Sentences with phrase «burden of making change»

As he noted several times during the conference, we shouldn't expect teachers and principals alone to shoulder the burden of making change.

But we shouldn't expect teachers and principals alone to shoulder the burden of making change.

Not exact matches

Also, more controversial provisions — such as requirements to execute enforceable written contracts under the Best Interest Contract and Principal Transactions Exemption, and changes to PTE 84 - 24 (other than the addition of the Impartial Conduct Standards)-- are not applicable until January 1, 2018, while the Department is honoring the President's directive to take a hard look at any potential undue burdens and decides whether to make significant revisions.

While such a rate of expansion will clearly not be sustainable in the longer run, there is little sign at this stage that the appetite for borrowing has been restrained by the recent increases in interest rates, even though the higher debt burden of households might be expected to make them more responsive to interest rate changes.

Despite the smaller relative size of its burden, Kentucky is considering making far more comprehensive changes to its public sector retirement systems than Illinois ever has.

The season has been burdened by protests, with fans urging the club to make changes, and much of that anger has been put on manager Wenger's head.

«I think maybe we added a burden to Ryan when we made him captain that affected him on and off the ice and kind of changed his own perception of himself.

Perhaps the most irksome assertion that Jong makes in her essay is that we mothers today are so trapped and burdened by the way we're choosing to parent our kids that we've become «perfect tools of the right» and thus, are prevented from working for progressive political change.

I no longer think of bedtime as a burden or as something that cuts into my time to myself each evening, and it's made a huge change for all three of us.

One silver lining: by seeking to convert the state - subsidized School Tax Relief (STAR) homestead exemption into a personal income tax credit when homes change hands, Cuomo will make the full school tax burden far more visible to a growing number of families — which can only be a good thing.

This review has now been completed by a senior barrister who has recommended that we make changes to the current criminal burden of proof and these changes will now be taken forward.

«And fairness: making sure we are all in it together by ensuring those with the broadest shoulders bear the largest burden and making sure that the unfairness of the something for nothing culture in our welfare system is changed.»

«New York must continue to lessen the burden of property taxes for all residents, lift middle - class families up out of challenging times, and empower voters to engage their local leaders to make real, positive fiscal change,» Cuomo said.

Climate change will only make the burden of finding water more difficult, «changing when, where, how much and how often water falls,» wrote authors of the report.

But until the people in the congregation embrace that, things are not going to change... And the burden of making a congregation diverse always falls more heavily on members of the smaller racial groups than on those who say «Come join us.»»

Working at Duke IM represents the merging of her background in health research and passion for empowering individuals, organizations and communities to make positive lifestyle changes towards the goal of reducing disease burden and helping others to achieve their optimal health and well - being.

I'd make sure to emulate the behaviour of screen items changing state, as the cursor rolled over them, and this placed a significant burden on the development effort.

Although it makes some important changes to NCLB, such as eliminating AYP mandates, the proposed ESSA would not accomplish important policy priorities of allowing states to make funding for Title I portable, allowing states to completely opt out through the A-PLUS provision, or cutting programs and spending that have accumulated over the decades in a manner that has failed students and burdened school leaders with red tape.

But on accountability, workload, Ofsted, curriculum and exam stability, and lots of other areas, it feels as though they are trying to deliver on their promise to reduce pressures where possible, and not make changes that add to the burden of the job.

That kind of non-committal answer has many believing that she is planning to making changes to the program, which would take away benefits to the millions of borrowers who are under the burden of massive student loan debt.

In general, debt is just a burden that makes your finances more vulnerable to life changes, costs you thousands in interest and risks spiraling out of control.

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

Only through a proper empirical understanding of the pattern of climate equity now, and how it will change in the near future, can signatories of the UNFCCC make meaningful progress toward resolving the inequity in the burden of climate change impacts.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

What changes can a company or household make to increase efficiency and reduce the burden of this carbon fee?

Given the magnitude of potential harms from climate change, those who make skeptical arguments against the mainstream scientific view on climate change have a duty to submit skeptical arguments to peer - review, acknowledge what is not in dispute about climate change science and not only focus on what is unknown, refrain from making specious claims about mainstream science of climate change such as the entire scientific basis for climate change has been completely debunked, and assume the burden of proof to show that emissions of greenhouse gases are benign.

