Sentences with phrase «spending practices by»

CUNY chairman Bill Thompson then requested that state Inspector Catherine Leahy Scott conduct a broader probe of spending practices by CUNY and its affiliates.

Not exact matches

The talks were delivered by the staff of DigitalMarketer, a company that spends all year putting its sales ideas into practice before spending three days telling other people what they've learned.

In K. Anders Ericsson's famous study of violinists, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell as the «10,000 hour rule,» Anders found that the best violinists spent more time practicing than the merely good students.

And though I'm a strong critic of such practices, I do have a degree of sympathy for the person who has spent, say, 20 years believing that homeopathy really works, and «seeing» it help thousands of people (a fact that can readily be explained by the operation of a whole range of well - documented cognitive biases).

This was propagated by a popular book some years back, but it's since been rebutted by many scientists who have stated that whilst practice and time spent certainly matter, the exact number of hours to become an expert on something will vary from person to person depending on multiple variables that differ from one person to the next.

These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»

Google Admits Brand Safety Is a Global Problem Prompted by recent events in the UK, where a media group paused all of its clients» display spending due to ads appearing next to questionable and / or unsafe content through Google's ad network, Google is reevaluating their practices around unsafe advertising.

He's a cradle Catholic that lapsed for 20 + years, hooked up with some friends that hooked him on reading the KJV without practicing other than his own blend of christianity, but has spent the last 3 years back as a practicing Catholic (getting catechised by moi.

He's a cradle Catholic that lapsed for 20 + years, hooked up with some friends that hooked him on reading the KJV without practicing other than his own blend of christianity, but has spent the last 3 years back as a practicing Catholic (getting catechised by moi).

As for silly people who spend a year or any amount of time trying to live exactly as the ancients lived, by re-enacting practices found in the Bible, they do a great disservice to God's Word and His people.

Current bureau practices suggest that new laws, recommended by the panel, must be enacted to prevent COINTELPRO redux: the FBI still has a half - million domestic intelligence files and has budgeted for the current fiscal year $ 7 million to pay domestic security informants — twice that spent for informants against organized crime.

By the time of the Maccabees, for example, the practice of keeping the Sabbath was so central to Judaism that, according to Josephus, the Romans had to exempt the Jews from military service because they were useless as soldiers on the Sabbath.12 Seneca could not understand the Sabbath exercise and chided the Jews for spending every seventh day of their lives in idleness.13

My favorite high school memories take place in the library: lounging by the magazines, Quiz Bowl practice, the time I spent reading The Lord of the Rings at a table in the fiction section.

Remember that we all came from the same place, we are here now sharing this Earth, and we will go back to where we came from very soon... So lets spend our time wisely... We must use the gift given to us and choose to think for ourselves, by not allowing the past or others to dictate how we should live our lives... lets practice recognizing ourselves in each other... It may not always be easy... but each new day we can choose it... and that choice has an intrinsic value, upon which great things will be borne...

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

I agree with not supporting horrible practices of animal agriculture, and you can actually help the fight against animal cruelty by spending your money on well sourced meat by local farmers who treat their animals right.

Flamini is on the bench and no doubt that he will be spending most of his time warming up by the touch line; Practicing his kung - fu — kicks!..

In the football version of baseball, every baserunner would be replaced by a series of pinch runners, each lined up next to guys who'd spent every day practicing to be decoy pinch runners.

In the American classrooms, by contrast, 96 percent of students» time was spent on repetitive practice, and less than 1 percent was spent puzzling through new approaches.

Women can certainly reduce their discomfort during labor by spending time in the tub or shower, having their partner use massage to manage tension, or by simply practicing their own laboring techniques.

I was the picture of health — eating well by almost any standard, practicing yoga several times a week, spending lots of time outside in the beautiful California sunshine, and getting as much sleep as possible while raising an active toddler.

The devastated Chinese mother would then get dozens, maybe hundreds of practice tests and work through them with her child for as long as it takes to get the grade up to an A.» The Tiger Mother believes that children owe their parents everything and «must spend their lives repaying their parents by obeying them and making them proud.»

What you end up with by practicing your «parenting style» is a statistic and MANY sleep less nights spent mourning your poor choices.

Right - minded people are becoming increasingly and rightfully disgusted at the amount of taxpayers» money being spent on government «initiatives» run by companies like A4E and the disgusting practices used by ATOS.

The practice often makes the source of the contributions difficult to track and has enriched campaigns in an era of free spending in politics ushered in by the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

«We have spent millions of dollars to combat the problem through law enforcement, treatment and prevention, and if those efforts have been unfairly impacted by the improper practices of pharmaceutical companies and others, we owe it to the tax payers to leave no stone unturned in recovering any unjustified costs.»

