Sentences with phrase «on concrete action»

Strengthen Families, Prevent Violence is a campaign for Indian Country and was designed to educate and engage families on concrete action steps that they can take to promote resiliency and healing for children.

As Cole notes: «By focusing on concrete actions that generally can be understood and implemented in a relatively short period, and then improved over time, teaching capacity is built step by step and the armoury of strategies and techniques available to the teacher is extended,» (Cole, 2012).

We focus on concrete actions such as «look at the speaker,» «wait for the person speaking to complete his / her thought before you speak,» «speak one at a time.»

The Wallace Foundation describes this as «alignment between all adults in the building to consistently execute, day in and day out, on the concrete actions needed to instill a new culture.»

Parties also decided to accelerate activities under the workplan on enhancing mitigation ambition in accordance with decision 1 / CP.17, paragraphs 7 and 8, by, inter alia, intensifying, as from 2014, the technical examination of opportunities for actions with high mitigation potential, including those with adaptation and sustainable development co-benefits, with a focus on the implementation of policies, practices and technologies that are substantial, scalable and replicable, with a view to promoting voluntary cooperation on concrete actions in relation to identified mitigation opportunities in accordance with nationally defined development priorities.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump will not meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un unless Pyongyang takes «concrete actions,» the White House said on Friday as it faced criticism for agreeing to talks that would boost Kim's standing.

Concrete's investors, though, decided on a different course of action.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's Tuesday pivot on trade and intellectual property is encouraging to the White House, but the Trump administration will move forward with intentions President Donald Trump has announced until the Chinese government produces concrete actions.

Take Away: Japan is unlikely to move ahead with any action on its own, it will consult with the US before any concrete decision.

Kinder Morgan has given the federal government until May 31 for concrete assurance the line will get built, and Notley has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take action.

Both the Bush and Obama administrations have relied too much on endless and unproductive diplomacy and commissions, and have failed to take the concrete actions advocated by the likely GOP nominee, Mitt Romney (as well as this author and other economists).

However, unlike the administration's failed attempt to turn the nation back to greater dependence on 19th century sources of fuel, its actions on trade are already having concrete impacts.

Several corporate officials and analysts closely tracking trade policy said that President Trump is expected to take concrete actions on a range of disputes involving China within weeks.

«The Indian government must follow through on its promises with concrete actions to stem these attacks.»

What's most interesting is that now the bishops are talking brass tacks, having a spirited discussion over concrete proposals for phased action to make a unity that is not just on paper but in reality.

Stressing the endeavor for social justice as a complement to the task of evangelism, recognizing the inadequacy of benevolences to meet the challenge, and therefore seeking concrete, structural, political involvement based on a Biblically informed concept of «social justice,» editor Smedes argues that the church's action will «find its way on the ridge between harmless generalities and divisive particularities.

Every judgment as to what is good must be made on the basis of what this particular concrete experience or action does for the movement of life toward the Kingdom.

But our hope in the coming of the Kingdom of God in Jesus Christ takes on the character of concrete utopia, that is, an idea of our aim and a critical point of reference for our action in society.

The other element in the problem consists in the apparent silence of Jesus on particular concrete questions of conduct and on the issue of what is better and what is worse in situations where, given human finitude and sin and a fallen, distorted world, perfect action is not possible.

Socialism has been attractive to many social ethicists precisely because it is clearly of the second type» a concrete blueprint, based on an allegedly scientific understanding of the forces of history and providing some reasonably clear guidelines for action.

Only after some concrete action we can say that wenger has effect on arsenal transfers in a good way or else it's just rumours.

Also on Monday, the board postponed action on awarding a $ 1.3 million contract to Martam Construction, of Glen Ellyn, for the reconstruction of Kenilworth Avenue between Anthony Street and Geneva Road pending discussion of a concrete problem the company reportedly has on another village project.

At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national goal.

-- Bobbi Conner, Host, The Parent's Journal, heard nationwide on Public Radio «Shows us concrete ways to use positive language and productive actions to direct our children towards more successful futures.»

The campaign, to be waged largely on Twitter and Facebook, will highlight one of the Surgeon General's «concrete action steps» each of the 20 weekdays from Aug. 6 to Aug. 31.

