Sentences with phrase «resources by a long way»

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Corporate HR Departments Wake Up about the Contingent Workforce: Long viewed by corporate HR departments as a way to save money, the independent workforce (freelancers, contractors, independent consultants, etc.) is increasingly being seen as a strategic resource.

The disputed deal raises a stark question: Are China's economy and resources held hostage by privileged state corporations and their executives, who can use influence and gain access to easy credit in ways that undermine long - term growth?

Recognizing that the 43 - year - old club is beloved by many active members and neighbors, Carondelet looks forward to developing relationships with the community to explore ways the facility can continue to serve as a resource during the transition of ownership, site improvement and renovation, and long - term in ways compatible with school use.

If scientists and industries could one day regularly reproduce the capability demonstrated by Marinescu, it would go a long way to reducing intermittency, allowing us to finally make solar energy an enduring and more permanent resource.

«However, due to administrative decisions made along the way, it is no longer a resource that is used regularly by the learning community.

Short - term gains in terms of increased knowledge and better skills of resources to long - term gains by way of transformation in employees» attitudes.

By improving communication, equipping parents, teachers and students with the resources they need, and improving assessment and evaluation, we will go a long way toward addressing concerns regarding these new standards.

One bill making its way through the Legislature, AB 312 by Long Beach Assemblyman Chris O'Donnell would include funding for preschool special education, which the state currently doesn't fund at all, and calls for the state to commit more financial resources to special education to balance out inequities.

Managing resources, knowing that you can't go back and have a long ways still to go, and gauging encounters accordingly is an incredibly fun thing that designers seem to have almost entirely written out of modern games — either by putting resources everywhere, making the player so powerful that it doesn't matter, or allowing one to always zip back to a safe zone in an instant.

A planet with the limitations and the make - up of Earth can not realistically be expected to much longer maintain increasing, profligate over-consumption and adamantine hoarding of resources by millions of people, mostly in the overdeveloped, that we see occurring as a result of actions by a tiny minority of people who possess the wealth and power needed to behave in this way.

Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base, is a misconception, I suppose.

Global, national, regional and local leaders are being asked by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to make bold and long - term decisions on ways to invest in more resilient infrastructure, revise land use, enhance coordination, update building codes, adjust natural resource management and other practices to improve the resilience of their communities to the impact of climate change.

47 By way of such limitations and conditions, Article 7 (1)(b) of Directive 2004/38 provides that a Member State may require nationals of another Member State wishing to have the right of residence on its territory for a period of longer than three months without being economically active to have comprehensive sickness insurance cover in the host Member State and sufficient resources for themselves and their family members not to become a burden on the social assistance system of that Member State during their period of residence (see, to that effect, Case C ‑ 480 / 08 Teixeira [2010] ECR I ‑ 1107, paragraph 42).