Sentences with phrase «primary agents of»

Garland, D.S. (1987) Residential Child Care Workers as Primary Agents of Family Intervention.

I am not trying to diminish humans as the primary agents of activities that lead to climate change... I am just pointing out that, no matter what we do, climate change will happen.

The two major Republicans in the race, meanwhile, are skeptical that humans are the primary agents of climate change.

Principals are the primary agents of change in schools, and their effectiveness as leaders plays a key role in improving student achievement, a new report from New Leaders finds.

In the absence of a compelling reason to retain control centrally, school leaders, as the primary agents of change, should have freedom and flexibility over how best to use their resources (time, people, and money) to create meaningful changes that directly impact students.

We evaluate natural enemies as primary agents of diversifying selection on the phenotypes of an actively diverging lineage of gall midges on tall goldenrod.

«Major disturbances such as cyclones, coral bleaching, climate change, Crown of Thorns Starfish and river run - off are thought to be the primary agents of change on the Great Barrier Reef,» says study co-author, Professor Mike Kingsford from the Coral CoE.

For anarchism the state is one of the primary agents of domination.

The church is God's primary agent of redemption for a fallen world.

«Mission» means «sending,» and it is the central biblical theme describing the purpose of God's action in human history, with the church being the primary agent of God's missionary action.

As you can see, at one time, yeast was an unknown element, the primary agent of fermentation being completely mysterious!

Gravity is a long - range force and is the primary agent of the radical changes in a galaxy's structure when another galaxy comes close to it.

Large amounts of chlorine monoxide - the primary agent of chemical ozone destruction in the cold polar lower stratosphere - were observed for the same day and same altitude (dark blue colors).

My relationship with my clients is a primary agent of change.

The PR - TFC program is a program designed to provide intensive, effective, and short - term treatment to youth with emotional and behavior problems in a home environment with the foster parent as the primary agent of change.

Not exact matches

In Kenya, 72 % of agents are primary income earners.

The primary benefit of an exclusive agreement is that you, as the homebuyer, are assured you're getting a high level of service attention from your agent.

These are some of the primary reasons why nine out of 10 homebuyers use a real estate agent, however there are other reasons you should consider using a buyer's agent.

A «primary framework» is one «seen as rendering what would otherwise be a meaningless aspect of the scene into something that is meaningful» (FA 21), and the frame for all such primary frameworks, the understandings shared by a group regarding interpretive schemata, their interrelationships, and «the sum total of forces and agents that these [schemata] acknowledge to be loose in the world,» constitute its «belief system» or «cosmology» (FA 27).

Newman pointed me toward the dynamic development of historical debates about dogma, and to the institutional Church as the context and primary agent in these debates.

with complete consistency, accords priority to actual entities is that it is only actual entities which are agents, in the primary sense I have endeavored to elucidate, all other entities being «agents» or «efficacious» only either as factors in actual entities, i.e., as contributory to the «act» of actual entities (e.g., eternal objects, prehensions, subjective forms, propositions) or as derivative from actual entities (e.g., nexus, societies).

«5 The ideology underlying this alliance might be summarized as follows: (1) There is a God (2) whose will can be known through democratic procedures; therefore (3) democratic America has been God's primary agent in history, and (4) for Americans the nation has been their chief source of identity.6

However, the primary focus on causation in the inner realm risks obscuring the gravity of trespasses in the «outer» world, the systematic and institutional nature of oppression, and the culpability of the perpetrating agents.

The former is the more traditional Thomistic approach, which makes allowances for a diversity of secondary agents that can bring about the primary agent's designs or purposes.

(3) Like Whitehead, Locke believes that the inner configuration of things (their primary qualities), the true causal agents, can — at least in principle — be discovered (an attitude antithetical to some interpretations of positivism).

Is Prof. Delasanta not admitting that the papacy, especially the current Pope, has wielded amazing temporal power as a primary agent in bringing down one of the most powerful empires ever?

In a subtle analysis of rational action and the rational agent Pols5 explores the consequences of considering both the agent and the action as being «primary in an ontological sense.

The statute goes further, becoming all - encompassing as it states, «nor shall such manufacturer distributor, importer, primary American source of supply, brand owner or brand registrant or any broker, sales agent or sales person thereof, (a / k / a industry members) assist any vendor by any gifts or loans of money or property of any description or by the giving of any rebates of any kind whatsoever.»

These things will have their own benefit for the immune system but some research has isolated one of the primary components, stevioside, as a potential immune - boosting agent (11).