Mark Lavigne, with the state Association of Counties, says a panel assembled by Cuomo to reform Medicaid spending and practices has recommended that the state eventually take over the counties» 25 % share of the total costs.

The 2014 Farm Bill, signed by President Barack Obama in February, authorizes $ 1.3 billion in spending over five years to help farmers adopt conservation practices in regions of the country facing significant environmental challenges.

«We're a victim of certain spending practices that were forced on us by the state.»

The Senate President condemned the practice where agencies of government spend money without statutory approval by the National Assembly and ruled that the issue be debated and resolution taken by the Senate on Wednesday.

It is the second time since he took office that Cuomo's campaign has spent money to influence legislation, a practice also used by other governors.

Start at the beginning of your practice by silently dedicating the time and effort you are about to spend, to something greater than yourself.

All of these factors may be reasons that regular gardeners live longer and that the practice of «forest bathing» (spending time in the forest) has become popular in Japan and is even prescribed and covered by medical plans in some cases.

By going on the occasional «spending fast» and practicing zero - dollar days, I was able to pay off my credit card debt.

Spend time mastering each guideline through practice and by educating yourself on each individual guideline.

I drove cross-country from New York in my 1980 Honda Civic station wagon to follow the tour and spend those five months in daily practice with the man who had taught my Ashtanga teacher, Norman Allen, the first Westerner to be accepted as a student by Pattabhi Jois in the early»70s.

These powerful companies spend billions to ensure you will be buying their products by using dishonest business practices, rigged clinical studies showing their products in a favorable light, public relations campaigns (like the fraudulent Breast Cancer Awareness Month — started by the manufacturer of mammogram machines), articles from paid «experts» on the internet and news clips to make you believe their products are healthy and safe, and lobbying Washington to enact laws ensuring you don't have healthy alternatives to their products.

She enjoys her childfull life by spending time with friends and family, practicing creative self - care, laughing (sometimes at herself) and building butterfly gardens on her acre of land, which has made her an accidental monarch butterfly farmer.

Researchers have identified a variety of practices and habits — known as «sleep hygiene» — that can help anyone maximize the hours they spend sleeping, even those whose sleep is affected by insomnia, jet lag, or shift work.

By joining an adult chat room, singles can spend hours getting to know one another and practicing their flirting game in a low - pressure environment.

Mind you on any dating site, as in life (I have friends who have practiced online dating for years, have spent a mint, have been matched by physiological profiles, computer algorithms & plain ole physical attraction but have still come up short) so finding the ONE may take time, patience, and a lot of focusing on YOU and your own beliefs about what you deserve (email me personally & we can talk more in depth about this if you'd like), but I believe any and all things are possible, including your finding your prince, online or around the corner.

Daniel Radcliffe has grown already by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and his presence benefits greatly from his increased confidence and maturity, and Kenneth Branagh is perfectly cast as the guest wizard, a glib, ego - maniacal author who spends more time preening that practicing spells.

Some Lady Bird believers may stand by Metcalf, but Janney has spent months practicing her inevitable Oscar speech.

As educators who have spent over 20 years researching, observing and studying classroom practice, we are even more convinced that many of the past practices in classroom observation relied on snapshot observations made by supervisors with little professional or academic learning.

Though Dillon mentions value - added modeling, he says that the Gates researchers use it «as a starting point,» and spends most of the rest of the piece discussing their use of cameras to capture teachers in action in the classroom — they hope to have 64,000 hours of classroom video by the end of the project and have already begun the process of looking for «correlations between certain teaching practices and high student achievement» and «scoring» the lessons.

The week was highlighted by a global student - teacher - parent - leader panel conversation as representatives from the American and Finnish educational systems spent an hour discussing the core beliefs behind best practice teaching, learning and leading.

ESSA wisely eliminates cost - by - cost testing for SNS, a practice which discouraged schools from spending Title I funds on comprehensive services and perversely encouraged spending on add - ons (like pulling students out of academic classes to work with paraprofessionals) that met compliance standards but were not necessarily helpful in improving educational outcomes for low - income students.

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But since considerable budgets are spent on mobile learning development, it is necessary to find effective ways of mobile learning evaluation and ensure that learners are not just fascinated by the new devices in a way which they may find interesting but here is a lasting valuable impact of mobile learning on their work practices as well.

The Phantom Menace: Policies that Protect Districts from Declining or Low Enrollments, Drive Up Spending and Inhibit Adaptation In this paper, part of the Productivity for Results Series published by George W. Bush Institute, authors Jon Fullerton and Marguerite Roza examine the curious practice of states funding school districts for...