Sentences with phrase «shifting national focus»

The mayor argued that his national travels, which will continue on Wednesday with a trip to California to talk about income inequality, are necessary to shift the national focus and, ultimately, help him secure federal resources for New York City.

The researchers concluded it is time to shift the national focus from calories to nutrient - dense foods.

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Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:

According to a report by Look Sharp, a national college recruiting organization, 81.1 percent of graduates reported that their internships helped them shift career directions by changing the focus of classes or majors.

In recent years, its focus has shifted, placing greater emphasis on national campaigning, and on promoting and producing more resources that are of direct benefit to parishes.

As Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania, pointed out in a speech at the recent World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, held in Rome, the officials of multilateral and some national aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs» approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focus for aid.

The focus of the demonstrations during the national anthem has shifted ever since President Donald Trump made remarks in Alabama, saying that any player who kneels is a «son of a bitch» who should be fired.

And the national conversation centers on men, unless something in the women's arena temporarily shifts the focus.

The most relieved person of the 83,000 - plus inside the national stadium, Davinson underlined his joy at winning the game before shifting his focus to Tuesday night's Champions League trip to Juventus.

August is National Breastfeeding Month, and the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee is choosing to shift the focus, training the spotlight on society in general and the role everyone can play in helping mothers meet their breast - feeding goals.

Coalitions need to be made with German support, in which its government, as all the others in Europe, has to focus on the national political implication of each European policy - shift.

Such restructured governance architecture will facilitate overall national economic productivity and bring about the necessary shift away from the present virtually unitary structure which encourages the 36 states and federal capital territory (Abuja) to rely on a philosophy of «sharing the national cake», and it will encourage the more viable federating units to focus on productivity and internally generated revenues.

The spotlight on dynamic systems is a major shift for agencies like the Army Corps, which in the past paid more attention to engineered solutions, Bostick said last week during an event at the National Academy of Sciences that focused on the state of resilience in the country.

National security experts said climate forecasters often focus on averages, or the most likely scenario, without determining the probability of an extreme climate shift

But lately the focus has shifted to climate change, said Pitambar Sigdel, a senior reporter for Annapurna Post, the national daily newspaper.

Trimble, who now works at the University of California, Irvine, notes that Weber worked on his gravitational wave detectors even after the National Science Foundation (NSF) cut off his funding in 1987 and shifted its focus to developing LIGO — the agency ultimately spent more than $ 1 billion on it.

The decision to move NAPLAN online provides a unique opportunity to shift the focus of assessment from common year - level tests and low national minimum standards to the monitoring of each student's progress against challenging personal targets.

In the 1920s, the focus shifted from schools serving a national need to serving individual needs.

«Experts disagree on how much of what is happening reflects a long - term shift toward greater Federal involvement or is a result of a historical moment: a politically adroit President intensely focused on education, aging baby boomers who have made education a leading national issue, and an absence of competing issues,» the article states.

Her goal is to use her school nursing expertise and education in assisting with the national agenda and national policy to shift the juvenile justice process from a punitive reform to one that includes a focus on physical / behavioral health and family engagement.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

While I am sure we can all debate the many reasons teachers offer for leaving the profession including increased emphasis on standardized test scores, the shifting focus of the annual professional performance review and the lack of funding for education at the state and national level, there is a growing stream of awareness that the core of the frustration is the lack of shared decision - making roles and opportunities for teachers in the majority of our schools today.

Ever since, she's been exploring the creation of identity and the shifting contours of community, focusing her lens on Malibu surfers and empty freeway overpasses; most recently, she's taken on both Elizabeth Taylor's home and numerous national parks (intentionally blurred: «I'm always trying to recategorize the iconic»).

Ever since, she's been exploring the creation of identity and the shifting contours of community, focusing her lens on Malibu surfers and empty freeway overpasses; most recently, she's taken on both Elizabeth Taylor's home and numerous national parks (intentionally blurred: «I'm always trying to to recategorize the iconic.»)

With ECO and others, Wallace endevored to change the national fisheries law to shift its focus from managing fish harvest to managing the entire ecosystem.

I have no quatitative measure of the response of DOE's to that event but it is quite clear to me that DOE and the national labs immediately shifted their focus to alternative energy sources and GW.

That began to change with the ascent of Chief Almir, who has shifted the focus to long - term sustainability, winning major support from the Brazilian national government, conservation organizations such as Forest Trends, and through a major mapping project with the Amazon Conservation Team and Google Maps that, in rich detail, documented the natural and human history of the land over the years.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

Companies must shift from focusing on rules and consequences to emphasizing culture and values, according to Carolyn Frantz, Microsoft's deputy general counsel and corporate secretary, in an article published by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

The Western Cape's drought and a struggling national economy means that many Cape Town buyers might soon be shifting their focus to other cities.

Pat Vredevoogd Combs comes to the top post at the National Association of REALTORS ® at a time when housing markets are shifting, transactions are becoming more complex, and the real estate industry is the focus of an unprecedented level of government scrutiny.