Sentences with phrase «with leaders of the effort»

I've been strategizing with leaders of the effort, and there is widespread agreement that this year's mayoral race is going to be very important for the future of this legislation.»

You can learn much more in a short, wide - ranging Skype chat I had on Wednesday with the leader of this effort, Jan Zalasiewicz, a geologist at the University of Leicester, who is also lead author on the new paper:

Not exact matches

The move to preemptively brand «property scalpers» a problem, however, smacks of an effort to create a villain that the government can then vanquish — a useful tactic for a government headed by a leader with a record - low approval rating facing an election next year.

For help and inspiration in my efforts to persuade business leaders to run their companies in a socially responsible way, I enjoy spending time with Jamie Oliver and Jochen Zeitz, both of whom have built successful companies that make a difference.

With their efforts ranging from hosting employee - appreciation banquets to granting years - of - service awards, company leaders do try to boost morale.

Big - business leaders are fed up with the tactics of conservative Republicans, who instigated a partial closure of the Federal government and engaged in brinksmanship over the debt ceiling in a failed effort to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

They were all there for a roundtable discussion intended to kick off a new binational effort called the «United States Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Business Leaders - Female Entrepreneurs», an awkwardly - named effort with the broad mandate of advancing women in the workplace.

Mired in a world of low growth, low inflation and low interest rates, officials from the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank said their efforts to bolster the economy through monetary policy may falter unless elected leaders stepped forward with bold measures.

Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

Greece's political leaders, more accustomed to screaming abuse at each other in parliament, issued an unprecedented joint statement after a day of talks at the president's office backing efforts to reach a deal with creditors.

It's former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, characterized by Waymo's attorneys as a rapacious executive whose win - at - all - costs attitude and frustration with his company's self - driving efforts led him to conspire with Levandowski to steal the «sauce» that catapulted Alphabet's self - driving development to be the leader of the pack.

Incyte frankly conceded that its pivotal failure raised doubts about its entire effort, which includes a host of combination studies with checkpoint leaders like Merck and AstraZeneca.

Russia is the leader of the non-OPEC nations that work together with OPEC to jointly curb production in an effort to draw down the global glut and lift oil prices.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

Along with this effort to provide a broader social understanding of religious institutions and a more sophisticated framework in which to explain the dynamics of religious life, practical theologians raise specific questions about education for contemporary religious leaders.

Because he has earned the respect of religious leaders on just about all sides, Canon White has been able to promote dialogue and mutual understanding in a region where the best efforts of our most skilled diplomats have not met with success.

Church leaders» efforts to attack the scourge of degeneracy, feeblemindedness and poverty ran parallel to and often joined forces with the work of the American Eugenics Society.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

«Preliminary evidence suggests that Christian leaders» efforts to reach out to Muslim religious leaders have been effective in providing Christians in certain areas of Nigeria and Kenya with greater security,» Dowd wrote.

The history of covert operations prior to the Iran - contra scandal includes attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, successful ousters of democratic governments, cooperation with mafia - type figures and efforts to deceive the U.S. people and Congress.

You have to accept the fact that humans can be good and bad with out any god,, and have always been, despite the best efforts of religious leaders to say other wise.

After two weeks of interviews with St. Louis faith leaders and advocates, and several days on the ground moving between mobilizing efforts in Ferguson and dialogues with evangelical faith leaders, I see the same dynamic at work here.

but we must penetrate that illusion (with both personal and communal effort) because the tragedy of our institutions and communities and even blogs that people who are leaders start is that when leaders operate with a deep, unexamined insecurity about their own identity (both fallen and in Christ), they usually create an environment and setting that actually deprives others of their identity even as it enhances their own.

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.

In a world where the religious spend a signficant amount of time pointing out the sins of others while claiming that they are in relationship with the One who has set the moral standards... and then a significant number of them commit one of the most heinous of crimes against children and have leaders spend significant effort at covering it up...

These orientations require spirituality of the leaders and of the groups to be self - critical, respectful of others efforts, and mutually supportive in campaigns, along with common evaluation of efforts.

One of the problems is that, in spite of efforts by such ecumenical leaders as M. M. Thomas (the Reinhold Niebuhr of Asian Christianity), who has been closely associated with the activist groups, most have not been able to, or have not been interested in, clarifying the theological bases of their action.

