Sentences with phrase «main public focus»

Though money was the main public focus of the lawyers» contract demands (a pay increase of 10 per cent over four years, the same conditions an arbitrator awarded Quebec's 450 Crown counsel), Dion says the real driver that triggered the civil lawyers» strike on Oct. 24, 2016 — and fuelled their desire to stay out even after the LANEQ's war chest was depleted and many members were in dire personal financial straits — was their indignation over the government's refusal to grant them the same right to a binding arbitration process in exchange for the right to strike as they did to the province's 450 - member Crown attorneys» union (the Association des procureurs aux poursuites criminelles et pénales).

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Public service aside, the LinkedIn executive chairman's main focus seemed to be the size of the loss — nearly a billion dollars in a single year.

Instead, «you want to create the large permissionless open public networks, and support that as your main focus, because that is where the developer energy is and technology interest is.»

The main focus was to promote harmonization, equivalence and cooperation among governments, while involving public - private participation and cooperation.

In the view of Dr. Johann Overath there are currently two main trends in glass packaging: «On the one hand there is increasing public focus on sustainability.

«Our main focus is to develop a community park to be available for the general public.»

My main area of research focuses on developing public policies that are effective in reducing the harms that result from excessive alcohol use.

Public Relations Committee Coordinator: Matt Patzke Purpose: The main focus of this committee is to serve as the external voice of the WATA.

The main focus of the summit, with the theme, «Climate Change Financing,» according to the organisers, will be to innovatively pool public and private finance «to support and accelerate our common efforts to fight climate change.»

Our main focus is to not only raise funds for library programs, but to spread the word about the importance and value of our public libraries, and the numerous resources they make available to everyone.

The «motivation of the suspect» has been made the main focus for prosecutors when they assess assisted dying cases, but the director of public prosecutions has denied relaxing rules on euthanasia.

It also seemed to point out that only a small fraction of the city's public school students attend charter schools, and said its main focus was on improving opportunities for all children.

«The main reason we are here is to get the MTA and the governor to start focusing more on the public transportation needs here on Staten Island, which generally get shortchanged every year,» Astorino said during a press conference on Front Street in Stapleton in the shadow of the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

«Using summonses instead of arrests for low - level offenses is an intuitive and modern solution that will help make sure resources are focused on our main priority: addressing threats to public safety,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.

The researchers focused their global simulations on the U. S. and modeled the country's evolving economic activities in different geographic regions to determine the water requirements for five main sectors: thermoelectric cooling; public supply, such as for drinking water and other public utilities; industrial demand; mining; and irrigation.

Within weeks Teret switched his main research focus from motor vehicle injuries to gun injuries, an area in which public health research was all but nonexistent.

Along these lines, the focus group participants identified the main themes as benefits of statistics to society (and thus, promoting the socially responsible practice of statistics), expanding primary education of statistics, ease of public access to data, data accuracy and quality, and protection of privacy in sampling and data analysis.

His main focus is purposeful integration of technology to facilitate student learning, improve communications with stakeholders, enhance public relations, create a positive brand presence, discover opportunity, transform learning spaces, and help educators grow professionally.Eric has received numerous awards and acknowledgements for his work.

His main focus is purposeful integration of technology to facilitate student learning, improve communications with stakeholders, enhance public relations, create a positive brand presence, discover opportunity, transform learning spaces, and help educators grow professionally.Eric has received numerous awards and acknowledgments for his work.

His main focus is the use of social media and web 2.0 technology as tools to facilitate student learning, improve communications with stakeholders, enhance public relations, create a positive brand presence, discover opportunity, transform learning spaces, and help educators grow professionally.

His main focus is purposeful integration of technology to facilitate student learning, improve communications with stakeholders, enhance public relations, create a positive brand presence, discover opportunity, transform learning spaces, and help educators grow professionally.

The panel wants to explicitly engage with AERA 2018's main theme, focusing on past and present challenges to schooling and how they have expanded or curtailed the dreams of public education.

March 21, 2017 — A new report College Completion: Focus on the Finish Line from the National Center for Developmental Education calls for closer collaboration between community colleges, public schools, and community services, improved teaching and learning and fully integrated courses and student support services as three main phases of college success.

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has performed in - depth reviews of the 17 submitted plans focusing on three main questions: (1) How clear are school ratings for parents, educators, and the general public?

Their main focus is to make the public aware of the numbers of homeless dogs and cats there are in shelters and to promote adoption of these animals.

One of their main focuses now is improving public beach access, he said.

This project has two main focuses, to protect nests and to raise public awareness surrounding marine conservation.

The main story doesn't really focus on the tournament at all with the central crux of the narrative being a battle of public opinion between Heihachi's Mishima Zaibatsu and Kazuya's G Corporation.

These educational experiences focus on collection objects and include classroom encounters, controlled hands - on opportunities, exhibitions in our main gallery and satellite galleries, and through the presentation of scholarly information through exhibition publications, journal articles and public lectures.

The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces.

The main focus of her work is the use of words and ideas in public space.

Its main focus is to bring the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul (MAC - RS) collection closer to the wider public.

While UMOCA takes advantage of various exhibition rooms within its space, the museum's central focus is the sprawling main gallery, visible from the public entrance on the top floor and accessible by traveling down the staircase to the lower level.

The Arts Commission's programs focus on three spaces: the main galleries on Van Ness, the storefront window on Grove Street, and the public spaces of City Hall.

Its main focus is painting and sculpture (figurative, representational, abstract works), although it also includes top individuals involved in photographic, video, installation and public art.

Despite the public focus on radiation risks, cost has long been the main obstacle to a substantial expansion of nuclear power generation, and will be even more as a result of Japan's still - unfolding effort to secure the wave - ravaged Fukushima Daiichi complex.

PAGES» main areas of focus include: - Facilitating international research activities on past environmental changes - Promoting the synthesis of scientific knowledge and data - Strengthening the involvement of scientists from developing countries - Integrating the paleoscience and wider global environmental change communities - Disseminating important research findings and organizational information - Supporting scientific training and education - Integrating scientific evidence from observations and modeling - Ensuring public access to paleoscientific data - Enhancing the visibility and use of paleoresearch

Because this evidence is so overwhelming, it would be virtually impossible to debunk; the main strategy of denier blogs is therefore to focus on topics that are showy and in which it is therefore easy to generate public interest.

The main tool will be the proposed European External Investment Plan, which focuses on leveraging additional private and public resources for investment, enabling it to mobilise up to $ 44 billion.

Our main focus areas of practices are Capital Markets (public offering and private placement of various types of securities), Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate Projects, Property Fund for Public Offering (PFPO), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) including Infrastructurepublic offering and private placement of various types of securities), Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate Projects, Property Fund for Public Offering (PFPO), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) including InfrastructurePublic Offering (PFPO), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) including Infrastructure Fund.

Assuming there is complete financial disclosure and the prenuptial agreement does not violate any statue or public policy, the court's main focus will be comparing the circumstances of the parties at the time of the execution with the parties» financial condition at the time of the divorce.

The main part of the talk focussed on the challenges and possibilities created by the Digital Public Library of America project.

This surely is the main purpose of the Family Mediation Awareness week, offering us all an opportunity to collaborate in focusing our attention for a relatively short period of time on raising the public awareness of family mediation and all that it has to offer us and our clients.

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.

As clinical teacher and supervisor working within the Australian public mental health service, in both urban and rural settings, the main focus in Julie's work has been to encourage and facilitate her younger colleagues» professional competence and confidence to build, and advocate for, the healthy social and emotional development of babies and toddlers in their work with families and communities.

A public health approach to violence has three main focuses: