Sentences with phrase «gave national attention»

«To have [Charlottesville] happen gave national attention to white Americans who are otherwise quiet,» Condie says.

In 1980 his program also gave him national attention as the head of Moral Majority, a national citizens» movement.

Given the national attention to politics following the 2016 presidential election, however, Latimer said, voters this year will pay more attention to policy than to personality.

«But now he'd been given some national attention branding the whole Igbo as IPOB members and it's the reason for the quit notice some gave our people in the North.

Not exact matches

The race for New York's 9th Congressional District has attracted national attention because polls give Republican candidate Robert Turner an edge, a potential sign of trouble for President Barack Obama and for the Democrats ahead of next year's election.

Publications such as the National Catholic Reporter, on the left, and Catholic World Report and the Wanderer, on the right, have over the years given the question more attention.

For better or worse, we find ourselves at a moment when considerable national attention is being given to the morality of capital punishment, and readers of First Things in recent months have also been invited to reflect upon the issue in an essay by Avery Cardinal Dulles (April) and in a later exchange between Dulles and his critics (August / September).

While I appreciate the attention given to my presentation to the National Workshop on Christian Unity in the October 1996 issue of First Things («Ecumenism as Consolidating Divisions,» Public Square), I would like to eliminate a possible misapprehension.

Moreover, the report on cloning by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC)- prepared in response to a request from President Clinton - gave considerable attention not only to law and philosophy but also to religion.

A 1985 report on «Violence and Sexual Violence in Film, Television, Cable and Home Video» by the National Council of Churches of Christ suggested that the churches give «priority attention» to the «glut of violence and sexual violence» in the media.

The book gives respectful but brief attention to the central role of Catholicism in the rising and in the larger history of Polish national aspirations.

Today's announcement gives the D - League, which is normally an afterthought in national sports coverage, significant attention from major media companies for at least one news cycle.

National attention to this should be given asap.

«It's easier to give one - on - one attention and be responsive when there are fewer kids in a room,» says Stephanie Glowacki, director of accreditation programs at the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a benchmark of quality.

Will create and maintain liaisons with other associations within WI to promote athletic training, create marketing plans to promote the profession with great attention given to National Athletic Training Month in March.

URGES Member States to give renewed attention to the need to adopt national legislation, regulations or other suitable measures to give effect to the International Code;

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

If your child spits as a way to initiate social interaction, give him plenty of attention each time he behaves appropriately, suggests the UK's National Autism Society.

... Beaird attracted national attention in 1956, when he gave a seconding speech for the renomination of President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, Californianational attention in 1956, when he gave a seconding speech for the renomination of President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, CaliforniaNational Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California.»

He said the days when the senior national team the Black Stars was given much attention over other sporting disciplines were over.

«Given the recent national attention to this race, it is clear that more and more government leaders have recognized that George Phillips is on a path to victory.

«Obviously the attention that has been given towards the initiatives at the national level to young men is important, but we really also felt that there were needs that young women have as well that were being overlooked in that conversation, and that kept coming up again and again,» Ms. Mark - Viverito told the Observer, among women in the philanthropy world and elsewhere.

«Apart from the killings at Nsukka and Awgu (Enugu State), the people of Benue, in general, have been severally and severely killed in tens and hundreds without the Commander - in - Chief of the Armed Forces, making a national broadcast or giving a specific instruction on the matter even when the treasury of Nigeria was depleted to give him adequate medical attention to save his own life.»

He said that his committee gave special attention to the factional National Chairman of the parrty, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff and his associates during its sittings.

Given this increased power, the fight for control of state legislatures could well draw more national attention and money each cycle.

«Part of it is to give RIG a little more swagger — because we are doing things here that are second to none,» he said, ticking off recent work on public pensions, Obamacare implementation and more that has garnered national attention.

Concern over cholesterol levels is a national preoccupation with much attention given to reducing cholesterol content in foods yet cholesterols are necessary components of sound diets.

Jeff's family welcomes him back home with open arms and gives him nothing but encouragement, somewhat basking in the glow of the national media attention that's now been put on Bauman and his recovery.

Given the national discourse at the moment, a film like Monster — adapted from a lauded young - adult novel about a black Harlem teenager navigating a biased justice system — seems like something that could demand serious attention.

