Sentences with phrase «only an effort toward»

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Owners and managers do not have an adequate understanding of the ISO 9000 certification process or of the quality standards themselves — Some business owners have been known to direct their company's resources toward ISO 9000 registration, only to find that their incomplete understanding of the process and its requirements results in wasted time and effort.

«Our research finds that companies working toward corporate social responsibility will only succeed if their efforts align with their core business models,» he says.

The supply outages will go a long way toward adding some momentum to the rebalancing effort, even if some of them are only transitory.

If only you could mind your own business and leave other people alone so much wasted time effort and money could be put toward something useful.

He concludes, «The only moral warrant that emerges from any effort to apply rigorous just - war thinking to Iraq is the warrant to move immediately toward a measured and prudently crafted American military withdrawal.»

There will be no questioning as to whether I have won men (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having by my own efforts done the least thing toward winning them); no questioning as to whether, by the talk I have gained some earthly advantage (quite on the contrary, it might well be asked whether I had any notion of having myself done the least thing toward gaining it); no questioning about what results I have produced, or whether I may have produced no results at all, or whether loss and the sport that others made of me were the only results I have produced.

She questions the godliness of any woman who would choose to work outside of the home, arguing that «we need mothers who are not only family - oriented, but also family - obsessed... Too many women rush headlong into a career outside the home, determined to waste no time or effort on housework or baby - sitting but rather seeking to achieve position and means by directing all talents and energies toward non-home professional pursuits.»

Perhaps only a major shift in the established biblical religions, a shift away from their uneasy alliance with utilitarian individualism and toward a profound reappropriation of their own religious roots and an openness to the needs of the contemporary world, would provide the mass base for a successful effort to establish the revolutionary alternative.

Not only does it pick up our actual memories of public testimony, election, and governance by law, but it draws us toward the perfection of our governance, helping us judge our present efforts.

We recognize and support the need for local ownership over BiH's future, but we also believe that this local ownership can only be established and truly nurtured once Western countries help ensure a conducive environment for domestic actors in BiH advocating inclusive and sustainable efforts toward progress.

Many singles become caught in an other - directed view of dating, directing their efforts toward finding the right guy, only to become frustrated and jaded when they meet a bunch of Mr. Wrongs.

Yet if we celebrate only 16 percent of our people, any efforts toward systematic innovation are ultimately doomed to fail.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a prominent example of such an effort, but it is only the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test - based accountability in education that has been going on for decades.

So often it seems that well - meaning efforts toward improving education not only do not succeed, but, in many cases, actually make things worse.

Efforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizEfforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizefforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizations.

As debts get repaid, you have fewer individual payments; eventually you will only have one debt — your largest — toward which you can dedicate your efforts.

Our «I'm In» campaign is only one component of our efforts toward collective engagement.

However, only a couple months after the expansion, Path of the Elect, was released, Chair Entertainment was purchased by Epic Games and its efforts were redirected toward a little Metroidvania title called Shadow Complex.

On the energy / emissions trends, we're about the only publication I know of that has given sustained, in - depth coverage to the glaring lack of energy research, the limits of current efforts (including the existing renewables markets), and the real - world choices that faces a species heading toward 9 billion people, all of whom would love the gifts that come with ample energy.

But only a portion of that money goes toward climate efforts, he said.

These cumulative additional emissions savings would not only be a meaningful contribution toward a global effort to help limit some of the worst consequences of climate change; it can be done cost - effectively.

You're still looking at a heavily - skinned version of Android, only this time around it actually feels like Huawei put in some effort toward creating a cohesive design aesthetic.

He said that he currently only had 300 GH / s in power that could be directed toward the effort, but that he is in the midst of exploring such an effort.

Not only did we see dedicated involvement in gift giving, golfers and volunteers, but I am also incredibly proud of our sales offices and the hundreds of people who participated across multiple states to support the cause by holding their own unique events to raise additional funds toward our effort.»