Sentences with phrase «thought is a community effort»

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When Sen. John McCain (R - AZ) cast his now - famous thumbs - down vote on GOP health care efforts in late July, pessimism weighed even more, and in August, it was hard to find anyone in the professional investment community who thought a tax bill was even close to a sure thing.

I tend to think of myself as someone who was involved in the effort to build a sense of community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina through my work with the theater and the researchers at the University of Houston.

If 57 % don't think they're sincere, then when the FBI comes into their communities, they're not going to cooperate with those efforts.

I think what you're saying, David, is that for relationships and community to work, it's a very practical thing... love, effort, hard work on everyone's part.

Focus your social media efforts on the communities (or «tribes,» as marketing expert Seth Godin calls them) that most influence you and the things you're passionate about, and give back to the community in thought leadership.

Since stable, long - term monogamous relationships would solve much of the disease problem in the gay community, and we are just getting started in encouraging those, I think sheer compassion would drive Jesus to join that effort.

Through this collaborative effort between vintners and growers, sustainability is a concept that has now entered the mainstream thinking and doing of the California wine community.»

We reached out to some of our previous classes of School Nutrition Heroes to get their thoughts on why the award was so meaningful for them, and how it has helped them amplify their efforts in their own communities.

I really thought that the community was going to be more supportive in general of each other and each other's efforts and say «hey if you are supportive of breast milk then you are on my side.»

«I think people were also taken aback by Sen. Addabbo, [for] whom the community had... dug deep into the pockets to help him get elected, put time and effort into his campaign.»

In response to the local community's support of the «Think DIFFERENTLY» campaign, Dutchess County is developing the inaugural «Think DIFFERENTLY» Awards, which will honor the best efforts of community agencies, municipalities, businesses and individuals to embrace the philosophy later this year.

«I think we need to look at how we can coordinate these different efforts in a positive way because none of us want to see the failure that would be represented by a community feeling they have to go into bankruptcy,» said DiNapoli.

This was truly a joint effort between all levels of government and the collective community that advocated for this and made their thoughts known.

«We have a big, big Latino community here and I don't think the efforts they're making are big enough to reach out to everyone.»

I think the N.Y.P.D. and the mayor are making efforts to work with the community.»

«I think these are important efforts, and the library community is very supportive of them,» says Joseph Branin, director of the Ohio State University libraries.

This event is aimed at establishing a platform for a youth - driven interdisciplinary, multi-sector think - tank that will support the efforts of business community, governments, security agencies and international partners in ensuring enhanced security, development and creating opportunities on the African continent.

Even in schools that make forthright efforts to teach students good social skills, there is a premium on what can be thought of as «vocational citizenship» — with its emphasis on learning socially desirable behaviors not as part of an attachment to community or nation but for the practical benefits they will provide to the individual student.

Helping Urban Students Succeed Judy Farmer, the new chairwoman of the board of directors of the Council of the Great City Schools, thinks urban schools are doing a lot right, and more joint efforts by educators and communities can lead to greater gains.

«When you see a school and community that put a lot of thought and effort [into] investing in the promise of racial integration, it's like a little miracle,» says Saxena, reflecting on a recent trip to the Community Roots Charter School, a preK — 8 school located in community that put a lot of thought and effort [into] investing in the promise of racial integration, it's like a little miracle,» says Saxena, reflecting on a recent trip to the Community Roots Charter School, a preK — 8 school located in Community Roots Charter School, a preK — 8 school located in Brooklyn.

Analysis of responses from a sample of 83 teaching schools and 80 other Ofsted - category outstanding schools suggests that teachers would welcome support from the research community; NFER is forging alliances across the sector to ensure joined up thinking and to maximise the impact of our collective effort on classroom practice.

But even with those efforts, and following the debut of the resulting design, the district made a decision to again go into the community in a series of meetings entitled, «Come listen, learn, and let us know...» This told the community that their thoughts mattered; they were sharing in shaping the future of the school.

You'd think an effort to improve school standards and promote higher expectations for students — adopted by 45 states, embraced by the business community, and endorsed by governors and education reformers from both parties — would be about as controversial as motherhood and apple pie.

Since I have been adding a lot of posts and comments to the Community lately, I thought it might be nice to tell you a little more about my background and my team's efforts to promote integrated, evidence - based social - emotional learning in Milwaukee Public Schools.

«We are still in the middle of this effort, but I think what we've shown here,» he says, «is that districts and communities in dire situations can come together and do what's best for kids.»

I saw the carrot, I saw the community, I saw the honest effort and I saw the sincerity of the users, but I didn't see any mechanism by which all those things could be focused through the lens of authority into the kind of intimate writing environment that I think authors need.

I've asked Howey if, in fact, he thinks that an author - advocacy effort like Author Earnings could have been mounted before the substantial rise we see today of the entrepreneurial - author dynamic, which is so focused on community and, in many instances, on mutual support.

«It is extremely rewarding to think that the look and feel of the shop is something that people and animals gravitate toward and that we have been recognized for our efforts to create a pet loving community.»

April 26, 2017 Maddie's Fund ®, a national family foundation established by Dave and Cheryl Duffield to revolutionize the status and well - being of companion animals, has surprised 15 animal welfare leaders with Maddie Hero Awards for their incredible efforts in furthering the no - kill nation mission through shelter medicine, community lifesaving and big picture thinking.

Organized by Erika Vogt as a community - building effort using the screen as a site for experience, the screening is a chorus of parts: moving parts, speaking parts, skeletal parts, muscle parts, parts for the eyes, parts for the senses, parts for thought, and parts for the imagination.

Overall, I think the debate over the iris hypothesis is a testament to the efforts the scientific community goes through to evaluate challenges to theories and find ways to improve our understanding of the climate (for instance, see Bill Ruddiman's post from last week).

I think what is needed is a co-operative effort on the part of the community to generate submissions packed with value, but that won't alienate readers.

Also, though it's not directly relevant to the issue of the most productive approach in terms of our own long term interests (which I think if people really understood this problem would involve a lot more fealty to moving off of FF now, and the idea of building even more coal plants — which are also responsible for most of the excess that allows bio accumulation of the serious neurological toxin mercury in our food supply, damages watersheds, mountain tops, sometimes whole communities and ecosystems, and, CC aside, is also very polluting — would be more apt to be seen as the idiocy it is), in some sense, no one has a full inherent right to anything really we as a world have built up: It has been a collective effort and you can only drive a Ferrari for instance, because of the hard work of countless others before you and along side you.

I think if there was an effort made by the city to plan a designated Tiny House subdivision with specially provided amenities and a view, and maybe even a gated community, it could catch on.

I think it is very valuable to be involved in the legal community (bar associations) and I am making more of an effort to do so (I just joined two committees).

Since that kind of overlaps a lot with the efforts we've been making to build the TBD Law community, we thought it would be fun to note how many of the TBD Law alumni are also alumni of the Fastcase 50 list.

We think that the patent reform efforts have left the community at the door, and we're fixin'to fix that.»

From Twitter to job - specific communities, this social effort will set you up for professional thought leadership, as well as being able to actively control how others not only gain information about you, but also perceive you.

«The Austin Board of REALTORS ® is a forward - thinking, progressive Association and MLS provider, and we're dedicated to this effort because of the direct benefit to our members as well as the entire real estate community.»