The mayor instead focused on positive development projects in the city, highlighting small businesses and strides to improve housing, eliminate blight, and reduce crime.
On the bright side, the market finished the final session of the week higher, shrugging off a dismal manufacturing report from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), as traders focused on positive developments for a pair of beaten-down Dow components.
As they began preparations for Sunday's N.F.C. divisional playoff game at Lambeau Field, many of the players trained their focus on the positive developments that have taken place since the last time they saw Aaron Rodgers and the Packers.
Republicans, in turn, focused on the positive developments.
Be as honest as you can be with your employees about the struggles your company is facing while focusing on the positive developments in your workplace.
Mike Piazza, perhaps the league's most valuable player the first half of the season, shunned a long-term view of the season in favor of focusing on a positive development in the four-game series just concluded, the last-game loss notwithstanding.
I started interning for an NGO called Twaweza, which is focused on the positive development of education and technology in Africa.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation pledges to work with every state willing to commit to those three steps: shrinking the pipeline, greatly expanding interventions that work and replacing their youth prisons with secure alternatives focused on positive youth development.
One potential solution to this in a future trial would be the use of an active comparison group, which improves loyalty by providing a similar level of support to that provided in the intervention group but in an area that is not expected to affect weight loss, such as a focus on positive aspects of baby development or other aspects of maternal wellbeing such as stress reduction.
Of course, as much as we'd like to focus solely on the positive developments in the marketplace, we cannot avoid the elephant in the room that inhibits the growth of that marketplace: the extensive theft of music, especially online.
He said the facilitation helped the youths to focus on positive vision and commitment in development.
