Sentences with phrase «tangible change on»

Not exact matches

NELP combines deep policy chops with tangible action — via partnerships with grassroots groups and leadership on advocacy campaigns around the nation — to fight for real reforms that change lives.

Evidence that mood change alone has compelled these actions in each case is the fact that they were based on nothing new that was tangible.

Milan Lucic might still be a very good top - six player that brings a physical element to the ice and tries to change the culture in the room, but he is not going to create a huge tangible swing on the ice in terms of goals.

Yet Africans are again discussing the role of the state in economic change, and there is a new, and welcome, emphasis on the tangibles of development (production, infrastructure and employment) in addition to intangibles (democracy and governance championed by the Washington Consensus).

The Reform of the House of Commons Committee (also known as the Wright Committee) suggested a number of changes which have, since their implementation, had a tangible effect on the relationship between Parliament and the executive.

Like the long - duration space missions that came before it — the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the twin Voyager probes and, more recently, the European Rosetta mission, for example — Cassini irrevocably changed our perspectives, become ingrained in the lives of the people who worked with the mission and had tangible impacts on society.

It has totally changed the way I look at food and nutrition, the daily «template» better fits my lifestyle and natural hunger cycles, and I love the effects it has had on my body — both tangible and intangible.

We expressed doubts at the time about this change having any effect on the popularity of gacha mechanics in mobile games, and so far we haven't seen any tangible effect on loot boxes in mobile games.

Marling, who starred in and co-wrote Another Earth, lends a credible and appealing down - to - earth quality to her workaholic academic, while Berges - Frisbey, who appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, brings a quicksilver quality to Sofi that makes her both tangible and elusive; she's one of those women whose looks change based on angle and circumstance, who can look stunning one moment and rather ordinary the next, a quality that piques fascinatioOn Stranger Tides, brings a quicksilver quality to Sofi that makes her both tangible and elusive; she's one of those women whose looks change based on angle and circumstance, who can look stunning one moment and rather ordinary the next, a quality that piques fascinatioon angle and circumstance, who can look stunning one moment and rather ordinary the next, a quality that piques fascination.

It's an example of a great placeholder where it can change in an instant once we have something tangible to go on.

The activities also encourage pupils to make a tangible difference to the lives of the communities they have learnt about by holding a fundraising event or campaigning for change - and they'll be in with a chance of featuring as our star school on our website and social media channels!

We need to be powerful advocates for much - needed investment on the site, recognising that changes to the environment over the past few months have already brought many tangible gains for staff and students.

The common core standards effort — and the hard work of CCSSO, NGA, and their partners — won't bring about positive, meaningful change for students unless we translate the standards from words on a page to tangible improvements in learning and teaching.

Classroom - based rewards were tangible and implicit and included changing incentives each week (tangible awards — including vouchers redeemable for things like pizza parties, candy and food coupons, and t - shirts — were granted on the basis of a 2 % increase in the homework return rate per week.

A 2011 study of the Capitol Hill campus showed that the action - oriented curriculum was effectively preparing students to use their political skills to demand change.36 Schools that specialize in student engagement not only instill a strong emphasis on civic education, but also use tangible experience to prepare students to be the next generation of leaders.

Though most of the revisions are incremental rather than game changing, Honda's tweaks to the Fit for 2018 offer enough subtle enhancements throughout the car to yield a tangible improvement to the vehicle on the whole.

Serving on an IBPA committee provides individual members with an opportunity to make tangible contributions to the IBPA community while affecting change within the independent publishing community at - large.

Do you think people are resistant to change and breaking out of old patterns to read on an e-reader instead of a tangible book?

Well, you could look at the change in tangible net worth due to common shareholders, and add back dividends, including the value of spinoffs, and net money spent on buybacks.

We saw a bit of chopping and changing on the engine front and a few other painful - and expensive - looking things, and going 64bit a few months ago definitely appears to have untangled the log - jam and finally allowed some more tangible progress.

We expressed doubts at the time about this change having any effect on the popularity of gacha mechanics in mobile games, and so far we haven't seen any tangible effect on loot boxes in mobile games.

Our promise: Real, tangible and measurable change, or it's on us.

The experience is a tangible mediation on the physical interplay between inertia and change, control and boundary, or threat and attraction.

Art has the ability to change our perceptions and perspectives on the world, and Ice Watch makes the climate challenges we are facing tangible.

This may be a poetic take on it, but experiences are not rendered abstract: instead, the exploration of a fundamentally ambiguous central concept offers a tangible provocation for change.

On the occasion of the COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015, Eliasson made climate change tangible by leaving twelve massive blocks of Greenlandic glacial ice to melt in the Place du Panthéon for the installation Ice WatcOn the occasion of the COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris in December 2015, Eliasson made climate change tangible by leaving twelve massive blocks of Greenlandic glacial ice to melt in the Place du Panthéon for the installation Ice Watcon Climate Change in Paris in December 2015, Eliasson made climate change tangible by leaving twelve massive blocks of Greenlandic glacial ice to melt in the Place du Panthéon for the installation Ice Change in Paris in December 2015, Eliasson made climate change tangible by leaving twelve massive blocks of Greenlandic glacial ice to melt in the Place du Panthéon for the installation Ice change tangible by leaving twelve massive blocks of Greenlandic glacial ice to melt in the Place du Panthéon for the installation Ice Watch.

So when I refer to action I mean tangible measurable ones on the changes at the very sites of impact, be they biophysical or social.

Tribune: Speakers at a seminar held on Thursday called for tangible steps to fight climate change and provide potable water to as many as 1.2 billion people who, they said, lacked access to clean drinking water.

These were the first tangible steps to strengthen much - needed dialogue between state and non-state actors working on climate change.

A strong need exists for well integrated multidisciplinary studies on urban agriculture on household, community and city level, applying participatory and gender sensitive methods that also give attention to measuring the less tangible effects of urban agriculture (e.g. effects on community development, living climate, landscape, climate change, etcetera).

Manomet developed a series of worksheets to help landowners, municipalities, homeowners, and community organizations understand the impacts of climate change on forests and apply tangible actions, both small and large, to make forests and communities more resilient to changes in weather and climate.

Two things in particular caught my eye today showing how climate change is already having a very tangible impact in the US and how it likely will have a potentially very serious impact on Pacific ecosystems.

The courses deliver direct and tangible guidance on how to do so, and can be utilized anywhere that provides a comfy seat and circle of forward - thinking, change - oriented people.

It seems prudent (not idiotic) to want some tangible proof that humans are having an adverse effect on the climate before embracing changes that will devastate our way of life.

Indeed, the appropriation of intellectual property in China has occurred on such a massive scale that it has impacted international prices, disrupted supply chains, changed business models, and probably permanently altered the balance between tangible and intangible values contained within commercial products.

Yes, the sort of sweeping change ultimately necessary will require systemic change beyond our individual capacities and demands a lengthy time scale, but there is so much we can do that has a tangible impact on the accessibility of justice that doesn't need to wait for gobs of funding, pronouncements from on high or the demolition of courthouses.

In response, Gupta is on a mission to find technologies with the potential to spark global change through tangible results.

There are less tangible elements to focus on including the office layout and rewards for milestones completed as well as physical changes such as desk configurations, office plants and air filters for a positive environment...

«Changes in the world call for the development of a new humanism that is not only theoretical but practical, that is not only focused on the search for values — which it must also be — but oriented towards the implementation of concrete programmes that have tangible results.»