Sentences with phrase «current effort levels»

The new study prompted a lapse into Ciceronian prose from the New York Times and an instant revision to sea level rise projection maps for coastal cities worldwide, with many observers noting that, at current effort levels, humanity is veering dangerously close to the worst - case scenario.

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In an effort to evaluate the current level of the stock market, let's review a few of the more popular metrics.

This advantage is unique to Ferrari and sticks out like a sore Halo in the current climate, where efforts towards levelling the field seem to be in place.

While I shouldn't have been surprised at his admission, given the lawsuits that have been filed against the league by former players, and the efforts by N.F.L. to protect the safety of current players, what impressed me the most was what the league and USA Football have done and were doing to improve health and safety of all who play football, from the pros down to the youth level, which fall into 6 general categories:

Recent reports of secret meetings among industry reps and the Food and Drug Adminstration over GMO labeling piqued my interest, mostly because this critical aspect was missing: any effort to label GE foods at the federal level could bring the current grassroots movement to a grinding halt by preventing any stronger local laws from ever being enacted.

He also expressed optimism that when the 2016 edition takes place, it will consolidate on the gains of the current efforts of government at all levels in improved infrastructure, more efficient business support services, improved public transport system and a more secured and business friendly environment, would have materialized.

He said CHR recognised the efforts that have gone into reaching the current levels by the Nigerian government, however, much more needs to be done.

With the greatest respect for the efforts of our current Coroners, I believe that we need to maximize the ability of Oneida County to provide high - level expertise to address the sophisticated level of forensics that are possible with today's technology.»

Speaking at the 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, Buhari said: «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family and communities at all levels on the critical role of protecting children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.

Speaking in Abuja to mark 2016 National Children's Day Celebration, President Buhari said, «Challenges posed by the total breakdown of societal values and the current unrestricted social media vices, which therefore, calls for an urgent need for all stakeholders to put all hands on deck in making conscious efforts at raising awareness of parents, family, communities at all levels, on the critical role of protecting the children against all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation including abduction of children, forced and early marriage.

Instead, in an effort to avert a government showdown, Congress passed and Trump signed into law on Sept. 8 a bill that left final fiscal year 2018 spending levels to be decided in December by keeping the government running at current spending levels until Dec. 8.

Ultimately, creating a safe environment for the world's reefs may require efforts to cut the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to just 350 parts per million, well below the current level of 390 parts per million.

«Due to the current void in national leadership on the issue of climate change, efforts at the state and local level are more important than ever,» Saikawa says.

«But the U.S. can lead that effort only if it maintains an effective strategic arsenal at a level sufficient to fulfill its deterrent purposes, a notable failure of the current Administration.

Sanford Research has sought to establish a core of scientists that are studying disease at a fundamental level with the expectation that these current efforts will pay off in the future by advancing disease therapy and prevention.

Given where industry is in the process of developing these fuels, the authors said, some of these efforts — at least at the current levels of funding and personnel — may be premature.

Meaningful progress depends on informed modesty about the likely returns on current efforts; greater specificity and more emphasis on context in the curricula and school - level approaches to teaching soft skills; and the development and use of practical assessments that are closely aligned with a specific framework for teaching and learning.

Given the current political climate and the limited discretionary resources available to the Secretary of Education, it is unrealistic to imagine that the DoED would play an active role in state - level school reform efforts.

Join Laura Bornfreund, the deputy director of the Early Education Initiative for the New America Foundation, and Debi Mathias, the director of the QRIS National Learning Network, as they discuss current early - childhood policy, efforts underway to bolster preschool quality, and suggestions for improvements at the local, state, and federal levels.

«Research clearly shows that no school improvement effort can succeed without effective leadership, and such leadership is needed at all levels - federal, state, district, and school - in our current systems and in the systems we will create in the future,» said M. Christine DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation, which provided a $ 10 - million grant to support the effort.

Washington — Proposals to shift teacher training to the graduate level would reinforce «the current schism between liberal and professional education» and frustrate efforts to stem teacher shortages, a new report contends.

We ca n`t say a priori whether shifting the weight of emphasis from informal to formal evidence for decision making will improve schools; it is an empirical question.226 The current emphasis on using student performance data to guide improvement efforts also calls for greater attention by those in schools to measurable patterns of student performance at the school level, or by student sub-groups, in addition to the conventional interest in individual student needs and progress.

The current maintenance of effort level is 90 percent of the prior year's funding, so there is already a significant allowance for reductions in funding.

Insure that the current ban on collecting biometrics is not diluted by new laws or efforts at the rule making level.

Fails to provide parents with protection from substantial school budget cuts: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the ESEA's current «maintenance of effort» provision, which ensures that districts that receive Title I funding — designed to help low - income and disadvantaged students — maintain approximately the same spending levels from year to year.

In recent years, for instance, the Council of Chief State School Officers has amplified state - level grow - your - own efforts through their programming and messaging, including its current Diverse and Learner - Ready Teachers Initiative.

Because learning standards and goals can be an important driver of current educational practice at the state level, when states wish to develop learning goals or standards, preschool through high school, CASEL is committed to supporting their efforts.

