Sentences with phrase «high national priority»

Even seemingly remote rural areas have electricity, and the protection of cultural and natural heritage is clearly a high national priority.

Research!America is the nation's largest not - for - profit public education and advocacy alliance working to make research to improve health a higher national priority.

Observers agreed that Congress was likely to try hard to hold the line against budget increases and to provide extra funding only for a small number of high national priorities.

DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the supporter of the development of the Internet, has declared the rapid engineering of biology one of the highest national priorities, but achieving that goal will require a different mind - set as we move from a discovery - based to an application - based biology.

Imagine an «Education Nation,» a learning society where the education of children and adults is the highest national priority, on par with a strong economy, high employment, and national security.

In it, I pose this challenge: «Imagine an Education Nation, a learning society where the education of children and adults is the highest national priority, on par with a strong economy, high employment, and national security.»

The nation needs to forge a fresh American consensus that rescuing marriage — a Marshall Plan to rebuild shattered American homes — is a matter of the highest national priority.

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The two - page document, marked «Top Secret,» mentions a draft decision paper that focuses on the «relative merits of retaining [deleted in document] as a high - priority secret national security installation versus the merits of the NASA belief that there would be domestic and foreign problems created by withholding the photograph.»

The controversial Perth Freight Link has been put on Infrastructure Australia's list of high priority projects that would improve living standards and productivity, as part of a 15 - year national plan released today.

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

The National Priorities 2016 series provides a high level overview of key issues that the federal and provincial governments need to address, and provides an opportunity to highlight policy...

Despite the limping conclusion (he is writing for Commonweal, after all), Steinfels has nailed the mindlessness of a progressive insouciance that thinks it a good thing that, in the words of one author, younger Catholics «place a higher priority on being good Christians than they do on being good Catholics,» when «good Christian» is indistinguishable from the cultural liberalism promoted by, for instance, the National Catholic Reporter.

And the church must be prepared to stand by the people when they struggle for an economy that gives priority to eco-justice and social justice rather than economic growth through trans - national high technology.

The referendum will seek $ 115 Million in funding for three school construction projects, major renovations and repairs, continuation of CCSD's National award - winning technology program, replacement of aging school buses, land acquisition with a focus on a solution for Cherokee High School overcrowding and, «the No. 1 priority»: continued retirement of bond debt from the last 15 years of construction projects.

Food safety is one of our highest priorities, and USDA is committed to ensuring that food served through the National School Lunch Program is both healthy and safe.

Examples include supporting the government to enact a national newborn health framework that identifies high - priority interventions for scale - up, and guidelines that help health workers deliver consistent, high - quality newborn care.

Flynn, a businessman from Hunter, is being backed by the Transport Workers Union, a national labor organization, whose international president, John Samuelsen, (also FORMER president of TWU Local 100 here in New York), said in a statement to be released by Flynn's campaign that the candidate is «a leader who understands that the economic security of families must be the highest priority of Congress, and that unions are a necessary partner in that mission.»

The Campaign for One New York has employed some of the mayor's advisers and has pushed for some of his most high - profile priorities, from universal pre-k to affordable housing, in addition to championing his national presence.

Ms. Deacon, what specifically should the federal government be doing about the nation's infrastructure and how high of a national spending priority should it be relative to other priorities.

«We should be very careful at a time when the British economy is still haltingly recovering from the worst economic shock in a generation to create a very high degree and a prolonged period of uncertainty because in my view uncertainty is the enemy of growth and jobs and our priority, in this government and in the national duty, has got to be to foster growth and jobs.»

Walker has his $ 50,000 campaign cash from the roadbuilders, explaining why he can not look fairly at the costs, value, return on investment and priority of building this first Wisconsin link of the national high speed rail system for Wisconsin.

He reiterated George Osborne's pledge that repealing the increase in National Insurance on those earning # 21,000 or more will be a higher priority.

Orange, who has made constituent services a priority in her career, voted against gun - control legislation arising from the Sandy Hook school shooting in December 2012 — earning high marks from the National Rifle Association.

The Republican incumbent then pointed to his experience in dealing with national security issues and emphasized that he made the issue a high priority during his campaign.

«The Rugby Africa Bronze Cup is a national event and we, Ghana Rugby, has the responsibility to represent Ghana and fly its flag high as very first priority.