The Deputy Head of Macroeconomic Research Unit, Ministry of Finance, Dr. Millicent deGraft - Johnson who spoke on the governments short to medium - term development programme said it was aimed at providing opportunities for growth and job creation through the private sector, and had developed concrete reform actions to tackle key challenges to private investment such as ensuring macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability, improving the ease of doing business and enhancing access to affordable and long - term financing and de-risking instruments.

Conversely, as supporters waver, they may be less likely to take concrete actions on behalf of the candidate, in this case spending money for gear.

But in terms of the Conservative electoral coalition, Brexit has produced a less ambiguous effect: the party has absorbed a large portion of the former UKIP vote, as voters on the authoritarian side of the political spectrum have migrated, or returned, to a Conservative Party that now promises concrete, credible action to regain control of the borders.

This DEC action comes on the heels of a recent New York State appellate court decision that reinstated criminal indictments against another concrete company, Quality Concrete, also located on Newtowconcrete company, Quality Concrete, also located on NewtowConcrete, also located on Newtown Creek.

A reply that followed stated, «it is unfortunate that we all know what the problems are and how to address them on twitter but as usual no concrete action will be taken.

Addressing the gathering on the theme «Enough Rhetoric: Catalysing an Era of Concrete Action», the President stated that his administration has embarked on shifting the emphasis in education to ensure that science, technology, engineering and mathematics drive all sectors of the economy.

«That means that the Minister must make some quick decisions to enable us to go into recess with a sense of direction and concrete action on at least some of the issues that are being raised by house builders and those seeking to buy a home.»

His conviction was overturned on the basis of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that those favors have to be in the form of concrete actions, such as filing a lawsuit or holding a hearing.

Through the Kaduna State Emergency Action Plan on malnutrition in collaboration with UNICEF, the wife of the governor, Mrs Ummi El - Rufai, however noted that a task force has been put in place with the sole purpose of ensuring that the disturbing statistic is reversed through concrete actions to provide food for the vulnerable.

«Time and time again we hear from Labour Ministers that they're doing all they can to help our struggling steel industry, yet we've still seen no concrete action on the issues that lie in the Welsh Government's hands.

Until we get concrete action on black deaths in custody, tragedies like that of Sandra Bland, Sean Rigg and Olaseni Lewis will continue, here as in the US.

None of the three Democrats have ofered concrete plans on what action their states might take if the tax bill were to become law.

Based on that experience, he suggested that the government needed to «analyze every one of them [fuel stations] to see the legal basis for such decisions, and such directives» before any concrete action is taken in this regard.

Since the measures were announced on 2 July, «The situation has been very chaotic in general, especially because of the lack of information and concrete actions» by the institutes, Garrido writes.

They concentrated heavily on the inspectors» actions in 2007, when Byron engineers began scrutinizing pipe sections, called risers, that were partly buried in concrete in a below - ground vault.

What is needed in order to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and technological fields is a push for a new and concrete plan of action, with mandatory implementation guidelines, adopted at the national level which focuses on transitioning women and underrepresented minorities into positions of power.

In front of one barrier island, concrete reef balls and bags filled with oyster shells now absorb wave action that had chewed a foot - high edge on the island's marshy shoreline.

«There hasn't been that level of regional cooperation before, but we now need to see these plans translate into concrete action on the ground.»

The statutes define lobbying as only those activities clearly aimed at influencing decisions on concrete legislative action or proposals.

There's a lot of «yes, I'm a bad person, but aren't you, too» posturing going on, and while it is an idea to chew on, it nearly outlives its welcome by the time Max applies his theory to concrete action.

Clearly, there is a need to come to a global consensus on what concrete actions we need to consider in overcoming these harmful and tragic boundaries.

Inputs into the emerging Framework of Action on Education post-2015 in the lead up to the World Education Forum 2015 and concrete inputs to the Framework for Action on Education post-2015.

The Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) seeks to generate and scale - up concrete actions in ESD.

Two examples below illustrate how families partnered with students to help them consider varied perspectives on environmental issues and to create a concrete action plan of things they can do together at home to help the environment.

The focus is on you, concrete action, and classroom results.