Sentences with phrase «acting as a constant»

It's authority gives certainty and direction, and acts as a constant influence that guides their actions.

It speaks volumes about the Dutchman's cachet among the Arsenal fans that he remains a part of the club's culture, embedded in the surrounds of their 60,000 - seater stadium; their former striker acts as a constant reminder of the net - shaking riches that once sat in their goal - frame bank account.

This position not only protects the baby's still floppy head and neck but also acts as a constant, comforting cuddle for the little one.

«After 13 years of a Labour Government, this is quite simply a disgrace and should act as a constant reminder to those on the Labour Benches, who have already begun looking back on their time in government as some sort of golden age in which poverty and inequality were abolished.

While more research needs to be conducted on this, oral contraceptives are suspected to act as a constant antibiotic internally, slowly altering and killing off healthy gut bacteria.

Plus, sterling silver rings are prefect because they can be worn every day, acting as a constant reminder of your love and appreciation.

In Marvel comic books, Killmonger is one of the primary foes of T'Challa, acting as a constant threat and recurring challenge to his rule of Wakanda.

Those empty spaces where badges should be act as a constant reminder of what they are missing!

The other was an electric beam (well, it was blue and jagged so I'll assume it was electricity) that acted as a constant stream attack so long as the huge reticule was over the enemy and the attack button was held down.

Written in the confidential, conversational style of a good friend and delightfully illustrated by Daily Mail cartoonist Jonathan Pugh, Walking on Sunshine will act as a constant, supportive companion through your ups and downs.

Blockchain is a digital ledger that records all transactions and distributes the process of verifying those transactions across many devices to decentralize the process and act as a constant, ongoing check on the validity of each action.

For real estate professionals, the daily adversity and challenges can often drag agents down and act as a constant reminder of the difficulty of the profession.

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For the hard - pressed entrepreneur, trying to absorb and act on this constant stream of new data can result in «burnout» — what the internationally recognized Mayo Clinic describes as «a state of emotional or mental exhaustion combined with doubts about your competence and the value of your work.»

So, it's really great to use the scalable techniques of Indiegogo, as well as the curation capabilities of MicroVentures to bring this all to bear and to First Democracy VC, which is a constant balancing act because we only want to present the deals that we think have been filtered well to be presented, but we also want it to be as scalable as possible, and to have as many deals as possible, because the goal is to democratize the opportunities.

It gets constant remodeling, renovation, property acquisition, and uniformed policemen to act as parking lot attendants due to the «VIPs» who go there.

To be a loving Christian as a human is to be in a constant state of repentance for acts that are unChrist - like.

The accounts in the Gospels which pictures Jesus on constant travel, according to him, arose from the practice of plying the trade of a carpenter and the work opportunity provided by the massive building projects undertaken by the Herods.26 The occasion also helped him establish contact with various groups of people, many of those, for whom, he had later acted as a broker.27

But this constant and emphatic dwelling on the inward disposition rather than the overt act might well excite the suspicion of those who insisted on the deed as the sole visible test of obedience to the Law of God.

We recall that Newton's law for gravitational attraction between two bodies is given by: force = (Gm1m2) / r2, where m1 and m2 are the masses of two bodies, r the distance separating them, and G the gravitational constant which acts as a factor of proportionality.

This is because these factors may act as mediators and may explain the difference between home and hospital birth, and therefore holding them constant would have led to controlling for the effect of planned place of birth on PPH.

The dynamics of this stage of the conversations could be promising: Carper is acting as a go - between to centrists such as Sens. Snowe, Landrieu, Nelson and Lieberman, while Schumer is in constant contact with liberals like Sen. Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownHillicon Valley: Facebook, Google struggle to block terrorist content Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy in US Company exposed phone location data Apple starts paying back taxes to Ireland Overnight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Senate Dems call for probe into why Trump has not issued Russia sanctions MORE (D - Ohio).

