Sentences with phrase «move the group towards»

On the eve of the IAA, the largest car show of the year at Frankfurt, aka the Frankfurt Motor Show, the Volkswagen Group announced a massive $ 84 billion plan that will move the group towards an electric future.

Ability to inspire and move a group towards consent.

Not exact matches

Productivity will also be reformulated and moved away from individual achievement towards group achievement which not only provides a more sustainable and healthy environment but has also been shown to benefit efficiency overall.

Swift didn't comment on her change of heart towards Spotify, but Vox notes the move follows a contract that Universal Music Group (Swift's label) negotiated with Spotify to enable artists to keep new albums off the level one version of the platform, which is ad - supported and free to users.

QBE Insurance Group has made its first moves towards simplifying the complex global business, selling off most of its troubled Latin American business to Swiss giant Zurich Insurance.

«Few companies are as much as a century old, while many... tribes have had two thousand years or more in which to move towards organisational perfection, and to learn not merely how to live together, but to flourish as a group.»

By defining who is «good» and who is «bad» the Mind Control cult is attempting to move the subject towards the «group norm» that their group has.

Take the long view — we no longer burn women at the stake, we are moving towards equality for gays, and we have a United Nations, Amnesty International, and lots of other groups that work to raise consciousness.

Julia Majail, Smallholders Program Manager at the RSPO, is keen to promote the RSSF to product manufacturers and retailers as well as smallholders because it represents a perfect opportunity for them to directly support a smallholder group to move towards RSPO certification:

A. Benckiser Group, a private German holding company), seem to indicate a move towards away from sustainably - sourced and 100 % - certified coffees.

Arsenal are third in their Champions League group having lost their opening two fixtures, but after an impressive 2 - 0 win over the Germans two weeks ago Wenger feels that a draw at the Allianz Arena would help his side move towards qualification.

Finally, I think that the move towards abstraction has been catalysed by the need to overcome what people see as the dead end of identity politics and its parochial focus on particular group experiences to the exclusion of wider issues of democratic solidarity.

This week, the Durban Platform working group (ADP) is convening in Bonn, Germany, for the first of three meetings in 2013, moving in earnest towards its 2015 deadline to agree a new international treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol and enter into force in 2020.

During a recent conference on addiction held in Tehran, Saeed Sefatian, a prominent Iranian official and head of the working group on drug demand reduction in the Council for the Discernment of the Expediency of the State (also known as the Expediency Council), illustrated what could become a potential alternative to Iran's current drug policy — including a move which that could include measures towards legalisation of cannabis and opium.

The Direct Democracy group - established by Tory parliamentarians Douglas Carswell and Dan Hannan - has welcomed the moves towards «people power» that are widely expected to be announced in today's Queen's Speech:

Bakare spoke during his sermon on Sunday, declaring that the «country is moving towards another collapse» with the division among different groups and violence in the country.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

But there is now a clear move towards reform from a particular group of Labour parliamentarians — Chuka Umunna is spearheading a separate campaign for voting reform.

This is a stark reminder that the party's traditional attitude towards the UK's nuclear deterrent distinguished them from both the Conservatives and Labour, labelled «dinosaur parties» for their «Cold War» attitude to the prospect of nuclear disarmament by chair of the policy working group Dr Julie Smith, who moved the motion today.

Popularly put, we are moving towards the development of an «exercise pill»,» says Postdoc Rasmus Kjøbsted, lead author of the article that catalogued the group's research.

He notes, as do the authors, that those pest groups seen moving towards the equator — largely nematode worms and viruses are the most poorly understood, and therefore the ones most likely to be discovered later in developing countries.

The group hypothesized that, in the absence of any real trend, pests would appear to be moving towards the equator rather than the poles.

And now we're doing a lot more narrowcasting, we're moving towards narrowcasting; which means dozens, dozens and dozens of outlets are communicating with smaller groups of people.

Regenerative neurobiologist Malin Parmar, who heads one of the teams at Lund University in Sweden, says that the groups «are all rapidly moving towards clinical trials, and this field will be very exciting in the coming years».

In the experiments one cockatoo group was allowed to observe Figaro skilfully employing a ready - made stick tool, while another could see what researchers called «ghost demonstrations» — either seeing the tools displacing the nuts by themselves, while being controlled by magnets hidden under a table, or seeing the nuts moving towards Figaro without his intervention, again using magnets to displace the food.

However, in disengaged families (in families where the marital relationship is strained and there is little affection), the children first focused their attention towards the threatening stimuli, but then, unlike the first group, moved their focus away from the stimuli rather than disengaging from them.

If Budd is right, then the finding implies that the uniramous arthropods must have derived from some separate group, and that the move towards the arthropod body form happened twice.

The group's results show that MTs are responsible for elongation of the zygote along the top - bottom axis, whereas F - actin plays a role in moving the nucleus towards the top part of the zygote, to make it ready for asymmetric cell division.

Assuming that the Local Bubble or Chimney was created by the supernovae of young, massive stars during the past few million years, some astronomers have been looking for their probable source among the 27 member B stars of the Pleiades moving group, which are located towards the nearest part of Gould's Belt of massive hot, OB - type stars (more discussion in pdf).

Second, you have the group that has moved their aspirations beyond weight loss and more towards personal development.

Armies swoop towards one another across a vast plain, each group displaying their own intricate maneuvers and battle strategies, wielding their own specific weaponry, making one think it could be a deleted scene from John Woo's «Red Cliff,» or that a fussy Middle Earth equivalent of John Keegan had been a consultant on the film, providing information on how the dwarf infantry worked, and how the elves moved in formation.

