Sentences with phrase «took over the community»

Martin Skahen, who was communications director under Mahoney, will take over community development for DeMore.

When alien species invade and take over communities, they may not come alone — many plant species are host to a whole suite of microorganisms that not only live in plant cells, but also in the soil surrounding the plants» roots.

In 2013, in a mutual arrangement with Leisure Services, the school took over the community use management.

Tags: Chris Larson, community schools, state school takeovers by Félix Pérez; image: candidate Chris Larson addresses school walk - in participants Milwaukee parents, residents, educators, students and community groups are organized, vocal and persistent when it comes to derailing the effort by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his friends in the state legislature to take over their community schools.

Tackett revealed his position at Bitfinex will be familiar, as he will take over community outreach and product development, roles he also played at OKCoin.

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In the snowboarding community, the news was greeted with no little joy, especially after Burton Carpenter himself announced he was taking over again as CEO.

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

«What I found to be the most profound during the visit was not only the strength and resilience of the people of Texas, but the compassion and sense of community that has taken over the State.»

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

She took over in 2008 and grew Lululemon's fanatical customer base by fostering trusting relationships with employees, allowing them to design and run their locations to best fit their communities.

The Verge report offers a good run - down of the technical specifics but, for present purposes, they can be summed up like this: the bitcoin community failed to agree on a system upgrade, which means the ledger's infrastructure faces a growing backlog, and it now takes over 40 minutes to confirm a transaction.

The incident appears to have triggered a lot of anger and resentment about the direction Reddit has taken over the past year, and in particular the movement towards making it more of a self - sustaining business rather than just an online community.

In what was possibly a preemptive move by the company, the Wells board of directors decided to take back $ 41 million in stock - based compensation from Stumpf along with just over $ 16 million in stock options from former community - banking head Carrie Tolstedt.

Oliver, a lawyer with an MBA who worked in the private sector finance community before entering politics, was most recently natural resources minister before taking over from Flaherty in March.

Carney, who is leaving to take over the top job at the Bank of England, won respect across the global financial community for his leadership and deft handling of the challenges wrought by the recession.

Taking into into consideration how few alternatives are currently available to address this situation, not to mention the consequences of inaction being so dire if left to continue unabated, it's hardly something that anyone can afford to dismiss too lightly, not just here in Australia, but every community the world over, as well.

Several online communities exist for the purpose of uploading and sharing photos over the Web, and many small businesses have learned to take advantage of these services to market their products.

The appointment was seen as a delicate situation for Pompeo as he took over in the midst of discord between the incoming administration and the intelligence community.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

Bringing in close to $ 800 million in total sales over the course of a cookie season, the cookie program enables girls nationwide to think big as they take action in their communities on issues they're passionate about.

Over time, you'll recruit more and more followers, all of whom can converse with each other as much as they converse with you, and your community will start to take shape.

What's it take to build a tiny 4 person upstart and grow it to a community of 8 interconnected businesses with 600 + employees doing over $ 45 million?

The first attempt to scale the network which was presented at the Hong Kong roundtable consensus event failed and it took over a full year since then for the Bitcoin industry, mining community and developers to come to a consensus to activate SegWit.

Have said previously that the cracks took place at the National Cathedral by the earthquake were a sign that the country was religiously not right going... and now here again it proves that the sign is stronger... we will see if any thing else will happen to stop the anniversary to take place at it on the 911!?! Well then it would be obvious the mistake you made by accusing Muslim community over 911...

Women were finding some equality in the Christian communities until Paul's opinions started taking over.

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.

Many local Christians fled their communities when the radical Islamic group took over large portions of Iraq and Syria, abandoning their homes — many of which were ransacked, fell into disrepair or destroyed.

The government says over time some actions have been taken by the communities under state pressure to end the discrimination but that federal authorities are seeking a court order to prevent future discrimination by the defendants.

You can take cookies over to them, and offer to help in moving in, getting to know the community, or answering any questions the new family might have.

Arab rule over Andalusia finally collapsed and its Muslim communities took refuge in the Maghrib.

Here he is taking over Plato's Receptacle: «The community of the world, which is the matrix for all begetting, and whose essence is process with retention of connectedness — this community is what Plato terms the Receptacle.

If the fundamental social mechanisms for renewal are diminished — marriage, parenting, productive work, interpersonal trust, and religious or communal involvement — then the social law of entropy takes over, which is what is happening today in poor American communities

Such Jewish sectarian groups seemed to have influenced Jewish Christian communities all over the East, not least in Adiabene where sectarian Judaism might well have taken root even before Christianity arose.

They see it as the chaos and void over which the spirit hovers that will take shape into their fantasies for the community.

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)- Outraged Pakistani Christians took to the streets of Lahore on Sunday, protesting a rash of violence against their community over the weekend.

When Beloved is exorcised — that is, when the community asserts the claim of the present over the torment of the past — Sethe takes to her bed like Baby Suggs.

Introduce the adult Christ to your community before baby Jesus takes over at Christmas.

marks the apex of new voluntary spiritual communities that have increasingly taken over the functions of family, extended family, and neighborhood, as well as the social functions of the church and workplace» (pp. 162 - 163).

The problems of sustaining the world community must take precedence over local and nationalistic interests if we are to survive at all.

With families and communities not only fraying at the edges but dissolving at their core, how can we not look to the State to take over some of the functions they once performed?

In the course of a week, the mobile app «Pokemon Go» has taken over the world, sending smartphone - wielding pixel hunters out into their communities to find virtual Kabutops and Jigglypuffs.

Sometimes charismatic leaders can take over a religious community and operate like this.

In fact the Church should be at the table of the community of nations, not to take over civil government, but to proclaim those truths that are the foundations of human dignity and which civil government should always respect.

The primary concern is with meeting the basic needs of people, enabling them to live in healthy communities and to take control over their own lives.

Other presenters denounced the current American trend (that has been going on for over 200 years) of people choosing careers that take them away from the local communities.

In denomination after denomination, people who represented the new culture took over the bureaucratic machinery and thus the public face of the community.

To have a mosque even near «Ground Zero» is absolute disregard and muslims, «Yes», this is just one more example of the Muslim community taking over this country.

The Bishop of Salisbury is to take part in a special service this weekend to celebrate community life in the city and to pray for «cleansing» over the site where a former Russian spy was targeted in a nerve agent attack.