Sentences with phrase «narrowed the purpose of»

NCLB, while broadening awareness of the achievement gap, simultaneously narrowed the purpose of our nation's schools, boiling the whole endeavor down to the incremental movement of testing numbers as an attempt to say something about student literacy and numeracy.

I dissent for the narrow purpose of sending the criminal defense bar this message: do not cite this case for the proposition that Paul's sentence was substantively unreasonable.

The Carter majority thus concluded at para. 315 that the Rodriguez court's articulation of the legislative objective of the existing law was not restricted to the narrow purpose of only protecting the «vulnerable», but also with the «societal concern with preserving life» in general, and therefore that concerns over the fundamental shift in societal values that would arise if the state permits some citizens to kill others in certain circumstances, can not be simply brushed aside.

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They're doing it with a clear, narrow sense of purpose, a sublime customer experience, and the kind of coherence that seems all but impossible when a company gets old and big, and its founding idea lost to time and well - intended meddling.

But now on the contrary a swift reversal is making us aware that your main purpose in this revealing to us of your heart was to enable our love to escape from the constrictions of the too narrow, too precise, too limited image of you which we had fashioned for ourselves.

It is not just free - floating groups banded together for narrow political gain, but an intelligent form of life requiring the constant engagement of its members in discussion and decision - making, in defining and redefining its goals and purposes.

But when my desire fastens on anything less than God, it immediately becomes destructive, for that is where desire turns into covetousness, and covetousness will rob my life of its potential because it will narrow my vision, depress my limits, bring me to the edge of death, violate my purpose in creation, and starve my life to death.

In The Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry, Niebuhr contended that, in the name of radical faith, Christians need to oppose narrower ecclesiocentric, bibliocentric and even christocentric loyalties.

This means that economic goals like liquidation of poverty and unemployment, distribution of welfare, narrowing the gulf between the rich and the poor, people's participation in the economic process, accountability of economic centres to the people, economic self - sufficiency and similar other economic purposes are jeopardized because the market is not concerned with them.

In my ealrier response I lambasted the author for «believing» in Math (which is pathetic), but in fact — if she wants to use that rather narrow - minded verbiage as representation of «a higher purpose» than herself — than so be it.

When it is first introduced, it may be used very tentatively for very limited purposes, correlating a narrow range of phenomena.

That can not come at the cost of quality though, because if your baby is not really comfortable in a particularly narrow double stroller, then the product fails in its primary purpose.

Although the security of its European and North American member states forms its core purposes, a strictly transatlantic or regional view is too narrow to fully describe what NATO does.

JCOPE answered Denerstein's more narrow query on whether the governor's three daughters, all of whom are under age 18, can use the aircraft when traveling for official purposes.

Equality bill The purpose of the bill is to set out new laws to help narrow the gap between the rich and poor, require businesses to report on gender pay, outlaw age discrimination and strengthen anti-discrimination legislation.

To do so in a way that does not overwhelm the narrower context of the book's purpose is doubly impressive.

James Madison advocated for the ratification of the Constitution in The Federalist and at the Virginia ratifying convention upon a narrow construction of the clause, asserting that spending must be at least tangentially tied to one of the other specifically enumerated powers, such as regulating interstate or foreign commerce, or providing for the military, as the General Welfare Clause is not a specific grant of power, but a statement of purpose qualifying the power to tax.

Through a constitutional convention, we can demand transparency to backroom dealings in Albany by mandating public oversight of budgetary decisions and requiring narrow, set purposes for all money funneled into the budget.

By allowing the channels of racism (including antisemitism) to mobilise discontent for narrow party political purposes, the Labour Party follows a game that is unacceptable to my mind, and extremely dangerous for Labour itself.

Kate Spence, an Egyptologist at the University of Cambridge who was not involved in the study, suspects that since the narrow tunnels can serve no practical purpose, they are almost certainly symbolic.

To assist in this quest, BikerNext provides registered users with an newly - invented matching system which does an excellent job at determining the level of compatibility of a biker single by narrowing down the field from numerous users, with the purpose to match you with compatible prospects with whom you can most likely to have a quality date and hopefully something that would last.

In fact, the line - up is so stellar that for the purposes of whittling down a manageable list of the films we're most anticipating, we made the decision to exclude anything that features in our Most Anticipated Toronto Internatioal Film Festival list just to narrow the field a little.

That may make it a «bad» scene in terms of the movie's narrow purposes, but does it have a life of its own?

But with our clear purpose and associated design, you will almost certainly want to narrow the focus of the content, and likely require some additional.

