Mr. Brown has spearheaded the Under 2 MOU initiative, backed by a coalition of state, local and regional governments in 33 countries — more than 160 jurisdictions with a total population of more than 1 billion — that have agreed to deep emissions cuts to try to keep global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Construction is just beginning on a multibillion-dollar development spearheaded by Under Armour founder Kevin Plank, who wants to build a bustling waterfront business center that will bring high-paying jobs and world renown to a now-blighted section of South Baltimore.
The commission official who spearheaded privacy efforts under Mr. Pitofsky, David Medine, said that the proposal came only after five years of working with online companies on self-regulation initiatives.
It was envisioned that some $65‐million in privatesector deposits and $35‐million in Federal Government deposits, the latter undertaking to be spearheaded by Charles E. Walker, Under Secretary of the Treasury would be steered to minority‐owned banks.
I was very lucky to be called in as a scholar to talk with Secretary Lew and with Treasurer Rosie Rios, who had really spearheaded this effort under Timothy Geithner, the previous treasury secretary.
Conversion to Christianity in the city was spearheaded and completed under Saint Porphyrius, who destroyed its eight pagan temples between 396 and 420 CE.
Under pressure spearheaded by the United States, the United Nations compelled Sudan to lift many of the strictures placed on foreign relief agencies, leading to a rapid upsurge in supplies and personnel reaching the field.
Simultaneously, efforts to revitalize the central business district are under way, spearheaded by Renaissance Development, a partnership of Castagna Realty Company of Manhasset, which owns the top-tier Americana at Manhasset shopping center, and Albanese Development of Garden City.
It was this militant faction that spearheaded the Taliban uprising under Fazlullah in northern Pakistan.
The insurgents, spearheaded by Islamists fighting under the banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), have overrun much of north and west Iraq, including the second-biggest city, Mosul.