With links to helpful sites National Curriculum of England - for Computing programmes of study including: ----- undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications, preferably across a range of devices, to achieve challenging goals, including collecting and analysing data and meeting the needs of known users — create, re-use, revise and re-purpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability

Popular national clubs such as Girl Scouts of the USA have started to give added attention to introducing girls to STEM.

Teachers had little understanding of how to use test data to drive improvement and had given insufficient attention to implementing the national curriculum, putting Denmark at a disadvantage compared with other WA schools.

Overcoming the deficit of «efficacy literacy» will not happen overnight, especially given the shocking lack of attention paid to national evidence standards (as shown by Kane's exhaustive study of school minutes).

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Time Magazine, USA Today, The New York Times, and Canada's National Post (and others) all wrote about the 8 - second attention span without giving much thought to whether it made sense.

As we have reflected about the impact of the NBPTS and its board - certified teachers, who still constitute only 1 percent of all teachers, it seems that the National Board and education reformers need to give far more attention to trying to increase the cost - effectiveness and the multiplier effects of board - certified teachers as leaders and exemplars.

«The national and international attention being given to standards - based results really holds a principal accountable to the world.

In the study, to be published in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next and available at www.educationnext.org, authors Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene examined the key characteristics of performance pay plans currently in place in school districts, in light of increased attention given to merit pay in national debate and in the Obama Administration's Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program.

A while back I brought to your attention the great analysis of my current research heroes — those delightful debunkers at the the National Education Policy Center — of the Public Agenda report explaining to self - described «education reformers» how they can give us stupid, stupid parents the run - around on school turnarounds despite our natural opposition.

And it would help do both by giving state policymakers more ownership of (and therefore more pride in) the mundane work of everyday governance, even as it redirected the attention and the self - regard of national political leaders toward national questions.

It reflects an emerging national consensus on the importance of studying teachers» work before giving job security or raises, said Timothy Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group that published a report last year calling attention to weaknesses in teacher evaluation systems.

Countries (or national subdivisions) that lead the PISA, including Singapore, Shanghai, Canada, Finland, South Korea, and Japan, very broadly share a model one could see as the inverse of ours: they draw teachers from among their most talented people, prepare them extensively and with close attention to practice, put them in schools buffered from some of the effects of poverty by social welfare supports, and give them time while in school to collaborate to develop and improve their skills.

If you want to give your job posting national attention as well, be sure to check out the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools» Jonational attention as well, be sure to check out the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools» JoNational Alliance for Public Charter Schools» Job Board.

Extrapolating from old statistics in a New York Times article mentioning Macleod, most American library systems today serve areas of fewer than 50,000, all the more reason to provide national resources to help local librarians and friends implement projects to which they otherwise could not give sufficient attention.

With the recent attention given to the topic by national media outlets, communities have marveled at the unbelievable conditions hoarders create for themselves and animals.

Celebrated worldwide as the first biennial to give special attention to this remarkable history, the Performa Biennial transforms the city of New York into the «world capital of artists» performance» every other November, attracting a national and international audience of more than 200,000 and garnering more than five million website hits during its three - week run.

National governments might not give such matters much thought — though the last seems to have caught the attention of mayors.

«While much has been said and written about the science of climate change and the economic implications of the proposed Kyoto Protocol, little attention has been given to the effect of this sweeping and hastily drafted treaty on the sovereignty and national security of the United States,» read the the letter from R. Bruce Josten, the Chamber's Executive Vice President of Government Affairs, to Representative Lois Caps.

In the case of GGR, we have started to see a shift, e.g., with a major programme funded by the UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) that «will undertake research to improve our knowledge of the options for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere at a climatically - relevant scale, giving interdisciplinary attention to the environmental, technical, economic, governance and wider societal aspects of such approaches on a national level and in an international context» (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmeNational Environment Research Council (NERC) that «will undertake research to improve our knowledge of the options for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere at a climatically - relevant scale, giving interdisciplinary attention to the environmental, technical, economic, governance and wider societal aspects of such approaches on a national level and in an international context» (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmenational level and in an international context» (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/ggr/).

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