Sentences with phrase «instead focus all of their efforts»

Estrella said the councilman couldn't secure badly - needed funds for the neighborhood and has instead focused all of his efforts on stumping for State Sen. Adriano Espaillat.

Rather than describing a situation in which publishers withheld great books from consumers (which is what it sounds like on the surface of his argument), Byng feels that publishers should cut their titles — and therefore the number of authors they work with — and instead focus all of their efforts and attention on a few titles that they deem worthy.

Not exact matches

If your own internal effort (however well - intended) is a sideline or a sometime thing instead of being laser - focused and constantly top of mind, it's gonna lead to a second - rate result.

So instead of trying to get more users with marketing, the company focused its efforts on nudging the behavior that locked in the interest already there.

That's why, instead of solely focusing on the end result, it's important to set different types of goals — including smaller, more immediate ones, intermediate targets, and stretch goals — that all build on your efforts to reach that final destination.

In a statement to Business Insider, the CCA noted that the DOJ's directive would affect only 7 % of the company's business, and it will instead be focusing on «new, innovative opportunities we've been exploring in recent years in a proactive effort to meet their evolving needs.»

Instead of trickling off, make a pointed move to adjust your persona focus, removing the «new home buyer» persona and focusing all your efforts on the personas that better align with your new business strategy.

The Hulu point is interesting in its own right: Disney could choose to focus its streaming efforts there instead of building its own service, but I suspect it would rather own it all.

Her efforts to focus on the difficulties of Americans in finding work was part of the reason liberal Democrats had urged President Obama to nominate her to succeed Bernanke instead of the other leading candidate, Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary who had been Obama's top economic adviser.

At the same time, Obama decided not to place a clear, ambitious agenda at the heart of his reelection campaign, focusing instead on a relentless effort to portray Mitt Romney as an unacceptable alternative.

In other words, instead of focusing all of our efforts on making «supply» illegal, perhaps we should work on decreasing demand.

He said that instead of targeting fellow Muslims at mosques and market places, they'll also be focusing their efforts to attack Christian humanitarian groups.

Instead of focusing on other peoples views, why don't you do some good in this world and spend your time and effort on real issues — like the American children that are starving.

Three or four years ago we decided to shift the focus of our equity efforts in Massachusetts: instead of emphasizing access to educational opportunities we emphasize the effectiveness of the education provided to minority students.

In a «great reversal» (Smith's term), evangelicals retreated from these reformist efforts around the turn of the century, fostering instead a social pessimism and an almost exclusive focus on evangelism and individual piety.

And they've found that Oklahoma law enforcement agencies focus their efforts on the routes where cash from drug transactions often appear — instead of routes where people traffic the drugs themselves.

Juventus manager believes the 3 - 0 deficit will be too much for his side to overturn and will instead focus on their Serie A efforts in the hope of retaining the Italian title

Instead of praising kids for a job well done, focus on your child's efforts — even the outcome isn't successful.

It's easier said than done, especially when I'm half - asleep, but it definitely helps to change my attitude: Instead of thinking about how much I hate being awake, I make an effort to focus on how much I love this time with just my daughter and me.

By focusing on the effort they put into their performance instead of the outcome, you can help your athlete learn from failure and give them a sense of control over how they perform.

Focus encouragement on effort instead of outcome.

Instead of focusing on the fact that your son scored the winning touchdown in the football game, praise the effort that got him there.

«Instead of respecting the right of citizens in every state to make the laws they wish regarding marriage, and instead of focusing on the serious economic problems confronting our state and our nation, Kirsten Gillibrand has chosen to focus on a national campaign pledging to, in her words, «take this fight all across the country,» in an effort to impose her own personal social agenda.Instead of respecting the right of citizens in every state to make the laws they wish regarding marriage, and instead of focusing on the serious economic problems confronting our state and our nation, Kirsten Gillibrand has chosen to focus on a national campaign pledging to, in her words, «take this fight all across the country,» in an effort to impose her own personal social agenda.instead of focusing on the serious economic problems confronting our state and our nation, Kirsten Gillibrand has chosen to focus on a national campaign pledging to, in her words, «take this fight all across the country,» in an effort to impose her own personal social agenda.»

And ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said they should be focusing their efforts on a future UK - EU trade deal instead of trying to block Brexit.

Instead, she will lead an effort between the American Federation of Teachers and the state AFL - CIO focused on issues such as wage equity, education opportunities and women in leadership roles.

Instead of focusing all efforts on getting the British economy back on track, the Conservative party will now be tied up in its own internal renegotiation discussions that have very little to do with the reality of treaty change among 27 member states.

George - Fields decided not to continue into the next school year and instead focus her efforts as president and CEO of the Harlem - based educational consulting firm REACH Educational Solutions.

The U.S. National Science Foundation — funded effort will tap extensive museum collections as much as possible, instead of freshly caught bird samples, and will sequence about 5000 short pieces of the DNA, focusing on regions that are very highly conserved among all birds.

Instead, Lewis and other committee members say that the focus of recovery efforts must be on improving habitat for spawning and rearing.

Businesses in the public and private sectors teach people to recognize phishing, but those efforts often fail or don't work for very long because the training ignores users» habits and instead focuses exclusively on how users process information, says Vishwanath, whose latest research on email habits and phishing outcomes is published in the Journal of Computer - Mediated Communication.

Sometimes oncogenes manage to initiate tumor development in the presence of p53, but, even then, the tumor suppressor doesn't give up and focuses its efforts instead on limiting the tumor's ability to invade and metastasize.

In order to solve these problems, instead of focusing our marketing efforts on seat manufacturers we started to examine the needs of the end users of our product: people with back problems.

This is the reason why, instead of trying to lose weight or worrying about your BMI, you should focus your effort on building as much muscle mass as possible and then maintain.

Belly blaster: Instead of focusing on cutting out junk, center your efforts on adding in healthy fare (think extra servings of vegetables at each meal).

Rather, my point of contention is that most people spend WAY too much time focusing all of their efforts on abs - specific exercises, instead of focusing their efforts on more effective full body exercises that stimulate a much greater fat - burning and muscle building hormonal response, burn more calories, stimulate the metabolism to a higher extent, and also indirectly work the abs to a decent degree anyway.

Focus your «cardio» efforts on shorter duration variable intensity interval training, wind sprints, hill sprints, stair sprints, jump rope, and other higher intensity (and variable intensity) forms of training instead of relying on long duration, steady - pace boring traditional cardio.

In order for me to take advantage of this training effect so that I could lift not only heavy weights overhead, but do so with speed, I would focus my efforts on the Strict Press, Push Press and Jerk as my core lifts instead of the Bench Press.

I also made the effort once in class to really focus on the internal aspect instead of just going through the movements.

An advantage of using a machine is that it helps you focus on the efforts of your movement instead of on the mechanics of the exercise.

As such, it's taken a real effort of restraint not to start incorporating that feeling into my outfits this month, but I managed to resist and instead focused on the fact that it still feels a lot like the height of autumn thanks to the autumn leaves that are still holding strong out there — isn't the autumn colour normally done by now??

They decided that instead of focusing on volume, offering countless profiles for singles to swipe through, they would put «all of our efforts into one person.»

Instead, it would be better if you can make a little effort to understand the person rather than focusing on understand people of the entire race.

But despite the title and the general sense of a ubiquitous presence that his character has in the movie, Schwarzenegger is rarely onscreen in the film, which is instead focused on the hapless efforts of a team that has been assembled for the sole purpose of murdering Gunther in the name of occupational glory.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

Academics say the results show intervention efforts should be aimed at preventing bullying behaviours full stop, instead of focusing on whether they happen online or offline.

What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores — in a deliberate way; and, through both of these efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.

Instead of focusing the education conversation around a select number of hot topics ~ often related to school governance ~ we should focus our efforts on overcoming larger societal realities and their impact on student learning.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all - too - common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high - quality instruction.

In a letter sent to superintendents and heads of charter schools on Friday, they implied that California will take the path of least resistance to federal sanctions, focusing instead on the state's effort to revise its own accountability system, using the Academic Performance Index.

Their focus groups revealed how Black teachers were reduced to disciplinarians instead of being respected for their ability to manage their classrooms; teachers who had a penchant for teaching and serving Black students well found themselves restricted to only teaching Black students; and teachers who put in extra time and effort still weren't heard in staff meetings.