Sentences with phrase «focus of a discussion about»

Central New York's underground infrastructure - namely, water mains - was a big focus of a discussion about the region's infrastructure hosted by Rep. Dan Maffei Tuesday.

And when she wasn't being condemned to the «seventh circle of hell» for her laser sharp conduct of the case, she was the focus of discussion about her clothes, or shoes.

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And that says nothing about easy it is to become the presenter who relies on 89 slides with way too much information on each slide to possibly focus your audience or create the right level of discussion needed to successfully influence a decision.

As you might expect, the discussion started with what he called the «rule of three,» which is a simple way to think about the need to focus the scarce resources and bandwidth of the entrepreneur on the most critical and pressing issues.

Strategically the sales professional must keep the focus off the offer and create an arena of fairness in mediating discussions about the numbers in a mutually beneficial fashion — one where she does not settle for less than what is desired.

Given these positive surprises, and because monetary policy must be forward - looking to achieve our inflation target, Governing Council's discussions focused on three main issues: first, the extent to which recent strength is signalling stronger economic momentum in Canada and globally; second, how heightened levels of uncertainty, particularly about US tax and trade policies, should be incorporated in our outlook; and third, how much excess capacity the economy currently has, and the growth rate of potential output going forward.

Most of the discussion about rules that could prevent tax reform from increasing the deficit has focused on the Byrd Rule.

Steven, I am not sure what you are saying either... How is a discussion about the cross of Jesus Christ not focusing on Jesus?

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

What I am trying to stress is that the focus of many discussions about proselytism leaves out the role of communication.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

Whitehead's discussion of the relation of God to time, like much of what he says about God, is primarily focused on the primordial nature of God.

Perhaps by doing so we can help bring about some reframing of the public discussion so as to focus on the truly important issues of our day.

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Also included in this episode: A discussion about the FDA's new guidance regarding peanut allergies and how food brands are reacting, innovating and commercializing within an industry that previously had been focused on increasingly on producing a new class of allergen - free products.

In a good number of internet discussions, you will find arguments about the use or non-use of EVOO in cooking that focus on the issue of smoke point.

The discussions will focus on five theses about the development of the wine sector until 2034 which are the results of a global market survey commissioned by ProWein.

There has been a lot of discussion about what we mean by biotechnology, and yet the majority of the focus of the conference has been on GMO products.

What bothers me about many of these discussions evaluating a player is the insane focus on goals / assists without any mention of their skill sets or lack of.

In a sense, Wenger is right when he says that the pundits focus their discussion more on their pre-conceived notion of the players and the managers rather than talk about the on - pitch action.

Here, I focus on the sports, and I've given the honour of writing about the New Jersey Devils on my years - long favourite source of writing and discussion on the team, and greatly enjoy having conversations about them and hockey in general.

Paul Tough takes part in a panel discussion focusing on writing about hackers, along with Winn Schwartau, Julian Dibbel, and people involved in the filming of a major motion picture all about hackers (Rafael Moreu, Michael Peyser, Iain Softley).

There's been a lot of discussion about «sexless» marriages, many focusing on how to define «sexless.

It's hard at this stage to think about anything but her — and our — sleep routines, but I feel kind of the same way about people asking about breastfeeding: it's been tough for us and I hate that we can't focus on how terrific our little one is without a whole discussion of latch.

Husbands whose wives make more money are 61 % less likely to say they're happy Wives who are primary breadwinners are also significantly less happy about their family lives than other women Men are 5 times more likely to cheat when they're financially dependent on their wives Divorce is 40 % more likely when a women makes over 60 % of the family's income Much of the discussion around this topic so far has focused on the broader business and economic consequences of this shift.

Bowlby's (1944, 1956) ideas had a great influence on the way researchers thought about attachment, and much of the discussion of his theory has focused on his belief in monotropy.

The discussion can focus on generalizations about triggers instead of specific ones.

