Sentences with phrase «undermined by the need»

That is not the only time a merit pay bill has seemed on the verge of success, only to founder or be undermined by the need to compromise.

Really it's zealousness marked by trial and error, plus lashings of dogmatism, undermined by the need to fail fast when that dogmatism proves wrong.

Not exact matches

... Nicaragua's early progress in curbing imports, raising grain production, and other reform and austerity measures were undermined badly by new needs for foreign borrowing imposed by the burgeoning defense burden....

There was much greater emphasis on the need to undermine religion by social and economic action rather than by direct confrontation with religious institutions and believers.

The idea that all sins, especially grave ones, need to be individually submitted to the judgment of the Church has been undermined by the practice of asking people to just confess a single sin or principal generic fault.

His constant undermining of talented players by using them incorrectly, playing out of position, subbing or not even picking them, buying players for other positions we need less keenly than the gaping holes everywhere we look, (CDM esp and some quality CB's to step in immediately) has bemused and undermined much of our whole squad.

It's a crying shame that a club stooped in prestige and supported by hundreds of millions across the globe feel the need to undermine the competition by using it as a means of rotating their squad.

The Infant Formula and Follow - on Formula (England) Regulations 2007 are designed to ensure that all types of infant formulae meet the nutritional needs of babies, while ensuring that breastfeeding is not undermined by the advertising, marketing and promotion of such products.

The manufacturer uses the need for vitamin D to undermine a new mother's confidence in her breastmilk by promoting the nutritional «inadequacy» of breastmilk and the completeness of infant formulas in parenting magazines and other marketing devises.

Confidence in a mother «s ability to feed her baby with only her milk needs to be supported, not undermined by free formula and coupons given by the hospital.

But I would argue for a balanced and realistic approach, which would not undermine the process of parliamentary scrutiny of the negotiation of the Brexit agreements, in the name of an exaggerated regard for the needs of confidentiality, while leaving the British public to be informed of the progress of negotiations by MEPs, or from browsing the internet.

While imploring the general public for their understanding and cooperation towards the enforcement of this order, the Force noted that the order was informed by the need to forestall plans by criminal elements to undermine the electoral process as gathered through intelligence reports.

And it undermines two of the «minimum requirements» of rehabilitation outlined by the report: access to money to meet basic needs; and «a sense of hope for the future».

He said Governors in the region must henceforth see the need to respect the political beliefs and interests of others by avoiding anything capable of undermining the interest of others.

Today home secretary John Reid said it would give police the powers they needed to tackle the threat posed by terrorism, insisting: «We must defend our traditions and values against those who seek to abuse or undermine our way of life.»

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks after British Prime Minister Cameron opened the international anti-corruption summit Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaks after British Prime Minister Cameron opened the international anti-corruption summit Photograph: POOL / Reuters Cameron called corruption «the cancer at the heart of so many of the problems we need to tackle in our world» and said tax - dodging holds back growth and undermines security by making poorer citizens more vulnerable to «poisonous ideology of extremists».

A strong sense of style, an observant screenplay, and the sort of performances that elevate standard fare into the realm of memorable buoy the picture over many of its rough patches and redundancies, but Lin needs to squeeze out his narrative with greater urgency and balance: long periods of high school drama and exposition separated by badly justified epiphanies undermine the picture's coherence and flow.

Cianfrance gets great performances out of his actors — Cooper has never been this good — but like Blue Valentine, the new film is undermine by self - seriousness, a tendency to underline the gravity of situations that don't need the added emphasis.

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

Children need opportunities to establish positive social connections at school, yet many school playgrounds are challenged by social conflict that can undermine these connections.

The OSA is an attempt to undermine the status quo in New Jersey's poorest districts by allowing low - income parents to choose a school that best fits their child's needs.

Are schools emphasizing the knowledge and skills that students need in a global society — or are they actually undermining their strengths by overemphasizing high - stakes testing and standardization?

They all have one thing in common: They undermine our capacity to create great public schools in every neighborhood, by diverting scarce resources that public schools desperately need.

District administrators have often complained that the substitute pay requirements tend to undermine the savings that are generated by teacher layoffs and thus, requires more layoffs than would otherwise be needed.

This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child» system that has left troubled schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those schools.

