Sentences with phrase «focus this year»

«Because both behavior and academic performance have improved, we've been more focused this year on celebrating with our students,» she continued.

Instead of launching new countries, we want to focus this year in owning our segment in all the markets where we operate.

As part of the get - to - know - each - other focus this year, the organizers created a speed - dating style of introductions.

While there are certainly practical applications for these headsets popping up every day, the dominant focus this year will continue to be fun.

I've put my strongest focus this year on winning affordable health coverage for you through passage of small - business health plan legislation.

I am focused this year on building muscle and not starving myself and crash dieting.

The Xbox Scorpio is Microsoft's main focus this year for E3 and with them expecting it to be the most powerful console ever made their conference is certainly going to gain a lot of attention from the fans.

But Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said an even bigger focus this year will be renewed attempts by Democrats to clobber Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan on the campaign trail.

With so much focus this year at FutureBook on the emerging ebook markets in foreign locations, Readmill's founder Henrik Berggen explained to Good e-Reader that the educational purposes for social reading may be farther reaching than just the sharing of important passages and insights.

Gunn's current schedule, with five or six classes meeting in 58 - minute periods each day, came into focus this year as a fixable source of student stress.

Stirling told Alliance News that Uniform Dating in the US and Australia would be one of their main focuses this year.

Dagg says a primary focus this year is increasing the chapter membership base in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, which are currently attracting the interest of European real estate investors.

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With a promised 1,000 additional hours of content in 2017, a major focus this year and beyond is their ability to both penetrate the original film world, and receive recognition for their efforts from Academy members at the Oscars — something that Amazon can now boast about after Casey Affleck scored a Best Actor win for Manchester by the Sea.

The contrast of black and maroon is more focused this year on her, as tops and tunics all are common of black color, having maroon embroidery on it.

Because Kasler has numerous collections from which to choose, she has a different focus each year.

SKOs are great for sharing vision and motivating, but keeping the team focused all year long takes more than one meeting.

As we're all a bit forecast weary by this point in the year, here's a list - not of prognostications - but rather of potential risks that may come into even greater focus this year.

«This team came in very focused this year and understood that every game matters,» Chambers said.

Today Justine Greening speaks on opening day of an International Maritime Organisation conference, which focuses this year on piracy and passenger ship safety

In terms of governance, a plurality of voters (40 percent) say taxes should be Cuomo's top focus this year, while 38 percent say it should be health care and 33 percent say it should be education.

Discretionary funds like SAM, which let state agencies direct money for everything from new ball fields in the Bronx to police cars in Rochester, have come under increasing focus this year after the arrest and conviction of legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

By turn the foundation focus each year on different topics; 2013 was dedicated to «Science and Technology».

This is my ONE significant running focus this year (outside of no injuries of course).

His one focus all year appears to have been to grow a beard (true story!)

The co-op horde mode has well and truly entrenched itself as a critical component of Call of Duty and is more survival focused this year, in contrast to Infinite Warfare's spotlight on celebrity cameos.

Both programmes just went live on the TIFF website, for our thirsty eyes to devour and my initial reaction is that the Midnight Madness program has a significant American focus this year.

Cooper claims Argento, though labeled early in his career as the «Italian Hitchcock,» spent his early, gialli - focused years lambasting and lampooning «Freudian proclivities,» most notably in The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969), which positions itself as a Psycho (1960) homage, only to jest at Hitchcock's insistence upon closure via psychological ends.

As we launch into celebrating our 5th year of shining a spotlight on Irish film it is apparent from the quality of the Festival Programme, that the talent emerging from Ireland deserves this dedicated focus each year.

Strong female performances are a prominent focus this year, with standout turns from Isabelle Huppert in Verhoeven's Elle and Hansen - Løve's Things to Come; Brazilian legend Sônia Braga in Medonça Filho's Aquarius; Piñeiro favorite Agustina Muñoz in Hermia and Helena; and Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, and Laura Dern in Reichardt's triptych Certain Women, among others.

The annual report from the American Council on Education focuses this year on the special concerns of Asian Pacific Americans, who make up about 3 percent of the U.S. population.

Our campaign has renewed energy and focus this year because of the Every Student Succeeds Act, also known as ESSA, the new federal education law.

We've had lots of news on the 2011 Ford Focus this year, from the initial reveal of the 2011 Focus at Detroit in January to the preview of the new Focus ST at Frankfurt -LSB-...]

You can read more about the ceremony and speeches, which unsurprisngly had a political focus this year, here.

Now in its seventh year, Scholastic's Summer Challenge focuses this year on the theme of breaking the world's record for most minutes read by Scholastic participants.

NEW YORK EARLY MUSIC CELEBRATION Focused this year on Holland and Flanders, this citywide festival includes respected ensembles like the Sebastians and Pomerium.

Among those to warrant renewed focus this year was Sadie Benning, who has made a clean break from her 1990s reputation that was built on videos made with a toy camera.

With a curatorial focus this year on collaboration, BAS8 has provided Phillips with an opportunity to run community print workshops and create a publication based on the Irregular Bulletin, a newsletter produced in the late 50s / early 60s by radical educator and artist Corita Kent and her colleague, Sister Magdalene Mary.

The international focus this year was on China and France.

As expected, repeatedly teased and unusually detailed ahead of today's official OnePlus 5 online launch, the company that never settles is mainly focusing this year on improving the camera experience of its previous «flagship killers.»

That's why they've announced that their biggest focus this year is making the 3DS popular in the West.

Her primary focus this year is to enhance communication to the public regarding current market conditions and to effectively address the expectations of the DRAR membership across the Durham Region, she says.

Why Green Isn't A Major Focus This Year It's hard to blame companies for shifting focus away from their sustainability programs and back on the products.

The A11 chip is going to be a beast, specially since the new iPhone's main focus this year will be AR.

And no matter what is decided, he said, changes to principals» evaluations would likely come as a surprise to many school leaders who have been more focused this year on the prospect of changing the way they rate teachers.

So, yes, Facebook deserves a lot of credit for focusing this year's F8 on regaining user trust and strengthening the places where it is today weak.