Sentences with phrase «focused actions toward»

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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 church gets too focused on doctrine and then the pendulum swings dramatically away to good works, the church ignores doctrine for social action and so the pendulum swings dramatically back toward an inward looking intellectualized faith.

We have learned that when we focus on the harms caused by religious hostility toward gay people — its destructive role in the lives of gay and lesbian Americans and explaining that being gay is not a lifestyle choice but is how you are born — persons of faith can understand why religion must no longer be misused to justify hostile attitudes and actions toward LGBT people.

Between then and now they will be given numerous opportunities to continue to move toward their goals — a New Year's covenant renewal service, special Lenten foci, new course offerings, new outlets for Christian service or action.

This is evidenced in such things as Barth's eschatologically oriented framework of creation, reconciliation and redemption; his focus on promise and hope rather than the present possession of God's reign; the reconfiguration of experience as a determination toward the future; the placing of the divine summons to action — the ethical life — at the summit of each volume of his doctrinal work; and, above all, his refusal to make his theology an apology for Christendom or to give priority to the established church.

Members of many of the new progressive groups, in fact, say they want a more civil discourse, and are leaning toward a nonpartisan model of action that focuses on issues and values.

«But we have found that if states focus on a handful of priority action steps and implement them successfully, they can begin to close critical gaps and dramatically accelerate progress toward ending their HIV epidemics.»

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.

«When you're working toward a difficult pose,» says Walden, «pick a few primary actions to focus on.

Over time, discourse in the video clubs shifted from a focus on the teacher to increased attention to students» actions and ideas, toward increasingly detailed analyses of student thinking.

Our theory of action recognizes that the first step toward improving student learning across a district is to support strong, learning - focused leadership within a district's central office.

Your site turns idle browsers into connected, focused buyers by pointing visitors very clearly toward something they can do — a specific action they can take — now that they're on your website.

Take action and start the ball rolling toward establishing your focus and reaching your goals.

Their focus: to «turn the tide» toward environmental action by working with other high - impact individuals to develop creative solutions to today's most immediate environmental problems.

Ms. Roberts is not alone in pressing the case for action on family planning, a greater focus by scientists on clarifying population trends and their implications and a lot more resources committed to facilitating a smooth transition toward stable populations in places now seeing explosive growth (the «population cluster bombs» I wrote about early in Dot Earth).

In combination with new approaches to grassroots advocacy and election campaigns, a complementary paradigm for climate advocacy is needed to shift our focus toward a broader portfolio of smaller scale policy actions and to the promotion of a more diverse array of technological options.

Now, the Project and its 450,000 - strong online Community are pivoting toward a focus on Solutions, including Community - generated campaigns to reduce plastic pollution, grow the sharing economy and reduce political corruption, as well as a six - week Citizen Muscle Boot Camp to help everyday changemakers gain the skills needed for effective civic action..

The court focused on the cause of action as directed toward the medical product manufacturer.

Hands - on leader able to create and direct high - performance teams focused on exceptional results and a bias toward action.

After completing the strategic planning process, the focus of strategic planning team could shift toward taking ownership over the plan and putting it into action.

Real Estate Coaching is a powerful, professional partnership which focuses on the Real Estate Professional taking action toward the realization of their goals and dreams.