The governor stated that while the apex bank and banking operators had made efforts to reduce the incidents of fraud and ensure consumer confidence in the payment system, the Cybercrime Act, if effectively enforced, would serve as a deterrent and constant reminder to those who might wish to engage in illicit activities targeting the financial technology infrastructure.

Clarke was replaced as Lord Chancellor by Chris Grayling, a Eurosceptic who was also considered far less friendly to both the Human Rights Act and European Convention on Human Rights, both constant sources of scorn amongst grassroots Tories.

Patients with sickle cell disease are commonly prescribed a daily, long - acting painkiller taken at a constant dose, and a short - acting painkiller to be taken as needed for episodes of more severe pain.

The segmentation theory of events, on which the published study is based, argues that the brain acts on the grounds of constant predictions based on previous experience; When these predictions fail, for example because there is an unexpected change of context, the brain interprets this moment as a boundary event, which delimits the neural coding of the lived experiences.

The H0LiCOW astronomers measured the Hubble constant by exploiting massive galaxies that act as «gravitational lenses,» bending light from a yet more distant object.

This results in fewer sugar spikes, which helps to prevent constant cravings and acts as a natural appetite suppressant.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

In Reservoir Dogs it acts as a framing device and a constant companion to the colourful misters.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

At the same time, to lead with grace is also to lead with a forgiving heart — to recognize, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, that forgiveness is not an occasional act but a constant attitude.

The pressure of the wheels, the constant cutting and the short clippings which are produced and act as mini-mulching heroes means the moss is eliminated too.

Older girls are a constant source of support to younger girls as well as acting as positive and inspiring role models.

DriverUp: It's a constant balancing act to get credit, collateral and pricing right in a competitive marketplace such as auto lending.

Back in the medieval times when the region was under constant threat from the Ottoman Empire, many of the villages fortified their church to act as a stronghold against advancing armies and act -LSB-...]

While the act of commanding ships may be lacking in any real depth, it does at least help to break up the constant stream of firefights that perpetuate the games incredibly short four - hour singleplayer campaign, though such a short campaign is probably for the best as the gameplay wouldn't have been able to hold up anything longer than that.

That's 50 hours of full acting, described by actor Keith Szarabjaka as a «a constant close - up.»

The result is mostly convincing, as is the acting for an amateur, but some facial animations, like Senua's constant grinning, look awkward.

In the cartoons and most of the comics, Toad acts as sidekick and constant companion for the brothers during their heroic adventures.

As social interlocutors engaged in interaction, we are presenting an impression of ourselves to an audience; we're acting out a role that requires constant management at the whim of the interaction.

The handwritten words, such as Social Engineering, Heartbroken, and This is Next, printed in digital pigment on silk polyester seemed to evoke protest signs and fluidly acted as a screen backdrop for current unrests and constant protest in society, as a murmuring of multiple voices.

Her sculptures recall the work of Eva Hesse in their pendulous, organic abstract forms, acted upon by gravity so as to be in a constant state of tension.

It should have been buckets with different size stones lodged in the outlet hole, as the GHE acts to impede the outflow of energy while the solar irradiation is essentially constant.

In concluding that Mann might be able to prove that NRO acted with «actual malice,» for example, Judge Combs - Greene writes that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigated Michael Mann's work «as a result of constant pressure» from Steyn and National Review.

And, it does not remain constant, althoughndoes act probably as a thermoregulator.

Well over half a hectare of Sedum and local grasses it will act as an insulator and keep the internal temperature of the building constant, while providing some habitat and reducing visual pollution.

Trouble with considering biomass as an energy sink, however, is that if biomass remains constant then it does not act as a sink at all — only if it is increasing.

• Libraries act as almost limitless inventory collections • Librarians act as search filters • Collection management by librarians is a constant work in progress • Statistics (usage) is a critical factor • Institutions must be able to measure the ROI on content purchases and continue to make the right choices for their constituents

The game knows this, as the few NPCs constantly poke fun at you for being a \» hero, \» and continue to take life a bit too lightly in spite of your constant heroic acts.