Sentences with phrase «not on a national scale»

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This works on a national scale too, not just a local level.

Once sufficient evidence is gained on what works and what doesn't, a new national law might be constructed to bring the best performing models to national scale.

Wilcox has not written a religious or political polemic here but rather a scrupulously even - handed report, basing his conclusions on his statistical analysis of three large - scale national surveys of U.S. adults» social attitudes conducted from the late 1980s through the»90s.

The feeling is less pronounced because I think the preacher probably has much less of an ego and isn't looking for national celebrity status, though he may have it on a much smaller scale.

That religious groups or viewpoints, especially those mobilized on a national scale like the Religious Right, may pose peculiar dangers to our political order is an important concern, but it does not rise to the level of a constitutional concern.

Our national law and platform should not be a hostage any special interest group should be able to interfere with on such a scale.

While the rest of the board went into damage control and stated that they were not going to cancel any of the football programs, his comments have already started to spread on a national scale.

Ramsey's comeback to form isn't going to be instantaneous, in fact he seems to perform on a completely different scale at Arsenal than he does for his national side.

Not a Harbaugh fan, but he realized real quick that if you're going to win on a national scale, you got ta recruit the deep south and Texas.

A campaign about education in the northeastern U.S. targeting a specific elected official may not hold my attention with content that calls out a particular politician by name (they're not MY rep, after all), but if the content also contains stats that I find relevant to education discussions where I live, then suddenly even a regional campaign can be relevant on a national scale.

However, President Obama in a CNN interview last week did seem to speak of self defence when he said «there is no doubt that when you start seeing chemical weapons used on a large scale... that starts getting to some core national interests that the United States has, both in terms of us making sure that weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating, as well as needing to protect our allies, our bases in the region.»

This sentiment seems to be growing and it looks like he won't be alone as some consider Grimm's ouster small potatoes on the national scale, even sounding very open to seeing him replaced.

Councilman Jumaane Williams, who represents District 45 in Brooklyn, said that the issue is not just important in New York, but on a national scale.

The whole response operation would have been on a much larger scale... the national contingency plan does not contain any provision for this, nor does it address the other problems that would arise during a massive, long - term response operation.»

«We have not yet seen the adoption of accessible formats and standards on the scale that we would like to see, particularly in the area of scientific and mathematical texts,» says Chris Danielsen, a spokesman for the US National Federation of the Blind in Baltimore, Maryland.

«It's very challenging to go from something that works on the bench to something that works on a large - scale,» comments David E. Chavez, a chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was not involved in the research.

The authors note that, although their model is based on the best available data, the data for Russia and India was scaled up from regional data and may not represent the true national disease burden.

Some cities, especially in the developing world, simply don't have access to the kind of data needed for a comprehensive inventory; Maleki says he often works in places where the only emissions data available are on a national scale.

But these days, with many scientists are focused on tracking greenhouse gases produced by human activities at national, regional and local scales, the current monitoring network doesn't measure up.

The study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows a state - level win for environmental activism that hasn't been apparent on a nationaNational Academy of Sciences, shows a state - level win for environmental activism that hasn't been apparent on a nationalnational scale.

A new study shows a state - level win for environmental activism that hasn't been apparent on a national scale.

NEWSOME: I don't view the BRAIN Initiative as a big science project on the scale of a national laboratory, for example.

Water research needs to get down to the management scale; for basic research that means they need to scale up and for global research that means they need to scale down, because we need to get to a scale where things are relevant to people and to management — the regional, national and global scenarios of this initiative will help with this if they concentrate on not just sticking to the global scale, but really getting down to the people.»

Rather than label their products sold in California as likely carcinogenic, most companies reformulated their product ingredients so as to avoid warning labels altogether, and most did this on a national scale, not just in California, to avoid carrying a separate inventory of products.

Yeah, exactly the fashion house is not only popular on the national scale but it has got air internationally too.

Adi watches Oppenheimer's footage of the murderers describing his brother's death in that animated, kids - playing way familiar from The Act of Killing, though these are not the same two «actors» who appeared in that film, underscoring that a desensitization to the atrocities committed has happened on a national, not individual, scale.

Since the benefits of large - scale investments in human talent accrue powerfully to society as a whole, and are not necessarily visible to individual parents, students, local or state officials, it is important for the national government to keep policy focused on this level of aggregation.

