Sentences with phrase «measure up to these challenges»

«We have extraordinary challenges facing the city, and we have to measure up to those challenges,» Miner said.

Isn't it time we all admit that Secretary Duncan failed to measure up to the challenge the day he came up with «Race To The Top» as our nation's education policy.

According the county government website, Anne Arundel is a diverse, growing area, measuring up to the challenges of being a historic mid-Atlantic city with the demands of modern times.

How does your school and leadership measure up to these challenges?

Not exact matches

In a pair of internal memos last week, the heads of engineering and production spelled out measures to free up workers for the Model 3 line and challenged them to reach production goals.

If your daughter or niece thinks she needs to look like a certain female celebrity, challenge the idea by asking how many people she sees everyday that would measure up to that standard.

«At a time when New York still faces steep fiscal challenges, we can not afford to introduce measures that eliminate jobs, increase regulatory hurdles and drive expenses up for taxpayers.

Jacobs once criticized Maragos for challenging Sen. Charles Schumer (D - N.Y.) after barely six months as comptroller and said he «didn't measure up» to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.), when Maragos ran against her.

Former Gov. George Pataki, who's banking on opposition to the new health care reform law as his ticket into the 2012 presidential election, today issued a debate challenge to former Sen. Tom Daschle, who was just tapped along with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's wife, Victoria, to head up the Obama administration's defense of the measure.

It's a good bet, though, that the issue would be tied up in court if a law requiring sites like Amazon to collect sales tax were enacted, with a challenge centering on whether federal laws regarding interstate commerce would supersede the state measure.

The idea behind the challenge is to spur scientists, including those from fields outside astronomy, to come up with new insight into the problems of measuring dark matter and dark energy.

First was the pipeline, a megaproject that challenged biologists to come up with habitat - protecting measures for fish and wildlife along a 1000 - km corridor of disturbance caused by construction.

More than 200 college - age study subjects were hooked up to equipment that tracked a set of psychophysiological markers, such as blood pressure and heart rate as well as other cardiovascular measures that can be used to differentiate a threat response — a state of negative arousal — from a challenge response — a state of positive arousal.

Not only must public opinion catch up with reality, but key sciences must also scramble to measure, assess and address the new challenges.

Challenges included overcoming experimental design problems, such as creating a reliable method to monitor the miniscule energy fluctuations in their light source that would show up as interference in the measured signal.

The only challenge is finding a resort that measures up to Zemi.

The shot of her in extreme close - up, eyes almost black in a face that is a mask of fury as cold as the blizzard is a challenge to the patriarchy that doesn't know how to take half measures.

That explanation doesn't quite wash, as Mission Challenge doesn't really measure up to the Gran Turismo Modes of the past.

When the Florida Senate took up a measure this month designed to protect voucher programs from legal challenges, the chamber couldn't have been more divided: The bill was defeated by just one vote.

Today schools are taking active security measures to face up to the challenges of disruption caused by mindless vandalism, including damaging arson attacks, and criminals intent on stealing school property who will always look for the path of least resistance.

«The job of, say, taking on a school in special measures in a very challenging community is very different to that of running a grammar school, and the DNA argument, that there's something about grammar schools that you can just transplant into a failing school, does not stack up,» he said.

Most states set their standards within NAEP's «basic» range, and very few state standards measured up to NAEP's aspirational proficiency standard, which measures «mastery over challenging subject matter.»

In seven essays, Elmore lays out his provocative views on the topics he has spent a lifetime studying, including «scaling up» good educational practice, responding to accountability measures, and the challenge of boosting the knowledge and skills of teachers in the face of obstacles.

In addition, while some colleges used multiple measures in a systematic way for all students, up to 30 % of colleges only used multiple measures if students requested it or challenged their placement.

Perhaps you'd care to take up the challenge and measure your cat's purr!

