Sentences with phrase «british civil servants»

In the study, which included 5,100 middle - aged British civil servants, those who engaged in four key behaviors — not smoking, moderate drinking, exercising regularly, and eating fruits and vegetables daily — had triple the odds of avoiding disability, chronic disease, or mental health problems over a 16 - year period, when compared with people who practiced none of these behaviors.

In fact, one study of British civil servants showed that bad cortisol rhythms killed more people than smoking, heart disease, diabetes, or obesity.

Researchers in Europe tracked the mental function of more than 7,000 British civil servants for a decade, and they found that even the youngest participants, who were between the ages of 45 and 49 at the outset, generally displayed slight yet measurable declines in short - term memory, mental reasoning, and verbal facility over the course of the study.

Dr. Virtanen and her colleagues followed more than 6,000 British civil servants with no history of heart disease for an average of 11 years.

Her father, John Crowfoot, was an administrator in the British Education Service, which ran schools for the children of British civil servants.

How Your Job Is Killing You In the early 1970s a project tracking 18,000 male British civil servants found that the lowest - ranking white - collar workers had the highest rates of premature death.

Other studies found the same pattern in groups ranging from San Francisco dock workers to British civil servants to Harvard graduates: sit more, die younger.

Starting in the mid-1980s, researchers from University College London spent twenty years examining the relationship between sleep patterns and life expectancy in more than 10,000 British civil servants.

«We're kind of like a British civil servant,» he says.

The classical introduction to Buddhism in Japan was written by Sir Charles Eliot, that fabulous British civil servant, titled simply Japanese Buddhism.

Samuel Pepys (pronounced Peeps) was a successful seventeenth - century British civil servant who chronicled nearly every day of his life for almost nine straight years, from 1660 to 1669, including his business interest in ships and the British navy, his run - ins with the nobility, his merry meals with friends and family, his nightly prayers, and his «towsing» (ruffling up, disheveling) of women other than his wife (the latter two activities often on the same day).

Sir Richard Clive Mottram, GCB (born 23 April 1946) is a former British civil servant, who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office.

In mid-July a fourth panel, headed by Muir Russell, a retired British civil servant, is expected to release its conclusions on the professional behavior of scientists identified in the Climategate e-mails.

The one significant issue found in the latest review, led by a longtime British civil servant, Sir Muir Russell, concerned insufficient openness.

Why is it that a document that, as a British civil servant once described it, is nothing more than an archaic piece of paper with no intrinsic value, should attract such attention?

He was a Kenyan - born poet, novelist, philosopher of mathematics and British civil servant.

Not exact matches

«I'm skeptical the projected cuts can be obtained through attrition and cutting back on paper clips,» said Kevin Milligan, economist at the University of British Columbia, who projects cutbacks to civil servant wages, benefits or pensions along possible layoffs.

Retired British generals like to write military history that understandably glorifies the British Army and tends to be critical of politicians and civil servants.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

Former top civil servant Hayden Phillips is conducting a review into party funding at the government's request, after the cash for peerages row raised concerns about the influence wealthy businessmen were having on British political parties.

Former civil servant, he served as British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004.

After the success of the made - for - British - TV movie The Naked Civil Servant, which was based on his memoir, Crisp is commissioned by a small theater in Manhattan's Bowery to perform a one - man show; word - of - mouth spreads about his unfiltered wit and shrewd observations about the gay community and cultural zeitgeist at large, which lands him gigs on late - night TV chat shows via his newly acquired agent (Swoosie Kurtz).

«Mister Johnson,» now directed by Bruce Beresford in his first film since «Driving Miss Daisy,» tells the story of an African civil servant, known to all as Mister Johnson, who works as a clerk in the office of the British district administrator.

John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century.

For a British think - tank, that's as boringly respectable as you can get: courtiers, civil servants and bishops.

«The story of British hydrologist and civil servant H.E. Hurst who earned the nickname «Abu Nil», Father of the Nile, for his 62 year career of measuring and studying the river is now fairly well known.

Isn't there something a bit odd about a Euro Commissioner (apolitical civil servant, and all that) supporting an internal political campaign to influence a vote in the British Parliament?