Sentences with phrase «way agency practices»

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Stereotypes are in place because they are 75 % accurate and are an excellent way for government agencies to practice profiling to nab the bad guys.

Finally, the answers made to these two types of questions will interconnect in complex ways with answers made to the question of how the school as community is related to church communities: Is the school itself an ordered Christian congregation; is it an expanded version of the academic aspect of the work of ministerial leadership in a settled congregation; is it an agency for the extension education of practicing clergy?

Each time we wondered about why the agency's practices operated a certain way, the answer always came back to what was best for the child, first and foremost, and also what would be most supportive of the birth parents.

They didn't hear him go on to point the finger at employment agencies, not migrants themselves: «What we wouldn't allow is this practice by agencies, who are quite disgraceful the way they do it - recruit a workforce, low paid, and bring them here in order to dismiss an existing workforce in the construction industry and pay them low wages.»

«The audit has no findings related to current business practices and finances and uses outdated facts and alarmist, unrealistic figures, instead of setting out constructive ways public housing can be preserved and maintained for generations to come,» an agency spokesperson said.

The measure requires the Civil Service Commission to develop a report on best practices for flexible working arrangements and find ways for state agencies to implement those new programs.

Stamper would like to see the federal government put out requests for proposals and provide grants to develop best practices curriculum at the national level, although given the way our police forces are organized, he says, local agencies would still have to pick up the tab for actual training, which means fund appropriations from city or state politicians and taxpayers.

So let's use it as an opportunity to share some power and control with students, helping them practice in ways that best meet their needs while also boosting their sense of agency and ownership about learning.

The program works with youth - serving government agencies, District schools and youth - serving government grantees to ensure bullying prevention policies are adopted and implemented in ways consistent with the best practices adopted by the Youth Bullying Prevention Task Force.

The book also contributes much needed research on what student voice initiatives look like in practice and provides powerful evidence of ways in which young people can increase their sense of agency and their sense of belonging in school.

Bridging the divide between structure and agency, lived logics provides a lens to view the ways in which logics, as structures, play out in actors» practice.

«Educators are working on improving their practice and exploring new ways to use data to inform their instruction,» said Dr. Sheila Simmons, the director of NEA's Priority Schools Campaign, which works with affiliates to create partnerships, secure additional investment in educators» professional development, and engage community agencies and organizations.

One of the best way to boost your scores on an exam is by practicing retired and released versions of the exam from the testing agencies themselves.

This Center manages the Accelerating Innovation Deployment Demonstration grants, which support States or local agencies in deploying innovations that are unique to their way of doing business; the Advanced Market Readiness grants, which provide funding to move a prototype innovation into a market - ready condition that would then be eligible to be advanced in the biennial list of EDC innovations; and the STIC incentive grants, which provide funding to the STICs to foster a culture for innovation and make innovations standard practice in their State structure.

But the Association of Author's Agents refused to condemn it, saying: «There are certain activities that our code of conduct explicitly prohibits and the practice of agencies offering their authors a way to market their books directly to the reader is not one of them.»

Their website provides comprehensive information about the whole Debt Restructuring Process, the way their debt analysts help you settle debt for less than the full amount owed and how FDCPA safeguards you against the unfair practices of collection agencies, banks and creditors.

Following are the things that can effect changes on your scores: • Consistent and constant late payments • Increased or reduced credit limits • Higher credit card balances • Higher HELOC (Home Equity Line of Credit) balance • Closing revolving accounts • Recent credit inquiries made In the same way, any new practice you start in managing your credit takes effect and influence your credit scores within 30 to 60 days; due to the lag time between the action you take against the period it takes the creditor to report the action to the agencies who handle credit reports.

Attendees will gain an understanding of the challenges to, responsibilities of, and opportunities for participating agencies with a focus on practical ways that organizations can meet and exceed regulations, laws, and relevant best practices.

This is unfortunately not a usual practice among most agencies and businesses in the country, which take advantage of the still weak tax control system and find out ways to avoid declaring their revenues therefore they do not pay taxes.