Several points that I felt were imperative: 1) Everyone at the federal level knows that the current law is disliked and must change, 2) There is a recognized effort to make the language and details of the next ESEA reauthorization more user - friendly — all stakeholders of a school community should be able to understand the legislation and be vested in the success of schools, and 3) Legislators are seeking the right balance between formula funding and competitive grants — one area of consideration is the consolidation of educational programs or initiatives, which will allow federal monies to be used more effectively to help schools and children.

is proposing to work with Sen. Susan Collins (R - Maine) in a bipartisan effort to help seniors undergoing garnishment and introduce inflation indexing to keep garnishment above the current poverty level.

I think you need a more complete in - depth valuation to feel comfortable in making an investment at current levels but I'm not going to provide that as I think each investor needs to make the effort on his or her own.

1987): (1) At current income and expense levels, the debtor would not be able to maintain a «minimal standard of living» if required to repay the student loans; (2) additional circumstances indicate that this financial condition is likely to continue for a substantial part of the repayment period; and (3) the debtor has made «good faith efforts to repay the loans.»

In its current proposed state, the Drive - In project will require significant fundraising efforts that could compromise the level of innovative and community - minded programming that has been Ballroom Marfa's priority since 2003.

However, it is important to keep in mind that we might easily more than double it if we really don't make much effort to cut back (I think the current estimated reserves of fossil fuels would increase CO2 by a factor of like 5 or 10, which would mean a warming of roughly 2 - 3 times the climate sensitivity for doubling CO2 [because of the logarithmic dependence of the resulting warming to CO2 levels]-RRB-... and CO2 levels may be able to fall short of doubling if we really make a very strong effort to reduce emissions.

Renewable energy and hybrid vehicles don't need to appear overnight, but the levels of current efforts are laughable.

Debates over the optimal level of ozone have been ongoing for many years, and current efforts to strengthen environmental regulations affecting ozone concentrations remain contentious.

For new readers arriving at this blog, you probably already have a passing familiarity with the current news item about state - level Attorneys General efforts to prosecute «climate change deniers.»

The oil producing giant last night blocked efforts to include references in the Paris deal to a UN report that says it would be better to limit global warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels rather than the current 2C target.

The current study is an effort by Ziska and colleagues to scale up to the continental level to see if climate change had progressed to where a temperature signal could be seen for ragweed in North America.

To ensure that this issue continues to receive the highest level of attention, I direct: (1) relevant U.S. delegations attending meetings with Icelandic officials and senior Administration officials visiting Iceland to raise U.S. concerns regarding commercial whaling by Icelandic companies and seek ways to halt such action; (2) Cabinet secretaries to evaluate the appropriateness of visits to Iceland depending on continuation of the current suspension of fin whaling; (3) the Department of State to examine Arctic cooperation projects, and where appropriate, link U.S. cooperation to the Icelandic government changing its whaling policy and abiding by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (4) the Departments of Commerce and State to consult with other international actors on efforts to end Icelandic commercial whaling and have Iceland abide by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (5) the Department of State to inform the Government of Iceland that the United States will continue to monitor the activities of Icelandic companies that engage in commercial whaling; and (6) relevant U.S. agencies to continue to examine other options for responding to continued whaling by Iceland.

We have tried for the past three Congresses to enact a renewable portfolio standard at the national level, but those efforts have met strong resistance from utilities and from the current administration.

The Paris Agreement committed countries to addressing the «significant gap» between their current pledges and «aggregate emission pathways consistent with holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels,» while also «pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels.»

That seems a dim prospect given the current condition of politics and Republican domination at the state level, but such efforts should never be abandoned.

Most REDD initiatives have worked at the local level only, usually by providing alternate income streams for the rural poor, but the current trend is towards more ambitious efforts that cover entire jurisdictions and harness carbon finance to purge deforestation from corporate supply chains.

Greenpeace, according to Massey, worries that there will be pressure for fishing efforts to expand beyond current levels.

The HFC phase down would make a crucial contribution to the current global mitigation efforts that fall short of what is needed to curb climate change to a level considered safe by scientists.

«Despite the unprecedented level of effort, this report finds that current commitments are not yet sufficient to meet what the world needs...

Perhaps Gelbspan has no direct current involvement in global warming political efforts, but regarding the question of where he is these days, the answer seems to indicate that his collective past efforts are worthy of deep professional level investigation in relation to all the current focus on using racketeering laws to persecute skeptic climate scientists and the organizations having any association with them.

We allready debunked the current records piece by piece.But there has to be an real effort to put it all together and even estimate the levels of uncertainy involved.They lied a hole world straight up in the face.The temperture records is the «book of revelation» to the AGW fraudster ideololgy.There is only lack of coordination to challenge the fraud of the establishment.

«The declaration of the 7 EU countries basically recognizes that the current EU ambition for cutting greenhouse gas emissions is not in line with the goal of the Paris Agreement to pursue efforts to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Clean Energy Technologies Can Return CO2 to Safe Levels This Century Though current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of about 385 parts per million are already above the revised safe level of 350ppm being promoted by scientists, Kharecha said that it is still possible to return them to safe levels by the end of this century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power pLevels This Century Though current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of about 385 parts per million are already above the revised safe level of 350ppm being promoted by scientists, Kharecha said that it is still possible to return them to safe levels by the end of this century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power plevels of about 385 parts per million are already above the revised safe level of 350ppm being promoted by scientists, Kharecha said that it is still possible to return them to safe levels by the end of this century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power plevels by the end of this century if we engage in «Herculean» efforts to shift towards renewable energy sources, increase the use of nuclear power, and apply carbon sequestration technologies on existing coal power plants.