Sentences with phrase «term focused action»

As can be seen in Table 5 above, the comparison suggests what long term focused action towards achieving health equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can yield valuable results.

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How impactful this approach will be depends on the business world's focus on and long - term commitment to the goal of reducing racial discrimination and increasing antiracist actions.

A global focus on climate action and the increased use of renewables is set to provide a robust long - term tailwind for First Solar for many years to come.

Words such as «will,» «access,» «focus,» «deliver,» «work» «continue» or the negative of such terms or other variations thereof and words and terms of similar substance used in connection with any discussion of future plans, actions, or events identify forward - looking statements.

More importantly, WealthGuard will initiate a specific plan of action to help protect your accounts, while keeping you focused on your long - term investment goals.

While political, economic and geopolitical conditions make it challenging to predict near - term moves or to time specific portfolio actions, we are focused on searching for potential opportunities in companies with attractive risk / reward profiles.

Still, there is a clear speculative element in day - to - day market action here, as trend - following investors remain heavily focused on very specific price levels, which can trigger short - term bursts of buying and selling pressure.

This is why, in strongly uptrending markets, we find it much easier and more profitable to focus on the price action and technical patterns of individual leadership stocks and ETFs, rather than paying much attention to whether or not the charts of the S&P, Nasdaq, and Dow are «overbought» (we hate that useless term).

There are some actions that some clients with a shorter - term focus may want to consider, including perhaps adding cash and inflation protection to a portfolio.

But bear in mind that growth model is a long - term model and what we are really focused on is putting the actions in place to drive that model for the long - term.

In Livezey's terms, adapted from Robert Wuthnow's, they are more likely to engage in «cultural production,» focused on theology, morality and community, than in traditional social action.

In recent years, we have witnessed an explosion in consumer fraud putative class actions focused on whether use of the claims «natural,» «all - natural,» «100 percent natural» or similar terms on a food product's label is false, misleading or deceptive.

Short term projects have focussed on determining whether selected watering actions are meeting their intended ecological objectives and understanding the implications for environmental water delivery.

Interestingly, this is the least bet (in terms of overall number of bets) college football game of the day, providing another example of how sharp bettors don't bet for solely for action, but focus on value and value alone.

Thirty two nations, a fantastic location, some enthralling encounters and hitherto unrivalled coverage of all the action, have helped to shift focus away from matters domestic, for the short term at least.

There are also policy actions which we have to take - investment climate reforms to improve business and economic competitiveness, focus on developing MSMEs, deepening long term savings through pensions, insurance and sovereign savings, land reform to eliminate constraints in time and cost around land transactions (including a review of the governor's consent requirement), and actions to reduce inflation, interest rates and business operating costs.

At the end of July, Lhota unveiled the NYC Subway Action Plan: an $ 836 million short - term plan to yield upgrades within a year and an $ 8 billion long - term plan that focuses on long - term improvements, such as better subway cars, the adoption of a new signal system and modern communications technology.

Although Obama seemingly paid little attention to climate change during his first term, climate action has been a defining focus of his second term.

The goals of EPSCoR are to engage across different fields of study to address environmental and energy challenges and to educate on the benefits of the research; develop new ways of thinking and action through targeting education programs, focusing on long - term sustainability; build competitive research teams, and integrate new initiatives into our institutions.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading on the international stage to bring nations large and small to the table to pledge to act on climate change.

Since he was able to reserve his ingenuity in terms of storytelling, Singer focuses all his energy on the film's action, which is bluntly violent and increasingly intense, especially in the third act.

Governments and food and agriculture organizations join today at the Lima - Paris Action Agenda Focus on Agriculture to respond to the urgent climate challenges facing agriculture with six cooperative initiatives that will protect the long - term livelihoods of millions of farmer and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The challenge of the Decade is to focus attention on action - oriented activities and policies that ensure the long - term sustainable management of water resources, in terms of both quantity and quality, and include measures to improve sanitation.

This long - term, whole - school approach focusses on improving the skills and capacity of all staff (including non-teaching staff) through various means, including action learning projects and peer - to - peer support and coaching.