We have now reached a tipping point where the cumulative burden of UK climate change policy will make it uncompetitive for some sectors to invest and create jobs in the UK,» EEF director of Policy, Steve Radley, said... According to Government figures, climate policies could add up to 52 per cent to electricity prices paid by energy intensive industry by 2020... http://www.greenwisebusiness.co.uk/news/carbon-price-floor-to-cost-manufacturing-12bn-says-eef-2509.aspx

So Trenberth wants to put the burden of proof on those that believe the null hypothesis is a better explanation of reality than the H1 hypothesis AGWers push, that man - made GHG emissions will cause catastrophic climate change.

Given the magnitude of potential harms from climate change, those who make skeptical arguments against the mainstream scientific view on climate change have a duty to submit skeptical arguments to peer - review, acknowledge what is not in dispute about climate change science and not only focus on what is unknown, refrain from making specious claims about the mainstream science of climate change such as the entire scientific basis for climate change that has been completely debunked, and assume the burden of proof to show that emissions of greenhouse gases are benign.

They want to change the burden of proof from the person making the request to the officials in charge of the information and «adopt a presumption in favor».

The aim of the meeting was to review evidence related to the implications of global climate and ecological change on the communicable disease burden of Europe, assess the preparedness of health systems, develop scientific advice, identify research needs, and make recommendations to Member States.

In Law Practice Today, he discusses 5 key elements for the future of law practice: a client - centric point of view; a shift in the burden of proof on change; a sense of urgency to find solutions for better service delivery; technologies that make legal services more accessible to clients; and the creative productization of service offerings to drive down costs.

I've written about this here before (see Shifting the Burden) and really my views haven't changed, except in that there is more evidence than ever before that the needs and motivations of those who «choose» to represent themselves in litigation are complex and that this choice is made at their peril and often at significant personal cost.

Texas has made the recovery of punitive damages more difficult by changing what is known as the burden of proof.

It should be noted that the requirement for providers to register with Ofsted was considered by some to be an unnecessary burden and a barrier to making the most of these changes, so the proposed removal of this requirement is likely to be welcomed and encourage more local authorities to consider different ways of delivering children's social care.

Examples include the 1999 - 2001 Injured Worker Participatory Research Project led by Bonnie Kirsh, and its «Making the System Better» report; the 2002 community research project initiated by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers» Support Group («Connecting for Change: Injured Workers in Northwestern Ontario and the Effectiveness of Peer Support») and its 2008 «Poverty in Motion» study; the Injured Workers» History Project (2005 --RRB-; Windsor's Legacy Costs: Burden or Benefit?

Labour started talking about it in 2010 and put a green paper forward to try and change the law and it was decided at that point that it was going to put too much of a burden on the court to have everyone rushing down and making applications.

The final rule makes changes to the NPRM that reduce the burden of compliance on small businesses.

While you can make lifestyle changes to prevent cancer, safeguarding yourself financially by buying a cancer cover will ensure that there is no financial burden, in case of an unfortunate turn of events.

On top of this change, the bill would make administrative challenges to patents more expensive by saddling challengers with costly discovery burdens.

The parent seeking the custody change has the burden to show the court that the change in circumstances is so substantial that the well - being of the children will suffer if a change in custody is not made.

A study from the University of Arizona investigated whether the parenting coordinator is potentially effective in easing the burden on the judges, court personnel, and outside agencies that become involved with families in these cases and to test whether the parenting coordinator is potentially effective in assisting high - conflict parents to reduce the number of motions and changes made in each case for a 2 - year period.

Don Cook, a director and chair of the Civic and Legislative Affairs Committee says, «With the strong likelihood of rising interest rates making housing less affordable, WinnipegRealtors views any changes the province can make to lessen the burden of land transfer taxes on homebuyers as a way to keep homeownership a possibility for more Manitobans.....

The purpose of this benefit is to not penalize seniors with additional property tax burdens for making a lifestyle change.