Sentences with phrase «through campaigning efforts»

The move to ban discarding has gained widespread public support through the campaigning efforts of supermarkets, pressure groups, chefs including Hugh Fearnley - Whittingstall, and other celebrities such as the band Coldplay and the comedian Ricky Gervais.

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Through her family's trust, she has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to the organization's efforts to defeat California's recreational marijuana proposal, given at least $ 30,000 to the campaign against Nevada's proposed legal weed law, and donated another $ 25,000 to defeat the pro-pot effort in Massachusetts, according to an analysis of state campaign finance filings by VICE News.

«I'm so proud of how our guests, restaurant teams and partners stepped up to support this heartfelt effort to help St. Jude in their critical effort to save kids lives,» said John Morberg, CEO of Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp., which added $ 35,000 to the campaign in addition to funds raised through the company's restaurants and supply partners.

«Low» included indirect male engagement strategies such as general mass outreach efforts such as community health fairs and mass media campaigns; «high» included male engagement strategies with direct personal contact, such as interpersonal communication through home visits or through groups such as community - based organizations.

To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the Let's Move campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

Marie Stopes International is calling for greater effort, through public education campaigns and advertising of family planning methods and services, to increase women's awareness of the full range of contraceptive options and regular use of a method suitable to their lifestyles.

The major presidential campaigns have put tons of effort into creating websites, building their own social networks, creating online videos and reaching out to voters through Facebook and MySpace, but they're so far mostly ignoring a simple and effective tool to help their supporters find volunteers, raise money and spread messages: web widgets.

But now Republicans in battleground legislative and congressional campaigns are tying Democrats to the fundraising issues surrounding de Blasio and the 2014 effort to apparently funnel donations through county committees to individual candidates.

It will play a leading role in the campaign against Daesh and to support international efforts to bring peace to Syria through a lasting political settlement.

But in competitive districts the new targeting scheme makes it possible for campaign assemblages to leverage their considerable resources to actually expand the electorate in significant ways, both in terms of persuasion efforts and get - out - the - vote efforts — and when the stakes are high enough, even through voter registration efforts.

Preliminary reports on turnout suggest that the Obama re-election campaign succeeded again in shaping the very nature of the electorate through massive investments of time, effort, and money in both the technical infrastructure and the raw manpower necessary for an effective up - to - date ground game.

She later moved to the Cuomo administration, working first on his campaign's effort to draw in more women voters through the Women's Equality Party and later as a special advisor on issues such as combating campus rape and sexual assault.

At the December, 2009 edition, Charles Lenchner and I had a great conversation about applying the lessons of the ’08 Obama campaign to local political campaigns and issue advocacy efforts, and it lives on still through the magic of online video.

The major presidential campaigns have put tons of effort into creating websites, building their own social networks, creating online videos and reaching out to voters through Facebook and MySpace, but they're so far mostly ignoring a simple and effective tool to help their supporters find...

The state's lobbying regulator on Tuesday required public relations consultants to register their efforts to influence government through public campaigns — including newspaper editorials — in a move one public relations firm said would allow government to spy on journalists.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

In particular, she blamed Cuomo's political machinations for the failure of campaign finance and ethics reform efforts, and for New York not outlawing natural gas extraction through the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

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The election law issue at hand is known as «earmarking» — which is also the memo's title — and refers to whether a donation has been passed through one campaign committee to another in a concerted effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits.

Percoco's Moreland - related legal costs were borne by the campaign, the spokesman said, because he was managing Cuomo's re-election effort from April through December 2014, and was not working for the Executive Chamber.

«MEND was aware of this plot through a spy that could not be identified, and the group began its campaign to counter every effort of the NDA and the Biafran agitators to this day,» the group said.

Schulz helped spread his campaign message through social media, which he estimates comprised about 30 percent of his campaign efforts.

The Citizens» Election Program was Connecticut's landmark effort, passed in 2006, to remove the taint of special - interest money from elections and to level the playing field for candidates through voluntary public financing of political campaigns.

Her previous role as the Internship Supervisor involved managing a team of interns in order to meet Solarize campaign goals through outreach and marketing efforts while providing professional skills training.

The campaign sent out a 30 - year - old spokesman named Bill Burton to shut Progressive Media down by telling the press, «From the beginning of this race, Obama has told supporters that if they want to help his effort, they should do so through his campaign.»

A number of City Council Members who are jockeying to replace Melissa Mark - Viverito as the next Speaker of the City Council seem to be stepping up efforts to curry favor with their colleagues and other elected officials through strategic campaign donations.

The board alleged that money had been illegally routed through county Democratic committees to State Senate candidates, in an effort to avoid campaign finance rules.

