Sentences with phrase «useful strategic purpose»
My concern as a political scientist is that what governments need are goals that have some plausible and immediate — or at least reasonable — connection to things that they actually do, and if the goals are so far removed from things that they can actually do and actually will do, then the goal really serves no useful strategic purpose.
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Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.
They suggest that the 11 percent figure may be useful for purposes of strategic planning and military preparedness — including the need for treatment and rehabilitation for survivors of combat - related spinal injuries.
To achieve this goal, PARCC will develop «assessments to help educators improve teacher, school, and system effectiveness by providing a wider variety of data that is useful for the purposes of analyzing effectiveness, calibrating interventions, holding school professionals accountable for student outcomes, supporting strategic management of human resources, and identifying mid-year professional development and support needs for educators.
It is evident that a climate model would be useful for any civil strategic purpose only if it is proved capable of predicting the climate evolution at least at a decadal / multidecadal scale.