Sentences with phrase «undertaken at the initiative»

Not exact matches

Sally Smith, president and CEO at Buffalo Wild Wings, acknowledged her restaurant chain was «dissatisfied to report a same - store sales decline and we're undertaking several sales - driving initiatives to regain momentum.»

The commitment in Budget 2011 to undertake a Strategic Operating Review to find $ 4 billion in annual savings followed the Budget 2010 initiatives which restrained growth in national defence spending, capped funding of the International Assistance Envelope, forced departments to absorb the increase in annual federal employees» wages for 2011 - 12, and froze their operating budgets for 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

Employees volunteer their time at the display tent which showcases the mining processes, final products and the environmental and community initiatives undertaken by Talison Lithium.

With funding and support from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), the National Angel Capital Organization (NACO) has undertaken an initiative aimed at growing and supporting best practices adoption in Angel investor communities in Western Canada.

Specifically, the FOMC is opting to retain its easy monetary policies, but undertake no new initiatives at this time, Perhaps the Fed went this more conservative route in view of the somewhat better news out on the economic front over the past few weeks, notably the generally improving housing metrics, the pickup in June's personal income, and the surprising uptick in the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for July issued yesterday.

Because I have just completed thirty years of teaching at a Christian university in Canada, I was most interested in his exploration of educational initiatives undertaken by ordinary Christians against long odds.

His initiatives included sending two diocesan priests annually on doctoral studies mostly to the Jesuit Faculty of Theology in Brussels; reorganising the seminary in households linked to large city parishes where 10 to 12 seminarians live and undertake pastoral work while attending theological studies at the Faculte; and, perhaps above all, linking theological studies firmly to knowledge of the living Word of God in Scripture.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

During his tenure at the resort, he has undertaken initiatives that have led to substantial growth in revenue, including the creation of the New Jersey Wine & Food Festival which is gearing up for their largest event yet and their 10th anniversary this May, as well as renovating the resort's hotels, recruiting top culinary talent, creating innovative partnerships with farmers and producers to increase their sustainability efforts, and soon reconceiving the resort's culinary jewel, the four - star Restaurant Latour.

Touching on the initiatives undertaken by his government, he stated that the Free Senior High School policy has resulted in an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this stage.

At present, the NTC appears to be operating under a mistaken «security and legitimacy - first» doctrine which maintains that bold initiatives can not be undertaken until further stability is achieved and an elected government takes office after the June elections.

«We are hopeful that the State will look favorably on the County's good faith allocation of money to undertake the two studies, as well as the potentially significant impacts of the new re-entry initiative, the new rehab beds at Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services, and other local alternatives - to - incarceration.»

This initiative was undertaken to better meet customer demand at a higher level of service, placing examiners at a point of direct contact.

And they discussed some initiatives the county has already undertaken to address those problems, including training and arming first responders with the opioid - countering drug, naloxone, establishing anonymous drug drop - boxes at local police stations, and participating in joint federal and local task forces to take down illegal drug rings and doctors who over-prescribe opioids.

Besides, Governor Ambode commended Ajimobi for his infrastructural renewal efforts in Oyo State, especially the capital projects and public private partnership initiatives that have been undertaken in recent time, saying that the steps aimed at modernizing Ibadan were in the right direction.

Speakers at this event addressed the development of the adolescent brain, the diseases and learning difficulties that seem to correlate with adolescence, and the policy initiatives undertaken by the federal government in response.

In a congressional hearing on the DoE's 2011 budget earlier this month, Energy Secretary Steven Chu noted that science, however, was a crucial part of future development: «With every initiative the department undertakes, sound science must be at the core.»

An initiative undertaken at Stanford University found that physician burnout costs the university $ 7.75 million a year.

As if this weren't enough to force reformers to haul victory flags back down the cliffs, the U.S. education system is structured in such a way that initiatives undertaken at any level can be stymied, blocked, or derailed at the other levels.

Belonging to a deliberately small group of academic educators, each with a strong practitioner history, members of Sustainability Frontiers have agreed to collaborate in different combinations as they undertake local, national and international projects, consultancies and initiatives at the leading edge of sustainability education, often in partnership with other organizations.

