Sentences with phrase «choice as a mechanism»

Their interests have shifted from promoting choice as the goal to using choice as a mechanism for obtaining more quality schools.

Not exact matches

It doesn't matter if it is thought of as «analog» — if it's the best delivery mechanism to deliver the service, that's the technology of choice.

The development in question is not simply the result of natural mechanisms, since as everybody knows, we are all capable of making free and responsible choices.

Putting aside the possibility of a referendum brought about the «lock mechanism», it looks as though only one party is currently set to promise the public an in / out choice in the next Parliament — and that, of course, is the Tories.

Given that a straight A student will often lose a place every time a student without straight As from a deprived background is offered one, due consideration should be given to the selection mechanism underpinning these choices.

«Human beings have more adaptive choices and social mechanisms, such as birth control, trade, and scientific innovation.

In animals, the physical mechanisms and function of structural color have been studied significantly as a signal for recognition or mate choice.

However, don't use that reassurance as an excuse or defense mechanism against making a difficult choice.

Foods known to contain mechanism - based inhibitors of CYP450 enzymes such as ginger, liquorice and peppers are clear choices for exclusion.

It will, however, exclude you from interest - based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms.

The characters in this film are compelling and entertaining and because of them and the choice to use the shrinking aspect of the story as a jumpboard rather than an isolated boat with nowhere to go, this allows a very human story to shine through an unrealistic story mechanism.

It's seen by many as little more than a delivery mechanism for eLearning units and multiple choice questions.

But the growth of blended learning in districts as opposed to through the course - choice mechanism will create a bigger challenge.

Finally, look at the politics of public choice mechanisms, such as the massive open enrollment programs that have been established in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Like charters and vouchers, these programs have their critics.

Third, our results suggest that online search tools such as GreatSchools can be powerful mechanisms through which to provide families with the information they need to take advantage of choice programs and about local schooling options more broadly.

As I acknowledged earlier, expanding charter schools or other choice mechanisms certainly takes a lot of policy advocacy to get off the ground, often in the face of brutal political attacks.

Students were classified as pilot applicants if they listed a pilot school that participates in the BPS assignment mechanism as a first choice.

Therefore, there is a rating mechanism that allows other community beneficiaries of education, such as employers and senior citizens, to provide input to inform student / parent choices.

Chris Lubienski's research centers on public and private interests in education, including the use of market mechanisms such as choice and competition to improve schooling, especially for disadvantaged children.

The report's definition of school choice included a wide range of public and private options, including charter, magnet, and private schools, as well as mechanisms for accessing these options, including open enrollment, vouchers, and tax credit scholarships.

NCLB funding was money spent on annual standardized achievement testing, accountability mechanisms based on the outcomes of those tests, reporting of compliance with the law, and school choice being offered as a solution — all packaged and sold to the country as «flexibility.»

I look for sanity, especially as I spend more and more time with parents in cities like Camden and Newark where public school choice and accountability provide the only mechanisms for hope.

For the coming school term, it appears as though a federal tax credit scholarship program included in a tax - reform package may be the mechanism used to fund school choice.

«The IALC has always focused on product solutions that are in the best interest for American retirement savers and as such we disagreed with the DOL's enforcement mechanism because it operated to reduce access and limit choices for individuals who have worked hard to plan and save for their financial futures.

When dogs get too overstimulated or are conflicted by choice, they may need to rely on coping mechanisms such as displacement activities.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

But it's become increasingly clear that shrewd marketing and competition from services like Direct2Drive and Impulse, as well as a highly savvy audience, is making digital the delivery mechanism of choice for PC gamers.

Given that little besides the dateline connects Louis Kahn's unrealised cardboard study for an assembly building in Bangladesh with Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptured ice - cream cone and Niki de Saint Phalle's mixed media on wood, grouping by year seems to function primarily as an organising mechanism, marking curatorial choice as more precisely the point.

-- «there is no as yet known mechanism» would have been a better choice of words.

«The absence of an independent accountability mechanism puts the CDM significantly behind other multilateral and some bilateral financing institutions» commented Filzmoser, adding that, «To increase the credibility of the CDM as a viable climate finance instrument in the future, the CDM Board's only sensible choice is to adopt rules that ensure that the CDM applies appropriate human rights standards in line with the most advanced relevant standards applicable to climate related programmes and projects.»

Aside from failing to provide a physical mechanism through which Jupiter and Saturn could impact the Earth's temperature, as Riccardo has previously noted, the mere existence of a 60 year cycle in the Earth's surface temperature depends on the choice of trend to begin with.

While commercial parties may turn to arbitration as the choice dispute resolution mechanism in its transaction document, parties are advised to be alive to the fact that by adopting certain institutional arbitration rules within the arbitration agreement and conducting the arbitration under the auspices of those institutions, they will be taken to have agreed to waive their right to recourse against the award by way of appeal on a question of law in the context of domestic arbitrations.

The fact that we fully subsidize litigation, while offering scant support to less adversarial dispute resolution processes, strikes me as a wrong - headed choice of priorities in the allocation of public dollars; it is peculiar, and probably an artifact of older values and priorities, that we direct 95 % or more of our justice system funding toward the dispute resolution mechanism that is the most destructive, most expensive, least efficient and least expeditious.

The choice of the mechanism belongs to the ODR provider (in our case, the Department of Justice or the Courts, as PARLe is mostly geared towards public institutions).

If you opt - out of our marketing or communication activities, please know we respond promptly (or within a maximum of 10 business days as required) to Web browser «do not track» signals - or other mechanisms that consumers utilize to exercise choice regarding the collection of their personal information and online activities over time.

We want Android Wear to give you as much choice as possible, so we'll be sharing the MODE mechanism design and source with other brands to use to create their own snap - and - swap watch bands.

Moreover, this study contributes to the literature on acculturation, and suggests that among specific ethnic groups, young people may oppose interethnic mating, and view parental influence on mate choice as an important mechanism to prevent this type of mating.

The self directed IRA is a funding mechanism that gives you control over the funds and a much broader set of investment choices as to how to invest your retirement savings.