Sentences with phrase «focusing special effort»

Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere.

Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere.

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JPMorgan is also «making a special effort» to bring on more African - Americans by setting up a separate group to focus on school recruiting, retention and hiring «more senior African - American talent,» Dimon said.

IEA holds high - level workshop on the future of electricity Large gathering is part of agency - wide effort on next World Energy Outlook special electricity focus 24 April 2018

That is of special importance to Stanger, who before being named president in 2016 had spent 25 years with the company mostly focused on its sales and marketing efforts.

Recruitment, development and skillsVisitors can also learn more about the PPMA's efforts to sustain and develop the industry's workforce on stand B01 with a special focus on recruitment, development and skills, led by PPMA BEST.

Not just focusing on the victory, Ozil made a special effort to thank supporters with this tweet after the game:

This push has embraced forms of school development and quality assurance that are ubiquitous in the mainstream, while making efforts to adapt them to the special situation of Waldorf education with its focus on individual learning.

But you have to make special efforts to focus on it if you have a kid like mine, because otherwise it's just too hard.

Commisso's focus on his credentials as a lifelong Albanian conflicts with his efforts to paint Sheehan as a political insider indebted to special interests.

But the effort also put a focus on the relationships between the three governors in the tri-state area, with extra special attention on Cuomo and Christie, who have by all accounts worked well together, but are also potential presidential contenders down the road.

Russia's effort to influence U.S. voters through Facebook and other social media is a «red - hot» focus of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 election and possible links to Trump's associates.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

Though Markey is ahead in the polls, the Congressman and Berkshire County Democrats are focusing their efforts on turning out supporters in tomorrow's special election.

Acknowledging the interdisciplinary nature of the field, in the past few years, these agencies have established special programs to focus their resources and coordinate their efforts.

To help further this effort, the Mars Society has created a Speakers Bureau with a list of representatives in the U.S. and Canada available to talk about the organization's mission, its work in Mars - related research, including the Mars Desert Research Station and the University Rover Challenge, the latest news about Mars exploration and the growing field of STEM - driven education and curriculum with a special focus on space exploration.

This year I have made a special effort to ensure you can come here for inspiration no matter the room you want to focus on.

This year's special focus on state efforts to develop common standards and assessments, featured elsewhere in the report, also draws...

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

As Massachusetts has done, authorizers can focus on level of effort, tracking recruitment and marketing strategies to make sure schools are known to families and open and welcoming to students with special needs.

The Prime Online oTPD program was developed as the result of a collaborative effort between three teacher educators and researchers with expertise in special education, mathematics education, and teacher professional development with a focus on teacher inquiry.

Recruitment efforts for special education positions — often the hardest jobs for schools to fill — have been forced to focus on out - of - state candidates as the shortage of teachers across California continues to loom.

Although school funding adequacy has been an issue in many states and lawsuits over the question have been closely - watched nationally — Kansas would seem to be a special case focused on Brownback's unconventional efforts to jump start the state economy by deeply slashing taxes.

The efforts focus on such important issues as dropout prevention, special needs, diversity, literacy and writing, STEM / STEAM, digital media, arts education, early learning and educational policy.

If you focus most of your efforts on nontrade sales (such as direct sales, special sales to businesses and organizations, and sales at speaking engagements), you're spared the stress of returns.

This year, SantaPawsDrive.com is focusing on shelters and rescues that make the extra effort to help special needs and less adoptable pets.

Under Rebecca's leadership, LifeLine also operates its own no - kill shelter, which focuses on animals with special medical or behavioral needs; Catlanta, the first and largest organized trap - neuter - return (TNR) program in Atlanta, which has sterlized and vaccinated more than 35,000 community cats; and Community LifeLine, an outreach effort that provides free vaccines and spay / neuter to thousands of pets belonging to low - income Atlantans.

Working as a Veterinary Technician while in school, Dr. O'Brien gained an understanding of where she wanted to focus her efforts in this field and now has special interest in general medicine, surgery, dentistry and exotics.

According to the Slovenian Tourist Board, these types of efforts have already contributed to an increased recognizability of the country, and over the next two years, the bureau will place a special focus on cultural tourism.

Neil writes: «The next massive LEGO title from Warner Bros will be focusing its efforts on The Incredibles and today we are being treated to a brand new trailer - one which puts the spotlight on the Parr Family and their special powers!»

The next massive LEGO title from Warner Bros will be focusing its efforts on The Incredibles and today we are being treated to a brand new trailer — one which puts the spotlight on the Parr Family and their special powers!

«We've made a special effort over the past two years to bring more emerging and contemporary artists into our exhibitions, with a focus on Detroit - based artists and graduates from Cranbrook Academy of Art,» Wittkopp says.

Back in 2006, he edited a special issue on responses to climate change and, like most such efforts, the articles were narrowly focused on showcasing exciting low - carbon technologies.

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

You'll have a special focus on efforts to increase bike share use in low - income and underserved populations, published here on BetterBikeShare.org.

IEA holds high - level workshop on the future of electricity Large gathering is part of agency - wide effort on next World Energy Outlook special electricity focus 24 April 2018

Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

While in law school Joe served as a law clerk with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in Washington, D.C., where he focused his efforts on the Hatch Act, a complex statutory scheme governing the political activities of state and federal employees.

Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for law students • Courses focused on law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal law, environmental, health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment law, health law, environmental law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.

It begins by tracing the history of fatherhood programs over the last several decades, paying special attention to the evolution in focus and funding of these efforts.

This program reduced the high mortality rate of inner - city infants from summer diarrhea when previous efforts of private agencies had failed.5 In the late 20th century, as funding for public health nurses has declined relative to the need, home - visitation programs have focused on families with special problems such as premature or low - birth - weight infants, children with developmental delay, teenage parents, and families at risk for child abuse or neglect.6

CCSSO's Early Childhood Initiatives program works with chief state school officers, state education agencies and other partners to foster the healthy development, learning progress and school success of young children, birth to age 5, with a special focus on eliminating disparities in learning opportunities and outcomes for young at - risk children by supporting states in integrating early childhood, elementary, second and postsecondary education standards, assessment, data, and professional development efforts to form a more cohesive and powerful 21st century education system.

To support managing brokers in their efforts to ensure that their associated licensees are adequately managed and supervised, particularly in the area of strata management, the Council has developed this Special Report from Council, focusing on the unique challenges facing managing brokers in the course of operating a brokerage that provides strata management services.