Sentences with phrase «achievement for which»

Following his military service in 1936, Hambourg executed a large mural for the Algerian Pavilion at the 1937 Exposition Internationale of Paris, an achievement for which he was made a Laureate of the Exposition.

The signal's role is to identify accurately, for that animal, the specific achievement for which it would now get a great reward.

So, getting students to use what they are learning and, maybe, teach it to others is the leap in achievement for which we are struggling to discover.

If there's one achievement for which the film is primed to advance, it's Anderson's markedly humane, yet still characteristically ironic, screenplay.

The detection of gravitational waves is an achievement for which hundreds of scientists, engineers and technicians around the world share credit.

NEWSPAPER obituaries of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who died last month aged 84, all highlighted the single achievement for which he will be best remembered — his work on white dwarf stars.

It is a singular achievement for which we are grateful as Nigerians.»

Whereas formerly he had believed that righteousness was an achievement for which he could work, he now radically rejected this view and insisted on the universality of sin and the power of God alone to effect salvation.

Some, like Newton, were devout Christians and may have been impelled by their faith to the achievements for which they are best remembered.

More recently there was heat for Li's performance in 2005's «Memoirs of a Geisha,» but the Academy heaped most of its attention on the film's technical achievements for which the film won three Oscars.

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The movie, which weaves together extraordinary feats of engineering and military, environmental and cultural achievements, hit theaters three days before China's rubber - stamp legislature convened to amend the constitution and allow Xi to potentially rule China for life.

The transparency of Prime's mental model is what empowers Amazon's most notable interaction design achievements for shopping: the simplicity and elegance of Amazon's recently expired patent on one - click purchases, which laid the groundwork for shopping by voice on Alexa, as well as the interactive design of Amazon's dash buttons.

Fueling the giddiness is the President's signature legislative achievement: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which slashed rates for corporations from 35 % to 21 %.

It suddenly dawns on employees that they don't understand the criteria by which they're evaluated, or how to make the case for their interpretations of their achievements.

Finn also teaches a local Junior Achievement class on «Life after High School: How to Prepare for Work,» which has actually already netted three temps for her to place.

The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

His achievements are unprecedented in the track world, and upon reading his book chronicling his journey of sacrifice — in which he overcomes obstacles while staying true to himself — you think, «This could be a winning formula for anyone who wants to be successful in business.»»

That formal process has been replaced with «check - ins,» in which managers and employees meet intermittently throughout the year for unstructured chats about achievements, expectations, goals and concerns.

While Chief of the Tsawwassen First Nation for over thirteen years, her most notable achievement was when she negotiated and implemented British Columbia's first urban treaty which is now culminating in expansive community development.

Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

«Actually Marx already predicted that there could be a kind of socialism which combined socialist principles with the achievements of Western capitalist civilizations but he didn't say how this kind of socialism would work since there was no evidence available during his lifetime,» Su Wei, a professor at a party school for ideological training in Chongqing, in southwestern China, told the Global Times.

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This effort is part of Starbucks ongoing commitment to creating pathways to opportunity for young people in Phoenix, which includes: the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative hiring fair last fall that helped 1,700 young people connect with jobs and resources needed to improve their lives; a revolutionary partnership with Arizona State University to establish the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, with 6,000 partners (employees) now completing their college degrees with full tuition reimbursement; and two Military Family stores (near Luke Air Force Base and Davis - Monthan Air Force Base) employing many baristas and managers who are veterans and military spouses.

This is a huge achievement for this coin, which was actually started off as - wait for it - a joke!

After God had created the animals, all the essential roles had been filled, but «the Divine Artificer still longed for some creature which might comprehend the meaning of so vast an achievement, which might be moved with love at its beauty and smitten with awe at its grandeur.»

But there is no industry I can think of — no sport, no science, no game, no writing, no legal system, no athletic ability, no engineering, no drug discovery, no awards for scientific achievement, no Fortune 50 companies (companies that actually make something in addition to money), no adventurism, no culinary art, no nothing in which a woman sits above all men in her field.

This Union for which we are made finds its achievement in Christ.

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

What guides Niebuhr through the various ideal types in Christ and Culture is the desire to resist institutionalization, which is why even Augustine comes up short by substituting «the Christian religion — a cultural achievement — for Christ.»

