Sentences with phrase «shifting focus of»

On Nov. 12, Treasury officials announced they were shifting the focus of the program from financial institutions to consumer credit, with the remaining funding now earmarked for credit card, student loan and auto debt.

In shifting the focus of criminal liability from a person's conduct to their associations, offences of this type unduly burden freedom of association and are likely to have a disproportionately harsh effect on certain sections of the population who, simply because of their familial or community connections, may be exposed to the risk of criminal sanction.

In early 2014, her middle child came out to the family as a transgender girl, shifting the focus of her mom's writing career towards LGBTQ rights and education.

Whether intentional or not, shifting the focus of the interview to personal activities, or to making you so nervous that you're willing to spill anything, can produce information that the interviewer should not be privy to.

As the demand for farm commodities climbs, it is shifting the focus of international trade concerns from the traditional goal of assured access to markets to one of assured access to supplies.

These forces of unreason are now shifting the focus of their attention to the scientists themselves.

[Response: I don't disagree with anything you say, but I was not arguing against this and you keep shifting the focus of the original argument.

Kusolwong connects the traditional value of gold and Chinese culture with the notion of a large installation, shifting the focus of the media from economic affairs to art.

In early 2014, her middle child came out to the family as a transgender girl, shifting the focus of her mom's writing career towards LGBTQ rights and education.

While I am sure we can all debate the many reasons teachers offer for leaving the profession including increased emphasis on standardized test scores, the shifting focus of the annual professional performance review and the lack of funding for education at the state and national level, there is a growing stream of awareness that the core of the frustration is the lack of shared decision - making roles and opportunities for teachers in the majority of our schools today.

It achieves this by shifting the focus of education to one in which students: master core academic content; develop the ability...

Shifting the focus of the principal supervisor job from overseeing compliance with regulations to helping principals succeed as «instructional leaders.»

Shifting the focus of support to districts as opposed to individual schools is a proposed goal of many SEA offices.

None of this should be news to close observers of trends in education advocacy, but it might be useful to have some evidence that documents the shifting focus of ed reform efforts.

By shifting the focus of NAPLAN in this way, it also may be possible to downplay school comparisons based on year - level means (a statistic that is strongly correlated with students» socioeconomic backgrounds) and to make greater use of NAPLAN's ability to compare schools based on the value they add, reflected in the progress students make.

In early 2014, her middle child came out to the family as a transgender girl, shifting the focus of her mom's writing career towards LGBTQ rights and education.

In early 2014, her middle child came out to the family as a transgender girl, shifting the focus of her mom's writing career towards LGBTQ rights and education.

Silver champions fair elections Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Election Law Committee Chairman Michael Cusick have introduced legislation to bring fair elections to New York by reforming the state's antiquated campaign finance laws and creating a public financing system for all state offices, shifting the focus of elections to the substance of the issues and candidates — not the money used to fund them.

Amongst others, a monetary policy that will stabilise the currency and reduce significantly the cost of borrowing, in addition to a raft of tax cuts, he said, have been put in place to bring relief to businesses, with the aim of lowering the cost of doing business and shifting the focus of our economy from taxation to production.

These interventions are lowering the cost of doing business, and are shifting the focus of our economy from an emphasis on taxation to an expansion of production.»

Silver champions fair elections Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Election Law Committee Chairman Michael Cusick have introduced legislation to bring fair elections to New York by reforming the state's antiquated campaign finance laws and creating a public financing system for all state offices, shifting the focus of elections to the substance of the issues and -LSB-...]

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was created in 2011 to reinforce the U.S. food safety standards by shifting the focus of federal regulators on preventing contamination instead of just reacting to the problem after it has already happened.

Your blog has been the biggest inspiration for me in shifting the focus of my eating to whole foods / plant - based diet.

Defenders of liberation theology hope to rescue the situation by shifting the focus of attention from the movement's social theory to its theology.

The company is also shifting the focus of its dot - com advertising toward consumable goods from infrequent big - ticket purchases.

After the years of breakneck infrastructure investment, urbanization and industrialization that created the supercycle in commodity demand, Beijing is now shifting focus of policy to the services - orientated sectors of the economy.

Small Business Saturday began in 2010 shifting the focus of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday to give small businesses a boost during the busiest time of the year.

Frustrated by the lack of knowledge doctors could give them, Frey decided to shift the focus of his research.

The act shifted the focus of the agency to preventing foodborne illnesses by expanding its ability to increase inspections of food producers, recall tainted foods and expand oversight to foreign suppliers.

We desperately need to shift the focus of our schools to collaboration, play and interpersonal skills.

Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make for happiness and human flourishing.

In the light of these judgments about Altizer, this volume is an attempt to shift the focus of attention from his negations to his affirmations.

It is a sign that the pastor has lost rapport with her when she abruptly shifts the focus of the conversation, as she does after the pastor offers reassurance.

Three or four years ago we decided to shift the focus of our equity efforts in Massachusetts: instead of emphasizing access to educational opportunities we emphasize the effectiveness of the education provided to minority students.

Overnight in 1972, she shifted the focus of her interests from defense to social issues and founded the STOP ERA movement.

Bultmann himself, certainly the most influential New Testament scholar of this century, shifted the focus of attention somewhat.

They merely — and this is a big «merely» — shift the focus of that power to divine activity on behalf of the black, the poor, the oppressed in history and in concrete historical settings.

Realizing that strong inner - city neighborhoods are crucial to its regional economic and social health, Indianapolis shifted the focus of its redevelopment efforts from downtown to seven inner - city neighborhoods, and implemented a program to train community leaders and pay for neighborhood coordinators.

The amount of information now available about the population ecology of kangaroos and their abundance has shifted the focus of opposition by animal rights groups and some conservation groups instead upon animal welfare issues (see Chapter 9).

While regulatory agencies have historically focused on product labeling and marketing of claims promoting beverages and supplements, recent actions suggest regulatory agencies will shift the focus of their attention to the ingredients used in drink products.

The Heat years both sharpened the contours of LeBron's importance and shifted the focus of intrigue on whether the Cavaliers could win it all.

Valverde has shifted the focus of his team from the trident that was MSN, into the 11 that is now Barcelona.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

And while cutting back on the sugar intake is also always a good idea (as is being aware that it can lurk in rather large amounts even in «healthy» foods like peanut butters, breads, yogurts, etc.), if the dyes are more to blame she'll want to shift the focus of the elimination diet.

They have moved or shifted their focus of activity into the 1967 - occupied parts of Palestine.

Mr. Speaker, government's strategy to shift the focus of economic policy from taxation to production must necessarily come with greater need to broaden the tax base and ensure compliance.

The policies Government has put in place over the last 11 months, President Akufo - Addo indicated, which have shifted the focus of Ghana's economy from taxation to production, are beginning to work, and are helping to reduce the cost of doing business in order to spur the rapid growth of industry.

New York state will likely shift the focus of its advertising this year, giving more weight to ads that tout tourist attractions, and less to those that promote the advantages of doing business in the state.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone already has said he'd allow ride - sharing, which has shifted the focus of proponents and opponents (primarily taxi companies) to Nassau.

This has resulted in the growing stability of the macro-economy and the cedi, reduction in inflation, and an abolition of nuisance taxes whose aim is to shift the focus of the economy from taxation to production.