The focus has always been on supporting staff and with a vision and framework to embed a long - term, whole - school approach improving the skills and capacity of all staff (including non-teaching staff) through various means, including action learning projects and peer coaching.

Insight in Action One multi-school PLC focused on interpreting state standards in terms of acceptable evidence of student success and designing assessments that would elicit that evidence.

In fact, it was the likes of Enron and Lehman Brothers that torpedoed the economy: businesses and businesspeople who put little thought to the long - term impact of their actions while focusing almost entirely on the short - term gain.

In terms of clarity, it is critical that districts and CMOs focus their work with principals on a reasonable set of high - priority leadership actions.

The handpicked writers focus on providing academic term papers, accounting, business and action term papers, as well as English, sociology and economic term papers.

I will focus on how this rule applies to action with over-valued, long - term positions held in an over-bought bull market or less frequently over-exuberance in an individual name.

Nevertheless, if all you focus on is short - term price action, you can be easily led astray.

Rock Band's been focused on rock music, Dance Central has the luxury of focusing on all kinds of other music, but in terms of rhythm - action - type games focused on electronica, that's something we'd love to come back to at the right moment in time.

Everything's been said, so if this ALIGNS your daily actions with long term focus, great.

As new terms of office begin this year, Fischerkeller encourages us to critically focus on the uncomfortable truths often overlooked in our society that require the immediate attention and action by our elected officials, and to recognize that Our State of the Union is relevant to each of us regardless of our political affiliation.

[UPDATE, 3 pm:] In an interview Saturday morning, Bill (I've known him long enough that I can't honestly put in the «Mr.» honorific) explained his focus on the long - term concentration goal, and the limits of this particular action, which he sees as a beginning — even after 20 years of working on the issue:

Early in his second term, President Obama launched an ambitious Climate Action Plan focused on cutting carbon pollution, preparing the nation for climate impacts, and leading internationally.

«If we want to take climate action and try to solve this in the near term,» DiNola says, «we should be focusing on the building sector.

I am active in groups that are focused on halting the expansion plans of the fossil fuel industries including the Keystone XL pipeline and yet the climate movement is still figuring out how a focus on local damages and pollution translate to action on the global long - term issue.

Beginning in 2005, the Institute embarked on a «fast - action» climate mitigation campaign to promote strategies that will result in significant reductions of emissions, temperature, and impacts in the near - term, focusing primarily on strategies to reduce non-CO2 climate pollutants, to complement cuts in CO2.

A stronger focus on high - impact actions in adolescent textbooks and in messages to the general population may be critical, not only to affect behavior in the near term, but to stimulate discussion about the larger and longer - term changes needed and how to achieve them.

Some of the issues are highly technical, such as whether one set of the discussions, known as long - term co-operative actions, can be effectively wrapped up so the focus can turn to the main talks.

The official Chinese explanation is that while they acknowledge the importance of the long - term view, the focus should be on near and medium - term action rather than deliberating on long - term targets («中方认为 ， 应对气候变化既要着眼长远 ， 更要立足当前 ， 要把精力和重点放在完成近期和中期减排目标上 ， 不能让长期目标上的分歧影像谈判进程» and he repeated this in his December 18th speech: «To determine a long - term direction is necessary, even more important is to focus on the completion of the short and medium - term emission reduction targets, and on to honor commitments already made, and on action.

What she found was worrying - there is a widespread short - term focus in policy that is pushing action in both areas firmly to the back - seat.

On the day of the town hall meeting Clive Hamilton (Charles Sturt University) introduced another, alternative statement, focusing on longer - term governance challenges and on institutions, rather than on near - term actions.

Consequently, policy action should focus on reducing vulnerabilities, at least in the short term.

Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish author of «The Skeptical Environmentalist», said a slowdown in warming might help governments focus on smarter, long - term solutions rather than being panicked into action.

The presentation, held on February 19, 2014, focused on the national class action litigation involving the use of the words «all natural» (and other related terms) on food, nutritional supplements, and other consumer products.

If you look at our contract drafting legal specialist resume sample, you'll see how the jobseeker focused more on the actions taken than the legal terms.

COAG's future work will focus on those areas identified for joint action which have the greatest capacity to achieve real benefits for Indigenous Australians in the short and long term.