Sentences with phrase «more aggressive efforts»

In addition to the curriculum - reform recommendations, the Elementary Grades Task Force suggested more aggressive efforts to consider ethnic background in hiring teachers, expanded social services within schools, and performance - based assessments that, in the case of limited - English - proficient students, would be given in their native language.

Yet that incident and others like it spurred public complaints that eventually elicited more aggressive efforts to tame the pollution.

«Results reflect the company's more aggressive efforts to improve its price relevancy, as well as higher shrinkage in the last two weeks of the quarter given purchases were planned for a higher level of sales heading into the 4th of July holiday,» said Whole Foods.

Note: The albedo effort requires a more aggressive effort than described in this post, one that California Energy Commissioner Art Rosenfeld detailed to me in a recent interview, which I will blog on later.

Not exact matches

Internet service providers will become much more aggressive in their efforts to make money off their role as online gatekeepers.

That means the Fed will likely have to get more, rather than less, aggressive in its efforts to «normalize» interest rate policy.

The Fed, Wednesday's statement notwithstanding, will likely have to get more, rather than less, aggressive in its efforts to «normalize» interest rate policy.

He announced an aggressive stock buyback a few months after opposing such a move, provided more details on the 40/20/10 plan first mentioned in June, and recentralized innovation efforts under one executive.

«It's a shift that signals that the city is becoming more aggressive in its efforts to combat its affordability crisis,» Trulia reported.

It was threatened by internal decay and by the still aggressive Ottoman Turks, loyal Moslems, who were more powerful than any single European state and against whom, in spite of the frantic efforts of the Popes, discordant Western Europe would not unite.

Quietly and without showing emotion, the head of the Institute, a venerable monk of more than eighty year old, asked: «Why are Christians so aggressive in their effort to convent Buddhists to Christian faith?»

In order to be successful, then, you'll need to be more aggressive in your networking efforts and do everything you can to get your story out there.

Hinton, who is married to former Cuomo aide Howard Glaser, was believed to be the start of a concerted effort by de Blasio to take a more aggressive tack with the governor and a more collegial tone with the media, after the administration had struggled with both.

If anything, Biden has only gotten more aggressive in his efforts to campaign for Democrats, and particularly against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after a recently - revealed 2005 video showed Trump making vulgar comments about women.

«The Governor has deployed more than 100 National Guard to the region, worked with impacted utilities to restore power to more than 20,000 homes and businesses, and aggressive recovery efforts — which have never once paused — will continue full stop until cleanup is completed.»

The report recommends «more aggressive recruitment of female candidates and stronger mentoring efforts.»

According to Jody Enck of Cornell's Human Dimensions Research Unit, «By the middle of the 21st century, there may be no more hunters unless those concerned about hunting can initiate an aggressive and well - funded effort to address problems.»

Nitrous oxide (N20) emissions could almost double by 2050 if more aggressive action is not taken, undermining global efforts to curb climate change, the United Nations» Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Thursday.

Political dynamics resulting in more aggressive enforcement and zealous prosecution contribute to higher rates of felony convictions, but also play a role in efforts to reduce prison populations.

More precise dosing methods and cellular engineering techniques show promise in the effort to improve treatment of aggressive cancers with personalized cellular therapies, according to new studies from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

This genetic risk factor is independent of other risk factors, such as cholesterol, obesity and smoking, and therefore provides an additional method for identifying individuals who may derive benefit from earlier and more aggressive prevention efforts.

«In our efforts to be more aggressive here, we may make some mistakes and are working on a robust appeals process,» Twitter said in a statement.

If you're a more passive exerciser and not doing aggressive workouts like high - intensity interval training (HIIT), which is characterized by short bursts of all - out work efforts interspersed with short rest periods, you won't need as many carbs and can therefore increase your fats even more.

Should such efforts not provide relief to the athlete, more aggressive measures including surgery may be considered.

A passive - aggressive, implausibly meandering, poorly written and awkwardly acted effort that is mainly about miscommunication, delivering no more wisdom or insight about depression, bullying and suicide than one of those old «ABC Afterschool Specials» people now mock for being so corny.

The message from Executive Director Scott Pearson and board Chairman John «Skip» McKoy was met with relief by advocates of neighborhood schools and disbelief from some who want to see more aggressive charter school growth in one of the most closely watched school reform efforts in the nation.

A small but loud and angry faction of teachers and advocates on the political left want the NEA and the AFT to be more aggressive in resisting those efforts, which they associate with the Obama administration.

