Sentences with phrase «as less priority»

In a fragile situation, education services is seen as less priority; hence teaching become a task of everyone who is available at the situation.

West Ham will press on with Adrian as their No 1 keeper in the 2017/18 season and see signing a new new stopper as a lesser priority!

Not exact matches

The patent fight billed as the «Ali - Frazier Fight of Biotech,» and a «clash of titans,» and the «last great priority dispute of the «first - to - invent» era of US patent law» (um, okay, that final image is perhaps less evocative) had its first and only hearing before judges yesterday — and the line to get a glimpse of the brief proceedings wound its way around the lobby Christmas tree in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office building in Alexandria, Virginia (a view of which can be found here, in lawyer Jacob Sherkow's enthusiastic Twitter feed).

Now that the United States is less dependent on Saudi petroleum, thanks to fracking and new oil discoveries, the fact that OPEC is not identified as a top priority anymore indicates that interest in the organization has declined.

With less time to save as each year passes, these older age groups need to reevaluate their financial priorities.

The sector got a boost after the election as Trump's regulation of the sector is far less of a priority than that was of democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Here's a fact: In the US, close to 60 million households (~ 90 million people) in the US are either under underserved / banked and traditional banks can't serve them profitably — In fact, a 2010 FDIC survey found that while 73 % of banks were aware of the unbanked and under - banked populations in their market, less than 18 % identified expanding services to these consumers as a priority in their business strategy.

As workers age, this becomes less of a top priority.

For ever since Pius Xll's Mediator Dei and also at the Second Vatican Council the liturgical prayer has been given such priority over the private prayer of individuals and groups that — despite papal warnings — one is easily tempted to think that private prayer is more or less superfluous, especially if we are as involved in our liturgical prayer as we ought to be.

Whitehead's system has the potential to hold this diversity together, while at the same time suggesting priorities and judgments as to what is more and less important.

Yeah yeah yeah It's a priority to get a new striker in of course it is PROVIDING that he cost less that a fiver, is world class, French and is young enough to make a profit on when we resell him So not really a priority at all!!!!!! The priority here is the same as it's always been and that NOT spending any money (where is the BT sports money we have got?)

Until the owner and Wenger (they are more or less the same to me in lack of ambition) put maximizing the chance of winning the PL as their priority, nothing will change, disregarding for the moment the argument that Wenger would not even know anymore what it takes to win the PL.

The priority for our Family Day Weekend getaway from Toronto was learning to snowboard as a family at a beginner - friendly ski resort that was less than a four - hour drive.

I would say be brave, don't worry too much because less people will notice than you think and feed your child as and when they need it and take no notice of rude strangers — don't let them put you off because your baby takes priority and you have every right to feed your baby.

Berlin - An international experts» survey assigns the task to prevent children from encountering unwanted and harmful content on the Internet with highest priority to parents and pedagogues, while policy makers, companies, and the police are seen as carers with less relevance.

To cover the unexpected costs, the district would cut back on such lesser priority projects as the $ 40,000 storage facility budgeted for Community Park and bicycle path improvements at Heritage Park, Wheeler said.

The estimated percentage of US children aged 2 to 5 years and 6 to 11 years classified as overweight increased from 5.0 % and 6.5 % in 1980 to 10.4 % and 19.6 %, respectively, in 2007 -2008.1-3 The increase in childhood obesity was also observed among those aged 6 to 23 months, from 7.2 % in 1980 to 11.6 % in 2000.1 Given the numerous health risks related to childhood obesity,4 - 7 its prevention is becoming a public health priority.8 It has been reported that feeding practices affect growth and body composition in the first year of life, with breastfed infants gaining less rapidly than formula - fed infants.9 - 14 There is also evidence that breastfed infants continue to have a low risk for later childhood obesity.15 - 18

I think that honestly, now that I look back on it, the priority needs to be the toddler because they're taking in so much and as long as the baby, the new born is nursed and happy, I really recommend baby wearing for this because the, you know, the baby is going to be happy and content in there and just giving that attention to your toddler because you'll notice less tantrums, less fits, a happier toddler means a happier house.

Plus, Ms. Velazquez has made fighting poverty a priority, as has The Times, while Mr. Dilan has been right of center in the City Council and has been less than transparent about his campaign finance filings.

Odds are Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders will reach a deal on the $ 150 - plus billion spending plan in time, as the governor has made this a priority of his time in office, more or less achieving it in each of his five years leading the state thus far (last year's is the only one in question, as the budget was technically voted through after the midnight deadline).

Its highest priority recommendation is giving every child the best start in life, as later «interventions» are proven to be less effective.

