Sentences with phrase «focus on issues of interest»

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«Jeb Bush has a big interest in Latin America, and I expect he would follow in the footsteps of [his] father and brother in being more internationally focused on trade issues,» says Todd McCracken, president and chief executive of the National Small Business Association, a business advocacy group.

Until recently, he has focused on more tangential issues for the Fed — like the regulation of scandal - ridden Libor interest rates, financial innovation, and housing policy.

While writing broadly about economic issues, Rosalie's research interest focuses on the implications of technology and innovation with the goal of identifying policy gaps, misaligned incentive mechanisms, and assessing potential causes and solutions.

The Board believes that this leadership structure improves the Board's ability to focus on key policy and operational issues and helps the Company operate in the long - term interests of shareholders, while maintaining a strong, independent perspective.

A working group is formed to focus on the issue and the alternative developed and deployed is in the interest of all parties.

A recent program sponsored by the Regulatory Compliance Association provided an overview of the basic due diligence steps that such investors take with regard to investments with hedge fund managers, and focused on alignment of interests, indemnification provisions, liquidity, investor consent and the issues raised when investing through or alongside separate accounts.

He also holds fellowships with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (Waterloo), where his research interests are focussed on the nexus between innovation and trade, and quantifying the economic impact of the digital transformation, along with the C.D. Howe Institute (Toronto), where he focuses on Canadian trade policy issues.

Interesting Pope for sure — but BTW: None of his core beliefs differ AT ALL from the two previous Popes, it's just that his communication style is more focused on everyone's common ground — the other Popes had the same beliefs, it just that they were more outspoken on the controversial issues — so the media did not warm to them as much.

In the early days bioethics focused on such larger issues, but the field was in time overtaken by an interest in what can be called regulatory bioethics: the protection of research subjects, the advancement of patient rights, and the devising of procedural guidelines for end - of - life care, for instance.

The review should focus on competition policy issues arising from new developments in technology and markets, with an emphasis on «the best interests of Australians» and «independent and transparent analysis of the costs and benefits».

Holding a summit to tackle the tough issues of food insecurity, exploitation of food workers, and food waste at the opulent Ritz Carlton in San Francisco provoked an interesting contrast, but the collection of industry, NGOs, media and students in attendance were indifferent to their surroundings and intently focused on improving the world's food system.

Short, concrete, and reassuring talks with young children, more detailed talks with middle age children focusing on their concerns and questions, and digging deep with interested teenagers around issues of values, inequality, and class divisions.

She currently teaches at Evergreen State College, and her particular interests are health equity, global health issues, and the health of women and children, with a focus on the elimination of maternal infant health inequities in the US.

Courts deciding visitation and other custody issues focus on the best interest of the child.

The work stream established by NHD on conflicts of interest focuses on the potential issues that may arise for the implementation of the CIP, particularly when engagement with non-State actors is called for.

the Council programme may enable member states to focus Council discussion on issues of particular national / regional interest (e.g.: Finland and the Northern Dimension initiative)

Since you have brought up the fact that there could be legal implications, I feel that it is in the best interest of the campaign, and our efforts to focus on the issues that matter most to residents living in the city, to abstain from making further comments unless otherwise advised under legal counsel...

He and announced his intent to run again in 2017 with a strategy of seeking small donations to avoid the influence of special interests and focusing on the issues.

Also, as Cuomo's agenda has begun to center on numerous social issues, focusing less on economic matters, the Committee to Save New York, which is made up largely of business interests, has been sidelined to a degree.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Those interested can now apply for the third round of Genius NY, described as the «world's largest business competition focused on unmanned systems,» the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in a news release issued Wednesday.

The plan, Constantinides said, focuses on five areas of interest to combat street litter, park trash and graffiti issues.

It was my impression that Faulkner began the evening with the greatest interest from Conservative Party members, but his lack of focus this evening on specific issues weakened that interest.

Focus the letter or mail piece on the issues that are of interest to the group to which you are mailing.

She said the issue with the number of Latinos on the board and Lawson's failure to be reappointed show that the process of selecting community board members is too focused on politics and not the best interests of the community.

There is considerable interest in using this tool in somatic cells — to develop cell - based therapeutics, for example — as well as in germline cells, the focus of this statement and an ethically more complex issue because of potential effects on not just the treated individual but also future generations.

