Sentences with phrase «life peers who»

Earlier this afternoon I wrote about the 14 new Conservative Life Peers who have been appointed to the Lords.

David Cameron has plenty of other legislative priorities before reforming the Upper House and initiating a difficult battle with the mass of Tory life peers who oppose his instinct to democratise the Lords.

With the exception of some experts, the same is not true of the politically appointed Life Peers who make up the bulk of today's House of Lords.

Not exact matches

According to the study, being slightly more difficult to get along with may come with monetary benefits, but people who are agreeable by nature tend to have stronger friendships, are liked more by their peers and are more satisfied with life in general.

A study published in March in the journal Neurology suggested that women who were physically fit in middle age were roughly 88 % less likely to develop dementia — defined as a decline in memory severe enough to interfere with daily life — than their peers who were only moderately fit.

People — regardless of their gender — who were independently ranked as conscientious as children and as adults lived longer than their peers who were not conscientious during either phase of their lives.

For starters, recognize those on your team who have beaten a tough challenge (on the job or in their personal life) and share it with their peers.

They are go - getters who want to start the day before their peers and competitors, who want to work long hours and have enough time for their personal lives too.

In the studies, women who adopted all five factors enjoyed roughly 14 extra years of life, on average, compared with their peers who adopted none of them; men got an average of an extra 12.2 years.

These include being frequently interrupted or talked over; having decision - makers primarily address your male colleagues, even if they're junior to you; working harder to receive the same recognition as your male peers; having your ideas ignored unless they're rephrased by your male colleagues; worrying so much about being either «too nice» or «sharp elbowed» that it hurts your ability to be effective; frequently being asked how you manage your work - life balance; and perhaps most difficult of all, not having peers who have been through similar situations to support you during tough times.

One major reason that the military should not turn cases of military - to - military sex abuse, is that we have a right to be judged by our peers... who understand what the mil life does to the human mind.

But that day, I listened to firsthand experiences of so many of my peers who opened up about how alcohol had devastated their lives, their families and their past.

The Christian peer Baroness Cox — who in 2011 attempted in the House of Lords to enact legislation called the Arbitration and Mediation Services Equality Bill, to protect women living here from the effects of Sharia as it is already allowed to be practised in this country — reacted to this démarche with some alarm.

Likewise, our girls have befriended peers who have such fractured lives, for the reasons you mention and more.

While I think it's irresponsible to blame family and friends for a loved one's suicide, I believe it's just as irresponsible to ignore the reality that gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide as straight peers, that nearly half of young transgender people have considered taking their lives, and that LGBT youth who come from families who reject their gender identities or sexual orientations are more than eight times more likely to attempt suicide than those who come from supportive families.

I have training and tools that help me discern with others the work of Christ in their lives, supervisors who ensure I am maintaining professional standards, peers who encourage me in my own relationship with God.

As for Christians who drop from the path of Jesus» righteous teachings, proves they refuse to endure to the end (as all non-believers do) and opt for the easy way out in life due to peer pressure from you non-believers and instructors who are in positions of teaching them to do so.

Allegations of sex abuse levelled at Oxfam staff in Haiti are only the «tip of the iceberg», a Christian peer who lived in the country for ten years has told Pr...

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

These groups help the teen - ager to understand the nature of his parent's illness, to experience the group support of peers who share many of the same problems, and to apply the Twelve Steps to their own problems of living in an alcoholic home.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

Pairing children who are close in age is best because they are on the same timeline developmentally and serve to be good peer examples for one another throughout life.

Life is very difficult for teens and older children who are behind their peers in reading skills, or who can't read at all.

His theory is that in a low - income, high - crime neighborhood, if you offer social and educational supports to just a few of the kids who live there, their participation will always seem a bit oddball, and they won't have much of an effect on their peers.

In the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

Nominated by her peers, Lynne was chosen by SNF to represent the many professionals who have dedicated their lives to serving the needs of school children and the community.

Nominated by her peers, Patty was chosen by SNF to represent the many professionals who have dedicated their lives to serving the needs of school children and the community.

This may be a particularly attractive option for adolescents who are preparing to leave the family home for a more independent living arrangement, for young adults with disabilities who prefer to be with people their own age, or even aging populations with mild to moderate memory loss because it gives them an opportunity to experience new surroundings, different expectations, peer relationships and even cognitive and emotional stimulation.

The Heroes are nominated by peers and chosen by SNF to represent the many professionals who have dedicated their lives to serving the needs of school children and the community.

Those who remain sceptical that the demonstrated changes in conduct problems translate into important gains in health and quality of life will point to the need for research quantifying the relationship between change in child behaviour scores and health utility in the index child as well as parents, siblings and peers.

Nominated by his peers, Chef T was chosen by SNF to represent the many professionals who have dedicated their lives to serving the needs of school children and the community.

Parents need help with their child who starts crying too easily and it's impacting peer relationships and the family's quality of life.

Bill Soderberg and the families who gather for the LGBT group know how powerful it is for their children to have a group of peers living in families like theirs.

You'll likely experience life in a little bit of a different order than your peers who choose to have kids later in life.

In high school and college, young people are usually communicating with peers who are nearby and living lives with similar patterns, but as they all move into adulthood, their lives will scatter and diverge in ways that often make delayed / deferred communications more useful than immediate communications.

Everyone knows that Nancy Astor was the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, but who was the first woman Life Peer to take her seat on the red benches?

Both women were appointed in the wake of the 1958 Life Peerages Act despite the opposition of one or two peers who should have known better.

«And it can not be right that those peers who do live outside London are less likely to be from great cities like Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol than they are to be living in less - populated rural areas.

«While there are quite reasonable steps [in the trade union bill] to increase transparency, the main thrust of the measures seems to be both partisan and disproportionate to the supposed problems that they are seeking to address,» wrote Kerslake, who was made a life peer in March.

Writer, broadcaster and life peer I'm in at least four minds as to who should be the next Labour leader.

Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd (Hereditary) and also Baron Shepherd of Spalding (Life Peerage)(27 September 1918 — 5 April 2001), was a British Labour politician and peer who served as Leader of the House of Lords under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

When I was in school, I saw the same story play out again and again: my peers who were given the resources to excel academically and encouraged to live up to their full potential graduated and went on to colleges and careers, while those who lacked these opportunities and felt ignored by their schools often fell by the wayside.

«That has a real impact because a jury of one's peers includes people who share similar life experiences and background.»

Settling down to some kangaroo anus with a fallen Hollyoaks star is the last word in dignity compared with settling down for an after - lunch snooze on the red benches next to Douglas Hogg, who has just been made a life peer (he is already a viscount, but clearly the Tories want him to be «operational»).

Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash says the computers and systems can help students accelerate their learning to catch up with their peers, especially their suburban peers who live in worlds filled with technology and equipment at home and classrooms working electronically with the homes.

Of the 11 new Conservative life peers, seven were former Cabinet members who had served under Mrs Thatcher.

According to Ng, her peers who majored in life sciences have been more fortunate.

So the team hopes that the robot and its camera can be deployed elsewhere to help us peer into the lives of marine animals — to better see how they move, what they're eating, and who they're swimming around with.

Women aged 60 - 70 who are satisfied with their lives have a higher bone density and they suffer from osteoporosis less frequently than their unsatisfied peers, according to a recent study completed at the University of Eastern Finland.

If the genetic mutation that gives people with Laron syndrome their short stature also protects them against two of the most pernicious diseases of aging, diabetes and cancer, then it prompts two obvious questions: What other diseases might the mutation protect against, and do people who carry the mutation in fact live longer than their unaffected peers?