Sentences with phrase «significant part of their efforts»

Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large - scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer.

In order to block proactive government policymaking and keep corporate interests unregulated, libertarian groups have focused a significant part of their efforts on climate change on distorting the science to confuse public opinion, denying the seriousness of the problem, and, most recently, impugning the integrity of the climate science community.

As a result of the 2007 law, written by Democrats, a significant part of that effort is now focused on developing advanced biofuels like those made from algae with reduced carbon footprints.

Not exact matches

Pollack said the article was written «as part of an effort to make light of a significant company event, and was published as a result of a misunderstanding, without going through the normal editorial channels.»

A Justice Department official said Monday that the government made a «good faith» effort to resolve the harm to competition while allowing significant parts of the deal to move forward.

After all, Mylan acquired the EpiPen from another company, and while Bresch insists that significant improvements have been made to the epinephrine - delivering product itself, she also admitted on Thursday that a big part of the price increase rationale was to fund marketing and awareness efforts for the device.

Against this backdrop, closing deals will continue to require significant effort on the part of private equity funds.

This might be indicative of a crucial strategic shift on part of the Pakistani establishment which seems to be now willing to put the historically significant Kashmir issue with India on the back burner while concentrating all its efforts in ensuring a favourable settlement in Afghanistan in the backdrop of the impending NATO withdrawal.

According to her a significant majority of the core staff are still at post; and as part of efforts to improve on the electoral outcome, the commission has further developed the capacity of the staff of the commission.

The move, part of the prime minister's efforts against the «corroding» influence of pornography, is a significant reversal of government policy.

No bids were submitted to buy and develop part of the Gov. W. Averell Harriman State Office Campus by this week's deadline, a significant setback that hampers efforts to increase Albany's property tax base.

A significant part of the committee's mission will be the voter ID effort and developing the volunteer base.

«The Buhari presidency assures that the ongoing efforts of security agencies, including the establishment of additional military and police bases in parts of the country, as well as the improved intelligence gathering will continue, and commends some of the recent significant breakthroughs in combating kidnapping and banditry in the country», he said.

In large parts of the developing world, people have abundant heat from the sun during the day, but most cooking takes place later in the evening when the sun is down, using fuel — such as wood, brush or dung — that is collected with significant time and effort.

The disease, treatable with a one - time dose of penicillin or, as part of the renewed eradication effort, the antibiotic azithromycin, has experienced a significant resurgence in the past two decades.

Human judgment is very much part of its evaluation system, which itself is part of a larger effort focused on sound hiring practices and significant feedback and supports for educators.

Your written responses and essays are a significant part of your application, so you really want to take your time and put in effort.

Despite the fact that crafting a successful new release does require a significant amount of time and effort, they may be an integral part of your marketing strategy.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

Additionally, Erica oversees a significant part of our new employee onboarding process and of our internal data quality efforts.

Washington, D.C. --(March 23, 2016)-- The State of Our Schools: America's K — 12 Facilities report, released today by the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the 21st Century School Fund and the National Council on School Facilities, shows that the nation faces a projected annual shortfall of $ 46 billion in school funding, despite significant effort on the part of local communities.

And the argument that I'm trying to make is that if there's a significant segment of the black community who feels, even if there are now things that are better, but they have not played a significant role in making it better, or they haven't played a significant role in the power relationships, or if you have significant numbers of people who see the effort to change education and the way that it's being done as a larger part of the disempowerment of black people in the city of New Orleans, even the good things that are happening, in my mind, they are, uh, there's a danger in the ability to sustain it if we, if we can't build on a broader base of support within the black community itself.

to advance recent efforts around school climate as a significant part of understanding student and educator experiences; and,

In contrast, the approach under waivers, dubbed turnaround, was much more focused — applying only to the 5 percent of schools identified as «priority» schools and based on key principles outlined by the Department (see sidebar Turnaround Principles).62 Fewer schools were part of the effort, but in turn, the effort was much more intensive and required significant changes in school operations, culture, leadership, and practice.63 The hope was that a more disruptive and ambitious strategy will yield dramatic results: after three years, these schools would no longer be in the bottom 5 percent, and another group of schools could be identified to undergo turnaround.

The changes, described as the most significant of any «facelifted» model in the company's long history, are part of efforts to improve the traditional luxury sedan and wagon's competitiveness in the face of stiff German luxury - car opposition.

The revised PMIERs are an important part of the significant efforts of policymakers and the MI industry to address lessons learned from the housing downturn.

