Sentences with phrase «narrow focus on»

I would like to see an undergraduate degree with a narrow focus on business to be the new minimum standard prior to entry to take the licensing programs.

After being exposed to a diverse client population, I've been able to narrow my focus on a specific population and issue, which is couples and their relationships.

The FAD has a more narrow focus on perceptions of family members in completing essential tasks compared to the broad range of areas of functioning within the family system and the larger external systems assessed by the FES, despite its rating of «well - established».

Therapists who take Dr. Schnarch's message to heart are likely to experience a radical change in perspective - from a narrow focus on sexual dysfunction to a broad view of sexual potential.

Traditionally, professional services to assist people with illness and disability have been limited by a narrow focus on the individual, on the terminal phase of progressive diseases, and on family deficits or «dysfunction.»

The success of the Rural and Provincial Affairs Unit led to a fundamental broadening of what was understood to be «rural»; it moved from the traditional, narrow focus on primary industry, which dominated rural policy at that time, to an understanding that encompassed social, economic, cultural and environmental matters.

«Finally, we are further upset that the terms of reference are not cast widely enough to include the wider NT youth justice system, rather than a narrow focus on youth detention, and that they do not specify an examination of the huge over-representation of Aboriginal youth in detention.

He has worked tirelessly and effectively to broaden the understanding of what constitutes viable rural health services, shifting the debate from the conventional narrow focus on doctors and medical services, to one that also encompasses the innate structural factors that underlie health in rural areas, the impact of health workforce issues on access and equity, and the need for service provision models that provide safe and viable services that meet cultural, as well as physical needs.

The new federal law also broadens the narrow focus on test scores of the previous version of the law, No Child Left Behind, by requiring states to create a school accountability system that includes at least one nonacademic indicator.

Narrow focus on marketing strategy, global outsourcing, and product partnering.

It is our feeling that the Board of Medical Examiners can best serve the public if we continue to keep a rather narrow focus on our original mission.

Instead narrow your focus on the best internship and job opportunities for you.

Bitcoin Cash's narrow focus on transactions «gets it wrong» because money is only a «byproduct» of a much bigger vision, according to Max...

Bitcoin Cash's narrow focus on transactions «gets it wrong» because money is only a «byproduct» of a much bigger vision, according to Max Keiser.

Jeff John Roberts, as long as you continue your narrow focus on the law you'll never see what was physically going on with Aereo.

The majority of the value in mobile isn't in the OS per se and AAPL and RIMM (and perhaps GOOG one day) are capitalizing on M$ FT's narrow focus on the mobile OS and its weakness in all other parts of the stack.

These three questions might seem basic, but they are really the only questions you need to answer to narrow your focus on what type of life insurance is most appropriate:

The narrow focus on providing legal services alone to the GC must be broken for firms to survive with a BigLaw model underpinning them.

The PAFVA's narrow focus on defined «family members» differs from civil protection legislation in some other provinces and territories.

Keeping a narrow focus on these customers helps me to realize that I need to be building products which help them with fast and efficient contracts for when they are able to ramp up a short term contract to cover the «in - between - period»; coverage on status for anything that had been in process during the shutdown, such as a Trademark request; and clearer contracts and legal help on when and if they can recoup their losses from their main contract holders or directly from the government.

Impact assessments move beyond a narrow focus on the bio-physical impacts of particular projects and instead assess all impacts that may result from a project.

Then last year, I again included the continued growth in the use of practice management applications as a major development, noting in particular that these applications were evolving from maintaining a narrow focus on simple practice management to becoming something wider — providing a variety of integrated tools and services that address an array of functions within a law office.

The report also explains why the costs of storage are actually cheaper than they appear because of bad methodology: «We found clear indications that a narrow focus on costs alone drives the common misperception that electrical energy storage is more expensive than it really is,» said Gardner.

As the late Ghanian energy expert Abeeku Brew - Hammond observed, «There is an emerging consensus, based on the evidence from many energy access interventions around the world, that too narrow a focus on expanding energy delivery without adequate attention to productive uses for income generation yields little by way of socioeconomic development.»

Peter Droege: These goals seem not quite right: neither the energy and water consumption embodied in the buildings and infrastructure themselves, nor in the lifestyle engendered and supported seem to be considered here - but this may be due to the narrow focus on the stage set as presented by the press.

The narrow focus on materials management and end - of - life (EOL) product take - back / recycling excluded a more complete (and probably more accurate) picture of products» footprint.

Too narrow a focus on climate change obscures the context of climate politics.

Amory Lovins, the energy efficiency guru of Colorado's Rocky Mountain Institute has been on the lecture circuit lately, lamenting the narrow focus on electric powertrains, and calls for innovation on other aspects of vehicles, including the dramatic lowering of vehicle body weight by using composite materials.

Both Romm and Manzi deserve credit for helping to move the debate away from a narrow focus on global warming and toward a debate over solutions.

«A narrow focus on the factors that influence plant growth has led to major underestimations of the potential impacts of climate change on plants, not only at higher latitudes but more severely in the tropics, exposing the world to dire consequences.»

The key conclusion is that a narrow focus on levelised cost alone can be misleading.

If anything the role of sustainable development has taken on an ever - increasing footprint in climate policy debates, which may render untenable a narrow focus on emissions.

I think there's something kind of uninspiring about just the narrow focus on climate.

He claimed a narrow focus on MBH98 / 99, but the WR summarized many of the later papers (badly), and cited even more.

This could also narrow the focus on components for synthesis.

With their narrow focus on spay and neuter services, the Columbus clinic has been able to operate efficiently and cost - effectively — passing savings on to pet parents in the surrounding communities.

Funds with a consistently narrow focus on a single country, group of countries or single region within the emerging markets will be excluded from the category.

Why should you have to buy all the dud industries or stocks, when you could simply narrow your focus on a few of the top performing sectors?

Your Board has recently invited all bidders to provide an enhanced competitive «best» offer so that the Board and management can narrow their focus on the strongest proposals and accelerate the next stage of diligence.

ZWB's narrow focus on a single sector alone is enough for me to sit this out completely.

The glimpses we get of her older brother (who is away at school when their parents break up) provide needed perspective in what could have been a too - narrow focus on Daley's viewpoint, but without robbing us of the emotional connection to the information.

The narrow focus on cycling will open up broader thought and discussion about women's history, making this a strong, high - interest choice for both classroom and personal reading.

It is not a surprise that Penguin Random House realized that their narrow focus on an e-books was an error.

She claims that «Three decades of research clearly suggests that such a narrow focus on achievement can produce wildly unhappy people.

It is in these proliferating developments in and around Amazon that one might glimpse a more subtle sense of the future of books and publishing than that provided by Stone's rather narrow focus on the soured partnership between book publishers and Amazon.

In discussions of school and teacher effectiveness, our narrow focus on the official and tested curriculum neglects the equally important taught and learned curricula.

But — mirroring a nationwide shift away from a narrow focus on tests — it offers special help to ones with sagging academics only if they also suspend a high number of students or graduate too few of them.

In light of this, a narrow focus on leadership efforts aimed only at building teacher capacities would be misguided.

The process of determining essential student learning outcomes would shift from trying to cover all required standards to a more narrow focus on standards that all students must master to be able to succeed in the future.

But if elementary - level teachers and administrators are able to move away from a narrow focus on basic skills and give our youngest disadvantaged kids some of the knowledge their middle - class peers often acquire at home, we can still give them a fighting chance.