Sentences with phrase «challenge of making change»

But as leaders of school improvement, we are faced with the daunting challenge of making change a necessity, a known quantity, and fun.

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«The biggest challenge now is to make sure that everyone understands what's at stake,» DiCaprio said of the dangers of climate change during his speech onstage at the gala.

As these changes continue to shape the future of big data and business intelligence, organizations will be faced with the challenge of deciding what technologies, and what providers, make the most sense for their operations.

The Cubs have some of the very same challenges — to pull the broadest possible community into Wrigley Field, to change the surrounding neighborhood for the better, and to make the entire country sit up and take notice of what's happening in Chicago.

WASHINGTON — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.

Here's the answer: every one of these very different companies creates products and services that address one or more of the most challenging issues of our time — such as hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change — and makes a great profit.

People like Vinod Khosla, Keith Rabois, Brian Singerman, Marc Andreessen and others have all made head - scratching private comments to me that sounded so foreign to what I thought other people were doing in VC that they caused me to challenge and ultimately change some of my own views.

Although the loan guarantee program is only one of many things the SBA does to help small businesses, because they recognize that access to capital is a big challenge for many of the businesses they serve, they've made some recent changes that portend a positive impact for small businesses.

Reminding students that «their stretch is coming» or a break / change of activity is in sight can help a student make it through a challenging lesson or task.

It was one of the first times over Zuckerberg's two - day congressional testimony that he struggled to provide a full, polished answer when challenged about the changes Facebook was willing to make:

For many taxpayers, the changes made by the legislation present a host of tax planning challenges and opportunities going forward.

Forward - looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by BlackBerry in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that BlackBerry believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including but not limited to the launch timing and success of products based on the BlackBerry 10 platform, general economic conditions, product pricing levels and competitive intensity, supply constraints, BlackBerry's expectations regarding its business, strategy, opportunities and prospects, including its ability to implement meaningful changes to address its business challenges, and BlackBerry's expectations regarding the cash flow generation of its business.

Changing forever conventional perceptions of how buyers in the social age work, collaborate, meet challenges, find solutions, engage with sellers, and ultimately make purchases.

So, I pray that as I grow in my faith and as my children experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they need to without compromising the fact that he died for us to save us.

This is the great challenge to those of us who remain members of the affluent society, those of us who are unable or unwilling to make the sacrifices or the great change in lifestyle of the radical response: are we able to be serious about our faith?

But sometimes I get the idea that, particularly with the younger folks, it's become something of a fad - like, they've read one Shane Claiborne book, changed their Facebook profile to «Christ follower,» made a few protest signs, and called themselves pacifists, without really wrestling with some of the challenging implications of this position.

All I know is that my faith has been both challenged and enriched by change, but the degree to which it has made me a more faithful follower of Jesus remains to be seen.

Say we have a population of animals which has to meet some new challenge offered to it by an altered environment; there may be some individuals in the population whose development is changed by the environment in a way which makes them better able to deal with the challenge — they show a capacity for adaptive modification.

Thirdly, to make real change possible, people of different faiths need to be far more proactive in challenging the abuses of government, international institutions and the economic system.

The crisis of the socialist world and the attacks against this theology have given to the theologians the opportunity to make an evaluation, to asses their own principles and criteria and to open themselves to the new challenges coming from the changing situation.

«Unfortunately, we have decided to cancel this year's conference due to unforeseen changes to our speaker line - up and other challenges we believe would make it difficult to provide the quality of conference people have come to expect from Resurgence.»

The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

Yet even before this de-apocalypticization of the faith, the earliest Christians, though - they made no attempt to change society, inevitably challenged it by their very example of «love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self - control» (Gal.

REED makes a valid point that real change is going to come not only from restoring the victims of sex trafficking but in challenging the mindsets and environments that condone or promote it.

Although I haven't been able to adhere to every Elf 4 Health challenge, it's been a nice reminder to devote time to make small changes, such as fixing up an email inbox full of retail newsletters that I just don't need to be getting everyday.

I love the premise of this challenge — to really think about what we're eating and make changes for the better.

Weekly menus, weekly workout plans, recipes, challenges, information, guest bloggers and, if all goes as I hope, a lot of inspiration and motivation to make changes (or continue) to live a healthy and happy lifestyle.