Bottom line: This is part of a significant effort to improve national standards governing credit reporting and scoring, a system that many people continue to feel treats them poorly, based on the volume of complaints.

The Brunner test requires the debtor to make a three - part showing in order to prove undue hardship: (1) that the debtor can not maintain, based on current income and expenses, a «minimal standard» of living for herself and her dependents if forced to repay the loans; (2) that additional circumstances exist indicating that this state of affairs is likely to persist for a significant portion of the repayment period of the student loans; and (3) that the debtor has made good faith efforts to repay the loans.

The significance of the above calculations is that we can get an enormous bang for the buck and make a significant impact on shelter populations by intelligent targeting of spay / neuter services upstream of the shelter and before homeless pets clog those shelters and require heroic efforts on the part of shelter directors and the rescue community.

Rescue, adoption, and transport efforts can certainly be part of a successful plan for ending unnecessary shelter euthanasia, and can make significant short - term reductions in shelter intake and euthanasia.

The veterinary trauma center designation is part of an effort by the ACVECC Veterinary Committee on Trauma to create a network of lead hospitals that will play a significant role in the development of trauma systems nationally.

By fostering, not only will you play a significant role in our rescue efforts, but you will also become part of a network of generous and caring people.

Again, I believe Caravan made a significant effort in selecting those locations and activities with care to make the sightseeing of this part of North America amazing.

[142] The repopulation effort has been successful in part because a significant portion of the birds» diet includes carcasses of large sea creatures that have washed ashore, which are unlikely to be contaminated with lead, the principal cause of the bird's mortality.

We think an important part of that effort is our ongoing investment in making Vulkan a competitive and well - supported graphics API, as well as making sure it has first - class support on Linux platforms... we're continuing to invest significant resources in supporting the Vulkan ecosystem, tooling and driver efforts.»

But he spends a significant part of his working life now blogging and tweeting in his efforts to engage with the public — and fending off attacks.

To deflect critics, the president promised efforts to make the technology even safer and asserted that nuclear power must be a significant part of global attempts to reduce reliance on polluting, carbon - based fuels.

Furthermore, as part of a global effort, developed country Parties should continue to take the lead in mobilizing climate finance from a wide variety of sources, instruments and channels, noting the significant role of public funds, through a variety of actions, including supporting country - driven strategies, and taking into account the needs and priorities of developing country Parties.

It may be relatively small but it represents a significant part of the increasingly frenetic effort to twist our way to planetary extinction.

Fugitive methane emissions from natural gas systems represent a significant source of global warming pollution in the U.S. Reductions in methane emissions are urgently needed as part of the broader effort to slow the rate of global temperature rise.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

It is also one that requires significant effort on the part of both law firm and client.

The Board views as significant the added value of visiting LSC programs in different parts of the country to review program operations, hear from clients, meet with bar leaders to encourage pro bono efforts and meet with members of the judiciary in support of access to justice.

Part of gaining the respect and attention of students and other faculty has been to grade the course in the same manner as other courses.168 The thought has been that students will not put the same effort or see the same value in a course that is not as significant in the doling out of rewards and that «[n] on - legal writing faculty may see legal writing as less substantial than the doctrinal courses.»

[27] However, and much more persuasive than that, he explains, was the «significant political effort» on the part of state bar associations to oppose them, [28] and, especially because «some members of the House of Delegates were opposed to change as a matter of principle,» even if there had been evidence that change «would benefit the public without attendant harm.»

Naturally, the husband was against this outcome: He claimed that in light of his bankruptcy the order should not be given effect — especially since there were significant and serious custody / parenting issues outstanding, not to mention efforts on the wife's part to exclude him from the child's life.

However, and much more persuasive than that, he explains, was the «significant political effort» on the part of state bar associations to oppose them, and, especially because «some members of the House of Delegates were opposed to change as a matter of principle,» even if there had been evidence that change «would benefit the public without attendant harm.»

16.2 When the parents can not agree on the meaning or application of some part of this Parallel Parenting Plan, or if a significant change (such as a move or remarriage) causes conflict between the parents, both parents shall make a good faith effort to resolve those differences before returning to the court for relief.

Slaw is proud to be part of this small but significant step in making law more freely and readily available to Canadians, and we look forward to expanding our efforts in this vein.

At least when I see those efforts that attempt to sell something, boast client testimonials, report an alliance or a deal struck with a significant customer, it's all part of the marketing mix.