With the 2004 spending review less than a week away, Blair told the House of Commons» liaison committee that housing was a «coming issue» — and was even set to overtake health as a key government priority.

In 1997, less than half of Americans rated campaign finance reform as a top or high priority for government, and the issue placed last out of 12 issues rated.

Recently Stephen Kinnock and Emma Reynolds came up with a proposal which they described as a «fair and managed two - tier migration system», in which higher - skilled migrants would be given priority and less skilled migrants would be classified in the lower tier.

... Ethics at the moment is more of a priority on the public relations side and less of a priority on the policy side, not just for the governor but for the Legislature as well.»

In their study, the team from Oxford and Kew suggest that if seed priority is determined only by whether they are endangered, of economic value, or endemic (otherwise known as the 3E approach), this would make the collection significantly less diverse than it could be.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Because the comfort of our patients is a priority, we offer amenities such as a non-oral, same - day colon irrigation prep option for colonoscopy; your choice of music during the procedure; warmed blankets and robes; and colonoscopy shorts to make the experience more comfortable, and a little less stressful.

Considering all applications together, as well as each type of application, median priority scores were less favorable and the percentages of applications funded were lower for applications with human subject concerns than for those without concerns (Table 4).

In the current analysis, although applications with human subject concerns may have received less favorable priority scores for other reasons, they did not fare as well as clinical applications without these concerns.

Unfortunately, the PCOS meal plans do not include snacks as these are of relatively less priority than the main meals I've provided.

There is some evidence to suggest that Vitamin C is not as much of a priority for someone with less glucose to process.

This meant for most of my adult life I felt paying attention to my looks and style was a lesser priority and almost needed to be on the dowdy side to be seen as acceptable.

They are less likely than other churchgoing Protestants to think that learning job skills is the top educational priority; they are much less likely to see building children's self - esteem as an important educational goal.

In fact, in a multivariate analysis Schneider et al. find that black parents, as well as less - educated parents, place a higher priority on the test scores in a school than do other groups of parents.

As the economy grows in China and India and, to a lesser extent, the Middle East — to say nothing of the increasing focus on security after the attacks of September 11 — studying world languages is becoming a priority.

We should encourage direct learning through movement, gestures, and dance by first making our physical control of students less a priority of classroom management, and secondly, by exploring ways that technology frees us to use gestures and movement as a means for learning.

Our district is funded $ 20 million less than the average school district in Kentucky based on per pupil spending for our size but our focus on the right priorities such as instructional coaches allows us to continue to improve academic gains.

Districts in which students are performing less well on state tests tend, on the other hand, to see themselves as driven by external standards and assessments, and to view the district as less able to determine local priorities and needs.

In many U.S. schools, efforts to meet individual students» needs may take less priority than efforts to ensure that all students work toward grade - level standards, progress at the same pace as their grade - level peers, or prepare for grade - level tests at the end of the year.

The state's goal has been to come up with a system that will require schools and districts to measure how they are doing on eight «priority areas «ranging from test scores to less definable measures such as school climate.

Money should be diverted from less important priorities, such as the border wall, to funding of schools.

The priorities start with student achievement but also include less tangibly documentable factors as school climate, student engagement, and parent involvement.

His new attacks on public education include taking $ 17.1 million out of traditional public schools, which will curtail extended day and summer programs in needy school districts, make universal preschool impossible, not fund priority districts as promised and at less than last year, and limit aid for transportation of students.

Moreover, as with defending job security as a cheaper way to attract decent teachers, defined - benefit pension plans have big downsides with hidden costs: They make it unappealing for a talented person to work as a teacher for just part of a career, make it hard for teachers to move around, offer huge bonuses to older teachers who don't add any special value, etc. (And this is all viewing education in isolation — committing future taxpayers to pay for pensions teachers are earning now is going to mean spending less on other priorities in the future.

Most of Rhee's agenda runs counter to what parents identify as their top priorities, including small class sizes, less high - stakes testing, improving neighborhood schools, recruiting and retaining strong and experienced teachers, and giving parents a real voice in governing schools.

If you make getting that swipe a priority as soon as you've established a legitimate buyer as a qualified lead, you've captured a mass of data in less than a second.

As we've seen it takes more than design to make or break an electric car these days — a number of production EVs have strongly suggested design is less of a priority for buyers — and it will take a range of more than 200 miles to make the Mini Electric make sense to buyers who'll be cross-shopping it with other small EVs.

On some level, All the Money in the World is less about money than about using it as a way to clarify one's priorities.

Dialing back on stocks is less of an issue if you're getting ready to draw income from your savings for retirement or already doing so, as preserving capital is typically a bigger priority when you're older.