Sentences with phrase «with spearheading the effort»

Aborn, the former Brady Campaign president, is credited with spearheading the effort to include the original ban on large - capacity magazines in the assault weapons ban.

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To spearhead the Eco effort, Camp said he is creating a new non-profit organization, the Eco Foundation, that he plans to fund with $ 10 million from himself and a small number of partners affiliated with Expa, his 4 - year - old startup accelerator.

A 2013 Government Accountability Office audit in found a litany of problems with the recovery efforts spearheaded by the Clinton Foundation.

To spearhead the Eco effort, Camp is creating a new non-profit organization, the Eco Foundation, that he plans to fund with $ 10 million from himself and a small number of partners affiliated with Expa, his 4 - year - old startup accelerator.

The effort announced today is in its early planning stages, with the initial formation of the company jointly spearheaded by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a Senior Vice President at Amazon.

Making Microsoft an attractive resource to new companies is no small feat: While Nadella has spearheaded a massive effort to transform the company, it had to overcome a tough image of being stodgy, difficult to work with, and stuck in the past.

CoinJanitor's CEO, Marc Kenigsberg who spearheaded the effort to partner up with CoinGate is excited to announce the partnership: «Our success in cleaning crypto will be directly proportional to the support we get from the wider crypto community.

First, it seemed to be bound up with a generally optimistic expectation that human efforts, spearheaded by Christians, would bring into being a better society.

«For Catholic outreach, a defining moment in this campaign has been (Mitt) Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate,» said Broderick Johnson, a senior adviser with Barack Obama's campaign who spearheads Catholic outreach efforts.

Two trade industry experts join forces with three key players in the supply chain to spearhead this engaging discussion on driving climate action, focusing on how the Climate Collaborative can support efforts to engage everyone that touches your...

I spoke briefly yesterday with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, who spearheaded the effort to send the original letter to Steiner.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

Senegal spearheaded efforts to deploy west African troops in The Gambia after Jammeh's departure, in order to secure a country whose military forces were riven with factions still loyal to the ex-leader.

The city's unions are joining forces to raise millions for Bill de Blasio, with the intent of counterbalancing a fund - raising effort for Joe Lhota spearheaded by conservative - activist billionaire David Koch.

Stringer, who has spearheaded the Blueway Plan — an effort to reimagine the waterfront between East 38th Street and the Brooklyn Bridge with a variety of public leisure spots and amenities — already had allocated $ 3.5 million for the transformation of the 11,000 square - foot swath of beach at Dover and South streets.

McCray serves as an unofficial advisor to her husband and has been tasked with spearheading an $ 800 million effort to overhaul the city's mental health system.

The drumbeat over the controversial Caithness II power plant, proposed for construction in Yaphank, continues, with Republican Sen. Tom Croci spearheading an effort to get Gov. Andrew Cuomo to intervene in favor of the project with PSEG Long Island, which has put it on ice — along with any other new plants — indefinitely.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is spearheading an effort to find a credible primary opponent to defeat turncoat state Sen. Simcha Felder, the Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with Republicans, sources said Tuesday...

«The imam who is spearheading this effort has said some incredibly upsetting things, I think blaming America in fact for the 9/11 attack, sympathizing, in so many words, with terrorist organizations, refusing to criticize Hamas,» Lazio said.

He spearheaded efforts leading to the deregulation of the cellular telephone industry, and secured $ 20 million for a soccer stadium in Rochester, New York, and for a project with the New York Botanical Gardens.»

The program was explained in detail at Tuesday night's Town Board meeting by Orangetown Highway Superintendent James Dean, who spearheads the effort along with his administrative assistant, Stephen Munno.

With Occupy Sandy and the Transit Forward Coalition, we coordinated bus trips to the Rockaways to support clean - up and relief efforts, and spearheaded an effective petition campaign to demand action from elected officials.

Miner did take issue with Katko's praise for Republican leaders who are spearheading the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

In - house, former Cuomo spokesman Matt Wing spearheaded the effort, along with public policy director (and former Staten Island Republican congressional candidate) Michael Allegretti.

In its role of leading economic development branding and marketing efforts for Saratoga County, the Saratoga Partnership worked with the Saratoga County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to spearhead development of the agency's new logo — its first since the organization was founded nearly 50 years ago — and a modern website to replace one that had not been updated in more than a decade.

