Sentences with phrase «who organized the effort»

«Write - in campaigns are extraordinarily difficult, but we greatly appreciate those who organized the effort,» William O'Reilly, a spokesman for Astorino said.

Realtor Paula Hodgson, who organized the effort, says, «Given the large number of people involved, I anticipated numerous cancellations.

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And we organized «get out the vote» efforts that helped more than 2 million people register to vote who might not have voted otherwise.

And we organized «get out the vote» efforts that helped as many as 2 million people register to vote who might not have voted otherwise.

Instead, legislators appear to have bought into the false notion that pass - throughs are small businesses, and are responding to the organized efforts of trade groups composed of pass - throughs, who push that narrative aggressively (and with the help of pass - through lobbying firms).

«I want the people of Japan to know that God hasn't forgotten them, that God does care for them and that he loves them,» said Graham, who is organizing the effort through his group Samaritan's Purse.

From the article, the Rev. Franklin Graham says: «I want the people of Ja - pan to know that God hasn't forgotten them, that God does care for them and that he loves them,» said Graham, who is organizing the effort through his group Samaritan's Purse.»

Their quirky effort is part of a much broader movement among atheists who are exploring how to build communities that provide mutual assistance, outlets for wonder and delight, rituals to mark holidays, and organized volunteering.

Beginning in 1976, Weyrich, Phillips and Morton Blackwell, who organizes young men and teaches them how to be political activists — Ralph Reed is one of his graduates — launched a concentrated effort to involve conservative churches in their cause.

The curriculum is quite comprehensive; taught by a hodgepodge of veteran operatives and campaign professionals who donate their experience via lectures, webcasts, and grassroots campaigning exercises — all in an effort to raise future leaders equipped with skills in fundraising, community organizing, communications, and legislative action.

My old Austin buddy Chris Cosart passes along this Newsweek column by Howard Fineman, who compares Hillary and Obama's websites and more traditional offline organizing efforts and finds Barak's lacking.

Edson accused Lipe of spearheading the organizing effort against the congresswoman, who is among the Democrats» top 2018 targets.

I expect the legislative leaders and DiNapoli will express solidarity with the unions — particularly the state comptroller, who owes no small part of his victory over Republican Harry Wilson last year to the efforts on his behalf by organized labor.

Buffalo real - estate developer Carl Paladino, who upended the Republican establishment in 2010 to win the GOP primary for governor, has organized a statewide effort to make Trump the winner of New York's April 19 presidential primary.

Sue Rosenberg, who has helped to coordinate local efforts of the Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline, a group organizing opponents to the project in both New York and New Jersey, said she was pleased with Wednesday's turnout.

«Considering the fact that the population down here is exploding, it makes obvious sense that there needs to be some organized political effort,» said Patrick Kennell, who is also a member of Community Board 1.

Fast food workers who were part of an organizing effort by unions and progressive groups are jubilant.

Buffalo real - estate developer Carl Paladino, who upended the Republican establishment in 2010 to win the GOP primary for governor, has organized a statewide effort to make Donald Trump the winner of New York's April 19 presidential primary, sources tell Inside Albany.

Still, the overwhelming majority of the endorsements, money and door - to - door organizing efforts in the contest have gone to Ms. Niou, whose focus on reform and Asian heritage may help draw out the well - educated professionals and Chinatown residents who make up two key constituencies in the district.

The former lieutenant governor, who moved into the top spot when scandal led to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's resignation, said Friday that he believed he was the target of an organized effort to push him out of the race to win the governor's seat in his own right.

The Mayo Clinic SCAD Registry was created in 2010 in response to an organized effort by an online community of SCAD patients who sought more research on their condition.

Although the judge ruled on procedural grounds rather than the merits of the law, the decision gives hope to union organizers such as Andrea Jokisaari, a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who has been active in the years - long effort to organize the campus's research assistants, The Chronicle» s Vimal Patel notes in another article.

The cast includes union organizers who claim to have the support of most UC postdocs, an employer that asserts neutrality, and an unknown number of postdocs who oppose the union and are working to defeat its efforts to organize their approximately 5800 colleagues.

Drawing on European traditions, he insisted on hiring and consulting only those who could demonstrate a thorough knowledge of and contribution to their field and he organized their efforts with military precision.

«We are completely elated,» says Joshua Zimmerberg, a researcher at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development who used most of his annual leave last year to help organize an effort to block the disclosure rule.

«He literally changed the way we do astronomy today,» says Alex Szalay, a Hopkins astrophysicist and longtime Gray collaborator who helped organize the sorting effort.

In an effort to diffuse some of those tensions, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports IHME, funded WHO to organize the meeting.

But at Rutgers, the faculty's own union «pledge [d] total support» to the organizing effort, according to its then - president, Lisa Klein, a professor of materials science and engineering and herself a principal investigator (PI) who has supervised a dozen postdocs over her 30 - year career.

