Sentences with phrase «as a key step»

CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas industry is being welcomed by environmentalists and, with some reservations, by industry players, as a key step in fighting climate change.
Canada Without Poverty praised investments in affordable housing and childcare as key steps to helping reduce poverty.
In the face of a tightening labour market, we commend the Government for taking efforts to promote the skilled trades and developing under - leveraged parts of the workforce, which the 2016 Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard identified as key steps in growing our economy.
These assets form critical pillars of our agenda to reform the mining and minerals sector, particularly as a key step towards our vision to lead the sector to shared mining prosperity where we make significant contributions to GDP in the country.
Reaching the qualifying threshold is seen as a key step toward a contender being considered a viable candidate.
«DNA methylation is a key mechanism by which day length and melatonin levels exert seasonal control over the expression of the deiodinase enzyme known as dio3, and dio3 expression likely acts as a key step for the maintenance of reproductive competency during the breeding season,» said co-author Tyler Stevenson, senior lecturer at the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
We join the call for an empowered intergovernmental body on tax which is mandated to set tax rules and empowered to enforce these rules — as a key step to ending the abuse of tax havens.
State officials hailed the rules, adopted June 16, as a key step in building a sound structure by which providers can be screened and approved by states to work in local districts, and monitored once they are working under contract to those districts.
More importantly, as VocabularySpellingCity focused on its mission of improving reading comprehension outcomes by helping students build vocabulary, we identified the importance of enlisting students in the strategy of building vocabulary retention (see paragraph 5) as a key step in the system.
So I see that as a key step along the way.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar appeared before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Tuesday morning to talk about what his agency has done to boost renewable energy developments, and he highlighted the agreement with FERC as a key step in achieving that goal.
Benefits from the deal are expected to extend well beyond the bank — Aceh Governor Irwandi Jusuf sees the initiative as a key step in the region's recovery from the devastating 2004 tsunami and three decades of civil war.
The program is seen as a key step toward reducing direct fossil fuel emissions from homes.
The FHFA is the conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the new platform is being seen by policymakers as a key step in the eventual unwinding of the two companies.
Homeownership is viewed as a key step in adulthood and a way to build wealth, but it is a step that has become harder for millennials to take.

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Financial advisor Manisha Thakor says the year - end holiday season is the perfect time to take three key tax - strategy steps, such as income deferral.
The pricing details were an update that Shake Shack provided in its latest regulatory filing, a key step as it moves forward to raise millions of dollars by launching its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
Step 2: Recognition Once you've created awareness, you need to consistently repeat your key marketing messages to your target audience so that the audience recognizes and remembers you and connects it to a previous experience (such as your awareness advertising).
If you are a small business in need of extra capital to take the next step in your business trajectory, here are a few key considerations to keep in mind as you research funding options.
Half of millennials are carrying student loan debt and the resulting financial pressures are so severe that fewer than two in five are saving for retirement, with many also delaying such key steps in life as buying a first home and getting married, according to a major new online survey of 1,016 millennials conducted in April 2015 by the nonprofit Investor Protection Institute.
As I see it, there are two key steps that are essential in the design of an appropriate monetary policy strategy.
While buying a house can be overwhelming, taking care of key first steps such as costs, credit and what you can afford may help make your home buying journey much simpler.
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
As a key player in reducing greenhouse gases, carbon pricing is a crucial step towards building a credible climate action plan for many generations to come.
That will trigger more drilling to upgrade the core high - grade resource, as well as updated metallurgical work, while Valor has also started taking steps to advance what is already a good understanding of other key input costs.
After $ GDXJ pops back above its 20 - day EMA (above the $ 27.60 area), buyers should step in due to break of key moving average resistance, as well as a break of the downtrend line from the January high.
Key steps along this path include completion of the transition to full implementation of Basel III, including new liquidity requirements; enhanced prudential standards for systemically important firms, including risk - based capital requirements, a leverage ratio, and tighter prudential buffers for firms heavily reliant on short - term wholesale funding; expansion of the regulatory umbrella to incorporate all systemically important firms; the institution of an effective, cross-border resolution regime for systemically important financial institutions; and consideration of regulations, such as minimum margin requirements for securities financing transactions, to limit leverage in sectors beyond the banking sector and SIFIs.
