Sentences with phrase «less focus of»

Setting aside for the moment Cuomo's (apparently) poor grasp of the relevant science, one wonders: if, as he suggests, spay / neuter services aimed at low - income residents are sufficient to control «feral cat» populations, then why is this issue even a topic of conversation — much less the focus of a controversial piece of legislation?

The various meats has a much less focus of salt and drinking water than the solution so Mother Nature will take over to equalize the two.

Not exact matches

With less focus on mundane and repetitive daily asks, these bots leave more space for innovation, allowing you as leader to stay ahead of your competition every step of the way.

Secondly, the site is focusing on traditional, web 1.0 display ads, with less than 15 percent of its ads utilizing social data to reach a more targeted audience.

I bring my laptop, and I've got headphones on so I can zone in — typically I'll listen to classical music, but if something requires a little less focus, I'll put on some kind of rock»n' roll, which probably indexes toward Bruce Springsteen.

The increasingly tactical focus of marketing means less gets invested in the luxury of storytelling.

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

PREIT isn't just diversifying its tenants, the CEO added, noting that less than half of its malls are now mainly apparel - focused.

Whatever you choose, try to think less of what's «cool» in the media at present, and focus on what the employee wants out of their work day.

There were several reasons for the upgrade, but the two big ones were aggressive share repurchases and a continued diversification of revenues sources, meaning less focus on traditional advertising.

«Less time answering phones empowers employees to focus on the quality of the pizza and making customers happy,» John Schnatter, founder and CEO of Papa John's, said in a statement.

Researchers, including the authors, have found that older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less.

In another study conducted by psychologists Jane Vignovic and Lori Foster Thompson that focused solely on electronic communication, writers of the message were found to «be less conscientious, intelligent and trustworthy when the message contained many grammatical errors.»

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

As president of Y Combinator, of which he was part of the first class, Altman has gained popularity through a nuanced, founder - focused personality, less brash than many founders and venture capitalists, and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham famously said that «Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder [he] refer [s] to most when... advising startups.»

Anything less and I won't be able to focus the remainder of the day.

While a hungry child is less likely to be able to focus, most of the research looks at kids who are part of school breakfast programs, which means the majority of those kids come from underprivileged backgrounds and may not be getting enough to eat in general.

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

Since Chen came aboard late last year, he's focused the company on its traditional customer base of business users and outsourced other functions so the company can pay less attention to the consumer market.

Updegrave adds, «As for choosing investments for your portfolio, I recommend you focus mostly, if not exclusively, on broadly diversified low - cost index funds or ETFs, many of which charge just.2 percent of assets or less in annual expenses.

Yet for all the focus on China, its $ 7 - trillion economy is much less than half the size of the European Union's.

Entrepreneurs who focus on their passions tend to be more successful than their less passionate peers, and there are plenty of ways to find your passion and turn it into a thriving business.

All these techniques can be boiled down to one basic piece of advice: Spend less time focused on yourself.

All along, the rhetoric has focused less on policy than on Campbell's reversal on the HST issue since the 2009 election campaign, and the extension of sales taxes to services the PST overlooked.

User privacy was less of a focus.

«Expanding the focus of law enforcement beyond people who are real threats would make all Americans less safe by diverting resources, while millions of undocumented folks who don't pose a threat will live in fear of deportation.»

We spend hours doing that without realizing there could be a much better way to communicate with the help of A.I. routines, more focused discussions, online chat, and other systems designed to help us communicate more and sift less.

This is a more optimal way to be optimizing your conversion rate because you are focusing on increasing the conversion rate of the page instead of looking at lesser details.

There's been recent attention focusing on the sugar industry — and new dietary guidelines that are encouraging Americans to consume less of it.

And to get there, Alberta needs to focus more on coaxing and wheedling other provinces into seeing things its way, and less on defending a narrow «Alberta First» point of view.

Entrepreneurs living in the Paris of the Plains can focus more time on business and spend less time worrying about paying the rent, considering housing is 59 percent less than the national average.

«The beauty of doing farm - to - table is less ingredients is more, and it really focuses on the flavor profile of each one of those ingredients.»

In late January, Obama will give his fifth State of the Union address, setting his agenda for the final stretch before the 2014 midterm elections render him less able to focus Washington's attention on his own priorities.

The selections, which come from IBISWorld's exhaustive list of U.S. sectors, focus on industries where the industry life cycle is mature, and all major players have less than 5 percent market share.

He said that for the retrial, the defense focused less on mental health records and experts and more on getting jurors to see into the mind of the woman who Parnham said drowned her children because she thought that if she didn't they would be taken by Satan.

«I like that they're focused on doing one thing very well, but the more diversified your business, the less there's a chance one area will take a big bite out of your earnings when it's disrupted.»

Looking at the healthcare debate, and the broader activities of the Trump administration, through a systems science lens helps us take perhaps a more dispassionate view — to focus less on trying to predict where each moment will lead, and more on observing the interaction of factors that will, ultimately, determine outcomes.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

Somebody who should get more focused when things get bad, not less focused, and should actually get more patient at the severity of the situation, not less patient.

More broadly, the regulatory agencies in the United States and the Financial Stability Board internationally have work under way focusing on possible fire - sale risk associated with the growing share of less liquid bonds held in asset management portfolios on behalf of investors who may be counting on same - day redemption when valuations fall.

Also, I now send about 30 percent less email, and, while I can't control how much email comes to me, I only focus on those that truly require my attention, which is about 40 percent of my total volume.

Introverts make up almost 50 % of the workforce, and while extroverts are considered the movers and shakers, introverts are just as valuable for getting the job done, possessing key strengths such as creativity, focus, and grit that are often overlooked because they're less vocal or visible.

ALS, which killed Shepard, is the focus of entrepreneurs working in healthcare to rid us of this and lesser - known diseases.

While there are lots of potential ways we could help working mothers, one that may seem counterintuitive is to focus less on the handful of women at the top — just 28 of Canada's 500 largest companies are headed by women — and to emphasize instead the successes happening in the middle.

This is, of course, easier said than done, but marketers can start by focusing less on the nebulous objective of empowering women and instead push themselves to identify a real insight about the female audience that can be tied back to the company or product in a meaningful way.

VSCO offers free cloud syncing and uploads to a personalized VSCO Grid account, which is essentially a hi - res, ultra-minimalist version of Instagram that has less of a focus on social networking and more of a focus on pretty pictures.

«It needs to be much more focused and less involved with the political and financial interests of the Clintons, and more focused on all the things it's actually accomplishing.»

«In a world in which our attention is increasingly under siege, better focus makes it possible get more work done, in less time, at a higher level of quality,» the two write.

Instead of being focused on creating something that is perhaps slightly less unique, but scalable and repeatable, the entrepreneur is married to the complexity.

And while Sears Holdings CEO Eddie Lampert, a hedge fund manager who controls about half of its shares, has repeatedly said in recent years that he has been trying to transform the business into a retailer focused on members and less reliant on physical stores, the sales declines are only getting worse and suggest little customer attachment to the brand names.