Sentences with phrase «through decades of effort»

His influence can be traced to almost every corner of the charter movement's development, and unlike Shanker and the others, he remained dedicated to building and promoting the idea through decades of effort.

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Through decades of experimentation, she has demonstrated that while you may be born with certain innate talents or aptitudes, it is training, personal effort, and experience that can help you become the person you want to become.

But when we make an effort to come together, we have to pick our way through mine - fields of decades - old feuds and fears.

Russo brings more than a decade of experience working with leading brands to manage strategic growth efforts through market planning and optimization, site reviews and procurement, and development tracking.

She has nearly two decades of experience working with lactating mothers, has sat for the international lactation consultant exam twice, and has fewer greater joys than encouraging mothers, advocating for their rights, and working through challenges in effort to optimize the breastfeeding couples experience.

«Today's land claim settlement agreement represents decades of diligent effort and heroic patience on the part of the Stockbridge - Munsee Tribe through the years,» Governor Paterson said.

He started as a 22 - year - old inspector on the Peace Bridge and, over the next three decades, rose through the ranks to become one of the most important, and largely unknown, faces of the post-9 / 11 security effort here.

But in the last decade, the Japanese government has sought to counter this by internationalizing the country through a series of administrative innovations, alliances with foreign government agencies, financial support for foreign scholars, and programs that bolster top universities» international recruitment efforts.

Through a decades - long effort, physicists have managed to incorporate all of the forces save gravity into a theory called the standard model.

MB - 003 was developed through a decade - long collaborative effort between private industry and the U.S. government, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

The wildlife populations of this spectacular landscape have been subject to heavy poaching during various periods over the past decades, and conservation efforts in the area, carried out thanks to longstanding EU financial support through PDRN, ECOFAC and ECOFAUNE projects, have been negatively impacted by the past three years of armed conflict.

Gradually, painfully, through some four decades of effort, Sandford and the other scientists have teased out different strands of the story of prebiotic chemistry.

Atkinson said: «We reached this tremendous milestone through the efforts of more than 800 people over eight years... We have documented, in extensive detail, the design conceived by Dr Jose Reyes more than a decade ago.

Through their efforts, by the second decade of the 21st century, the picture had cleared.

Consequently, the strains of decreased purchasing power coupled with the responsibility for maintaining the national U.S. ground - based effort in radio, optical, and solar astronomy have led to a division of the NSF AST budget such that, through the decade of the 1990s, about 65 percent of the NSF allocation to AST was assigned to facilities operated by national astronomy organizations, with only about 22 percent made available to support individual investigators (Figure 6.2); the rest went to instrumentation and the university radio observatories.

Gangs has been a dream project for Scorsese for decades, and the effort and time spent on research shows through in each speck of dirt on Sandy Powell's period - perfect costumes and every loose shingle on every dilapidated building in production designer Dante Ferretti's uncanny recreation of 1863 New York City, specifically the neighborhood known as the Five Points.

Education Next: Over the past four decades, many states have revised their funding of schools, through either judicial or legislative initiatives, in an effort to improve schools serving disadvantaged children.

Mr. Look, 37, must steer his 82 - year - old high school on the far west side of this river city through an aggressive, federally mandated effort to reverse a decades - long decline in student achievement that has given Shawnee the label of one of Kentucky's worst...

Considerable effort has been made over the past decade to address the needs of learners in large urban districts through scaleable reform initiatives.

Especially when you consider that Alabama Republicans in control of state government have worked for the past decade to disenfranchise minority voters through efforts such as closing motor vehicle branches in Black communities, a key way of frustrating voter registration.

This includes his decades of wildlife rehabilitation as well as the publicized animal cruelty crusades (through the amazing efforts of Georgia House Rabbit Society) to rescue abandoned or abused domestic rabbits.

Among the periods she intends to highlight are the years 1924 to 1943, when the notion of a distinct American folk art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular art.

Through these efforts, the art world has been introduced and reintroduced to a host of important figures, many of whom have worked for decades in obscurity.

Leeds has been collecting an impressive range of artworks over the decades, and the gallery is hugely helped in its efforts to buy contemporary work in these straightened times through the efforts of the Leeds Art Fund, which celebrates its centenary this year.

But while science advances through that process of argument, public attitudes on climate change have largely been dulled by the debate, particularly after more than a decade of industry - backed efforts to point to the implicit complexity in the science as a reason for inaction on related energy and climate policies.

Rolling back efficiency efforts is also at odds with the findings of a September 2017 energy efficiency potential study completed for the Iowa Utilities Association, which determined that 17 % of electricity use and 15 % of gas use in the state could be saved cost - effectively through efficiency programs over the next decade.

Through large - scale tree planting efforts, the three — China, India and South Korea — have together removed more than 12 billion metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere over the past two decades.

Harper said, «We've been through the exercise in the past decade or so of setting targets that were idealistic or blue sky and no one went out and actually achieved them, or set targets that look great on paper and didn't actually require any effort.»

In this context, «learning by doing» at pilot - scale facilities (see Figure 3) and through targeted international collaboration is particularly important in the next decade as part of a broader effort to ensure that necessary expertise is grown to facilitate effective global rollout of CCS in the longer term.

A new focused effort by a team of researchers analyzed 26 decades of hurricane activity, covering the end of the Little Ice Age (LIA) through 2012 for the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico water regions.

But now, thanks to the efforts of local conservationists, the river's making a comeback as more and more folks are discovering that, even in the concrete jungle, there's still a bit of real nature to be found.After decades of weepily weaving through the middle of the second largest city in America, unkempt and ignored, the Los Angeles river is once again being celebrated and revitalized as a setting for water recreation.

Not much: despite efforts over many decades, the international community has not been very effective at rebuilding stability through rule of law.

Senator Daniel Akaka tried to push through a bill for federal recognition of Native Hawaiians between 2000 and 2010, but efforts to establish nation - to - nation relations have floundered, in part due to Native Hawaiian frustration at the US government's failure to make reparations for its decades of colonialism.

For over two decades, practitioners, advocates, and scholars involved with the U.S. child welfare system have engaged in coordinated efforts to increase the number of foster youth who find stable, permanent homes through adoption or guardianship, and these efforts have been shaped and guided by federal policies and directives.