In its semi-annual financial stability report, Canada's central bank painted a picture of a housing market where key steps have been taken to improve the quality of lending, particularly in the most expensive cities such as Toronto.
The investor education booklets cover the basics of several key investor topics such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds as well as provide information on the action steps you need to take at different stages of your life to prepare for your long term financial security.
«A key component of this tariff is that Staff doesn't have all the information and analysis they would need to calculate these values in a precise way, so they are using proxies instead as a first step toward more granular compensation,» notes a statement by Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).
Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.
While some have lauded Pence for taking steps to guard his marriage, many are pushing back, claiming that such rules reduce women to sexual temptations and prevent Pence from interacting with women in key roles as equals.
As we begin to access God's power to defeat the Sin - disease and discover and use our own legitimate power to live, we step into the spiritual world, where God shares the keys to life and reality (A Hunger for Healing: The Twelve Steps As a Classic Model for Christian Spiritual Growth [NY: HarperCollins, 1991], pp. 4 - 6).
The theory can also mean that a divine being intervenes to micromanage or introduce specific designs into a world that would otherwise fail to achieve key steps of progress — as if to say: you've got a bicycle, but some intelligent intervention is required to turn it into a motorcycle, since this won't happen automatically; or, you've got a light - sensitive spot, but an external operation of considerable dexterity is required to transform this into a functional eye.
That this first step is an error is indicated by Searle himself in his allusion to the bipolar (private and public) character of conscious awareness, which prompts one to ask whether most scientific approaches to the problem of consciousness are vitiated at the outset by a failure to leave open the possibility of an indissociable bipolarity in key ideas (such as public - private, subjective - objective, and body - mind).
Southern Baptist conservatives won key presidential elections year after year, and after a final conservative presidential victory in 1989 in New Orleans, moderates gave up the battle and began taking steps toward forming their own moderate organizations, such as the Cooperative Fellowship.
As I walked into my apartment late last night, kicking off my shoes and tossing my keys on the kitchen counter, I asked my boyfriend to step out on the balcony and smell the air.
Now we take a determined step to make organic dairy products more available to UK consumers as we believe that organic milk has a key role to play as consumers increasingly look for ways to make their diets healthier and more natural,» says Peter Giørtz - Carlsen.
Lupe's more than 1,500 employees are also key to the company's success, as Lupe believes in training for «every little step
Every recipe is photographed and includes beautiful step by step advice that show key Japanese cooking techniques, such as chopping skills or how to serve rice.
A team of chemists at the University of Bristol have made significant steps towards developing a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels having produced a petrol using beer as a key ingredient.
The US received a boost from a new deal with key distributor Palm Bay International, described as «a great step forward» for the company in its continuing battle to create «a truly global footprint for the brands».
Weber highlights the following three steps as keys to successful salad bar planning:
His experience as FDA deputy commissioner and in other key FDA positions will enable him to quickly step into this important role after his confirmation.
The food industry needs to take greater steps towards sustainable development — one of the key messages from the Sustainable Foods Summit 2015, hosted in Amsterdam on June 4 - 5, 2015, also citing soil fertility, carbon management, regulatory framework, and sustainable food production as major areas of concern.
Because of its critical position in the quality chain linking plantation to chocolate production, the Barry Callebaut Group identified this fermentation more than a decade ago as one of the key steps that required optimization in order to close the quality chain and provide the purest, most intense, natural chocolate experience up to now.
He should get the keys to the Huskies offense from the moment he steps on campus, and if he plays as well as everyone expects, it might be a short stay.
Further, having established himself as a key figure in Maurizio Sarri's side, helping them to step up to the next level to compete for the Serie A title last season and now this year, it's no surprise that Ghoulam was gaining significant interest from elsewhere.
Combined with the fact that left - footed Umtiti would add great balance to the backline too which could be key, it would be another major step in strengthening the squad for Guardiola as he continues to chase major honours this season.
Having already lost N'Golo Kante to Chelsea this summer, the Italian tactician will be desperate to avoid losing any more key figures from their success last season, and it appears as though Srivaddhanaprabha is ready to step in and ensure it doesn't happen.
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