Sentences with phrase «umbrella group»

The labor umbrella group is calling for a $ 2.6 billion increase in state aid for schools as well as modifications to how the tax cap impacts districts.

At the same time, their books are released with the backing of a prestigious umbrella group and an established trade publisher.

(CNN)- After weeks of anticipation, the leaders of American's largest umbrella group of nuns met Tuesday with the Vatican to address charges the nuns had gone rogue.

However, Shell was recently forced to leave the Prince of Wales corporate leaders group, a green business umbrella group in Brussels.

Most of all, I want to thank the Canadian Equal Parenting Council, a very broad umbrella group comprised of 35 to 40 groups across the country that all have their own individual chapters.

In recognition of the growing role of collaborative practice in civil areas, in 2015 the Collaborative Family Law Council of Florida, a statewide umbrella group with over 450 members, changed its name to the Florida Academy of Collaborative Professionals («FACP»).

The ASCB board voted last week to split from the 67,000 - member umbrella group known as the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) in 2001.

The National Association of Evangelicals, the nation's largest evangelical umbrella group, is urging a Florida church to call off a planned Quran burning scheduled for September 11.

The task for which I was retained, was to study the manner in which consultants worked with clients within the industry and develop an overarching framework for the industries umbrella group organization in order to assist its members in employing their consulting dollars most effectively.

Investigators tend to lump most remains into the broad umbrella group of «Hispanic,» but Baker says that in fact, skulls from Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru are all different.

Today's first place Fossil of the Day Award goes to... the EU and Umbrella Group countries (Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Kazakhstan, Norway, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the USA).

Although there are umbrella groups like Wisconsin - based Circle Sanctuary, most Wiccans practice their own blends of witchcraft.

ESPA did max out its donations to McDonald after he, along with Sens. Stephen Saland, Mark Grisanti and James Alesi voted in the favor of the measure following a period of intense lobbying from a pro-gay marriage umbrella group, New Yorkers United For Marriage, and from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The class struggle left — organised in the Keep the Party Labour umbrella group and the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs — took a clear position against the document and adopted tactics to maximise unity with any part of the soft left prepared to defend any aspect of party democracy.

Umbrella group Action on Alzheimer's has reacted angrily to the ruling, with the Alzheimer's Society condemning «fundamental flaws» in the Nice review and calling on the government to intervene.

In past years, Agudath Israel of America, an ultra-Orthodox umbrella group, and the Roman Catholic Church, have lobbied against Markey's efforts, voicing fear of a potential flood of claims, including some from long ago via the one - year window.

EU law forbade a compulsory moratorium on GM crop planting, so the government negotiated an agreement with the industry umbrella group SCIMAC (Supply Chain Initiative on Modified Agricultural Crops) to hold back from commercial cultivation until the Field Scale Evaluations were complete.

-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.

Brown is expected to avoid speaking at any event staged by the pro-UK umbrella group Better Together because it includes the Conservatives.

While Mr. de Blasio and his schools chancellor have softened their rhetoric toward charters, Ms. Moskowitz and her allies with the charter umbrella group Families of Excellent Schools have consistently accused the Department of Education of «failing» black and Hispanic students.

Yesterday, the company — which is now contained within umbrella group Venntro — announced the milestone, during an incredibly busy period for the dating industry.

This coming Tuesday Umbrella Group will be celebrating its first successful year in existence with a fundraiser at the Milwaukee Beer Bistro.

I looked at results for racial subgroups such as African Americans and Latinos, not only for the socio - economically disadvantaged umbrella group.

Coalition, which bills itself as a nonpartisan umbrella group devoid of any political agenda, is the highly debatable proposition that «negative social influences can [be] and usually are overcome by the exercise of free will and character.»

Rallou Panagiotou The transparent tortoiseshell and the un-ripe umbrella group show Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, UK opening 22 January 2016

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a U.N. umbrella group of hundreds of experts, has noted an increasing trend in extreme weather events over the past 50 years and said irregular patterns are likely to intensify.

Monique Goyens, the director of the European consumer rights umbrella group BEUC, which includes Altroconsumo, called for an investigation by the European commission into the use of software programmes to «game» European emissions tests.

The State Policy Network serves as a coordinating umbrella group to advance a far - right agenda across a broad range of US states, often working in close conjunction with SPN members like ALEC.

At climate negotiations in the past Canada has always been a major recipient of the «Fossil of the Day» award - a notorious prize handed out each day of negotiations by the environment umbrella group, Climate Action Network (CAN) International.

This is what umbrella group, Friends of the Supergrid's latest report aims to answer.

Politico (4 / / 13) reports: «Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is taking fire from the left in his quest to reform the country's immigration system... Progressives and environmental activists are fuming over recent television ads from the subsidiaries of Zuckerberg's FWD.us umbrella group that tout lawmakers» pro-Keystone XL pipeline and oil drilling positions.»

He also has chaired the BANCAP Users Group, the Bankruptcy Case Management and Statistics Umbrella Group, and the ground - breaking Electronic Self - Representation Initiative, which seeks to provide education and access to the Courts for those unable to afford legal representation.

Wylie said he saw the rates in documentation produced by AggregateIQ, a Canadian data company in the same umbrella group as Cambridge Analytica.

Hyperledger, the open source umbrella group of blockchain projects announced today Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.0 is now available.

Cohn also chairs a local umbrella group of agencies and people working in the domestic and family violence space, bringing together police, housing and tenancy advice, family lawyers, doctors, social workers, and mental health workers to share information and develop whole - of - community solutions.

Democratic Comptroller Tom DiNapoli was endorsed on Monday by the New York State AFL - CIO, an influential labor umbrella group.

Acting separately from their respective corporate entities, some of Silicon Valley's top celebrities — including Yahoo! chief Maryssa Mayer, Google's Eric Schmidt and Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer — are putting their faces and deep pockets behind Fwd.us, an umbrella group launched by Zuckerberg in early April that's waging a high profile campaign to loosen immigration hurdles for foreign tech and science talent.

«The U.S. still needs to be more flexible so there are conditions to create jobs in Mexico, the United States and Canada,» said Juan Pablo Castanon, head of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, the umbrella group representing Mexican private sector interests at the NAFTA talks.

The Commerce Undergraduate Society («CUS») is the umbrella group for all the student organization in the Haskayne School of Business.

Dunning is chief economist for the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals, the umbrella group for mortgage brokers.

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.