Sentences with phrase «long held social»

Long held social and cultural beliefs had to expand to accommodate the implications of the new knowledge and figurative and literal perspectives gained.

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Now that Zuckerberg has claimed, in an incredibly public forum, that Facebook is responsible for the content posted to the social network, these excuses no longer hold water.

Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp, a Cayman Islands - based investment vehicle, is aimed at helping technology companies valued at $ 1 billion or more «achieve their long - term objectives and overcome key deterrents to becoming public,» according to an SEC filing.

The real turning point for her career was her completion of a Graduate Certificate in Social Impact in 2012, which tapped into a long - held belief that helping those around her and contributing to society is important.

There has long been a widely held (and incorrect) belief that social media is a B2C sandbox.

Either you raise adequate tax revenue, or you denominate the debt in long - term bonds and devalue them through inflation, or you default, or you violate the social contract made with those who don't hold paper claims (e.g. Social Security beneficiaries) in preference for those wsocial contract made with those who don't hold paper claims (e.g. Social Security beneficiaries) in preference for those wSocial Security beneficiaries) in preference for those who do.

as long as Medicare and Social Security with holdings are classified as «income tax,» since that is what they are.

Khalfani - Cox cites some alternatives to help people hold off taking early Social Security benefits: Save more during working years, stay in their jobs longer, or work part - time in retirement.

From your post, it sounds like you think that those holding power shouldn't care about the Bible's teachings while «on the job», or waterboard and torture and gut social programs all week long and sing and pray on Sundays.

99 % of social conservatives will hold their breaths and vote for the psuedo - conservative (as long as it gets him elected) flip - flopping Mormon since he is white and Republican (at least in name).

For her part, Margaret Mead, the American anthropologist, already in her 1949 work Male and Female, held that the natural feminine longing for and pride in child - bearing can be eradicated but only through intense social conditioning.

I enjoy having social events with the kids and their families, and hold week long kids camps in the summer to help build their skills while giving parents much needed time.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

Delaying infrastructure decisions is no longer simply inconvenient, it's a matter of life and death for people in countries most affected by the adverse consequences of climate change, Mr Clarke will claim in a debate to be held during the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science

Professor Rueda set the scene: in times of economic hardship, when GDP is falling, the European social model should mitigate the impact of a rise in unemployment and inequality with a concomitant increase in benefit spending, however this model, which held until the 1990s, is no longer the case, except in a few countries such as Spain and Ireland.

At 10:25 a.m., Rep. Steve Israel holds event to call on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Social Security Administration to conduct a review of the Medicare enrollment process, sidewalk outside the Melville Social Security Administration office, 1121 Walt Whitman Road, Melville, Long Island.

On the contrary, the dismantling of economic and social structures that have held people back unfairly has long been one of the most powerful motivations of a progressive temperament.

The effect seems to also hold for other animals: In 2003, a research team led by anthropologist Joan Silk of the University of California, Los Angeles, reported that female baboons with close social ties to unrelated females produce infants that survive longer.

Effective, just, and long - lasting fixes must include social solutions that empower communities through knowledge, skills, and the confidence to question, challenge, and hold those in power accountable, to demand seats at the decision - making table, and to ensure that their rights are protected in the present and the future.

We understand that having something in common with your date often helps with chemistry and long term success, which is why we hold events for singles such as; International Professionals, Elite Professionals, Christian Speed Dating, Graduate Professionals, Singles Walks, Quiz Night Socials, Older Women for Younger Men, Older Men for Younger Women, Lock & Key Parties and more!

Despite these large numbers — which indicate a huge systemic change — and despite the long - standing practice of social promotion in public schools, the rationale for holding students back seemed readily apparent to many parents.

In any event, this is an analysis of the demand side of the equation only, and what it has to tell us about the social effects of choice should be understood to hold as long as «other things are equal.»

Martel, the long - time social studies teacher, says credit - recovery classes ran 82 hours per quarter at his school compared to 125 hours for classes held during the school day, and that teachers were told not to give homework.

Strong regulation - related skills are often associated with stronger social - emotional competence and better mental health, as well as longer - term outcomes such as increased likelihood of graduating from a four - year college, holding a stable job, and not having a criminal record.

