Sentences with phrase «major effort»

The state's business sector is making major efforts to reduce overall power consumption while moving towards greater use of renewable energy generation.

Schools are launching major efforts to entice high - quality female candidates.

This book was the first major effort of a....

In the strategic project, the resident will have an opportunity to lead one or two major efforts on behalf of the organization, such as the creation or implementation of current initiatives.

It will take major effort, renewed commitment and a readiness to make occasional compromises.

Getting the most out of your car and your mileage per gallon doesn't require major effort, it just requires that you become a more conscientious driver.

Without major effort, inertia alone will result in things staying pretty much the same.

This is despite major efforts to spread best practices widely, including the work of education schools and $ 15 billion spent annually on teacher professional development.

However, a current major effort of computer research is towards the development of parallel processing.

As I get older, I have made major efforts to keep a well edited closet of mostly classic garments that are essentially seasonal, as well as timeless.

The accord doesn't go as far as is needed, and compliance will take major efforts.

The last major effort in 2008 by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg faltered in Albany before coming to a vote.

It has been nine years since the last major effort by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg died in Albany after state legislative leaders refused to bring it to a vote.

In the words of Thomas Moore in his book Care of the Soul, «It's my conviction that slight shifts in imagination have more impact on living than major efforts at change.»

We're investing major efforts into modern marketing tactics such as geo - focused content marketing in the form of blogging and of course taking advantage of the wide but targeted reach social media has on all platforms.

During his tenure, one of the longest in President Barack Obama's cabinet, Duncan made a deep mark on U.S. schools with a series of major efforts stretching from early education to college.

Not Just for NASA - Scale Projects IBM's supercomputer isn't just for major efforts like NASA's project.

All key sectors — energy generation, road transport, buildings, industry, forestry and land use, and commercial agriculture — have to begin major efforts to cut emissions by, latest, 2020.

In all of our research, what we heard most frequently was that people believe major efforts aimed at high - performing students aren't all that important because these kids will do fine without any additional «favors» from the rest of us.

The last major effort occurred in 2007, in the Supreme Court case Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1.

Pyre is the third major effort from Supergiant Games.

Such curricular measures can also be seen as major efforts to stem the tide of technological and professional pressures on higher education.

Niagara County is planning major efforts in 2017 to fight the opioid epidemic and clean up polluted former industrial sites.

Current Reform Strategies by AYP Status - Ranked by Percent of Schools Placing Major Effort on Strategy

During his time at Parent Revolution, he has played key roles in several major efforts, including the parent empowerment campaigns at West Athens Elementary, 20th Street Elementary, and Weigand Avenue Elementary.

Sony will be focusing major efforts in expanding the network services and features to increase their user base.

We are now seeing major efforts being channelled into this area at European as well as national levels.

For Amazon, it's the second major effort to back a smartphone.

Major efforts under way in France, Germany, and Austria would be consistent with the Bologna goals.

This new PLOS Collection discusses major efforts by evolutionary biologists and paleontologists to understand sauropods as living animals, and to explain their evolutionary success and uniquely gigantic body size.

When asked by Merkley whether the United States should step up in combatting climate change, to match major efforts in countries including India and China, Tillerson said, «I think we have stepped up.»

This potential imprinting has implications for physician training and potentially for hiring, particularly because major efforts are under way to reduce health care spending,» the authors write.

The center will provide crucial resources to develop repurposed drugs that target diseases of the central nervous system, the heart, and the immune system, leveraging major efforts in these areas at Gladstone.

That's why major efforts are taking place to finally rid the atoll of this species — though it will be years before the plant finally disappears.

In the months immediately following her election, Weingarten launched major efforts to place education reform and innovation high on the nation's agenda.

This reputation was confirmed during the Kosovo conflict when, despite Serbian criticism, his church made major efforts to assist Muslim refugees flooding into his country from Kosovo.

The «party machine» endorsed Betty Jean more out of principle than some kind of major effort to defeat Senator Kennedy.

The survey finds both support and skepticism for major efforts to reduce climate change on the first day of a Paris summit, with international leaders aiming to forge consensus on measures aimed at slowing the rise of global temperatures.

Besides, curator Philippe Vergne's first major effort for the Walker (fifty artists, catalogue, website) has been in the works for a time and may just stand out from the crowd.

At Copenhagen, China should be pushed hard to accept targets for greenhouse gas emissions that require major efforts to achieve.

«Every now and again an issue comes along that we believe would so fundamentally undermine the nature of the financial system that we have to take major efforts to oppose, and this is one of them,» Floyd Stoner, the head lobbyist for the American Bankers Association, told an industry magazine.

Just like in humans, slimming down can seem painfully slow for dogs, despite major efforts.