This has significantly limited any effort to promote political equality through regulation of campaign spending and contributions.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee earmarked $ 20,700 for Owens from its own fund - raising efforts, making transfers to Owens» campaign committee through the end of DCampaign Committee earmarked $ 20,700 for Owens from its own fund - raising efforts, making transfers to Owens» campaign committee through the end of Dcampaign committee through the end of December.

The leader of an effort to unseat Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling into question whether de Blasio's spending through his nonprofit Campaign for One New York over the last few years violates city campaign finance spendingCampaign for One New York over the last few years violates city campaign finance spendingcampaign finance spending limits.

Thousands of volunteers, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton and N'SYNC star Lance Bass, have offered their support for the same - sex marriage bill in recent weeks through phone banks, postcard campaigns and neighborhood canvassing efforts.

Cuomo, no friend of incumbent Democrat Eric Schneiderman, «has made it clear through his connections that he won't hold it against anyone if they contribute to Cahill's campaign,» said a source close to Cahill's planned effort.

Sugarman's referral documents extensive efforts by Mayor Bill de Blasio's election campaign to route large contributions through Democratic Party County Committees to Democrats running for the state senate in a handful of contested seats upstate.

Through what's know as an independent expenditure, political parties and committees can also spend on advertising as long as their efforts aren't officially coordinated with a candidate's campaign.

From managing national campaigns to organizing issue advocacy messages through thousands of volunteer contacts, Lincoln Strategy Group uses grassroots efforts to successfully achieve results.

Flanagan quickly shot down Cuomo's efforts in a statement, rejecting the LLC loophole as a reform issue and insisting reform efforts should focus exclusively on reforms related to activities of Mayor Bill de Blasio, despite the fact that his predecessor, Skelos, was convicted on corruption charges that involved the influence of real estate groups that have flooded legislators» campaign coffers with donations through the loophole.

Researchers at Detroit Medical Center reported the results of the implementation of an initiative called the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, www.survivingsepsis.org, an international effort to formulate guidelines to improve sepsis treatment and reduce mortality through sustainable change and physician education.

«We applaud the efforts of U2 lead singer and social activist, Bono, through the REVO «Buy Vision, Give Sight» initiative for supporting the Our Children's Vision campaign, which aims to address the plight of children with myopia,» added Professor Naidoo.

Through the Understand AD campaign, a national awareness effort focused on educating people about moderate - to - severe atopic dermatitis (AD), a potentially serious, chronic inflammatory skin disease, [i] Elizabeth is sharing her story for the first time.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

Running through this depiction of personal and professional lives are the campaigning efforts of one unseen Hal Phillip Walker, a candidate who's running for President of the United States on «the Replacement Party» ticket, evidently aware of Tennessee's history of aligning with the nation's victor.

Haneke's efforts at attracting horror film - goers through posters and trailers are salient, especially in the advertising campaign for Funny Games U.S. (although it is arguable whether his goal was realised).

CYFI also promotes ECE through global advocacy and knowledge sharing efforts is a global youth money awareness campaign which CYFI coordinates each year.

Based on the first thorough study of the archival records, this essay reveals that the campaign established novel features of university fundraising through contentious negotiations among conflicting groups, prompted the university administration to centralize and control alumni affairs and development efforts for the first time, and, above all, introduced today's ubiquitous episodic pattern of continuous fundraising, in which mass comprehensive campaigns alternate with discrete solicitations of wealthy donors, whose dominant roles have never changed.

Alexandria, Va. (Oct. 18, 2016)-- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) and the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), in partnership with the Learning First Alliance's Get it Right campaign, have developed a communications toolkit to support school leaders and educators» efforts to prepare high school students for success after graduation through effective community engagement.

Consequently, the EEF has focused considerable effort in this area — particularly for younger and for struggling readers — through our KS2 / 3 transition funding of 24 literacy projects and our ongoing Primary Literacy Campaign in the North - East of England.

October 18, 2016 - NSBA and NASSP, in partnership with the Learning First Alliance's Get it Right campaign, have developed a communications toolkit to support school leaders and educators» efforts to prepare high school students for success after graduation through effective community engagement.

This publication describes this new effort as a campaign across California to develop strong, articulated, equitably accessible preschool through high school programs and learning opportunities that will prepare students with high level proficiency in two or more languages.

Through her work with the Boston Teacher Policy Team and the federal In Class, Not Cuffs campaign, Nina joined the efforts of thousands of other E4E teachers enacting change at the school, district, state, and national level.

NSBA has also broken new ground in its advocacy efforts through its «Stand Up 4 Public Schools» national campaign.