Sentences with phrase «as instrumental»

We stay committed to and will not relinquish New York as an instrumental market in our global expansion strategy.»

«Few were as instrumental in my trajectory as Dale Colby.

Organized after - school activities, such as instrumental music club and computer programming; tracked students» daily attendance to measure learning progress; orchestrated parent communication to inform of school policies and behavioral issues.

Schachter credits Ian Moffett, chief of police for the Miami - Dade Schools Police Department, as instrumental in gathering the panel.

Exclusive to the Pixel phones (at least for now) is a new app called Google Lens, and it has the potential to be just as instrumental to Google's AI push, if not more so.

The company received # 3.5 M from leave campaign groups in the run up to the 2016 referendum, and has been described by leave campaigners as instrumental in securing their win.

At last I was referred to Jim Spiering who listened to our circumstances and ~ as instrumental in charging a path to resolution that led to a settlement outside of court.

This article reconceives proportionality in sentencing as a constructive reasoning process rather than as an instrumental means of achieving a fair quantum of punishment.

87 % want to use it to find better ways of storing and retrieving information, 61 % want to automate work to save time so they can focus on high - level strategic work, and 60 % see it as instrumental in improving work - flow management.

None of the recons in the graph go as high as the instrumental record except Mann, suggesting that they do not record as much warming as the instrumental.

Feely's chart, first mentioned, begins in 1988 — which is surprising as instrumental ocean pH data has been measured for more than 100 years since the invention of the glass electrode pH (GEPH) meter.

They are treating the Mann et al. reconstruction as having the same frequency variation as an instrumental record, and they aren't adding any error term for the mean of the Mann et al. reconstruction.

So using the criteria of «noticeable» climate change that would affect humanity and nature, that can be reasonably validated against the benchmark of the 1920 - 40 period by such records as instrumental and crop, or observations, and as being of a duration of at least one decade, we have some 15 decadal episodes of «noticeable» climate change, (up and down) between1538 and 2012.

Such proxy material as tree rings can not be as accurate as instrumental records or detailed reconstructions using a variety of observational material - but there are nevertheless a number of obvious consequences that those who debate climate as either «realists» or «sceptics» need to face when considering this data;

Post 1960 tree ring widths go DOWN as instrumental temperatures go UP.

Even during the early phases of his five - decade - long career as an artist, Michelangelo Pistoletto treated the mirrored surface as an instrumental element of his practice.

This exhibition focuses on London as an instrumental destination for artists from Latin America, whose work has previously been examined in the context of their native countries, or in relation to contemporaneous North American works.

This cultural change also affects how writers themselves regard language... The author notes that younger writers in English are... less likely to know foreign languages, less likely to be interested in the forms of language, including their own, and who, because they regard language as instrumental rather than essential, are less in love with language as part of their literary work.

The writing prompts, as an instrumental tool, helped mediate students» development of literary knowledge and skills.

Test scores improved, school jumped off the failing schools list, and Edwards credits the state's intervention as instrumental to the school's turnaround.

She was a contributor to Pérsida and Bill's previous ASCD book Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner and served as a major contributor and as an instrumental consultant on this project.

Schachter credits Ian Moffett, chief of police for the Miami - Dade Schools Police Department, as instrumental in gathering the panel.

And although there are many mechanisms in place to accomplish that goal, none has been nearly as instrumental as the FCC's E-rate program.

Sherry's talents were widely recognized as instrumental in growing and improving countless schools.

The outcome of the lottery, a random event, was used to create what statisticians refer to as an instrumental variable, which obtains unbiased estimates of the effects of attending private school on students» test scores.

But if the use of the lottery as an instrumental variable works in practice as it is expected to work in statistical theory, it would already have corrected for these differences.

To solve this problem, we used as an instrumental variable whether or not a student was offered a voucher to predict the probability that she attended a private school; with these predicted values, we can provide an unbiased estimate of the actual impact of switching from a public - to a private - school.

Patrick currently works as an instrumental music teacher in the Pennsbury School District, which has been recognized since 2006 as one of the top 100 communities for music education in the country by the NAMM foundation.

While Fargo takes advantage of its snowy location, allowing it to serve as an instrumental element of the film's themes and mood, the bleakness of Cut Bank is never explored, nor the wide expanses or back woods of Montana.

The lovely romantic duet «Kuch To Hua Hai (Something Has Happened)» has a huge heart to match the tune's heartbeat - pulsing bass line, which also serves to reinforce the darker undercurrent as the pair is not actually besottedly prancing over each other; and for the title ballad, Advani's subtly bittersweet picturization is not only one with Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy's simultaneously joyous and mournful melody (comparable with Michel Legrand's sweeping main theme to Jacques Demy's 1964 classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in its ability to effortlessly elicit warmth and pain all at once — especially as it recurs as an instrumental theme) but the profound poetry of Javed Akhtar's deceptively simple lyrics.

As an instrumental Fellow, Miles Salerni plays timpani with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra.

Now that I'm just about to enter professional school, I'd like to share with you what I see as instrumental in my success.

Hartline and Myers believe that minorities must act as the instrumental catalysts for such institutional and environmental transformation.

The results are based on a number of independent climate archives, as well as instrumental records, and hold up whilst applying a wide range of correction methods, which leads Laepple to believe that the problem lies more with the models.

Dots represent floods tracked by tree rings and oxbow lakes, as well as instrumental data recorded after about 1900.

Gianaris praised Stavisky as instrumental in passing recent Senate legislation on making the Lunar New Year a school holiday and on the East Sea naming controversy between Japan and Korea.

She did just that, becoming more flexible on gun control and introducing legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and serving as an instrumental lobbyist during the push for marriage equality in New York State.

Bills that would create such a program have been introduced in the Assembly, but Cuomo's support is widely seen as instrumental in moving campaign finance reform through the Senate

New York City's approach to helping the homeless changed as a result of Mr. Perales» leadership, and his work with Latino Justice PRLDEF is widely recognized as instrumental in today's fight for immigrants» rights.

Silver has also been viewed as instrumental in securing tax breaks for Billionaire's Row skyscrapers such as One57 in return for affordable housing being built offsite.

If the Somali women in Shaffer's piece view working as instrumental, so does the neoliberal governmentality agenda, according to Elisabeth Olivius, who examines humanitarian aid workers in refugee camps in Thailand and Bangladesh.

He cited Hoffman Estates resident Jean Koter's testimony before an Illinois Department of Natural Resources committee as instrumental in obtaining the funds.

planning birth in an obstetric unit is associated with a higher rate of interventions, such as instrumental vaginal birth, caesarean section and episiotomy, compared with planning birth in other settings

Both players have established themselves as instrumental parts of Arsenal's success since arriving at the club, but they are both only under contract until 2018.

We consciously or unconsciously attribute a second sort of value as well as an instrumental value to our pets.

Thus as in the context of evangelicalism, learning for the minister was increasingly conceived as instrumental, the conversion of sinners became the real test of effectiveness, and preaching tended to become almost exclusively persuasive.

Every good may be judged as instrumental to its contribution to community.

I decided to use again the ideals of the American creed as the instrumental value premises.

And to insist that at least the God of traditional theism should have created the world instantaneously would be, Hasker again says, to imply «that the world of nature is a bad thing, one whose existence at present must perhaps be tolerated as instrumental to the existence of moral agents,» and to hold this, Hasker continues, would be at odds with the process theism's advocacy of reverence for nature.

So great is the change in the political climate that it seems likely we will have to pay more attention to the danger of uncritical enthusiasm for religion in public, especially when religion is promoted as an instrumental good for the achievement of sundry purposes public and personal.