Sentences with phrase «seek more action»

The tide is turning as travellers seek more action and adventure on their holidays.

And while those polled sought more action from the White House and Congress, most thought the number of mass shootings in the country centers around an issue about identifying and treating people with mental health issues.

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But I have noticed that emerging leaders will sometimes opt for more training or seek more knowledge when a wiser choice might be to take a different course of action.

But I have to wonder whether some of those people would benefit more from taking a few of the career - propelling actions: asking their network for introductions, seeking operational experience or switching sectors.

Lawyers representing more than 300 former and current players are seeking to have a class - action suit certified in courts in Calgary next month and in Toronto in March.

I would argue that the willingness to seek out bad news and take remedial action is a great reason to pay a leader more than others in an organization.

Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, said Monday he would be more likely to buy than to sell IBM shares over the next two years, and that he did not seek to profit from global central bank actions.

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday to fund the government through April and President Barack Obama promptly signed it into law, after Democrats who had sought more generous healthcare benefits for coal miners stopped delaying action on the measure.

Even more troubling, we have been told that Benchmark has been conferring with Lowercase Capital with respect to adverse action against Uber, indicating that they are seeking to remove Arianna Huffington from the Board and, in clear violation of their fiduciary duties, wrongfully leaked highly confidential details from the investigation by former Attorney General Eric Holder.

The joint Regulatory Cooperation Action Plan announced this week seeks to lower costs for businesses and consumers, increase trade and investment, and help U.S. and Canadian companies compete more effectively with new, strong rivals in global markets.

Grounded in social democratic values and ideas, the Institute seeks to deepen our democracy, encourage strong action to counter growing economic and social inequality, and fuel a transition to a more innovative and sustainable economy.

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

«We appeal to all sides to step back urgently from actions that can only lead to more suffering, and to seek peaceful solutions.»

It is a case of the lay mind versus the professional, the latter seeking a formula which means different things to different groups, as a basis of common action; the former saying that common action now calls for a more precise definition of principles.

A lawyer will seek the course of action which will prove just sufficient, no more no less.

Atheism is as justifiable a belief system and perhaps more so than the Abrahmaic religions in general and the rights of an individual to express themselves must not be allowed to be infringed upon by anyone lest their actions create the very environment they sought to escape.

Coover should not be grouped with existentialists like Camus, however, for whereas Camus seeks to challenge the absurd through action and thereby affirm self in the face of the tragic human condition, Coover is more inclined just to accept life's condition, to play the game for what it is.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Through our policies and actions, PepsiCo seeks to uphold standards for sustainable palm oil by addressing our own supply chain first and then partnering with others to drive improvement more widely.

Ruben Loftus - Cheek is currently ahead of Chalobah in the pecking order, which has left him with little choice but to seek first - team action — once more — away from west London.

Perez has since returned to his La Coruna to continue his rehabilitation from said injury, which has led to claims that he is unhappy with his new club, and could be seeking a loan move in order to secure more regular action.

It describes those actions as «active comfort - seeking,» which helps the labor to progress while helping the woman feel more comfortable.

More specifically, he has sought to turn «words into deeds» — to translate the often lofty rhetoric of the UN into concrete actions designed to offer better protection to the populations of UN member states.

In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

It was supposed to take the politics out of salary increases, but the governor's appointed commissioners refused to take action on a pay raise proposal, hinting they might be more amendable later if lawmakers enact reforms that Cuomo is seeking.

At the moment, neither Public Campaign Action Fund or a related organization, Friends of Democracy, has filed an intent to lobby letter with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics — a documented required when the cost of seeking to influence state government is expected to be more than $ 5,000 for any given entity.

Skelos and his son, Adam Skelos, sought extortion payments totaling $ 760,120 from three Long Island companies, successfully obtaining more than $ 334,000, in exchange for the promise of official actions from Dean Skelos, the prosecutors said in court papers filed Monday.

«These actions will provide safeguards for the players of these augmented reality games and help take one more tool away from those seeking to do harm to our children.»

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general took legal action Thursday seeking to preserve billions of dollars in federal subsidy payments for insurers under a provision of the Affordable Care Act after President Donald Trump threatened to halt the funding.

While recognising that all countries are affected by the effects of climate change under «One Planet» but some are more vulnerable, the summit seeks for tangible collective action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

Federal prosecutors allege that Percoco pocketed more than $ 300,000 in bribes in return for official actions on behalf of an energy company and a developer seeking lucrative deals with New York State.

And there are many more families who have lost loved ones in other violent actions seeking truth.

He is scathing about the excessive cost of local government, cutting his own salary by more than half and seeking to rid the council of waste and bureaucracy, but some of his actions and remarks have caused upset — he recently praised the family values of the Taliban, and pledged to cut funding for Gay Pride events in the town before changing his mind.

In addition to calling for more affordable housing beyond the proposed 25 percent requirement, Adams sought accountability to put in place and sustain the city's proposed anti-displacement initiatives, which include free legal services to tenants and a task force dedicated to investigating and taking action against landlords harassing residents.

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Seeking to learn more about conservation decision making, Amelia spent the last three years working at the Centre as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on the prioritization of management actions on islands in Western Australia and Queensland.

A lawsuit filed in Dec and seeking class - action status alleges more than half the profiles on Match.com are «inactive, fake or fraudulent.»

There are definitely many more women on this site looking for love than men seeking dates, so the competition can be stiff at times and the men on the site seem to have a bit more control over the dating action.

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Shot (with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son of Michael), the film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the film seeks to psychologise him) by which the film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the diegetic events.

Like Batman Begins and several other films that seek to re-envision the origins of their heroes, Star Trek focusses more on character than action, with conflict at a personal and inter-personal level favoured before the inter-planetary.

Those seeking out more action from the tried and tested team may be disappointed, though when violence does erupt, it's rather brutal and shocking.

More than a dozen federal class action lawsuits have been filed seeking damages from the Educational Testing Services (ETS) for errors in grading the PRAXIS Principles of Learning and Teaching Grade 7 - 12 exam required for entry - level classroom certification in many states.

We seek articles on such topics as expanding our view of data beyond test scores, setting up a school culture in which teachers collaborate to examine student data and translate it into meaningful action, using qualitative data - collection techniques like peer observation and home visits, harnessing technology to organize data and make it more useful, and sharing data with school stakeholders to help them understand its implications and to mobilize support.

Green says, «certainly the unions could compromise and agree to allowing Malloy and Pryor a dozen or 18 schools where the state could take dramatic action — longer days, year - round school, more social services, better pay for sought - after science and math teachers — without the constraints of restrictive labor contracts.»

«Given the lack of broad - based stakeholder input into the waiver, the unrealistic timelines for implementing the teacher evaluation system under the waiver, the lack of research - based support for evaluating teachers based on student performance on state tests, and the dearth of vetted alternative measures of student learning available to use for teachers other than those teaching grades 5 - 9 reading and math, we recommend the Legislature delay taking action to implement the waiver's teacher evaluation system requirements, and urge the commissioner to continue to negotiate for more flexibility in the waiver regarding the teacher evaluation requirements, as well as to seek an extension from USDE regarding the timeline under which to implement the new system,» Eaton testified.

The fifth concerns potential regulatory action to facilitate certification for firms seeking to work as DBEs in more than one state.