The phrase
"concerted effort" means a group of people working together with a focused and determined approach to achieve a common goal or purpose.
Full definition
The district has also
made concerted efforts to develop a supportive working environment through a system of balanced autonomy.
It will demand long,
concerted effort by experts, civic and business leaders, educators, parents, and policymakers.
If you're single and over 50 years old, you know meeting these quality singles can take some decisive and
concerted efforts on your part.
This development could be beneficial, particularly if state governments are encouraged to improve their processes and make
more concerted efforts to progress negotiations.
While it has drawn many positive comments (see some of the reaction at the bottom of this post), there remains a need
for concerted efforts to tackle institutional and systemic racism.
Getting there, however, will
require concerted efforts across all energy - use sectors, from industry to transportation to urban development — and on a massive scale.
Historically, certain industry sectors have benefited from
concerted efforts at cluster development though indirect incentives and in some cases direct, e.g., the aerospace, the automotive and the petroleum products sectors.
I was able to breastfeed initially, but
despite concerted effort and working with lactation consultants my supply continued to decrease over the past two months.
In many countries even the core goal of achieving universal primary education will remain out of reach
without concerted efforts.
If concerted effort is made to shift to oil alternatives and promote efficiency, a demand decline may arise even sooner.
It is
about concerted effort, focusing tightly and deeply on a few things, with the goal of realizing significant gains.
When things are quite simple, it isn't all that hard, but in the later stages, it will require a
rather concerted effort.
I've had a
pretty concerted effort at trying to pull down on the window with my palms while pressing the button but to no avail.
And in fact, our provincial and federal governments
make concerted efforts to issue travel warnings to the public of the dangers of traveling without supplemental «private» travel health insurance coverage.
Mind you, as interesting as this event was, it fell far short of a partisan and
concerted effort by the legal profession as a whole.
With concerted efforts to promote energy savings, it is expected the average household will be using 5 % less energy in 2020.
I certainly hope so as I believe a really
concerted effort from them would be likely to convince our Spanish star to go.
This time around,
concerted efforts at some programs to reduce spend combined with increases at other programs to shake up the rankings.
During the past three years the Division,
in concerted effort with stakeholders, federal partners and staff have worked to refine recruitment of relative and foster families and develop training designed to strengthen capacities and retain these essential resources.
Canadian law schools have certainly made
concerted efforts over the past decade to ensure that their student population better reflects the ethnic, cultural, and sexual diversity of the society it will eventually serve.
Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by
concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.
India strengthened its rice production capacity
through concerted efforts by India and IRRI to develop rice varieties with resistance to pests and diseases and stresses such as drought and flooding; to commercialize hybrid rice; to streamline production practices so they would be profitable, sustainable, and environment - friendly; and to extensively exchange information with Indian scientists and researchers along with capacity building.
GV: In the 15 years that I've worked at SEMA, I can't recall a more
concerted effort among the staff and the association's partners to create value - added programs for exhibitors and attendees.
Cultivate enhanced scholarship funding to remove financial barriers for all players; giving individual attention and
concerted effort towards financial hardship cases.
He said the fiscal consolidation policy, which is a move to find lasting solutions to the current challenges,
needs concerted efforts from all development partners, adding that it is therefore not out of...
He suggested for
concerted efforts between government and civil society groups to find lasting solutions to the canker of head - portering.
It was also noted that CFC's were in decline
after concerted efforts by organisations around the globe but that the levels of less - damaging replacement compounds (HCFCs and HFCs), which are also greenhouse gases, are on the rise.
We made a
real concerted effort to try to think strategically, and to slowly and surely remove the barriers in our business and inch things forward.»
From ensuring the coal industry take responsibility for its economically ruinous impact to ending factory farming, I can see no realistic game plan in which these changes come about through the incremental growth of the «conscious consumer» without at least
as concerted an effort on the political front.