Sentences with phrase «than a slogan»

There was a moment in this game where it became more than a slogan, more than a blueprint.

The notion of «taking responsibility for every child» has to become something more than a slogan or a phrase.

The reality is that it is not a question of austerity vs generosity as that would be a gross over simplification but rather what is the most effective way for a government to spend the resources it has available and this comes down to complex fine details rather than slogans or internet memes.

In many parts of the world, and in this country as well, such a development reinforces the cynical view that human rights is little more than a slogan invoked by the U.S. to justify whatever we and whomever we can get to go along with us want to do.

«And if the big society is anything better than a slogan looking increasingly threadbare as we look at our society reeling under the impact of public spending cuts, then discussion on this subject has got to take on board some of those issues about what it is to be a citizen and where it is that we most deeply and helpfully acquire the resources of civic identity and dignity.»

We don't know, thereby rendering the equation nothing more than a slogan gussied up in math.

«Distributed leadership» is in danger of becoming no more than a slogan unless it is given more thorough and thoughtful consideration.

But, as we're reminded by the 2012 Wallace study, The School Principal As Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning, these adjectives don't amount to much more than slogans without a clear understanding that any effective leadership model relies on the officially accountable individual — the principal — to shape a clear schoolwide vision of academic success and to manage the people, data, and processes that foster school improvement.

By focusing on issues the general public care about, rather than the slogans they don't, Miliband was able to win the day.

Initiatives such as localism — the idea of devolving power to small geographic areas — come and go without ever seeming to leave much of a mark or be much more than a slogan.

The government's primary method of communication is publicly funded television ads that offer little more than slogans --» Responsible Resource Development,» «Jobs, Growth and Long - term Prosperity.»

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«We Make It Happen» is more than a slogan, it's a way of life for the youth sports programs at the Detroit Parks and Recreation Department, which received the Excellence in Youth Sports Award on Nov. 18 in Orlando, Fla., during the annual Youth Sports Congress that was held in conjunction with the Athletic Business Show.

Child safety is more than a slogan.

«Raise The Age must be more than a slogan or a way to score political points and headlines,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said.

Besides, at the level of winning votes it could be agrued that Miliband's slogan «control immigration» had no impact because it was no more than a slogan.

Fellow Ghanaians, Ghana Beyond Aid is meant to be more than a slogan.

Reading the tea leaves of presidential appointments is always a fun spectator sport in the swamp that is Washington, DC, but more so this year, with a President - Elect whose campaign was light on policy details, and especially on education, where Donald Trump uttered hardly more than a slogan or two.

«Kids first» is more than a slogan, a hashtag, or even a policy proscription — it begins with the example we set for our children.

In Montana, «The Last Best Place» is much more than a slogan.

Craig Rucker, the group's executive director, sent a response, in which he insists that «stop energy poverty» is more than a slogan.

It is more than a slogan.

The niceties of the Convention argument were, however, dismissed by the Court of Appeal in Metrobus v Unite the Union [2010] ICR 173, [2009] All ER (D) 03 (Aug) in which Maurice Kay LJ opined that in the UK «the right to strike has never been much more than a slogan or a legal metaphor».

In Montana, «The Last Best Place» is much more than a slogan.

Paying it forward is more than a slogan.

When done properly, this is far more than slogans or posters on walls, or brief lessons covering core values.

It's more than a slogan.

As 2005 — 2007 president of NAREB, broker Clifford Turner stands for a world in which equal housing opportunity is more than a slogan.

Hattie Scott, vice president and regional manager of Long & Foster Real Estate in Prince George's County, Md., knows cultural diversity is more than a slogan; it's a path to success.