Sentences with phrase «substantial effort on»

Group members scoring high on conscientiousness fit well with the task related demands in teamwork as they spend substantial effort on the task and engage in planning and organizing of group work [25].

Such benefits may also require substantial effort on the part of Client, including an active participation in the therapeutic process, honesty, and a willingness to change feelings, thoughts and behaviors.

Due to the size of my purchase, commission fee has a more substantial effort on the overall gains.

There has been substantial effort on the part of global regulatory and supervisory bodies to address the weaknesses identified in the financial crisis.

There were no periods of possession enjoyed by either of the sides, nor were there any substantial efforts on target, as Fabianski and Daniels were left to be mere spectators.

Not exact matches

But significant changes in policies since then — not least, lower primary surpluses and a weak reform effort that will weigh on growth and privatization — are leading to substantial new financing needs.

Methodology Discovery Data compiled the rankings based on discretionary and nondiscretionary assets under management listed on SEC Form ADV. To capture independent fee - only planning firms, every effort is made to exclude firms with broker - dealer and insurance company affiliations and those with substantial outside ownership stakes held by private equity firms and some outside investors.

Koscot's former president recognized the difficulty of getting distributors to concentrate their efforts on retail when it appeared that the rewards from recruiting were faster and more substantial (Mann 4473).

The results enable manufacturers to focus on the attributes that are important to consumers in the category, while saving a substantial amount of time, cost, and effort.

«The Sustainable Dairy Chain makes substantial efforts to improve on all sustainability issues it has prioritized and set targets on.

This analysis confirmed previous findings, that community efforts can have a substantial impact on breastfeeding practices.

Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

This afternoon Mayor Bill de Blasio expanded his «Ready to Launch» effort on universal full day pre-K, issuing an update on the substantial logistics required for a September 2014 implementation.

Donovan, a solidly Republican politician, has parted ways with Trump on some issues, most notably the tax bill due to the substantial limitation on deducting state and local taxes and the effort to substantially gut Obamacare.

Republicans seized on signs of movement in their direction yesterday as they unleashed a massive election - eve voter mobilization operation in an effort to stave off potentially substantial losses in the House and preserve at least a slender majority in the Senate.

According to the source, all efforts by the government team to reach labour leaders in the state on their mobile and contacts have proved abortive, as the leaders remain adamant that a substantial part of their arrears must be settled before they can call off the strike.

The INEC Chairman also spoke on what he described as «substantial challenges and opportunities» facing stakeholders in their efforts to provide accessible electoral and other services for PWDs.

In Sutton and Cheam their limited efforts were sufficient to secure the seat due to its marginality but in Carshalton Brake held on thanks to his more substantial majority.

Ideas that emerged include regular scientific - cum - social meetings, a possible departmental postdoc association, a dedicated postdoc section on the departmental Web site and an effort to develop the department's substantial postdoc alumni network into a job - hunting resource.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

By calling for re-energizing CCS development, PCAST is making two judgments: 1) that the coal industry is highly likely to remain competitive even as it complies with EPA restrictions on emissions of SOx, NOx, Hg, and other toxics; and 2) that a substantial price on carbon is highly likely to arrive in a time frame of relevance for a CCS development effort.

And a substantial number of scientists and experienced biotech staff available on the job market in RTP have actually been a positive influence on the recruitment effort at about three dozen smaller biotechnology ventures in the region.

The effort is worthwhile, however, because the impact — on commerce and on people's lives — is substantial.

«Despite substantial public health efforts, flu vaccine rates for U.S. children are well below national targets,» says lead author Sarah J. Clark, M.P.H., associate director of the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health and associate research scientist in the U-M Department of Pediatrics.

If anyone hasn't noticed, there is a substantial effort to distract and delay and it's been going on for decades, and we are in real trouble, even if sensitivity is low.

AstraZeneca will lead ex-US commercialization efforts, with Moderna receiving tiered royalties up to substantial double digits on ex-US sales.

High - Risk Series: Progress on Many High - Risk Areas, While Substantial Efforts Needed on Others.

The positives are that it won't hurt efforts to sleep better and it is priced affordably, so if it is found to be ineffective it won't be a substantial sunk cost, but it would just be wiser to pursue better formulated options on the market.

