Sentences with phrase «low priority areas»

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It's unclear from that list what, exactly, are low - priority areas, however.

Where a dollar can be saved in an area of lower priority, it will be redirected to help sustain high - priority areas, such as health, education and job creation.

Other priority sites for on - ground research are the Lower Balonne Floodplain, Upper Murray and Lower Murray, while some components of work will also access and / or generate data from additional areas of the Basin.

The next priority should be areas of the country experiencing the combination of both high unemployment and a low number of vacancies.

«That will mean stepping up efficiency savings, it will mean accelerating public service reforms, it will mean committing to far - reaching asset sales and securing responsible pay deals and it will mean switching resources from lower to higher priority areas that better meet the new challenges.»

Buoyed by low voter turnout and an effective ground operation, Republicans picked up two Southern California seats and held a slim lead in another Bay Area district, which was considered the top priority of the state's labor unions.

The 11 Appropriations bills in this package reflect specific, thoughtful, line - by - line decisions to target funds to critical programs, make reductions to lower - priority areas, and wisely invest the taxpayers» hard - earned money.

Law enforcement agencies in the area and around the world have long considered these issues to be low priority and haven't devoted sufficient attention and resources to them.

The cost - of - services model can also uncover relatively high spending in an area of low priority.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

High - priority location areas shall be in high - density, low - economic urban schools; low - density, low - economic rural schools; and schools that earned a grade of «F» or three consecutive grades of «D» pursuant to s. 1008.34.

Both competitions will fund projects across five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; helping implement rigorous academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

Until fairly recently, the use of technology in social studies education and research in the area of technology have been low priorities (Berson, 1996; Martorella, 1997).

Still, supporters said the program would give priority to students from low - income families, those who live in an area with poor performing schools, prior scholarship recipients or siblings of those who had received a scholarship.

Nevertheless, Committee members found the evidence on the impact of high - quality pre-K and third - grade reading so compelling that members recommended making difficult choices to prioritize these areas even at the potential expense of other K - 12 funding priorities, such as lowering class sizes, investing in teacher professional development, and improving classroom technology, that have not been shown to correlate as strongly with improved student outcomes, particularly for high - need students.

(1) provide subgrants to eligible entities serving a diversity of geographic areas, giving priority to entities serving greater numbers or percentages of children from low - income families; and (2) develop or enhance comprehensive literacy instruction plans that ensure high - quality instruction and effective strategies in reading and writing for children from early childhood education through grade 12,

(1) provide subgrants to eligible entities serving a diversity of geographic areas, giving priority to entities serving greater numbers or percentages of children from low - income families; and (2) develop or enhance comprehensive literacy instruction plans that ensure high - quality instruction and effective strategies in reading and writing for children from early childhood education through grade 12, including English learners and children with disabilities.

The funding also helps support the research projects themselves, allowing research in areas that are critical for animal health and welfare, but are currently of low priority for federal granting agencies.

For example, bird conservation professionals» values could guide cat colony management in high conservation priority areas, whereas cat colony caretaker values could guide management in low conservation priority areas.

I agree that climate change ranks low (22nd out of 22 potential priority areas in a recent Gallup Poll, as I recall) among the American public, particularly when people are confronted by the reality that doing something meaningful will entail costs.

In considering climate change implications, it would seem that this work identifies priority areas for developing lower - carbon fuels — i.e., biofuels for aviation or, say, Qatar's process for turning natural gas into a jet fuel.

The priority research areas are: renewables and energy storage; consumer participation through smart grids and appliances; efficiency to make buildings energy neutral; and sustainable, more efficient and lower carbon transport.

Now that we are unmistakably on a low - carbon path, businesses must continue to make progress in three priority action areas.

The service / marketing model for lower priority clients because of lower - revenue combined with difficult clients re payment, other reasons, wouldn't necessarily work for all types of legal practice areas or evolving areas of litigation where law is being shaped / not defined well yet because of new technological applications, etc..

So it seems entirely plausible that the proposed university funding policy will have the effect of confining medicine to a well - off section of the community, encouraging people to work in high paying specialist fields, reducing the number of people working in low - paid «priority» areas.

committed low levels of government expenditure on research and development in key areas like energy supply, juxtaposed with the rising importance of low - emissions energy technologies for Australia's mitigation effort, suggest that current funding levels do not reflect the priority required to meet the rapidly changing pattern of demand established by an emissions trading scheme.

The poor old hallway, rather like the landing, is always one of the areas of the home low among the must - do - something - about priorities.