Sentence examples for single advocacy from inspiring English sources

In 1999, in an interview with The Los Angeles Times, Dr. Steven Hyman, then director of the National Institute of Mental Health, called the alliance "the greatest single advocacy force in mental health".

The air wars over health care have already steered more than $200 million to local broadcast and cable outlets, making the issue the most expensive single advocacy campaign in a single year.

"It shows you the power of an irrational single advocacy group," Bloomberg said, giving a nod to the effectiveness of the gun lobby to bottle up legislation before it's even debated.

Following a single advocacy experience, subjects felt they were more likely to contact their legislators about healthcare issues (p = 0.03), to meet in person with their legislators (p < 0.01), and to advocate for populations' health needs (p = 0.04).

A single advocacy experience for physicians-in-training increases their appreciation of the importance of health care advocacy and of being active in the legislative process; and reinforces their perception that advocacy training and experiences are missing components of their schools' curricula.

It also demonstrated the influence a single education advocacy group has come to wield over policy decisions.

National party MP George Christensen, chair of the committee inquiring into child support which has a public hearing in Brisbane on Tuesday, said the system was raised by a number of single mother advocacy groups and he was not opposed to the idea.

Mary Brosnahan Sullivan, the coalition's executive director, said the group needed to move to a single centralized advocacy and services center because the number of homeless or disenfranchised men, women and children who sleep in city shelters each night has increased to 39,000, and many of them need the help of the coalition and other nonprofit groups and agencies.

And, of course, single issue advocacy groups of all kinds also provide forums for citizens interested in making a difference on a given issue.

We sought to evaluate the impact of a single, practical advocacy experience on the attitudes and perspectives of physicians-in-training in the context of a growing recognition of the need for advocacy training.

If the chief virtue of Merriman's book is that, taking the Communards seriously as people, he humanizes their resistance to power, its chief fault is its single-minded advocacy.