Sentences with phrase «as an idea gains»

As his ideas gain more respect, and as his corporate profits grew, he and Lillian wrestled with the question, «Run a company, or teach ideas?»

As the idea gained traction and exposure, a string of ambitious ecocity projects were announced — intelligently designed ecological cities that would revolutionize the way we thought about the environments in which we dwell.

As the idea gained traction and exposure, a string of ambitious ecocity projects were announced

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By bringing together people of different backgrounds, you gain the ability to escape a single group's echo chamber and avoid errors caused by groupthink; the power to act as a connector or translator between different circles; and the immense creative potential of combining ideas from different fields.

As Matousek reports, the idea of airlines introducing «child - free zones» is gaining traction.

He thinks the adverse tax treatment of variable annuities — the gains in all distributions from the contracts are taxed as ordinary income — makes them a bad idea for savers.

The idea that companies and society at large would benefit if everybody knows what everybody else is earning has been gaining traction recently, helped along by the availability of such information on websites such as Glassdoor.com, PayScale.com, and Salary.com.

The basic idea of ROI is to express the additional money or value you have received — the benefit or return you gained — as a percentage of your initial investment.

Talk of using the MBA experience as a place to fine - tune an idea, recruit partners, gain access to seed capital, and finally launch a startup is becoming as ubiquitous as discussions about forthcoming job interviews at McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs.

A few years later I was working a full - time job as a marketing and brand manager at a toy company where I got a lot of product development experience and realized I had gained enough knowledge to give this idea a shot.

Speaking with The Cincinnati Enquirer in February, Springer, who painted himself as a «populist, liberal progressive,» said the idea of his candidacy gained steam because of Trump's victory.

Ultimately, Robbins has created a lucrative virtuous circle: As his business and personal networks grow, he gains access to new ideas, opportunities, and relationships.

Along with it, perhaps the company will gain some fresh ideas as well.

But Match's pain could be Facebook's gain, as investors swoon over the idea of the social media giant playing cupid with its users.

But with Yahoo closing in on $ 1.1 billion in sales for 2000, nearly twice as much as in 1999, the idea gained little traction.

Traders often use the financial blog as an educational resource, as well as to gain insights into various market trends or specific trading ideas.

The fundamentals no longer look strong enough for us to continue recommending the stock as one of our top long ideas, so we are closing this position with respectable gains and outperformance.

By watching numerous videos, you can get a better idea of what strategies are applicable to your personal needs as a trader, and then gain a more detailed idea of how to apply those ideas.

At the moment Finland, the Netherlands and Canada are planning tests of the UBI (in the case of the latter, the province of Ontario will be pilot testing a UBI in an unnamed region this fall) and the idea is gaining traction in Britain as well.

As Graham's value investing ideas gained popularity in the investing community with disciples like Warren Buffet and Mario Gabelli, a ton of portfolio managers and private investors began mining his work to develop their own investment strategies.

Youth, you are very arrogant about your perceived wisdom about the universe, but you might find that as you gain more life experience, your idea of wisdom will change.

Besides polluting the free flow of ideas, manipulations such as these are nothing less than subversive: they undermine the United States and its institutions — universities, the press, charitable groups, foundations and the churches — by exploiting the legitimacy they may inherently possess, in order to gain for insidious designs credibility which the CIA would not otherwise be able to command.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Having, therefore, lived for years with Biblical scholars as my friends and colleagues and in the classroom having dealt with students, trying to gain a coherent and usable understanding of the Bible for practical purposes, I have dared the attempt to put together developments of ideas which the separate Biblical disciplines leave apart.

He even flirts with the idea that «modern unbelief is providential,» since the gains brought by the Enlightenment might not have been possible without it, and, besides, one can always find one's way back to transcendent faith, as he has.

The logic of whorshipping our SUN is beyond arguement, calling it a GOD is illogical but nessesary to gain a following as to move the civilization past the moronic idea of god as its currently understood.

This is where we gain our knowledge of God as Creator and Ruler of the world; our concept of him as loving Judge and Redeemer of men; our belief that Jesus Christ is his Son and our Lord and Savior; and the idea that the Holy Spirit is our ever - present Guide and divine Companion.

We constantly argue as though in each case the terms varied inversely, a gain on the one side being ipso facto the other side's loss; and this in turn leads to the widespread idea that any destiny on «monist» lines would exact the sacrifice and bring about the destruction of all personal values in the Universe.

