Sentences with phrase «very public effort»

The ad comes as Cuomo makes a concerted and very public effort to insist the tax cap, approved back in June, is working.

And there's some recent history that explains the very public effort.

In fact, she said, she'd had a similar experience at Google, despite its very public efforts toward racial diversity and gender equity.

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Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer acquisition) • Reduce risk by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation • Raising funds via crowdfunding markets is a very public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot of effort and commitment • The majority of Ideas fail to reach their funding goal • How will this affect your companies brand?

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

Stamos, who joined the social giant almost three years ago after a very public stint in a similar role at Yahoo, ran the team inside Facebook tasked with hunting down ads related to the Kremlin's efforts to sow unrest in the U.S. ahead of the presidential election.

All the more misplaced... are the efforts by some supposedly Jewish organizations to arouse, through their battles against Christmas symbols in public places, the ill will and resentment of Christians» at the very time when the Christian religion, more than at other times of the year, inspires its followers with irenic and philanthropic sentiments.»

As we go to press, I'm inspired by the collaborative Alliance effort that is providing membership with a very useful tool, that aligns the new Common Core Standards with the Public Waldorf Education developmental curriculum.

While these bottles take a little extra effort to put together with the vent system and are more work when you need to open them up in public, they do work very well.

Donohue has been very outspoken during this budget battle, issuing some memorable zingers directed at Gov. David Paterson in response to the governor's efforts to get the public employee unions to agree to concessions such as furloughs or a wage freeze that he says would help close the budget deficit.

«That's a fitting, meaningful tribute to one of the great public servants of our time, and I was very proud to support the effort to change.»

New York's Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption pointedly critiqued the agency at a Manhattan hearing, questioning its enforcement efforts and the dual - party nature of its very structure.

«There was a very well - orchestrated get - out - the - vote effort by local public service unions, but many of those voters would have been Astorino supporters, so it's hard to measure,» said the spokesman, Bill O'Reilly.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

«The results presented here show that conservative white males in the general public have become a very receptive audience for these efforts.

De Blasio was soundly defeated by Success CEO Eva Moskowitz in a very public fight over school space, despite largely unsuccessful efforts to de-escalate the battle with a conciliatory speech at Riverside Church and other overtures.

«However, we hope these findings reassure clinicians and the public that that there is little question about the effectiveness of mammography screening, which should continue to play a very important role in our efforts to prevent deaths from breast cancer.»

Businesses in the public and private sectors teach people to recognize phishing, but those efforts often fail or don't work for very long because the training ignores users» habits and instead focuses exclusively on how users process information, says Vishwanath, whose latest research on email habits and phishing outcomes is published in the Journal of Computer - Mediated Communication.

QUINN: So NOAA's policy is part of this Administration's and NOAA's leadership's effort to create transparency in the government and one thing that is outlined in the policy is that scientists can communicate their research to the public and that scientists can not only communicate their research, but they can also communicate their opinions to the public and I think that's a very important aspect of the policy.

These efforts are expected to yield important results with very positive implications for public health as it can improve the quality of life, as well as help towards reducing healthcare costs.

«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.

Again I love this resource and very much appreciate the efforts of all who make it available to the public.

A recent episode of Freakonomics Radio looks at an effort to reduce violence and dropout rates among young men in the Chicago Public Schools using a very inexpensive intervention: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

Laws said that this was the biggest public effort to improve the schools estate in decades, and that the initiative was on track to meet its goal of improving 261 school buildings in very poor condition by the end of 2017.

What's most important to understand about the digital textbook effort is that it's an opportunity to open up a large amount of existing public money that has been locked into use by a very small and closed set of publishers.

Some grants are very large: $ 82 million to support New York City chancellor Joel Klein's new schools - redevelopment effort, including $ 25 million to the city's independent New Visions for Public Schools for new school development; $ 13 million to support Chicago mayor Richard Daley's Renaissance 2010 new schools initiative, including $ 6 million to the University of Chicago; $ 14 million to support a total overhaul of Oakland's city schools, driven by the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools.

Efforts to reinvent public education in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina have drawn such interest that it's easy to lose sight of some very concrete changes that will become obvious over time: A generation of brand - new school buildings is rising across the city.

«Compared to other states, North Carolina has a pretty good fiscal capacity for spending — but it isn't spending its money on public schools,» said Molly Hunter, director of the ELC's Education Justice program, noting that the Tar Heel state was very last in terms of the «effort» it put into school funding.

