Sentences with phrase «major thrust»

OTTAWA — Flush with revenues from an unprecedented economic boom, the Canadian government last week unveiled a series of budget initiatives that would reinvigorate academe while making major thrusts in high - energy physics, genomics, and environmental technologies.

Some collisional mountain ranges grow because there are «ramps» or steep segments on major thrust faults that produce the rock uplift that builds high topography.

But why now should one want to begin again with the Bible, in an ecumenical age whose major thrust now appears to be from many quarters the recovery of tradition, a common Christian history?

Molnar, P., and P. England, Temperatures, heat flux, and frictional stress near major thrust faults, J. Geophys.

Both inreach and an outreach (fellowship and mission) are major thrusts in the programs of such churches.

The conundrum is that major thrust faults that accommodate convergence between tectonic plates are usually relatively flat, tilted no more than a few degrees from horizontal, and thus do not produce much uplift.

Hunt: I would say the major thrust has been threefold.

«Dependents are the major thrust,» said Veliotis.

JOSEPH Gutnick plans to add another string to his resource bow with a major thrust into the vanadium market.

Yet he also said his plan «takes action» with three major thrusts — introducing a jobs grant that he boasted will «transform the way we provide skills training,» mapping out an infrastructure program that he touted as «the largest and longest» in the country's history, and a stitching together a new strategy for boosting business innovation.

The major thrust of the chapter seems to be a response to various forms of idealism.

All too naturally the major thrust of contemporary theology has been to dissociate Jesus and the Word, either to apprehend a Word that is wholly isolated from the Church's memory of Jesus or to affirm a Jesus who is liberated from the Word of the Church.

Actually, Katherine, a major thrust of the post, and the point to which I believe is challenged by the verse I cited, is that doctrinal differences should be subordinated to the goal of getting along in «love».

Liberation theology comes in various stripes (political, black, feminist, etc.), but its major thrust seems to be that to be saved is to be liberated — i.e., liberated from all forms of human injustice: economic, social, racial, sexual and so on.

When leaders of institutions make groups a major thrust in both staff development and program, significant things happen.

This understanding of the kingdom, though expressed in other language, is in conformity with not only a major thrust in the teaching of Jesus, but of the prophets as well.

The major thrust of the Nazis» program was to kill the God of Israel in the person of the people — whether the Jewish people or the Church, or both sooner or later — elected by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I agree, for instance, with the major thrust of Robert Hudnut's book Church Growth Is Not the Point.

Indeed, he argues that the major thrust of the Hebrew Bible is antielitist and subversive of the power structures that tend to oppress and dehumanize their victims.

But in spite of these problems, I see this schema as a useful way of identifying the major thrusts within contemporary therapies.

Together producing over 70 per cent of the world's cocoa supply, Ghana and Ivory Coast were to feel the major thrust of the protocol.

While the major thrust of Macdonald's insights involved behind - the - scenes negotiations that eventually failed to get Eddie Murphy to play Bill Cosby in the «Celebrity Jeopardy» sketch, Murray's annual appearance at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am was a primary cause for concern.

«The major thrust of it essentially the same as the one they vetoed.»

The newly elected chairman in Anambra East local Council Area of Anambra State, Hon. Hilary O. Udanoh says his major thrust in government is to ensure...

The newly elected chairman in Anambra East local Council Area of Anambra State, Hon. Hilary O. Udanoh says his major thrust in government is to ensure peace in the six communities that make up the council.

Its major thrusts are related to energy, environment, policy research, and regulatory issues.

A major thrust of current research is to understand how creatures like these at the bottom of the food chain respond to ocean acidification.

One of the major thrusts of the report, which was discussed at PCAST's 15 March meeting in Washington, D.C., was to emphasize «climate preparedness» — a relabeling of the idea that the government should be doing more to prepare the nation to adapt to changes expected to be caused by global warming, such as rising seas, droughts, and floods.

«Developing better countermeasures against these sorts of nerve agents is a major thrust of our overall program,» said Dr. Jett.

To Norell, it's important to read these as feathers all over the body because the major thrust of his work as a scientist is to show that dinosaurs are direct ancestors of modern birds.

«A major thrust in BESC is that we exclusively focus on these non-standard microorganisms that bring strong biocatalytic abilities to the table, rather than focusing on well - known microorganisms.»

The results kicked off the study of such «neutrino oscillations,» which is now one of the major thrusts of particle physics, involving huge experiments in which neutrinos are fired hundreds of kilometers through Earth to distant detectors.

The major thrust of Earth in Mind is that we need to develop a new way of getting young people to look at the world if we are first to recognise the environmental damage that is now going on, and then to make painful decisions to remedy it before it is too late.

Dr. Yongqun «Oliver» He (何勇群)'s laboratory research has two major thrusts: (1) Dry - lab bioinformatics research; and (2) Wet - lab Brucella microbiology and immunology research.

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This is a major thrust area of the HPSynC program that we have launched in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory,» remarked Russell Hemley, the director of Geophysical Laboratory.

The major thrust of the initiative will be to disseminate the ideas and practices pioneered by James P. Comer, the Yale University child psychiatrist whose beliefs about the inseparability of social and academic development have been embraced by a growing number of schools.

Reviewing science curriculum will be another major thrust in the year ahead, Clark told Education World.

Since the 1990s, a major thrust in improving our mathematics achievement has been the effort to move an authentic Algebra 1 course from the high school and into grade 8, similar to what high - achieving countries have been doing for a long time.

The major thrust of this mission is three-fold: the design and development of reliable and valid assessment instruments, the uniform implementation of and access to suitable assessment instruments for all students; and the provision of accurate and statistically appropriate reports.

Landecker described the new approach as an effort that would blunt some of the criticism even as the major thrust of the effort remains adding charter schools to satisfy the growing public demand for them and reducing the long lists of students on waiting lists to get in.

While few would expect a major thrust for more grammar schools, there might still be a drive to increase capacity and «reach».

High test scores have been a major thrust of charter school cachet, even though the empirical evidence showed that to be a matter of «false advertising.»

«As applied so far, they have not registered the type of improvements that everyone has hoped for despite the fact that it's been a major thrust of education reform for the last 40 years.»