Sentences with phrase «as in a large family»

As in a large family, students must learn to be responsible for their own work.

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As well, the poll showed that those with children ages four to 10 were much more likely to borrow money from friends and family (39 per cent) than couples with older children (28 per cent), likely showing they feel they need a larger cash flow or savings to feel comfortable at that stage in life.

Then, the company can give you data such as average and range of ages and income, how large the families are, what kind of home they live in, what hobbies they have and maybe even where they make charitable donations.

As the Ball family deplaned, the media presence was likely the largest seen in Prienu Vytautas franchise history.

Frank Perdue was known nationally as the salesman who built one of the largest family businesses in the country but his greatest success might have been overcome his reluctance to even talk to people.

The Slim might not be as zippy as its larger sibling, butComputer Shopper found it was still «the second - fastest drive» of the ones they tested, meaning that if speed is paramount, you'll be well - served by either drive in the Backup Plus family.

«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

As families changed and women entered the workforce in large numbers, dog - walking has become an in - demand service the world over.

Women are at the forefront of this trend, often as spouses playing a hands - on role in family philanthropy that has included scaling up some of the largest foundations created in recent years.

Chubb — Chubb is the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company, and recognized as the premier provider of insurance for successful individuals and families in the U.S. and selected international markets, offering coverage for high - value automobile, homeowners, recreational marine / aviation, valuables and umbrella liability coverage.

As these family offices improve their deal capabilities, hire more seasoned investment professionals, and gain experience executing smaller investments, it is expected that they gradually will join the family offices and institutional investors that are taking majority stakes in companies and investments and targeting larger deals.

The fact that none of these family offices reported targeting direct or co-investments above $ 5 million is also telling, as these California family offices unanimously prefer to make minority and small - to - middle - market deals, rather than executing some of the large deals that have been done by family offices and co-investment groups in recent years.

There are very few large multifamily buildings in Park Slope and even fewer are ever offered for sale, particularly in close proximity to Prospect Park, as the majority of the housing stock surrounding Prospect Park is either single - family brownstones or has been converted to coops or condos.

In «Missed Connections: The Adoption of Information Technology in Canadian Healthcare,» author Denis Protti argues that there will not be any large - scale benefits from gathering masses of health data until the information is shared among providers and institutions, such as between a family physician and a hospitaIn «Missed Connections: The Adoption of Information Technology in Canadian Healthcare,» author Denis Protti argues that there will not be any large - scale benefits from gathering masses of health data until the information is shared among providers and institutions, such as between a family physician and a hospitain Canadian Healthcare,» author Denis Protti argues that there will not be any large - scale benefits from gathering masses of health data until the information is shared among providers and institutions, such as between a family physician and a hospital.

Workers just beginning their careers, workers in professions with a high upside income potential, and individuals expecting a large windfall, such as a family trust or inheritance, can greatly benefit from contributing after - tax dollars to a Roth IRA or Roth 401 (k).

I know for certain, however, that this book is unique; you get to read the direct thoughts of dozens of global family offices, including several that are frequently listed as being among the largest and most successful top 50 family offices in the world.

As our Asset Management Group (AMG) continues to grow, we've been identified as one of the largest wealth managers in the U.S. (Barron's) and one of the largest ultra-affluent service providers (Family Wealth AllianceAs our Asset Management Group (AMG) continues to grow, we've been identified as one of the largest wealth managers in the U.S. (Barron's) and one of the largest ultra-affluent service providers (Family Wealth Allianceas one of the largest wealth managers in the U.S. (Barron's) and one of the largest ultra-affluent service providers (Family Wealth Alliance).

As opposed to interlocks between widely - held corporations, which can present the risk of decisions being made in the interests of an entirely separate entity, interlocks within a family firm's larger corporate structure can present a governance benefit.

The largest asset in most families, billionaires as well as small homeowners, is land.

As the largest community of Family Offices in the world, we provide a platform for families to find suitable co-investors and co-investment opportunities.

The simplest explanation of this rule is this: the biggest Social Security check in the family is a 100 % «joint - and - survivor» benefit, meaning that large check keeps paying as long as either spouse is living.

He is also a Partner at HPM Partners where, with his 32 partners and 50 associates in six offices, he works with owners of businesses on their growth strategies, M&A, financing, liquidity, wealth management, cross - border / multi-national issues, estate planning and tax strategies; and for his multi-generational and family clients, he brings several lifetimes of dealing with family dynamics, trusts, business - ownership, family charters and youth education as a member of two large, historic business families.

The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.

If today many feel that the family is — as we say — «in crisis,» that may be in large part because we have little commitment to or sense of a story that we might pass on.

The show stars Anderson as Andre Johnson, a well - off advertising executive with a large, loving family; a lot of feelings about life in the 21st century; and not enough people interested in hearing them.

