Sentences with phrase «than focusing efforts»

Many CAGW proponents seek to have everything subordinated to that issue, to see policy imperatives primarily through their particular prism, most here — whether or not they think that CAGW is real and must be addressed — see sense in addressing a broad range of issues of short - term significance rather than focussing efforts on prospective long - term problems.

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The team behind the announcement is not the first to attempt something of this nature, and previous efforts by other companies have been criticized for having too little research behind them or focusing too much on detection rather than treatment.

His post goes on to list several techniques, including following your interests so that you enjoy the process not just the result of your efforts, focusing on self - improvement rather than external comparisons, and seeking empowering mentorship.

Focus your efforts on companies that are substantially larger than yours, those that can't cater to smaller orders or that don't offer their services on a reduced retainer.

As science suggests, those memories are bound to make you happier than you expect, but Rubin also notes that «we tend to write down the happier things,» which also focuses the mind on the positive aspects of life, boosting joy with very little effort.

This enabled Google to focus its efforts on building a product far better than anything offered by existing companies.

Viacom announced new rebranding efforts on Thursday morning that will see the struggling company focus its efforts on six flagship brands — which include Paramount, the studio acquired more than two decades ago by media mogul Sumner Redstone, whose family owns the controlling stake in Viacom and CBS.

Rather than give up or shift her focus elsewhere, Clinton needs to double down on this effort.

Rather than focus all your efforts, attention, and energy on your destination, Elise Mitchell explains in «Leading Through the Turn» how a journey mindset can positively affect your leadership style.

Rather than marketing to everyone, LeadCrunch enables marketers to focus their effort on leads that have the best chance of closing.

The private, Kirkland, Wash. - based company last week announced a new video game console, operating system and game controller that, other than a pure commercial play, could be interpreted as the PC - focused company's effort to arrest ongoing declines in PC gaming generally.

Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealing them.

Thanks in part to these efforts, in our most recent GFI staff survey, more than 70 % of GFI employees reported being able to focus on short - term objectives without losing sight of long - term goals all or most of the time.

The dangers with so many of these opportunities is that small businesses in particular lose focus and spread their advertising efforts too broadly and end up doing a bit of everything poorly rather than concentrating on doing 2 or 3 things really well.

First, it is critical for regulators to complete their efforts at implementing a macroprudential approach to enhance resilience within the financial system, which will minimize the likelihood that monetary policy will need to focus on financial stability issues rather than on price stability and full employment.

Focusing on one will bring you closer to achieving predictable, sustainable and scalable sales growth than attempting all three without a complete effort.

- Find the «right» partners for an early - stage company - Formulate deals with little to no previous experience - Focus on mutual benefits, rather than just your own goals - Prioritize among various business development opportunities - Focus your sales effort — targeted or big net - Generate pipeline - Manage your sales team and not get surprised - Target / interview salespeople - Measure and pace your investment in sales

The study focused on gross cash holdings rather than subtracting their debt in an effort to simplify comparisons over time and identify how much money companies have to hand.

Using an analytics package such as Google Analytics is recommended for all but the smallest campaigns as this kind of reporting system will show where site refinements need to be made — high bounce rates and declining visitor numbers will be picked up, suggesting that on - page efforts be focused in certain areas rather than spread around the site as a whole.

We believe our strong investment returns are the result of the efforts of our experienced, cohesive and highly motivated Investment Management team, our focus on generating strong absolute, rather than relative, investment returns, and our disciplined risk management process.

If we truly want for our efforts to return maximum results, we should be far more concerned about the quality of our efforts rather than focusing so much on quantity.

It takes the individual effort of each person deciding to feel that way, and we can encourage it through something as simple as a «party mindset,» where we celebrate the things that are good rather than focusing on the things that are bad.

Your point would be much better respect and understood if you just focused more time on humanitarian efforts rather than being anti-Christian.

The most important take - away from a show like «All - American Muslim» is that we Muslims should focus our efforts on showing average Americans that we share far more in common with them than some would like them to believe.

There is a concerted effort by many of the world religions to create unity by focusing on the similarities rather than the differences.