We sincerely thank Elena Cattaneo from the NeurOmics consortium who was part of the organizing committee and invested a lot of time and effort to make this meeting happen.

Its frustrating to think that a person who has so much trouble organizing and prioritizing now also has to manage his or her doctor as well, and thats why its important to get the partner involved and make it a team effort.

Steven R. Covey, best - selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, wrote this book to promote the efforts of principals around the globe who are preparing children for the 21st century by organizing their schools around Covey's «7 Habits,» a sort of accidental comprehensive school - reform model created by fans.

Faced with the moral and practical imperative to dismantle this system — and all of the politics that comes with that — I had to figure out how to organize our efforts so the focus wasn't on who sits next to whom (structural) but, rather, on what we were expecting children to achieve and how we were going to get there (instructional).

As part of our community organizing efforts, we have talked to over 300,000 New Yorkers in predominately low - income communities and communities of color who are deeply concerned with the lack of quality schools and quality teachers available to their children.

«I'm very disappointed,» said Marie Corfield, an art teacher from New Jersey, who had organized a lobbying effort against the Clinton endorsement.

DeVos» appointment has increased awareness of educational issues, and many parents and community members who were not previously active in politics are organizing protests and running for school board in an effort to thwart DeVos» agenda of privatization.

The national legal campaign is being organized by Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor who told POLITICO that she has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent months to get the effort off the ground.

Herbert Hilgado, who has worked closely with the Los Angeles - based education reform group Parent Revolution, which has led the effort to organize parents and help them use California's Parent Trigger law to take over McKinley Elementary School, writes in his complaint:

One Paul teacher, who didn't want to be specifically mentioned in this article, said the campaign's stalwarts are likely to continue organizing with their colleagues, but that it's unclear what shape those efforts will take, or if they'd consider working with the AFT in the future.

Fortunately teachers have already begun to organize to make a stand in an effort to shield and protect those who stand to be harmed most — our children.

ADELANTO — One of the High Desert parents who used a state law to wrest control of their failing elementary school away from school district hands is alleging that the group that helped organize the effort offered to pay parents to promote the «parent trigger» movement nationwide.

Although this represents a victory of sorts — in that a small group of teachers managed to fund and facilitate a professional development program — the small percentage of district teachers who benefited from those efforts points to the difficulties faced by the organizing teachers as they attempted to implement reforms without active administrative support.

Even those in the CEA leadership who understand the importance of organizing but still engage in lesser evilism will continue to postpone organizing efforts and claim that the unions aren't strong enough yet to pursue a strategy that doesn't include endorsing bad politicians.

The austerity of the site, the concision and economy of its statements, may surprise some in the established publishing community who would expect any effort in organizing entrepreneurial authors to be all funny hats, whimsical fonts, motivational aphorisms, and phantom unicorn lovers.

The event, organized by Derick Vogel, Founder and CEO of Credit Absolute, was an effort to show the company's appreciation for their clients and referral partners who have become a part of their growing family.

The American Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Rescue Trust (The Trust) was organized to benefit Cavaliers in need who have been lost, abandoned or are unwanted, to provide a cohesive, nationwide network of rescue volunteers and to provide public education in an effort to reduce the number of Cavaliers that come into rescue.

The FOTAS volunteers, who work on bookkeeping, social media, special fundraising events, and FOTAS Fix - a-Pet; who organize and work on special fundraising and on - site events; who foster mamma dogs and cats and all their progeny, who care for animals designated for transfer; who shuffle animals to off - site adoption events; who walk the dogs, love up the cats, work with play groups, and show animals to potential adopters — the dramatic and steady increase in the Shelter's live release rate since 2009 is directly related to their efforts; and

The FOTAS volunteers, who work on bookkeeping, social media, and special fundraising events; who work with FOTAS Fix - a-Pet and curbing the population of community cats; who organize and work on special fundraising and on - site events; who foster mamma dogs and cats and all their progeny, who care for animals designated for transfer; who shuffle animals to off - site adoption events; who greet the public and man the front desk, walk the dogs, love up the cats, work with play groups, and show animals to potential adopters — the dramatic and steady increase in the Shelter's live release rate since 2009 (84 % so far this year) is directly related to their efforts; and

«They have been truly wonderful in their support and organizing others who wanted to do something for the animals but weren't sure where to place their efforts,» Sheahan said.

Reprinted from Ambergris Today, June 10th, 2015 On Saturday, June 6, 2015, quite possibly the island's biggest food event was held with the organizing efforts of the San Pedro Food Bank, Sperro, Saga Humane Society and San Pedro Belize Red Cross who came together and demonstrated teamwork at its finest.

Through the 2014 State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now exhibition, the museum introduced 102 artists who live and work in communities all over the U.S.. We're continuing that effort in 2018 through new installations and the upcoming exhibitions, The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art and Native North America, both organized by Crystal Bridges.