Sentences with phrase «alternative directions for»

«We are exploring alternative directions for developing this compound, including potential use of the animal efficacy rule,» Cihlar said, referring to a regulatory mechanism under which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may consider efficacy findings from adequate and well - controlled animal studies of a drug in cases where it is not feasible or ethical to conduct human trials.
Hence, part of the task of white process theologians is to complement the work of Black (and other liberation) theologies by engaging in theory - critique and proposing alternative directions for global economic systems.
The two wonks, working for organizations that are typically locked in opposition, recognized a shared interest in finding an alternative direction for U.S. climate policy.

Not exact matches

Speculating on alternative viewpoints and seeking additional perspectives can be frustrating for colleagues who are looking for clarity, consistency and direction,» say Toegel and Barsoux.
Charles Birnbaum, Bessemer Venture Partners: «Valuations in the alternative - lending space were overly optimistic in our opinion over the prior five years, but we do feel that the pendulum has likely swung back too far in the other direction following the recent pullback» leaving the sector ripe for potential funding or M&A.
With Chinese growth slowing, a paramount issue for President Obama and American business will be learning what the direction of Chinese policy will be — toward greater opening of its market in the tradition of Deng Xiaoping, or much less welcome alternatives.
Instead of a passive «wait and see» attitude, perhaps it is time to look more aggressively for alternative export markets and recalibrate the Canadian exporters» Global Positioning System towards other directions.
In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.
Another direction for the liberal church (these alternatives may, of course, overlap) is that the church will become essentially a social center.
Whitehead offers an alternative formulation and claims on behalf of his formulation that it can account for all experimental results accounted for by the Einsteinian formulation but that it represents a different interpretation of these results in terms of a more adequate concept of nature (PNK vi; CN vii, 182; IS 125 - 35).18 The major theoretical difference between the two formulations is that whereas in the Einsteinian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is variable from point to point and in differing directions (that is, heterogeneous and nonisotropic), in the Whiteheadian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is uniform from point to point and in differing directions (that is, homogeneous and isotropic).
And in the third and final section, «Disestablishing Ourselves as the Alternative to Being Disestablished,» I come to the main thrust of this first lecture: that responsible Christians ought not to be fatalized by the humiliation of Christendom but ought rather to attempt to discern in this process of de-constantinianization new occasions for authenticity and, accordingly, ought to give positive direction to the process instead of allowing it simply to happen to them.
To this I would reply that for a long time now many biologists have readily accepted the possibility, if not the virtual certainty, that purposes in the form of the making of choices between alternative situations may indeed have played an important function as canalising in certain directions the selective forces acting on the stock in question.
Historian Philip Jenkins in Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way has gone so far as to assert that the alternative gospels tell us less about the beginnings of Christianity than about «the interest groups who seek to use them today; about the mass media, and how religion is packaged as popular culture; and... more generally, about the changing directions of contemporary American religion.»
Directions for use: A great alternative to sugar, our coconut sugar can be used in cooking, baking and in tea and coffee.
Directions for use: Our organic coconut nectar is the perfect alternative to honey or traditional sugar and great for drizzling, cooking and baking with.
Tossing the plastic wrap for good might feel like a big step, but having a beautiful, sustainable alternative like Bee's Wrap on hand is definitely step in the right direction.
Prepare rice according to package directions, instead of using water I suggest using beef stock as an alternative for a more flavorful recipe.
Access to a restroom (there isn't one for the cafe, they offer directions to the nearest alternative close by)
See the directions below for dairy free alternatives.
Soy formula should be used under the direction of your doctor, but it can be an alternative to cow's milk formula for full - term infants.
Although many of the tagine recipes on this site include directions for alternative preparations in a pot or pressure cooker, this one is best slowly cooked in the traditional clay or ceramic vessel from which it takes its name.
Give your teen alternatives to these bad habits, like pulling into a parking lot to answer and make calls and plotting directions before leaving for an unfamiliar place.
«It's healthy for people to hold alternative views on the future direction of the party.
Going through the more formal, restricted process of proposing a specific Amendment that must be introduced in Congress, be passed by 2/3 majorities in both houses, and then be ratified by the required number of states (3/4, which would still have to approve amendments from a convention, as well) seems doomed to fail in this current period of hyper - partisanship and gridlock, but the alternative of calling a Constitutional Convention is so broad that it can easily have unexpected results, in the opposite direction that those originally organizing had hoped for.
Okanlawon, while congratulating the Federal Government for looking in the direction of Sukuk as an alternative revenue source for infrastructure provision, said Nigerians have reasons to give kudos to Aregbesola for his ability to identify and raise the awareness on Sukuk as an easier avenue of raising funds for live - changing projects.
Dr Alexander Merle, co-author from the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, adds: «At the moment, experiments on Dark Matter do not point into a clear direction and, given that also the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has not found any signs of new physics yet, it may be time that we shift our paradigm towards alternative candidates for Dark Matter.
