Sentences with phrase «to combat»

Johnson is proposing a unique approach to combat the depressingly repetitive, dehumanizing experiences that black people and other people of color too frequently experience in retail spaces.

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was set for sentencing on Oct. 23 after pleading guilty last week to abandoning his combat post in Afghanistan in 2009.

Whether you are a K - 12 student, guardian, or coach, understanding what teachers go through is important to combat this ignorance and promote understanding.

But it can also be used to combat administrative headaches like long hospital wait times.

The company said sales in its Pratt & Whitney unit, which also makes the engine for Lockheed Martin Corp's F - 35 combat jets, rose 15.2 percent.

American engineers assessed the design, performance and limitations of MiGs in an attempt to learn their vulnerabilities — knowledge that could come in handy during combat situations.

STAFF turnover is costing Western Australian companies billions of dollars and needs to be addressed to combat labour shortages and improve productivity.

Lockheed's portfolio is wide ranging, spanning missile defense systems, Sikorsky helicopters, Littoral Combat Ships and spacecraft for NASA.

If you need permission to get more shut eye to combat your burnout, look no further than HuffPo founder and Thrive author Arianna Huffington's TED talk.

Re / code talked to After School's creators — Cory Levy and Michael Callahan (of One, a San Francisco - based social media startup), and asked them some questions about their app and about how they plan on combatting the obvious strain of bullying that goes hand - in - hand with anonymous apps such as theirs.

One way to combat this could involve regulation and policy that outline best practices for collecting consumer data, according to Empatica cofounder Rosalind Picard.

But there are some signs that efforts to combat corporate corruption seem to be ramping up in Canada.

And then we had to fight this thing out hand - to - hand combat everywhere — Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Vegas, Miami, Houston, Dallas, L.A., Seattle, Denver, Chicago, you name it.

As part of its plan to combat that trend, media company Salon is jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon.

TailsSpin owners and management along with owners and management of the Blue Buffalo Pet Cancer Awareness Foundation, with part of a donation to combat cancer in pets.

McGraw, who has completed five tours in Afghanistan, said he's flown about 300 combat missions in the wartorn country, deploying his weapons about 25 % of the time.

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

Bonnie Sumner, an independent voter who has lived in Colorado the last nine years, is among those who said doing something to combat climate change is important.

To combat that potential problem, D.R. Horton is now putting more emphasis on buying and selling homes as quickly as possible.

In an Oct. 4 letter to acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, Sen. Marco Rubio demanded the branch nullify the military commission of 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone, the West Point graduate, Afghanistan combat veteran, and self - identified member of the Democratic Socialists of America who posted photos of himself wearing a Che Guevara shirt under his uniform and a «Communism Will Win» sign tucked into his cover on Sept. 24.

The irony, of course, is that the state regulators with whom Klein had partnered to theoretically combat fraud — the NASAA — were ultimately the same regulators who filed the cease and desist against the company.

«We, of course, all want to promote security and combat terrorism, but we believe it needs to be done with respect for due process, individual rights and the principle of inclusion,» they wrote.

Using microbiome analysis technology first developed in Los Alamos Lab to combat disease warfare, the company takes the samples and creates RNA and metabolic profiles for each customer.

AI is transforming China in many sectors, from powerful facial recognition systems capable of identifying 1.3 billion citizens in seconds to nuclear submarines that can help a captain make faster, more accurate decisions in combat.

Investors are still concerned about the potential impact of privacy regulations, increased competition, and pressure to combat offensive content.

Combat Gent founder Vishaal Melwani is proving that high fashion and high tech don't have to mean high prices.

«The trajectory that I've seen from footage of reported Syrian SAMs don't match up with what I'd expect to see for intercept attempts against low - flying cruise missiles,» Justin Bronk, an air - combat expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told Business Insider.

Loss of trust, in turn, can reduce the willingness of immigrants to help authorities combat crime.

Starting a company can be extremely stressful, but having a plan to combat your stress can be the difference.

One of the best ways to combat financial uncertainty is to stay abreast of economic indicators.

Centered around child prodigies turned into soldiers by the world government in order to combat an alien threat, the book is exceedingly intelligent.

The Taliban have made steady inroads since NATO ended its main combat operation in 2014 and are now estimated to control or contest at least 40 percent of the country.

Barack Obama promised that American combat troops would be removed from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.

Green Berets assigned to 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), enter and clear a room during a Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat (SFAUC) training exercise near Stuttgart, Germany, Nov. 16, 2017.

«We're not waiting for them to call us This is hand - to - hand combat out there, folks: you have to do a better job,» said Jay Myers of Interactive Solutions Inc..

The most common tactic to combat malaria is killing mosquitoes and draining the stagnant waters in which they spawn.

Retailers are dipping their toes into the virtual world as a means to combat declining in - store purchases.

On paper, the «God of War» reboot is very similar to the original series: It's a third - person action - adventure game that is focused on stylish combat.

A glass of H2O can combat the worst of your dehydration before it even sets in.

And in fact, trying to do something — anything — that would help combat racism is a good example of what I would call true corporate social responsibility.

Internet inventor Tim Berners - Lee has urged Google, Facebook and others to combat the spread of fake news online, in an open message

In addition to writing several best - selling books like The Road Ahead, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has raised billions of dollars to combat infectious diseases and elevate the quality of life for impoverished nations around the globe.

To combat disruptions, she recommends setting aside blocks of quiet time throughout the day when you don't allow phone calls or email alerts.

No, it's not mad science — it's an effort to combat the Zika virus scourge.

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb wants the agency to take «more forceful steps» in combatting the opioid crisis.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

The use of helicopters has also greatly reduced the number of combat deaths since wounded soldiers are able to get medical attention much quicker.

Jessica Harris is a retired combat medic who served with canine units.

On October 4 in Boston, the Cambridge Cyber Summit will bring together top leaders from business, government and academia to determine how they can best collaborate to combat urgent cyberthreats and secure America's future.

Two centuries later, France came around to the charms of the controversial tuber, thanks largely to a ruse engineered by military chemist and botanist Antoine - Augustin Parmentier and King Louis XVI, who was keen to find nutritious foods that could combat famine.