(All too often, good ideas die on the vine in the absence of people with a personal commitment to making them happen). At Children's Health, the partners invited into the project galvanized the community to act and forged and maintained the relationships in their institutions required to realize the new vision.
In addition to disseminating teachings, the internet serves to forge and maintain community, and is used as a medium for raising awareness of the persecution in China.
Her ability to forge and maintain relationships is already helping her in the startup phase.
Through interviews with former staff, patrons and community leaders, she's painted as a woman who battled racism, sexism, homophobia and a massive fire to the building to forge and maintain a much-needed refuge.
We often look to the founding fathers as men who, understanding the necessity of compromise, were ultimately able to forge and maintain a union.
It is far easier for congressional Republicans to forge and maintain a united front than it is for Democrats.
For the last decade and a half, that justice has almost always been Justice Stevens, and he has used that power with patience and skill to forge and maintain alliances in major liberal victories, often locking in Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's swing vote by assigning the opinion to him.
On a macro level, the rising tide of retail-related data breaches makes it difficult for merchants to forge and maintain trust with customers.
Although he has lived in three states — California, Texas and Oregon — he has managed to forge and maintain relationships with friends everywhere he has gone.
But many current and former gang members say there is another reason for the rise in violence, one that has little to do with the police: Truces between gangs, forged and maintained over the last decade, are unraveling.
