Sentences with phrase «others are high on my agenda»

Kayaking, tramping and helping others are high on my agenda.

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Other agenda's such as cross currency rate manipulation, supporting domestic export industries, etc. are high on the list of priorities for foreign holders of US bonds.

They only target that one cause of death; to highlight one other cause of death — a child dies every 20 seconds of water - related problems and it's not high on the «pro-life» agenda.

Sugar reduction is high on the agenda of British retailers, as well as other food and beverage companies and manufacturers.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

«Relocation of staff out of expensive London offices to other regions continues to be high on the agenda as an option to deliver the savings needed,» Smith said in response to a written parliamentary question by Labour MP Diana Johnson.

The roundtable will assess the on - going fight against corruption, and is expected to come up with key programme agenda for among others mobilising Nigerians to get involved in the fight against corruption, and agenda for increasing the tempo of the anti-corruption fight including by revisiting outstanding cases of high - level official corruption and prosecuting high - ranking public officials.

Cuomo's national strategy also explains other high - profile actions, including his belated embrace of a «women's agenda,» his refusal to permit «fracking» for natural gas even after repeatedly promising to do so, his anti-gun Safe Act, his embrace of the teachers unions he had once sharply criticized, and his recent high - profile crackdown on Korean - owned nail salons in the city that, according to a deeply flawed report in the New York Times, were exploiting their immigrant workers, said the source.

«I am proud to represent a seat where a higher proportion of the work force are employed in manufacturing than in any other constituency in England, and I am delighted that manufacturing is back on the national agenda.

But the subject may not be as high on other countries» research agendas, because gun ownership is so much lower in most developed nations.

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Unless major steps are taken immediately — and nothing on the horizon suggests strong gubernatorial or other high - level political leadership on education — the reform agenda will be buried.

Couched in concerns over Duncan's «failed agenda focused on more high - stakes testing, grading and pitting public school students against each other based on test scores,» the item was introduced at the behest of the California Teachers Association.

The other two are: Leadership for Learning Improvement in Urban Schools reports on how urban school leaders help improve student learning by setting high expectations for their schools, provide meaningful staff training, and organize teachers to share leadership for carrying out improvement agendas.

Most of these have only a few rooms (privacy and exclusivity being high on our agenda), services that will make you feel like royalty and locations that you'll be tempted to explore with your significant other.

An alternative view, associated with Bjorn Lomborg, that it is agreed, places dealing with climate change low on the agenda, arises from comparing it with «other ways» of spending public money and suggests that they have higher social rates of return.

We won't change their minds, and their numbers aren't large enough to impact policy in a major way; at least in the U.S. such individuals don't count climate change as very high on the agenda of things they care about (I understand that in several other countries, this is a more salient issue).

The ever - rising cost of tuition and other financial issues will be high on the agenda this year.

Given the other higher priority objectives on the Government's agenda it may be that this particular issue is put to one side for at least the medium term.

Putting security higher on an organization's agenda is a form of self - defence for others that deal with that organization.

Money isn't the only motive behind choosing a career, as there are a lot of other factors that need to be considered when deciding what path we would like to follow; however I don't think anyone would deny that financial security is certainly high up on most people's agendas.