Seeing himself as a mirror and role model to these very students, Tunji has been authoring op - eds and policy papers, as well as providing public testimony to encourage our district and state to focus its reform efforts on improving outcomes for our most vulnerable students.

But we aren't running this campaign just to win — we want this to be the beginning of a 10 - year effort to make California's public schools the very best.»

Not only has the Malloy administration undermined the very people public schools were created to help, his efforts have cut deep into the fabric of Connecticut's historic system of local control.

In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

With even the largest private funding efforts amounting to a very small expenditure relative to public spending, achieving systemic impact requires changing the way public dollars are spent.

The Innovative School District — a school turnaround model born out of similar reform efforts that experienced mixed records in Tennessee, Michigan, Louisiana and a few other states — is getting off to a slow start due at least in part to a contentious and very public struggle to select low - performing schools that were willing to undergo such a controversial experiment.

More importantly, Carey fails to thoughtfully analyze how the Obama administration's waiver gambit will impede the very efforts to transform American public education championed by his centrist Democrat and conservative reform colleagues as well as himself.

If I post my very specific fiction writing goals here in a public place then I'll feel much more urgency about actually putting in the effort required to achieve those goals.

Lindsey from Kobo showcased their marketing effort with real data and statistics — what is very unusual to make in public at an IPG event for instance.

The reforms that were made were not very powerful, and there are efforts every day to lift those restrictions and allow people to go on gambling in the financial sector with public money.

Historically and despite revenues of some $ 50,000,000 a year, PETA has made little to no effort at public adoptions, with the very tiny percentage of animals who are adopted into homes going almost exclusively to PETA staff members.

Holly has volunteered and worked in many different animal welfare arenas, ranging from very small grassroots groups to large - scale public / private partnership efforts.

Finally, The Day the World Changed will return to the present through the resulting arms race, in an effort to espouse to participants the very precarious position we are all in, how close we are at any moment to another unspeakable tragedy, and the importance of public advocacy in the pursuit of abolishing nuclear weapons.

On a more serious note, Brunelli's cover note also makes very clear that, far from the «transparent,» «educational» organization ALEC now claims to be, ALEC told its funders a different story: «One hundred percent of our energy and effort goes into winning the public policy debate and championing a free market economy... [elipses original] a pro-business, pro-growth, pro-freedom, limited government agenda.»

For the IPCC both the MWP (Medieval Warm Period) and the LIA (Little Ice Age) existed before the «hockey stick,» so viewing the situation objectively — after the IPCC participated in the rewriting of history by showcasing the «hockey stick as a part of the Left's efforts to manufacture a supposed consensus about climate change — the IPCC condoned a fraud that federal climatists to this very day persist in perpetrating on the public.

In particular, it is sometimes argued that (a) despite past public communication efforts, public understanding of the scientific consensus has not changed much in the last decade and hence the approach must not be very effective (i.e., «the stasis argument»)[13] and (b) because people are predisposed to engage in protective motivated reasoning (i.e., people process information consistent with their ideological worldviews), consensus - messaging is likely to be unsuccessful or could even backfire [12, 14].

Its author, its publisher and its billionaire supporters have all been key to the coordinated public relations effort that has blocked climate policy in this country by making climate science a partisan issue in this country and rallying the American public behind the very lies they themselves fabricated.

Their efforts included helping develop a more sustainable waste management system, along with a recycling outreach campaign — the first efforts to recycle in the community did not really stick with residents because there wasn't very comprehensive public outreach and education done for the program.

Furthermore, considering the time and effort invested in this process by delegates, observers, but mostly by the UNCITRAL secretariat members that took to drafting a document that could satisfy diametrically opposed views, it would have been very disappointing for this endeavour to end without said document to be made available to the public in one form or another.

The onus is very firmly on companies to reassure the public of their integrity, the integrity of their products and of their support of the international effort to eradicate modern slavery.

What gives me apprehension (as well as being very counterproductive) is that a regulator may, in a well - intentioned effort to protect the BC public by mandating local server hosts, actually prohibit BC lawyers from using products that offer superior protection, whether that's encryption or something else.

Students are taught to be «legal technicians,» with very little emphasis, at least during the first year, on the social and ethical ideals of the profession in its public role: «the first - year experience as a whole, without conscious and systematic efforts at counterbalance, tips the scales... away from cultivating the humanity of the student and toward the student's re-engineering into a «legal machine.