An investigation into such activities was conducted in 2015 with a focus on financial conflicts of interest, but it is remarkable that ethical issues and the possible damage to KI's reputation were overlooked.

Over the past 15 years, Janet has been interested increasingly in engaging in the intersection of environmental and women's health issues, focusing on environmental risks and breast cancer.

Lately, Balzani's major focus has been his long - standing interest on energy issues, chemical education, and on the role of science in society as he has always maintained that scientists have the great responsibility and duty to educate citizens and to assist decision makers in finding solutions to pressing societal problems.

The Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Qatar Leadership Centre hosted a roundtable on February 15 - 16, 2017, in Doha, Qatar, to discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing market participants in the global energy landscape, with a focus on several issues of paramount interest to Qatar and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

For example, if your religion or ethnicity is a cornerstone of your life and yet end up with matches who have issues with your faith or culture, then consider ditching general dating sites and switch to a platform that focuses solely on your community or interests.

Instead, this economic film focuses on relationship issues, as each couple has its problems and all of them are more interested in the problems of others.

The film focuses mostly on foreign policy issues, although not much of consequence or of interest was captured while the camera was on.

I also think there's still an interesting story here about how the process of television news broke down in such a way that people stopped asking if the story that ended Rather's career was true or not, focusing more on the political slant on both sides of the issue.

Harvard also sparked Baer's deep interest in social issues, especially since his research work focused on children of poverty.

I could focus specifically on issues of literacy related to my interest in bilingual education.

Because union interests are narrowly defined (unlike, for instance, those of the business community), teachers unions can go after an issue with laserlike focus, and they are quite adept at drawing on the public's generally supportive view of teachers.

Open to teachers, researchers, and education administrators interested in sharing their work and talking through professional issues, the meetings incorporate elements from medical rounds — such as case histories, focused presentations on research or new practices, and an opportunity to share expertise — in a format adapted to meet the needs of educators.

Teachers then design projects focused on issues that overlap with a community organization's area of interest.

The survey focused on six interest clusters: (1) grouping strategies, (2) identification issues, (3) curriculum modifications, (4) teacher preparation, (5) program evaluation, and (6) the emotional / social needs of gifted students.

Team Writers commit to writing a post at least once every two months and can write about a variety of education issues, or focus on one specific beat or area of interest.

The sooner Gates issues a public correction, the sooner we can move beyond this dispute over what is actually a sidebar in their report and focus instead on the enormously interesting project on which they've embarked to improve measures of teacher effectiveness.

119 no. 1) issue of the American Journal of Education focuses on the role of social networks in educational change, and offers a collection of papers from forefront researchers on this topic that may serve as an introduction of the topic to a wide range of interested educators, policy - makers, and researchers.

I focus on the life of those who are catholic, and those who are interested in the issues that people who are catholic face.

It was fun to read factoids about the history of the Tower of London but there was so much going on in the book that it was hard to focus on their characters, much less develop a compelling interest in their issues (Patricia W).

Through the network website and accompanying blog, there will be opportunities for the widest level of participation as interested parties will be able to comment on and contribute to the work of the network, and researchers will collaborate to produce a series of papers and journal articles focusing on specific issues arising from these ongoing discussions.

That final bit is interesting in relation to Google's indie bookseller angle, — a very savvy PR move on their part, partnering with the likes of mega-independent Powell's and smaller retailers like WORD via the ABA's IndieCommerce platform — and the belief that this somehow levels the playing field, as if ebooks have been the issue all along, as opposed to Amazon's perfecting ecommerce while Jeff Bezos ignored the pundits who focused only on his quarterly earnings in the early years.

I'd much rather shift gears and focus on the issue of where publishers» and authors» interests overlap, and more importantly, where the READER fits into the overall equation.

It was fun to read factoids about the history of the Tower of London but there was so much going on in the book that it was hard to focus on their characters, much less develop a compelling interest in their issues.

Its exploration about the meaning of identity and a focus on gender issues will bring many interesting discussion topics for the classroom or for a book club.

Instead, the core of the trial is likely to slog through recondite economic arguments and civil evidence issues; part of today's hearing focused on expert witness opinion about the competitive effects of agency pricing and whether it coincided with Apple's economic self - interest.