Sentences with phrase «national priorities like»

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan roundly criticized the supercommittee for its failure to reduce the nation's debt in a «thoughtful and deliberate way that protects national priorities like education at such a critical time.»

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One of his current priorities is working with like - minded organizations across the country to advocate for a more coherent national approach to energy and resource policy.

Support for research is not a typical use for development assistance, most of which is typically targeted to meeting short - and long - term needs like famine relief, health, education, infrastructure or other similar national priorities.

Instead, member states have shown an increasing tendency to operate on their own or in like - minded groups, and focus on inward - looking aid policiesdriven by national interests and priorities.

«So far, it hasn't been a priority for clients like the Democratic National Committee and Obama campaign, and the rest of the vastly larger number of campaigns that chose MiniVan over any paid app like Organizer.»

Mayor de Blasio's work to push forward national policies through the U.S. Conference of Mayors and other partnerships is vital to our efforts to secure key federal funding for priorities like infrastructure and homeland security, and move forward an agenda that will lift up New Yorkers around the five boroughs,» Spitalnick said in an emailed statement.

Like all NHS bodies, the ambulance service has to meet national performance targets - and it has not been immune to accusations of distorting priorities as a result.

We'll focus both on neighborhood issues like transportation and development, as well as national priorities that affect our community, such as immigration rights.

The attempted revival of American manufacturing through initiatives like the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation has been a major priority for government in the Obama years.

Some standard Obama Administration priorities like clean energy and climate were again prominent, but some agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) received only limited discretionary increases, while the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NASA faced billion - dollar cuts.

The Chinese government, we learn, has made Internet addiction a national health priority, and the solution is an open - ended stint at Daxing, a «rehabilitation facility» that looks and feels remarkably like a gulag.

The PASA group of partners (including key network members like parents, funders, youth, educators, and program providers) reviewed and created a set of standards culled from such existing sources as the National Afterschool Association and from cities including Baltimore, Chicago, Kansas City, and Washington, DC, but that are reflective of the particular needs and priorities of Rhode Island and the city of Providence.

It would start with setting national priorities for transparency on measures that matter (like student growth and college - readiness) and add in a strong federal role in research and innovation.

Campaigns like TeachStrong, a coalition of more than 50 diverse education organizations, are working to make more time for teachers a national priority.

We've had five decades of reforms, countless studies, watershed reports like A Nation At Risk, and repeated affirmations and commitments from the body politic to finally make education a national priority.

I've always thought that the way to make progress on climate change, especially in «reluctant» countries like China and even the U.S., is to start by focusing on places where climate goals overlap with other national priorities — like clearing the air or making energy supplies more reliable.

Also, as climate finance becomes increasingly available at the global level, it would be essential to enact appropriate assimilative national capacity in Pakistan to direct this finance towards nationally identified priorities as well as channelize it transparently and efficiently through consolidated financial mechanisms like a National Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through thinational capacity in Pakistan to direct this finance towards nationally identified priorities as well as channelize it transparently and efficiently through consolidated financial mechanisms like a National Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through thiNational Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through this study.

They argue that shale gas, accessible through cost - effective methods like hydraulic fracturing, are sufficiently plentiful and cheap that most renewable energy sources will not be able to compete for decades, and that we should instead focus our national energy priorities on exploiting our newfound domestic shale gas reserves.61