Sentences with phrase «poor use of resources»

we all need to communicate with our MP's, cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister's office that government funds could be applied for programs that promote jobs for the public, NOT the useless pursuit of ulterior agenda of the bureau that results in poor use of resources.

It's wrong because it merely creates another level of bureaucracy in a police department that already has enough oversight in place and is a poor use of resources that could be used to put more cops on the street.

Senate Republicans in the past year have blocked a public financing measure that was introduced by Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, saying a taxpayer - funded system is too expensive and a poor use of resources.

In the final analysis, large - scale unemployment in the U.S.A., Canada, and Australia is not due to over population but to under population and a poor use of resources.

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Too often, she says, businesses instead use charity as a way to divert attention from poor treatment of workers or weak management of environmental resources.

«The need for a business plan simply doesn't exist, and I would argue that making one is a poor use of your most valuable resource: your time,» agrees fellow business plan skeptic Anthony Saladino of Kitchen Cabinet Kings.

instead of spending all this money and time on something like this can't these christians use these resources on something like stopping pedophiles, rapist, murders or feeding the poor.

What the poor people are telling us is that, unless we rethink the basic questions of life - style, the use of natural resources and the reaction between environment and development, we can not address the question of a new economic order.

The sheer economics of the situation suggests that drastic improvement in the lives of the world's poor can be made by using resources that amount to little more than the crumbs on our tables.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

The resolution of the problem of injustice requires a fundamental re-examination of the relationship between the one billion people, or 20 per cent of the world's population, who live in industrialized countries and who use 80 per cent of the world's resources and the majority of the world's population in poor countries who have to make do with 20 per cent of the world's resources.

The obvious practical meaning of all this is that the fundamental problems we face today — nuclear war, population growth, pollution, the intolerable gap between the rich nations and the poor ones, the intelligent use of scarce world resources — are global in scope.

What the poor people are asking / telling us is, unless we rethink the basic questions of life - style, the use of natural resources and the reaction between environment and development, we can not address the question of a new economic order.

As well as poor storage facilities, over-strict sell by dates, «get - one - free» offers and consumer behaviour, the report also looked at how we can make better use of our finite resources.

Meanwhile, scholars argue that through their use of new media, resource - poor campaigns and political organizations have new opportunities to engage in strategic communications and to organize collective action, ultimately extending their ability to influence the political process.

Recent estimates by Gary Flomenhoft show that a resource - poor state, Vermont, could support a dividend two - to five - times larger than the PFD, if it made judicious use of resource taxes.

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

When times are tough, resource - poor people become more creative in their use of everyday products.»

Unproductive lab members, Johnson says, use costly resources, and other members of the lab are usually appreciative when the principal investigator asks a poor performer to leave.

Depression, even when undiagnosed, can have many negative effects on cardiovascular patients, including poor healthcare experiences, more use of healthcare resources and higher health costs, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers.

* The notion «low - resource environments» is used to specify an environment where: (a) resources assigned for genomics research are scarce, (b) access to genomics knowledge and information is low, (c) implementation of Genomics is limited, (d) genomics education is relatively poor, and (e) collaborative opportunities in genomic research with other institutions are rare for geographical, societal, economic or political reasons.

The legacy of poor environmental management and protection efforts during the Soviet period and the lack of financial resources and legal enforcement programs to support and direct clean - up effort in Post-Soviet Russia combine to allow continued use of high radiation homes and water pollution spreading at an alarming rate.

Granting users the rights to own and use the resources they depend on can reverse trends, pull the poor out of poverty and create the conditions to build peace and a lasting security.

Given the world food crisis, the use of local resources like Moringa Trees is critical to improve nutrition among poor households.

Intended to help schools address the attainment gap amongst children from low income families, some of this funding could be used to address the digital divide and ensure pupils who have poor home access are equipped with the resources they need.

However, poor employee performance is often a symptom of many underlying root causes and unless those root causes are studied and addressed, spending time and effort on training and education might not be the best use of limited corporate resources.

«We are plenty in technological resources to enhance our education, yet the lack of equity and amount of resources that kids have in America is amazing,» he said, citing the vast difference between technology use in poor and affluent schools.

Poor schools can see what resources they're entitled to and use their fair share of these funds in ways that will better serve their kids, rather than standing last in line for what the district has to offer.

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

With the fraud perpetrated on us by their IPCC now ripe for public outrage at the real economic damage it has done to us and the suffering it is bringing to millions or even billions of poor people who are, for a hoax, being denied their right to use their own resources to improve their own lives — I can not think of a better time to do it than now.

Aggregation can expand the customer base for solar since it allows solar use by customers who can not install their own system due to a poor solar resource, lack of available space, rental restrictions, or other reasons.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FECR) forensic audit of the Oroville Dam Spillway crisis project found that failures were due to inadequate California Department of Water Resources (DWR) maintenance, repair of cracks, thin concrete slabs, poor drainage, and use of weathered rock.

Major Environmental Issues: Soil erosion from overgrazing, industrial development, urbanization, and poor farming practices; soil salinity rising due to the use of poor quality water; desertification; natural habitat of many unique animal and plant species is threatened by clearing for agricultural purposes; the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast, the largest coral reef in the world, is threatened by increased shipping and its popularity as a tourist site; limited natural fresh water resources.

Projections that global resource use and emissions will not rise very much due to rapid population growth in the poorest countries are based on the assumption that those countries will remain desperately poor by the standards of developed countries.

Aside from the dangers and harms presented by expanding the use of coal and nuclear, the poor countries of the world simply don't have the resources to build the power plants or the distribution grids.

A low realization rate indicates that a lawyer is using resources of the firm inefficiently — which is usually a sign of poor client or file selection.

An employer, with its greater financial resources, may be tempted to use these type of tactics to attempt force a former employee to discontinue the litigation and accept a very poor settlement.

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

Similar to prior research underscoring the need to optimally use individual (Jopp & Smith, 2006) or dyadic (Hagedoorn et al., 2000) resources when resource status is poor (as may occur for older adults experiencing illness), this finding underscores the necessity of pooling resources to pursue common goals when the resources of each spouse alone may not suffice to make progress toward a hoped - for outcome or to avoid a feared outcome.

Previous studies have documented the association between bullying and both health behaviors and symptoms.21, 43,44 These studies indicate that while being bullied is associated with difficulty making friends and lower use of alcohol, 21 perpetration of bullying is associated with more time spent with friends44 and increased use of alcohol and cigarettes.21 This suggests that although adolescents who are bullied may be at less risk for adverse health outcomes associated with substance use, they may be at increased risk for somatic complaints associated with poor peer relationships.3, 18 New initiatives such as the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration's Stop Bullying Now campaign45 should be evaluated for their efficacy in raising public awareness and reducing the prevalence of bullying.

African American youth in urban centers often reside in poorly resourced communities and face structural disadvantage, which can result in higher rates of poor behavioral health factors such as mental health problems, juvenile justice system involvement, substance use, risky sex and lower school engagement.