Sentences with phrase «too at the initiative»

That Adam Smith, considered to be the patron saint of the free enterprise system and the laws of the market should have forcefully asked for workers» education, and that too at the initiative of the government, may come as a surprise to many.

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The states are getting involved, too: New York recently announced a $ 650 million initiative aimed at boosting life science research in that state.

OPINION: Housing First initiatives are better at combatting homelessness than shelters, and make more fiscal sense for taxpayers, too

But lest such a remarkable human resource like Filner be squandered by a party engaged in too many bold initiatives for overcoming blinkered pre-2009 conceptions of legality to keep track of, this George Will column shows us precisely where he is needed: at the head of the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Similar initiatives can not be too difficult for the authorities at Westminster to instigate or expand.

Some couples don't get along in that area because one wants more sex and the other less, or they have different views about who should take the initiative, or they are just too mad at each other to enjoy sex, or one is interested in swinging and the other is not.

The initiative launched at Carlisle College on 19 January, bringing together Carlisle & Cumbria's public health leads, school children and young people pledging to work together to tackle the health crisis brought on by too much sugar.

A new semester is underway at the University of Buffalo, and so, too, is a new initiative in learning.

Supervisor Dan Engert, R - Somerset: «We're becoming all too familiar with these ill - conceived, short sighted initiatives that import power from outside the borders of our State at the expense of Upstate New York.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan and other stakeholders launched the City of Albany's «My Brother's and Sister's Keeper» (MBSK) at City Hall, an initiative that will focus on improving opportunities of young men and women of color in Albany and reducing the levels of violence that far too many of them experience.

Elected officials at the meeting criticized the 15 - member commission for moving too quickly as it tries to get initiatives on the ballot.

«We have an obligation to the world to deliver clean, reliable, low - cost energy that is hopefully low carbon, too,» adds chemical engineer David Rogers, general manager for climate change at Chevron, a California - based oil company that did not join efforts to suspend California's climate change initiative.

Just when it was all becoming a little too serious, light relief was offered by two events that marked the start of Science Year, a government initiative aimed at promoting science among teenagers.

However, all too often initiatives are «small and homegrown or based in individual departments,» says Ingram, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

Personally, I don't trust initiatives of companies like H&M that purport to demonstrate how ethical the retailer is being; they have too much at stake to truly be transparent.

It can not be mentioned too often that the major impetus behind the «privatization» initiatives has nothing at all to do with improving educational quality.

At other times, the agency has delayed much too long in releasing unfavorable results that might have challenged current initiatives and priorities.

Philadelphia tried to institute a pilot merit - pay program in 2000, but later ditched the initiative, «calling it too expensive, too difficult to administer, and a failure at giving teachers useful feedback» according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Pestronk, who most recently served as director of special initiatives in the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), has observed that in education, the R&D cycle too often is slow and uncoordinated, leaving the sector starved for critical innovation.

Every educator has attended at least one training session that lasted too long, learned a new district - wide initiative that quickly flopped, or faced a staff trainer who was confusing or antagonistic.

Too often, new initiatives fail at schools because the professional development needed to support educators comes to a halt when training ends.

More than 40 downstate superintendents have asked Koch to delay PARCC testing, saying «the testing initiative has moved too fast, is ill - planned, does not support the basic tenets of quality formative assessment such as validity and reliability, is consuming vast and valuable resources (both human and monetary) at the district level, and, most importantly, will not truly benefit our students.»

The charlatans can smell the easy money; they readily understand that it is just a matter of playing out a role — you only have to say that you believe in «choice for all children» and that «bad teachers» are the problem, and that charter schools are pathways to success, and, in good time, the public money will come rolling in, as Stefan Pryor and his gang of reformers at the State Department of Education are only too happy to fund private initiatives, just so long as the required rhetoric.

«It's not that hockey is too expensive to play,» says Mary - Kay Messier, director of brand initiatives at Bauer Hockey Inc. and sister of NHL Hall of Famer Mark Messier.

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The effort, Shinsai: Theaters for Japan («shinsai» means «great earthquake» in Japanese) is billed as a nationwide initiative, but it has gained little traction in Los Angeles, where leading companies say they weren't approached until too late, if at all.

Corporate leadership goes beyond renewable electricity, too: RE100's two sister initiatives at The Climate Group, EV100 and EP100, are developing at pace, with businesses committing to massively accelerate the roll out of electric vehicles and to double their energy productivity.

The fear is that digital access to justice tools will be seen as a cost effective «upgrade» to traditional access to justice initiatives, and investment that in the new technology could come at too high a price for people without the skills or equipment needed to navigate online tools.

But effective project management initiatives at law firms have demonstrated that attempts to fix those issues during the course of engagements (i.e., before it's too late) tangibly improve results for both the firm and its clients.