Sentences with phrase «more practical measure»

Other more practical measures encouraged the revival of the pilgrimage.

«There are more practical measures that he could and should adopt to combat this heinous crime - such as establishing a dedicated UK Border Police which would proactively detect and deter this evil practice.»

If you want to use your device for more practical measures, both Google Home and Amazon Echo have many similar features.

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«People who had «measures of dark personality» were more likely to maintain relationships with their exes for «practical and sexual reasons,»» reports Medical Daily.

The findings revealed people who had «measures of dark personality» were more likely to maintain relationships with their exes for «practical and sexual reasons.»

«With this one practical measure, small businesses can better weather the current economic climate, hire more employees and help their local communities prosper for years to come.»

These objectives are often very important, but few who measure practical theology in terms of pastoral skills recognize how much knowledge is required to do any of these things in ways that will yield more than short - term success.

Primarily breast feeding at 6 months is a much more reasonable and practical measure.

Actually, when it comes to knowing how a toy or piece of baby gear measures up, the comments of someone who bought the baby toy or stroller and used it is more likely to have an accurate assessment of the item than someone who is selling it without practical experience.

DeFrancisco said he believes it would be more practical for the state legislature to offer propositions for constitutional changes, which voters could decide on individually as separate ballot measures.

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.

Adequacy of fluid intake for solute excretion per se can also be assessed among individuals but is more difficult to define and less practical to measure.

More recently, Gaby has drawn the attention of scholars and government officials as an unconventional yet practical example of how climate - change - related measures are not only necessary, but also can be economically convenient.

Measuring the eccentricity of individual planets is only practical in favo... ▽ More Doppler planet searches have discovered that giant planets follow orbits with a wide range of orbital eccentricities, revolutionizing theories of planet formation.

From a practical perspective, these findings suggest that more complicated and expensive body fat measurement does not provide an advantage in assessing mortality risk over more readily available and less expensive obesity measures such as BMI or waist circumference.

There's like that that bodybuilder's school of thought where you're weighing everything and measuring everything, but then there's kind of my — my approach is a little bit more practical when it comes to this stuff, is just have a good idea of what you're eating.

Here are some practical measures to be applied to be more efficient:

9 • solve one - step problems involving multiplication and division, by calculating the answer using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with the support of the teacher • recognise, find and name a half as 1 of 2 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • recognise, find and name a quarter as 1 of 4 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: lengths and heights [for example, long / short, longer / shorter, tall / short, double / half]; mass or weight [for example, heavy / light, heavier than, lighter than]; capacity / volume [for example, full / empty, more than, less than, half, half full, quarter]; time [for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later]; • measure and begin to record the following: lengths and height; mass / weight; capacity and volume; time (hours, minutes, seconds) • recognise and know the value of different denominations of coins and notes • sequence events in chronological order using language (for example, before and after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening) • describe position direction and movement including whole half quarter and three quarter turns PLUS MANY MORE OBJECTImore than, less than, half, half full, quarter]; time [for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later]; • measure and begin to record the following: lengths and height; mass / weight; capacity and volume; time (hours, minutes, seconds) • recognise and know the value of different denominations of coins and notes • sequence events in chronological order using language (for example, before and after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening) • describe position direction and movement including whole half quarter and three quarter turns PLUS MANY MORE OBJECTIMORE OBJECTIVES!

The course also covers the area of exam related anxiety and gives practical advice and measures schools and those supporting young people can put in place to manage this time of year more effectively.

This is much preferable to the EBacc performance measure in which only a core of five academic subjects, with no recognition of success in more creative or practical subjects, was targeted.

This report provides guidelines to promote thoughtful development of practical, high - quality measures of interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies that practitioners and policymakers... Read More»

More so than any SUVs or crossovers or coupe / sedan half - breeds, the 1 - series - a compact, practical, fun - to - drive entry with a full measure of family DNA - is the kind of brand extension that is easy to get behind.

It is, however, the measure of VW's twisted brilliance and deep engineering bent that it bothered to elaborately game the system rather than just fail to meet the standard straight up, as more practical creeps might have done.

This Sonic sedan isn't much more exciting than the drab Toyota Yaris sedan I drove the other day, but it does have a great little turbo engine and some nifty practical measures such as the binnacles that flank the center stack and offer a good place to stash your cell phone or sunglasses.

Although bigger than before, the Mercedes A-Class doesn't quite measure up against some more practical rivals

The primary goal of the new measures is to equip college students with more practical skills to prepare them adequately for the workforce.

Preventative measures cover physical and mental distraction that help re-directing the humping desire into something more practical that bears benefit for the dog.To be honest and simple --

Further reasoning for using body height to measure wave height is that most new or developing surfers will typically only surf waves that are head height or under and will find describing waves within this range more practical to their personal surfing.

«Well I'm sitting like a rose between two thorns here and I have to take practical decisions - erm - the climate's always been changing - er - Peter mentioned the Arctic and I think in the Holocene the Arctic melted completely and you can see there were beaches there - when Greenland was occupied, you know, people growing crops - we then had a little ice age, we had a middle age warming - the climate's been going up and down - but the real question which I think everyone's trying to address is - is this influenced by manmade activity in recent years and James is actually correct - the climate has not changed - the temperature has not changed in the last seventeen years and what I think we've got to be careful of is that there is almost certainly - bound to be - some influence by manmade activity but I think we've just got to be rational (audience laughter)- rational people - and make sure the measures that we take to counter it don't actually cause more damage - and I think we're about to get -»

If the measures reduce even slightly the numbers of heavy - polluting cars on the road, then it's a positive move, although it would be good to see more sensible and practical measures to penalize polluters.

It makes for worrying reading: women are disproportionately affected by the cuts; the practical ability to protect children is more limited due to lack of access to representation; minor financial savings in prison law outweigh the human costs to reform and, all the while, the Government appears to lack any coherent data collection strategy to measure the wider impact of regime.

Then, more emphasis could be given in law schools to practical education and a final bar exam that measures relevant and necessary knowledge.

While this is a practical approach, which is often not so politically controversial, it can become a bit more problematic if a secondary but important aspect of a measure does cover an entirely different area than the predominant component of the measure.

If billable hours are a substantial measure of performance, delegation is less likely to occur, except when more working time is just not possible / practical.

It has been our experience that the collection of billed hours is a far more significant measure of productivity, since billable hours alone will not benefit the economics of the firm and, if used as a paramount standard of worth, will less likely lead to delegation unless more working time is not possible / practical.

The 2017 - 2018 edition covers 113 countries and jurisdictions, relying on more than 110,000 household and expert surveys to measure how the rule of law is experienced and perceived in practical, everyday situations by the general public worldwide.

That's why in recent years apprenticeships have come under fresh scrutiny, with new measures being implemented to make them fairer, more beneficial and more desirable to those seeking a practical, alternative route to University.

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.

The block randomised design was chosen because it is a more practical design to use for trials of health promoting interventions delivered in groups.26 Only parents of children whose behaviour fell in the worst half of the distribution were invited to take part because of concerns about documenting change in population samples using instruments designed to identify and measure change in clinical populations.

If parenting is so important, why don't more early childhood programs measure parenting, when practical validated parenting assessment tools are available?

The Committee formulated and devised practical measures to make the pathway to the Court for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander litigants no more difficult than it needed to be.

It is easier to measure changes in areas of practical adaptation but more difficult to assess areas of intrapscyhic function.