level — it simply complicates things for Virginians seeking their ideal companion animals and risks jobs.

When speaking with Bithell about the game back at E3, he stated that the map editor was the same thing that they had used to create all the levels inside of Volume.

(Things can be even worse at the state level, as I learned covering the Hudson Valley for The Times in the 1990s and seeing parochial competition among neighboring counties persistently trumping arguments for economic strategies benefitting the region.)

Public awareness seems to be increasing, and there are a lot of good things happening at the executive level: tighter fuel - efficiency standards, the carbon - pricing initiatives by the New England and West Coast states, the recent agreement between the U. S. and China on emissions.

That is, for instance, among other things, the Copenhagen Accord failed to get commitments from the United States and some other developed countries to reduce ghg emissions at levels necessary to prevent serious climate change damage.

Among other things, the authors state that [1] «scientists do not know how large the greenhouse effect is, whether it will lead to a harmful amount of global warming, or (if it will) what should be done about it» (p. 560); [2] that «profound disagreements» about global warming exist within the scientific community (p. 560); [3] that so - called «activist scientists» say that the earth's climate is warming (p. 560); [4] that «science doesn't know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect Is, if it exists at all» (p. 569); [5] and that global warming is «enmeshed in scientific uncertainty» (p. 573).