Sentences with phrase «year as an organisation»

Open Astronomy has been selected again this year as an organisation for Google Summer Of Code.

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«As the hottest year in history comes to a close, the success of the global fossil fuel divestment movement is undeniable,» said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, the grassroots climate organisation that has played a leading role in the campaign.

The «student project» was the only other category awarded to an individual, as opposed to an organisation, and this year was the only category with two winners — Jonathan Werrett from UWA and Ryan Fraser from Murdoch University.

Bertrand has been president of Swimming Australia for five years, engineering a turnaround out of the pool that has seen the organisation's finances stabilised with the help of large sponsorship deals with companies such as Optus and a broadcast contract with Seven West Media.

What began as a Facebook page has escalated over the past five years to become an organisation delivering suicide prevention and mental health awareness courses to local churches across the country.

First detained in October 2016 as part of a visa investigation, he was later accused of involvement with two organisations Turkey considers to be terrorist in nature and behind a botched coup earlier that year.

A Christmas advert's been produced by a spectrum of Christian organisations including Premier as part of a coordinated effort aimed at challenging this year's secular based festive supermarket ads.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

Such as how many hundreds of thousands of women, and children are feed each year through the"www.samaritanspurse.org One of many organisation over the years started by either, Billy, or his son Franklin.

To some extent, the debate is already over for Catholics as Amnesty sold the pass on sexuality years ago; the organisation already supports a right to contraception including the abortifacient morning - after pill, which it claims does not cause abortion, and affirms «sexual rights», a term which includes such gems as the right to a pleasurable sex life.

The technologies — which can repay the cost of their installation in as little as two years — will be explained by Mr Bambridge, who has decades of experience in assisting organisations manage energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and the impacts of climate change.

As the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil continues its work of making sustainable palm oil the global norm, its chief executive officer Darrel Webber talks to Eco-Business about the trends that will shape the organisation's work this year.

Mark joined the group in January 2016 as managing director of Matthew Clark, having worked in the food and drinks industry for over 35 years, holding senior positions with a range of organisations including Booker Group, Blueheath, Safeway and Musgrave Group.

Last week, while announcing the permanent appointment of Brian Walsh as Chair of Wine Australia, the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, said the organisation had identified key objectives, priorities and strategies for the next five years at a critical point for the wine sector.

«Over the last 10 years we have worked hard as an organisation and with partners to build a national identity for Scottish food and drink and the Excellence Awards provides an invaluable platform to highlight to the nation and beyond the strength of our industry and the wealth of talent across all sectors.

The Australasian Bottled Water Institute (ABWI) was established over 10 years ago as a stand - alone organisation and is now a dedicated division of the Australian Beverages Council.

It marks the first year of Ornua's new five - year growth plan, «Ornua 2021», which positions the business as a leading global dairy organisation that delivers results -LSB-...]

Having said that, you could see that Crystal Palace played with the same organisation as last year, when they changed the situation from a relegation team to finishing 11th in the Premier League.

The 28 - year - old has established himself as a crucial figure for Tottenham since joining the club in 2015, making 109 appearances in all competitions and bringing real organisation and solidity to the backline alongside the likes of Jan Vertonghen and Davinson Sanchez.

Last year, amongst a flurry of articles, reports and exclusives accusing and alleging corruption at the heart of FIFA, Sepp Blatter proclaimed that the storm against the organisation and particularly its choice to select Qatar as the host for the 2022 World Cup was down to racism and discrimination.

Sky Sports, as a member of TeamPride; a group of businesses and organisations who help bring the campaign to life, support the campaign all year round.

I worked as a graphic designer for over 20 years for various local agencies, working on a range of projects for small local companies right up to larger organisations such as Wisdom Toothbrushes, Winsor & Newton and Crayola.

This vision is shared by everyone, from senior managers to one - year apprentices, and also by partner agencies such as voluntary organisations, private nurseries and job centres.

So, three decades on from the boycott's inception, I have come to Bangladesh to find out whether Nestlé has - as it claims - changed its behaviour, and is now a reformed organisation, or whether the campaigners have been right to keep up the pressure all these years, not just on Nestlé but on other formula manufacturers too.

