Sentences with phrase «exclusive emphasis»

«Exclusive emphasis on a carbon price is a delusion,» he said, adding that the Dutch government paid coal miners for jobs in the chemical industry.

(7) The first model mentioned, the Church as institution, places exclusive emphasis on the hierarchical structure.

Ratner argues, «ESSA is inviting States to expand their accountability focus from No Child Left Behind's failed exclusive emphasis on raising test scores to making changes that would improve school quality and student success.»

In contrast to Barth's exclusive emphasis upon revelation, Bonhoeffer brings faith and obedience into focus as the correlatives of revelation.

Their joint use might prevent exclusive emphasis on either God's love or his justice, for example.

Given Quebec's often exclusive emphasis on French language and culture, the most surprising feature about its assembly is its similarities with Westminster, especially in the shape and layout of the chamber, and in its operation.

As Congress attempts to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it has the opportunity to fix the currently exclusive emphasis on state assessments as the sole means of measuring student performance and school quality.

Education policymakers have placed almost exclusive emphasis on standardized academic test scores in core academic subjects as the measure of student success.

Barnett and Grace (1987, p. 113) found that «In contrast to the almost exclusive emphasis on men's work roles as determinate of male stress and well - being, the data from several studies suggest that men's family roles are very important and have significant direct and indirect effects on emotional and physical well - being.»

And it must act consistently and holistically with its support and the elimination of economically hostile policies and laws, such as restrictive labor laws, ever - changing tax policies and an almost exclusive emphasis on funding the government for one more month instead of growing the economy.

Current reporting requirements place an exclusive emphasis on point - in - time asset balances.

Not only the blind loyalty of the totalitarian conception of citizenship and the compulsory conformity of the democracies, but even the exclusive emphasis of the liberal on the citizenship of political organization and votes serves to increase the power of the centralized state and to strengthen the political principle at the expense of the social.

A relational view could also assert this, but it would not consider the relationship at the beginning to be the exclusive emphasis.

In reacting against the exclusive emphasis on personal salvation, liberalism and neo-orthodoxy fell into the trap of false categories, claiming that God acts in history but not in nature, and that history rather than nature is the realm of God's revelation.

These theories are characterized by their exclusive emphasis on individual rights; their limited interpretation of the concept «freedom»; their limited understanding of the concept «equality»; their limited scope for «horizontal effect»; and their lack of institutional consideration.

In international law there has been a remarkable evolution from an exclusive emphasis on sovereign nation - states, to individuals, to non-state social groups (peoples) and to humankind.

«But in some places, an exclusive emphasis on the tested subjects drove a narrowing of what was taught and learned,» he noted.

Expert witnesses to the inquiry raised concerns about the teaching of reading which places an exclusive emphasis on decoding words through synthetic phonics.

At a time when so many women are making impressive work, I find the Turner jury's exclusive emphasis on men both surprising and stifling.