Sentences with phrase «urgent priority in»

It is an urgent priority in the Torres Strait.

That money is now going to programs designed to help keep kids from dropping out in the first place, an urgent priority in a city with a minority dropout rate of over 50 percent.

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz found a new and politically expedient way to attack Mayor Bill de Blasio over space issues for her charter schools on Thursday by casting doubt on his worthiness to maintain mayoral control of the city's schools, perhaps his administration's most urgent priority in Albany.

It is just not an urgent priority in the financing of school s or career metrics of anyone at the local level.

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Nothing, in fact, is more urgent than sustained debate to reassess our priorities and to determine what we really want most from the future.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged world leaders meeting in Germany this week to recognise combatting climate change as an «urgent priority».

Today, in fact, the task of evangelizing is an urgent priority and demands equal commitment.

In today's hyper - connected world, fighting climate change and building resilience to its impact are urgent priorities for us all.

Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

Petr Cech looks past his best and a new number one seems an urgent priority for Arsenal, while Simon Mignolet and Loris Karius have taken it in turns but not convinced as first choice for Liverpool.

I found that once I had a tiny baby in my arms, whose needs were urgent, my diabetes became less of a priority, especially compared to the priority diabetes had assumed during my pregnancy.

[1] Earlier in September 2013, Tarek Mitri, who heads the UN Support Mission in Libya, described it as a process that «would give voice to many Libyans and opens a space that does not exclude any of those who may have contributions to make to public life and are otherwise isolated, separated or entrenched in their partisan attitudes... [to] promote a national capacity to address urgent priorities and ensure public support to the efforts of state - building.»

«In fact, the ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

Lords reform is also a low priority: «In terms of reform, having a more elected chamber, which is what I favour, to be frank is not an urgent priority.

There may be no economic matter more urgent, difficult to unravel and more sensitive to the pursuit of the average person in Ondo State than the current indignity foisted on the people by poverty orchestrated by maladministration and priority misplacement by the current administration.

«In fact, the Ministry, on several occasions, had to call press conferences to provide details of budgetary spending on the military, to show, against the background of limited resources and other urgent national priorities, that it was doing its best on funding security.

In my view, increasing this capacity and finding a candidate site for final disposal of spent fuel are urgent priorities.

Citing polls showing that the majority of the U.S. public does believe that climate change is taking place, Holdren said the real problem is that the issue isn't as urgent as other concerns that many people have: «We need to be more in the business of persuading people this needs to be higher on their priority list.»

And they urge the government «to show real leadership and revise the carbon target in line with the Paris Agreement (and on the basis of equity and the precautionary principle) as a matter of urgent and immediate priority.»

In his 1967 booklet on time management, Charles E. Hummel stated that we need to set priorities and distinguish between the urgent and the important.

In fact, just 5 % of singles would make it a priority to change their sheets before a date came round — making bed prep even less urgent than buying fresh flowers (considered a must - do by 7 % of singles).

In case of enterprise companies, a big challenge is that, given the size of their operations and tasks to be done, oftentimes, there are too many other urgent tasks or priorities that seem to take over.

The Task Force includes a diverse group of active leaders and educators in K12 education who all believe that increasing assessment literacy among teachers is an urgent and important priority.

Attracting new students is an urgent priority for the nation's Catholic schools, which have suffered a steady enrollment decline in recent decades due to changing urban demographics and a declining church population, among other factors.

Although it took too long for NCLB's staggering failures to register with many lawmakers in Congress, educators and parents have known for more than a decade that scrapping NCLB and replacing it with a law that provides more opportunity for all students and more time to learn was an urgent national priority.

Promoting Holistic, Shared and Consistent Birth - 3rd Grade Pedagogy and Practice explains why improving early learning opportunities birth through third grade is an urgent priority, describes how young children are doing in birth through third grade, and explains what we know about birth through third grade pedagogy and practice.

Throughout the day, attendees heard from Assemblymember Blanca Rubio (D - 48) about the role charter schools play in the public education system, as well as met with legislators to advocate for urgent legislative priorities and discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the charter community.

Last week, the United States got a painful reminder that making student achievement a higher priority couldn't be more urgent when a major global study ranked American kids just 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math — behind countries such as Estonia, Poland and Vietnam.

The government will make it an «urgent priority» to identify new sponsors for these schools, and re-open them in September 2012, he said.

Our animal hospital in Skokie treats every pet emergency as a priority, and works hard to ensure that every pet in urgent need of care is seen as promptly as possible.

Dogs in urgent situations come into care first priority — example: dogs being released from a puppy mill or a high kill shelter.

For me the election revealed a raw and urgent need for drastically different priorities, risks, and experimentation to advance a compelling conversation about race, politics, and class that we need in this new # 45 era.

On CNN, conservative commentator S.E. Cupp challenged Nye: «I want you to look me in the eye and tell me in good conscience that climate change is our most urgent No. 1 priority right now.»

(a) Identification of the key sources of marine plastic debris and microplastics; (b) Identification of possible measures and best available techniques and environmental practices to prevent the accumulation and minimize the level of microplastics in the marine environment; (c) Recommendations for the most urgent actions; (d) Specification of areas especially in need of more research, including key impacts on the environment and on human health; (e) Any other relevant priority areas identified in the assessment of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection;

Dawn: Released by the World Bank, the report calls upon the government to make urban air quality improvement a priority in the country's policy agenda, noting that the issue has received little attention despite strong evidence indicating an urgent need to tackle pollution in major cities.

It's not urgent «There are many urgent priorities that need the attention of Congress, and it is not for me as an invited guest in your country to say what they are.

I have here earlier written: «Judith Curry's statement» how much warming is caused by humans is THE key issue of debate» is the most urgent one in the order of priority to be solved.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

• Set water heater no higher than 49 °C (120 °F) • Wash laundry in warm or cold water • Use low - flow shower head • Buy products from companies that are trying to reduce their impact on climate • Demand that the government make climate change an urgent priority Fig, p. 485

We must elevate the status of ecosystem conservation from a side issue in global environmental talks and treaties (that are exclusively focused on carbon) to an urgent high priority issue.

I am most interested in learning how you cope with the challenge of balancing personal priorities with important and urgent commitments.

Inevitably, by noon at least one of those priorities has been swept aside in favour of something more urgent coming in.

However, in such process of change and diffusion, documenting TK to save it from loss should be an urgent priority.

While people used to take sabbaticals because of burnout from work, there is a growing trend in people taking sabbaticals to attend to other more urgent priorities or rethink their career direction.

While people used to take sabbaticals because of burnout from work, there is a growing trend in people taking sabbaticals to attend to other more urgent priorities or rethink their...

«It is very timely and refreshing to see Alison Doyle capture the true power of career networking and the urgent priority of developing an online presence to prosper in today's Internet - driven world!

However it needs to be recognised as a tool that can be usefully employed to help achieve the goals which have been given urgent priority by the government in the Indigenous policy arena.

In determining key priorities for urgent action it will be guided by the Productivity Commission's Report on Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, commissioned by COAG, in particular it seven Strategic Areas for ActioIn determining key priorities for urgent action it will be guided by the Productivity Commission's Report on Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage, commissioned by COAG, in particular it seven Strategic Areas for Actioin particular it seven Strategic Areas for Action:

All of these areas have been identified as lacking in the Torres Strait where improving knowledge, information, risk assessment, planning, and capacity building, have all been identified as urgent priorities.

In urban areas at least, the urgent priority should be on meeting the needs of Indigenous people through better access to existing mainstream services.