Sentences with phrase «of deliberate efforts»

While people on the outside may be more cynical, employees may not be aware of the deliberate efforts behind employer branding.

As a result of their deliberate effort to low ball the value of my trade I did not buy the vehicle.

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Vancouver's burgeoning technology community may aspire to become a nexus of money and talent akin to Silicon Valley, but it's making an ever more deliberate effort to distinguish itself from the Bay Area's uncaring «tech bro» culture.

The unit, the chief investment office (CIO), has been the biggest buyer of European mortgage - backed bonds and other complex debt securities such as collateralized loan obligations in all markets for more than three years... The unit made a deliberate move out of safer assets such as US Treasuries in 2009 in an effort to increase returns and diversify investments.»

Only when the decision is made as a matter of deliberate policy can the school's ways of relating to its immediate situation truly be governed by its overarching end, be open to self - criticism, and become an integral part of the effort to understand God truly.

African governments have also suffered from deliberate efforts, at the behest of aid agencies with powers over development dogmas, to «shrink the state.»

While research by Barna Group has found that women are more involved than men in church «extracurriculars» such as Bible studies and small groups, plenty of today's churches lack robust women's ministries — perhaps due to lack of resources, or deliberate efforts to do away with stereotypical ladies teas and craft bazaars.

«Together these data suggest that political conservatism may be a process consequence of low - effort thought; when effortful, deliberate thought is disengaged, endorsement of conservative ideology increases.»

Their spirit wars with their flesh, they wish for incompatibles, wayward impulses interrupt their most deliberate plans, and their lives are one long drama of repentance and of effort to repair misdemeanors and mistakes.

It is unclear whether these efforts are deliberate, to make the theory work, or simply self - fulfilling prophecy; but the result is a de-divining of man by way of the removal of all that makes us created in God's image.

They also result from the sheer complexity of many problems, but this fact of complexity too easily becomes a kind of umbrella under which the more deliberate efforts to prevent change are the more effective.

It takes deliberate effort for me to focus on God, to take time to relate to him in the hidden places of my life.

[I am of course not saying that I think women should forgo basic hygiene in a deliberate effort to spite their husbands.

When it comes to judging the weak efforts of all who follow the great J, Wellhausen's diatribe can not compare with that of Bloom, who speaks of «the long, sad enterprise of revising, censoring, and mutilating J»; where Alter, talks of «composite artistry» in describing the juxtaposition of J and P in the opening chapters of Genesis, Bloom sees deliberate replacement, correction and supersession due to the «revisionary labors» of pious morons.

In the case of Harpur's theory (that Jesus didn't exist, and that deliberate efforts have been made to choose to make the myths interpreted literally), his evidence is not as convincing or as extensive as the evidence for Jesus having been a real person, on whom a certain religious and political systems have been formed and which have embellished, perverted, and developed certain aspects, with intentions both deliberate and unintentional.

i would say that — childhood eating habits carry on into adulthood, «unless they are changed with deliberate and focused effort» my mission is to help folks understand that it is never too late, and to bust the myth that kids (and adults) are incapable of embracing wholesome nourishing food.

In a deliberate effort to enjoy the coming months, I've made a list of all the things I do to help me make Autumn an awesome... View Post

The American College of Pediatricians encourages parents to be deliberate and active in their childrearing efforts.

In what could be described as deliberate attempts to frustrate the Chief Justice's effort at cleaning the judiciary of miscreants; plaintiffs, complainants and attorneys are fuming over what they see as clever moves by court clerks and registrars to extort monies from them.

Investigators are probing whether the effort was part of a deliberate attempt to circumvent campaign finance contribution limits.

The comptroller's office defines BDS as «actions that are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with the State of Israel; this includes deliberate efforts to weaken the economy of Israel.»

We easily forget too that Labour's efforts in the early 1990s to cosy up to the City were part of a deliberate strategy that started well before the UK was kicked out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Mr Gormey advocated proper planning and deliberate efforts to train the youth in employable skills, in order to turn the fortunes of the country in the right direction.

The statement noted that, «We see this as a deliberate move by the military establishment to undermine any effort of dialogue and negotiations with the people of the Niger Delta.»

Mr. Speaker, quite obviously the threat to the full realization of the Right of Abode provisions is lack of awareness and lack of a conscious deliberate effort to utilize this tool to reconnect with Africans in the Diaspora whose roots remain in Africa.

The youth campaigners supporting the re-election of President John Dramani Mahama, hereby express our worry over the deliberate attempt by the African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP) to demonise efforts of government aimed at permanently ending Ghana's electricity shortfall.

