Sentences with phrase «little support in their efforts»

When parents do question the validity or wisdom of administering vaccines to their child, they receive little support in their efforts to make an informed choice.

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While denouncing divorce, we have expended too little effort on improving the quality of marriages, preparing people for marriage, and supporting couples in the midst of marital difficulties.

Editorials condemned «slackers» in the church who refused to support the national effort and revealed little tolerance for those who chose the route of conscientious objection.

It also found little support for its effort within the church, which was not prepared to distinguish between normative moral statements and statements of pastoral care, especially when that nuance was ignored by secular reporters in search of a good story.

In the last decades most international efforts have focused on distributing food to vulnerable populations; with very little support dedicated to strengthening the ability of small holder farming to adequately feed their local communities.

Your child's dentist might also encourage and support your little one in his efforts to give up the pacifier.

Little over a month ago I pledged during my inauguration that I will travel anywhere, to meet anyone, at any time in support of the effort to unite our county.

By this point there was little doubt as to Washington's talent, and despite the fact that she would be overshadowed by such big names as Anthony Hopkins and Meg Ryan in such subsequent efforts as Bad Company, The Human Stain, and Against the Ropes, she still managed to make an impression with a series of memorable supporting roles.

Following an unlikely appearance as a football player in The Replacements (2000) and a turn as the son of Old Scratch in Little Nicky (2000), Ifans» role as a socially challenged forest dweller turned opera - loving socialite in the eccentric Human Nature provided audiences with abundant laughs and a further glimpse into the quirkiness of a truly unique actor.Of course the ever - eccentric Ifans was only warming up, and after supporting roles in such efforts as The 51st State, The Shipping News and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Ifans once again took the lead in the 2003 comedy Donnie Deckchair.

It also highlights the effort that Linklater has made in support of Independent filmmaking and how he was influential in helping create the Austin Film Society whereby old film prints could be saved and showed, as well as raising money from filmmakers to help make more films.Overall, it does little but scratch the surface and a bit more in - depth analysis to his films would have been welcome but to paraphrase Billy Bob Thornton on the outtakes at the end; «Rick Linklater doesn't need anyone to make a documentary about him.

Fostering the love of reading in your class may take a little work, but there are plenty of resources available to support you in this effort.

If some teachers could earn improvements in their wages and working conditions from their own efforts rather than from the efforts of their organized representatives or affiliated politicians, then more - effective teachers would have little reason to support the unions financially or politically.

State Director of Education William L. Lepley said in announcing his decision this month that the education department's yearlong effort to spell out such outcomes had met with too much controversy and too little support.

Michigan's effort — though laudable, and in many ways heroic — was hobbled from the start from too many compromises and too little political support.

According to news reports, Knopf, in her official capacity, visited with school boards and school administrators across Vermont and reported back that there was little support for some of the Race to the Top policies including the effort to add more and more charter schools.

Yet little effort has historically been made to support academic growth in the low - income students who test poorly on the assessment exams, they said.

Heroic efforts were made in the recent past to turn the school around with little support from the District.

Although districts in San Diego and New York City drove reform with little direct state policy support, accountability systems in California and New York State had raised concerns about achievement and thus motivated these reform efforts.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTIn the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTin particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

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Being that I do live a little further away, I love to put on benefits in my local area to help support our rescue efforts and familiarize more people in Central Wisconsin of Cocos Heart Dog Rescue.

We are honored to support your efforts to allow KC to pay forward the momentum you started so very long ago by opening your home to a little dog in need of a best friend, forever.

07/24/13 - Cleveland Scene - Caged: How Ohio Politicians Keep the State's Puppy Mill Business Booming with Little Regulation 06/27/13 - Animal Law Coalition - Proposed OH Puppy Mill Regulations «Terrible» 05/13/13 - Bargain Hunter - Dog kennel inspectors will be focused on Holmes county, surrounding areas 11/29/12 - The Best Friends Blog - After decades of frustration, a new strategy against puppy mills Excerpt from this article: In the case of puppy mills the greatest efforts have gone into exposing the horrors of factory farming pets, with the intent of generating public support for legislative measures that will improve conditions in high - volume breeding operationIn the case of puppy mills the greatest efforts have gone into exposing the horrors of factory farming pets, with the intent of generating public support for legislative measures that will improve conditions in high - volume breeding operationin high - volume breeding operations.

Although the ditchweed is primarily being eradicated in mid-western states where it was once grown to support WWII efforts with the encouragement of the federal government, these plants would have little or no psychoactive effect on people who might smoke them because they contain very low levels of THC, the drug component in marijuana.

And since this is official blog for the company, I feel completely justified in providing a little link support and highlighting some of those efforts.

«Despite the best efforts of former Chief Judges, there was little or no involvement of our judges in such areas as: financial management; operational decisions; the implementation of judicial support programs; the use of statistics and management information for assessing caseloads or judicial resource needs; or the day - to - day administrative needs of the judges and justices of the peace.»

If you're interested in supporting the handset, you can donate as little as $ 5 to the effort and get your name on the company's newsletter.

The changes to the HomeKit support page appear to be part of an effort to shed a little additional clarity on what can and can't be achieved using using the HomeKit framework when used in conjunction with HomeKit enabled hardware.

On a new effort to help developers work a little bit easier, Microsoft has decided to partner with Canonical (creators of Ubuntu Linux) to expand the command line capabilities in Windows 10 by adding native Bash support for Linux commands.

The company will use Android app support to make it easier for developers to port across their existing applications built in Java and C++ with very little effort.

How to Build and Support Family - Centered Practices in After School Kakli, Kreider, Little, Buck, & Coffrey (2006) United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Harvard Family Research Project, & Build the Out - of - School Time Network Presents a guide that includes research on why family engagement matters, strategies to engage families, case studies of promising efforts, and an evaluation tool for improving practice.