Sentences with phrase «successful efforts undertaken»

«We must develop more fully our native talent to meet opportunities and needs of the workforce — capitalizing on and expanding successful efforts undertaken throughout our society.»

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There is no general appetite to undertake the effort and expense of a successful effort to deliver doping - free sport.
The mediation efforts undertaken by Turkey between Israel and Hamas, and by Qatar between the different Lebanese factions in 2008, probably represented the highest points of what can be considered an overall successful foreign policy course.
This sharp increase in teacher performance is about 0.27 of a standard deviation (see Figure 3) and suggests that previously low - performing teachers who opted to remain on the job undertook successful efforts to improve.
If successful, the improvement efforts undertaken at one or a few schools can be considered in other schools that might benefit from a new relationship with the district.
The now - stillborn school reform effort undertaken by the Los Angeles Unified School District, for example, flourished under reform - minded California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose state board backed charter school chain Green Dot's successful move to force the district into a corner) and a state legislature that was seeking a share of Race to the Top dollars.
Facilitate the work individuals and organizations are undertaking throughout the state; support members to become even more successful in their efforts.
The most - successful school reform efforts undertaken by philanthropists have not been ones that attempted to focus on school district bureaucracies, but on expanding opportunities for high - quality education for children and families.
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Efforts undertaken by the SFSPCA were part of a spate of citywide initiatives aimed at ending euthanasia of healthy or otherwise treatable animals, and were so successful that some began to call it the first «no - kill» city in America.
The MoJ is to undertake a sustained low level campaign to increase awareness of the benefits of mediation and create a central website for separating couples — concerns as to whether previous efforts to raise the profile of mediation have been successful have been expressed and some say that it is for mediation services themselves to more effectively promote their services.
Lee suggested it remains to be seen whether applications like smart contracts become a use case for Ethereum, or if other efforts are successful at replicating this functionality on the bitcoin blockchain, an idea industry startup RSK Labs has raised $ 1m to undertake.
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