Sentences with phrase «means less emphasis»

This means less emphasis on pedigree and credentials with more focus on technical skills, business development potential and client service.

Organized by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), «Walking the Talk: Teacher Preparation for Deeper Learning» highlighted findings from a national study of seven teacher preparation programs that are organized in ways that align with deeper learning approaches — meaning less emphasis on rote learning and more on experiential, innovative, collaborative, and equity - focused pedagogy.

Not exact matches

Risk is one reason there's such emphasis on investing when you're young — young people have a long time horizon before retirement, which means they can worry less about short - term volatility.

Supporting customers too early on means you're slower to develop and fine tune your product, with more emphasis (and budget) on sales and marketing and less on actually making something really, unbelievably awesome.

That means putting less emphasis on the current P / E ratio, and more on metrics that evaluate business performance.

Until the recent past the main emphasis has been on apologetics, catechesis and other reasoned approaches, but there are complementary steps to be taken towards the expressive and inspirational by featuring less rational and doctrinal means, such assacred art, that can in their distinct manner explore the way of beauty.1

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

His emphasis on rebirth points to the need within the general pattern of growth for decisive moments of turning from less to more adequate frameworks of meaning — for surrendering smaller ways of relating in favor of more complete ones.

In this context, I am seeing less emphasis on packaging disruptions, meaning being different for difference sake, and much more emphasis being placed on packaging solutions — those which consumers see as being different, but more importantly, they understand what that difference means to making their life easier, better, safer, healthier.

French clubs generally have less money to spend on players meaning a greater emphasis is placed on developing youngsters from within.

Obama's fundraising over the same period relied on plenty of big - dollar donors as well, but even then his campaign noted the advantage that a much larger base of small - dollar donors gave them: «Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki repeated the campaign's emphasis on the 98 percent of its donations that were $ 250 or less — meaning that those donors are under the limit and can continue to contribute.»

I would maybe like to see even numbered iterations of FS become the console version of FS which can also operate on PC / Mac (in essence what FS15 / 17 is now), and odd numbered iterations of FS be PC / Mac only, even if it meant it was kicked to a 4 year cycle or a 3 year cycle with a slightly different name (with less emphasis year), so the console element was not holding back things like it has with FS17 you can arguably say.

Now, that might mean a movie that's marginally less dopey than most mainstream films that deal with the occult, but in the days of this and Rosemary's Baby, etc., the emphasis was much more on smart than on genre.

De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus on closing the achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.

In primary schools, a crowded curriculum and an increased emphasis on time spent in «on the job» training in schools have meant that students who hope to become music coordinators in primary schools have much less training in actual musical skills.

Alexander was reacting to that era's academic scare — Sputnik and its gremlins — and bemoaning the fact that greater emphasis on math, science, and «more homework» meant for many students «less time and energy for the fine arts, for homemaking and industrial arts, and for such special interests as dramatics, journalism, musical performance, scouting, camping, outside jobs, and general reading.»

Does Greening's emphasis on helping the «bright» poor mean she sees the not - so - bright poor as less important?

Other factors which will be taken into account include time until retirement (less time means less aggressive portfolios) with more of an emphasis on conservative investments such as cash and treasury bonds.

The new [Ticket to Ride Europe] actually puts a bit more emphasis on strategic and planned gameplay than its predecessor, but this by no means makes the game less attractive.

This means they place less emphasis on the quality of the graphics card and, to a lesser extent, the CPU.

Even within the common definition of what the term «science» means as a working philosophy, there are elements of the philosophy that may be interpreted differently depending upon the working context, or at least to be given greater or lesser emphasis depending on the field of study or the type of work being performed — basic research versus product engineering, for example.

Meaning they put less emphasis on funding «deniers» than they do funding staplers and pens.

Plus, when it comes to student housing and medical office properties, there is less emphasis on the assets being located in or near major urban centers, meaning it's possible to find great opportunities in secondary and even tertiary markets, where the cap rates are likely to be lower overall.