| 单词 | agenda |
| 释义 | agenda (ədʒendə ) Word forms: agendas 1. countable noun You can refer to the political issues which are important at a particular time as an agenda. Does television set the agenda on foreign policy? [+ on] Many of the coalition members could have their own political agendas. The Danish president will put environmental issues high on the agenda. 2. See also hidden agenda 3. countable noun An agenda is a list of the items that have to be discussed at a meeting. This is sure to be an item on the agenda next week. Synonyms: programme, list, plan, schedule Idioms: a hidden agenda a situation in which someone secretly tries to achieve a particular thing while they appear to be doing something else The unions fear these tactics are part of a hidden agenda to reduce pay and conditions throughout the company. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: agenda item This has to become a no-holdsbarred agenda item at the top table of global relationships. Times, Sunday Times The vote was actually on whether we should discuss it and put it on as an agenda item at 6.25 at night. Times, Sunday Times It helps to announce ahead of time which of these three things will be done at the meeting for each agenda item. Christianity Today Although it was not unanimous, the clubs voted heavily against the proposal and for it to be dropped as a longstanding agenda item. Times, Sunday Times Too many details had yet to be worked out, and it hadn't been officially tabled as an agenda item. Times, Sunday Times Needless to say, this is an ambitious agenda, so it is important to begin now. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He faces a global and domestic economic crisis and actually has a clear and ambitious agenda for government. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It is an ambitious agenda and one with clear targets. Times, Sunday Times (2008) I know that there are some who will question whether we can act on such a broad agenda. Times, Sunday Times The newsletter, moreover, reflected the broad agenda of the organization. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also concluded that these potential voters were best won by providing a broad agenda. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The seisachtheia however was merely one set of reforms within a broader agenda of moral reformation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They name the prime minister and the cabinet, dictate the agenda and decide which bills go before the national assembly. Times, Sunday Times Often they were developed unilaterally, so seen as attempts by companies to dictate the agenda of workers' rights. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Minister was talking about the transition and that he did not need 'outriders dictating the agenda'. Times, Sunday Times By keeping control of the cash, he has dictated the agenda, seeking to undermine the ethos of successful schools based on discipline, excellence and elitism. Times, Sunday Times The turmoil dictated the agenda for the first few years. Christianity Today It came as an unwelcome embarrassment for a President trying to rescue his domestic agenda while under increasing attack from Republicans. Times, Sunday Times (2009) There is still no guarantee that the signature issue of his domestic agenda, universal health insurance, will get through Congress. Times, Sunday Times (2009) His wider domestic agenda for his second term has not really taken off. Times, Sunday Times (2006) They will dominate the agenda in the run-up to the election, squeezing out all other political news. Times, Sunday Times Stalled world trade talks, the simmering crisis in the eurozone, energy security and the continued reverberations from the credit crunch will dominate the agenda. Times, Sunday Times For most of the rural poor, local issues dominate the agenda, and neither of the two main parties appears to have excited the electorate with a distinctive platform. Times, Sunday Times The news about the coronavirus outbreak dominates the agenda and people are worried by it. Times,Sunday Times Today, for sure, rugby will be dominating the agenda. Times, Sunday Times But there are far more urgent items on the political and economic agenda. Times, Sunday Times Today, the business school continues to set the economic agenda. Times, Sunday Times But as the neoliberal economic agenda was implemented, its effects were the opposite of what was promised. The Times Literary Supplement He repeated his support for the administration's economic agenda, which includes an energy plan, tort reform and health-care proposals. Globe and Mail He has pushed an economic agenda that moves his country away from its dependence on oil. Times, Sunday Times The aim: to invite crowds of well-heeled chief executives to shape the global agenda on the arts and philosophy. Times, Sunday Times The superbug threat has been rising up the global agenda in recent years. Times, Sunday Times Their attendance at these gatherings has more to do with securing the economic interests and specific agendas of their individual countries than the global agenda. ST It will bring together members of the forum's network of global agenda councils, including influential thinkers from academia, business and the public and private sectors. Times, Sunday Times It doesn't mean that football isn't also ghastly, grotesque, awful and having an altogether disproportionate place in the global agenda, but never mind that for now. Times, Sunday Times As part of the group's green agenda, he used his visit to erect the first of about 100 bird boxes. Times, Sunday Times (2012) She warned that the Government's green agenda would drive British industry overseas. Times, Sunday Times (2013) If politicians are serious about their green agendas, there is only one way forward. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It has also never been higher on the international agenda. Times, Sunday Times It wasn't until 2008 that there has been a concerted effort to bring prevention back on to the international agenda, equal to treatment. Times, Sunday Times Such political emergencies, as ever, forced humanitarian and environmental ones down the international agenda. Times, Sunday Times Since we cannot respond usefully to every item on an expensive international agenda, how should we focus our efforts? Globe and Mail New departments were created, responding to the diversification of the international agenda and the increasing importance of economic diplomacy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Meanwhile, with weeks of this parliamentary term still to run, the government has no major reform left on its legislative agenda. Times, Sunday Times The government has made the bill a centrepiece of its legislative agenda. canada.com That defeat stalled his legislative agenda, creating a ripple that made his promise to reform the tax code harder to achieve. Times, Sunday Times He had battled to put the best spin on a stalled legislative agenda and the mercurial president's frayed relations with international allies. Times, Sunday Times This stalled his legislative agenda and raised questions over his political dealmaking skills. Times, Sunday Times As Justice Secretary, he is in the perfect position to pursue his liberal agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Quite apart from its liberal agenda, the show offers a gripping glimpse into the world of TV news. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The liberal agenda is taking over. Times, Sunday Times (2008) So instead of our regular meeting agenda, we had just one item: listening prayer. Christianity Today But when it came time to consider such a step, a staff member whose name did not appear on the meeting agenda unexpectedly weighed in. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A typical meeting agenda will include all the normal activity you would expect in an organization with elected officials. