Sentences with phrase «focus on a larger area»

Taylor's focus on a larger area of North America gives us a more realistic understanding of the struggle.

Works like Untitled set the stage for the Ocean Park series by focusing on large areas of color and hinting at the artist's painstaking process.

From real estate to personal injury, wills and estates and municipal, our office focuses on a large area of practices.

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By focusing on advancing drugs in these three niche areas, they say, there's potential for larger commercialization success down the road.

Realizing that he was located in an area with a large concentration of Hispanic consumers, he changed his eatery's name to Pizza Patrón and focused his marketing efforts on the Latino community.

«Cool climate versions from areas like California, Australia, South Africa, Chile and New Zealand will gain even more popularity on wine lists,» predicts Gino Colangelo, president of Colangelo & Partners, one of the largest fine - wine - focused PR agencies in the country.

PETA focuses its attention on four main areas in which the largest number of animals suffer the most intensely including factory farms: the clothing trade, laboratories, and the entertainment industry.

However, the large number of animal advocates on their board does provide a positive indication that GFI will stay focused on areas that are most likely to help large numbers of animals.

ACFN finds qualified locations in your area, negotiates and obtains the contract for the placement of your ATMs, focusing mainly on high - end locations like large hotels and other travel & entertainment venues.

Clinics, seminars, workshops or large group lessons can consist of mostly lecture and demonstration on any area of the game, or the focus can be more hands - on — working with all participants on their techniques.

They have issues in defence and midfield that need urgent attention and it is likely that they will focus their funds in those areas in January rather than spend another large sum on a new forward.

A high back booster seat spread the huge forces over a larger part of the body, not all is focused on the head, neck and shoulder area.

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

The plans focus on bringing life back to the large train station while boosting cultural tourism in the area.

The large - scale investigation was conducted with the assistance of the Rockland County Drug Task Force, and focused on numerous locations, including downtown areas in the villages of Suffern, Nyack and Haverstraw.

The ESRC is the UK's largest funder of research on social and economic issues, and the new Strategic Plan sets out its commitment to focus on those areas where it can add the most value and collaborate with a range of partners to maximise the value of its investments.

Our aim is to continue to focus much of our future work on areas where we can make the greatest difference for the largest number of people.

Unsurprisingly given its past focus on climate, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) would receive the largest relative reduction of any SC program area, with its environmental research branch rebranded away from climate and newly named «Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences.»

The researchers focused on a hybrid membrane that is part polymer and part metal - organic framework, which is a porous three - dimensional crystal with a large internal surface area that can absorb enormous quantities of molecules.

Due to issues with privacy and freely available data, most internet tracking projects tend to focus on broad illness trends across large areas.

Regarding baseballs, the problem is that the fovea can focus on only a very small area — only about 2 degrees of the visual field (or an area smaller than your thumbnail held at arm's length)-- so as a pitched ball moves closer it can easily slip into your peripheral vision as it becomes larger.

«Representation,» for example, is one large - scale strategy, focused on preserving representative areas of every identifiable ecosystem, such as savannah, tropical moist forest, tundra, desert, coral reef.

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz attacked this problem by focusing on perovskite nanocrystals, in which the instability problems are magnified by the large surface area of the particles relative to their volume.

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

Korpimäki and his colleagues believe kestrels use UV vision to focus their hunting on areas that contain large numbers of voles.

Unlike Kepler, NTGS will not always focus on the same area but will move its gaze so it can detect larger samples of different planet types.

«Understanding that vast amounts of this major transnational trade is focused on two primary areas makes it possible to focus law enforcement on those areas and eliminate the largest amount of illegal killing,» Wasser said.

If we just focus conservation activities on this area, this research shows we will be missing a large number of butterflies born elsewhere in North America.»

By focusing on the possibilities of aggregating offsets to create larger protected areas, a coherent and a more stable and genetically healthy population is likely in the long term, they suggest.

This is the seventh year for the Bay outlook which, because of the shallow nature of large areas of the estuary, focuses on water volume or cubic miles, instead of square mileage as used in the Gulf.

The work is focused on both new chemistries for enhanced stability and enhanced efficiencies, and also on solar cell and module processing for enabling large area high yield manufacturing.

The network combines many smaller highly specialized groups — focused on areas such as pediatric, breast, bowel or gynecological cancers — into a few large cooperative groups in order to enhance system integration and cooperation.

In particular, this meeting will focus on addressing the technological challenges and opportunities presented by the Human Cell Atlas in areas including large - scale single - cell RNA sequencing, spatially - resolved methods, single - cell proteomics, epigenomics, and sample handling.

In particular, this meeting focused on addressing the technological challenges and opportunities presented by the Human Cell Atlas in areas including large - scale single - cell RNA sequencing, spatially - resolved methods, single - cell proteomics, epigenomics, and sample handling.

In part because fire records are much more reliable for large fires compared to small fires, and also because large fires are more destructive, Westerling and colleagues focused only on large fires (at least 1000 acres in size); by doing this they eliminated over 99 % of the total reported fires, yet could still include 73 % of the total area burned.

A third area of focus centers on developing tools and software that can harness large scale genomic datasets that are available to the community.

The results were consistent when focusing on the area immediately around each residence (250 - m buffer) versus a larger radius (1,250 - m buffer) around each participant's home.

If you have a chubby or extra skinny neck, a double chin, almost no jawline, large or plump shoulders / arms, I recommend you to avoid victorian collars that'll set the focus on this area.

The online dating site is available in over 220 countries, although focuses primarily on large metropolitan areas, and boasts about half a million members.

Dust: An Elysian Tail Developer: Dean Dodrill A sidescrolling action RPG featuring beautiful hand - painted and animated sprites, large sprawling areas to explore and combat focusing on combos.

Specifically, our focus will be on the nation's largest metropolitan areas and the local advantages that accrue to earning a high school diploma.

Our findings are similar to those in a 2009 report by RAND, in which researchers focused on segregation in five large metropolitan areas (Chicago, Denver, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and San Diego)-- areas that were also included in the CRP report.

Our efforts focused on working with young people from disadvantaged areas many of whom had been involved in anti-social behaviour and worked with them producing several large scale productions using a 12 week workshop plan of training and rehearsals.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Most of the rigorous research, now dating back more than a decade, focuses on programs in large urban areas, such as Milwaukee and New York City.

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Although I focus on geospatial technology integration in a social studies context, the bulk of these activities could be easily modified to suit the needs of other content areas, because the knowledge that can be gleaned about communities and the world at large is important for any type of culturally responsive practice, not only within social studies education.

As national conversations focus on the role of charter public schools in large urban districts, the 16 percent of students enrolled in charter schools located outside of urbanized areas can get overlooked.

ASCD's work in this area is part of a large, multiyear plan to shift public dialogue about education from a focus on a narrow curriculum - centric and accountability system to a whole child approach that encompasses all factors required for successful student outcomes.