Sentences with phrase «said lack of resources»

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Verizon Communications, among the biggest beneficiaries of the corporate tax cut this year, said it would double its commitment to fostering science, technology, and engineering education (STEM) in schools that lack such resources.

Another woman steeped in the issue is Megan Smith, the first female US Chief Technology Officer (CTO), who says, «So many Americans have the grit and creativity of a world - class entrepreneur, but they lack the resources — mentorship, networking, funding, training — to bring their ideas to fruition.»

Yesterday, President Obama took to the podium and proclaimed, ``... we have always been and always will be a triple - A country,» and it sounded like empty sentimentalism from a man at a loss for words and for meaning» the kind of helpless, grasping - at - straws thing you say to a defeated friend you are trying to buck up, even as you know you lack the answers, or the resources, to offer either consolation or solutions.

Speaking ahead of an attempt to introduce the Bill into the Commons for further debate, the SNP MP said there are issues around the content and testing of formula products — with trading standards and councils lacking the resources to fully keep tabs on them.

One might say that some families are unstable not because the parents aren't married, but because they have a lack of education, jobs and resources, as June Carbone and Naomis Chan argued for The Huffington Post last week.

He says he wants to get prisoners ready for work after they leave, but sources say they are kept in their cells all day because of lack of work and study resources.

The country's economic challenges are not about a lack of resources but the inefficient management of such resources, the vice-presidential nominee of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said.

Victim Support chief executive Helen Reeves said: «We are pleased that the green paper seeks to address some of our long - standing concerns, including delays in providing help after an incident, stopping means - tested benefits when victims receive compensation, and the overall lack of resources for victim services - which results in a postcode lottery for many victims.»

How is that the head of the Assembly Housing Committee has nothing to say about the future of housing, the ongoing problems with HUD, NYCHA and the lack of resources year after year?.

«The overreliance on testing, the lack of adequate resources to the district and the demoralization and deprofessionalization of teachers are happening in our district right here and now,» he said.

The clinic was founded by two College of Law students, who say they were inspired to do something after seeing the lack of legal resources for veterans across the country.

The Home Affairs Committee concluded that British police focused too closely on the actions of Goodman and Mulcaire, which former counter terrorism chief Peter Clarke said stemmed from a lack of resources.

Though the district he is running in includes two of the city's highest scoring school districts, in Districts 25 and 26, the Bayside native said overcrowding paired with a lack of adequate resources has put a handicap on the learning process.

«The availability of this type of review is vital for offices that lack the personnel or financial resources to fully conduct such a review,» said Scott McNamara, the president of the District Attorneys Association of New York and the Oneida Conuty DA.

Officials in Rosendale, New Paltz and the town of Ulster have also said they lack sufficient firefighting resources to handle potential emergencies along the pipeline route.

McKay says the DEC «dramatically undercounted» the number of historic resources in the Marcellus Shale region, and says the environmental impact statement «lacked any reference to state and federal historic preservation law» aimed at protecting those resources.

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

But the problem is not a lack of resources, this is a land of resources but the real problem is that those who have been entrusted with the responsibility of managing our resources, mismanage and steal them, and this situation can not continue any longer,» he said.

He said that the problem of the power sector had nothing to do with lack of resources as the government had committed N11tn to the power sector reforms without achieving the objective of providing stable power supply in the country.

Syracuse Corporation Counsel Joseph Fahey said the denial was based on a lack of police resources due to other events that are scheduled for the same day.

«By building capacity among the school districts, instead of working in isolation, we're finding more resources to bring to our kids, resources we've lacked,» said Tracy Spagnolo, initiative representative with West Seneca schools and principal at Winchester Elementary School.

«In some areas of science, women report a feeling of isolation and a lack of female role models,» says Rachel Tobbell, mentoring strategy manager at the U.K. Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (UKRC).

She says the current lack of resources for nonvisual students gives the Logan Project great potential.

«There is significant evidence that contaminants contribute to a lack of reproduction in the lakes,» said Deborah Swackhamer, co-director of the University of Minnesota's Water Resources Center.

WADA lacks the resources to work as a police force, and relies on national anti-doping organisations to oversee and carry out tests, says Chris Cooper, a sports scientist at the University of Essex, UK.

