Sentences with phrase «major item on their agenda»

The first generation of Jesuits, under the leadership and inspiration of Francis Xavier, made the mission to China a major item on their agenda.

It was learnt that the party's forthcoming national convention, where a new national chairman is billed to emerge, was the major item on the agenda of the meeting.

A major item on our agenda this year will be to require that abusers handle the «costs of care» for the animals rescued from dogfighting, cockfighting, and other cases of cruelty — rather than placing the financial burden on animal protection groups.

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It was largely comprised of staffers from the AG's office, enthusiastic volunteers and a number of veterans of Cuomo I — in other words, the administration of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, who was, of course, on hand to hear his son declare con - con — his father's pet project — to be a major agenda item.

The third major item on the Church agenda is to develop the ability to rewrite life's software, giving us the power to reprogram organisms to do things that are radically different from what they do normally.

Clearly the US has much to learn about education from this, for it is concluded that the research on these high success countries includes no evidence that any of them have gotten there «by implementing any of the major agenda items that dominate the education reform agenda in the United States, with the exception of the Common Core State Standards» (p, 209).

The major agenda item was a discussion about the way lawyers do research and the impact of that on how we will provide library resources in the future.