Sentences with phrase «attention on the stakes»

Such suffering is difficult to contemplate, and articles like this focus our attention on the stakes.

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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss of Winklevoss Capital shed light on bitcoin, the mysterious digital dollar that's increasingly grabbing attention as it continues to gain acceptance from online services and merchants, as well as their stake in the currency, on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning.

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Far from streaking into the lead, David Miliband's campaign needs to fight for every vote as attention focuses on Ed Miliband's prospects in the second preferences stakes.

Attention is focused on RBS because Lloyds, which the government holds a 39 % stake in, is very close to the share price paid in 2008.

The men and women moving through his brittle, blistering dark comedies stake little claim on our affection, which may partly explain why they so easily command our attention.

The second half of the film focuses its attention on the whodunit story, but since most of the characters lack anything interesting about them for the viewer to connect with, the stakes never feel particularly high.

Now that the House and the Senate have staked out opposite positions on the proposed national testing initiative, the two chambers and President Clinton will likely shift their attention toward reaching a compromise that satisfies several competing interests.

He said, «In the present environment of high stakes testing, budgetary challenges, increased demands on educators and competition for students attention, everyone in the school benefits when humor is part of the pedagogy.

Most tests gaining attention today are achievement tests, including those commonly referred to as «high stakes,» meaning that crucial decisions are made about a student, teacher, or school based on the results of the test.

The Coalition seeks to maximize opportunities for diverse learners to receive their high school diplomas as well as draw attention to the barriers to graduation created by the focus on high - stakes standardized testing.

But despite what he termed the country's «short attention span,» the Secretary said he is optimistic that the focus on schooling will continue, «because we know that what is at stake now is...

While the political discourse surrounding education too often seems hung up on the role of high - stakes testing or common core curriculum, many experts now are turning their attention toward ed tech, or the role of technology in expanding educational opportunity.

School choice by its very nature uproots its customers from their communities, increasing the proportion of Americans without any stake in what's going on in public schools, the schools that will always serve the children most in need of attention.

There's been such a focus on high stakes testing that there hasn't been enough attention to the social emotional learning and the safe supportive environment that students need in order to thrive.

We hope the national spotlight on Chicago's schools refocuses the nation's attention on building connections between schools, parents and communities, backing research - based reforms and beginning the important pushback on damaging practices such as high - stakes testing, school closings, and flawed teacher accountability measures.

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With Basillie selling off his stake, what remains to be seen is whether his former co-CEO and current Vice-Chairman in Mike Lazaridis will do the same, since both left the company's CEO positions after the board of directors dismissed them in a shock board meeting held on the evening of Super Bowl Sunday in 2012, in a bid to minimize media attention and scrutiny after years of splitting responsibilities in a bid to correct the increasing losses faced by the company, only to be replaced by current CEO Thorsten Heins.

But this tempered pace also allowed for greater attention to be placed on the emerging artists of true quality and depth who gained traction in 2016 — and it allowed a number of artists who have been working actively and slowly gaining recognition over several years to step up and strongly stake their claim as among those defining contemporary art today.

As for Buterin, it would seem to the honest journalist that with this activity he was either doing his normal routine to get some attention on Ethereum early this week or he legitimately wants there to be more discussion about the implications of a limitless supply proof - of - stake token underpinning one of the world's most (exponentially) important blockchains.

The Samsung UBD - M9500 isn't the most fully - featured Ultra HD Blu - ray player on the market - it lacks in the high - end audio stakes - but it's one of the nicest to use because Samsung has been paying a lot of attention to its user interface over the past few years.