Sentences with phrase «sustained national effort»

«In New Zealand, a four - year rise in Maori life expectancy was achieved after two decades of sustained national effort.

This positive outcome was the result of two decades of sustained national effort.

Inspiring as it was, the Wisconsin uprising proved that the fight to save public education and teachers» unions will take a sustained national effort.

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All efforts by NAN to ascertain the state of the victims, who serious sustained injuries from the National Hospital proved abortive.

Years of sustained and coordinated efforts will be required to contain and reverse the harmful societal effects of the prescription and illicit opioid epidemics, which are intertwined and getting worse, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Now, after years of efforts to reintroduce the frogs to the Santa Monica Mountains outside of Los Angeles, the National Parks Service announced the discovery of nine clusters of red - legged frog eggs in the region's streams — the first evidence in decades that the species is sustaining a population in the area.

Last year, an evaluation of a decadelong $ 250 million program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the skills of some 70,000 science and math teachers in 31 states concluded that such efforts could make a difference — if they were done well, with high - quality materials, supported by policies, and sustained over many years.

The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in the effort, has just received a whopping $ 41.5 million in 2015 to study the vital mass of tissue that sustains a developing fetus.

The critique from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) panel raises questions about whether the National Children's Study (NCS) can sustain the political support needed to assure funding for the ambitious effort, which has already cost $ 1 billion and could require billions more in coming years.

The team has applied for large block funding from the National Science Foundation Robotics Initiative to sustain this effort.

Following the success of the first national Postdoc Network meeting and the National Academies» COSEPUP Convocation on Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers, Opportunities for Collaboration promises to build and sustain momentum for efforts aimed at improving the postdoctoral expnational Postdoc Network meeting and the National Academies» COSEPUP Convocation on Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers, Opportunities for Collaboration promises to build and sustain momentum for efforts aimed at improving the postdoctoral expNational Academies» COSEPUP Convocation on Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers, Opportunities for Collaboration promises to build and sustain momentum for efforts aimed at improving the postdoctoral experience.

In the June 2007 issue of Health Services Research, a University of Chicago - based research team reports that a relatively inexpensive national effort to improve the process of care at selected clinics was able to make enough difference in its first four years that, if sustained, it could reduce patients» lifetime risk of blindness, end - stage kidney disease and coronary artery disease — all common complications of diabetes.

With our steady and sustained effort on disaster resilient development process, UDYAMA has bagged UN-ECOSOC status, Accredited to UN-Global compact, UN-CONGO, UNISDRR,UNEP - SCP engine GFDRR and Global Water Partnership and members in stakeholders» forum, City - Net, National Institute of Open Learning for Vocational Training, India Gateway, Government of India (NPO), Water Climate Coalition, Global Network for Disaster Risk Reduction and WSP, WSSCC, End Water Poverty and SAMHITA, CDRN, AADRR, SPHERE - India.

The efforts are seen as sustaining the momentum that followed last year's National High School Summit in Washington.

Sam Davidson, California field director of the national advocacy group Trout Unlimited, says of the school's efforts to protect trout habitat in California, «There is wide acknowledgment that without involvement in these efforts by young people, we will ultimately fail or fall short of the results needed to sustain our state's remarkable fish heritage.»

The National Writing Project focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation's educators on sustained efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners.

BPS has gained a national reputation for its ability to make continuous improvements and to sustain a focused reform effort over time.

The consensus around this «education for economic growth» paradigm, to use language popularized by state Gov. Jim Hunt, was particularly sustained in North Carolina, though like - minded efforts in other southern states shaped national education politics in the 1980s and 1990s.

Engaged students more often show behavioral traits such as persistence, effort, sustained attention to tasks and a greater propensity to take on challenges and achieve mastery (National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, 2004).

This scientific assessment is part of the ongoing efforts of USGCRP's sustained National Climate Assessment process and was called for under the President's Climate Action Plan.

It underscores that international REDD + efforts and Forest Law Enforcement and Governance and Trade (FLEGT) programmes have the potential to provide support to efforts to increase and sustain forests, and highlights the need for consensus on the role of forestry in national development.

Best Practices for Maximizing and Sustaining Collaborative Efforts (PDF - 156 KB) FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community - Based Child Abuse Prevention (2009) Highlights creative and successful State efforts to identify and overcome challenges that impede progress to sustain collaborations among community organizations to prevent child abuse and nEfforts (PDF - 156 KB) FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community - Based Child Abuse Prevention (2009) Highlights creative and successful State efforts to identify and overcome challenges that impede progress to sustain collaborations among community organizations to prevent child abuse and nefforts to identify and overcome challenges that impede progress to sustain collaborations among community organizations to prevent child abuse and neglect.

The National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children Released on 15 February 2011, the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010 - 2022 brings together the efforts of governments across Australia to make a real and sustained reduction in the levels of violence against women.

Defined as a «tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long - term goals,» her research has correlated grit with educational attainment, grade - point average in Ivy League undergrads, retention in West Point cadets, and rank in the US National Spelling Bee.

This action was the culmination of many years of sustained effort by Department of Housing and Urban Development officials and committees of the National Association in support of its traditional commitment to equal opportunity in the acquisition and use of real property in America.