The direction by David Leitch (who was, indeed, an uncredited co-director of John Wick) is brisk and fluid, and the script, which Reynolds co-wrote with Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick is, as noted, a substantial upgrade on that earlier effort.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of groups like ACT UP and TAG, the country has made substantial progress on the issue, but remember this battle when society inevitably finds another population to stigmatize and stand up before it's too late.

The Atlantic: The direction by David Leitch is brisk and fluid, and the script, which Reynolds co-wrote with Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick is, as noted, a substantial upgrade on that earlier effort.

Perhaps because of this concerted engagement effort, spending on schools is popular and most substantial bond programs are voted through.

Substantial policy effort has focused on improving the educational opportunities for students in these schools, including the Obama administration's School Improvement Grants (SIG).

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

But after more than two years of effort at Liberty, they have yet to see a substantial increase in test scores — the yardstick that the success of the new standards will ultimately be measured on.

Previously a teacher and school leader, William has substantial experience in education evaluation ranging from small program analysis focused on improving instructional practices to large - scale data management and analysis related to state - level turnaround efforts.

However, relying on a publisher's resources builds a codependent relationship that is difficult to break, and most authors are expected to make substantial efforts and investments to reach their audiences even if they are traditionally published.

Having successfully developed a digital eReading ecosystem on an equal footing with strong US - based competitors, it is now the right moment for Deutsche Telekom to divest the platform business that we have built up over the last four years with substantial investment and effort.

I've asked Howey if, in fact, he thinks that an author - advocacy effort like Author Earnings could have been mounted before the substantial rise we see today of the entrepreneurial - author dynamic, which is so focused on community and, in many instances, on mutual support.

We believe the focus of the sales and marketing efforts on diversifying the company's customer base is yielding results and should allow for the continued generation of substantial free cash flow from operations.

The debt settlement companies examined by the States can not demonstrate any justification for their substantial advance fees based on the effort required to set up an account.

The primary consumer protection problem areas that have given rise to the States» actions include: (1) unsubstantiated claims of consumer savings; (2) deceptive representations about the length of time necessary to complete a debt relief program; (3) misleading or failing to adequately inform consumers that they will be subject to continued collection efforts, including lawsuits, and that their account balances will increase due to extended nonpayment under the program; (4) deceptive disparagement of consumer credit counseling; (5) deceptive disparagement of bankruptcy as an alternative for debtors; (6) lack of screening and analysis to determine suitability of debt relief programs for individual debtors; (7) the collection of substantial up - front fees so the debt relief company gains even if it fails to perform; (8) lack of transparency and information for consumers as to payment of fees, status of accounts, and communications with creditors; (9) significant delays in active negotiation or engagement with creditors, coupled with prohibitions on direct consumer communications with creditors; and (10), in the case of debt settlement companies, basing savings claims (and settlement fees) not on the original account balance, but on the inflated amount due (including late fees and default rates of interest) at the time of settlement.

Instead of trying to beat the market or trying to find a mutual fund manager who will beat the market net of his substantial added costs, individual investors should instead focus their efforts on:

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

As I approach the one - year anniversary in my role as CEO, I wanted to reflect on what an extraordinary year this has been for the Joan Mitchell Foundation — a year of substantial transition, of tremendous collective effort, of challenges and accomplishments, and of exciting new beginnings in mapping our future.

It focused on a substantial intensification of efforts to boost resilience to climate shocks, particularly in the poorest, most vulnerable places, and to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

A Los Angeles Times article few days ago provided a fresh look at the tussle over global warming in classrooms, focusing on a move by the National Center for Science Education to add a substantial climate component to its longstanding effort to keep ideology and religion out of classes on biology and evolution.

If a substantial push to extract gas responsibly is coupled with an additional push on standards, boosted RD&D and education efforts, is the «energy quest» under way?

June 16, 12:36 p.m. Updated Douglas Biesecker, a scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the leader of an international effort to chart and forecast trends in sunspots, has offered a detailed new critique of three lines of analysis predicting a long and deep lull in sunspot activity, with substantial potential impacts on Earth's climate (and climate policy).

Despite the public focus on radiation risks, cost has long been the main obstacle to a substantial expansion of nuclear power generation, and will be even more as a result of Japan's still - unfolding effort to secure the wave - ravaged Fukushima Daiichi complex.