Sentences with phrase «toward more development»

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Jing Daily looks at the intersection of luxury and culture in China: the ins and outs of business development there with an eye toward the upscale consumer market, as well as the business of culture — from auctions, museums, and contemporary art to performance, public events, and more.

If the group can regain their footing and rally back toward their year - to - date highs, this will prove to be quite a bullish development and I may become more optimistic.

The U.S. should take a more positive approach toward the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the New Development Bank.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Among these changes, crucial developments included the penetration of market forces into the countryside, where the vast majority of the population still lived; the appearance of a popular press and the growth of literacy; and a set of ideas conducive to popular dissent, such as anticlericalism and a more rationalized orientation toward material and spiritual life.

If there are greater and more inclusive goods than wealth, then we should move toward what Friedman does not want — either the recovery of control of the market by national governments, or the development of a global government capable of establishing the parameters of market activity.

This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.

Psychology, anthropology and sociology will be of great assistance here, the more so because recent developments in these fields, tending toward integration of these intimately related pursuits, promise the creation of a study of man to which the investigation of his religious life has to add an important, nay a decisive dimension.

But this realism makes it all the more necessary to try harder to anticipate future developments and devise effective strategies for directing social processes toward desirable ends.

This, in turn, begins the process of economic expansion and technical development, which leads toward becoming one of the more - developed nations.

Only the development of more effective methods of institutional and societal transformation, undergirded by a groundswell of personal and relational growth, can turn the tide toward planetary sanity.

He was to become recognized as a perceptive observer of the racial developments of the 1960s, a time when Martin Luther King's patient march toward equality began to give way to more violent methods of direct confrontation.

Today, although I still think there are some unsurpassable elements in the historic Christian structure of existence, I put much more emphasis on the future developments that are needed, developments that would lead toward Jesus» structure of existence.

Rather than finding that most teens are reverential toward the symbols that represent what is most meaningful to them or even the symbols most closely associated with their own tradition, as Fowler asserts in his oft - cited argument of adolescent faith development, I found that teens actually approach all religious symbols more like what Frederic Jameson called bricoleurs.

But as he urged them then to get down to more concrete work in support of various efforts of appropriate technology research and development, their comments and questions kept skimming past this first priority to the practical pros and cons, the alleged sins of the oil companies, his attitude toward women's liberation, the possibility and desirability of violent revolution.

I even concluded that «not since Reconstruction has there been more reason to anticipate fundamental changes in American race relations; changes that will involve a development toward American ideals.»

Whitehead, quite oriented toward development and progress, pays particular attention to these lures for the development of more nearly perfect states of order.

ABOUT CHAMPIONS 12.3 Champions 12.3 is a coalition of more than three dozen leaders across government, business and civil society dedicated to inspiring ambition, mobilizing action, and accelerating progress toward achieving Target 12.3 of the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals.

Champions 12.3 hosted a major event September 20, 2017 at The Rockefeller Foundation's New York office that assessed global progress toward SDG Target 12.3 on food loss and waste, announced landmark developments and set forth a pathway to cutting in half the more than 1 billion tons of food that goes uneaten each year.

Schools may want to put more time and resources toward professional development for all teachers to improve differentiation of instruction and revise curricula for all students — not just the advanced students — without the limitations that come with an AP program.

The goal of this new Level 2, would be to help members have a more realistic professional development path and help them strive toward continued growth and experiences beyond Level 1 requirements.

Because infants and toddlers almost always reside with their mothers, regardless of where their fathers reside, programs seeking to boost early development and learning tend to be more oriented toward mothers.

Using Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development will help a parent be more patient and understanding toward their child.

As a number of recent high - profile developments and decisions show a trend toward a more urban lifestyle in Arlington Heights, officials there will take on a year - long process to update the village's community planning strategy.

Senate Republicans were a little more sanguine with the development, first reported by Capital Tonight this morning, as they are one step closer toward locking up the majority in the chamber this year.

Beginning in 2019, the investment will go toward installing more than 39 new boilers at 10 developments, modernizing hot water systems at 12 developments and installing new heating controls at 15 developments.

The Buffalo News recently reported that more than $ 3.5 billion has been invested in historic preservation credits statewide from 2015 to 2017, according to Preservation Buffalo Niagara, with more than 60 percent of the credits going toward upstate development projects.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson wants Americans living on housing assistance to put more of their income toward rent and he wants to give public housing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on tenants.