The discussion online seems to be focusing on sugar per se and my feelings about it — as if I just couldn't countenance the number of sugar grams in HISD breakfasts for one more minute, threw up my hands and marched off the committee in a huff.

Much of the discussion about education focuses on the K - 12 years, but some early childhood education experts suggest...

The fathers of the control group were also offered a face - to - face 40 - minute training session about child care, such as accident prevention and vaccination, but discussion was focused on the health benefits of breast milk rather than the management of breastfeeding.

Just this past Friday, I spent a good chunk of an afternoon working with a national security - focused nonprofit, helping them set up a process of adapting their rich store of content to a new website soon to go live — a discussion that's partly about information architecture, partly about writing and partly about search engine optimization.

For the record, here's what Paterson had to say about borrowing just last week, insisting he had never ruled it out, altogether, but was chagrined that it had become the focus of discussion (thanks, of course, to his hand - picked LG, Richard Ravitch):

The meeting will bring into focus the full palette of issues that colour the US - Russia relationship: from allegations of Russian interference in the election that brought Trump to power to sanctions levied on Russia owing to its incursion into Ukraine, premature discussions about which forced the resignation of Trump's first National Security Advisor, to the threat of escalation in Syria as military tensions increase and each country's political objectives in the country remain opposed.

In discussion of Denham's argument, several responses, such as Stuart White's, took the opposite argument to yours - saying that this was all very well in principle, but New Labour had quite a lot of focus on «rights and responsibilities» at the bottom, in welfare reform, the New Deal and so on, and had been pretty muted about applying that principle higher up.

The focus of Consensus to date has been on creating a baseline of data from which discussions can flow about how to more effectively govern Onondaga County and the smaller government entities.

After the debate, we asked her several questions, including: how she viewed her debate performance, what she expects the remaining three weeks of the campaign to focus on, for a more detailed discussion of her unexpected answer that she doesn't see herself as prepared to be mayor and for more about her statement that she's thought about running for Public Advocate for the past 20 years.

«We must move beyond the bombastic rhetoric to positive discussion about creating jobs and improving the lives of all Americans — We all care about improving people's lives — that should always be our focus,» he said.

While the discussions surrounding the impacts of the planned rezoning have focused on housing, the participating groups raised awareness about the ramifications for local businesses.

Grey - Owens told Gay City News at that time that transgender advocates were already in discussions about forming a trans - focused advocacy group — with the ability to make political donations — to ensure that GENDA and other issues of specific concern to their community would be prioritized by Democratic legislators in Albany.

In the meantime, as recently as Wednesday night, the company said it was «focused on constructive discussions with the state» about the possibility of keeping the plant in operation, spokeswoman Tammy Holden said.

The trips are part of the White House's «It's On Us» week of action focused on engaging college students in a discussion about sexual assaults on campus.

Those tied to the coalition tell the Daily News there were serious discussions about having the ads target New York State Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein and his group of breakaway Democrats, known as the Independent Democratic Conference, but they backed off Sunday evening, deciding instead to focus on the entire Senate.

Most of the discussion about graduate education and the postdoc has been focused on research, when it has always been the case that a majority of students do not go on to research universities.

Milius» essay focused on species, but «an identical discussion could be carried on about nearly any feature of science,» wrote sailor376.

Discussions about the consequences of the vanishing ice usually focus either on the opening up of new frontiers for shipping and mineral exploitation, or on the plight of polar bears, which rely on sea ice for...

In the ongoing discussions about the lack of diversity in science, it can be easy to focus solely on demographics.

UTFA wants to engage its members in discussions about the effects of the tenure process on candidates» research focus and their personal lives.

Session focused on physical space that has been designed and built for research development activities — physical infrastructure to change conversation on and off campus for research development purposes, benefits of the spaces, discussion about spaces in use by audience, successes, and future needs.

As a society we have spent so much time focusing on women's appearances that any discussion about dietary changes or exercise routines is automatically assumed to be part of an appearance discussion.

Let's talk about weight in a way that is both nonjudgmental and focused on a larger discussion of healthy goals.