Sentences with phrase «first efforts toward»

In a recent interview in Artforum, the artist Howardena Pindell recalls her first efforts toward protesting the oppressive and exclusionary practices of art institutions in the 1970s: «Because I was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I needed to remain anonymous, so...

In a recent interview in Artforum, the artist Howardena Pindell recalls her first efforts toward protesting the oppressive and exclusionary practices of art institutions in the 1970s: «Because I was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I needed to remain anonymous, so I would just send little notes of complaint to magazines, to museum boards, and to the city signed «The Black Hornet.»

It's one of my very first efforts toward a passive income — and who knows, maybe it will be a flop.

Not exact matches

Besides flashy screens and efforts at community building, the flagship mega-stores — such as the first, an 80,000 - foot space in the West Edmonton Mall — are also geared toward product performance and customization.

Indeed, the opposite might be true: the new scale for mozzarella, they believe, is more an effort to shore up the system than a first step toward taking it down.

Friendliness, extra effort and a team - first attitude are traits that drive a company toward success.

According to a recent Morgan Stanley Research report, these POC efforts, which test Blockchain's viability as a settlement and payment alternative, are the first critical step toward adopting the technology, followed by broader socialization within the industry and regulatory scrutiny.

The White House announced the 12 organizations that have been promised personal donations, totaling $ 1 million, from President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump to go toward Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.

That effort represented a joyful decision on my part to turn again toward the classical Christian pastoral tradition, especially as expressed by the ecumenical consensus of Christianity's first millennium of experience in caring for souls.

Since awareness of guilt feelings is the first step toward their transformation, this is the place where efforts in worship should be concentrated initially.

But as he urged them then to get down to more concrete work in support of various efforts of appropriate technology research and development, their comments and questions kept skimming past this first priority to the practical pros and cons, the alleged sins of the oil companies, his attitude toward women's liberation, the possibility and desirability of violent revolution.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

First, it impedes efforts to redirect kids toward the fresh, whole foods that would better serve their longterm health.

«We need to direct even more effort toward making sure mothers have the support they need in hospitals, workplaces and communities to continue breast - feeding beyond the first few days of life, so they can make it to those six - and 12 - month marks,» says William Dietz, director of CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity.

Former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi savored his first step toward a possible political comeback following a victory in a low - turnout congressional primary Tuesday that relied heavily on grass roots efforts in Queens and his home base of Glen Cove.

Although Buffalo Common Council members have also discussed and debated what should be done to permit ride - share services locally, the Erie County Legislature is the first local government to earmark a significant amount of money toward the effort to bring the services to the region.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

Investments should also go toward expanding efforts to improve the ability to maintain and restore critical services like power for hospitals, first responders, water supplies, and communications systems.

The students described BacillaFilla as the first step toward «self - healing concrete,» and their efforts are just one among many to create biological substances that could heal ship hulls, metal girders and more.

The effort to drive research toward AIDS and other infectious diseases drew a creditable response when it first began, but it now faces a premature death unless something is done.

While critics of the plan abound, the study lays clear the authors» belief that «this model will facilitate current efforts toward the first human head transplant.»

I'm the first one to say that better habits are worth the effort and that good routines and a little tracking go a long way toward a successful outcome.

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The 2015 NAEP results, which will be released on Oct. 28, will be the first to reflect efforts in many states to shift instruction toward Common Core State Standards.

First, KIPP's focus on building fifth - through eighth - grade middle schools seems to be shifting toward an emphasis on starting elementary schools, as its first efforts in that direction bear fFirst, KIPP's focus on building fifth - through eighth - grade middle schools seems to be shifting toward an emphasis on starting elementary schools, as its first efforts in that direction bear ffirst efforts in that direction bear fruit.

First, our teaching and learning department began an effort to move teachers away from textbook - based curriculum content and toward standards - based instruction and assessment instead.

It is also probably reasonable to conclude that the leader of the opt - out crusade has been New York State, where animosity toward the Core has been high since the state first rushed implementation and state officials, in an effort to calm things, actually inflamed them with a condescending approach to public engagement that launched weeks of recriminations.

Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott has called the effort a first step toward a federal takeover of the schools.

Every first - year principal received one - on - one coaching, and we identified strong principals to form a professional learning community to support principals across the district and align efforts toward improvement.

