Sentences with phrase «a national imperative»

Encouraging tolerance and understanding must be a core national imperative and I will work to further that goal.

It is an imperative — an American, national imperative — that we as an intelligence agency deliver the information to our senior leaders such that they can resolve this issue in a way that works for the American people.»

In recent years, the Canadian government has stated that improving relations with Asia is not just a choice or an option, but a national imperative.

Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird has called it a «national imperative» that Canada assume a more active role in Asia and take advantage of economic opportunities.

Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Baird, has called it a «national imperative» that Canada take a more active role in Asia and take...

Reducing food waste isn't just our company goal — it's a national imperative.

In a letter in the 11 August issue of Science, 69 co-authors decry the decision as «totally out of step with international trends and national imperatives.»

Furthermore, the President will make it a national imperative to dramatically improve student achievement in math and science, and move US students from the middle of the pack to the top on international benchmarks over the next decade by challenging all Americans to dramatically increase support for math and science education.

7 July 2015 Annual AAAS - Hitachi Lecture on Science and Society Focus: The National Imperative for Big Science: Is There Still One?

The 15 - member panel, led by Lester Lyles, a retired Air Force general who was on the short list of potential NASA chiefs, argues that the Administration must take a broader view so that «a disciplined space program can serve larger national imperatives.»

Ruth Mitchell, the associate director of the Council for Basic Education, writes in Testing for Learning that «a new model of schooling is a national imperative.»

Or so said a high - profile lineup of speakers at «Science Generation: A National Imperative,» a gathering held here last week at the American Museum of Natural History.

We need a CPD programme that can be tailored to the needs of individuals, local settings and broader national imperatives.

Responsive education: Enabling transformative engagements with transitions in global / national imperatives.

It is a national imperative that these students achieve their full potential in higher education.

The programs are a small part of a growing national imperative: to increase the number of black men working in the nation's public schools, where «minority» students now constitute a majority.

This year's conference theme is «Leadership Diversity in Public Service: A National Imperative».

Given the level of knowledge and skills needed to participate fully in our economy and democracy, it is a national imperative to ensure that all students are college ready and college successful.

This list also underscores the national imperative for all states to continuously work to ensure that their public education finance systems are meeting the needs of all students and the demands placed on local districts, schools and educators.

The MAC has published Assessment Literacy Standards: A National Imperative, numerous tools and resources for teachers and administrators and pursues collaborations with education organizations in Michigan and nationally.

With most of the country's coal and lignite mining companies and electricity producers completely or partially owned or controlled by the state, the national imperative to boost the industry is clear.

NRC, Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2007.

INTRODUCTION The United States faces an urgent national imperative to modernize and diversify its energy system by developing and deploying clean, and affordable advanced energy technologies.

The National Research Council (NRC), a branch of the National Academies of Science, recently released its report Disaster Resiliency: A National Imperative.

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The second is the president's habitual misstatements of facts and statistics that I really think have caused the court to look upon his claims about the national - security imperative for this order with great skepticism.»

It's imperative to get your ducks in a row before taking your company from a local to a national market.

«It is imperative for all of the major stakeholders in women's enterprise development — in policymaking, program development, capital, research, and organizational capacity - building — to move forward in the same direction, to not only increase our national competitiveness but to level the economic playing field.

Democrats, it is widely thought, are instinctive doves who are entirely comfortable only with those exercises of American power (as in Kosovo) where humanitarian impulses, rather than defense of the national interest, are the primary imperative.

Pursuit of the national interest seems to them a self - evident imperative of foreign policy.

By assuming our peoplehood as a dimension of our religion, we Jews have the opportunity of articulating the imperative need of each nation to foster its national individuality as a gift from God, and not as an acquisition of an earthly or demonic power.

If we would avoid the stigma of hypocrisy, we should not conceal the fact that the imperatives of our national existence command us to lend what assistance we can to this pivotal Asian member of the British Commonwealth.

Liberation movements of some sort now seem imperative to more national, economic and ethnic groups.

The imperative to liberalize has demanded a shrinking of state involvement in national life, producing a wave of privatization, cutting jobs, slashing health, education and food subsidies, etc. affecting the poor people in society.

Given the nature of Augusta National, getting up and down is imperative.

Pending cases will not appear on a national database, another reason courthouse investigations are imperative.

Nigeria national team boss Gernot Rohr says that it is imperative that the national team remain calm even as they are very close to securing a place in the World Cup 2018.

The Tories were never in imminent danger of tearing themselves apart over Europe, given the political imperative of reducing Britain's national debt, but grumbling discomfort remains.

It is imperative to strengthen the Public Accounts and Finance committees of Parliament to play their oversight responsibilities more effectively; and also to develop a mechanism for effective synergy and coordination between the Monitoring Units of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) and the Office of the President.

Gillibrand, a national leader in the push to elect more women, praised the efforts of 21 in» 21, making the point that in order for more women to get elected on the federal level it is imperative for there to be a pipeline of women elected officials at the local level.

According to the President, «The need for community input to policing and crime management in Nigeria has even become more imperative considering our current national security challenges in which kidnapping, armed robbery, murder, transnational crimes, terrorism and other organized crimes have evolved to threaten our national values and developmental strides».

The Governor stressed that this legislation was a moral imperative and should be seen not only as a priority for New York, but as a national priority.

«As a democratic institution, which prides itself on informed debate and comradely discussion, we believe it is imperative that this omission is corrected before the National Policy Forum meets in Leeds next weekend,» the letter says.

That made the second coming of Muhammadu Buhari an imperative for national salvation.

It is therefore imperative for all Ghanaians including the government and the governed to uphold the virtue of selflessness in order to attain our desired objective of putting our beloved country at the forefront of national development.

The statement added: «If the theme of the year is to be successfully realized, it is imperative that platforms of national authorship and ownership be speedily established to enable a cross session of ordinary Africans to connect with what is at present an abstract concept restricted to the ivory tower of the political elite, bureaucrats and academics.»

In the statement by his media office, Atiku stated that it was imperative for the national leadership of the party to respect internal democracy and democratic tenets, warning that «you can not break your own rules without creating problems.»

«Therefore, it is imperative to mainstream STI in our national economic policy.

I will like to conclude by saying that Africa's destiny lies in the hands of Africans and the earlier we work towards our national and continental security and placing those imperatives above the interests of external forces, no matter the consequences, the sooner we will realise our inherent greatness as a continent.

Ms. Hickey, who has worked extensively with Republicans in swing districts, said the urgent imperative for many of them was «getting away from the national message.»

«It became imperative for the National Working Committee to ensure an all - inclusive state executive is put in place to avoid going to war with a divided army.