Sentences with phrase «about fundamental purposes»

They may go quite far in pointing out how those purposes are not well served by current practices, but as participants they have no leverage for asking about fundamental purposes and assumptions.

The debate is about the fundamental purpose of education: for the Sophists, the goal is power — economic, political, and social.

Not exact matches

It raises fundamental issues about the extent to which the sharing economy is largely an effort to evade regulations, many of which serve important public purposes.»

This stance does not help detractors see and want to learn about the other side (and this is the fundamental purpose of the websites is it not?)

On reading the speech itself, I think Cruddas» argument to be very much about how to define the battleground by defining Labour's fundamental sense of mission and purpose, animating it in a concrete programme.

After all, this yoga stuff is very serious business, connecting us with the most profound and fundamental questions about our existence and purpose.

Everyone in the house listens to President Jimmy Carter's «crisis of confidence» speech in which he claimed that the «fundamental threat to American democracy» came from a crisis of confidence, reflected in the growing doubt about «the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.»

While technological innovation has made new ways of executing advancement activities possible, it has also spawned questions about the fundamental goals and purposes of advancement work and how the chief executive and chief advancement officer should understand and lead this important administrative function most effectively.

SRI's intentional learning communities are transformational because they not only help educators improve their practice, but they also help educators question their fundamental assumptions about teaching, learning, students, and the purpose of schools.

As Exponent Philanthropy, the nation's largest charity membership organization, explained in its report on nonprofit effectiveness, «The most fundamental quality of an effective nonprofit is clarity about its mission — both what it seeks to accomplish and why this purpose is important.»

Hidden behind the debate about turnaround programs, charter schools, standardized testing, evaluation methods and the common core curriculum rages a far more fundamental argument; what do we actually expect our public education to achieve... What is the purpose of public education?

If we believe the fundamental purpose of schools is learning and we are clear about what it is we expect students to learn, how will be know if they have learned it?

If we believe the fundamental purpose of schools is learning, and we are clear about what we expect students to learn, and we have a system in place to monitor the learning of each student, how will the school extend and enrich the learning of students when they learn the essential outcomes?

If we believe the fundamental purpose of schools is learning and we are clear about what it is we expect them to learn and we have a system in place to monitor the learning of each student, how will we, as a school, respond when students experience difficulty with their learning?

There's more to come about this in the performance section, but the software is sluggish and that impacts even the fundamental purpose of this device — reading.

My Value Rules that I discuss on this site extensively are all qualitative fundamentals that I've learnt about from studying companies for investment or business purpose.

Further, the purpose of the G&D fundamental analysis is to make a judgment about what future prices are likely to be in an OPMI trading market.

The NPDA was founded in 2011 by three Diplomates of the American Board of Periodontology, two veterinarians, and two veterinary dental technicians for the purpose of creating fundamental guidelines for practicing, offering, or educating about the services of a Professional Outpatient Preventive Dental or POPD.

To do this, he is provoking a community - wide dialogue about the role, function, and fundamental purpose of LA's arts organizations.

Fundamental skills required in efficient reading comprehension are knowing meaning of words, ability to understand meaning of a word from discourse context, ability to follow organization of passage and to identify antecedents and references in it, ability to draw inferences from a passage about its contents, ability to identify the main thought of a passage, ability to answer questions answered in a passage, ability to recognize the literary devices used in a passage and to determine its tone and mood, and finally ability to determine writer's purpose, intent, and point of view, and draw inferences about the writer.

For a rule or principle to constitute a principle of fundamental justice for the purposes of s. 7, it must be a legal principle about which there is significant societal consensus that it is fundamental to the way in which the legal system ought fairly to operate, and it must be identified with sufficient precision to yield a manageable standard against which to measure deprivations of life, liberty or security of the person.

Notable mandates: Represented physicians involved in providing care to Ashley Smith during the 2013 coroner's inquest; acted for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in a defamation action against Ontario Progressive Conservative party leader Tim Hudak and energy critic Lisa MacLeod; in Wise v. Iran, acted for a Canadian victim of a suicide bombing (executed by individuals who received material support from Iran) who sought leave to intervene in ongoing proceedings commenced by United States plaintiffs in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice seeking orders recognizing the enforceability in Ontario of judgments they obtained from a U.S. court against Iran totaling about $ 370 million; in Khadr v. Edmonton Institution, acted as lead counsel for an intervener, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, to argue that in interpreting Omar Khadr's sentence for the purpose of enforcing it in Canada, Correctional Services Canada was obliged to consider Khadr's right to liberty and principles of fundamental justice; acted for a physician in a malpractice claim in Moore v. Getahun, a precedent - setting case about restrictions on communication between counsel and experts in preparation of expert reports.

The recent revelations that executed Chinese prisoner's organs are being used for transplantation purposes, and bought by rich recipients, raises fundamental issues about the legality and ethics of creating a market in buying and selling organs.

A lease can not be granted unless the relevant Land Council is satisfied that the group of traditional owners understand the nature and purpose of the proposed grant and, as a group, consent to it.97 This group consent need not be unanimous by must be given in accordance with either an agreed or a traditional decision - making process.98 This requirement is a fundamental aspect of the whole scheme of the ALRA (NT): decisions can not be made about Aboriginal land unless traditional owners have given their informed consent.