In fact, the recent episcopal efforts in this regard have demonstrated more focus than we saw for years on the pro-life front, which was often buried in USCCB verbal snow or «seamless garment» discussion.

In return, the evangelical community, whose focus of commitment is less scattered and whose financial contributions are more generous than members of mainline churches, 7 has faithfully supported such perceived evangelistic efforts with its time (viewing) and money.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

It says, «Many pro-life advocacy efforts have focused on the legal status of abortion, rather than addressing prevention of unplanned pregnancy and the needs of pregnant women and families.

Dr Rev Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin - in - the - Fields told Premier: «We've spent a lot of time reflecting on the pain of the past and it's time now to slightly change the emphasis, remember that Stephen was a young person when he was murdered and put all our efforts together to focus on a future that's bigger than the past.»

The amount of time, effort and resources that go into making food that is simply thrown away due to spoilage or staleness is a larger waste than packaging, she says, and as such the company's efforts have been focused on optimization of packaging rather than simply reducing the amount of packaging used.

Collectively, members represent more than 70 % of worldwide vanilla bean purchases and have initially focused their efforts on collaboration with Madagascar, which currently represents more than 80 % of world supply.

Fifty - seven percent of the more than 200 respondents to this question say their efforts to attain sustainable packaging are focused on weight reduction.

Düsseldorf, May 12, 2011 — If you talk to people in the packaging industry about their work in sustainable packaging, more than half of them will say their efforts are focused on reducing packaging weight, according to DuPont's survey last month of consumer packaged goods manufacturers and converters.

Animals Australia focuses its campaign efforts on the areas of greatest need — this is why factory farming and live export are among our highest priorities, with more than half a billion animals suffering in these cruel industries every year.

But i'm more concerned by the the end comment «Lehmann will not let anyone hide or get away with anything less than full focus and effort», which implies a level of slackness is allowed to take place at arsenal training or something else of relevance that negative occurring on arsene wengers watch... interesting...

Another theory doing the rounds of the media is that his snub by Roy Hodgson for the Euro 2016 England squad has sharpened Walcott's focus and spurred him on to greater efforts but perhaps it is more simple than that.

The other three have extraordinary talent, Dray depends on his focus and effort more than any outlandish physical gifts.

As many repeat sprint ability studies show, focusing on improving the factors that improve an athletes repeat sprint ability (aerobic system) is actually more beneficial than just using sprint repeats (anaerobic system) in improving an athletes» ability to recover between high intensity efforts in their respective sports.

She celebrates the good times with beer and excited conversation, is quick to move on from the bad and sincerely appreciates the efforts of the players and the manager, rather than just focusing on the results.

It's easier said than done, especially when I'm half - asleep, but it definitely helps to change my attitude: Instead of thinking about how much I hate being awake, I make an effort to focus on how much I love this time with just my daughter and me.

Effective discipline techniques at this age include continuing to praise good behavior, focusing your child's efforts, what they can do and change, rather than innate traits (such as «you are smart»).

The best way to help your child achieve in school, though, is to reward the child's effort rather than focusing on these outcomes.

Rather than focus on all the bad things about your child's disability, talk about all the people who are making a big effort to help him.

He recommends that parents focus on supporting and encouraging their child's efforts, rather than on praising the results.

I want to continue to recalibrate traditional gifting by either doing nothing (sometimes nothing can be a gift), focusing on giving one lovingly procured gift per person (rather than scurrying around trying to fulfill some sort of quota), giving small handmade treats (e.g., to neighbors and friends), and continuing my charitable giving efforts (for ideas, see these wonderful back posts by Isabel Kallman and Jennifer James).

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bigger.

Rather than focusing on the number of calories available at lunch, efforts should be made to ensure that children are eating breakfast whether at home or at school.

This global effort seeks to shift public attention and awareness to the power of giving; to focus on sharing rather than consumer - driven holiday shopping.

Early breastfeeding requires more focus, more effort, more hands on, more «props» than the later, easy, multitasking breastfeeding that is to come.