Sentences with phrase «national priority while»

Funding quality early childhood programs can have a significant financial return on investment, but more importantly, making healthy development of young children a national priority while addressing social determinants of health helps families and communities build a foundation for lifelong health.

The President's budget offers hope that the nation will continue to make science and education investments a top national priority while taking serious steps to reduce budget deficits.

Not exact matches

Robots and automation are priorities in China, where salaries have increased more than 100 percent over the last 10 years while the national labor force has been shrinking.

While conceding that there is «some basis» for concerns about «the negative social effects of globalization», it contends that it is «not true that globalization is an overwhelming supra - national force that has largely usurped national policy autonomy...» It asserts that «national policies can, and should, give priority to mitigating negative effects on globalization» of financial markets), and the desperate and helpless attempts by the national regimes to come to grips with the soaring unemployment situation in the face of the continuing onslaught of the «supra - national» financial markets, the above bland assertion about «national policies» has an air of unreality about it.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging challenges and makes 14 recommendations for the U.S. government and other stakeholders to address these challenges, while maintaining U.S. status as a world leader in global health.

While this national endeavour will help the education system to refocus it priorities, another factor needs to be taken into account in tackling the present crisis — the teachers themselves.

Approved in 2007, the original COMPETES legislation committed the government to providing healthy funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, while also setting government - wide spending priorities to be coordinated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

While recent initiatives have attempted to address conservation priorities at global and national scales, most of these focus on developed countries in temperate regions.

Funding for USGS's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers would shrink in half, while «climate research and development» funding would also fall to pay for what the budget request calls «higher priorities» (Greenwire, Feb. 8).

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 Democratic National Convention elevated climate change on the party's list of electoral priorities, a move that's meant to energize progressive voters while casting shadows on Trump's judgment related to science and the environment.

Research in Africa is fragmented and the actual status of research remains unclear, while national institutions are struggling to build critical capacities, develop organisational mechanisms, and formulate priorities.

Universally applicable to all countries while taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of development and respecting national policies and priorities.

Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, says while Spellings did make attempts to clarify the highly qualified teacher process, significantly more than was done under Secretary Paige, «it was not a priority for her.»

While they disagreed on some issues, such as the role of the federal government in setting national standards and ensuring compliance with federal regulations, their answers to the question, «Should school reform be a national priority — and if so, why?»

And while a new report by Scholastic on principals and teachers» views on education equity describes that overwhelmingly, educators agree that equity in education for all children should be a national priority, it is also evident that such leadership requires clarity around the nuances of what it means to provide students a well - rounded education — regardless of race, national origin, immigration status, gender identity, disability, or religion.

Authorized by the National Veterinary Medical Services Act (NVMSA), the VMLRP helps qualified veterinarians offset a significant portion of debt they incurred while pursuing their veterinary medicine degrees, in return for their service in designated high - priority veterinary shortage situations.

While the park reaps the benefits of introducing a new generation to their national parks and getting critical support for priority programs and projects, the interns receive academic credit and gain valuable and relevant hands - on work experience to enhance their classroom learning and better prepare them for future careers.

While travel and study in Europe remained a priority, many American artists also felt newly compelled by their national surroundings.

This can be built by investing the savings in national priorities right now while clearly communicating to the general public that the new investments — regardless of whether they fund a new school, hospital, bridge, direct cash transfer, or subway line — are made possible because of subsidy savings.

The Bank supports country - led development strategies and priorities aimed at integrating climate - and disaster - resilience in national development planning, while helping countries take advantage of new economic, capacity building, and financing opportunities that climate change presents.

Both developed and developing countries need to work together in crafting policies aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, while recognizing the potential for differing national priorities.

While the massive state companies are less efficient than smaller private ones, they give the government better control of its national priorities including cleaning up the air.

Jim Gordon, the President of Cape Wind, was pleased to see the Framework's recognition of the role that offshore wind can play in addressing key national priorities, saying, «The Framework recognizes that offshore wind can meet a significant share of the energy requirements of the Northeast while helping to diversify our energy sources, protect public health and the environment, create jobs, help stabilize energy prices and make us more energy independent.»

While it recognizes border security is a national priority, it's not as quick to give federal agencies a free pass on Fourth Amendment exceptions.

In Canada, the Chrétien government quickly implemented far - reaching national security measures to harmonize with U.S. priorities — with terrible results, as Canadians saw when Maher Arar was trapped and tortured by the post-9 / 11 secret security apparatus — while famously refusing to join the U.S. - led invasion of Iraq, emphasizing instead Canada's military role in Afghanistan.

While regional councils were given the capacity to advise on national funding priorities, in practical terms they became focused on program management.

«While Aboriginal health is seen as a priority by the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission, its central recommendation of a Health Authority to aggregate Aboriginal health funding and purchase services is barely developed in its report.

Case in Point: National Flood Insurance Program While REALTORS ® have tackled countless issues, one recent priority has been support for the National Flood Insurance Program, especially in light of a devastating 2017 hurricane season.