And by allowing states to limit the definition of consistent underperformance for a group to being in the lowest performance level on an indicator, or being the farthest away from statewide average performance, it undermines the idea — and the Congressional requirement — that any group that is struggling in any school needs help and assured action, not just the very lowest performing groups or groups in a limited number of schools.

Vouchers undermine the protections and rights students with disabilities attending public schools are entitled to under IDEA, enacted by Congress in 1975 to provide funding and other support for students with special needs.

Vouchers undermine this vital function, however, by diverting desperately needed public resources away from the public school system to fund the education of a few students at private schools — without offering any actual reforms.

Or, if you're constantly undermined by people who criticize you or put you down, setting boundaries can make a difference, but sometimes you need to trade in those unsupportive relationships for more life - enhancing ones.

The agreement between the two undermined «the need for publishers to fix retail book prices and resistance to the risk of domination or a quasi-monopoly by one or two large American distributors that impose their terms».

Those are what we feel need to be enforced not more laws created that would basically undermine and do away with most small show / breeding homes, any breeding, and any pets kept by individuals as this is the agenda of many of these candidates supported and who believe in HSUS as well as HSUS themselves who «say» their proposals are to eliminate puppy mills.

Breed bans undermine responsible dog ownership by diverting attention from the real issue, which is the need for dog owners to educate themselves about their dogs» behavioral needs and to provide socialization and training consistent with those needs.

By including this you've unwittingly undermined your own argument and I didn't even need to provide links.

Danger of Undermining Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This needs to be clearly understood by the public that the Heartland, Cato, and George C Marshall Institutes have a common objective (and common funding source) to undermine climate science and to spread disinformation about global warming /

Because a high percentage of the arguments made by most proponents of climate change policy have been focused on adverse climate impacts that citizens will experience where they live, while ignoring the harms to hundreds of millions of vulnerable poor people around the world that are being affected by GHG emissions from all - high emitting nations, along with claims that mainstream climate science is credible and has been undermined by morally reprehensible tactics, there is a need to make more people aware of:

As we have seen, in the first two entries in this series, the new book edited by sociologists Dunlap and Brulle includes information on how participants in the denial countermovement have prevented governments from responding to climate change by undermining the scientific basis on which claims about the urgent need to take action.

They need to know that their work has been deliberately undermined by Shane and Mark.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

However, if earn backs are to be included in an outsourcing agreement as part of a service level regime, they need to be defined carefully at the beginning and integrated into the service level methodology: when they are included late in the game, as a concession granted by the customer in response to a service provider's request to mitigate the impact of service level credits, they run the risk of undermining the service level regime.

If the projected numbers are true, this would almost completely undermine the need for car insurance and force drastic changes in terms of packages and pricing offered by auto insurance companies.

The laws on defamation need buffering and redrafting to bring them into line with how easily libelling can occur now on a daily basis and which fundamentally, and by increments, undermines the law overall.

Maybe we do need some technological measures, such as miner voting, maybe proof - of - stake voting, but beyond that, it's really hard to imagine how you actually create durable social institutions when they're so easily undermined at protocol, almost by design.»

'' Parental alienation involves the «programming» of a child by one parent to denigrate the other, «targeted» parent, in an effort to undermine and interfere with the child's relationship with that parent, and is often a sign of a parent's inability to separate from the couple conflict and focus on the needs of the child.

This report considers how families need stability, but this is undermined by irregular employment and hours.

The decades - old entrenched bureaucratic in - house status quo supporters need to be voted out by whatever means necessary in order for the industry performers who really do care about what they do for a living to avoid having their what - should - be-a-profession-but-which-is-not-a-profession undermined in the publics» view to the point that government action kicks in.

The bottom line: Congress is ignoring the needs of America's working - class families and small businesses, and by undermining the nation's longstanding support for homeownership and threatening to lower the value of the largest asset held by most American families, this tax reform plan will put millions of homeowners at risk.»

What pisses me off though is change that is largely unwarranted; change that will in my opinion cause negative fallout for the consumer over time, not to mention undermining the ability of professionalism to be able to evolve within ORE, as needed, and change brought on by unethical, albeit legal, means by unscrupulous greedy operatives masquerading as consumers» friends with new - found unwarranted mercenary intents on raiding others» means of providing sustenance for their families in the crass name of empire expansion for expansion's sake only.