Sentences with phrase «focal point of this year»

She also criticized the Astorino administration for embracing the values of President Donald Trump, a common theme amongst Westchester Democrats and likely to be a focal point of this year's county executive race.

Each teacher selected a program or curriculum and, within that, a high - leverage instructional strategy for the focal point of their year - long inquiry.

The report comes after BMW officially announced to be a major focal point of this year's festival, where they will introduce a new «M model.»

Commissioned by the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, «View From Inside» constitutes the focal point of this year's festival and is based on the highly acclaimed eponym show inaugurated during last year's Houston FotoFest.

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Executive compensation has been in the spotlight almost continually for the last couple of years, and has even been the focal point of shareholder revolts.

By laying the essential foundation of engaging your customers through greater content personalization, applying a test and learn approach and doing so beyond the major marketing focal points throughout the year, you can build deeper loyalty.

Currently, he's playing with some of the best players in the world, winning accolades and trophies throughout his four years with Barcelona and is seen as a focal point of their future.

A return to Real Madrid has also been mentioned for the 26 - year - old, but United should surely keep hold of him and make him the focal point of their side for many years to come.

The 29 - year - old would provide a lethal focal point to create something out of the chances put up by Eden Hazard or Pedro.

Stealing a spot ahead of Anthony Martial, the soon to be 20 - year - old was the only focal point in United's 2 - 1 defeat at hands of Huddersfield town last weekend.

In May 2013, Ajax were once again the focal point of Dutch football as they were crowned Dutch champions for a third - straight year.

The 26 - year - old swiftly adapted to the pace and physicality of the Premier League in his 62 minutes on the pitch and, despite being deprived of any clear - cut openings, provided the focal point for his side's brightest attacking moments.

10 year mosaic The Kop became the focal point once again to mark the 10th anniversary of the disaster, prior to kick - off in Liverpool's match against Aston Villa on April 17, 1999.

His 25 - yard opening - day screamer got the ball rolling in a vindictive narrow victory at the Britannia Stadium and the 23 - year - old has since been the focal point of much of the club's good work going forward.

In 2009, Andy Carroll left the Premier League a raw talent; when he returned a year later, he was the undisputed focal point of our attack, a frequently unplayable menace to even the most accomplished of defenders.

This Chelmsford design from Baby Appleseed is an impressive and exciting focal point for themes of enchantment for the early years and sophistication for your big kid.

On the other hand, re-education through labour (RETL)(laojiao (劳教)-RRB-, a draconian detention programme, has long been a focal point for critics of China's human rights record, whereby China's police can sentence an individual to three years (with a possible 4th year extension) in a labour camp without a trial

But a year after Governor Andrew Cuomo made it a focal point of his re-election campaign, the majority of a women's equality - centric legislative package that proved hugely controversial in last year's session sailed through.

«Saratoga County has been the focal point of economic development in Upstate New York for the past 30 years.

Why has the NPP's Bawumia become such a thorn in the flesh of the NDC and a focal point of rival attack and attention in this year's contest for the presidency?

In comparison, it took the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice stream — a southwest Greenland region with a fast - moving glacier that has been a focal point of scientific examination of ice sheet melt — 150 years to retreat 35 kilometers, said Khan.

The tensions between parental expectations and students» goals and between teaching test - taking and fostering learning provide focal points of an embedded journalist's chronicle of a year in an academically rigorous public high school.

This year, ALMA - J Project Office presented: explanation of ALMA using poster exhibition and a miniature of the ALMA site; mini-lectures by six lecturers; celestial journey in the Chilean skies using a constellation camera at the Operations Support Facility of ALMA; a mini-experiment to see if rubber balls fallen from a higher place (to resemble radio waves from the universe) are collected into the focal point of an antenna dish; and another experiment to receive satellite broadcasts using a lid of a pot, instead of an antenna dish.

Overall, «The Journey: Hunter Returns» builds on last year's instalment and although it won't be the focal point (nor should it be) of FIFA 18, it is a welcome feature which should keep you busy for roughly ten hours.

The new research schools - which will each receive # 200,000 in funding over three years — will become focal points of evidence - based practice in their region and build networks between large numbers of schools.

The synopsis competition is just one of a whole host of events taking place throughout 2016 to mark 400 years since Shakespeare's passing, including being the focal point of the BBC's Get Reading campaign and The Booksellers Association's The Bard Is My Bag retail initiative, not to mention the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Globe theatre.