As vice president, Gray not only advises The Mind Trust's president and CEO on issues of strategy and operations and advances the policy work, he also leads the effort to help this Indianapolis - based and - focused organization build a national network of city - based organizations that will work together to support education entrepreneurs as they scale to new markets across the country.

On whether the national pay scale would include the chief executives of multi-academy trusts, Bousted doesn't skip a beat: «Of course.

Third, the assessments have not been scaled up for use on a statewide or national basis.

Related: Opinion There's one education reform proven to work on a national scale, so why aren't we trying it?

We don't get a chance very often to share experiences about what works and what doesn't and this is an opportunity on a national scale,» Punter said.

For the purposes of this alphabetized list, we focused on safety ratings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), simply because the other organization that rates vehicles for safety, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) does not use a 5 - star scale.

He has not had a chance to relay his opinions on higher education or student loans on the national scale, but he will have his chance.

It's a big accomplishment — not only because of the decrease in the number of animals killed, but also because we are finally able to measure our lifesaving progress on a national scale.

«I wouldn't want to underestimate the scale of the financial challenge that the director of Tate is taking on,» said Stephen Deuchar, who ran Tate Britain from 1998 to 2009 and now heads the Art Fund, a national art charity whose 2015 Museum of the Year prize went to the Whitworth.

According to a Crystal Bridges spokesperson: «Many of the artists in the exhibition have not had work exhibited on a national scale before so in order to respect their preferences for publicity, we're working with them to share their involvement in the formats with which they are most comfortable.»

I've got news for you people: the only viable source of energy that we can turn to on a national scale to meet our energy needs (and that doesn't emit greenhouse gases) is nuclear, and you know it.

Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stressed the persistent uncertainty in the range of warming expected from a buildup of greenhouse gases as cutting against the idea of specific thresholds: «Our biggest science problem is that we do not know how strong the climate feedbacks are, or even whether we know all of the ones that are important on decadal and longer time scales,» he said in an e-mail.

Many studies have now been published, and many more presented at national scientific meetings, on methane emissions using techniques which capture the emissions at regional scales and do not require industry permission to sample.

The primary changes appear to occur ~ 1975, most likely as a result of the retrospective rating process that assigned ratings to tornadoes prior to the near - real - time ratings that began when the [National Weather Service] adopted the F - scale operationally in the mid-1970s, and ~ 2000, for reasons that aren't completely clear, but are likely due to an increased emphasis on examining construction details and policies that changed the nature in how the ratings are created for the strongest tornadoes.

You and you alone can «re-center» our national debate on issues like the unsustainability of increasing conspicuous per - human over-consumption of limited resources; the unsustainability of skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers; and the soon to become patently unsustainable, seemingly endless growth of large - scale industrial / corporate activities, now threatening to engulf the surface of the planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm.

Well, apparently Nebraska biodiesel producers aren't doing so well either: The Beatrice Daily Sun in Nebraska tells a local story on the woes of trying to get a local biodiesel facility up and running in the context of this National Biodiesel Board statistic: Of the 176 commercial - scale biodiesel facilities it has registered, at least one - third of them sit idle.

REDD + policies must address national - and local - scale drivers within REDD + countries, but they will not significantly reduce deforestation and forest degradation unless they also minimize internationally - driven, demand - side pressures on the world's forests.

Therefore, Anatolian youth do not have reliable and large - scale access to national and international climate developments except for some on - going non-governmental efforts which can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

But now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back, now is the time to roll up our sleeves and start implementing the agreement at all levels of government and ensure we have political leaders who will ensure these national commitments are scaled - up and fulfilled.

The legislation echoes recommendations put forward by the Electrification Coalition, a nonpartisan, not - for - profit group of business leaders committed to promoting policies and actions that facilitate the deployment of electric vehicles on a mass scale in order to combat the economic, environmental, and national security dangers caused by our nation's dependence on petroleum.

As I mentioned earlier, if there was such a large scale outcry against the pipeline, such that it was likely to lead to less votes than more, then I suspect that Romney would not have thrown his support behind it on national television.

«We need to relocalize the food system so we're not facing national outbreaks of this scale,» argues Dr. Lorna Medd, an outspoken chief medical officer of health on Vancouver Island.

We also can't dismiss arguments by Frank Ackerman and others that the «fat tail» of climate worst - cases demands national mobilization on a scale that only government action can generate.