The world can never be definitively united with you, Lord, save by a sort of reversal, a turning about, an excentration, which must involve the temporary collapse not merely of all individual achievements but even of everything that looks like an advancement for humanity.

Her drive for achievement and high level aspiration are thus a type of «busy work» — a method of filling up her life with a lot of things about which she, can feel or express concern even though she realizes they are rather unimportant.

I believe you have raised a pertinent issue here though with church attendance being likened to a «badge», a sort of measurable physically viewable achievement that people measure community, commitment and faith by — which is sad in a way because the regular meetings during the week aren't always for everyone.

The person comes forth with self - respect adequate to almost any situation, with the respect for others that this competent self - respect entails, with the dignity that benefits the high achievement of competent personality, and with the freedom of personal initiative that represents a comfortable adaptation of one's personal situation to the circumstances that characterize the social order of which one is a part.

This will meet her need for connectedness... and I will have much of the rest of the day for meeting my needs (underlying motives) for achievement, independence, and positive feedback for a «job well done» (which I give to myself by self - talk).

Attempts by the academic community to erase distinctions between levels of intensity, and the «ends» of which Aristotle spoke, leave little room for the civility that is one of our society's almost accidental inventions and one of its most cherished if precarious achievements.

Do you think that the greatness of an achievement makes it unnecessary for it to ask about a trivial wrong, that is, do you think that a wrong might exist which would be something of no significance, although as an obligation it is infinitely more important than the greatest achievement!

After all I believe that we should not insult or leaders after many years of service and development... Saleh has made many achievements for Yemen which should be taken into considerations before judging him...

Charles Hartshorne had long since characterized Whitehead's achievement as recognizing the need for «compound individuals,»» but Leclerc's account spelled out the need for re-thinking our conception of «compound substance» — those physical existents which both arise out of and comprise constituent substances.

At the macroscopic level societies of occasions are preserved in their dominant patterns through adaptation to their environment.7 This adjustment is pursued ultimately not for its own sake, but for the sake of providing a stable actual world in which the constituent occasions may be nurtured toward the achievement of greater intensities of self - realization.

A monument to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.

For he places educational authority on a ground which is not merely consistent with freedom, but is also the necessary condition for the achievement of such freedom as a wise education can guarantFor he places educational authority on a ground which is not merely consistent with freedom, but is also the necessary condition for the achievement of such freedom as a wise education can guarantfor the achievement of such freedom as a wise education can guarantee.

God's receiving the world's achievements into his own everlasting life; God's remembering for ever that which is thus received; God's using for further good the achievements which have taken place in the created order — here are points which need to be emphasized when we begin to think of the worth or value of human existence.

These patriarchs had lived, and fulfilled their vocation, had done that which God purposed for them to do; now they were unforgettable, not only in the trite and obvious sense that they were great men with great achievements to their credit, but in the much more serious sense that they had altered for ever «how things were to go» between God and the world and between the world and God.

In the space of a single generation Christian communities were established in most of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, and as far west as Italy: a remarkable achievement for a society which started with a handful of humble folk from the small towns of a petty «native state».

Here are some of the factors which threaten selfesteem in the classroom: (a) Persistent criticism and shaming — Severe criticism makes the child feel rejected as a person; the need for recognition is so intense that a child will seek it in unconstructive ways if he can not get it by achievement.

They had participated little in any organization which might have demanded loyalty or submission of one's own agenda for the achievement of a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Good economists know, from work carried out within their discipline, that the foundations of their subject are virtually non-existent... Conventional economics offer prescriptions for the problems of inflation and unemployment which are at best misleading and at worst dangerously wrong... Despite its powerful influence on public life, its achievements...

which also concerns the individual».41 She illustrates this as follows: «It is not enough to criticize property rights... so long as we, as «powerless» individuals, are not able to clarify how we are entangled in the general structures, that is, how we profit from the structures and how we conform to the introverted norms that we regard as self - evident — for example, the norms of achievement, consumerism, reasons of state — and pass them on to others, even when we reject them privately and verbally.

It's an achievement in spiritual independence for me to be able to say that, in which you have had influence.

Waiving for the moment the far from settled question of the extent that Gandhi's techniques of nonviolence were adapted to the particular social and cultural situation in which he found himself, we still must ask whether we can really see the vindication of hope for the higher values in a cumulative and secure achievement of orders of persuasion over brute force.