Sentences with phrase «more urgent priorities»

While people used to take sabbaticals because of burnout from work, there is a growing trend in people taking sabbaticals to attend to other more urgent priorities or rethink their...

While people used to take sabbaticals because of burnout from work, there is a growing trend in people taking sabbaticals to attend to other more urgent priorities or rethink their career direction.

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Nothing, in fact, is more urgent than sustained debate to reassess our priorities and to determine what we really want most from the future.

Lords reform is also a low priority: «In terms of reform, having a more elected chamber, which is what I favour, to be frank is not an urgent priority.

There may be no economic matter more urgent, difficult to unravel and more sensitive to the pursuit of the average person in Ondo State than the current indignity foisted on the people by poverty orchestrated by maladministration and priority misplacement by the current administration.

«These claims amount to nothing more than ideological grandstanding to say whatever they can to make «global warming» an urgent priority,» he said.

Citing polls showing that the majority of the U.S. public does believe that climate change is taking place, Holdren said the real problem is that the issue isn't as urgent as other concerns that many people have: «We need to be more in the business of persuading people this needs to be higher on their priority list.»

More urgent matters took priority, though, with features screened on topics as current as gun control (Surviving Sandy Hook), the war on drugs (Cartel Land), sexual abuse on university campuses (The Hunting Ground), economic disparity (The Divide), racial tension (3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets), and climate change and its continued denial (Merchants of Doubt).

Although it took too long for NCLB's staggering failures to register with many lawmakers in Congress, educators and parents have known for more than a decade that scrapping NCLB and replacing it with a law that provides more opportunity for all students and more time to learn was an urgent national priority.

Last week, the United States got a painful reminder that making student achievement a higher priority couldn't be more urgent when a major global study ranked American kids just 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math — behind countries such as Estonia, Poland and Vietnam.

Yet, new puppy owners often fail to realize that there's an even more important and urgent priority they should focus all their energy on.

(a) Identification of the key sources of marine plastic debris and microplastics; (b) Identification of possible measures and best available techniques and environmental practices to prevent the accumulation and minimize the level of microplastics in the marine environment; (c) Recommendations for the most urgent actions; (d) Specification of areas especially in need of more research, including key impacts on the environment and on human health; (e) Any other relevant priority areas identified in the assessment of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection;

«Climate change has been at the top of priority list since the day I took office,» said Ban Ki - moon, but the IPCC report and his recent visit to Greenland have provided him with even more urgent impetus for action.

Inevitably, by noon at least one of those priorities has been swept aside in favour of something more urgent coming in.

The report calls for a commitment to overcoming indigenous disadvantage as an urgent national priority and makes 14 recommendations including negotiation of a national framework agreement (or treaty), an entrenched guarantee against racial discrimination, better accountability and transparency of Governments and processes to ensure more effective participation of Indigenous peoples in the decision - making process.

-- an urgent priority for the housing industry was to expand the market by getting more Millennials to buy homes.