Sentences with phrase «focus limited efforts»

But as Western Europe begins to catch up to the US, many countries in Central and eastern Europe have yet to join the race, launching few investigations and focusing their limited efforts in areas other than securities regulation, such as money laundering.

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Trump's focus on Saudi purchases of U.S. military equipment came amid a bipartisan effort to limit the United States» role in Yemen's civil war and protests in several U.S. cities over the Saudi - led invasion, which has contributed to a humanitarian crisis.

The team focuses on selecting investment - grade bonds which offer strong relative value in an effort to generate income while seeking to limit risk to the money invested.

Other topics include efforts by the Institutional Limited Partners Association to simplify the LPA and the areas of focus for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Most individuals will have limited influence on politics, so you are much better off focusing your time an effort on more productive endeavors.

East Hampton Airport, and the town board's effort to win Federal Aviation Administration approval for a curfew or other restrictions that would limit aircraft noise, will be the focus of a series of meetings early next week.

Cuomo was also a major focus, since he has been running a cautious, Rose Garden - strategy effort for most of the last year, with limited access for reporters.

He said Total Petroleum Ghana Limited was focusing its efforts to offer the best quality in terms of products and services at the most competitive prices to ensure customer satisfaction.

He is a proponent of campaign finance reform, term limits, greater focus on education and a «balanced» effort to address climate change.

Teachout, who has made limiting the influence of money on politics a core campaign issue, has said that she was focused on grassroots fundraising efforts, with contributions averaging just $ 19.

«Efforts to improve aspirin have focused primarily on combining aspirin with another antiplatelet drug or replacing aspirin with another antiplatelet drug, but this has had only limited success,» said Eikelboom.

Sometimes oncogenes manage to initiate tumor development in the presence of p53, but, even then, the tumor suppressor doesn't give up and focuses its efforts instead on limiting the tumor's ability to invade and metastasize.

Conservation dollars are limited, however, and it is important that invasive mammal management efforts be focused on the islands where they will go the furthest toward conserving native island biodiversity.

Many current gun control efforts focus on limiting the availability of military - style semi-automatic assault rifles.

When deciding on whether or not to implement anti-bullying programs, schools should view their efforts to reduce bullying as promoting a positive school climate for all students as focusing on wide - ranging benefits will help motivate schools that are concerned about limited time and resources.

VEGF plus Gata4, Mef 2c, and Tbx5: A fair number of research and development efforts have focused on delivery of VEGF to spur regeneration in the cardiovascular system, and particularly in the heart, an organ with only limited regenerative capacity in mammals.

Noting that the weights for this event weren't my limiting factor, I had to focus my time and effort on developing as much speed overhead as possible.

Smith and Robbie acquit themselves well, sharing a nice, albeit limited, chemistry together, perhaps cultivated from their time together working as leads in their recent semi-romantic effort, Focus.

If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.

GK: The MDGs were limited to addressing some key social issues in developing countries, and they actually helped focus efforts towards advancing those.

Course - focused efforts stand to limit opportunities for students to demonstrate competencies across disciplines, through projects that combine various competencies.

The trip focused on, but not be limited to, Virginia's efforts to create a longitudinal data system that can inform decision making at the state, district, and classroom levels, as well as explore how districts with robust data systems can inform future development of the state system.

Many districts used this option in an effort to focus limited time and resources on new and struggling teachers; however, despite the law's provision for districts to allow teachers to go for up to five years without an appraisal, unofficial reports from the Texas Education Agency showed that the longest most districts allowed for was three years.

You may want to focus your efforts at the state - level electeds, as City Council and federal officials have limited influence on the District's budget.

Toyota's EV - only strategy has been limited to toe - in - water efforts such as the RAV4 EV, instead focusing on hybrids and the hydrogen fuel - cell - propelled Mirai.

If you're a writer with a firm goal to make an income writing, who has limited time from holding down a day job, with kids, perhaps even health issues, then focusing your limited time and effort on a genre will give back more bang for the time you put in.

The team focuses on selecting investment - grade bonds which offer strong relative value in an effort to generate income while seeking to limit risk to the money invested.

You need to control and limit the time that you spend on your financial planning, and you need to focus your planning efforts on the most effective activities.

The team focuses on selecting investment - grade bonds that offer strong relative value in an effort to generate income while seeking to limit risk to the money invested.

Bogle was right when he said that the focus should be on the long term and that investors should be trying to limit the role that emotion plays in their investing decisions and that we should all make an effort to remain humble re how much we really know about how the market works.

Although we focus our outreach efforts in these area, we offer the free service to anyone that lives within the City of Houston limits.

God, criticising an indie title, one that has had a lot of clear effort put into it, for its graphics always feels like a harsh thing to do since the focus for them and their limited budget should always be gameplay, but there's no getting around the fact that Project Temporality is simply visually boring game.

They initially focused their efforts on plywood, exploring the limits of its capacity to be moulded into complex shapes.

12:43 p.m. Postscript I encourage anyone interested in improving responsiveness to tornado warnings and other efforts to limit losses from rare, but potent natural hazards to review the research of Dennis S. Mileti, a professor emeritus at the University of Colorado long focused on risk, communication and behavior.

Holdren says it's no longer realistic to focus on mitigating the causes of climate change — efforts such as limiting carbon emissions from fossil - fuel combustion.

With limited resources, it can be challenging to know where to focus your efforts.

While buses just make up 1 % of transportation - related oil consumption (yup, they're pretty darned efficient), a combination of investment in cutting edge vehicles for mass transit and an effort to exclude or limit dirty cars, trucks and other vehicles sends a signal that world - class cities focus on people, not cars.

A second potential limit to the effectiveness of efforts to promote an ethical culture is that when individuals in an organization think of ethics, what tends to come to mind is behavior broader than the type that is the focus of an ethics program.

The Company's efforts to identify a target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region, although it intends to focus efforts on seeking a business combination with a company or companies in the international oil and gas logistics, land and maritime oil and gas transportation, terminal and energy storage industries.

The bus company's insurance policies were limited and so the lawyers had to focus their efforts on convincing the Ohio courts that the University's own insurance policies, totaling some $ 16 million, should extend additional insurance coverage for the negligent actions of the bus driver.

The company will also focus on marketing efforts for the limited number of phones...

Marketing efforts tend to mirror old habits or focus on limited - time offers.

A sincere respect and caring for my clients is foundational to our work together, and by limiting the size of my caseload I am better able to focus my therapeutic efforts on them.»

He is highly trained, highly focused, and because he limits his practice to exclusively Family Law matters, he is able to dedicate quality time and effort to each client and to each case.