Sentences with phrase «state than a tool»

They are tools that can aid in knowledge of the unknown but to state than a tool, giving an image or revealing a potential problem can «ensure normal fetal growth and development» is a claim no one can back up.

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With all these tools at their fingertips, what is needed more than anything is the political will to make tough choices states will need to make.

Nestler says that as the march has grown — more than 200,000 people are expected to travel to the nation's capital for it — he and his team have been in contact with many of the organizers of the 53 state chapters to give them the tools and information they need to help transport as many participants as possible.

I see religion driving it's political tools in congress and the states to control women's reproduction more than any time since the 1970s, even trying to turn the clock back and put the kybosh on BIRTH CONTROL.

The Church, it was believed, could afford to be more flexibly responsive to the nuances and contours of individual situations than the state, and the Church was believed to possess more finely grained tools of correction than the blunt instruments of law and punishment.

CSWA, a 501 (c)(3) educational nonprofit organization established by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers more than a decade ago, was recognized for increased adoption of sustainable winegrowing practices in the state and for adding several educational tools and improvements.

As NICA President McInerny states, «NICA is about more than just racing; we are helping create strong and capable young adults that will have the mental tools and skills to be successful both on and off their bikes.»

Having MySpace involved could really make OpenSocial a more useful tool for U.S. political advocacy, since the site's audience in the States is so much larger than those of all the other social networking sites besides Facebook combined.

The techniques Obama used to raise $ 500 million online are no secret (many of them have been common practice at nonprofit organizations for years), and the tools available to congressional, state and local candidates are already more than adequate to the task.

The governor said federal laws provide prosecutors with more tools to handle corruption cases than do state laws, and district attorneys often turn their cases over to the feds.

A better tool to target help for poor working people, they say, is the income tax credit that can boost hourly income for workers to more than $ 10 an hour, according to Russell Sykes, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy.

To address this, BWH investigators used state of the art natural language processing tools to review the course of more than 24,000 patients with coronary artery disease treated at either BWH or Massachusetts General Hospital between 2000 and 2011.

The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

«They're like disposable razors,» says Matthew Des Lauriers, an archaeologist at California State University in Northridge, who has found the same kind of tools on Cedros Island off Baja California, where people lived more than 12,000 years ago.

In the first of three related papers being presented next week at the Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, a team of computer science and psychology researchers from NC State and Microsoft Research surveyed more than 250 developers on their experiences with security tools.

With that in mind, more than half of U.S. states have passed laws establishing price transparency websites, and many employers have offered price transparency tools to their employees.

March 22, 2018 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) researchers use powerful, state - of - the - art tools to gather scientific detail from every conceivable angle, from larger than life to the atomic scale.

«We suggest that the use of tools drove the evolution of language, and it seems likely that «words» for things other than current emotional states would have been very useful for learning to knap,» lead author Thomas Morgan told Discovery News.

Internet websites like Christian dating personals have extended been regarded by a wide range of men and girls all more than the United States because the finest tool obtainable for single Christians which can be hoping to meet an individual special and begin a brand new relationship.

Standard Membership • Ask for support through live chat; • Online chat and e-mail replying; • Possibility to send free winks; • See the first date ideas of members; • Quick, username and member's luxuries; • You can showcase your luxuries; • Post own first date ideas and share with the rest; • Post a lifetime profile; • Upload up to 26 photos; • Unroll a verification of basic information of a member; • Display verification badges; • Ask and answer questions; • Edit the blog and forum with advanced tools; • Check out your latest activity; • Leave comments on forum, blogs, and profiles; • Access the website with the help of a mobile device; Gold Membership • Contains all the features found in the standard membership, plus more than 40 more features like: • Get access to an MM counselor through chat and e-mail; • Have full mobile access; • Check if the sent e-mail is read on the website; • You can view certified millionaires; • Search millionaires by annual income; • Check how responsible some members are; • See the last login date; • View compatible and reverse matches; • Show up in the top of searches; • Become a certified millionaire; • Upload and maintain a private album; • Receive tips for a successful dating and safety; • You will receive customer care services with priority; • Have your account more personalized; • Your profile will be highlighted as a featured member; • You can manage your profile, scan photos and make photo privacy settings; • You can use keywords in search; • Hide from search results; • Search the new, verified, recommended and gold members; • Remove members from the search list; • See who viewed your profile and who is interested in you; • Search by state, province, zip code or city;

For the media - savvy Islamic State, who made slickly produced videos of their atrocities their trademark recruitment tool, RBSS is more than a nuisance.

Maybe I'm just nostalgic because Red Dawn was the first film I'd ever seen set in my home state of Colorado (Calumet — which is a real town, but deserted)-- albeit shot in New Mexico, but whatever — and that the image of a bunch of «necks tooling around in old Fords with bristling gun racks was less fantasy than cozy, front - porch documentary.