In an informal interview with the Livelihoods Working Group Coordinator, Madeline Sahagun, she said that the agricultural programs are moving towards being able to generate an income through accruing a surplus and selling crops outside, although this is a long - term vision that has not, as of yet, come to significant fruition (2011).

When your class or group has completed these critical questions, step forward into planning how to move students from traditionally passive roles towards those of active, engaged partners throughout schools.

Angelia Dickens, the general counsel for Michelle Rhee's group Students First, wrote that «The Vergara case is a logical extension from Brown» v. Board of Education, because it would help «move our country towards educational equity.»

If measured in proficiency rates, even if all schools succeed in closing the achievement gap, the «real» gap (i.e. gap in test scores between groups of students) are most likely to remain because closing the achievement gap simply means that more students are moving towards proficiency, not that the gap in academic performances between two groups of students is decreasing (Dahlin & Cronin, 2010).

In an interview with Claudia Kaiser, Vice President Business Development Southeast Asia of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, Arief Hakim, Managing Director of the Malaysian PTS Media Group, will talk about the move towards innovative developments in his region, particularly in the digital sector.

Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a strong African and more broadly Southern presence, to find ways to link technological development, investment and industrial growth in pharmaceuticals to improve access to essential good quality medicines, as part of moving towards universal access to competent health care in Africa.

For now, you're satisfied to tread water with this money owed until they move up into the next debt category or actively working towards group.

Though, I have always said we are moving towards a society where the real divisions are not between racial groups but between the rich and the poor..

However, it seems like these groups are making moves towards laws that require tourists to snorkel with a guide.

Thomas Cook China's focus is on the growing Chinese travel market, as Chinese consumers start to move away from traditional group tours towards more premium, personalised experiences.

On the move, these mammal hunting Orca suddenly changed speed and direction as they moved towards a large group of Pacific White - sided Dolphins.

The controls are well mapped to the DualShock 4 controller by updating the controls for every season to that of A New Frontier with the control scheme consisting of pressing X, triangle, square or O to perform actions, start a conversation with a person in your group or to choose a response in a conversation with the buttons being clearly marked towards the bottom of the screen; pressing R2 to run or perform fight actions when defending yourself; pressing up or down on the d - pad to look at your inventory; mashing certain face buttons such as X, triangle, square or O when in one - on - one encounters with walkers; changing the direction of the left analogue stick to move around cover in a tight situation or walking around as you explore the environment during your search to find people and supplies; changing the direction of the right analogue stick to move the cursor around the environment for you to investigate and observe certain objects and items of importance as well as deciding who to start or continue a conversation with or even positioning your aim when you are about to defend yourself from a walker; pressing the share button takes you to the share feature menu; and pressing the options button to display the pause menu.

The controls are well mapped to the DualShock 4 controller by retaining the improvements from the second season with the control scheme of Michonne consists of pressing X, triangle, square or O to perform actions, start a conversation with a person in your group or to choose a response in a conversation with the buttons being clearly marked towards the bottom of the screen; pressing R2 to run or perform fight actions when defending yourself; pressing up or down on the d - pad to look at your inventory; mashing certain face buttons such as X, triangle, square or O when in one - on - one encounters with walkers; changing the direction of the left analogue stick to move around cover in a tight situation or walking around as you explore the environment during your search to find people and supplies; changing the direction of the right analogue stick to move the cursor around the environment for you to investigate and observe certain objects and items of importance as well as deciding who to start or continue a conversation with or even positioning your aim when you are about to defend yourself from a walker; pressing the share button takes you to the share feature menu; and pressing the options button to display the pause menu.

The controls are well mapped to the DualShock 4 controller with the control scheme consisting of pressing X, triangle, square or O or alternatively by pressing up, down, left or right on the d - pad to perform a particular action, start a conversation with a person in your group or to choose a response in a conversation with the buttons being clearly marked towards the bottom of the screen; there are certain face buttons, such as X, triangle, square or O that you have to button mash when in one - on - one encounters with walkers as the buttons are randomly generated each time you play; changing the direction of the left analogue stick to move Lee around cover in a tight situation or walking around as you explore the environment and find people; changing the direction of the right analogue stick to move the cursor around the environment for you to investigate and observe certain objects and items of importance; pressing the share button takes you to the share feature menu; and pressing the options button to display the pause menu.

If anyone was on the fence and RotTR was pushing them towards an Xbox One over a PS4, which I can't imagine is a large group of people, this move takes one ace out of Microsoft's deck.

The following year, Vézelay was invited to join the group Abstraction - Création and exhibited in several significant pioneering exhibitions of non-figurative art in France, Italy and Holland and this work demonstrates her move away from the Surrealist influence of her former partner, André Masson, towards pure non-objectivity.

So far Liberate Tate's case has been propagated through a series of attention - grabbing, guerrilla - style actions, but in collaboration with Platform — a London - based arts organisation working towards social and ecological justice — Tate à Tête, 2012, an alternative Tate gallery audio guide, has moved both groups» activism into a kind of immaterial territory.

As more large organizations like TechSoup embrace going green and help other groups to do the same, the faster we can move towards sustainable business practices being the norm, not the exception.

Unlike the forties, though, now the city's Mayor is one of the few people in San Francisco public office still holding hands with PG&E.; Eight of eleven San Francisco supervisors support a move towards public power, as does the San Francisco Democratic Party and a number of environmental groups.