Josephine Meckseper (b. 1964) has developed a practice which melds the aesthetic language of modernism with a profound critique of consumerism In her shop windows, vitrines, installations, photographs, films and magazine projects she draws a direct correlation to the way consumer culture defines and circumvents subjectivity and sublimates the key instruments of individual political agency.

«The book sprint method was adopted in order to understand this very moment in art, science and technology hybrid practices, and to mirror the ways Internet culture and networked communication have accelerated creative collaborations, expanded methodologies, and given artists greater agency to work fluidly across disciplines,» says lead author Andrea Grover.

We have a manifesto that summarises the behaviours that help us work smarter, reducing waste along the way, and bringing our output much more in line with today's client needs — as some traditional agency working practices are now feeling outdated.

By the way, as an adjunct to our whistleblower practice, PEER makes extensive use of FOIA to force disclosure of matters other wise buried in agency cubicles.

He was captured and tortured by Serbs; most recently he's been working in Afghanistan for the United States Agency for International Development, trying to foster sustainable forestry practices as a way to limit the influence of the Taliban.

Working closely with relevant U.S. departments and agencies, DoD has undertaken environmental security cooperative initiatives with foreign militaries that represent a nonthreatening way of building trust, sharing best practices on installations management and operations and developing response capacity.

The agency proposes to reevaluate the Clean Air Act provision (111 (d)-RRB- «in a way that is consistent with the Agency's historical practice of determining a [best system of emission reductions] by considering only measures that can be applied to or at the source.&agency proposes to reevaluate the Clean Air Act provision (111 (d)-RRB- «in a way that is consistent with the Agency's historical practice of determining a [best system of emission reductions] by considering only measures that can be applied to or at the source.&Agency's historical practice of determining a [best system of emission reductions] by considering only measures that can be applied to or at the source.»

The Code of Practice on Workforce Matters in Local Authority Service Contracts (2003) provided that local authorities would apply the COSOP in the same way government departments and agencies, and by NHS bodies when contracting out to the private sector.

The way law is practiced — how truth and justice are represented and assessed — is increasingly dependent on what appears on electronic screens in courtrooms, law offices, government agencies, and elsewhere.

Our lawyers practice before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of the Interior, routinely dealing with other agencies with jurisdiction over energy projects and facilities, such as the U.S. Department of Transportation (pipeline safety, offshore LNG), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Minerals Management Service (royalties, pipeline rights - of - way), the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Coast Guard (waterways, safety of harbors).

Given the way the agency worker cases have been proceeding, the employee appears to have founded her case primarily on the length of service with the one client and in practice being treated in a way indistinguishable from council employees; in other words, her position was consistent with the existence of a contract of employment.

It is not a regulatory bill, since does not regulate or prohibit offshoring, and the disclosure is only so that consumers have a way to be aware of the background screening agency's privacy practices, including whether the consumer's PII will be sent outside the country.

Discussants shared the ways in which the demonstration initiative facilitated the development of parent leadership and the integration of family voices in agency policies, procedures, and practices.

This bulletin for professionals reviews ways to work with families experiencing chronic neglect, including critical elements of successful casework practice, examples of what agencies are doing, and ways agencies can integrate child welfare approaches to chronic neglect with prevention and early intervention efforts.

Child welfare agencies are so accustomed to the way office - based visits have always been done that it is difficult to see how — unintentionally — visit practices alienate parents, children and foster parents.

This bulletin for professionals discusses what we know about chronic child neglect and then reviews ways to work with families experiencing chronic neglect, including critical elements of successful casework practice, examples of what agencies are doing, and ways agencies can integrate child welfare approaches to chronic neglect with prevention and early intervention efforts.

«We were all concerned about agency and the way it is practiced,» says vice-chair Larry Buttress, who is from B.C. «As a group, we said that we all face these issues and if we can find a harmonized approach, it benefits everybody.»