Sentences with phrase «more immediate focus»

Although his more immediate focus is on Euro 2016, incoming Chelsea boss Antonio Conte will be keeping a close eye on matters at Stamford Bridge.

The more immediate focus will be on the end of this campaign, as Louis van Gaal's men remain four points adrift of a top - four finish with five games remaining as they look to secure Champions League football next season.

For now, the more immediate focus will be on this weekend's showdown with Tottenham, as Mourinho will be desperate to avoid another league setback as rivals Man City continue to stretch their lead and move away at the top of the standings.

Attentions this week turn to a busy macroeconomic calendar headlined by the Bank of England's policy announcement Thursday while the more immediate focus turns to Manufacturing PMI for direction through trade on Monday.

Not exact matches

With so many immediate priorities, it can be difficult to find time to focus on the future, especially a future that may be a decade or more away.

That's why, instead of solely focusing on the end result, it's important to set different types of goals — including smaller, more immediate ones, intermediate targets, and stretch goals — that all build on your efforts to reach that final destination.

I get it — if you're starting out, you make less money and probably are more focused on immediate stuff like repaying your student loans and credit card debt.

I agree that buybacks at a high valuation are likely foolish, but increasing the attractiveness of the stock to those focused on the immediate payback would seem to make acquiring more shares at a good price more difficult.

BOOST ENERGY, MENTAL FOCUS AND DIGESTION - MCT's are more easily and rapidly digested than any other type of fat, thus offer immediate fuel for energy.

Political communicators rarely get to build a project like this one, more focused on creating a mood and telling a story than on sparking immediate action on a pressing problem.

At a budget hearing Monday, lawmakers were focused on a more immediate concern — clean drinking water.

And as some supporters in the second floor balcony jubilantly began to play percussion on hand - held musical instruments, others focused on far more immediate changes.

The civil engineers suggest a list of highway improvements that could reduce that number, but a lack of funding causes the state to focus on the more immediate safety issues.

In the remaining nine months of 2014, pro-charter groups focused more on strengthening accountability measures for teachers and pushing the state and city to take immediate action to fix failing schools.

Cameron, in far more measured language than the former Labour leader, is rightly trying to focus the electorate's mind on the practical and immediate steps he would take to get the country back on track.

Long - term planning happens in the brain's prefrontal cortex, while the more compulsive limbic system focuses on things that provide immediate gratification.

And which is more important depends on whether one focuses on short - term or long - term consequences — the immediate impact of an automobile accident or reduced future job opportunities because of lost educational engagement.»

«It's very important for people who are trying to quit to be able to maintain activity within the control network — to be able to shift from thinking about yourself and your inner state to focus on your more immediate goals and plan.»

So while my immediate focus is on the physical, the effect goes much deeper is far more holistic.

A brief, focused treatment geared toward relieving a patients immediate symptoms, CBT has been studied more than 300 times; its success in these trials largely accounts for its skyrocketing popularity.

So don't consume yourself with the immediate burn, and focus more on a long - term transformation.

«The changes were almost immediate; within a couple days, I had more energy and more focus.»

If you can overcome your tendency to focus on present, immediate pleasures (like having those cupcakes) and instead delay your gratification and in fact find pleasure in new healthy behaviors (like eating dark chocolate squares instead), you will be setting yourself up, ironically enough, for more short term AND long term good health!

Under Bizzarri's leadership, Michele's new vision for Gucci has focused on establishing a more contemporary attitude of Gucci — with immediate critical success.

Soderbergh's strategy is more focused on immediate profitability for everyone involved, and if it works, it could be something moviegoers see more of as directors grow frustrated with the strictures of the studio system.

He keeps focusing on the night they first met when it seemed like their immediate connection would lead to more than friendship.

With her flattened vocal inflections and defensive body language evoking a very specific vein of British femininity, her work here is more focused and immediate than anything else in this bewildering film.

Time, too, has helped soften the edges between Whitehurst's focus on quantitative experimental methodology and those pushing more immediate «relevance» over his brand of «rigor.»

This was a only a small - scale study, but that didn't stop Rothstein from drawing the far - fetched conclusion that «educators have a stake in promoting a federal income policy that focuses on immediate income support for the unemployed, because this in itself could make instruction more effective.»