Janet Brown was the director of OOS and along with William Carey, the AAAS Executive Officer, spearheaded the initial efforts on handicapped issues at AAAS.

The seed bank would add to efforts spearheaded by the US Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with Hawaiian and Australian bodies, which are already banking coral sperm and embryonic cells.A final, important piece of the puzzle is the corals» symbiotic algae: these are shorter - lived and faster - evolving than their hosts, and research has shown that they can pass along thermal tolerance.

They were accompanied by Glenn Schweitzer, director of Eurasian programs at the Academies, who has spearheaded an 8 - year effort to nurture scientific ties with Iran in the absence of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

For many months I have been working closely with Amanda Moon of FSG, who is spearheading the effort to find the best, most authoritative voices for the imprint.

(In French and English with subtitles) Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Unrated) Feminist documentary chronicles the extraordinary efforts of the group of visionary women who spearheaded the peace movement which led to the end of Liberia's decades - long civil war and the rise to power of Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state.

Spearheading the effort is game - maker cum turncoat for the resistance Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his penultimate performance) and President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore, new to the series), attempting to create a wedge through the use of propaganda pieces with the help of a film crew (headed by Natalie Dormer) looking to unite the districts behind Katniss, the titular Mockingjay.

10, who spearheaded the fundraising efforts along with several other classmates.

This effort also included partnering with Professor Tom Kane, who spearheaded the Measures of Effective Teaching study.

In 2000, CSDC formed an ad - hoc coalition of stakeholders and spearheaded the effort to create a limited federal role in assisting charter schools with the twin challenge of acquiring and financing facilities.

The Charter Center spearheads public awareness campaigns and supports school leaders» efforts to engage with their communities in order to ensure the continued growth and success of the City's charter sector.

Her career spans from time as a front line bilingual adolescent crisis counselor, with La Raza Consortium, to spearheading national think tank efforts in education equity and social justice on the boards of Grantmakers for Education, the National Equity Project, and the National Coalition for Community Schools.

With few employees and a strong cadre of community volunteers spearheading a grassroots effort to secure funding and build our mission, our small group of social workers and educators worked largely on a local level in the Puget Sound region.

Bill Lucia of EdVoice, a Sacramento - based educational advocacy group that helped spearhead opposition efforts, said the bill had started out with good intentions.

Prior to getting her doctoral degree, she worked as an instructional designer and an interactive media developer, as well as created, spearheaded and taught early maker and design education efforts (then termed «physical computing») in the New York City public schools with underserved students and teachers.

The CCEE is spearheading a statewide effort in partnership with the California Department of Education to address «systems coherency,» i.e. helping districts develop clear, consistent structures so that each and every student receives a high - quality education.

Gavin, 37, spearheaded a team of 14 racing drivers from the British Racing Drivers» Club (BRDC)-- persuading many of them to enter the marathon, enthusiastically encouraging others with training support and advice, and leading the charge in the fund - raising effort.

You can then create an action plan and spearhead your effort with no delays.

In September 2016, ED announced that a coalition of organizations is spearheading efforts to match students impacted by school closures with experienced financial aid and academic advisors across the country to help navigate the options available.

The Clear the Shelters effort, part of a national initiative spearheaded by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal, pairs local television stations with animal shelters across the country to find new homes for homeless pets.

Since the TNR ordinance passed, LEASH has established a good relationship with LCAS and spearheaded the effort to create an effective TNR program.

Love Amplified Award presented by Petco to NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations for Clear the Shelters: In recognition of NBC and Telemundo owned stations marketing and community outreach efforts, in partnership with hundreds of animal shelters across the U.S. and in Puerto Rico, the stations» «Clear the Shelters» pet adoption campaign was inspired by a local pet adoption effort spearheaded by NBC 5 (KXAS) and Telemundo 39 (KXTX) in Dallas - Forth Worth, Texas and expanded nationally in 2015, resulting in more than 70,000 pet adoptions.

The United Kingdom charity helped spearhead the effort with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In North America, the OFA (Orthopedic Foundation for Animals) was established with Dr. Wayne Riser as first director; in Germany, the effort was spearheaded by the SV, the club for German Shepherd Dogs; in Great Britain, the BVA took it over.

She has experience with that kind of organizing going back to her work on TNR in Massachusetts in the early 1990s, when she founded a humane society that spearheaded TNR efforts in several towns.

With a game whose narrative is the spearhead of the whole project, the poor dialogue and voice work really nulls and voids the effort put forth.