Sentences with phrase «about life chances»

«For me it's all about life chances, it's all about understanding why, in 21st century Britain, in a city like Plymouth, we have some serious areas of deprivation,» he says.

Crabb: That's exactly what we mean when we talk about life chances, a relentless focus, an all - out assault - as the prime minster calls it - on tackling the root causes of poverty»

The aim is to produce in - depth knowledge about the life chances of young fathers and their children for professional practice and policy by using qualitative longitudinal research methods.

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And be realistic about the chances of not receiving that money: a long stay in a private retirement home, a re-marriage, investment losses, or the relative simply living a really long time can cut into the amount you end up receiving.

The storyline is about an orphan girl in the early years of Great Britain, Mary «Jacky» Faber, who has to disguise herself as a boy to sneak onto a Navy ship just to have a chance at life.

Researcher Richard Wiseman, a professor at the University of Hertfordshire, has studied and written extensively about good fortune and says it's not chance at all, but a certain way of living that makes some people more serendipitous than others.

To drive engagement, the company enlisted Likeable to launch a #purebarrelife campaign, a contest which asked clients to share personal stories about integrating Pure Barre into their daily lives through text, photos and videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest for a chance to win prizes.The company enlisted the agency's help because Likeable has the expertise to navigate the challenges involved in running a national social - media contest, such as time demands, possible legal issues, and the unique rules and guidelines of each individual platform.

«Because the chance of death is really quite small at the ages where people would begin to think about buying life insurance, delaying from age 25 to 30 wouldn't raise the rate a lot,» he said.

So maybe Ford took some chances, creating spots in which McConaughey just kind of meanderingly freestyles his way through various quasi-philosophical musings about Lincoln and the meaning of life (it's all been compared to his «True Detective» character).

This time, Wix.com launched its Super Bowl marketing campaign on Facebook Live, debuting a video featuring action movie stars Jason Statham and Gal Gadot fighting in (and destroying) a restaurant while a distracted chef in the kitchen reads about a new Wix contest offering users a chance to win up to $ 50,000.

It's life in the business food chain; the chances you can sit out there with your idea and not worry about someone coming after you — either to buy you or bury you — are slim and none.

The calculations therefore become simply academic gymnastics that help us feel better about our chances of living a comfortable retirement.

When I was with others on the battlefield and we saw a chance to save a life, we didn't have a meeting about it; we acted immediately.

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

Thank you so much for sharing your experience about trading and giving me a chance to change my life!

Chances are that you have heard about the Paris terrorist attacks, due to which, over 130 people lost their lives, and hundreds more were injured.

When you gather women investors, advisors and financial experts together, it's a great chance to talk about women owning their financial lives.

The percentage chance of succeeding with this scenario is about 90 % for the amount we need to live that included an assumed 3 % average inflation rate.

If you think about it, everyone will have the chance to be baptized (whether living or not) and accept Jesus as their Savior.

Me personally would like to believe so and I do.If there is not god life is pretty pathetic if your think deeply about it.Theres always going to be someone who says no this is how something is or this happened exactly like this I know for sure (ha ok)... On another note instead of acting like you really do know everything maybe broaden your horizon and try church or read the bible and give God a chance.

Or how about that the odds that the universe would be able to support life by chance alone is 1 out of 1 followed by 1230 zeroes.

Through them all we learn finally what Sukhanov thinks must be the meaning of his life: «And it was only after twenty - three years of mute crawling through the mud» only after he had felt the smooth taste of betrayal on his lips and the chilly weight of thirty pieces of silver in his sweaty palm, only after he had learned about the slow fattening of the soul, the anguish of wasted chances, the pain of love slipping away, the soft, horrifying slide into death» yes, it was only then that the elixir of life was granted to him and his resurrection assured.»

Well, if we take your statment, «All we know so far about life in the universe is here on Earth so it's safe to at least theorize that alien life forms have a very good chance of being bipedal and humanoid.»

If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by scientific training into the conviction that life originated spontaneously on the Earth, this simple calculation (of the 2,000 proteins coming about chance) wipes the idea entirely out of court.»

It is a chance to say a word about their lives as a kind of testimony in miniature or to add a coda to the sermon by pointing out something that, in their opinion, the preacher left out or got wrong.

Anyway, I was thinking about that word «undignified» after that come - to - Jesus moment a few weeks ago, and realised that I've almost always found God most in my undignified moments — by dancing ridiculously, by telling secrets, by being willing to be foolish, by taking chances, by working hard, by engaging in the mess and weirdness of family life, all of it.

