Sentences with phrase «focus on the merits»

Product centricity causes selling organizations to not only focus on the merits of their product but also to have prescribed views of existing customer and prospective buyer needs.

«Charlie made me focus on the merits of a great business with tremendously growing earnings power - but only when you can be sure of it - not like Texas Instruments or Polaroid, where the earnings power was hypothetical.»

This page lists examples of joint research projects carried out under EU's Research Framework Programmes FP7 (2007 - 2013) and Horizon 2020 (2014 - 2020) with particular attention to the EU - Japan aspect of the cooperation, focusing on the merit of the Japanese partners, how they got involved in the project and what kind of funding arrangements were used as Japanese organisations are not eligible for automatic funding from the European Commission.

They have a special taste for clothes and choose things becoming to their personality, figure, hiding demerits and focusing on the merits of their appearance.

In case that you can not avoid talking about your ex, highly focus on the merit of your conversation other than the emotional side of it.

The part two of this resource is similar but has a focus on merit and distinction criteria.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

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Some of the Democratic candidates address school facility needs in their policy statements, but the majority of education debate has focused on the merits of NCLB.

Earnest was established as a company that focused on merit - based lending, which provides a full financial profile before establishing loan commitments.

Since Woolf, parties have been encouraged to focus on the merits of contesting applications.

A strong preservation process should take into account e-discovery defensibility as well the need to control data volumes, support larger company goals (including not disrupting other business processes), and keep legal teams focused on the merits of litigation.

I think in an ideal world lawyers would avoid incivility, and would do so by focusing on the merits of the case not on the merits of the persons involved.

Show them that there is a way of practising law that focuses on the merits, and not on egos and bluster.

Remember to focus on your merits and experience.

Not exact matches

The two - page document, marked «Top Secret,» mentions a draft decision paper that focuses on the «relative merits of retaining [deleted in document] as a high - priority secret national security installation versus the merits of the NASA belief that there would be domestic and foreign problems created by withholding the photograph.»

There are always people who want to take the conversation down the merit road, but the focus should really be on the incredible number of qualified women out there.

Because of these inevitable fluctuations, a focus on culture merits a top spot on every leader's priority list.

In Getting to Yes, the great leap is to focus not on your adversary and his or her position, but rather to negotiate «on the merits.»

Unlike most of our typical investment reports which focus on free cash flow utilization, net asset value investing, mean reversion of margins or special situations, this report will look at the investment merits of a company that generates little free cash flow at the moment and is somewhat of a growth investment if company management is successful in achieving its objectives.

As Greenberg says: «Many Jews assume that only Christianity focuses on grace and on the merits of another's sacrifice for their behavior, but in biblical times, temple worship had strong sacramental overtones....

But the focus was on the merits of Jack Wilshere, rather than on the perceived pressure (or lack of it) on Arsenal to win trophies.

When we focus on work emails or updating posts we involuntarily reinforce the concept that our sons and daughters are not important enough to merit our full attention.

With increased emphasis on male involvement in reproductive health care and decisions in different settings, the question of for whom to focus promotion messages and supportive skills merits further research in order to determine the most appropriate and effective way to support EBF.

Fraga surrounded himself with a younger team and focused his speeches on the risks of socialism, such as the creation of dependent societies, which, through their support of welfare and subsidies, weakened values such as work, responsibility and merit; in turn, societies would become less competitive and free.

We're revamping the Quick Hits a bit to focus on keeping you up - to - date on important stories we've reported on, even if they don't merit a full article.

But DHS Commissioner Seth Diamond stressed that the decision focused on the way the city went about implementing the policy — not the merits of the policy itself.

And while those discoveries are fascinating and merit more research, we're still focused on the question we asked when we designed the mission: What are the primary mechanisms of particle loss and acceleration in the belts?

But some academics criticized the system because they perceived that it focused on the «impact» of research in society at large rather than on its scientific merit.

Although the work focused on the chemical exploration space, it can be readily adapted to optimize processing conditions when there are many «tuning knobs» controlling a figure of merit, as in advanced manufacturing applications.

The modern workout and bootcamp trends also love lots of reps.. We NEED to reevaluate this «kick your ass» and «feel the burn» mentality in program design and talk about the merit of doing something only 1 or 5 or 3 intense reps, again with focus on the best form possible.

via Jim Daly, President of Focus on the Family:: «The arguments on both sides have merit.

By focussing on the plight of disenfranchised, alienated young men in an unforgiving landscape, the film merits close comparison with La Haine, and by extension Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

In focusing on the audience, the fest capitalizes on the fact that we're all here and there's not much else to do than just sit in theaters all day long, arguing about the merits of cinema and drinking beer while waiting for the next screening to start.

So, it appears there's something of a disconnect at Sundance, between the idea of a perfectly neutral, non-partisan arbiter of artistic merit, the festival that focuses on the stories while politically, as Redford put it elsewhere in the press conference, «the pendulum swings,» and the reality of a filmmaking body that is deeply, sometimes radically, political.

Final Portrait doesn't paint anything new with its focus on the troubled Giacometti, but it does situate itself as an actor's showcase for its sprightly cast as they attempt to harness the manic world of Giacometti, and ultimately present him as an artist of merit whose own fear of mortality and perfectionism kept him from doing more.

I think too often when we consider which games should be considered «the best» we focus too much on serious debates of artistic merit and complexity of mechanics that we lose sight of what games really are: ways to pass the time and bond with other people.

They are less able to distinguish among teachers in the middle of this distribution (the middle 60 — 80 percent), suggesting that merit - pay programs that reward or sanction teachers should be based on evaluations by principals and should be focused on the highest - and lowest - performing teachers.

Last semester students from Mehta's class presented a 22 - page wiki site focused on a wide range of hot topics in education policy including desegregation and METCO, teacher preparation, merit pay, and socioeconomic integration of schools.

Since there is little research directly assessing the influence of pedagogical training on student outcomes, this debate tends to focus on the impact of teachers» performance on licensure exams and the merits of licensing teachers.

The University of Texas at Austin is pulling out of the National Merit Scholarship Program to focus on needs - based financial assistance.

The most heated discussion focused on the state's merit - pay program, which lawmakers decided to fund for the 1985 - 86 school year at $ 16.6 million, despite a rancorous debate over the quality of the evaluation process that has been used to choose the first year's crop of merit teachers.

Some of the most heated comments focused on the department's effort to improve teacher effectiveness, such as emphasis on merit - pay plans for educators and alternative routes to teacher certification.

Those are the same rules from which charter schools are exempt, a policy supporters say allows charters to flourish with longer school days, a focus on teacher merit instead of seniority, and other innovations.

As a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) School of Merit, we work with all stakeholders to provide a safe, respectful learning environment which allows students to focus on being responsible learners.

As a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) School of Merit, we work with all stakeholders to provide a safe, respectful learning environment that allows students to focus on being responsible learners.

Though some prefer to focus on value - added and merit - pay schemes that so far haven't definitively improved classroom performance, I want to key in on one recommendation the report makes for making the best use of teacher evaluations: evaluating all teachers.

The ad focuses on the fact that instead of rewarding excellent teachers with higher pay, Randi Weingarten and the AFT protect incompetence in the classroom by opposing merit - based pay at every turn.

These newer groups» brand of education reform is data driven and accountability focused: They're advocating for stricter teacher evaluations that take student student performance on standardized tests into consideration; merit pay for teachers; better professional development for teachers; and the elimination or fundamental reworking of teacher tenure.

So we focused on a Year 10 Business Studies class of middle to low attainment, with end of year targets of BTEC Level 1/2 Pass or Merit.