In a sense, the IB's programs express the effort to nurture both ambitions: the Diploma Program along with its pre-secondary school counterparts embody the rigors of classical education, including the arts and sciences and mathematics, languages, and independent writing projects; at the same time the IB has developed career programs for students focused on more immediate employment.

In Massachusetts, a statewide system divides students into three grade chunks (from first grade all the way up to 12th) and focuses on children's likelihood of achieving progressive academic targets — all of which are separately considered indicators for high school graduation but also have more immediate relevance.

It was with those students in mind, with their future at stake, and in the interest of the Commonwealth's economic vitality, that the governor engaged more than 200 citizens to develop an action plan, a series of recommendations spanning 10 years with an immediate focus on turning around low - performing schools and ensuring that students are receiving the support they need outside of school to take full advantage of improved teaching and learning inside of school.

Our immediate and soul focus on academic learning can often detract from more creative and explorative learning experiences.

It presents 12 key findings which focus on four main citizen requests: immediate and faster climate action by national leaders; greater finance for climate action; building more progress in line with the different capacities of countries; strengthening the role of citizen participation in the UN climate negotiations.

The quality of the feedback students receive often declines through the years of school, with younger children being more likely to receive feedback that is opportunistic, immediate and action - focused, and older students more likely to receive feedback that is planned, delayed and judgemental.

By the end of the day, I cared far more about my spouse's immediate condition than the election results, but the rest of the state focused more on two statewide upsets, one in the Republican primary for state superintendent: incumbent John Huppenthal was beaten soundly by Diane Douglas.

Lightning quick and razor - sharp turn - in and an immediate willingness to rotate despite its front - wheel drive configuration certainly reminded me of its big brother, the Focus ST, but the Fiesta felt even freer to rotate and more responsive to rapid changes in direction.

From an outsider's perspective, an immediate worry about this approach is that the site could potentially operate in a manner similar to a Hollywood focus group, encouraging authors (consciously or not) to cut anything difficult or alienating in favour of a blander, more widely acceptable middle ground — trying to appeal to all of the people all of the time rather than trusting the judgement of one auxiliary pair of eyes (speaking of which, professional editors probably won't be too chuffed either).

There are short - term tactics for those who want to boost immediate sales, but the focus of the book is more about instilling values and marketing principles that will help your long - term career as a writer.

Focusing too heavily on cutting costs: Cutting the costs of investing has an immediate, obvious benefit: it leaves you with more money.

I get it — if you're starting out, you make less money and probably are more focused on immediate stuff like repaying your student loans and credit card debt.

The focus on utilization is coming from the people asking the questions regarding how to improve their score, some even have an obsession with trying to wring a few more points even though they have no immediate need for a loan.

Overall, nothing really new, so the immediate impact on the Aussie's price action was only minimal and most Aussie pairs appeared to be more focused on tracking iron ore prices.

Since its launch in 2013, the Sharpen Your Financial Focus (Sharpen) initiative of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) has impacted the lives of more than 60,000 American consumers, helping them identify and resolve immediate financial concerns, gain a deeper understanding of financial literacy and debt management, and move toward long - term financial stability.

Our grants will focus on servicing the most urgent and immediate needs such as housing, food, and vet bills, but also on training programs to make animals more adoptable and educational programming about the wonder of animals and the responsibility of owning pets, with particular attention to children.

Your heart is more focused on the immediate needs of your dog, and the surgery itself could be for a variety of reasons.

As of right now though, Microsoft is playing a long game and setting a foundation while Sony is more focused on the immediate future.»

While the immediate assertion of gratifying stratagems in Halo Wars 2 provides various new perspectives, Jensen and Hope focus on the unique identity that the game embraces in more subtle ways.

Tim Jones — We've focused on balancing each species / faction so that each one has a fighting chance in a one - on - one grudge match against any other, so we have no immediate plans for more classes.

Each section focuses on a moment in photography's history and the conceptions of the medium that were dominant then: informational and documentary in the 19th and early 20th centuries, more formal and subjective in the immediate postwar era, and questioning and self - referential from the 1970s onward.»