According to Greening, these schools will become «focal points of evidence - based practice» in their regions over the next three years.

This year's general election highlighted this, as education, and all its related issues, became the focal point of party manifestos and political debates.

«Parents who opted their children out of state exams in recent years became the focal point of major education debates in the country about the proper roles of testing, the federal government, and achievement gaps,» writes Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa.

The education secretary has revealed the names of these 11 new research schools, which will each receive # 200,000 to become «focal points of evidence - based practice» in their regions over the next three years.

One of the reasons car side windows have been cut down in height in recent years beyond style concerns has been to help reduce overall weight as fuel economy becomes an ever bigger focal point for manufacturers.

CORVETTE RACING AT LE MANS: Dress Rehearsal Up First with Annual Test Day Pair of Corvettes set for eight hours of running ahead of 19th straight Le Mans appearance Program looking toward ninth class victory at Le Mans Team coming off third - place finish in GTE Pro in 2017 Focal point of Corvette Racing's 20th season DETROIT (May 30, 2018)-- Corvette Racing has made its annual venture across the Atlantic to Le Mans, France — for the 19th consecutive year...

No doubt the performance of the automatic, and the new electric steering, are the focal points in the Holden VF Commodore at the Nurburgring program, as the basic chassis components are mostly unchanged compared with the seven - year - old VE generation.

Although the two mounds that look like a saddle have been a focal point in the Changsha area of south - central China for more than 2,000 years, it wasn't until 1971 that archaeologists began excavating these ancient tombs, and what they uncovered was astounding.

Unburdened by the drag of whatever the hell has being going on with these characters in recent years, the story sails with freewheeling action and fun as the focal point.

Large companies spend millions of dollars every single year to make their brands a focal point of daily conversation.

The hotel is only a short walk to the Rocks, Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House - the focal point of Sydney's fireworks celebrations over New Years Eve.

Link awakens 7 years later and continues his adventure, traveling through time with the Master Sword between the future focal point and the past focal point (gate is opened, Ganondorf took Triforce of Power).

A little more than a year after Night Trap was released, the game was immortalized as the focal point of a Dec. 1993 Senate hearing on video game violence spearheaded by Democrats Herb Kohl and Joseph Lieberman.

A series that laid dormant for 21 years is suddenly the focal point of Super Smash Bros. representation, conveniently after Sakurai made Kid Icarus Uprising (which was a good game by the way, but come on).

Project residencies for national and international sound artists form the focal point of «singuhr — projects» in the next years, connected with talks and presentations and followed by a final exhibition project with a space - related sound installation.

Other political issues that feature in this year's show include the conflict in Gaza, which is the focal point of one of Nashashibi's films, while Andrea Büttner addresses the rise of fascism in the 1940s through the words of the French philosopher Simone Weil.

In acknowledgement of the important role arts organisations outside of London play within the UK cultural scene, a different regional organisation joins the collective each year, with Focal Point Gallery presenting a selection of their editions (Hilary Lloyd, Bridget Smith, Benedict Drew, Hannah Sawmill, Volker Eichelmann, Scott King and Keith Farquhar, Dawn Mellor, Clunie Reid, Milly Thompson, David Mabb) at the stand in 2017.

In addition to being a focal point of creative excellence in the arts, the Banff Centre operates year - round as a self - contained meeting and conference facility.

Over the last ten years, the Daimler Art Collection has developed a focal point in the field of constructive, conceptual and minimalistic tendencies from the 1920s to the present day.

Christie's has been in dialogue with Depp since the start of the year, and following momentum in the Basquiat market since the auction record - breaking success of Untitled (1982) in May, this group of works from the early 1980s is set to be a focal point of both the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening and Day Auctions.

His multimedia practice will be a focal point of the Queens Museum's biennial in the fall, and early next year it will be celebrated in a comprehensive retrospective organized by Anthony Elms, Mark Christman, and the Philadelphia arts organization Ars Nova.

Over the course of seven years, she built up the surface of the painting using a mixture of oil, primer, and mica to create an abstract, topographical landscape at the center of which was a beaming, white focal point rising eight inches above the surface of the canvas.

The focal point of his current show is a crouching brute called Baby, which first made an appearance at last year's Whitney Biennial.

A focal point of the exhibition is Ellsworth Kelly's vast thirty - eight foot, four - panel sculpture entitled Eastmore Mural, executed in 1957, the year of Brancusi's death.