The 31 - year - old Napoli has been the Red Sox's primary free - agent target for much of the offseason.

While WWE is well within its rights to hold Starrcade, Ring of Honor world champion Cody Rhodes — whose father, the legendary Dusty Rhodes was the primary reason for the show's success — tweeted a request to WWE agent and producer Michael «P.S.» Hayes that the show honor the «American Dream» by including Dusty's oldest son, Goldust, on the card.

The HSE Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prevention and Management of Primary Postpartum Haemorrhage state that for «women without specific risk factors for PPH delivering vaginally, oxytocin (10 iu by intramuscular injection) is the agent of choice for prophylaxis in the third stage of labour.

Since we have discovered the dirtiness in the process of the last primary election, it is necessary, as change agents, we speak against the corruption in the process.

If all of a sudden they had their own local primary elections, you'd have a group of folks who are free agents, who can basically say «sodoff» to the whips», he adds.

INEC also released the guidelines for the conduct of primaries by political parties, submission of names and addresses of party agents to electoral officer, last day for submission of forms CF001, CF002 and nomination forms at INEC Headquarters; last day for publication of forms CF001 and nominated candidates.

The objectives of the study and the discipline of an on - site - investigation may vary, which leads to different approaches such as the use of primary sources and / or face - to - face interviews with relevant agents, or the consultation of local and regional publications.

After that first ballot, most delegates are no longer bound to support the winner of their state's party primary or caucuses — they're free agents who can support the candidate of their choosing.

The former mayor told the patriotic crowd — who raised big bucks at the Grand Hyatt for the families of fallen FBI, Secret Service, ICE and Border Patrol agents — that Catsimatidis was a worthy candidate who ran «an honorable race» in the Republican primary.

The second - term congressman faces a potential Republican primary challenge from two conservative candidates — Michael Kicinski, of Earlville, an electronics engineer and member of the Norwich Tea Party Patriots, and Michael Vasquez, of Binghamton, an insurance agent and political blogger.

According to him, the order affects only all primary and secondary schools in the state stressing that the step became necessary as many of the schools will serve as temporary camps for security agents being deployed to the state for the Nov. 21 governorship election.

But speaking earlier with journalists, Fayemi's agent in the primary, Mr. Samuel Abejide, said the results of the five local governments that had voted before the suspension of the exercise should count because they were valid in the face of the law.

He expressed worry over the conducts of the APC agents at the primary saying, «If they could be this violent during their own primary election, won't they do worse things during the election proper?»

In the alternative, he prayed the court to give an order of interim injunction mandating the defendants, whether by themselves, their servants, agents, privies or howsoever called to publish the name of the plaintiff as an aspirant for the November 19, 2011 governorship primary in Bayelsa State or any governorship primary election scheduled for Bayelsa State, on any date which the defendants may choose, pending the determination of the substantive suit.

The Bayelsa State governor wanted an order of interim injunction restraining the first defendant, whether by itself, servant, agents, privies or howsoever called from accepting from the second and third defendants any fresh submission of names of governorship aspirant from Bayelsa State, to change / substitute the name of the plaintiff which had already been submitted to the first defendant after the primary election of January 2011, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

Upper atmospheric increases in carbon dioxide «is the primary cooling agent of the thermosphere,» observes thermosphere climate scientist John Emmert of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C..

«But the kidney is one of the primary filtering agents in the body, and is directly involved in drug elimination.»

«Keep in mind almost no one dies of primary cancer,» says Raymond DuBois, provost of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and a researcher of anti-inflammatory agents for cancer.

«What we found is that identifying LOH of BRCA1 / 2 may be useful to predict which patients might be at risk for primary resistance to DNA - damaging agents,» Nathanson said.

But the JAMA editorial notes that the USPSTF excludes the highest - risk populations (persons living with HIV, close contacts of persons with active TB, and those being treated with immunosuppressive agents) from its review of evidence for screening for latent TB infection in primary care settings because TB screening and treatment of latent TB infection may already be considered standard of care in these groups.

Scott has recently taken up an adjunct research position at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University where he is currently: (i) investigating the importance of enhanced larval survival and strong «local» reef interconnectedness as a triggering agent for primary outbreaks of crown ‐ of ‐ thorns starfish on the central GBR, and (ii) assessing potential improvements in the health of coastal seagrass and dependent dugong populations due to targeted reductions in fine sediment loads from the GBR catchment.