In my family, we see life as a series of grand stories that simply must be populated with larger - than - life characters.

Still, ideally, each family participates as one family among others in affirming, critiquing, and modifying those larger patterns.

To be the church means to think not only about individuals and their personal crises, but also the way in which these crises affect families and communities, as well as how they may represent broader struggles in the society at large.

In the early stages of Biblical history men regarded the major good of existence as physical — ample creature comforts, a long life, a large family, and victory in war — and for these benefits the Hebrews besought YahweIn the early stages of Biblical history men regarded the major good of existence as physical — ample creature comforts, a long life, a large family, and victory in war — and for these benefits the Hebrews besought Yahwein war — and for these benefits the Hebrews besought Yahweh.

In the same book Pope John Paul wrote that «a determination on the part of husband and wife to have as few children as possible, to make their own lives easy, is bound to inflict moral damage both on their family and on society at large.»

A house in good repair and large enough for your family, with furniture in good condition, would qualify as a necessity (or as a necessary decency) for almost all of us.

In other words we should walk away from divisive ideologies and abstractions and go back to living humbly and diversely and happily as one human family on earth with large tolerance and a divine wealth of education and human opportunity and accountability — the politics are as dead as a false god of convention.

as a «social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line; broadly: control by men of a disproportionately large share of power.»

Larger non-human or inhuman systems, such as institutions, economies, governments, families, are not «adversarial,» «competitive» or «cruel» except in our manners of speaking which project human characteristics on groups and corporaton which are literally no thing: can't touch.

Wallerstein replies that this is a hypothesis - generating study that can lead to further investigations of other groups - such as ethnic groups in which the extended family plays a larger role, or same - sex couples.

Typically, they see voluntary family planning as a technique for accelerating enforced reductions in fertility for societies where family size is large.

Her only excuse for being a «liberal» in this matter was that the pain and suffering she had endured as an aging widow who had reared a large family alone had purged her heart of the pride that prevents people from loving and understanding others.

Rockefeller's subsequent divorce of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much - younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the military; it marked the forging of a large wedge of voters that now consciously identified itself as conservative and would grow to include Democrats as well as Republicans.

I had been told before coming to Nigeria that some of the traditional African enthusiasm for large families, especially among the educated, was abating; but the Christians I spoke to were anxious to have as many children as possible, in hopes that those children would be able to vote for Christians in future elections.

Most of the Vedic religious aspiration moves at the level of the satisfaction of physical needs — long life, food, shelter, protection, large families — but in these hymns one finds a consciousness of sin and guilt and the need for forgiveness, as well also as guidance and direction in living.

As Meier begins to discuss what we can know of the family of Jesus, he notes that in ancient Palestine the «family» would be a large extended family.

The small family unit known as a nuclear family today is the typical family type of the modern era in Western cultures.1 During the last two hundred years, identity has been associated more with the family unit than with larger social units like a congregation.

The book as a whole focuses mainly on the relationship between parents and children within a large Catholic family in a suburban setting, often home - schooling, with a non-working mother.

And as is true in physical families, so in the large spiritual family of God there can be some forms of distinction and disagreement and painful distance.

In view of all the accounts that have depicted Americans as lonely, self - interested individualists suffering from isolation, disrupted families, a lack of friends, a difficulty in establishing intimate relationships, and the demeaning anonymity of large - scale institutions, the small - group movement presents a rather different picturIn view of all the accounts that have depicted Americans as lonely, self - interested individualists suffering from isolation, disrupted families, a lack of friends, a difficulty in establishing intimate relationships, and the demeaning anonymity of large - scale institutions, the small - group movement presents a rather different picturin establishing intimate relationships, and the demeaning anonymity of large - scale institutions, the small - group movement presents a rather different picture.

Rest assured, however, that at least 95 % of the many people in my large extended family and wide circle of friends here in Denver and elsewhere are going to vote Democratic, as they always do.

A large portion of Budapest's population consisted of families from the non «Hungarian provinces, and as a whole the country's folkways were so exotic, with traces of oriental ancestry (and its language being indisputably Asian), that in Europe Hungary was conventionally thought of as having one foot in the West and one foot in East.

His 1984 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters is particularly revealing, for there he most obviously makes public a piety which is essentially personal, even private — a piety which takes social form in intimate, bounded and family - like voluntary associations that see themselves in tension with the larger society even as they claim to be its spiritual center.

Unusually large gatherings in North American churches at Christmas and Easter tend to suggest that they are at least as much celebrations of loyalty to family and its tradition as they are response to God's peculiar ways of being present in Jesus of Nazareth.

They are family affections aroused in sex relations and in the nurture of children, intellectual curiosity leading to enjoyment in the interchange of ideas, and — as soon as large - scale societies arose — the practice of Commerce.