Sentences with phrase «as lever»

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Listen: it is * never * okay to use the threat of divorce as a lever to force your spouse to comply with your wishes.

«Capital markets institutions have faced a perfect storm of regulatory - compliance costs and revenue pressures in recent years, prompting them to invest in emerging technologies as a lever to improve profitability,» said Richard Lumb, group chief executive of financial services for Accenture, in a statement.

«Capital markets institutions have faced a perfect storm of regulatory - compliance costs and revenue pressures in recent years, prompting them to invest in emerging technologies as a lever to improve profitability,» said Richard Lumb, group chief executive of financial services for Accenture, in a

By contrast, the Kremlin - tied troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency alone spent an estimated $ 46,000 on Facebook ads, speaking to a basic financial asymmetry Russia used as a lever into the 2016 election.

But other commentators say the IMF should urge Ukraine to pay up in full, thus neutralizing the issue as a lever over Kyiv.

At the E.E.O.C. hearing back in April, Fasman testified that there is a danger the lawsuits will be used as a lever to force companies to change legitimate business practices (mandatory overtime, strict attendance rules) that not all workers can handle.

There's a story I recall about some famous and brilliant mathematician — perhaps Norbert Wiener — who rarely took his nose out of a book and who didn't like to waste time: he would read while walking to and from the classroom (or perhaps his office) but have his arm out such that with a small part of his (very big) brain he could count the doorframes as they were ticked off against his hand; at the right count, his wrist would stiffen, and with his arm as a lever, rotate himself into the room still reading.

Some of your colleagues and critics will use age and experience — things you can do absolutely nothing about — as a lever to pull in negotiation or to assert their perceived authority.

«Deploying the endowment as a tool to intervene in the political process or as a lever to advance broader social objectives, even eminently worthy ones, poses risks to the independence of the academic enterprise.

Apparently somebody once used the word «unprecedented,» and the deniers used that as a lever to say «Well, if we can just attack that one word, which we will do by defining the word «unprecedented» the way we choose to and then show that the current curve isn't unprecedented, then we have debunked all of global warming!

In this post, I'd like to (i) describe the significance of using the financial industry as a lever point for environmental change, (ii) summarize the different ways in which the concept of «green finance» plays out with Chinese banks, (iii) discuss some of the more interesting observations by the Report, and (iv) conclude with the Report's recommendations.

Note that the effect may well be to support the IPCC model of hundreds of years because the flux increase acts as a lever on our emissions wrt residence time.

I think someone seeing this as an automatic out for AGW causing problems, indicates a lack of appreciation of the effect of different rates and how a small input can act as a lever over a long period if it causes a change of state.

Another is that anthropogentic emissions act as a lever to excite the natural state to a higher one.

I understand why traditional environmental groups stick with litigation as a lever but I see other approaches, particularly building local support for biological vitality and other environmental assets, as more effective in the long haul.

Its unusual placement, spinning the orientation of the space by 90 degrees, acting as a lever on the space prompting a sense of disequilibrium and suggesting that the stability of the world and therefore our orientation within it is relative.

He summons the spectre of Marx in programming the reading of all four volumes of Das Kapital — explicitly an analysis of historical and 19th century labour and market conditions that, some economists would argue (c.f. Thomas Piketty), no longer apply to today's intrisically networked structures of global capital — and in the show's accompanying statement, Enwezor invokes Walter Benjamin's hallucinatory description of Paul Klee's Angelus Novus, a painting Benjamin owned, as justification for his historical methodology as well as the lever to illuminate «both the current «state of things» and the «appearance of things»».

While her contemporaries staged the relations between painting and photography, Sillman chose instead to look at other mass media forms of image making, selecting the diagram as her lever to open the historical nature of painting to the present.

And then there's the issue of Houshiary's exotic heritage - a Shiraz - born woman resident in the UK since 1974 - as lever for column inches.

If you are not withdrawing and are still in your accumulation phase, bonds could also be used as a lever when stocks do very poorly.

They use the possible negative consequences as a lever to prompt payment.

I think they saw agency pricing as a way of protecting their traditional profit margins, and they used Apple's desperation to get into the book - selling business as a lever to get what they wanted.

It could be that Amazon is pushing for more favorable terms or discounts, given it apparently has previously used availability on its site as a lever.

It covers the gamut, the explosion of content, the role of market makers (in this case Apple — though to a lesser mentioned extent, Google), the use of price as a lever and the challenges of making money in markets that have become so large, diverse and saturated.

I personally believe that Trad Pub would love to see indie sink back into the ooze whence it came, and that Amazon only gave it a real boost as a lever against Trad Pub when they were getting uppity.

There are still a few in the old lackey trade, and some do it as a sideline, and use it as a lever.

Since Citroen's mushroom - shaped brake button made heel - and - toe downshifting difficult, Maserati installed a conventional brake pedal that acted as a lever on the mushroom, which was hidden behind the pedal.

It advocates jamming one «leg» of the headrest into between the door and the window and then using the headrest as a lever.

I designed this intervention to support a team of teachers to change their practice to include more feedback of higher quality to students as a lever to increase achievement and student ownership.

So if organizations can use learning as a lever to achieve business advantage, who should they turn to?

In 1988 very few education experts were considering the potential of student involvement as a lever in school change, let alone engaging students in meaningful activities and powerful relationships that would actually renegotiate the purpose and possibilities of the modern school.

The Live Stream will offer key insights and lessons learned at the state and district level, particularly on family engagement as a lever for better alignment between the early childhood education and K - 12 and implications for Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans.

At LEAP Innovations, we see personalized learning as lever not to reform education, but to transform it.

I believe in the power of education to serve as a lever for change — for individuals, community, and society — and, furthermore, that every child deserves equal access to an education that will enable this change.

This two - day session will provide leaders who coach others with the language, skills, and tools to use coaching as a lever for transformational change.

Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders presents a structured approach to using literacy as a lever for overall school improvement.

Dr. Shannon has spent her life dedicated to public education as a lever for equity and social change.

The LA Times used teachers as a lever to push the school administration to change its teacher evaluation system and fire more teachers.

Reformers and critics have seized on this situation as a lever to change the way teachers are prepared for practice (Aldeman & Mitchel, 2016).

Finally, the case of Washington High School is presented to show how schools composed primarily of students from families of limited income foster deeper learning and serve as a lever for broader school change.

He researches equity - focused school leadership as a lever to improve Black children's academic and socio - emotional experiences and outcomes.

My research explores how equity - focused school leadership can be used as a lever to improve Black children and youth's academic achievement and socio - emotional well - being across a range of K - 12 educational settings.

This has divided the elementary / secondary and higher education communities, leaving schools focused on teacher quality as a lever to improve student learning, but without a steady pipeline of effective new teachers.

Language as the lever for elementary - level English language learners.

Under ESSA, states must reserve at least 7 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement purposes, beginning in fiscal year 2017.61 Going forward, states and districts should focus on students» learning mindsets and skills as a lever for increased student achievement.

In particular, the district has used data as a lever in getting principals to accept, and eventually lead, school change.

The design concept comes from Rosenstock's experience as a former teacher and headmaster in Boston as well as from his experience as director of the federal New Urban High Schools project, which studied urban high schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school reform.

Many districts have initiated coaching as a lever to catalyze teacher development and reading reform.

Jordan, too, used JEI as a lever for reform.