You can highlight, copy and paste the recipe into your Word document, which makes for easier editing of the recipe, such as changing the font size, for those of us who are visually challenged.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

(3) formation flexibility — it took 20 years for Wenger to return to a back 3 and now he can't seem to choose anything but that formation... the teams in the premiership and those we could face in the Europa will present vastly different tactics and we need to have a manager who can prepare this squad for this eventuality and have the fortitude to make the necessary adjustments throughout the season... I have seen nothing in the past 6 - 7 years to suggest that he is the man to take on this challenge... I can't even remember when he changed formations when he would replace a small, pacy striker, like during the Walcott experiment, with the lumbering Giroud... of course this is exactly why there is no other manager in the world that plays more players out of their natural positions (square peg in a round hole)

Man U suffered from change of coaches, while spending big in the past 4 seasons, they have not been able to make any meaningful challenges to the title mainly because they are virtually rebuilding every two seasons.

Still 3 players short of being serious tittle contenders another cb, dm and striker all needed not convinced wenger will buy 3 players maybe 2 max but believe 1 of them will be a big signing only thing prob holding up deal is champions league qualification first hope its reus we have chance as dortmund appear to have changed there stance in whether they can keep him would be a fantastic signing and still leave funds to cover other 2 positions we really need to make these signings if we are to have any chance of challenging in all competitions!

no, we win our group, still draw bayern, and in the space of 5 days go from challenging for the league to concern to make top 4, and yet its not shocking... this is the yr to sink low enough that management must act, chelsea, city and united have had extremely poor yrs forcing needed change, out w mediocrity,

Rather, if one person or a group of people are willing to challenge themselves to make a change, it must be done gradually.

The fickle changes in the weather make the challenge completely different depending on the time of day you're out on the course.

I agree with those odds simply because i believe the some team that were stronger than Arsenal last season have done some really good business to further strengthen there squads, Bernardo Silva & Kyle Walker for Man City with what they already have plus what pep will add plus its gonna be his second season so he will be a bit more familiar with the EPL and this may make them really tough to beat, Tiemoue Bakayoko & Antonio Rudiger Chealsea plus a top striker and Chelsea will sill be one of the teams to beat, Tottenham are gonna be solid, they've kept the team together and Victor Lindelof & Romelu Lukaku for Man - u and Mourinho is not done yet if the rumors are true and there also the Mourinho second season thing, as much as i'd like to be hopeful for next season, i really do nt think Lacazette and Kolasinac are enough to make us challenge for the league plus having Europa league will give the team less time to recover for the weekend games, the formation change is the only thing i see can make the difference.

Neither side made changes at the break and at the start of the second half it was Inter continuing to display their dominance, showing up first to most of the challenges and creating chances for Icardi, Candreva, and Perisic.

I wouldn't expect Wenger to make many changes as our final fixture is against the less challenging Olympiakos and he will surely look to there to rest some of the current starting XI.

Van Persie making a «bad» tackle in a couple of games does not change the fact that a young man was very hurt in what could have been a career ending challenge.

As the Twittersphere and today's Boston Globe reported, and as I was glad to make it back to Boston to hear him say in person, Goodell recognized that changing the culture of the NFL was not only his most important mission as commissioner but also the «biggest challenge» the league, and by extension, football at every level, faces.

With a rising emphasis nationwide on mental health and wellness, Challenge Success is on the forefront of providing upstream solutions that support schools in making real, systemic changes that positively impact the health and well - being of students.

With 26 lb of weight, this car seat is too heavy making it a challenge to move it around especially if you keep changing cars.

As a father of six children, he also appreciates the challenges that young mothers face today when making life - altering decisions in the changing health care landscape in addition to the various pressures in today's workplace.

Kindergarten isn't what it used to be... many of the changes you observe make kindergarten a more challenging and potentially pressuring stage, it's all in the name of teaching your child more effectively.»

Then this story will inspire them to turn those thoughts of «hopelessness» into a discovery that they CAN and have the ability to make positive changes to address difficult challenges.

I want to make it a bit easier by setting up a challenge where you all get to experience the support of daily listening time and notice the change it makes in your parenting.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Any big change — such as starting a new school, the arrival of a sibling, or moving to a new home — can make it hard for a child to focus on another challenge like potty training.

Parents ask questions once they are in the thick of making sleep changes, and seek advice and counseling about the challenges they encounter along the way.