Sentences with phrase «much smaller initiative»

State officials had high hopes for a much smaller initiative — a visual effects training program at Daemen College, in partnership with a company promising to create new jobs in the fledgling industry in Buffalo.

Alongside with the Davos summit and the gathering of 2500 international leaders another but much smaller initiative may have the key — or at least point in the direction where it might be found.

Not exact matches

As a veteran of past tax reform initiatives, I wondered how the government had come to generate such anger from small business owners and whether a much needed tax reform scheme could be rescued.

Although I immersed myself in as much of the arts - related research as possible while planning this program (and explored the many large - and small - scale art initiatives), I knew I'd eventually have to tackle — and really understand — my deeply rooted assumptions about teaching and learning if I wanted to form a truly well - rounded program.

And it's the small - to medium - sized districts — which serve nearly half of the nation's public school students — that could benefit the most from this initiative, as they don't have the scale to have much central - office capacity.

The death of a small federal school - integration initiative is connected to a much larger concern that DeVos's primary education - reform idea — using public money for private school vouchers — will produce poor academic results for students, and Balkanize students by religion, race, and class.

So far, though, the problems that education leaders tend to trust practicing teachers to solve don't extend much beyond the realm of homework detention and other small - scale, school - based initiatives.

It features bike parts donated from the university's Yellow Bike Program, a bike - sharing initiative, a battery for storing the energy generated by the pedals and a small touchscreen that shows how much electricity a person produces.

«This project offers UBC Library the opportunity to contribute our small, relatively unknown but important collection of original Darwin correspondence to a much larger and growing initiative out of England to provide access to Darwin letters around the world,» says Hives.

However, you can think of smart growth initiatives on a much smaller scale and still be successful.