Sentences with phrase «which led the effort»

«Since the Pill was approved by the FDA, it has radically changed women's access to education, to employment and to having the size of family that they want,» said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which led the effort to get the Pill approved.

Of my 19 years at my district, I'm going to tell a story in which my students and their parents appreciated me deeply, and in which I led an effort at transformation in one little corner of the district and created a healthy learning space for a group of coaches.

Vanda Belusic - Vollor is Executive Director of the Office of Postsecondary Readiness (OPSR), which leads efforts that ensure all New York City students graduate high school prepared for postsecondary success.

(07/25/2012) A campaign run by environmental activists has helped lead to a 87 percent reduction in palm oil use by eight major food companies in Norway, reports Rainforest Foundation Norway, which led the effort.

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While trafficking routes have changed over time, in recent years narco subs and other vessels leaving southwest Colombia or northwest Ecuador laden with drug cargos often head out in the Pacific, even around the Galapagos Islands, before turning north in an effort to skirt law enforcement closer to home — which may include underwater sensors in Colombian waters — as well as US - led interdiction efforts.

In order to dive deeper into the management world and reveal the true value of taking advantage of the world's latest team development strategies, it is essential that we get familiar with the basics of successful business management Without understanding the main factors, which lead a team to failure or push it up on the ladder to success, our efforts of creating a working business system would be worthless.

How well these efforts are working remains to be seen, although the IHS» Brannon says even à la carte pricing, which the IPTV providers have also dabbled in, hasn't led to a decrease in the rate of subscribership decline he expected to see.

The move led to a new term — «wall - to - wall» training, which emphasizes and sustains high - quality service efforts.

Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

The request comes amid a bipartisan effort to limit U.S. involvement in the Saudi - led invasion of Yemen, which has sparked a humanitarian crisis.

France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

• Google Analytics lets you monitor your website traffic which, among other things, can help you evaluate the success of your social media efforts and where potential leads are finding you.

Without comprehensive immigration reform, which President Barack Obama estimates could lead to an expansion of up to $ 250 billion in economic output, this effort marks the latest in a patchwork of initiatives proffered by the administration.

Frankel is emphatic that the expenses associated with these efforts — which are not trivial — lead to exponential returns.

Particularly notable is Act - On's simple CRM integration, which can make it a good tool for businesses who want to start small, focusing on lead - management capabilities and grow their marketing efforts over time.

As an example, nearly all CMOs may share a desire for insight into which efforts are driving the best leads.

The firm, which has vied for months to consummate its proposed deal, is leading an effort to replace six members of Qualcomm's 11 - person board of directors — a move that, if successful, may as well seal the tie - up.

Perhaps the most egregious waste of resources committed by many business owners is the expenditure of money to create lead - generation infrastructure and the failure to develop a framework by which the effort can be tracked and measured.

Part spokesperson, part negotiator, Ivanka has led the White House's effort to promote the effort, using the small but important piece of tax reform as an opportunity to translate her campaign promises, which centered on helping women and working families, into policy.

He has extensive experience leading marketing efforts for major e-commerce and retail brands, most recently as Chief Marketing Officer of Dollar Shave Club, which was acquired by Unilever for $ 1 billion in 2016.

The company's sustained effort to be participate visibly in app industry events has produced other leads, including an approach by Facebook's Canadian arm in 2011 to become a preferred marketing developer, which means the social network giant refers on customers who want to build Facebook applications for their products or services.

Lazaridis and Fregin collaborated to found the company formerly known as Research In Motion in 1984, which became Canada's leading high technology company through its pioneering efforts in smartphones.

MBS's fight brings to mind Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption efforts, which have been ongoing since Xi assumed power five years ago and have led to the detainment or punishment of an astonishing 1.4 million party members, according to multiple sources.

Winners also enjoy: National recognition as one of Canada's foremost Dealmakers Heightened market interest thanks to extensive media exposure in The Globe and Mail, Lexpert and Thomson Reuters publications Media coverage stemming from Deloitte's national media relations efforts The opportunity to engage in the high - level industry networking that fuels M&A transactions - Recognition at the gala awards ceremony, which is attended by leading investors, advisors and financiers - Year - round networking and educational opportunities, including access to valuable research, insights and best practices

But Levandowski — the original architect of Google's self - driving cars — will now be leading all of Uber's self - driving efforts, which includes Otto.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

These anonymous sources claim that Papadopoulos, during a night of drinking at a bar in Europe, tipped off Australian diplomats about Russian collusion efforts, which ultimately led to the FBI opening an investigation.

