Sentences with phrase «focused particular effort»

According to Ortiz, the Rivera race was one of about a half dozen contests «critical to changing the landscape» where the club focused particular effort in providing volunteer support.

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In other words, you may already rank well in Google for a particular phrase by doing the easy stuff in which case you can focus your link building efforts around terms that have a greater opportunity for improvement.

The FBI remains focused on efforts to counter transnational criminal threats originating from the western hemisphere — in particular, in three critical areas of criminal activity known as the source zone (where the activity originates), the transit zone (the areas through which the activity passes), and the retail zone (the activity's ultimate destination).

The dangers with so many of these opportunities is that small businesses in particular lose focus and spread their advertising efforts too broadly and end up doing a bit of everything poorly rather than concentrating on doing 2 or 3 things really well.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

While both men sought to implement a dynamic view of experience, Whitehead chose to focus on the microcosmic level which resulted in his philosophy of organism, whereas Sullivan devoted his efforts to the particular realm of human existence which yielded his interpersonal theory of psychiatry.

And we should focus our therapeutic efforts on particular afflicted human beings, not on humankind.

Speaking at a press conference at Teamsters Local 237, she continued her recent public efforts at promoting the «Women's Equality Agenda,» with a particular focus today on the pay equity component of that agenda and proposed law.

The model may help guide efforts to focus on particular regions and devote resources to these areas.

But in their comprehensive effort to better identify children at highest risk of disease — and ideally one day intervene — this particular search focused on non-HLA genes.

A particular focus of that effort is neuroblastoma, a form of brain cancer that took the life of the McDonnells» 2 - year - old daughter, Peggy.

We have focused our efforts on refining our management system, in particular the preconstruction stage, to work on the owners behalf to accelerate schedules and improve construction methods.

So far none of these efforts has really taken off; those focusing on personal data in particular may never do so.

Drawing inspiration from dozens of interviews conducted over the course of a two - year period, Lawrence - Lightfoot focuses on the experiences of 11 individuals in particular, including an Iranian teenager forced to flee political strife and come to America alone, a middle - aged gay man and his coming out, a bullied child whose parents take him out of school, and a psychotherapist who guides abuse victims in an effort to finally «terminate» therapy.

In particular, the Gates interview confirmed two things about the Foundation's education efforts: 1) they've realized that the focus of their efforts has to be on the political control of schools and 2) they are uninterested in using that political influence to advance market forces in education.

In schools and afterschool programs, efforts to help children develop social and emotional skills should focus on skills that are relevant to the particular age group, according to the spring issue of The Future of Children.

Future of Children: Efforts to help children boost their SEL skills should focus on those skills relevant to their particular age group.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

These schools, identified for targeted support and improvement (TSI), must develop and implement their own intervention plan that focuses improvement efforts on the particular subgroup (s) that caused it to be identified for TSI.

Every year CEA members identify areas of particular importance to students and teachers on which to focus advocacy efforts.

Fleming County's Amy Bolar said when you are trying to get student buy - in, it might be best to focus your efforts on a particular small set of students.

Given Fuller's long - time Walton involvements, what makes Fuller's efforts to actually empower New Orleans community members particularly interesting is this October 2015 report announcing that the Walton Foundation 2016 - 20 strategic plan involves trying to drum up community support for its charter school reforms - and one city of particular focus is New Orleans.

The grant will fund the district's efforts to implement EXCELerator, a career readiness framework developed by the College Board that aims to improve the district college readiness infrastructure and capacity to provide rigorous education and supports, with a particular focus on historically underserved students.

Chapter 3 focuses on federal accountability, Chapter 4 on state accountability, Chapter 5 on accrediting agencies, Chapter 6 on private - sector endeavors (with a particular focus on college rankings and ratings), and Chapter 7 on efforts by students, faculty, and staff to change institutional priorities.

Many performance cars focus their efforts so sharply on a particular metric that it serves as a detriment to the overall enjoyment of the car — an unyielding stiff suspension might be useful on certain track surfaces but it's invariably unpleasant on public roads, and a small chassis is great for lap times but less so when you need to go to Costco.

Reflecting back on the past month can also help me to better plan my days and weeks and help me to focus my efforts on particular projects.

Besides it requiring extensive knowledge on the subject and particular field, it requires effort, focus and extensive research.

Another cat named Ironman was the last unfixed kitty in a particular industrial colony where Santell had been focusing his efforts for more than two years.

But your efforts have to be laser focused on your particular breed:

In other words, certain award tickets are easiest to book with American Airlines miles, and you'll want to focus your efforts on this particular awards before the coming devaluation in late March.

The Nazis are back again in an alternate universe where they won WWII and decided America in particular was the place to focus their colonizing efforts.

Taking «backfire effect» as a starting point — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans has interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand the political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.

Taking as a starting point the «backfire effect» — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand changes in the international political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.

When Gort first visited in 1951, it spent little effort on climate change issues, focusing on other aspects of our planet instead: Gort returned in 2012 to answer puny human climatologist questions about whether climate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the outcome.

Global Witness and Liberian civil society have documented systemic legal violations in the timber sector since the lifting of UNSC timber sanctions in 2006, which was a particular focus of international reform efforts since the end of the country's timber and diamond fuelled war in 2003.

Many CAGW proponents seek to have everything subordinated to that issue, to see policy imperatives primarily through their particular prism, most here — whether or not they think that CAGW is real and must be addressed — see sense in addressing a broad range of issues of short - term significance rather than focussing efforts on prospective long - term problems.

While our focus here is on national assessments, and in the United States in particular, the project of improving such assessments is an international one, with parallel efforts in other countries or regions (e.g. UK Committee on Climate Change 2017, California's four Climate Change Assessments12); the need for peer learning between respective efforts is critical and often overlooked.

The content of AGDP's workplan will focus in particular on «enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties.»

I am writing to address the request for comments about «climate intervention» research (Page 22, lines 31 - 42), with a particular focus on how the USGCRP can design their research coordination efforts around «carbon removal» (also called «carbon dioxide removal» or «CDR») most effectively.

However, these datasets are also expensive to gather, driving operators to focus their efforts on particular target areas.

A leading concern is their view that if they focus their efforts on solving a particular problem or serving a particular segment of the market, they won't get to address other problems or other segments, and therefore be less appealing to everyone.

So I bid adieu as I withdraw from this exchange in order to focus my time and effort on developing and implementing tangible solutions for my clients in particular and the legal industry in general.

The Company's efforts to identify a target business will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region, although it intends to focus efforts on seeking a business combination with a company or companies in the international oil and gas logistics, land and maritime oil and gas transportation, terminal and energy storage industries.

This conclusion is reinforced by the fact that for smaller organizations in particular, the legislature determined that a provider of goods and services with fewer than 20 employees need not file a report because it «allows the exempted organization to focus efforts on complying with the accessibility standards.»

Now, it is true that cloud solution providers have an incentive to maintain the highest standards of security and that legal cloud providers, in particular, tend to focus efforts on providing for the unique needs of the profession.

You eliminated and do away with wasting your time and gas money because you can just focus your efforts on particular packages that have caught your attention.

Human enhancement's entire discourse focuses mostly on productivity and efforts to boost people's effectiveness in a particular domain.

This kind of research helps you to keep your resume optimization efforts focused on the skills that a particular employer values most, and it can give you a clue about what they're looking for personality-wise.

This requires a lot of effort and covers many topics but in this article we will focus on one particular section — Skills.

We have focused our efforts on refining our management system, in particular the preconstruction stage, to work on the owners behalf to accelerate schedules and improve construction methods.