«As a global alliance of individuals and organisations concerned with the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding, WABA asserts that breastfeeding has a vital role in making food security a reality for millions of babies born every year», asserts Jay Sharma, WABA Executive Director.

In recent years we have assisted to the strengthening of several pro-European organisations all over Europe, and more and more people are calling for the creation of true European political parties, able to bring forwards the demands of Europeans as a whole.

Following the path beaten out by the Plain English Campaign (now in its 30th year) and their Golden Bull Awards, organisations such as the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestability.

I want them to be in place in five years» time, and to have a fruitful rounded life so that they can contribute to my business or organisation effectively», as opposed to just wanting to squeeze everything out of them.

Amr emphasised shared goals, during years of activism in anti-Mubarak organisations such as «Kifaya», as key to unity of ranks in 2011.

The real power of the blogosphere, as the US has proved ten years on from the Lewinski scandal is the power of grass roots organisation, online advocacy and peer to peer networks (especially for fund raising).

He has worked extensively for international organisations for over 20 years — including two fulltime periods as Counsel (Taxation) in the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA (1990 - 1991) and as Head, Central and Eastern Europe and NIS Program, Fiscal Affairs Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France (1992 - 1995).

Being described as a «Pony Club Mother» is not the world's most flattering term, and I have spent several years explaining I was never chief executive of the Pony Club, but rather chief executive of the National Pony Society (NPS), a totally separate animal welfare organisation, with completely different aims and objectives.

The Howard League, a charity of almost 150 years standing and with United Nations consultative status, was dismissed as a «left - wing pressure group», along with other eminent organisations such as English PEN and the Royal Society of Literature.

A delegation made up of heads of various Christian and Muslim organisations in DR Congo held discussions with the former President on how DR Congo could ensure a peaceful environment before, during and after their elections as Ghana has been doing successfully for years.

He has served on numerous community and regeneration organisations, the local hospital trusts, law centre, and the borough council for eight years, two as Leader.

Last year, I sent Freedom of Information requests to 445 health organisations comprising Primary Care Trusts, Foundation Trusts, Acute Trusts and so on, enquiring as to whether they screen foreign patients for auditing purposes.

«I have always been fortunate enough to be able to make substantial donations to several charitable organisations as well as to the Labour party for a number of years.

The CBHA (Community Based Housing Association) is a resident - led organisation which has run four estates in Waltham Forest for 20 years, with the Peabody Trust as a parent body.

Smaller traders too were pleased, with many reporting it as their best BMF Show for many years and generally praising the organisation carried out by BMF's new event organisers, the Mulberry Group.

But public sector organisations, including the Chartered Institute of Punlic Finance and Accounting (CIPFA) have criticised the accounting method used to produce the liability figure as an exaggeration of the official figure, due to be reported next year.

A new report published today has claimed government organisations sharing corporate services, such as finance and human resource services, could save some # 1.4 billion a year.

Full details and guidelines on submission can be found here: http://policy.ciob.org/consultations/ The CIOB hopes to invite as many people and organisations as possible to give oral evidence during sessions later in the year.

In July 2012, the Bow Group, reflecting on 60 years of its history in British politics, appointed former British Prime Minister John Major as its President and Lords Howe, Howard and Lamont as its Senior Patrons to serve on the advisory board of the organisation.

Wales already has an 870 - mile footpath around its coast and organisations such as the National Trust and the Ramblers were pleased when the former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, announced in September last year that the building of a 3,000 - mile coastal path around the entire English coast would be complete by 2020.

If there is evidence that employers pay women less for working at the same level as men, in the same organisation, on the same hours, then it's a simple matter of enforcing the 1970 Equal Pay Act, which has outlawed such practices for the past 45 years.

As a result of the leak, the organisation was investigated by the Electoral Commission for a potential breach of election law — though it claimed the money wasn't included in the # 100,000 they have spent on Scottish elections in recent years.

Ten years ago, with limited success, I tried to persuade some members of the organisation that communication is a two - way process which involves listening as well as talking.

The internet is also a good place to track down large employers or organisations that run placement schemes, including The Year in Industry, and charities such as Cancer Research UK.

They therefore exhibit a level of social organisation that is intermediate between solitary insects, such as houseflies, and the highly social honeybees, which have colonies of many thousands of individuals with queens that live for several years.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.