He said that he always talks about the death and resurrection, but that if someone believed in Jesus for eternal life before he had the chance to tell them about the death and resurrection, he thought they would probably go to heaven, but wasn't sure.

Then recently the scientific community finally concluded it is virtually impossible that the life sustaining nature of our universe and earth could have come about by chance.

The nice thing about online forums like this one is that they let us know that we are not alone and they give us the chance to work through some of our new ideas without jeopardizing those «real life» relationships that are too fragile to handle brutal honesty.

So, that would mean that whether in this life after this life I do believe that everyone will have the chance to learn about the gospel and make their choice.

The odds of the finely tuned universe we live in coming about by chance are so unlikely that it's difficult to conceive of the astronomically large numbers involved.

I believe that no one does the math — the logic of math is in favour of creation over evolution — «random chance» aka evolution is mathematically to astounding to believe — Alfred Hoyles number don't lie... and dna is a code — random chance can not create a code sequence nor can random chance ever improve itself... just think about it — mathmatically speaking there is a god or creator or creators of the code for life.

But I think that to go on to create life without intervening (ie place the right chemicals within lipid bubbles to create cells) may require a ton of random chance, and could take a lab the size of the ocean, and about a half a billion years to work.

If he knowingly commits a post-24 weeks abortion, based on such stringent life and health criteria, the doctor must certify his judgment about the threat in writing; acquire the concurrence of a second doctor in that judgment based on a «separate personal medical examination» of the woman; perform the abortion in a hospital; employ procedures designed to maximize the unborn child's chances to survive; and have a second physician present, ready to consider any surviving child his primary patient.

Thanks for give me a chance to write some thing... about human beings life related to religions.

You lost me when you got up and sang on Sunday morning about not judging other people until we walked a mile in their shoes — yet denied a gay couple a chance for a happy life together.

His openness to speaking and listening resulted in beautiful «chance» conversations about the life of Christ and the Eucharist.

No matter where Jesus is, it is time to stop living in the past and in the future and to start living right now, because whenever the end comes, that is when it will come — in the now — and meanwhile, our best chance at discovering what abundant life is all about is to start living into it right now, not only one by one but also all together.

And if I want them to pray, I must pray, and if I want them to know God as love and Abba, and I want them to know that He is very fond of each of them, and I want them to forgive and offer grace and second chances and love tougher, well, then, here we go, I'm about to live a better truth with my life.

The one of the best, if not the best, ways to get people's attention about Jesus Christ is exemplify Him in our daily lives and talk about Him when the chance arises with those who do not know him and haven't accepted Him as Lord and Savior.

I do believe that those who never had a chance to learn about the gospel in this life will get that chance after this life.

Instead of you being concerned about the welfare of these eternal souls as to wondering whether or not they will get the chance for salvation, you get hung up on that somehow because not everyone will get that chance in their mortal lives that somehow that means that God is biased; that in my beliefs as to how God gives out those opprotunities that it doesn't meet to your specifications, then that automatically means that God is biased, when in my beliefs the point is that no matter how you slice it everybody whehter in this life or afterwards will get a chance at learning about the gospel and make their own choices as to whether to follow the gospel or not.

It wasn't about showing off or showing status or making others feel bad; it was a chance to do something special for the One who gave me the chance to be freed from sin and to live eternally.

YOU can take your chances on feeling good about yourself to represent a power of evil... that has no respect for life or creation!

As far as evidence goes, he was written about in multiple biblical sources, which obviously you won't take into account because you believe the bible to be fantasy, but when you think about how all biblical books were written at different times, in different places, by different people, you can at least say there is a decent chance he lived.

Now, realistically, the chances of somebody actually believing in Jesus for eternal life without knowing anything else about Jesus or the Gospel are very small.

It gives us all a chance to explore so many of those key questions about life that we all want to ask, but people tend then to find something much more personal and intimate in the process.

I watch newscasts about homeless people here and abroad, about war torn countries where people are slaughtered or sold into slavery, about children who are born with aids and die before they have a chance to live, about victims of earthquakes in China, orphanages, starving children, disease, and the list goes on and on and on.

Third, I wrote a while back about how Susan Boyle reminded me that the Kingdom of God is among us, and how eternity will allow us to be and do what we were made for, even if we don't get the chance in this life.

The nineteen women who write about their defiance of what is aptly called medical eugenics are also heroines who gave life a chance and who write movingly of their joy in having resisted the «choice» that others tried to impose upon them and their children.