Sentences with phrase «central thrust»

Nonetheless, enacting Pell Grants for Kids should be the next central thrust of federal efforts to improve the nation's schools.

«Enacting Pell Grants for Kids should be the next central thrust of federal efforts to improve the nation's schools,» writes Senator Alexander, who served as secretary of education in the George H.W. Bush administration.

As a matter of fact this new development is recognized in its full significance only when one observes that it forms a central thrust in a second, «post-Bultmannian» phase of post-war German theology.

«Their point was that Darwin's critique did not touch the central thrust of their [Christian] doctrine, which was that everything ultimately owed its existence and preservation to a power transcending the natural order» (p. 379).

Now the family unit rather than the priesthood quorum is the most important organization in the church, and support for families is the central thrust of today's church program.

The central thrusts of a reborn reform movement should be stockholder action to effect corporate decision - making, the mobilization of public influence on Congress, the development of improved rating systems, the encouragement of research to support policy - making, and the creation of support mechanisms to encourage and inform creative people working in the media industries.10.

I thus had a long list of questions and desires to answer and fulfil as I began to grapple with the central thrust of my MA in «Integrative» theology, which focused on theological method (s) within the broad conceptual framework of an extended version of the Wesleyan quadrilateral: scripture, reason, tradition, experience and Church in community.

One might argue (as does Vischer) that the more specific intent of the text is to point out how the original fall or original sin gives rise to a primal murder, though it is impossible to ascertain what is genuinely historical in this saga, nor should this even be attempted if we are to remain true to the central thrust of this passage.

Someone needs to present as plainly and honestly as possible both sides of the ambiguity and to work through them to a position that is faithful to the central thrust of scripture and to the Lord of scripture.

He concludes that both in war and in peace people need to work out together their conflicting sides and find positions faithful to the central thrust of scripture.

This emphasis on the secular world became the central thrust of the World Council of Churches study on «The Missionary Structure of the Congregations».

The central thrust of Jesus» life and teaching, in my reading of the New Testament, was directed against all forms of oppression, and it is imperative that we step up our efforts to unpack and apply the ramifications of the «gospel of liberation.»

It will not do as the basis of what the government actually does however.I suspect most of us will grit our teeth and campaign as best we can for a Labour victory in spite of our disagreement with many aspects of the manifesto including the central thrust of the economic approach.

The central thrust of Lammy's report is that low - level property crime has been «effectively decriminalised» and that the police should be tougher on it.

Then, or thereabouts, health secretary Andy Burnham firmly denied the central thrust of the Guardian story.

The central thrust of AEC's legal argument is that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver changed the rules at the end of the process by requesting that even marginal investors in the group had to receive a license from the Lottery Division.

The project, which was to have been built by a Malaysian gambling company at the Aqueduct racetrack near Kennedy Airport, was a signature initiative of Mr. Cuomo's and a central thrust of his State of the State address in January.

His remarks serve as a rebuttal to the central thrust of Republican Rob Astorino's campaign for governor - that Cuomo has allowed New York's economic fortunes to decline.

«The reality that Mars is probably dead is still so hard to accept,» NASA planetary scientist Kevin Zahnle wrote recently, «that revivification remains the central thrust of NASA's unmanned exploration program.»

Cue the central thrust of Red Sparrow: double crossers double crossing while possibly being double - crossed.

was the central thrust and this idea has continue to haunt Garland's films.

But there are psychological strings attached, and it's this twisted struggle between du Pont and the brothers that gives Foxcatcher its central thrust.

This makes for some strong, indelibly crafted moments of cinema, but there is also something blunt and ill - conceived about The Square's central thrust.

Lupita N'yongo, who is confirmed to play a member of the Dora Milaje named Nakia, outlined the central thrust of the 2018 film in surprising detail.

The law's official conference report runs to 1,080 pages and covers a host of issues, many not even related to the law's central thrust.

For that reason it is part of the project and part of our thinking in our Learning Environments Applied Research Networks (LEaRN — that's the research group here at Melbourne University that is doing all this sort of work)-- our central thrust is to make sure that there is a really strong alignment between the design of a facility and the pedagogical requirements, and the learning has to come from it.

The story has taken some bizarre turns over the course of 16 years — time travel, alternate dimensions, evil clones — but the central thrust is basically to explore popular Disney worlds and cross paths (and swords) with Disney and Final Fantasy heroes and villains.

However, if Syndicate is your first foray into the series (or if you skipped a few games, or need a refresher), the central thrust is fairly easy to follow.

The central thrust of Lee's measures is to ban the sale of video games that contain «gambling mechanisms» to anyone who is under the age of 21.

Antony Gormley: «The central thrust of my work remains the same: to try to make objects that are reflective instruments.

Yet Leggett presents a compelling, exciting and inspiring case for solar as a central thrust of a renewable energy future.

The central thrust of Michael Spratt's latest article is that the solution to Ontario's overburdened criminal justice system is for the political wing of government to «reign in» what the author says are complacent, possessive and overzealous prosecutors.

Which is the central thrust of your question.

The central thrust of the piece is the continuing print vs online debate.

The past is given much less weight than the future, where strengths, hope and constructing preferred realities form the central thrust for change.