The idea that the conquest of nature is inevitably used as a means to gain power over others is at best an unhelpful half - truth.

I love this idea, and think that as eBooks gain popularity, we will see more and more of such interaction between books and blogs.

I do not think that asking these sorts of questions is a good way to do evangelism... I do, however, think that these sorts of questions are helpful to ask Christians as a way to gain insight into what sorts of ideas and truths people think are essential to the «gospel» and as a way to see what people think about how to gain or keep eternal life.

Some were seduced by the flight of liberalism, hoping that economic gains might result, such as by creating riches to be later re-distributed, or by the idea of the indivisibility of freedoms, market freedom being the forerunner of other freedoms to come.

In this view, when the primitive idea of God, which was based on the personification of powers of nature, vanishes gradually behind the infinitude of the causal sequence, the concept of God gains in coherence and consistency in proportion as it achieves a firm position in connection with the claims and needs of the human spirit, and becomes the «irreducible coefficient of the achievement of moral processes in self - consciousness.»

Religion — be it «Christian» or otherwise — has within its framework the idea of our need to «arrive» at something or somewhere — as though our actions or beliefs gain us the end prize - whatever that prize might be.

Although a cottage industry has sprung up to define jihad exclusively as an internal struggle to gain self - mastery in order to act morally, the classic Muslim tradition also uses the term to denote war against unbelievers to extend the territory governed by Islam (an idea not without its historical analogues in Christianity and Judaism).

If we recognize that it is through the imagination that a person presents alternatives to his present state of being (UMI 216), we may gain some idea as to how a neuroticized image of God can function as an inhibiting element.

In history there are few instances of the transmutation of tragedy into gain so impressive as the achievement of the later prophets, using the disaster of Zion's ruin and the temple's destruction to spiritualize and universalize the idea of God.

But for some in the movement the whole idea of success is viewed negatively and the training is seen in part as a way of gaining liberation from that.

Also, the idea of life being not near as random as we might be convinced is gaining ground in science.

Even our central doctrines of redemption and renewal while not being purely natural theology, gain much of their strength as ideas because they tap into our collective experience of the ability of nature to renew itself.

The Church had always encouraged Christians to pray for those who had died; when indulgences began to be issued with the idea that they might be transferred to the souls in purgatory this was seen, not without reason, as a praiseworthy raising of the motive for gaining an indulgence, from something selfish to an act of charity towards others.

In January 2013 the non-governmental organisation Sustain, supported by 61 health organisations, called for a 20 pence per litre excise duty on sugar sweetened drinks.4 In February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertain.

Friedrich - Wilhelm Raiffeisen's idea for credit cooperatives gained a following in the Netherlands as well.

The Florida Restaurant & Lodging Show is the source to gain knowledge from insightful education to palate - pleasing food and drink trends, as well as new product options and idea generating special events.

Serving manufacturers within the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care and FMCG industries to contract packers and more, the Show offers visitors a chance to see new machinery in action, find inspiration, new ideas and solutions, gain access to potential new suppliers and evaluate and purchase the latest technology as well as talk face - to - face with the industry's leading technical experts.

However, he still only managed to make 16 Premier League starts last year, and that strengthens the idea that he wants to leave in order to gain more playing time as an established starter.

The idea behind this loan spell was to help Aliadiere — once touted as a future superstar — gain some much needed first - team experience.

As well as arming them with a handful of professional product shots, we wanted the shoots to be a chance for the makers to pick up photography tips, share ideas and hopefully gain enough confidence and knowledge to take amazing photographs themselveAs well as arming them with a handful of professional product shots, we wanted the shoots to be a chance for the makers to pick up photography tips, share ideas and hopefully gain enough confidence and knowledge to take amazing photographs themselveas arming them with a handful of professional product shots, we wanted the shoots to be a chance for the makers to pick up photography tips, share ideas and hopefully gain enough confidence and knowledge to take amazing photographs themselves.

I had approached this discussion with hopes of better understanding the history of AABC and how that might be applied to a homebirth accreditation body, or if it would even be appropriate, but instead, was surprised to learn that not only has Dr. Stapleton marinated this idea for many years as well, but she is increasingly eager to gain stakeholder support.

Developing a network of other parents going through the same life experiences enables us to share our feelings and ideas in hopes of gaining more confidence and a better understanding of our roles as mothers and fathers.