Dr Campos - Silva, first author of the study, said: «Conservation initiatives in Amazonian floodplains are often a huge challenge due to lack of governance, investments and human resources.

Van Wedeen, another HCP PI at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, says the proliferation of neuroscience resources, such as those put out by the HCP and Allen Brain Atlas, can pay unexpected dividends for young researchers who lack the funds to collect such data themselves.

Small dams in China «often lack sufficient enforcement of environmental regulations» because they are «left to the jurisdiction of the province,» said Guy Ziv, lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project, an organization which develops tools to assess and quantify natural resources, and a researcher for the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

Judy King, director of human resources at the International Life Sciences Institute, says she needs «people - people» — a trait often lacking in scientists who prefer working in a laboratory.

«The tightly organized social lives of honeybees, once such an amazing adaptation for success in the world, turns out to lack resilience against the numerous environmental degradations contributed by humans across the landscape,» said Dennis, who has a joint appointment in the UI College of Science and College of Natural Resources.

«The overall lack of qualified scientists has meant that companies need to cast their recruiting nets wider in order to find the right candidates,» says Anne Sabine, director, Australia, for placement firm Kelly Scientific Resources.

«Small - and medium - scale manufacturers often lack the resources and network reach necessary to make all of their potential clients aware of their manufacturing capabilities,» says Binil Starly, corresponding author of a paper on the work and head of NC State's Data Intensive Manufacturing Environment Lab.

Now researchers may be able to get around this lack of fossils by looking at insect damage instead, says Leo Hickey, a paleobotanist at Yale University: «The work shows the potential of an overlooked resource in [studying] the evolution of insects.»

«The Ebola crisis right now is one of the clearest illustrations that [of] the link between the conditions on the ground — the lack of public health resources and infrastructure — and the importance of addressing that as a threat to global health security,» said Scott Gordon, director of the Window of Opportunity Project at PATH, an international non-profit organization working on global health innovation.

«Corporations that want to do the right thing — almost all of them — lack the means and auditing expertise even if they had the financial resources to ensure their recycling vendors are doing what they are supposed to be doing,» says Robert Houghton, president of Redemtech, an electronics recycler and a founding member of the new program.

Professor Qian said, «The study has provided genomic resources for understanding how the deep - sea mussel has adapted to the abiotic stresses and lack of photosynthesis - derived food in the deep - sea chemosynthetic environment.

Despite those astronomical obstacles, Wurden says the biggest impediment to controlled fusion has been a lack of resources.

The search for a «drop - in» fuel «At least for the next several decades, we are not going to be encumbered by the lack of resources: minerals, CO2 and salt water,» he said.

While water resource managers say sucralose in the water appears to have little or no negative environmental impact, some researchers point to the lack of extensive research to back that up.

Janet Joyce, managing director at Equinox, declined to discuss the specifics of the case, but she says the journal — which is published biannually, has a circulation of less than 500, and employs no full - time staff — simply lacks the resources to put up a legal fight.

There are many different reasons why a person might not seek out or follow through with treatment for depression, says lead author Beth Waitzfelder, PhD, an investigator with Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Honolulu, including lack of resources, fear of social stigma, and doubts that a treatment can actually help.

Some teachers, experts say, still are reluctant to use technology, mostly because of a lack of time, a lack of resources, or a lack of confidence in their ability to use the available technology.

75 % of school leaders say they lack resources and training needed to deal with the mental health issues.

«It can be depressing to see widespread poverty, a high level of unemployment, and lack of resources in schools, but they are rolling up their sleeves to figure out how to overcome,» Murphy says.

«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.

Almost half (45 per cent) of speech and language therapists surveyed by the RCSLT said that they lack the time and resources to provide services to children and young people with communication problems who do not have an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

«What we saw was a combination of schools with a tremendous lack of resources and yet examples of principals who were doing extraordinary things under difficult situations,» he says.

As parents and educators question whether the rigor of the new curriculum is developmentally appropriate, school officials say they lack the resources to help teachers learn new material.

Study: Broader Data Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.»

Aside from the fact that she believes there is relevance and value in teaching fiction to students, even when they may not be required to deal with those sort of texts frequently in their adult lives, the largest problem everyone faces in her school, Lovdahl says, is the lack of necessary resources to effect this transformation.