Sentences with phrase «vocal group led»

A SMALL but vocal group led by Alan Stern, the scientist in charge of NASA's New Horizons mission, is trying to reverse the decision made over a decade ago to remove Pluto's planet status.

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NYCLASS, the vocal animal rights group that is leading the charge to ban horse - drawn carriages in New York City, has parted ways with the Advance Group, a source with close knowledge of the relationship confirmed to the Observer this aftergroup that is leading the charge to ban horse - drawn carriages in New York City, has parted ways with the Advance Group, a source with close knowledge of the relationship confirmed to the Observer this afterGroup, a source with close knowledge of the relationship confirmed to the Observer this afternoon.

In a 2015 letter following the Chelsea clinic's closing, the Treatment Action Group (TAG), Housing Works, Harlem United, Gay Men's Health Crisis, VOCAL - NY, ACT UP / NY, and Ginny Shubert, a leading housing and healthcare consultant, wrote to Mayor Bill de Blasio asking that the services lost with the closing be replaced.

Groups such as VOCAL New York, SIF (Safe Injection Facilities) NYC and End Overdose New York — which have held many rallies calling for the sites to be implemented — have been leading the fight to bring the sites to the city.

The groups responsible for the disruption, including VOCAL - NY and the New Deal for New York, New York Communities for Change, and United NY, voiced opposition to the Republican - led State Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo's effort to issue a $ 4.5 billion dollar tax cut to New York's wealthiest millionaires, a number of whom were in the room at the 5th Avenue hotel.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

Dennis Poust is the communications director for the New York State Catholic Conference — a group that has led a vocal opposition to marriage equality in this state.

Leaders of several groups in the state's institutional left — VOCAL - NY, Citizen Action, and the labor - backed Strong Economy for All coalition — marched on Third Avenue in midtown, saying Cuomo should push the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference and wayward Sen. Simcha Felder to join with the 24 mainstream Democrats led by Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Led by Kulahci, the researchers studied the vocal interactions and grooming networks of various groups of ringtailed lemurs living at Duke University's Lemur Center and on St. Catherines Island in Georgia.

Whether you use your voice for singing, public speaking, leading a group training class, or just in the course of normal conversation, a well - balanced musculature is the foundation for a well - projected, resonant voice, whereas postural distortions will lead to compromised vocal production (1,2).

The board's action, taken at the N.A.E.Y.C.»S annual conference here, followed three days of discussions and demonstrations led by the campaign's organizers, a small but vocal group that has been urging the organization to make a more aggressive stand on the salary issue.

«The U.S., with our size, our volume, and I think a vocal group of supporters for the manual transmission — I think it's fair to say it's a U.S. - led proposition,» Lawrence said.

The 25,000 registered now are users largely in Europe with German - speaking countries representing the majority of responses — a double unsurprise, considering that Germany has been particularly vocal against companies like Facebook and Google and potential privacy violations; and that the group, led by law student Max Schrems originally hails from this region and has been going after Facebook and its data policies for years.