The shift toward accountability policies for schools over the past two decades — first introduced in some states, and made national under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), signed into law in 2002 — has been an important part of these efforts.

These efforts coalesced into a national strategy after a 1989 bipartisan summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, between governors and President George H. W. Bush, where leaders looked to standards as the first step toward achieving lofty national education goals.2

Damp weather early in the first two - hour period hampered the team's efforts to work toward improvements from Wednesday.

Nevertheless, an author should be able to help readers understand unfamiliar points of view, and while exceptionally successful in achieving this in the first half, l I felt his efforts fell a bit short toward the end.

Second, if you're a first - time author, you may have limited resources and relationships — so your efforts may be slanted toward free marketing and promotion activities that you can tackle from home.

Through citizen efforts, work toward a Redford Township Library began in 1945 when the first Library Board was appointed.

Their combined efforts are focused toward the accomplishment of our mission statement: «Deseret First Credit Union exists to provide progressive and mutually beneficial products and services that foster the financial independence and well - being of its members within the LDS community.»

Sanctioning is one of the first steps toward being approved to hold AKC dog shows and obedience trials, a long - range goal of the club.Sproul and other club officers say they are making a determined effort to continue the programs that Seminole has initiated.The Seminole club has initiated such programs as annual purebred dog exhibitions demonstrating important aspects of owning, raising and training dogs; health seminars that bring in experts to discuss topics that have included hereditary eye defects, skin disorders and behavioral studies; and matches offering ring conditions to provide experience for handlers and dogs.

Substantial initial efforts along these lines were pursued during the First NCA through stakeholder meetings and regional workshops (NAST 2001, Moser 2005), were revived during the Third NCA (Cloyd et al 2016), and should be expanded and institutionalized as a first step toward drawing stakeholders much more deeply into the assessment proFirst NCA through stakeholder meetings and regional workshops (NAST 2001, Moser 2005), were revived during the Third NCA (Cloyd et al 2016), and should be expanded and institutionalized as a first step toward drawing stakeholders much more deeply into the assessment profirst step toward drawing stakeholders much more deeply into the assessment process.

The Iso2k effort builds on the high - profile PAGES 2k temperature syntheses [PAGES 2k Consortium, 2013, 2017; Tierney et al., 2013; McGregor et al., 2015; Abram et al., 2016], and it represents the first steps toward a broader «hydroclimate 2k» synthesis.

The postwar years saw the creation of the United Nations, the Bretton - Woods financial institutions, the first tentative steps toward European Union, and many other multilateral efforts.

Students are taught to be «legal technicians,» with very little emphasis, at least during the first year, on the social and ethical ideals of the profession in its public role: «the first - year experience as a whole, without conscious and systematic efforts at counterbalance, tips the scales... away from cultivating the humanity of the student and toward the student's re-engineering into a «legal machine.

You might find yourself questioning it toward the beginning; I personally had to open my mind a bit when I first picked it up — and it was certainly worth the effort.

The HomePod was a first step toward matching these efforts, and now catching up to competitors could be harder.

Facebook's efforts will be rooted in both augmented and virtual reality, with the company's recent push to imitate Snapchat marking just its first steps toward something larger.

Also, your efforts can draw employer attention toward your academic credentials rather than your professional workplace experience, since you may have plenty of the first and little of the second.

First, the skinny on CBCT: Instead of focusing on breath and awareness — like you do with mindfulness meditation — compassion meditation involves contemplating specific things, like your affection for other people, in an effort to refocus your attitudes toward the people you interact with on daily basis, says study co-author Jennifer S. Mascaro, a postdoctoral fellow in the anthropology department at Emory University.

For this reason, efforts to create clear and meaningful policies around relationship violence and paternity establishment are a critical first step toward ensuring the safety of unmarried mothers and their children.

She pioneered the first interdisciplinary divorce mediation program in Pennsylvania 20 years ago and has continued to devote her efforts toward reducing the time, money and stress of those struggling with their divorce transition.

Sharing the brief with the ELAC was a first step toward embedding infant - toddler priorities in the ELAC's work, including efforts to add infant - toddler indicators to the ELAC's data dashboard and to incorporate a greater focus on infant - toddler policy priorities in the ELAC's subcommittees.

For employers, internships can be the first step toward a new hire who has been tried and tested and for this reason have become central to their ongoing employee recruitment efforts.