Sentence examples for focus on prestige from inspiring English sources

Developmental, cultural, educational, and economic factors that might account for Filipino students' focus on prestige and sex-type were discussed.

The focus on prestige projects like Inglourious Basterds or Nine is somewhat disingenuous.

What I find problematic about the Children's Literature count, as with the majority of such studies, is its focus on "prestige".

While we should individually own and correct our honest errors, we should collectively relinquish the focus on prestige publications and honors (such as big grants, prizes and membership of elite academies and societies) that increases the likelihood of corners being cut and avoidable errors being made.

A study in Italy found that while both male and female judges were attracted by the desire to serve the public, women emphasised the social aspect of the profession; men, however, focused on prestige and career prospects.

According to the co-founders Hayley Barna and Katia Beauchamp (who, like the founders of Gilt, are Harvard Business School grads) they wanted to create a service that was simple and exciting, by focusing on prestige brands and their latest products.

As ever, Russia remains the country firmly focused on prestige at expense of its own people.

The popular college rankings focus primarily on prestige as measured by the SAT scores of incoming students and how many applicants are turned away.

It won't refocus the final years of high school on learning rather than test-taking, and it won't shift attention from an obsessive focus on institutional prestige to the substance of college curriculums.

He exhorted the audience to focus on the prestige rather than the expense of figuring out such potential features as "integrated photovoltaic panels" and gray-water systems, which reuse water collected from showers, sinks and laundry facilities.

The academic profession is being reshaped according to a two tier model – a shrinking core of relatively secure permanent staff gradually being withdrawn from teaching to focus on the prestige (and grant money) brought by research, and a growing periphery of workers on short term or hourly-paid contracts who do the job of teaching students.