Sentences with phrase «focus of discussion as»

I am sure sentencing issues will not be the main focus of discussion as the media and blogsphere discusses the news of Justice O'Connor's announced retirement and her potential replacement.

Not exact matches

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.

While most discussions of this topic focus on potential lost jobs or apocalyptic scenarios, these authors — Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson — see the glass as decidedly more than half full.

A White House official pointed to trade as part of a «bigger picture» for the economy, with cabinet - level discussions described as «deliberative» and the President focused on doing right by American workers.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»

They're found by using keywords in the search section on social sites as well as in groups and discussion areas in your area of interest or focus.

Words such as «will,» «access,» «focus,» «deliver,» «work» «continue» or the negative of such terms or other variations thereof and words and terms of similar substance used in connection with any discussion of future plans, actions, or events identify forward - looking statements.

My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) focuses on the lack of movement on the digital economy strategy, arguing that it has emerged as the government's «Penske File» - the source of considerable discussion and much «work» but thus far few tangible results (for non-Seinfeld watchers, the Penske file has become synonymous for a non-existent work project).

The Canadian Labour Congress and the Climate Action Network of Canada co-hosted a discussion event on Thursday night that focused on job creation and facilitating a transition for the coal, oil and gas sectors — all of which will gradually be phased out as the world moves to a clean energy economy.

«The discussions on the future of manufacturing focussed on the opportunities as well as the obstacles to growth that prevent Ontario manufacturers from maximizing their potential and attracting new investment,» Myers says.

The discussion focused on how the next generation of clients is shaping the business model and investment strategy of private banks, and the importance of meeting their desire for social impact investing as well as financial returns

In a statement, the healthcare services company focused on providing stem cell services, noted that it has been in discussion with its financial advisers with a view to a fundraising, in the absence of which the group is at risk of not being able to continue trading as a going concern.

Sara Sutton Fell led a competency workshop on «Mobilizing Your Remote Workforce» as well as a discussion group on Digital Changes in Society focused on Employment to an international group of leaders from corporate, nonprofit, NGO, and educational organizations.

However this discussion develops, the way to get the moral questions into clear focus begins with a careful reading of John Coons» «School Choice as Simple Justice.»

Discussions of gay marriage can focus as much on scriptural equality as on the ability to reproduce.

If sociologists have tended to center on the foregoing argument and to single out work as the basis of their assessment of our present inability to play authentically, theologians and philosophers have tended to: focus upon a second area: America's distorted value structure that has accepted as true the «mindscape» of technology 48 This is Theodore Roszak's phrase, and his discussion can perhaps serve as a helpful starting point.

After all the controversy of last week, it's tempting to turn this post into a discussion on gendered language around the Holy Spirit (feminine in Hebrew and Aramaic, typically neuter in Greek, masculine in this particular text), but that's just not how this passage is «singing» to me today, so instead I'd like to focus on Jesus» stirring and tender words in verse 18: «I will not leave you as orphans.»

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).

As the constructive image suggests, my first focus of method lies in small group discussion.

In view of this massive publication of scholarly opinion, I refrain here from 1earned - sounding discussions with the scholars, so as to keep in focus the text of the Saying Gospel itself.

While debate over the understanding of Biblical interpretation lies at the heart of current evangelical discussions concerning women, differences in theological tradition lie at the center of discussions over social ethics, and disagreement over one's approach toward the wider secular culture is surfacing as the focus of controversy regarding homosexuality.

Until now, the discussion has focused on developments in physics, primarily as a way to describe the reality of the universe in which we live and how we conceive of our place within it.

As we continue our discussion of David Dark's excellent book, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything (Zondervan, 2009), I'd like to focus on the author's thoughts regarding language and interpretation.

A discussion of this important aspect of the Greek experience is not possible in this chapter, where attention is focused on Homeric existence as the original form of axial existence in Greece.

Since the issue of the relation between creation and evolution has been so prominent, and since the contribution of process thought is so distinctive in this discussion, I shall focus on it as paradigmatic of process theology's treatment of the relation between science and religion.

Although there are obvious affinities between my reasoning and the thought of Teilhard de Chardin, his discussion of the body of Christ focuses rather upon the individual Christian's incorporation within Christ as the Omega point toward which all creation moves.

Focussing on the notion of prehension as the basis of a concept of «shared existence,» Cobb stresses the possibility» of an «ecological theology» to counter the Kantian overemphasis on the human point of view.8 A fuller discussion of Whitehead's ecological dimension is to be found in an article by John B. Bennet.9 Bennet suggests three possible sources of Whitehead's value to ecological thinking.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

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.

In addition, I trained three of these five to serve as leaders of what I called peer - led discussion groups (focus groups organized and led by teens for which I was not present) and then directed three more focus groups with parents of teens.

The current discussion over the pastoral care of the divorced and remarried focuses on their being permitted to receive Holy Communion, as a means of recognising, tolerating or approving their state of life.

The next chapter will be devoted to a discussion of that sacramental observance as a focus for Christian public praying.

All the discussion of value, duty, and love as directive of human behavior must finally focus on how we can and should reflectively modify our aims or purposes.

Deutsch begins his discussion by focusing upon the limitations of power rather than the efficiency or potentialities for power as is most frequently the case today.

Learning to learn has become the primary focus of my classroom work, and this focus is expressed in such methods as dividing large classes into rotating discussion groups; assigning shorter, more frequent written work that can be rewritten; structuring group oral examination experiences; and stressing the application of what is learned to other disciplines and life situations.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

Representative of 25 associations are scheduled attend the meeting that will be held at Eko Hotel and Suites, where they will talk on shaping world football with discussions to focus on the FIFA Forward programme as well as youth and women's competitions.

For purposes of this discussion, we will mainly focus on battery / electric pumps but will briefly discuss the manual pumps available on the market today as well.

The program consists of a 20 - week intensive lecture, film, and experiential series that will utilize a combination of classroom - like discussions, auditory and visual aids, and on - going focus - group interactions, as outlined below.

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.

(To be honest, I don't like this discussion at all, as in most cases it focuses more on justifying the worldview of the people engaging in it than on the actual well - being of families.)

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.

The new media team bought display advertising significantly less than they did search ads, and focused the display piece of the puzzle more on measurable goals such as list - building than on amorphous «influence - the - discussion» ad runs.

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.

Instead of focusing on the removal of statues, let us engage in honest and open discussions, listen quietly and intently to opposing views, and finally, respect and acknowledge what unites us as Americans.»

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.

The particular harm is that underlying «trend factors» built in to projections on year - to - year spending changes become a self - fulfilling base from which the discussion on the budget begins... for example, a change from $ 9 billion to $ 12 billion in actual proposed spending on a program area doesn't become the focus, if the «projected out - year» for that program had its expected growth going to $ 13.5 billion — instead of anaylyzing why there is 33 percent growth in that program, the interest groups and journalists cover that as a «cut» of $ 1.5 billion.

The discussion focused on 2017 and 2018 implementation of Planting for Food and Jobs, successes of the programme, its challenges as well as recommendations from the 2017 implementation.

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.