Sentences with phrase «as vehicles for»

But in states like Florida, where charters are perceived by many as vehicles for privatization and profiteering, even as they grow in popularity with families, charter advocates are likely to face continued controversy and conflict.

Many activities can be used as vehicles for learning — whether it is to develop learning behaviours or life skills, or by using real - world situations to help embed learning from other subjects, outdoor education programmes bring learning to life.

Outdoor activities are often used during residentials as vehicles for the development of personal, social and environmental understanding.

Whether teaching particular skills or by using different activities as vehicles for learning, the emphasis is often the development of the whole person.

Where most of its mega-budget studio brethren treated its characters» freak agencies as vehicles for brand extension, Chronicle was the rare work that managed to convey a sense of the burden of those powers, at least until it decided to become a tentpole showreel, anyway, which is probably why we're here.

This is not writer - director Woody Allen creating comedies as vehicles for his muses Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow.

In the current highly charged political climate, it's tempting to celebrate certain films as vehicles for social change while also dismissing, or ignoring, their deficiencies.

Trailers are an under - appreciated art form insofar that many times they're seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

Murdoch, Jackson and Martin treat lyrics as vehicles for dance - friendly expository narratives and snapshot moments.

In essence, many ancient mantras serve as vehicles for the mind to cross over the material world and into enlightenment.

Despite all the excitement and claims for nanoparticles as vehicles for drug delivery to «sick» cells there is at least one substantive problem, the drug - laden nanoparticles don't actually enter the interior of the cell.

Benoit's lab, in the meantime, has been developing polymer nanoparticles as vehicles for delivering chemotherapeutic drugs to specific parts of the body where a disease occurs, in order to minimize damage to healthy tissues.

Cells also can serve as vehicles for genetic content, which the gene therapy industry is now investigating.

EPCs from the bone marrow are recruited to tumours to aid neovascularization and so have become an attractive cell type as vehicles for anti-tumorigenic therapeutics [1, 2].

At Simmons Cancer Center, five complementary scientific programs serve as vehicles for discovery:

What really stood out in that interview, though, was Hayes's passion for his research — the fascination of it, the importance of the connection he has discovered, and the opportunity to use field and lab work as vehicles for teaching.

Brian Martin and Eveleen Richards, for example, make good use of water fluoridation, vitamin C and cancer as the vehicles for a review of research on scientific knowledge and public decision - making.

As nanomedicine advances from passive technologies, in which nanoparticles act as vehicles for drugs, to active treatments that involve more complex cellular interactions, specialized oversight may become ever more necessary, says Roco.

«How the Criminalization of Pregnancy Robs Women of Reproductive Autonomy» explores how laws previously understood to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, such as fetal protection laws, now serve as the vehicles for prosecuting pregnant women, particularly disadvantaged women of color.

Such «polymersomes» have already shown potential as vehicles for delivering drugs and genes.

The team hopes their work will lead to further research on Y chromosomes as vehicles for studying human history — and tracing male lineages back to the common «Adam» ancestors.

But as vehicles for conveying complex information, they may well make up one of the most successful species in the entire Web ecosystem.

Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.

Public Authorities in some ways have controlled the growth in spending but they also continue to serve as vehicles for back door borrowing, according an ABO report.

This reflects recommendations in the Better Budgets report published earlier this year by CIOT, the Institute for Government and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.3 Evidence based evaluation would also allow concerns, justified or not, that these reliefs are used as vehicles for tax abuse, to be properly addressed.

Raw veggies are inexpensive, easy to prepare ahead of time (or ask a helpful visitor to bring), and can be used in everything from soups to salads, and as vehicles for a protein - rich, flavorful dip.

Mental images are more important than abstract concepts as vehicles for the transmission of a religious tradition.

Fictional works may be profoundly true, provided their literal untruths are employed as vehicles for a symbolic revelation of truth.

We could say that when missionaries adopted the specificity of vernacular languages and cultures as vehicles for the gospel, they were extending the principle of Jewish particularity, the paradigm by which God has chosen to instruct the world in righteousness.

Because she accepted sacrament as truth, she found it easy to view the natural thins of this world as vehicles for God's grace.

From Plato's Republic to the several visions of H. G. Wells, the Utopias have served as the vehicles for the expression of wisdom about life, social preachment, and sheer imaginative delight.

It could be that we turn our anxieties, fears and hurts to good advantage as vehicles for obedience.

In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the language.

As you determine what annuity might be right for you, remember they are intended as vehicles for long - term retirement planning, which is why withdrawals reduce an annuity's remaining death benefit, contract value, cash surrender value and future earnings.

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

As you determine if an annuity may be right for you, remember that they are intended as vehicles for long - term retirement planning, which is why withdrawals reduce an annuity's remaining death benefit, contract value, cash surrender value and future earnings.

While there is no evidence that a large number of Chinese students or academics at US universities poses a threat to US interests, the Chinese government uses several education efforts as vehicles for soft power.

Some call them online confessionals, others believe they're merely a millennial fad, and most just see them as vehicles for inappropriate commentary.

Altaba was created amid Yahoo's sale to Verizon as a vehicle for stakes in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba.

The volatility of bitcoin has made it more useful as a vehicle for speculation than as a currency, say critics — when the value can change drastically from hour to hour, it introduces undesirable risk for sellers and buyers alike.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde highlighted cryptocurrency's potential as a vehicle for money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

While he's had some fun with #BloggerGate and used Darby's actions as a vehicle for publicity, he emphasizes that he's never explicitly mentioned her by name.

In fact, Hub Ventures sees the tech sector as a vehicle for social impact.

But there are certainly ways to use your blog as a vehicle for such press.

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Station.

In a statement, Univision's chief news and digital officer Isaac Lee said comedy is «playing an expanding role in our culture as a vehicle for audiences to explore, debate, and understand the important ideas of our time.»

The banking giant anticipates its virtual currency, which will be sent and received via a mobile app, to function as a vehicle for near - instantaneous P2P money transfers and payments at affiliated stores, according to Japanese outlet Mainichi Newspaper.

They can be used to exchange money or assets of value across multiple blockchains, used digitally to verify identifications through ICON blockchain ID, and as a vehicle for processing smart contracts.

Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.