Sentences with phrase «focusing on a number of issues»

You can tackle workload by focusing on a number of issues concurrently, focusing on the issue causing the greatest concern, or addressing issues one by one.

Relationship or couples therapy may focus on any number of issues.

Not exact matches

«Whether it's North Korea, whether it's trade, there are a number of issues that people don't want to focus on because the outcome would be really bad.»

Our team at Truth In Media is committed to providing quality content focusing on issues that impact humanity, featuring a number of fearless journalists sharing their expertise with a diverse audience that honors genuine and compelling reporting that transcends political, social and geographic boundaries.

Against the background of MiFID II, fund managers are also focusing on a number of other urgent issues, with stewardship at the head of the list, as Cynthia Alers explains.

Investors have filed a record number of shareholder proposals on ESG issues this year, with a focus on climate change and corporate political activity, according to the As You Sow shareholder advocacy group.

CNN: Survey: Catholics divided on political issues, as adherent numbers decline As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

A number of the essays focus on methodological and contextual issues.

By focusing on issues in the «should we» form, this book, like a number of other recent studies of theological schooling, raises questions that must be asked constantly while we are attempting to solve the real problems of any particular theological school.

In a good number of internet discussions, you will find arguments about the use or non-use of EVOO in cooking that focus on the issue of smoke point.

The next three years will see a number of issues relevant to rural voters feature in the public debate, including the re-regulation of the sugar industry and a renewed focus on animal welfare.

That's why it's not unusual for parents of food allergic eaters to focus so much on making sure there are no traces of a certain allergen (which is the number one priority), that they do not concern themselves with other ingredients — allergens, toxins, food additives and colorings, that could be contributing to other, seemingly unrelated health issues that their child is facing as well.

Through a number of events — organized on or around Labor Day — HMN will focus attention on the critical issue of preserving a woman's right to choose how and where she gives birth — a right that is rapidly disappearing.

The Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Sheryl WuDunn and Nicolas D. Kristof, authors of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (2009), point out that focusing on the needs of women and girls is the number one issue of this century.

Fiddling with the fringes of the issue, with fairly miserly funding of R&D and transport, fails to address the fundamental underlying causes: the recent relative atrophy of infrastructure spending and capital investment and a relentless focus since 2010 purely on the number of jobs, rather than quality, skilled, well - paid jobs.

While more Americans lose their jobs every day, the Obama Administration is blatantly ignoring the law of the land for a political stunt, and I hope the Administration will reconsider this wrong decision and focus on strengthening the economy and creating jobs, the number one issue the majority of Western New Yorkers care about.»

One solution to help meet increasing demand, and go some way to solving the unique issues around isolation from services in rural areas, could be to focus on increasing the number of smaller, satellite hospitals that are strategically located around existing central hubs in rural locations.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

«For the second day in a row, Stephanie Miner spent her time leading a partisan protest instead of focusing her time on addressing the embarrassing number of issues that plague the City of Syracuse,» O'Connor said.

Jeremy M. Creelan, who headed up a number of reform initiatives for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has been named a visiting fellow of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government where he will focus on reform and social justice issues.

She has made a number of television programs focusing on disability issues, worked with various organizations serving persons with disabilities, and started the Eyes for Hope Foundation, which provides services for sight impaired impoverished individuals in Asia.

This office will touch on also immigration, family court and other issues, but I think the bulk of the focus is going to be on housing, just because that's where I think the biggest numbers are,» Mr. Levine said.

Several Actions Announced to Foster Industry Growth and Six New Research Permits Issued Under Agricultural Research Pilot Program Governor's Proposal to Lift Cap on Number of Industrial Hemp Research Permits Passed as Part of FY 2018 State Budget Summit Supports Regional Focus on Growing Agriculture as Part of the Southern Tier Soaring Upstate Revitalization Initiative Video From Industrial Hemp Summit is Available Here

Astorino has used those skills to make up for his lack of money to advertise on television, by releasing a number of high - quality web videos that focus on issues, and attack Cuomo and his policies.

The civil engineers suggest a list of highway improvements that could reduce that number, but a lack of funding causes the state to focus on the more immediate safety issues.

For the second day in a row, Stephanie Miner spent her time leading a partisan protest instead of focusing her time on addressing the embarrassing number of issues that plague the City of Syracuse.

She said the issue with the number of Latinos on the board and Lawson's failure to be reappointed show that the process of selecting community board members is too focused on politics and not the best interests of the community.