Following the exploits of a former ballerina turned Soviet spy, this adaptation of denied - area CIA Ops expert Jason Matthews» first entry into the «Sparrow Trilogy» is an ice cold procedural, where bodies become little more than tools for the state, in a flesh for secrets game that leaves everyone who plays physically and spiritually damaged.

Contact: Susan Payne Carter: 845-938-0856, [email protected], United States Military Academy Jackie Kerstetter: 814-440-2299, [email protected], Education Next Computer use in college classes reduces final - exam grades New study finds that technology can be more of a distraction than a learning tool August 17, 2017 — The vast majority of college students carry laptops or tablets from class to class.

Rather than a case of federal overreach, the CRDC allows the federal government to empower state and local education providers to improve their policies and provides parents, policymakers, and advocates the tools to hold schools accountable.

The tool is used by all program participants across the state and by more than two dozen of PASA's program partners.

«If TCAP was used as a diagnostic tool, rather than as a punitive measure, our schools would not be in the absurd position of deciding whether to send students home without report cards or send home grades that may change once the state chooses to release the scores,» the TEA president said.

«New York spends more per pupil than any other state and double the national average, and yet we still fail to give students in Brownsville quality teachers who are supported and have the proper tools to succeed.»

Across the state an average of 69 percent of teachers have used the tool to create more than 300,000 assessments.

But they soon decided their high - level 5D tool — already operative in more than 50 districts in the state — needed an equally high - level assessment process.

With a time - tested, proven curriculum and all the tools and support necessary, we have helped parents educate countless students in all 50 states and in more than 90 countries.

Rather than using the tools at their disposal to defend measures that move the Lone Star State forward, dozens of legislators have used the power of rhetoric to paint a bleak picture of the state of our schools in order to dismantle accountabiState forward, dozens of legislators have used the power of rhetoric to paint a bleak picture of the state of our schools in order to dismantle accountabistate of our schools in order to dismantle accountability.

While the language of «college and career readiness» is slathered all over the Common Core State Standards and the aligned examinations written by PARCC and SBAC, repeating a slogan is a marketing tool rather than research validation.

Using our new tools for measuring instructional content, we have found that elementary math and high school ELA teachers are providing instruction that is better aligned to the new standards in their state than are elementary ELA teachers and high school math teachers.

The studies show that PARCC is a high quality assessment, aligns to state learning standards, predicts college readiness, compares well to NAEP performance, is endorsed by the country's top educators, and gives students with disabilities and English learners more tools and access to the test than previous tests.

It will take much more than the state agency creating a powerful tool to communicate performance.

And their dream of helping «all» children through the one system they favor is more important than helping «any» children in the state's worst schools with all tools at our disposal.

Reviewers looking at Oregon's plan, for example, were concerned that the state didn't have a system in place to ensure that districts were doing more than promising to implement the pilot evaluation system, that there was no way to verify the validity of the tools being used by districts in the evaluations, and that the majority of the pieces needed for the system were not in place.

But the lack of demographic adjustments in the published data that can ensure apples to apples comparison among states limit its value as a tool for determining which states perform more or less well than other states or as a means of analyzing performance in the context of differing state education policies.

She codeveloped the center's free early warning system tool for high school and middle grades; the tool was downloaded more than 20,000 times by state, district, and school administrators from every state in the nation.

Our state - of - the - art Service Department is equipped with the latest diagnostic equipment and tools along with factory - trained Toyota technicians who know your vehicle better than anyone else.

Guaranteed Rate's convenient online tool makes it clear that its closing costs are some of the cheapest in the state, with most estimates actually offering lender credits to reduce rather than add to your upfront costs.

In the United States, laws regulating credit disputes are far more consumer friendly than debit card disputes, and put more after the fact tools in your pocket to repudiate a charge.

Since bankruptcy is backed by both federal and state laws, there is really no reason to view a bankruptcy protection as anything other than a tool used by our society to potentially help alleviate a bad financial situation between two parties.

And despite what headlines state — that open houses are outdated, only help realtors, or result in less than 2 % of all home sales — this is a marketing tool you really should use.

He stated that PWL Capital uses all ETFs for their high net worth (HNW) clients, and the company has now grown in that practice to manage more than USD1 billion in HNW client assets with ETFs as their investment tool of choice.

More than 140 shelters and rescues in 31 states have signed on as Pup Crawl affiliate partners and are using The Pup Crawl Lights - Up Leash as a fundraising tool.

Fortunately, we have state - of - the - art technology which allows us to use diagnostic tools to treat your pet's condition, rather than just treat symptoms.

Titled «Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy,» the show includes more than 100 paintings from Advancing American Art, an ambitious project created by the State Department with the intent of using art as an international relations tool.

«Through fundraising and donations, over the last decade the CRC built sophisticated tech tools to hunt online predators and has trained investigators in 50 states and 77 countries, resulting in the prosecution and conviction of more than 10,000 child predators and the rescue of over 2,000 children from sexual abuse.