Sentences with phrase «with leading proponents»

The Passive House Standard has fast gained momentum here in the North East and across North America with leading proponents participating in this event.

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The COO and Lean In author has emerged as a vocal proponent of federal paid leave and I spoke with her about how to get the rest of corporate America to follow Facebook's lead.

Goldman Sachs is a big proponent of container technology and has invested in some of the leading startups involved with the technology, including Docker.

Once upon a time, many health proponents (including Dr. Oz) claimed that you should swap your sugar for agave since it has a low - glycemic index and doesn't lead to the kind of impromptu spikes in blood sugar (a.k.a. glucose) linked with plain old white sugar.

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«California «s wine industry has been a leading proponent of producing wines and winegrapes in an environmentally friendly manner that reflects the incredible natural resources this state has been blessed with,» says CAWG President Karen Ross.

Whether it's investing in research and technology or partnering with leading food safety proponents in the fresh produce industry, we're putting you, our customers, first.

SIDS: The Latest Research on How Sleeping With Your Baby is Safe Dr. Sears Official Website Pare Dr. Sears is considered the leading authority on gentle / attachment parenting and is a proponent of co-sleeping.

Proponents of the doll think it is «a wonderful idea and allows young girls to simulate something that is perfectly natural» (source) while others fear playing with the doll will «speed up maternal urges» and say it's like «introducing sex ed in first grade» or «inadvertently lead little girls to become traumatized.»

Candidate Kufour even when he was left to carry his own cross by proponents of the dreadful G - 15 Led by Akufo - Addo, Ala Adjetey, Kwabena Agyepong, Victor Newman, and Co, he steered affairs of the party with remarkable tolerance, genuine heart and mind, and a crave for Unity in diversity.

Wine sellers claim the legislation will lead to higher prices for consumers, while proponents argue that it would put New York law on par with other states and create more jobs.

The same country that in 2009 at the Arab Summit of Doha effectively sided with Syria and the axis of resistance against the moderate front led by Saudi Arabia, is now the most vocal proponent of military intervention against the Assad regime in Syria.

Charles King, the chief executive at Housing Works, and Mark Harrington, TAG's executive director, are credited with conceiving of the Plan to End AIDS and King in particular has been a leading proponent of the plan.

It is, therefore, fitting that one of the leading proponents against the ivory trade recently — along with David Beckham and Jackie Chan, who, one could argue, are «royalty» in their own rights — is the future King of England and heir to the colonial legacy, Prince William.

One of the leading proponents of the marriage - equality bill that is currently lingering just off the floor of the New York State Senate, Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell, says he's still optimistic about getting it passed — even with Republicans now seemingly in charge and the end of session rapidly approaching.

Councilwoman Margaret Chin, a lead proponent of the measure who has been working with the state Legislature to pass the bill, said the DOT needs to resolve any reservations it has to get the law implemented as soon as possible.

This week, we met up with Edward Witten, one of the leading proponents of string theory (see Inside the tangled world of string theory).

Collins had been corresponding regularly with a leading human gene therapy proponent, James Wilson, who soon moved his lab to the University of Michigan, right next door to Collins» own.

With the passing of Adolphus P. Toliver, the scientific community has lost a friend, a great mentor, a change agent and a leading proponent of the minority programs at the National Institutes of Health.

One of the Spirit rover team geologists, Dr. Steve Ruff, a proponent of the Home Plate (Columbia Hills) silica site on Mars having been formed by an ancient siliceous hot spring, came along on a geothermal field trip I led in February 2016 to the Rotorua area with Australian geologists who work on Archean rocks.

With his death, the scientific community has lost a great mentor, a change agent and a leading proponent of the minority programs at the National Institutes of Health.

To assure this, they seek to replace the leading proponent of reusable energies, Dr. Albert S. Mannheimer (Griffiths, Sleepy Hollow), with a lookalike, so that he may deliver a speech to the President and others to reaffirm their position that environmentally unsound energy is still the way to go.

Another proponent begins with a basic condition of test - taking, namely, stress, leading the authors to craft methods that allow students more control over the test but that identify cheating (one recommendation they make is to limit changed answers to 15 percent of the total number of answers).

Despite extensive attempts by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and leading proponents working in this area to define stress as «a personal adverse reaction to excessive pressures / demands», I have found that around 70 per cent of the professionals I have worked with in all sectors, think that some stress is «good».

Proponents say this will help states be more creative with their Medicaid dollars, but the education groups argue that it will lead to significant cuts, to the tune of $ 880 billion over time.

Under the new Professional Compensation System for Teachers, or ProComp, teachers would be paid, in part, «for getting results with their kids,» as a leading proponent at the time said.

DoDEA looked to the International Baccalaureate program for ideas and the Buck Institute for Education, one of the leading proponents of project - based learning, says Sancho, who works with teachers at Fort Bragg's nine DoDEA campuses.

Contrary to the images of Heaven on Earth the proponents of Free and Open conjure up a world with no controls would quickly lead to free books and starving authors.

Despite an early dalliance with Abstract Expressionism — «Splashing your psyche on the canvas» — James Rosenquist was always a leading proponent of Pop Art, a term he felt «resigned» to.

Frank Stout is a product of the movement that in the 1950s began to counter the prevailing abstract styles by working with the figure — Alex Katz, Fairfield Porter, Jan Muller, Wolf Kahn, and Bob Thompson were among the leading proponents of this approach.

Although he had received no formal art training, his interest in sculpture grew rapidly and, in 1937, he studied briefly at the American Artists School with Chaim Gross, a leading proponent of direct carving.

This is one of a string of questions I posed in a Skype chat on Sunday with Russell L. Schweickart, the Apollo 9 astronaut who has become a leading proponent of investing in tools that can spot and deflect earthbound asteroids and other orbiting threats.

German architects Behnisch Architekten iare a leading proponent of Green architecture, defined by Robert Campbell of the Boston Globe as «architecture that doesn't fight nature but instead seeks to partner with it.

If National Geographic or some leading group of paleontologists asked a proponent researcher from one side or the other to join a committee, there wouldn't be organized efforts to say that so - and - so can not possibly be appropriate, and we will osracize anyone who continues to invite or associate with him or her.

GM Crops Benefit Companies Producing Them More Than People Though proponents of GMO technology unfailing claim that such agricultural «advances» are needed to feed the 7 billion (and still growing) people on this planet — and well - meaning organizations such as the Gates Foundation push it on poor nations, much in the same way international lending organization such as the World Bank mistakenly did with export - led development in previous decades — the fact is that genetically modified crops in the balance fare no better than conventionally - bred crops in terms of crop yield or climate resistance.

Conversely, there have been instances where failure to participate in a process of early engagement with Aboriginal people has led to avoidable project delays and increased costs to proponents» (Protectors of the Land at 19).

As the largest funder of civil legal services in the Commonwealth, MLAC, in conjunction with its grantees, has long been a leading proponent of civil legal aid.

Proponent of growth and empowerment, leading with a hands - on approach, with the talent to lead, train, mentor and build high performance teams.

Rivera, a leading proponent of the concept of student voice, describes his experience with using hip - hop to engage young people in school.

Join Lori for a conversation with attorney, mediator, educator and trainer Stephen Erickson, J.D. of the Erickson Mediation Institute, a leading proponent of the use of mediation as the best, most effective way to reform how divorce is conducted in family court systems around the country.