Many school districts still could see some improvement in their teacher diversity — if they were smarter and more aggressive in their efforts.

Based on more recent data, Russell Rumberger and Gregory Palardy speculated in 2005 that, because students across the income and ability spectrum can be shown to benefit from attending high - performing schools, aggressive efforts to homogenize schools» demographic profiles will likely hurt better - prepared students, with predicted declines for the highest - achieving students (who are now concentrated in high - income schools) exceeding the expected gains for low - income and minority students.

The waiver application state officials submitted in November reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education, and like a game plan for big changes to state education policy that are still to come, including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

The document reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education in recent years, and like a game plan for big changes to the state's education policy that are still to come — including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

The efforts to overhaul how teachers in the state are recruited, trained, and compensated — especially in light of last week's defeat of the collective bargaining ban — means that school reformers will have to be more - aggressive and savvy in their efforts.

Related: Avalon to Follow Camry in Toyota's Save - the - Sedan Effort That new, more aggressive attitude now says, «I'd like to speak to your manager» instead of «I'd like to speak to your manager, please.»

Ultra also offers a heavy - duty battery, an air filtration system with a filter that can be changed inside the car without having to lift the hood, wood accents on the door trim, automatic - dimming inside mirror, AM / FM with compact - disc player and three extra speakers (for a total of nine), heated outside mirrors, rear seat pass - through to the trunk to hold skis inside, heated leather seats, programmable variable - effort power steering that's set at the dealership for low - or high - effort steering response for the more aggressive driver, radio controls in the steering wheel, rear seat vanity mirrors in the roof and moisture - sensing wipers that go to work on their own.

When a driver begins to drive more aggressively it will tighten the suspension and increase steering effort and change to a more aggressive throttle response.

Volkswagen updated styling when the all - new Passat was introduced for 2016 in an effort to make it a more aggressive, appealing car, but it's not a standout.

The Getrag - produced unit, which forms part of the rear - axle assembly, has been extensively reworked with a mounting system that sits it 0.4 inch lower than on the standard SLS AMG as part of efforts to lower the car's overall center of gravity, revised software that is claimed to provide faster and more aggressive downshifts and a lower final drive for improved acceleration in combination with the increased torque loading.

«We will get more aggressive about our international effort in 2010», he said.

In an effort to stem the foreclosure crisis, Fannie Mae worked out a more aggressive refinancing alternative with Freddie Mac.

While I won't go into all the gory details, CNN reported that the bank recently fired more than 5,000 employees for allegedly opening a slew of phoney customer accounts in an effort to meet aggressive sales targets.

On the other hand, if you have gotten a late start on retirement saving, you might be inclined to take a more aggressive investment approach in an effort to catch up.

To date, McCutcheon's been an excellent steward of shareholder value, conserving the Goltsovoye proceeds, focusing exploration efforts on just 3 gold projects, and launching a share buyback (which could be a little more aggressive!).

Both of these items cause some creditors to become more aggressive in an effort to become the priority and collect.

Once a student loan is in default, that is when debt collectors will start being more aggressive with collection efforts and threaten to do things such as garnish your wages, intercept your tax refund or possibly even sue you (for private student loans) for not making your student loan payments.

But without a conscious effort to maintain your target asset allocation, it's easy for a portfolio to become much more aggressive over the course of a long upswing in stock prices.

While more research is needed to determine the exact risks of toxoplasmosis on human health and wildlife, in the end, this disease provides yet another reason for aggressive TNR efforts.

Plus, you won't need to worry about spending money on injuries incurred by intact animals who get into fights because they're more aggressive or who run out of the house in an effort to roam and end up getting hurt in the process.

This is not because of any of the propaganda issued for more than a century in support of aggressive catch - and - kill and poisoning campaigns that killed millions of dogs in futile efforts to stop rabies before the advent of neuter / return.

More significantly, after pit bull advocates won legislation in 19 states prohibiting the passage of breed - specific local dangerous dog ordinances, victim advocates have mobilized on campaign budgets of nothing to stop the passage of similar laws in at least six other states, as well as defeating aggressive efforts to repeal pit bull bans by ballot initiative in Miami in 2012 and Aurora, Colorado in 2014, winning the 2016 passage of a pit bull ban in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and obtaining the introduction of a proposed pit bull ban throughout Quebec province.

All of our efforts are focused on further refining the exposition and continuing our aggressive outreach to ensure that more international calendars are marked for the second annual EXPO CHICAGO in September 2013 at Navy Pier.»