Sentences with phrase «on concrete steps»

Second, the UK strategy gets into details, focusing on concrete steps rather than policy blather.

Boyd has recently launched a blog on the subject (lauded here on Slaw) that focuses on concrete steps lawyers and other stakeholders can take to increase access to justice in small but significant ways.

The December United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Bali conference, will focus on reaching international agreement on concrete steps to be taken in view of a framework to follow the end of the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period in 2012.

I tumbled down the spiral, slamming my butt and back repeatedly on the concrete steps.

Our agents provide guidance on concrete steps clients should take to rebuild credit, as agents work to verify information on client's credit report, get inaccuracies corrected, and work with lenders when possible to negotiate repayments, interest rates, and use credit repair solutions like debt consolidation to lower your monthly payments.

USMI welcomes FHFA's requirement in the 2016 scorecard process for the GSEs to engage in more risk sharing with the private sector, and we remain committed to working with FHFA and the GSEs on concrete steps to take greater advantage of the benefits of front - end risk sharing with Deeper Cover MI.

She credited Mr. Garcia's leadership for keeping district staff members focused on concrete steps to improve school for students.

While it said both countries committed to a nuclear - free Korean Peninsula, it gave no details on concrete steps to achieve it.

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When Trump took his biggest concrete steps yet to deliver on his protectionist campaign promises, Cohn apparently quit in protest.

After Trump signed the order on a Friday night, executives at Starbucks spent the weekend crafting a plan to address employees working in the US and abroad, as well as provide concrete steps beyond rhetorical support for diversity.

In terms of more concrete steps you can take to up your savings, identify your biggest expenses and cut back on them, says Livingston: «Look at your top one or two line items — the top line item will probably be rent — and make a compromise there.»

On Friday, Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae - in vowed «complete denuclearization» of the Korean Peninsula in the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade, but the declaration did not include concrete steps to reach that goal.

Abe and Trump spoke on a 30 - minute phone call on Saturday, in which they agreed on how crucial it was that Pyongyang take concrete steps towards denuclearization, the Japanese premier's office said in a statement.

Nouriel Roubini's EconoMonitor website published a scathing piece by University of Oregon Professor Tim Duy on Friday (later tweeted by Roubini), in which Duy refers to a lack of concrete steps taken by European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi as «epic» and «almost funny if it wasn't so sad.»

TOKYO Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday Japan welcomed the summit between the leaders of North and South Korea as a positive step and he strongly expected Pyongyang to take concrete steps towards to carry out its promises.

TOKYO (Reuters)- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday Japan welcomed the summit between the leaders of North and South Korea as a positive step and he strongly expected Pyongyang to take concrete steps towards to carry out its promises.

But a vacancy fee would be a concrete step towards decommodifying housing, by making it clear that the right of people to find affordable shelter is more important than the right of investors to make money by speculating on residential real estate.

The co-CIO of PIMCO appeared on Bloomberg TV's «In the Loop» Thursday and said Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, should have offered concrete policy steps at Thursday's ECB policy meeting.

European Commission «High - Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance» (HLEG) published its first report setting out concrete steps to create a financial system that supports sustainable investments, which is a helpful possible template for Canada.

«Congress must take concrete steps to strengthen the AV START Act with the kind of safeguards that will prevent future fatalities,» he said in a statement on Monday.

New Democrat MLA Selina Robinson put forward the Distressed Animals Act on May 3, legislation that would take concrete steps to protect pets...

Fox Small Business takes a hands - on approach in offering concrete steps for how to fire someone responsibly and compassionately — something that will benefit both you and your employee.

Our first sideways step was to refine our thesis by making it more concrete: The overarching end is to try to understand God more truly by focusing on study through the lens of questions about Christian congregations.

And it's essential — rather than moving on — that we take concrete steps toward eradicating all forms of sexism that lead to harassment, abuse and violence.

He has followed up this dialogue with concrete steps on his own initiative, such as giving Society priests faculties to hear confessions and witness marriage, despite their unusual canonical status.

The next step will be to focus on a specific collaborative remediation project between brands and the local sugar industry, with the aim to roll out concrete improvements during the harvesting season.

The commissioners postponed a vote on whether to install a concrete barrier, including an 8 - inch step, between the four ballfields being constructed at the site.

Step 4: Allow your child to choose another letter and print it on the concrete.

Step 2: Pick out a letter sponge and demonstrate what happens when you dip it in water, squeeze it out and then print with it on the concrete.

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.

Delany works with clients to identify and focus on the digital tools most effective for their particular circumstances and needs, whether for an entire organization or for a particular project, and to prepare concrete steps for putting them to work.

The GOP's Senate campaign arm on Friday severed its fundraising agreement with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, the most concrete step the party has taken to separate itself from the besieged nominee.

«I've set out a vision of what this country can be, «one nation», and in 2013 we will be setting out concrete steps on making that vision a reality from business to education to welfare,» the Labour leader said.

The two - year proposed freeze on property taxes unveiled by Cuomo's tax reduction task force this week would require municipalities to stay within their mandated 2 - percent spending increase, and in the second year the benefit would apply only to municipalities demonstrating «meaningful, concrete steps» toward permanent savings through consolidations and mergers.

Councilman James Oddo, who called on every candidate last week to announce concrete plans to address the rising tolls, said last night was a step in the right direction.

House Republicans will vote on their tax reform bill on Thursday, aiming to take the most concrete step yet toward overhauling the American tax system.

According to a statement from the forum, shortly after their emergency meeting on Saturday in Enugu, the governors have taken concrete steps to protect lives and properties of indigenes and non indigenes in the region.

«It is premature and unwarranted for a group of people to go out there and call on executives to step down without necessarily creating or having any concrete report of why we have lost an election knowing very well that a lot of factors contributed to our defeat.

He added that the party organs would meet soon and take concrete steps and decisions on the way forward.

«They've showed concrete steps on how they will do it.»

For the first time in the history of the fraught diplomatic talks, he said, China has taken a concrete step away from the current Kyoto Protocol rules that demand only a handful of industrialized countries act unilaterally while hundreds of developing countries act on a voluntary basis.

Jake Schmidt, international policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the key from Cancun will be agreements on issues like transparency, deforestation, technology transfer and financing that lead to some concrete implementation steps.

If adopted, the Paris agreement will become the first concrete step on our collective way towards avoiding dangerous climate change.

I skipped out on the sauna; I wanted to preserve the coolness for as long as possible before stepping back onto the hot city concrete.

«Alison cuts through all the extraneous language to focus in on what really matters: concrete steps one can take to go paleo and make it work in a modern world full of tempting junk food, skeptical family members, picky children, life and work - related stress, holiday treats, household budgets, and poor sleep habits.

Women Development Department Hameeda Waheeduddin on Monday said the Punjab government had taken a number of concrete steps for women empowerment.

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).

A better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.

Explicit instruction on using the HEAR strategy offers concrete steps to focus on and improve listening — and emphasizes why and how developing this skill is so important.

04, Ed.D.»07 — the editors of Data Wise — on their new book, Meeting Wise, including concrete steps for educators to enhance how meetings are planned and facilitated.