In addition, my enthusiasm for benchwork was running its course, and so an alternative direction had to be explored.
For mine the punky alternative part sort of always grounds my looks but it takes different directions from there depending on my mood — boho, retro or indie.
Charlie Cobb was only 20 years old when he designed the Freedom Schools curriculum to enable students, as he put it, «to stand up in classrooms around the state and ask their teachers a real question» and «make it possible for them to challenge the myths of our society, to perceive more clearly its realities and to find alternatives and ultimately, new directions for action.»
Of course I was predisposed in that direction because I'm a huge admirer of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy charter schools — more than 40 of them now, in four boroughs of New York City — which are knocking the top off state test scores and providing terrific educational alternatives for thousands of youngsters, mostly poor and minority, who would otherwise be stuck in some of the country's worst urban schools.
Differentiation: • Alternative handwriting lines • A second bordered page for students who wish to write at length • The photo section provides more difficult vocabulary and could lead more able writers towards a «what happened next» story writing style, should the teacher wish to lead them in this direction • An editable version of all content has been provided for the teacher to make vocabulary choices.
Teaching Points: • Students will need some prior knowledge of what it means to extend a sentence and the role that adjectives can play in this • Students should be encouraged to use as many colours as possible to colour their pictures I have added some extras to give students and teachers an element of choice - Differentiation: • Alternative handwriting lines • A second bordered page for students who wish to write at length • The photo section provides more difficult vocabulary and could lead more able writers towards a «what happened next» story writing style, should the teacher wish to lead them in this direction • An editable version of all content has been provided for the teacher to make vocabulary choices.
Positive Directions for Schools and Communities: Non-traditional alternative to school organization.
The direction the curriculum is taking is also becoming less and less inclusive for these children, meaning schools need to look at alternative interventions which cost money and teacher time.»
With ESEA reauthorization moving forward in Congress, we have the opportunity to choose an alternative to the direction we have been going for the last 30 years.
Moreover, it offers strong evidence for this alternative direction to the policy debate on public school reform by analyzing the role of union - management relations in educational quality.
It sounded like a reasonable alternative — unless we took a wrong turn, in which case all subsequent directions would be wrong, and we would have to start the process over again by calling in to OnStar for new directions.
It's certainly not a bad alternative for Hop Stop or other similar apps for when you are traveling or when pulling up quick directions when you need it.
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For the overall cost implication there are plenty of alternative devices out there, from Ultrabooks such as the Lenovo Yoga 11S, less powerful yet cheaper tablet alternatives such as Samsung ATIV, or that opposite direction of travel from something like the MacBook Air.
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Under Tamara's direction, Vancity achieved the highest profits in the organization's 70 - year history and became the first Canadian financial institution (FI) invited to the Global Alliance for Banking on Values; the first carbon - neutral FI in North America; the largest Canadian private - sector living wage employer, and one of the first to create an alternative product to high - interest payday loans.
The SMART Box tool is a great step in the right direction for the industry, but unless all alternative lenders adopt it, regulatory action may still be necessary to prevent predatory lending practices.
While there are times that references to a qualified local dog trainer are the best thing to offer pet owners experiencing difficulty housebreaking their animals, and medical issues as a cause for poor potty training must always be ruled out before suggesting alternatives, the vast majority of pet owners just need a bit of direction and assistance.
As an alternative it's not a bad idea to swim to the most Southernmost pillar (if you went from the easy beach entry south of the pier) for your return and head back via a predetermined compass bearing or rough direction, which you can determine from the slope of the reef.
Drive up from Sun Valley heading in the direction of Cape Town and find the signboard to Peers Cave to your right in a small layby, or park the car off the road at one of the alternative Silvermine parking areas, to the right just before the San Michel Estate, Noordhoek for a longer haul.
When that happens, getting online to search for alternative programs and directions are usually what I would do first.
The default control scheme consisting of pressing R2 to fire a weapon; holding L2 to aim down iron sights; pressing R1 to utilise alternative fire or block; pressing L1 to throw a grenade; pressing X to jump; pressing square to reload or holding square to heal; pressing O to use or holding O to weld a door; holding triangle to enter weapon select; pressing up on the d - pad to equip healer; pressing down on the d - pad to toggle flashlight; pressing left on the d - pad for voice comms; pressing right on the d - pad to throw dosh; pressing L3 to crouch or sprint; pressing R3 to perform a melee on an enemy; changing the direction of the left analogue stick to move; changing the direction of the right analogue stick to look around your surroundings; pressing the share button takes you to the share feature menu; and pressing the options button to display the pause menu.
Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning
The game starts off by recommending that you play it multiple times to get alternative results from the story each time based on the decisions and direction you choose to take, but after my first play through, very little made me want to go back for a second time, let alone a possible third or fourth, but I wanted to give developer Cowardly Creations the benefit of the doubt so i played it through a few times.
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