Sentences with phrase «devoted little resources»

Interstellar travel is a fringe area of science, and while many plans exist on paper, space agencies like NASA have devoted little resources to fleshing out the details.

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«If the people who have the money to go up there then decide to devote their resources to saving that little blue gem they see, then that would be a good outcome,» offered Caltech's Arnold.

Of course, funding clinical trials is often cost - prohibitive and pharmaceutical industry investors, with legally - binding fiduciary obligations to shareholder interests, have little fiscal incentive to devote resources to dietary protocols for which market exclusivity is an impossibility.

Because they're already above the «proficient bar» in academic achievement at a time when most federal and state policies are fixed on boosting low achievers over that bar, schools and teachers have little incentive to focus on their educational needs or to devote resources to their schooling.

The USDA hasn't updated the resources devoted to kids and preschoolers, so there is little available that's directly related to those age groups.

The only individuals directly benefiting from targeted voucher policies are low - income parents and their children, who have the fewest resources to devote to political activity, and therefore have little political influence.

Amid this dizzying burst of laudable innovation, many schools are paying little attention and devoting few resources to an unsung aspect of ed tech that has enormous untapped potential to improve student outcomes: their student information systems.

«Since individual libraries have very little clout, professional organizations like ALA will need to devote considerable time and resources to resolving this conflict,» Woodward says.

You can invest in index funds with most online brokers, and you can use dollar cost averaging with them, so it makes it easy to start and invest a little at a time, if you don't have a lot of resources to devote to investing right now.

Still, while shelter staff did their best for Noel — one of the supervisors even took the pup to stay at her home for a time — a private rescue group would have more resources to devote to the hurt little dog.

Ferguson added: «This research may help society focus on issues that really matter and avoid devoting unnecessary resources to the pursuit of moral agendas with little practical value.»

By the time the institutions of the old paradigm have fallen over the fuel, food, water crisis will be so acute that there will be little resource of any kind left over to devote to the climate crisis that may well finish us off as a race.

For this reason (and others), I strongly believe that criminal - justice - reform - minded «big donors» — yes, I am talking to you Koch brothers and Mr. Soros — should think very seriously about devoting resources to this initiative campaign where a little extra campaign investment could go a very long way in fostering reform in a lot more places than just Oklahoma.

«Over the past several years, we have seen healthcare organizations devoting only 3 percent of their IT budgets to information security, and only a little over half of them have a dedicated resource focused on information security,» he told TechNewsWorld.