«Our ownership group has been very supportive of our efforts to become the industry leader by providing us with the capital resources we have needed to expand and meet the needs of our retail customers and our valued suppliers,» Green says.

Many efforts brought PhilRice to this point with Golden Rice: getting permits of approval for the first confined test, engaging the support of local community leaders, establishing the field experiment, monitoring the experiment daily, and managing the harvested area for weeks afterward.

The CIA and HPB have been committed to working collaboratively with our programmatic partners and industry leaders in Singapore, to support and accelerate already existing efforts in Singapore to advance healthier food choices in light of these challenges and opportunities.

He was also the Crop Team Leader for the HarvestPlus Program and led the efforts to develop rice varieties with higher levels of iron and zinc to combat two of the other critical micronutrient deficiencies that can also be found in rice consuming populations.

Gerard was also the Crop Team Leader for the HarvestPlus Program and leads the efforts to develop rice varieties with higher levels of iron and zinc to combat two of the other critical micronutrient deficiencies that can be found in rice consuming populations.

Cech (top keeper, leader, has the positive attitude of a winner) Bellerin (no fear, wants to win), Gabriel (clearly desperate to succeed, wants to win), Koz (100 % gunner, plays with 100 % conviction), Montreal (gives 110 % effort, totally reliable).

And, while working cooperatively with our children may take more time and effort, the fact is that inviting cooperation rather than forcing compliance raises leaders instead of reaping followers.

Complementing these efforts and continuing its commitment to create memorable experiences for all families, Beaches Resorts has partnered with The International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES), a global leader in training and certification programs, created to meet the training needs of professionals who work with individuals with special needs and cognitive disorders.

Learn how you can support this effort, along with lessons learned from California's Prop 37 and what's happening on a national level to require labeling of genetically engineered foods, from a panel of speakers and industry leaders deeply involved in these efforts.

With Labour leader Ed Miliband now issuing no - holds - barred attacks on Mr Murdoch and the prime minister firing a warning shot across the bows this morning by telling reporters he would have accepted Rebekah Brokes» resignation, the last thing the media mogul needed was a negative impact on his business efforts, especially after he took the drastic step of closing the News of ten World yesterday.

Communities secretary Ruth Kelly is holding a series of talks with Muslim leaders today to urge them to step up their efforts against extremism.

His eponymous foundation has responded with an initiative sponsoring exchanges between «future leaders» of the West and the Middle East in an effort to build real person - to - person relations.

His efforts at collectivisation and agrarian reform were generally a failure and better results were achieved by more moderate leaders like Lula da Silva in Brazil, primarily due to higher administrative standards and the absence of a distracting rhetorical war with Washington.

The new leader will now make a concerted effort to woo disillusioned northern Labour voters by painting Jeremy Corbyn and his London - based allies as out of touch with ordinary working people.

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.

«I can tell you that in private meetings with the speaker, the Senate majority leader and the governor, our past efforts to maintain a personal and supportive relationship was critical in shaping the outcome» of legislation,» wrote Spinola, in a portion of a memo that was obtained by the New York Times.

The internal war within the All Progressives Congress has worsened as the national leader of the party saddled with the responsibility of reconciling aggrieved parties Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has accused the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, of frustrating his efforts.

Sen. Mike Gianaris, the leader of the Senate Democrats fundraising efforts, told Liz last night on the show that he was «comfortable» with Gov. Andrew Cuomo telling reporters earlier this week would endorse candidates this year on a «case - by - case basis.»

We're in touch with the leaders of the Wisconsin protest, and we'll send them a contribution or a care package to keep their efforts going — whatever they need.

He disclaimed any intention to influence the selection of legislative leaders, saying it's a counterproductive effort for an executive, but pivoted to saying that he would work with Democrats even though «that's not what people want to hear.»

BROOKLYN — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams plans to meet Tuesday afternoon with black and Asian business leaders in an effort to diffuse tensions ahead of sentencing for disgraced ex-NYPD Officer Peter Liang.

President Sall is a guest of honour at the ceremony, while Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who pushed for mediation efforts with Jammeh during his last days in office, is also expected.

Although none of these two guys has personally met me in person or collaborated with me on anything, they have been using my name in their diabolical agenda of thwarting the efforts of Nana Akufo - Addo to unseat the most incompetent leader of our time at the presidency.