Sentences with phrase «bringing national focus»

With staple food prices to rise over 45 % over the next decade and major oil disasters bringing national focus to our over-dependence on fossil fuels, 2 % is no chump change.

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Over the last two years, the movement has brought national attention upon the issue of minimum wage, with a special focus on how much fast - food chains pay workers.

The significance of all of the wilderness experiences is brought into focus by pointing out the relation of those experiences to the national destiny of a people dwelling in its own land.

But, with the national team call - ups, Bisconti realized he would miss his final Coronado trip, the one that would bring his senior season into focus.

The likes of Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao have been brought to Old Trafford by the Dutchman, who is now focusing his attention on his fellow countryman Strootman, a favourite of his during his time in charge of the Netherlands national team.

For a long time I've wanted to write on TLT about School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in Urban Schools), a national collaborative that brings together the thirty largest school districts in the country to improve school food.

The NDC National Organizer said Nana Addo should rather focus on bringing back disgruntled members like suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong and suspended Chairman Paul Afoko to the party instead of concentrating on President Mahama.

Saying his government brought the National Social Investment Programmes targeting millions of Nigerians living from hand to mouth, Buhari added that his launch into agricultural programmes focusing on import substitution, job creation and rural development have caused socio - economic transformation.

Yes, progressive bloggers were vital for getting Lamont attention across the country and no doubt helped bring national news coverage and out - of - state donations, but the campaign itself stayed local: «focused on building a file of likely voters, organizing a turnout effort and circulating Lamont at events, including small gatherings in living rooms.»

And in order to bring peace and tranquility in the party so it could focus on the 2016 elections the National Council of Elders «recommended that a «thorough investigation be conducted into the constitutional breaches of Mr. Afoko.

The meeting will bring into focus the full palette of issues that colour the US - Russia relationship: from allegations of Russian interference in the election that brought Trump to power to sanctions levied on Russia owing to its incursion into Ukraine, premature discussions about which forced the resignation of Trump's first National Security Advisor, to the threat of escalation in Syria as military tensions increase and each country's political objectives in the country remain opposed.

The state governments, Madison argues, are closer to the people and can focus on the welfare of the people, regulating ordinary affairs such as the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, as well as the internal order of each state, and should have numerous undefined powers to do so, while the national government, being bigger and possessing national resources, can bring victory in war, protect the people's liberty, and maintain peace between the states, and should have clear, few, defined powers to do so, mostly focusing on external objects such as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce and national taxation.

Mr. Mac Manu suggested that the «focus of the EC should rather be on ensuring that a certified copy of the pink sheet from each of the 29,000 polling stations is brought to the national collation centre before the Chairperson of the EC finally declares the winner.»

Today, the worthlessness of the criticisms is brought into sharper focus by the national and international profile of the programme.

The Energy Department focuses on the next generation of energy technologies — from advanced nuclear reactors to algae biofuels — conducting basic research in its network of 17 national laboratories, and aiding private companies struggling to bring risky new technologies to market.

National Telecommunicators Week is dedicated to the men and women who serve as public safety telecommunicators and brings celebration, honor and publicity focused on the otherwise unsung hero on the other end of the line.

Facing a fall contest against a Republican opponent focused on law and order, Hillary Clinton has narrowed her search for a vice-presidential candidate, telling several potential running mates that she needs a No. 2 who would bring national security experience to the Democratic ticket.

De Blasio's focus on national issues just 17 months into his tenure has brought him substantial national press attention and appears to be having some influence on the state level.

In response, UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «Occupy Wall Street isn't a place — it's an idea, a movement that has brought national and international focus to the danger to our economy and our nation that we face because of growing income inequality.»

Such restructured governance architecture will facilitate overall national economic productivity and bring about the necessary shift away from the present virtually unitary structure which encourages the 36 states and federal capital territory (Abuja) to rely on a philosophy of «sharing the national cake», and it will encourage the more viable federating units to focus on productivity and internally generated revenues.

The Oxford collaboration, which will focus on nanobiotechnology, will be organised in a similar way, bringing together nanotechnologists from the Universities of Glasgow and York and the National Institute for Medical Research.

Despite setbacks in targeting mutant Ras genes, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently emphasized the continued importance of this elusive drug target by announcing a focused $ 10 million effort, dubbed the RAS project, to bring together researchers to develop new ideas for blocking Ras.

«With the establishment of Land of the Leopard National Park, in conjunction with other conservation efforts, we can now start to focus on how to begin bringing them back.»

Each EMN consortium brings together national labs, industry, and academia to focus on specific classes of materials aligned with industry's most pressing challenges.