How do you know which marketing efforts are bringing in the best leads?

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These leasing efforts led to a Kite record 393 new and renewal leases in 2017 (for over 2.3 million square feet) which was about 600,000 square feet more in the prior year.

Applying the 71 - year old Howey Test, this qualifies as an investment in a «common enterprise,» in which investors are led to «expect profits» that are «generated from the efforts of others.»

Former JPMorgan executive Blythe Masters has also been leading a collaborative effort between IBM and start - up Digital Asset Holdings to explore similar ledger technology, while December saw the Securities and Exchange Commission approve a stock plan created by online retailer Overstock, in which businesses can issue and borrow securities using blockchain.

«This does bring a sense of urgency to getting this done over the next month with the speaker leaving,» said Representative Stephen Fincher, who has led House Republican efforts to renew the export credit agency's charter, which expired nearly three months ago.

For example, our effort to carefully account for the impact of foreign revenues, and to create an apples - to - apples measure of general equity valuation led us to introduce MarketCap / GVA, which is better correlated with actual subsequent 10 - 12 year market returns than any of scores of measures we've studied.

Predictable growth is caused by consistently growing the quantity and quality of your lead generation efforts, and by systemically improving the way in which you manage leads through the sales process.

«I've worked with Nicholas exclusively for the past 3 years to run all of my lead generation, which has resulted in over 7 - figures of revenue directly from his efforts.

So instead of recommending Jaume, I'll turn you to what is, so far, a pretty solid recent collection on Tocqueville, which I know contains one particularly rich essay, «Tocquevillean Thoughts on Higher Education in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specifically.

Even with Constantine's efforts to define the orthodoxy of Christianity in the 4th century, there were so many different beliefs — mostly varying on the nature of the divinity of Christ which ultimately led to lots of persecution in the Byzantine empire to schismatic groups that did not follow the Chalcedonian doctrine of the Greeks.

The twenty - first - century Church owes a lot to twentieth - century German Catholicism: for its generosity to Catholics in the Third World; for the witness of martyrs like Alfred Delp, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Edith Stein; for its contributions to Biblical studies, systematic and moral theology, liturgical renewal, and Catholic social doctrine, through which German Catholicism played a leading role in Vatican II's efforts to renew Catholic witness for the third millennium.

This effort led to the Uniform Declaration of Death Act (UDDA) in 1981, which established in law that death may be diagnosed by either traditional cardiorespiratory or neurologic criteria.

Hindsight notes that the pact should have been linked with the minimal structure of world government which the League of Nations provided, and that it would have been more impressive had it been combined with measures for disarmament and with efforts to remedy the historic injustices which led to World War II.

But the first purpose of education must be the effort to lead young people, and indeed everybody, into a deeper understanding of the historical past and of the concrete world in which they find themselves.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

After the parents spent their entire savings and remortgaged there house in repeated efforts to save their daughter from the evils of drugs, which lead to many other horrible life styles, including prostitution, she was finally murdered by her supplier / pimp.

As such, he led efforts in the 1780s for British constitutional reforms which eventually limited the prerogative of the Crown, thereby consolidating parliamentary sovereignty.

The noun «religion» was imposed on these by Westerners, and it leads to efforts to identify the essence of «religion» and then to treat this as a norm by which to judge the religious traditions.

Which leads me to a hypothesis: having observed the determined efforts of pastors to «clean up» weddings and make them respectable, dignified and holy, I have come to wonder if weddings make many of us so uncomfortable because they judge, as do few pastoral activities, the inadequacy of our pastoral theology.

There are certain lay - led efforts which point the direction the church must take.

The more serious effort to concern itself primarily with ethical rather than theological problems, as the followers of Bonhoeffer have done, has led them outside the framework of biblical language and judgment, and has tended to dissolve their religious answers either into personal morality or social activism which, while serious in its intention, has made them weathercocks turning freely in the cultural winds.

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