Standardized testing has a role to play as an audit, but one of the things that many policymakers and parents forget, or don't know, is that these tests have a very narrow focus and purpose as audits.

InTinkering Toward Utopia, we argued that the purposes of education and the way of judging success have been radically narrowed.

Funneling, narrowing, focusing, or otherwise trimming the breadth, depth, or purpose of student involvement inherently poses the risk that student involvement does not genuinely reflect the attitudes, opinions, ideas, actions, knowledge, or beliefs of students.

Once reviewed, revised, and approved, these plans will shape the work that states and school districts undertake to narrow achievement gaps for low - income kids, which is the purpose of the law.

Further, particular aspects of teachers» professional community — a shared sense of intellectual purpose and a sense of collective responsibility for student learning — were associated with a narrowing of achievement gaps in math and science among low - and middle - income students.14 Strong professional learning communities require leadership that establishes a vision, creates opportunities and expectations for joint work, and finds the resources needed to support the work, including expertise and time to meet.15 Collaborative teacher teams can improve practice together by: 16

This question helps narrow down the purpose of the vehicle.

For the purpose of this post, we narrowed our lessons learned down to twelve.

Although Boston Harbor stretched across seventy - five square miles, its channels had been so narrowed for purposes of defense that two large ships could not safely pass each other without the harbor pilot's assistance.

If his window on the past feels slightly narrow, however, he still makes good on his dual purpose of tracing both the history of TB and the development of the scientific method through medicine and fiction.

What you haven't spelled out is the way that ISBNs are still being used as a gatekeeping mechanism that narrows readers» access to the very best, most groundbreaking literature because many of the leading literary prizes define possession of an ISBN as their definition of publication for eligibility purposes.

It's one of the few single - purpose devices left in this world, and I've come to appreciate its narrow focus.

Sector funds are special - purpose stock funds that invest in a very narrow slice of the economy.

Purpose: Pulmonic stenosis (PS) and subaortic stenosis (SAS), the two most common congenital heart defects encountered in dogs, are characterized by a narrowing of the outlet of the right or left side of the heart, respectively.

Climbing axes can be upgraded for close quarters melee combat by adding a hide wrapped handle for one - handed grip that prepares climbing axes to be dual - wielded when knocking down armoured enemies, while improving the purpose of climbing axes by sharpening the edge in order for it to slide into narrower gaps which provides more leverage for increased movement speed.

What contemporary photography has amply discredited — and which, in fact, applies retroactively to the entire history of photography — is the narrow view that the camera is a recording device only, not a creative tool, and that its purpose is strictly representational.

It is staggering, the number of constituencies which seem to serve singular purposes with utter blindness to the effects of those positions beyond their narrow view.

The value of nonhuman life forms is independent of the usefulness these may have for narrow human purposes.

The prima facia purpose of the IPCC to develop a consensus forced an ever narrowing number of participants, particularly reducing the diversity of participants, such that differing opinions, perspectives, observations could not be tolerated, leading to «tribal behavior.»

Your purpose — which we have seen in many others of the pissant progressive persuasion — seems to be to ram your narrow views down peoples throats with an obsessive persistence that is remarkable — along with an almost ritual disparagement of the other.

«Your purpose — which we have seen in many others of the pissant progressive persuasion — seems to be to ram your narrow views down peoples throats with an obsessive persistence that is remarkable»

«Figures 2, 3, and 5 also make it evident that these singularly wide or narrow annual rings, which are considered in dendrochronology to be environmentally sensitive indicators of abrupt envrionmental change and therefore useful for cross-dating purposes, can not be relied on to be present in every tree, even when the trees have grown in close proximity.»

Given the statutory purposes are clearly distinct, one would expect a much narrower interpretation in the context of SPCs.

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal in Citic Pacific Ltd v Secretary for Justice (No. 2) 1 rejected the narrow interpretation of client adopted in England2 where only a small sub-set of (senior) individuals within an organisation qualified as the client for privilege purposes.

Such a narrow interpretation would defeat the object and purpose of the PHA.

Justice Stratas indicates, in the spirit of this article, that legislative words matter and that there are many contextual factors which might provide that a presumption of deferential review (or reasonableness, whatever we want to call it), is rebutted, and a narrower margin must be accepted: for example, «statutory recipes that must be followed,» statutory purposes, settled case law, discretionary decisions, and importantly, clear statutory language.

It should not appease lawyers who recognize the inherent dissonance between narrowing concepts like «solely» being blown open by terms like «purposes such as» and total vagueness like «facilitate the implementation of different licensing models by publishers.»