COR Development, its executives and other associates have given Cuomo's campaign more than $ 300,000 in the last 10 years toward his campaigns.

During the meeting, Borough President Katz also noted the one year anniversary of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan's April 15, 2015 launch and outlined major milestones of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan in the past year, including the activation of the Bronx - Flushing - Jamaica Q44 Select Bus Service that serves 44,000 New Yorkers daily; the newly - restored paths at Rufus King Park that are part of the first phase of the Park's major capital improvements; redesigned storefronts of local businesses along Sutphin Boulevard (with more on the way); a $ 138,000 «Building Community Capacity» grant toward the formation of the Jamaica Arts Alliance; the release of an RFP to activate the 168th Street Garage into a new, mixed - use development, with the City to announce the winning bid shortly; the launch of the «Jamaica Avenue Streetscape Improvements» study to determine the cost and scope of additional seating, increased plantings and improved pedestrian circulation in the area; and free public Wi - Fi on track by July in the Downtown Jamaica Corridor, the first area in Queens to host LinkNYC.

Nevertheless, the initial study was viewed by AAAS as a useful step toward development of a more scientifically rigorous and representative international survey that would enable generalization beyond the sample completing the questionnaire.

Within that figure, research at the Department of Homeland Security would more than double as the agency moves away from its previous focus on short - term technology development toward expanding the knowledge base.

Looking to target a key pathway in order to interfere with the processes that lead to tumor spread, a research team led by Irwin H. Gelman, Ph.D., of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has identified a new suppressor of cancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of more effective treatments for prostate cancers and other malignant solid tumors.

The slow rate of improvement in postdocs» attitudes toward their professional and career development point toward the need for a culture change more profound than what has so far occurred, Mellors - Bourne says.

To this end, China will further commit itself to world scientific and technological development and devote more effort toward international cooperation and growth.

Ignorance of this risk might, e.g. through suboptimisations in technology developments, undermine the global efforts to move toward a more environmentally sustainable society.

The new findings appear in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and represent an important step toward the development of molecular components for the assembly of nanomachines: For the greater the degree of control available, the more complex are the functions that can be performed by such structures.

Teams are composed of scientists with different backgrounds and expertise, brought together to energize and move things more quickly toward the goal — the development stage.

«Such evidence quantifying shared genetic risk factors among traditional psychiatric diagnoses will help us move toward classification that will be more faithful to nature,» said Bruce Cuthbert, Ph.D., director of the NIMH Division of Adult Translational Research and Treatment Development and coordinator of the Institute's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project, which is developing a mental disorders classification system for research based more on underlying causes.

Pharmacogenomics — the study of how genes affect responses to drugs — is becoming more important in drug - development research and clinical trials, with a view toward decreasing side effects and increasing the efficiency and efficacy of drugs in patients with the right genetic profiles.

More concerning, niacin was associated with an increased trend toward death from all causes as well as significant increases in serious side effects: liver problems, excess infections, excess bleeding, gout, loss of control of blood sugar for diabetics and the development of diabetes in people who didn't have it when the study began.

The development, which was presented this week at the Robotics: Science and Systems 2017 conference in Boston, is a step toward robots that are able to more seamlessly communicate with human collaborators.

«We came to take a half a degree Celsius out of future warming, and we won about 90 percent of our climate prize,» said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, who has worked toward the agreement for more than a decade.

The final section of the document calls for further discussion and action, specifically in the development of international collaborative efforts geared toward the creation of more rigorous guidelines for the translation of Chinese medicine texts.

In addition to pointing toward more effective treatments, the discovery could help reveal how early social abilities facilitate the development of language.

Let's say you're interviewing someone who works in the research and development division of a company, but you believe your skills and interests lean more toward a career in regulatory affairs.

Two recent developments involving the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) again serve to underscore the reality that adult and other non-embryonic avenues of stem cell research are advancing at a far more dramatic pace toward providing actual therapeutic benefits for patients than is human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR).

Yet while autism begins during brain development, and it makes sense that a developing organoid could serve as a model, looking at diseases that affect people toward the end of their lives would seem more difficult.

The aim of the division is to develop translational research programmes and clinical research, but any significant progress toward the cure of cancer can only be based on an improved understanding of its pathogenesis, which, in turn, will lead to the development of improved diagnostics and more rationale therapeutic interventions.

I wish more attention would have been paid toward character development.