Sentences with phrase «how decades of development»

Hurricane Harvey unfortunately shows yet again how decades of development and politics, which do not factor in environmental extremes, then causes a disaster.

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During my two decades as a professor of theology I saw how the academic Catholic left reduced itself to repeating easy slogans about the contextual nature of knowledge, the historicity of revelation, and the development of doctrine.

Born out of a series of parents» workshops that combined Siegel's cutting - edge research on how communication impacts brain development with Hartzell's decades of experience as a child - development specialist and parent educator, this book guides parents through creating the necessary foundations for loving and secure relationships with their children.

After almost a decade of mining in both Ghana and South Africa, the contrasting state of development in Obuasi as compared to Johannesburg speaks volumes of how multinational mining has been inimical to the development of Ghana.

«I recall how he worked tirelessly to ensure that peace reigned in his domain and beyond; little wonder that his over two decades on the throne witnessed monumental development which no doubt has positively enriched the people of Omu - Aran in particular and Kwara State in general,» Saraki stated.

... [T] he members of the Board have achieved something remarkable — they have put aside decades of disagreements and created a roadmap for how SPURA development can meet community needs.»

Under the leadership of Chair Dominic Pisciotta and Committee Chair David McWater, the members of the Board have achieved something remarkable — they have put aside decades of disagreements and created a roadmap for how SPURA development can meet community needs.

In a series of separate public hearings this fall, members of Congress and New Mexico state legislators heard testimonies from the full range of people who have something to say about uranium mining — community members aggrieved by six decades of mining impacts, industry officials trumpeting new jobs from renewed uranium activity, and government regulators trying to figure out how to address both the past uranium legacy and future uranium developments.

Unofficial newcomer's guide to types of AA meetings, meeting norms and conventions, what to expect and how to behave at your first Alcoholics For over four decades, the World Economic Forum's mission — improving the state of the world — has driven the design and development of the Annual

Based on decades of research in child and adolescent development, neuroscience, education, and psychology, we know that relationships with teachers, parents, and other supportive adults determine how school - age children acquire their personal guidance systems, full of interconnected abilities and pathways to success.

Teaching social and emotional skills is fashionable in education right now, but it's been part of high - quality teaching for decades, and randomized trials over time have shown how important it is to adult success, said Stephanie M. Jones, a professor of education at Harvard who studies social and emotional development.

The study, authored by veteran analysts Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett, surveyed over 700 education professors across the land to determine how they view their own roles and what they think of myriad K - 12 policy developments that have taken place over the last decade.

Their argument is that the standards disregard decades of research on child development, on how children learn.

«When you follow people for more than two decades, an understanding of how early experiences shape later development can be achieved,» Reynolds notes.

One of the most innovative developments in American education during the last decade has been the reconceptualization of school districts and how...

Like the next - generation pickups and SUVs, it has been in development for much of the decade, and it's not clear how quickly the twin - cam will replace the small - block (which will then be 65 years old) in GM's narrowing V - 8 lineup.

But despite the competence, it feels somewhat unrefined and a bit agricultural — not quite hiding its age and showing just how far development of newer rivals has come in the last decade.

My boss, friend and mentor Patrick Atkinson, the founder of the Guatemalan development organization Nuestros Ahijados, has spent decades spreading the message that, «Most people want to help, most people can help in some way, but they just don't know how.»

Nintendo's iconic Mario franchise is a testament to just how much games have evolved over the past 4 decades and their potential to adapt to just about any genre imaginable; the plumber stars in just about everything, including side - scrolling platformers, turn - based RPGs, 3D adventures, sports competitions, fighting games, and even a handful of learning and child - development titles.

From shareware superstars to the Steam gold rush: How indie conquered the PC (Richard Cobbett / PC Gamer) «Indeed, the world of indie development is now so important that it's hard to remember that it's only really a decade or so old.

Conceived as an adjunct to painting in the earliest years of its development in the first decades of the 19th century, when many painters discovered how useful photographs could be in composing their canvases, photography quickly assumed an artistic presence and legitimacy of its own (albeit one that often still took its cues from traditional painterly modes of representation).

Decades of development show how versatile the prospect of putting a few shapes on a broad canvas can be, with many vagaries and tensions.

The science or environment ministers of one nation after another told us of how they are suffering already from droughts, typhoons, flooding and sea level rise which have set back their development by years or decades.

Steve Rosenberg, senior vice president of Scenic Hudson, who has overseen the organization's work in Beacon for more than a decade, said, «Senator Saland's support for the Long Dock project demonstrates how economic development and healing the environment are two sides of the same coin.

The research from top scientists studying a decade of atmospheric data has shown how cloud and weather development are affected by aerosols in the atmosphere.

There have been significant efforts in the past two decades devoted to researching the role of fathers in healthy child development and to building the awareness of how to strengthen and support the influence of fathers.

Thus, for the past decade, research into the effects of early child care for infants and toddlers has been based on an ecological model of development that addresses environmental influences in family and child care contexts in conjunction with child characteristics and how experiences in one setting may shape the effects of experiences in the other.

More than a decade ago, Hart and Risley documented how children from different social classes achieve dramatically different trajectories of vocabulary development as a result of what has become known as the 30 million word gap.38 The current study demonstrates similarly dramatic gradients in cognitive function using a national sample of children.

Our interest in early childhood development is rooted in our own experiences, personal and professional: We're both fathers and former legislators — in fact, one of us is raising seven kids and the other served for a decade as chairman or ranking member of the House Education and Labor Committee, witnessing firsthand how government could work to help expand opportunities for children.

Drawing from a decade of new research on how Americans think about child and youth development, FrameWorks offers new insights and recommendations in this MessageBrief (2015).

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