Sentences with phrase «for focus of this discussion»

For focus of this discussion, however, the state health service loan forgiveness program will be of focus.

Not exact matches

Depending on what you plan to market and your budget, you can use formal focus groups (or simply host roundtable discussions with members of the target audience), employ online research or mall intercept studies, or distribute your product to a select group of users for testing.

A White House official pointed to trade as part of a «bigger picture» for the economy, with cabinet - level discussions described as «deliberative» and the President focused on doing right by American workers.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»

For example, The Economist has devoted this entire week to an open, online discussion devoted to the question: «Should businesses work to advance the rights of LGBT people broadly, rather than focusing only on their own employees?»

Strategically the sales professional must keep the focus off the offer and create an arena of fairness in mediating discussions about the numbers in a mutually beneficial fashion — one where she does not settle for less than what is desired.

My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) focuses on the lack of movement on the digital economy strategy, arguing that it has emerged as the government's «Penske File» - the source of considerable discussion and much «work» but thus far few tangible results (for non-Seinfeld watchers, the Penske file has become synonymous for a non-existent work project).

The Canadian Labour Congress and the Climate Action Network of Canada co-hosted a discussion event on Thursday night that focused on job creation and facilitating a transition for the coal, oil and gas sectors — all of which will gradually be phased out as the world moves to a clean energy economy.

Almost all of the public discussion at the time on the appropriate setting for monetary policy focused on the inflation outcomes excluding the influence of the changes in the tax rate (Graph 4).

The focus of the event will center on activity in the Ethereum Classic community and what the future holds for the network, including discussions regarding the following:

During their discussion on what's top of mind for advisors, Randy Conner, president of Churchill Management Group, noted that given the market turmoil, a «hyper - focus» of advisors» business should be on acquiring clients and building on those relationships — new and current ones.

Our personalised agenda of private investment meetings, structured networking and interactive discussion groups and keynote speeches provides an exclusive opportunity for attendees to focus on the best global opportunities in an immersive two day event.

The discussion focused on how the next generation of clients is shaping the business model and investment strategy of private banks, and the importance of meeting their desire for social impact investing as well as financial returns

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

My wife was LDS when I met her, and I am thankful now believes in Jesus Christ for eternal life, however most of her family and some friends are still LDS and we have various discussions which I try to keep focused on what we must do to have eternal life.

I find the introduction of discussions focused on apologizing for the homosexuality lifestyle a bit disturbing.

His first argument for the existence of God is oriented toward «motion,» but Timothy McDermott's translation of the Summa Theologica brings the pattern more sharply into focus by shifting the discussion in English from motion to «change.»

When they met for their pre-conclave meetings back in 2013, the College of Cardinals focused much of their discussion on the dysfunctionality of the Roman Curia.

I find civil religion motifs in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,» in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts, in his belief in America's unique moral role in world affairs — and in his concern for injecting morality into public - policy discussions.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

The focus of the discussion was the use of social sciences in theology, the rereading of the Bible from the perspective of the poor, the Christian communities in the struggle of liberation and the assumption of some elements of critical and Marxist analysis for a better and deeper understanding of the conflictual reality of the continent.

In addition, I trained three of these five to serve as leaders of what I called peer - led discussion groups (focus groups organized and led by teens for which I was not present) and then directed three more focus groups with parents of teens.

Willingen spoke of Joint Action for Mission with the discussions at the Conference focussed on four areas: the theological imperatives of Christian mission, the indigenous church, the place and function of the missionary society, and the pattern of missionary activity.

The next chapter will be devoted to a discussion of that sacramental observance as a focus for Christian public praying.

Deutsch begins his discussion by focusing upon the limitations of power rather than the efficiency or potentialities for power as is most frequently the case today.

The value of the report is largely in stimulating us to highlight some of these issues and to encourage further study, discussion and not least to focus with greater intensity on key magisterial documents in order then to articulate a clearer programme and strategy for the future.