The deliberate efforts, in the absence of the president, have so far strengthened local currency, the Naira, boosted oil production and stabilize the polity.

The leadership of the New Patriotic Party has stated emphatically that the party's vigilante groups are now fading out, with a deliberate effort to ensure some of them join state institutions.

While Ghana has been quite successful in its deliberate efforts, since the mid 1990s to become a leading emerging market destination for foreign direct investment — indeed the country has been the 5th biggest recipient of FDI on the continent since the beginning of this decade — these investment inflows, which have financed the larger manufacturing enterprises in the country, have been overwhelmingly concentrated in the biggest urban centres.

General News of Friday, 18 May 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com Freddie Blay is Acting National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) The leadership of the New Patriotic Party has stated emphatically that the party's vigilante groups are now fading out, with a deliberate effort to ensure some of them join state institutions.

Speaking at the Government House, Port Harcourt when the leadership of Non-Indigenes Without Borders, chaired by Emeka Onowu visited him, he asserted that deliberate efforts being made by agents of the federal government to stagnate development in Rivers State will not succeed.

For a decade, Canadian physicist David Keith has led the effort to explore the controversial idea of geoengineering, the deliberate tinkering of the planet to curb the effects of climate change.

Focusing on a single line of argument or thought requires deliberate, laborious and conscious effort from which we flee.

Again if we might be forgiving of f the EPA, we might be more forgiving if they were simply incompetent, but it appears to be more than that; at least charges from its own employees suggest that there is a deliberate effort to slow down any regulatory action on these pesticides.

Locating the origins of maximum sustainable yield in efforts to protect U.S. commercial fisheries against their competitors, Finley argues that the collapse of world fisheries does not illustrate the tragedy of the commons but stems from deliberate governmental and international policy.

Applying the principles of infection control brought the epidemic under control but a concern for reemergence naturally or a deliberate release supported continuation of a vaccine development effort so as to have the knowledge and capability necessary for preparing and using an effective vaccine should a need arise.

Alas, McCarthy drops the ball with a midsection devoted almost entirely to Annie's tedious efforts at solving the central mystery - with the familiarity of this portion of the proceedings compounded by an excessively deliberate pace and lack of actual scares.

The saga is the first limited series originally commissioned for Netflix and, with its sweeping vistas and deliberate pacing, also represents the latest small - screen effort at the kind of old - fashioned storytelling the major studios have all but abandoned.

It's clear right from the get - go that Christopher Cain is in absolutely no hurry to tell this story, as the director has infused The Stone Boy with an almost achingly deliberate pace that does prove effective at establishing the film's very specific locale, admittedly - yet there's little doubt that the laid - back atmosphere, when combined with the uniformly subdued performances and the less - than - eventful nature of Gina Berriault's script, effectively ensures that the viewer's efforts at forming any kind of emotional attachment to the characters fall flat virtually from start to finish.

There's little doubt, however, that Reiner's decidedly deliberate sensibilities, coupled with the episodic bent of Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans» script, ensures that the movie's first half isn't quite as electrifying as one might've hoped, as it's clear that certain sequences ultimately fare a whole lot better than others - with the boys» efforts at safely crossing a railroad bridge certainly standing as a highlight within the film's opening hour.

It's a deliberate effort to call back the might of Mega Man 2, arguably one of the best entries in the entire series.

What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores — in a deliberate way; and, through both of these efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.

Secondly, the simple concrete noun labels save substantial learning time, as the effort that students may have previously exerted deliberating over the spellings of the common nouns is vastly reduced.

Fewer than half of grammar schools make deliberate efforts to admit children from very low income backgrounds, the BBC has found.

It's a leap of logic, not a hard truth, to claim that a multi-dimensional and more complex accountability system is a deliberate effort to obfuscate efforts to shift money intended for low - income students and English learners to general pay raises for teachers, as you imply.

One of the very few reported attempts to base a deliberate change effort on a theory and consideration of relevant variables, but it seems to be very poorly conceptualized, planned and executed.

Although it was widely reported that Massachusetts had dumped Common Core, the move by the Board was, in fact, a deliberate effort to make the public believe that the state had scrapped the controversial national standards in favor of the state's own superior pre-Common Core standards.

In the 1970s, after the publication of Pedagogy of the Oppressed by the radical Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, the term «critical pedagogy» came into use and many progressive theorists now use it to mean a deliberate effort to educate for social responsibility.

One of the greatest successes of the School Finder came from a deliberate communications and outreach effort.

During the first weeks of school, directors encourage teachers to make a deliberate effort to establish the norms of UNO school culture.