And we're going through another round today, with initiatives such as «Reimagining Learning,» led by Stacey Childress and her team at the NewSchools Venture Fund; the Emerson Collective's XQ SuperSchool project; Marc Zuckerberg's efforts to «personalize learning»; and any number of technology - centric undertakings like Summit Public Schools, Carpe Diem charter schools, and K12 - operated virtual schools.

At the risk of getting into trouble with other readers, let me note the huge impact — mostly positive — of the Common Core initiative that was undertaken outside government with philanthropic dollars.

This is of course just one of many initiatives that have to be undertaken but none the less it sends an important message and, if used properly, can have a noticeable impact at a classroom level.»

Great State Leaders: A Competency Framework for Growing Talent in a State Education Agency [PDF, 1 MB] Reforms of the scope and scale of those being undertaken by States today require the development of strong leaders at all levels of organizations to manage the change required by these and other initiatives.

Efforts undertaken by the SFSPCA were part of a spate of citywide initiatives aimed at ending euthanasia of healthy or otherwise treatable animals, and were so successful that some began to call it the first «no - kill» city in America.

The secretariat has set up a portal which presents information on cooperative initiatives undertaken around the world at various levels by governments, international organizations, civil society, and business to reduce emissions.

«In the early 1990s, climatologists from NCDC and the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) undertook a new initiative aimed at creating a dataset appropriate for the study of climate change at both global and regional scales.

Partnership is at the heart of every client engagement and research initiative we undertake at Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER).

«It's not surprising that the administration, when it goes in front of an international body like this, is going to brag about all the initiatives undertaken on global warming at the state level,» said Jerry Taylor, director of natural resources studies for the libertarian Cato Institute.

At the same time, Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer were seen in a new light, as being able to undertake significant but smaller initiatives to improve the overall market position of both companies.

Todd Harrison at Precedent Magazine outlines some of the initiatives that lawyers have undertaken in the Haitian relief.

Impressed at the initiative and would love to undertake it one day — although as I've said elsewhere, had I my druthers this wouldn't be styled as an LL.M.

I chose to speak at the session entitled «Risk & Innovation: Aligning Technology with Explicit Business Goals» in part to give and receive ideas on some of the technology - related initiatives we are undertaking in my department (and I will not necessarily focus just on technology since such a focus can distort the importance of non-technological ideas).

We outlined a number of initiatives that we believe that firms could usefully think about either as a precursor to or at the very least in conjunction with the deployment of AI or indeed any technology for that matter the will result in certain work streams being undertaken more efficiently, for which one can almost inevitably read, a reduction in billable hours.

The KLC undertakes a number of program initiatives aimed at «strengthening the professional skills of Kosovar legal talent», with a view to «assisting all of Kosovo's citizens in achieving a greater understanding of the law and legal process.»

One of the initiatives that Gowlings undertook in the mid-90s was a technology platform that let a client know the status of any litigation at any time.

Rio Tinto has provided two scholarships for candidates to undertake postgraduate study in mining law and policy on the condition that the recipients commit to working within the NTRB system for at least two years after the study.68 This program, which is an initiative flowing from the NTRB lawyer professional development project currently being undertaken under the auspices of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University, is an invaluable way of increasing the experience and capacity available to traditional owner groups through NTRBs.

We undertook a quality improvement initiative at our institution to optimize initial vancomycin dosing using a nomogram and a pharmacy collaborative practice approach.

We have produced a report on some of the initiatives we are undertaking at our centres and within the community.

We have produced a report on some of the initiatives we are undertaking at our centres and within the community to:

Strategies: Develop initiatives that target parents and community in the importance of breakfast before school; provide adequate numbers of ATSI community education counsellors and teachers aids at all schools with significant numbers of ATSI students; undertake feasibility study on the establishment of an ATSI Unit at the regional TAFE; increase academic scholarships available to ATSI students.

«At the beginning of my term I made a commitment to involve more members in the many initiatives that TREB undertakes,» says TREB president Maureen O'Neill.

When local and state associations were challenged to undertake at least one housing opportunity initiative this year, you took the challenge.

As well as covering activities undertaken over the course of the past year, the Annual Report includes a look ahead at initiatives that will be undertaken in the coming year, as part of the planned implementation of recommendations from the Independent Advisory Group.