Sentences with phrase «focus shifted toward»

Over time, the focus shifted toward classroom practice, with detailed school assessments, support for curriculum development, and training to establish Professional Learning Communities.

In annihilation, the focus shifts toward taking out all enemy units, whereas conquer requires that all buildings are captured.

Once liability is established, the focus shifts toward the victim's injuries and a determination of what is required in order to compensate the victim for his or her damages.

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It changed the movie business forever, as studios quickly shifted their focus toward summer «tentpoles.»

Anyone who doesn't burn the bridges will find that his or her focus will habitually (and unconsciously) shift toward the obstacles.

Another benefit to bonus lengthening is the subtle shift of focus in the organization toward the long term.

That was a crude leadership tactic — somewhat effective — in helping to motivate the organization to shift its energy toward focusing on mobile.

By shifting their focus even closer toward communities, they clearly see and very much understand their value — both to users and companies purchasing ads targeting those users.

Buxton says the study's results point to a need for a culture shift in organizations toward a provision for greater flexibility and a change in mentality from a focus on congratulating those who burn the candle at both ends to an appreciation of the benefits of sleep.

Behind the scenes, he shifted the company's focus toward restaurants and food.

I think any material shift in focus toward your successes as a blogger / consultant may undermine the general thrust of interest which your dedicated readership shows up for.

In April, The New York Times» Amy Chozick, in an article titled «Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers,» reported that the billionaire industrialists» expressed interest in the Tribune Co. papers was part of a «three - pronged, 10 - year strategy to shift the country toward a smaller government with less regulation and taxes» — with the third prong being controlling media through media investments.

Since the financial crisis, several trends have kept it in check, including a surge in business models which are less asset heavy, a shift in focus toward consumer - facing technologies, and passive investing strategies that reward companies for spending free cash on stock buybacks rather than capital goods.

Tech companies invent new ways of doing things, but as they expand, often metastatically, they tend to shift their focus toward protecting their booming business rather than investing in new disruptive ones.

Posing this question sparks a shift in business thinking from an apathetic focus on risks to an action - oriented move toward designing and seizing opportunities.

The focus is a shift away from anticipating merits for hard work toward proactively creating your own space within your company or in the community to become an acknowledged expert in your field.

The divestment would complete the company's gradual shift away from its original focus on generic drugs and nuclear imaging toward branded specialty pharmaceuticals, which now comprise the bulk of its revenues.

The company is also shifting the focus of its dot - com advertising toward consumable goods from infrequent big - ticket purchases.

Any ratings downgrade may shift focus toward greater credit scrutiny for the U.S., which we believe has been lacking as a result of the extreme monetary stimulus since 2008.

Recently, though, the focus has shifted more toward litigation and me personally.

Instead of fighting over the amount of money that was spent on who - knows - what, shift the focus toward what really matters: (1) your fear of not having influence in important issues impacting your life, (2) your fear of not having security in your future, (3) your fear of having no respect shown for your values, or (4) your fear of not realizing your dreams.

The second major change has been in shifting the centre of focus and attention in thinking about media away from the intended effects of media messages toward the active role audiences play in selection and use of their own media - mix for meaning - seeking and meaning - satisfying purposes.

Gerstenberger has subtly shifted the focus away from what the priests of Leviticus were talking about — namely effecting «kapparah» — and toward what is useful for Christian theological speculations, namely «atonement.»

His first argument for the existence of God is oriented toward «motion,» but Timothy McDermott's translation of the Summa Theologica brings the pattern more sharply into focus by shifting the discussion in English from motion to «change.»

The shift in their therapeutic focus is away from a primary concern with what occurs within individuals (the preoccupation of the mainstream of therapy since Freud) and toward enhancing interpersonal relationships and small social systems such as families.

Shifting our focus away from worldly investments and toward heavenly ones is much more sustainable and life - giving because our connection with Christ above all will weather the inevitable storms of our lives and will provide a much richer and deeper meaning than any reward overworking will give.

That makes planning a vegetarian meal easy, Turner says; just shift your focus from finding a replacement for the big bird toward creating special sides.

Operators that shift their focus from criticism and toward capitalizing on the strengths of these workers will reap the benefits of all the potential that this generation holds.

Historically, processing strategies that focused on eliminating enzymes to preserve the quality of foods are exhibiting a paradigm shift toward processes taking advantage of enzymes as clean label alternatives for undesirable preservatives, stabilizers, and even flavor ingredients.

The reason for this, other than the focus of the two teams having long ago shifted toward defense with little regard to offensive ability, is that each team is playing without one of the NBA's five best point guards.

The study of neuroplasticity confirms that when we intentionally and repeatedly focus on «taking in the good» — as neuropsychologist Rick Hanson PhD, suggests — we cause changes in our neurons that shift us away from the innate bias toward always looking for threat.

This excerpt focuses on youth, sexuality, haphazard conception and the need to shift our energies toward conscious procreation.

As the week draws to a close, I wanted to slightly shift the focus away from the disease aspect of infertility and toward productive, helpful ways to keep not only your body healthy, but your mind and spirit healthy as well.

More than merchants, the focus was shifting toward arts and education.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's ongoing investigation into Albany corruption shifted its attention toward the Buffalo Billion and focused on two people with close ties to Cuomo: former longtime aide Joseph Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe.

Those moves represent a shift by Pfizer toward a more specialized approach to drug discovery and follow another trend in the industry: streamlining R&D by focusing on specific disease areas — a strategy biotechs already employ albeit on a smaller scale.

The announcement comes amid a debate over the use of experimental drugs in the outbreak: a leading epidemiologist hopes the announcement will shift international focus toward relying on basic public health measures to control the disease.

If the focus were shifted toward creating and protecting time for staff to drive change from the inside, we could see the implementation of more successful solutions.»

But in recent years, their focus has shifted toward inventing novel proteins with new functionality.

As large - scale genome sequencing projects, such as the Human Genome Project, near completion, the research community's focus is shifting toward efforts to determine functional information about these sequenced genes.

NASA has subsequently shifted its long - term focus away from the space shuttle and the International Space Station toward the creation of a crew - carrying vehicle to fulfill its new mandate, and engineers at the agency are supremely confident that they have the technical know - how to build such a spacecraft.

While the first 30 - million - DM round of funding focused more on basic research, the emphasize now shifts toward applied research.

Shifting your focus toward something vast is bound to put your problems in perspective, he observes, and open you to the greater world.

Hathaway's research focused on shifting speeds of the meridional flow, which moves from the solar equator toward the poles, finding that the flow was anomalously fast at the most recent minimum.

As scientists move toward nanotechnology, however, the focus has shifted toward creating alloys at the nanometer scale — producing materials with properties unlike their predecessors.

This shifted the focus of HIV prevention campaigns away from condom use as a form of protection toward detecting and treating those already infected.

«This paper may encourage some to shift their focus away from trying to decrease astrocyte activity, in particular in scar formation, and toward how to exploit it as a way to promote regeneration,» he said.

The upcoming shift in focus toward large - scale screening of small - molecule collections will provide both opportunities and challenges for graduate students and postdocs wishing to explore this new domain of academic research.

SDSS - V will shift the survey's focus from broadly cosmological investigation into the structure and expansion of the universe toward a closer analysis of our nearest stars and galaxies.

At past symposia, FoR worked to highlight some of the problems facing postdocs and graduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the Future of Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacy skills.