With more than 20 years of successful senior leadership experience with nonprofit organizations at the state and national levels, Liz Heagy brings expertise to the start - up and scaling of large focused programs and organizations.

The PE crisis is real and undeniable, so much so that America has reached one of those fitness moments of truth that periodically bring calls for a new PE back into national focus.

Open to every primary school within the UK, the competition encourages teachers to focus on the importance of oral hygiene linked to the National Curriculum, whilst bringing fun to the subject with an invention competition.

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She spent 16 years as a K - 6 Principal where she led her school's implementation of inclusionary special education practices, Response to Intervention, data driven instruction and social emotional learning (SEL), an area of focus that brought her school national recognition for the successful implementation of SEL throughout the school community.

Benjamin Fenton, the founder of New Leaders, a New York City - based group that trains aspiring principals and consults on school and district leadership, said the district's focus on school - level leadership, and philanthropic investment from local and national foundations, had brought his organization to the city in 2004 and opened the doors for others since.

Arun Ramanathan, who directs the advocacy group Education Trust - West, said he hoped the national focus on education and the importance of good teaching will help bring an end to the notorious «dance of the lemons,» or the shuffling of bad teachers from school to school, which is depicted in an animated cartoon.

But as we approach the quarter - century mark for the landmark law that made Massachusetts the recognized national leader in K - 12 education and brought charter schools into being here, the Bay State's charter school sector is focused on repairing frayed political ties, rebuilding its reputation, and redefining its mission.

Some of the big changes of the last five years are reflected here, with school leaders focused on bringing staff up to date on phonics, the new computing curriculum, the revised Teachers» Standards and the new National Curriculum.

While the 2016 election brought a renewed interest in engagement among youth, 4 only 23 percent of eighth - graders performed at or above the proficient level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) civics exam, and achievement levels have virtually stagnated since 1998.5 In addition, the increased focus on math and reading in K - 12 education — while critical to prepare all students for success — has pushed out civics and other important subjects.

It brings together more than 400 national organizations and thousands of community leaders to focus the nation's attention on young people's lives and voices, lead bold campaigns to expand opportunity, conduct groundbreaking research on what young people need to thrive, and accelerate the adoption of strategies that help young people succeed.

On April 23, 2014, Lost Dogs of America created and launched the first National Lost Dog Awareness Day (NLDAD), a canine - focused day aimed to bring attention to all dogs that are lost each year, while also celebrating the thousands of lost dogs successfully reunited with their families.

Just One Day (justoneday.ws) is a national event held every June 11 that brings shelters all over America together to focus on engaging with their local community to promote adoption (with over 1500 shelters this...

The situation has focused national anger against Turks and other foreign residents who frequently own dogs of the banned and restricted breeds and brings comparisons with the early days of the Nazi regime in Germany, a time when people were targeted for specious reasons and made scapegoats for tyranny.

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Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns: The newest expansion to Hearts of Iron brings greater depth and customization to the naval aspect of war, new National Focus options for the United States, unique actions for democracies and much more.

For the first time, this exhibition brings together regional, national and international artists that focus on actions in and with the landscape through various practices.

With a particular focus on painting, this exhibition brings together seminal works that provide an overview of the artistic, socio - economic and political concerns of artists in Germany, during a time period when these artists were reconciling with the trauma of war, finding a national identity, struggling for freedom of expression and constantly pushing the limits of modern and contemporary art.

The fair has also joined forces for the second year running with the Art Fund Curators Programme and London's National Gallery to bring 20 museum curators — half from the UK and half from overseas — for a one - day conference and networking event on 5 October that this year focuses on how to turn contemporary eyes to Dutch Old Masters.

The show brings together roughly seventy pieces, including material from contemporary artists such as Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Ernesto Neto, whose work suggests that today Tropicália is more a national tradition than an avant - garde.

The goal of the event was to bring together national and regional experts to focus on simplifying policy structure and to give practical «how to» information on wind project development to interested individuals and land owners.

Our national advocacy touches every river and stream in the country, and our special focus on 11 priority river basins allows us to bring our unique expertise to bear to make a real and lasting impact.

An expansive new project led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) aims to bring the future of tropical forests and the climate system into much clearer focus.

The threat and significance of cybersecurity has been recently brought into focus by the release of the Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity's 100 - page report, which included sixteen recommendations to improve U.S cybersecurity.

The report builds on work done for the B.C. - focused Climate Justice Project, bringing to bear a national analysis of green a

In a speech to the Church of England's national assembly this week, he said: «I believe quite strongly that it is not inappropriate for a pastor of the Church of England to address issues around the perceived concerns of other religious communities and to try and bring them into better public focus.»