A few new modes have also be thrown in for good measure to try to spice things up a little, such as the new multi-class racing which can have an entire grid crappy little hatchbacks and terrifyingly fast exotics on the track at the same time, challenging you with finishing first in your respective class while avoiding the other.

Then it was time for Far Cry 4, which was a bit trickier since I attempted to come up with a challenging scenario, eventually settling on just charging into an enemy base after tossing in some bait for good measure.

You ideas challenged me to realize that so much of what I write is like an apology for not measuring up to what level my ego thinks I should be at, or what I perceive others will think of my work.

That only one of his works in this show measures up to Lüpertz's ambitions is by no means an indictment, but more a measure of the difficulty of the challenge he has set for himself.

Optimism is a process of carefully measuring all the challenges we face and all the solutions that are emerging and being willing to make a bet that humaity will pick up the solutions more quickly than we drive the problems.

I am delighted to report that many scientists have taken up the challenge of measuring methane emissions in the short time since our paper came out 29 months ago.

Climate change presents a profound challenge to this cautious centrism because half measures won't cut it: «all of the above energy» programs, as U.S. President Barack Obama describes his approach, has about as much chance of success as an all of the above diet, and the firm deadlines imposed by science require that we get very worked up indeed.

In order to ensure that the law remains up to the scale of the climate challenge, Maan Ystävät is continuing to call for — amongst other measures — a 95 % emissions reduction target for 2050.

This suggests that Member States may end up having to raise two distinct legal actions: a more procedurally - oriented action challenging the authorizing act and a more substantive challenge to the legality of the resulting legislative measure.

Despite some opening up to the public as regards information following the recent decision on comitology, interested parties may not take part in the administrative procedure of the adoption of acts and therefore have very little opportunity to mount a successful challenge to adopted measures once they have been enforced in the internal legal orders of the Member States.

TAICHI also features a 5 - megapixel auto - focus camera with 1080p Full HD video recording and second 720p HD video camera, a noise - suppressing array microphone for crystal - clear video chat in challenging environments and up to 5 hours» battery life (measured with Wi - Fi web browsing)

Observed and assessed student performance and kept thorough records of progress.Implemented a variety of teaching methods such as lectures, discussions and demonstrations.Established clear objectives for all lessons, units and projects.Encouraged students to persevere with challenging tasks.Set and communicated ground rules for the classroom based on respect and personal responsibility.Identified early signs of emotional, developmental and health problems in students and followed up with the teacher.Tutored children individually and in small groups to help them with difficult subjects.Taught after - school and summer enrichment programs.Established positive relationships with students, parents, fellow teachers and school administrators.Mentored and counseled students with adjustment and academic problems.Delegated tasks to teacher assistants and volunteers.Took appropriate disciplinary measures when students misbehaved.Improved students» reading levels through guided reading groups and whole group instruction.Used children's literature to teach and reinforce reading, writing, grammar and phonics.Enhanced reading skills through the use of children's literature, reader's theater and story time.Differentiated instruction according to student ability and skill level.Taught students to exercise problem solving methodology and techniques during tests.Taught students in various stages of cognitive, linguistic, social and emotional development.Encouraged students to explore issues in their lives and in the world around them.Employed a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction textual materials to encourage students to read independently.

Drove success through in - depth and effective issue follow - up measures that included challenge background, corrective action, implemented changes, and assessments to identify appropriate tools and resources for proactive development planning.

For the government it is also a term that means practical measures to achieve practical improvements in the livelihoods of Indigenous peoples - an outlook that is more about giving Aboriginal people «a leg up» than challenging the imbalances in power in society.

Challenges to including measures of child maltreatment involve the complexity of obtaining consent from families and access to state child welfare records, the need for both short - and long - term follow - up to assess program impact, and concerns about the reliability and validity of parent or staff reports.

If there is a downside to high levels of nurturance in child rearing, it is the risk that nurturant parents might be more lax than other parents in challenging their children to measure up to developmentally appropriate standards for behavior.