Sentences with phrase «used as a lever»

There are many other tactics shareowners use as levers including, investor statements endorsed by a broad group of institutional investors; direct outreach to other shareholders; proxy voting services; and other investment advisors to gain support for specific shareholder proposals; and, outreach to consumers and the press as a way to draw public attention to an issue or a company.

The theme of Christian obedience must be stripped of its judging ambiguities and forthwith used as a lever to secure commitment which is somehow necessarily correlated with observable services to the current and clamant program.

Anderson was already under contract to the Bandits, but with Klein's financial backing, he filed a suit claiming that when he signed with the USFL, his agent, Dr. Jerry Argovitz, had misrepresented the Chargers» offer and had used him as a lever to get a USFL franchise (the Houston Gamblers) for himself.

Once the screwdriver is inside the coconut use it as a lever and lift up.

Advocates and state officials should think about how the neglected policies could be used as a lever to improve teacher quality, experts say.

Then we will share reflections from education leaders in Los Angeles, Denver and Rochester regarding how time is being used as a lever for school improvement in their communities.

So in the 1990s, we have witnessed an enormous increase in new assessments being used as the levers for reform.

My research explores how equity - focused school leadership can be used as a lever to improve Black children and youth's academic achievement and socio - emotional well - being across a range of K - 12 educational settings.

There are still a few in the old lackey trade, and some do it as a sideline, and use it as a lever.

If you are not withdrawing and are still in your accumulation phase, bonds could also be used as a lever when stocks do very poorly.

At the E.E.O.C. hearing back in April, Fasman testified that there is a danger the lawsuits will be used as a lever to force companies to change legitimate business practices (mandatory overtime, strict attendance rules) that not all workers can handle.

By contrast, the Kremlin - tied troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency alone spent an estimated $ 46,000 on Facebook ads, speaking to a basic financial asymmetry Russia used as a lever into the 2016 election.

Not exact matches

When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Trump in Florida earlier this month, Trump raised the possibility of using trade as a lever to coax China to do more.

«The Republican agenda is to get regulatory relief for the big banks and use the small banks as the lever to do so,» said Adam Levitin, a professor at Georgetown University.

Analysts are eyeing the potential shutdown of the government next week if Republicans use the budget as a lever to end Planned Parenthood funding.

His preferred strategy was for the Fed to publish a detailed plan for shrinking its balance sheet, allow some time to gauge the market reaction, and then continue to use short term rates as the primary policy lever.

Good managements add value, they have lots of levers they can pull, they can buy back stock when it's under - valued, they can use the stock as currency when its over-valued.

He is certainly educated enough to know better, but uses the Devil as a lever on ignorant people that do not have his education level.

Unfortunately, in using the media as a biased lever he was actually attempting to force his own world view upon his entire class.

So here's my tip: if you're using a toaster, slice the sweet potato as thin as possible, because thick pieces will take forever to cook (like, pushing the lever down 4 - 6 times).

They are used for all kinds of farm tasks, as levers or even searching for peppers!

In Episode 27 of Edit Your Life, Asha and I turn this idea upside down and discuss why embracing and modeling imperfection is a good thing and offer 8 tips for how to model imperfection, handle perfectionist kids, and use imperfect moments as communication levers.

As said at the beginning it has 360 degree rotatable seat along with reversible seat system, you don't need to take your child out for rotation, you can use the side lever by squeezing it & turn it to your needed direction.

If he can't remember a song, show him how to use his body to act out parts of the tune (for example, instead of just singing «I've been working on the railroad,» he can pump his arms as if he's pulling a lever).

Trump insists on treating Putin as a potential partner but doesn't really use the levers of policy — diplomatic agreements, military deployments, and the like — to try to make this vision a reality.

Plainly, too, they hope to use their membership as a lever to shift the party to the far left.

The State shall enforce the self - financing system in economic management to meet the requirements of the Taean work system and make proper use of such economic levers as cost, price and profit.

Environment spokesman Chris Huhne said: «Green taxes have been falling steadily as a percentage of our national income, meaning the government has failed to use a key lever to tackle climate change.

He was also able to use various levers such as threatening a veto of partisan redistricted lines to obtain other legislative goals.

New York State used a different voting process than Florida, but the law found that lever machines were prone to several glitches and problems and required them, as well as all paper - punch systems like Florida's, to be replaced with either optical scanners or touch - screen machines.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

He says that the next step is to set the robot rolling, possibly using the lever to steer the robot as it moves, before equipping it with vision and extra sensors that will let it guide itself.

«LEVER 3 - D is amazing, it opens new vistas for understanding the stem cell niche,» said Dr. Sally Temple, a cell biologist at the Neural Stem Cell Institute in Rensselaer, N.Y. who has been using Cohen's software, through the course of its development, as part of her stem cell research since 2005.

The chimps» randy relatives have been seen using tools as shovels and levers in captivity, and even fashioning a spear to jab at a researcher

In twisting poses, you begin by using your arms as levers, and then you learn to turn using your abdominals and then smaller, more intrinsic muscles.

Essentially, you'll be using the two bars, set inside the rack, as levers.

You're going to be using a barbell as a lever type of machine, lifting up one end of the bar and using the other end as a pivot point.

*** I used a butter knife as a lever to pop them out - this seemed to work.

(This is not to say that there are not some Thai women whose hands dance on the small pole, but Thai massage as a specialty frequently uses arms and legs as levers to apply traction - not friction.)

The districts that have already engaged in this initiative have discovered many ways to use the graduate profile as a lever for transformative change.

In the early 1980s, spurred by disappointing national test results and reports such as «A Nation At Risk» — the seminal document published in 1983 that decried the mediocre state of public education in America and recommended sweeping change to fix the problem — other states mounted reforms using administrative reorganization or new curriculum as levers for change.

• U.S. Department of Education's leadership and structure — trim programs and staffing; eliminate the Office of Civil Rights and transfer its functions to the Justice Department; restore the bully pulpit and reduce the use of regulation as the Secretary's principal lever for affecting state and local policy; and create collaborative relationship with relevant House and Senate leadership.

In this project the students had to use a variety of machines, such as levers, pulleys and inclines, in order to achieve a task — the ringing of a bell.

Using these eight forces as levers of transformation, participants will looks at practical ways they can create a culture of thinking in their classrooms and across their schools and organizations.

Trying to increase the probability that African Americans can change their place in society, using education as the lever.

The fact that this sector is already integrated into the broader higher education system, through federal aid and some state aid programs, suggests that these policy levers might be used to better leverage the private sector to further policymakers» goals, such as increasing educational attainment overall and for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

An unfortunate hallmark of our hyper - partisan age is the temptation to use the levers of government as a weapon against...

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

This report makes the case that the education system can serve as an effective through - line for children and youth experiencing traumatic life experiences by using two key levers for change: continuity of people and continuity of information.

But it remains to be seen if the College Board is up for tackling a bigger problem in its next 50 years: using AP as a lever to raise the academic standards of high schools.