«Cancer research is a high priority for both countries — just witness the launch of a new National Cancer Moonshot initiative in the United States early this year,» said Tom Wang, chief international officer at AAAS and director of the AAAS center, referring to the plan President Barack Obama unveiled earlier this year to direct $ 1 billion toward battling cancer.

Instead, it contains a long list of priorities, from building national science centers and space programs to expansion of major infrastructure with thousands of kilometers of new high - speed rail and roadways.

A recent 2015 report by the UK's Cabinet Office, National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies, identified Pandemic Influenza as the highest priority natural hazards risk.

The GREAT3 challenge is designed to improve methods for measuring weak lensing in preparation for future dark matter / dark energy missions, such as the European Space Agency's Euclid, in which NASA plays an important role, and the National Academy of Science's highest priority for NASA, WFIRST — also known as the WFIRST - AFTA mission, which stands for Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets.

Could such spacecraft address high - priority science of the type identified in decadal science reviews from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine?

Other priorities include: upgrading the LHC, which shut down in February for two years to boost its energies from 7 TeV to 14 TeV; plans to build an International Linear Collider in Japan, to collide beams of electrons and positrons as a complement to the LHC's proton findings; and a major US project to exploit high - intensity neutrino beams generated at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

«Given that Canada is currently experiencing a rapid growth in the population of foreign - born citizens — one of the highest rates of any Western nation — the mental health status of immigrants and refugees should be a national priority,» writes Dr. Kelly Anderson, an assistant professor at Western University, London, Ontario, and a fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), with coauthors.

«Visitor and staff safety is always our highest priority at Everglades National Park,» said Superintendent Dan Kimball.

Funding for USGS's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers would shrink in half, while «climate research and development» funding would also fall to pay for what the budget request calls «higher priorities» (Greenwire, Feb. 8).

Then, in 2001, the National Academy of Sciences» «decadal survey» of astronomy — a summary of the field's primary goals for the next 10 years — listed a survey telescope as a high priority for the field.

In hindsight, Auerbach believes this should have been a higher priority — perhaps coordinated by national public health organizations.

Even if you are not directly working on a «hot topic du jour,» your chance of funding is higher if you can connect your research to areas of national priority.

Marie S. Bernard, deputy director of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, said that learning more about the impact of age on cognition is a high priority for researchers.

Brain research is already considered high priority is many countries as evidenced by recently established national and regional programs: 1) The EU - funded Human Brain Project, established in 2013, overarches neuroscience and ICT, with the aim to model human brain, better understand brain disorders, and develop new therapies and technologies.

In order to obtain the comprehensive designation, which is the highest ranking the National Cancer Institute (NCI) gives, a center must meet strict criteria that include a strong core of basic laboratory research in several fields, the ability to translate those research findings into therapies that can one day be used to treat patients, a program of high - priority clinical trials, and a commitment to community service and outreach activities related to cancer prevention and control.

Context Support of research to facilitate translation of scientific discoveries to the prevention and treatment of human disease is a high priority for the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Through the years, new curricula and applied research activities have been added that reflect new technology and respond to high priority regional and national needs.

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American voters say «reversing declining trends in children's health and education» should be the Clinton Administration's third - highest priority, according to a survey released by a national children's - advocacy coalition.

Public - health researchers have learned to place a high priority on clear causal inferences, a priority reinforced by their funders (mostly the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).

According to a 2002 national survey, student achievement ranks second only to financial concerns as school board members» highest priority.

The National Association of Elementary School Principals, convinced that early - childhood learning is linked to later academic and employment success, has decided to give high priority to preschool education.

Whether we deploy many more «whole schools» of this kind or opt mainly for specialized courses and programs within ordinary schools, the kinds of rigorous and advanced education that selective - admission schools seek to provide, and the youngsters that they serve, need to rise higher in our national consciousness and our policy priorities.

However, states and school districts often struggle to prepare and retain high - quality educators, and in 2014, the Department of Education made having an equal distribution of effective teachers a national priority with its announcement of the «Excellent Educators for All» initiative.

Led by national education expert Marcus Robinson, MEF convenes educational partners and helps them coalesce around the highest priorities for improvement.