Sentences with phrase «devote more effort»

The Secretary General also urged industrialized nations to devote more effort in aiding developing nations move towards lower carbon economic activity, facilitating financial and technical support for this.

Your fame will make you more money on the «next» book, and that wealth with help the publisher devote more effort to the next book.

To this end, China will further commit itself to world scientific and technological development and devote more effort toward international cooperation and growth.

Now that Kouzarides's career is reasonably secure, he can afford to devote more effort to his supervisees.

It's hard, but it's almost always worthwhile, to devote more effort to these little things.

They found that people with partners difficult to replace, either because their partner was more desirable than themselves or their partner more closely matched their ideal preferences than others in the group, reported being happier and devoted more effort to mate retention.

Jaguar Land Rover CEO Ralf Speth told Autocar that the automaker will devote more efforts to promote modern diesel tech, citing its widespread use in commercial vehicles among other factors.

Not exact matches

Efforts to manage this can be accomplished in a much more effective fashion if the small business owner devotes energy to defining the job and actively taking part in the recruitment process.

Today, that pyramid should be inverted, with the initial 50 % of effort (or more) being devoted to delving into your prospect's enterprise and diagnosing their problems and needs.

It can vary depending on what exactly you are doing to earn side income, the amount of time you are devoting to it, the effort you are putting towards it, and more.

And that's just WATCHING sports... Schools devote far more effort and money keeping up their sports than they do in ensuring the education and graduation of the very athletes they entertain with those sports.

So while I am grateful for those people who have devoted their lives to studying Greek, I know that I will never be able to «compete» on their level, and so for my Bible teaching efforts, learning Chinese, Spanish, or Hindi would have bee much more valuable so that I could communicate with the people who are in my neighborhood.

You see, I believe that retirement is often God's way of releasing the believer from daily responsibilities in order to allow him or her to devote more time and effort to a ministry.

In support of these efforts, Katherine founded and manages various online and social - networking communities devoted to maternity care reform, which together have a combined membership of more than 15,000 activists nationwide.

They are more likely to devote time and effort to overcoming breastfeeding problems.

While Givens devoted his time and efforts to raising the public image of conventional dairy, consuming additional portions of organic milk is just as safe and healthful — if not more so — than its non-organic counterpart.

Effectively utilize grant funding to provide this Office with the ability to devote more prosecutors and support staff for enhanced prosecution efforts and best serve the needs of this County.

If a particular tax is complex to administer more time and effort must be devoted to processing it, forsaking resources which could otherwise be used more effectively elsewhere.

The America COMPETES Act will help them do that by devoting more federal funding to research and development efforts at universities, creating hundreds of new opportunities for young scientists.

Shepherd was attracted to the idea, and today she devotes far more of her time to outreach at the Vanderbilt CSO, where she coordinates the efforts of 15 postdocs and graduate students who handle more than half a dozen different science outreach initiatives.

Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier explained today in The Wall Street Journal that the firm aims to rebound from recent failures and devote more resources to the company's most promising efforts, including cancer immunotherapy and diabetes research.

Since I'm devoting so much time and effort (and money) to CrossFit, I'm paying more attention to what I put into my body.

Hudd devoted a great deal of effort to bringing theatrical entertainment to the factory workers and more remote villages of England during World War II, though he still managed to play roles in Major Barbara and I Know Where I'm Going, among a handful of major movies.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

His proposed budget reduced funding for a number of education and training programs, and according to the Washington Post, he's «reluctant to devote more taxpayer money to the effort.»

Faxon - Mills, Hamilton, Rudnick, and Stecher (2013) found that these tests, which typically measured basic knowledge, drove teachers to spend more effort «promoting basic skills while devoting less attention to helping students develop creativity and imagination» (p. 16).

Obama has also made an effort to devote more spending to education, with $ 80 billion given to K - 12 districts in the stimulus bill and his Race to the Top program offering states and addition $ 4.35 billion in federal funds if they can come up with innovative reform plans.

On the basis of the responses the teacher receives, he or she might decide to devote one or more classes to the importance of effort and students» responsibilities in monitoring their effort.

But that would require more time and effort and money than many «authors» are apparently willing to devote to their own work.

I haven't spent any effort on marketing but that is an area to which I'll devote more attention in the next year.»

During this time, Amazon was starting to garner more market share and seriously began to devote company efforts into a vibrant ecosystem for digital content.

But if you're willing to put in just a little more effort, you could get even more diversification by devoting, say, 20 % to 40 % of your stock stake to a total international stock index fund, which would give you exposure to the stock markets of countries large and small around the globe.

Fur - Ever Home Rescue has devoted its energy to passionately advocating for and rescuing local animals with urgent medical needs, behavior cases - animals that needed a little more effort than the majority.

The experience inspired the two to devote their resources to the effort of rescuing more local animals.

After more than 20 years in the private sector, and years of volunteering at local shelters, Michael decided to devote his full time efforts to a position as a Certified Dog Trainer for Canine Dimensions.

While we are excited to deliver a kick - ass multiplayer experience no one has ever seen before, we are devoting more time, effort and resources than ever into the single - player experience to ensure we exceed everyone's expectations.

Museum directors hope the project, called Art Everywhere, will draw more visitors to their galleries, while the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, devoting about $ 500,000 to the effort, is betting that great artworks will make looking up fashionable again.

Given the amount of support SR has in observation and previous experiment, I would predict that an enormous amount of effort would have been devoted to finding the flaws in the concept or execution of this experiment and only after far more work had been done would people slowly come around to the idea.

More effort should be devoted to this.

So the issues are very much broader than the trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars which the states are being forced to devote to the misguided effort to tear down fossil fuel plants and replace them with much more expensive and much less reliable wind and solar plants which will have no measurable impact on climate or anything else other than the profits of the solar / wind industries.

She has spent more than 20 years leading efforts to organize, fund and advise groups devoted to promoting energy conservation and community building.

About 130 businesses and interest groups spent more than $ 23.5 million on lobbying teams solely focused on climate, but that vastly understates the money devoted to the effort.

And in 2009, we highlighted the role SXSW was playing in helping to steer the music industry in a more sustainable direction, but despite those valuable efforts, the 2011 expansion into a standalone conference devoted to sustainability marked the biggest nod to sustainability to - date for the SXSW brand.

For certain purposes, it would be more accurate to account for the shared burden by notionally transferring earnings from the income - earning partner to the partner who decreases his or her income in order to devote time and effort to child - rearing.

Second, they must devote more of their time, effort and energy to establish and implement policies and to communicate with other lawyers about issues and decisions to insure the firms» continued professional, economic, organizational success.

Insight Enterprise eliminated virtually all of that effort and time, freeing the legal department to devote its time to other more - pressing matters.

Practice Management Focus on the Delivery of Legal Services: Executive Committees and Managing Partners in mid-size law firms will devote more of their time performing the strategic planning function and managing the substantive and business sides of their law firms in an effort to provide high quality, timely and cost - effective service to clients.

Canada has devoted a great deal of effort to creating a more diverse bench.

Without a day - to - day role in Renaissance management, these people said, Mr. Mercer would have more freedom and time to devote to his philanthropy and other activities, including an effort to recruit and support conservative candidates who want to replace the current Republican leadership in Congress.