This philosophy should be emphasized at these points and others during growth groups: in the publicity inviting participation — for example, «This retreat will have a double purpose, to provide opportunities for us to enrich our own marriages and to discover our capacities to strengthen and encourage each other»; during the establishing of the group contract, near the beginning, when the discussion focuses on the nature of marriage growth; during the evaluation — for example, «How did we support and encourage each other's growth?»

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

The focus of our discussion here was proposed to be on «sustainable» «food systems» for «small farmers» not «high yield» to generate «more money» from «small pieces of land.»

Returning for its 6th instalment, the Non-Alcoholic Beverage Strategy Congress is going to once more focus on ways in which companies can grow their business through strategic approaches whilst being in a room full of solution providers and senior decision makers from the industry to encourage active discussions and solution focused talks.

That's a discussion for March of next year, even the media are more focused on Liverpool Man City and Chelsea, let's hide under that radar while we take our game one at time, we are in a strong position.

Unless you live in the Greater Boston area where Darrelle Revis is still a heated topic of discussion for the seventh... straight... day... (sigh), the rest of the sports world is focusing on whose bubble burst, identifying Cinderella and whether anyone can derail Kentucky's undefeated season.

Pep Guardiola won't be focused on that record at this stage, but it will be at the centre of discussions for the media at the game.

It's hard at this stage to think about anything but her — and our — sleep routines, but I feel kind of the same way about people asking about breastfeeding: it's been tough for us and I hate that we can't focus on how terrific our little one is without a whole discussion of latch.

For purposes of this discussion, we will mainly focus on battery / electric pumps but will briefly discuss the manual pumps available on the market today as well.

The discussion online seems to be focusing on sugar per se and my feelings about it — as if I just couldn't countenance the number of sugar grams in HISD breakfasts for one more minute, threw up my hands and marched off the committee in a huff.

Since the discussion is focused on the mortality statistics of home and hospital labor and birth, babies who die before labor are a subject for another discussion.

The focus of the group discussion is what key things to look for when choosing an -LSB-...]

For the record, here's what Paterson had to say about borrowing just last week, insisting he had never ruled it out, altogether, but was chagrined that it had become the focus of discussion (thanks, of course, to his hand - picked LG, Richard Ravitch):

Also note Hillary Clinton's message focus — the «word cloud» of the discussion around her candidacy tightly reflected her messaging, while for some of the other candidates (Rand Paul Rand Paul!)

The campaign did run some influence - the - discussion display ads, for instance buying space on the websites of major media outlets immediately after debates, but they focused more on the practical goal of list - building.

Through out his statements on the issue, and in the many discussions that followed, the focus has shifted to a lack of evidence for «intent» to mishandle classified information.

The education discussion «focused on David Blunkett's proposals for directors of school standards (DSS), appointed by local authorities and working with councils and the community, to provide a «middle tier» between schools and the secretary of state».

Governor Eliot Spitzer's first executive budget is the focus of FPI's seventeenth annual budget briefing: a discussion of economic and fiscal context for the budget, and an analysis of the extent to which the budget helps the state's regions grow together and strengthens and expands the middle class.

The discussion (during the portion the press was allowed in, at least) focused on some longterm challenges for Rockaway, including rebuilding and the powerful economic issue of flood insurance, both it's pricing and it's applicability.

After the debate, we asked her several questions, including: how she viewed her debate performance, what she expects the remaining three weeks of the campaign to focus on, for a more detailed discussion of her unexpected answer that she doesn't see herself as prepared to be mayor and for more about her statement that she's thought about running for Public Advocate for the past 20 years.

In response to the Government's discussion paper on the proposed Chief Construction Officer (CCO) role, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has called for the position to have a greater focus.

There was additionally a very thorough discussion of Campaign Finance Reform with Kristina Andreotta, of Citizen Action NY particularly focused on New York State legislation that may be influenced over the next month by positions Gov. Cuomo will announce in launching the budget and legislative priorities for 2014.