When a number of NGOs led by opponents of genetic technology issued a declaration entitled The Principles for the Oversight of Synthetic Biology this year, most of the discussion focused on their call for a limited moratorium.

Conference panellists Baroness Diana Warwick, chief executive of CVCP, and Sir Brian Fender, chief executive of HEFCE, made it clear that the Equality Challenge Unit will not focus solely on the gender issue, and that bolstering the number of women in SET will be lumped into a broader pool of discrimination issues including racial equality and power struggles between administration, research, and technical teams.

A congressionally mandated committee is holding public hearings on the issue, a series of recent symposia have focused attention on the small number of female researchers, and faculty women and sympathetic male colleagues around the country are debating the matter more openly with administrators (Science, 11 June, p. 1757).

«Mobility issues or paralysis are the most visible consequences of a spinal cord injury but as a clinician, I know that many of my patients suffer from other «invisible» consequences,» said Dr. Andrei Krassioukov, principal investigator of the study who worked with Darrel for a number of years as a professor of medicine at UBC and chair in rehabilitation research with ICORD, a Vancouver research centre focused on spinal cord injuries.

So if you focus on those issues for a while, that's at least what I would do, and just have a bit of patience watching to see those numbers come back up

My issue isn't with the number of items in anyone's capsule wardrobe, but rather the focus being put on the constant shopping required to update one's capsule wardrobe every season.

Write an agreed number of news stories and features focused on luxury retailers and relevant designers as well as the wider issues facing the industry

The National Union of Teachers said that the Government should focus on issues such as insufficient school places, a drop in the number of applicants for teaching and fact that the number of teachers leaving the profession each year is at a 10 - year high and has increased by 25 per cent since 2010.

Former Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell has said that the teacher crisis is «one of the biggest issues facing our schools», calling on the government to ditch the «terrible idea» of increasing the number of grammar schools and focus on the real problem.

If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.

In the first five years of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, much attention has been focused on implementation issues — from how to manage the increasing number of schools and districts «in need of improvement» or in «corrective action,» to problems with testing programs, adequate - yearly - progress reporting, and the law's highly - qualified - teacher requirements.

A number of his remarks on the issue have focused on a Florida based institution called Full Sail University.

Currently, she serves as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education of the District of Columbia, and works on a number of projects primarily focused on cross-sector planning and student assignment issues.

The question focuses on why a number of groups have been relatively silent on issues like the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Race to the Top, and other new funding streams coming out of the U.S. Department of Education.

A Systematic Review on Improving Rehabilitation Outcomes for Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Individuals with Disabilities Number 31 This issue of FOCUS describes a systematic review that was conducted to address a critically important research question about cultural competency by taking stock of the current literature and evidence.

The point of this is that having a fixed capital structure lessens the number of issues with which an investment manager has to deal (focus on the investment, not what to do with new money or what to sell to meet redemptions).

«Don't let those large colonies make the public not want [return - to - field],» Trebatoski advised in a 2015 Maddie's Institute webcast, adding that once return - to - field is implemented, «the number of nuisance calls also falls dramatically,» which saves the city money long - term and allows animal control officers to focus on larger issues.

Based on our participation in numerous national coalitions focused on animal / shelter overpopulation issues; our work in shelter medicine, shelter research and as a major animal welfare grant maker; and our 100 + years as a direct service provider in New York City as well as our more recent direct participation in intensive, collaborative efforts with more than 10 ASPCA partner communities across the United States, the ASPCA has determined that a number of indicators should be tracked to understand progress in decreasing the number of animals at risk.

Since the mid-1980s he has been creating litter solutions to address urinary issues, with his main concerns focusing on the large number of cats that are surrendered to shelters and euthanized for inappropriate elimination.

The Council is supported by a number of working groups, which are created by and operate under the purview of the Council and help to bring additional community members and experts to focus on specific issues:

While there are certainly a vast number of side quests (inconsequential tasks, such as helping a local with a minor issue, something that can be easily skipped) to help your character grow stronger on their journeys, they are simply steps along the path in a greater story, an almost movie - like tale that focuses on you.

«Right now the team is fully focused on categorising and fixing support issues in order of priority, based on the number of people they are affecting,» says the studio in the post on Steam.

Elementary school students reading Lois Lowry's Number the Stars focus on issues of resistance and hope through an exploration of age - appropriate works on view.