Sentences with phrase «years of effort spent»

The deployment model Kopernik is using is the result of years of effort spent honing an approach that would deliver meaningful change, empowers those it seeks to help while maintaining economic sustainability that does not rely on constant contributions from donors.

Not exact matches

Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

The network will spend the first half of the year engaging in paid media ads — «before anyone else is on air,» said Seidel — and will begin deploying a grassroots effort in the late summer and early fall.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

Dotcom spent most of the year battling extradition efforts to the United States, where he could serve 20 years in prison for running his Megaupload service, but so far, he's managed to beat — or least stave off — the rap.

To support these efforts, Chobani plans to spend 35 percent more on marketing next year, with the bulk of spending occurring in the first half of the year, said Chobani's chief marketing and commercial officer, Peter McGuinness.

Companies typically spend an average of two years in a business incubator, during which time they often share telephone, secretarial office, and production equipment expenses with other startup companies, in an effort to reduce everyone's overhead and operational costs.

For, say, a half - hour meeting of six writers and an editor at a company the size of Inc., the $ 189 spent could give clean drinking water to 9 people in Africa for 20 years, or «significantly impact» relief efforts in Haiti.

To take their awareness efforts further, Martinez and Miller have spent the past year and a half throwing «Right2Work» dinners to «create a space to discuss the reality of what's happening.»

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Such an effort may seem counterintuitive to existing online advertising paradigms, given that businesses are expected to spend $ 141 million on online ads this year, per eMarketer — of which Google takes home an estimated 32.4 percent.

The conservative Koch network plans to spend between $ 300 million and $ 400 million to influence politics and public policy over the next two years, intensifying its nationwide efforts in the initial years of Donald Trump's presidency.

Ameriprise, for instance, said in its most recent earnings report that it had spent north of $ 11 million this year to comply with the rule, and announced earlier this year that it had devote about 400 people to compliance efforts and has increased training for staffers.

It can also be beneficial to make note of patterns in the fiscal and calendar year, targeting your efforts to align with the seasons when B2B buyers are under pressure to spend the remaining funds in their budgets.

In addition to spending many years playing many roles in the field of business coaching, Alan has devoted much time and effort to the «Fairtrade» movement.

The federal government plans to spend millions of dollars less this year on advertising and outreach efforts to support the health law's open enrollment period, which starts Nov. 1.

As our study has consistently shown over the past eight years, there is no long - term correlation between the amount of money a company spends on its innovation efforts and its overall financial performance; instead, what matters is how companies use that money and other resources, as well as the quality of their talent, processes, and decision making.

The Update also included a large number of spending initiatives (about $ 10 billion over six years), thereby ensuring that these initiatives would be included in Main Estimates for 2018 - 19 as part of efforts to increase transparency and accountability between the budget expenses and the Main Estimates expenditures.

Starting out as a personal project rather than an intentional marketing effort, I spent the greater part of those 2 years experimenting with what to write and what audience OMG serves.

A recent study commissioned by Real Estate Webmasters says that last year, 53 per cent of real estate professionals spent less than $ 5,000 on their annual marketing efforts, including both online and offline avenues.

Prior to joining Oberon, Steven spent 4 years as a Director with Miller Tabak + Co. where he was instrumental in the creation of the firm's Consumer Investment Banking coverage effort.

I've spent most of my study effort over the years on Romans.

Bishops, etc should spend more time and effort assuring the safety and well being of those who fall under the supervision of wayward priests, their stewardship over the last 30 years leaves much to be desired.

Imagine if all the billions of dollars in time, effort and hard cash that we spend worldwide each year worshipping and appeasing make - believe deities of one kind or another were instead funneled into something tangible and worthwhile, like reducing poverty, improving education or protecting the environment.

Since then I have spend well - nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval.

This feeling is compounded by books written by bionic mystical saints who, 300 years before the invention of TV, would pop off to the woods, crawl into the bowels of a log and spend six blissful weeks in fasting and prayer with apparently zero effort.

Since then I have spent well - nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval.

Lorena had suffered from recurrent periods, of mental depression during the past 12 years, had undergone shock therapy, and had spent six weeks in a mental health center in an effort to learn which antidepression medication could help her.

If only the media spent this much time and effort trying to get to the bottom of at least a few of the real stories out there over the last couple years instead of crap like this.

Cantor spent the last thirty - five years of his life in a vain effort to prove this.

That is of special importance to Stanger, who before being named president in 2016 had spent 25 years with the company mostly focused on its sales and marketing efforts.

A couple years back I wrote, «I look forward to 2005 being a year where; I see more of the world I live in through travel and photography, I spend more time with my sister, I make an effort to collaborate on projects with interesting, innovative individuals.»

It's also something that we fans spend thousands of pounds watching over the years and buying the merchandise and putting all our effort and passion and time into watching.

I expect to spend a good amount of effort when the school year begins looking over the offerings and talking with my daughter about what works best for her.

Because of her efforts to bring democracy to military - ruled Burma, Suu Kyi spent most of the last 20 years in detention or under house arrest.

Only days after the people of Colombia voted to reject a historic peace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country's decades - long war with the FARC guerrilla movement.

New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics released its 2011 lobbying report this week, which found that the lobbying industry spent a record sum of $ 220 million last year in its efforts to influence state legislators.

As the head of his conference's campaign efforts for the past seven years, Gianaris might have an advantage in a potential crowded primary field, as he's spent the past several election cycles getting to know top Democrats in every corner of the state.

«The funds were spent in 2013 on a grassroots effort to support the use of polystyrene foam food service packaging and there are no plans to spend any additional money this year,» said ACC spokesman Andrew Fasoli.

Most recently, this focus on secrecy was shown in the extraordinary efforts of the governor's aides to shield some of his records from public scrutiny in the State Archives, where a top Cuomo lieutenant spent nearly eight hours screening documents from Cuomo's years as attorney general that were sought by the Times Union under the Freedom of Information Law.

At least $ 950 million has already been spent on site development and years - long efforts to cap four enormous mounds of trash under the fields, trails and playgrounds that will make up the park.

Lopez points out he has spent much of the last two years intervening: connecting needy constituents with banks, insurance companies and state and federal funding sources, as efforts to expedite rebuilding efforts and repair infrastructure continue.

With the special election scheduled for April 24th, we decided that this year our fundraising efforts will be best spent in support of Aidan's campaign.

Mayfield resident Douglas Kampfer, who has spent the last two years fighting New York's SAFE Act — unsuccessfully — in court, acting as his own attorney and funding his effort by collecting bottles and cans, has already filed for a rehearing after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his case, accusing the court of bias against the AR - 15.

The report highlights the money spent by CPV on lobbying and other public relations efforts as the trial of Joe Percoco approached last year.

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

That approach has long frustrated efforts by many to see «budget gaps» in common - sensical or literal terms, because reported «out - year gaps» are not the actual differences in spending and revenues between one year and the next, but instead reflect projections of how circumstances would look if on auto pilot.

As New York nears the midpoint of its five - year, $ 8 billion project to reform Medicaid, hundreds of millions of dollars awarded from the federal government have yet to be spent, and that could negatively impact the Cuomo administration's effort to overhaul the system.

The awarding of a license to the Lago Resort & Casino in the Finger Lakes Region capped a 25 - year quest by developer Thomas Wilmot, who has spent millions of dollars, formed multiple alliances with Native American tribes and at one point learned Spanish in his effort to cash in on gambling.

The results from Trump's early midterm efforts have been positive, said Steven Law, who heads the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC that expects to spend tens of millions of dollars helping Senate Republicans this year.