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet each frame was crammed with managers falling over each other, with clipboards, pagers, consultancy reports and meeting agendas. Times, Sunday Times By this, they mean statutory regulation and the suppression of content at odds with their own narrow agenda. Times, Sunday Times Without change, it will be 'vulnerable to those with a narrow agenda not founded on legitimate concern', he warns. Times, Sunday Times But there are those who, for their own narrow agendas, have deliberately sought to sow division and hatred from the misery of those who have suffered so much. The Sun Feet have never been high on our national agenda. Times, Sunday Times It's a ticklish question: to what extent do newspapers reflect the national agenda? Times, Sunday Times But on the national agenda there's far too much talk and bureaucracy. Times, Sunday Times They also played a role 'putting local issues on the national agenda', he said. Times, Sunday Times In her report in 2013 she shoved anti-microbial resistance (the impending antibiotic crisis) on to the national agenda. Times, Sunday Times Declarations of concern for other people's interests often turn out to be propaganda for the speaker's hidden and highly personal agenda. Times, Sunday Times Whoever had done this was arrogant and foolish enough to believe that their personal agenda, whatever it was, outweighed every other consideration. Times, Sunday Times Some members have indeed sought ritually to humiliate certain witnesses in pursuit of a personal agenda, one tool being the repetition of the same point. Times, Sunday Times But you can create a personal agenda by cherrypicking activities on your phone from the daily programme. Times,Sunday Times One sets my compensation level; the other determines my personal agenda. Christianity Today The policy agenda is so crowded that April seems a long way away. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The policy agenda has been set. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Quickly the hyperbole subsided as he struggled to make an impact or carve out a distinctive policy agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2014) His policy agenda includes too many populist measures. Times, Sunday Times (2014) We also need a clear and positive policy agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Despite this ambitious political agenda, what comes through is a work that nullifies it. Globe and Mail (2003) Adoption finds itself top of the political agenda this week, and rightly so. Times, Sunday Times (2011) He was not a strong leader in the conventional sense, and lacked a compelling political agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Housing is moving up the political agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The issue has jumped to the top of the political agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2013) I have no doubt he will pursue a modernising progressive agenda for his country and dominate the centre ground. Times, Sunday Times Small presses have mushroomed to cope with the explosion of creativity, most of them shored up by subsidy - which in turn can depend on evidence of a progressive agenda. The Times Literary Supplement As a better path, he points to a long-standing progressive agenda which transcends inherited traditions and harnesses them for the future. The Times Literary Supplement For such a drastic withdrawal of government patronage would help cut off the progressive agenda at the knees. Times, Sunday Times The legislation was part of the progressive agenda and received broad support at the time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet few believe he will enthusiastically pursue the agenda being set out by the government under its current management. Times, Sunday Times King said he would pursue an agenda of equality of gain under which financially recovered automakers would share their economic gains with workers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Politicians have pursued an agenda of relentless expansion, no matter what the cost or the impact on quality. Times, Sunday Times In this role he has pursued an agenda of ensuring its activities and programs are based on the latest available scientific and medical evidence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This weekend, sources at rival stores hit back, accusing them of pushing an agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2013) But politicians have pushed the green agenda to the fore so most people are aware of what needs to be done. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It's the same people pushing the same agenda. The Sun (2015) But there hasn't been a huge jump forward, no radical agenda to improve public services. The Sun (2007) Taken together, this is a radical agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Secondly, they have to offer a radical agenda of change in the public services. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The island's ambitious reform agenda won praise internationally. Times, Sunday Times (2017) But on Monday, she will address her social reform agenda. The Sun (2017) He wants to push ahead with his reform agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2006) In setting forth a more modest research agenda for the field, he finds a few recent historians of emotion whom he can commend. The Times Literary Supplement The purpose of these weirdly self-replicated parts of the genome, where deletions and changes often occur, have become a research agenda for scientists. The Scientist In the next six months, they'll select two fellows to conduct an independent research agenda for three years. The Scientist This puts the study of decision procedures on the research agenda. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This 1995 paper, however, brought this research agenda into the open and made it a topic for academic discussion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each member of the family has a secret agenda. ST But could the newcomer have a secret agenda? The Sun The secret agenda was their dislike of each other. Christianity Today The two judges said yesterday that this case would fuel suspicion that there was 'a secret agenda' on adoption. Times, Sunday Times Instead, they are pursuing their own secret agenda, minus the farmers and minus the sheep. Times, Sunday Times The extremists are setting the agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Top teams get the whole team involved in setting the agenda. Christianity Today (2000) Once reluctant to speak out, they are now borrowing the tactics of environmentalist and consumer groups to set the agenda. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Here you can help shape the agenda for forestry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They would remain a distinct and autonomous bloc, able to shape the agenda. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The governor has a strong influence in shaping the agenda of the legislature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This open-ended structure connects the stories' form to their political and social agenda. The Times Literary Supplement The organisers had total control over their largely purpose-built venues as well as the wider social agenda. Times, Sunday Times He reckoned it was part of 'an extreme liberal and social agenda'. The Sun It's important you are setting your social agenda and not sitting around waiting for him. Times, Sunday Times Rather, they fit into that social agenda quite neatly. Christianity Today Pay will top the agenda when the company faces investors on Thursday. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Plans to end huge payouts to public sector bosses top the agenda. The Sun (2015) Complaints about food used to top the agenda regularly at staff feedback meetings. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Translations: Chinese: 日程 Japanese: 議事日程 |
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