The authors of the study hold out hope that the positive finding on kindergarten retentions means that the TN - VPK had a positive effect on children's social / emotional development, which will lead to long term positive outcomes like those that were found in the famous Perry Preschool Project (in which, for example, participants were less likely than nonparticipants to have had encounters with the criminal justice system as adults).

Hyundai and the other Korean manufacturers have demonstrated in recent years that they produce cars worthy of competing with long - established rivals, especially in the U.S.. They've had a rapid climb up the automotive social ladder coming a long way from the near - comical presence they once held in the U.S. market.

Instead of a standard news release (which they provided), Questrade's ETF launch got major coverage from an article in Moneysense magazine, they put together a YouTube video with their social media lightning rod Cabbie and they rocked up to the TSX to ring the opening bell (and clap for a really long time) and also hold an investor seminar with investment media personalities from BNN (and coverage in the weekly roundup probably doesn't hurt either).

MSCI ESG Quality Score measures the ability of underlying holdings to manage key medium to long - term risks and opportunities arising from environmental, social, and governance factors.

The MSCI ESG Fund Quality Score measures the ability of ETF underlying holdings to manage key medium to long - term risks and opportunities arising from environmental, social, and governance factors, as determined by MSCI ESG Research LLC.

They don't pine over their missed opportunities like humans do; they don't wallow in self - pity; they don't hold grudges against the people and forces that kept them down for so long; and they don't have egos that keep them from settling down and becoming just normal, calm, happy social creatures, as soon as they're shown how and given the chance to be.

The first body of work continues a long - held interest in crime, social marginalisation, and the public and private institutions of punishment and security.

I say that exactly states your own situation — a long held preconceived view, an ideological motive being a self - proclaimed social democrat (eg ALP) which like Blair's UK Labour is committed to state interference in everything including the climate god help us), and very likely financial motives (to be rewarded as «economics of climate adviser» should ALP win power).

Given too that where records exist skepticism seems to stalk every religion (indeed every social consensus15a), and also that religious behavioral practices of one form or another have been around for a very long time, a plausible hypothesis is that this pattern always held and so skepticism is very old indeed.

It is time for America to move to post-growth society where the natural environment, working life, our communities and families, and the public sector are no longer sacrificed for the sake of mere GDP growth; where the illusory promises of ever - more growth no longer provide an excuse for neglecting to deal generously with our country's compelling social needs; and where true citizen democracy is no longer held hostage to the growth imperative.

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has long held that a social host can be found liable for injury in one particular instance.

While the Social Benefits Tribunal held alcoholism to be a «disabling condition» that «substantially restricts» working ability, the tribunal dismissed their appeals on the grounds that s. 5 (2) of the ODSPA makes the two individuals ineligible for long - term disability benefits under the ODSPA.

Likewise, the Government Accountability Office reported in 2016 that Americans 50 years of age and older are having their Social Security checks garnished to repay long - held, defaulted student loans.

Social media platform Kik opens up about its plans to launch a cryptocurrency, saying the move could fulfill long - held business goals.

While the nature of this privacy breach is such that only the social media company in question may be held responsible for it, users can no longer turn a blind eye to the fact that without taking personal responsibility to set up stronger cyber firewalls, we are leaving ourselves vulnerable to cyber intrusions in one form or the other.

I believe another contributing factor in this trend is the reality that divorce no longer holds the same social stigma as it once did a generation ago.

On this occasion, it was held in conjunction with a day - long program of workshops at the University of Wollongong, on Indigenous health and social media advocacy.

Research evidence today underscores the importance of academic competence in a child's achievement of personal integration and social effectiveness, and it contradicts the long - held assumption that the seriously disturbed child must be treated for his illness before he can become an effective learner.

Tonya Octave currently holds a Master's Degree in the field of social work from California State University, Long Beach.

Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than male older siblings to be given child care responsibilities while young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to - parenting articles and books as well as talking with (and spending social time with) primary caregiving women friends and relatives and their children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of child - whereabouts; and various biological and hormonal factors make mothers more responsive to routine infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)