Sentences with phrase «acting as breaks»

The premise of our theory is incredibly simple — The «natural» state for your body is growth, with checks and balances acting as breaks to prevent this growth.

Professor Fallon said: «This identification of an early stage cellular checkpoint that can act as a break on allergic responses has important implications for the development of new therapeutic approaches for asthma and other allergic diseases.»

Hannah's defining characteristic at the beginning of the story is her lack of agency, aside from the single act she takes of having an abortion, which acts as a break with her prior life.

From the data in this post it seems like uncontrolled fossil fuel burning is actually a net global coolant due to the sulfates, so it seems that this would act as a break on CO2 based warming effects.

Since, Coinhouse buys Ethereum from Kraken (Kraken doesn't sell ETHor BTC with Bank Cards) and acts as a broken, the transaction fee is quite high when compared to Coinbase.

Not exact matches

They seemed to be acting as if they had no fear of a war breaking out.

Even though they are not required by the Fair Labor Standards Act, if you permit your employees to take breaks, they must be counted as hours worked.

There are eight tasks in all: stocking the kitchen with food and drinks, cleaning and organizing the dishes, maintaining the supply closet, sorting and distributing the mail, tidying the kitchen, overseeing the reception area, arranging and setting up the snack breaks, and acting as ombudsperson.

While he likely got some «if it ain't broke don't fix it» advice from the well - meaning, he did the opposite and enlisted Fiona Apple producer Jon Brion to act as co-producer instead.

Similarly, J.Crew's own collection of designer staples act as a greatest hits collection of men's clothing: merino V - necks, cashmere cardigans, oxford - cloth button - downs, broken - in chinos, selvedge denim and more.

A good next move for Congress would be to launch a long - overdue update of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act from 1986, which makes it unlawful to break into a computer to access or alter information and, astoundingly, still serves as a legal guidepost today.

Under Section 179 of the tax code, explains Brian McCuller, JD, CPA, «the expensing provision allows capital investments of up to $ 500,000 for certain property to be taken as an expense deduction — rather than being depreciated break — which was made permanent under the PATH Act passed at the end of 2015 — phases out for asset purchases above $ 2 million.»

She credits her children for their support when she was moving at «break - neck speed,» and she prefers to characterize the balancing act of business and family as a series of opportunities rather than challenges.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government, which released a new state revenue report on Monday, said that «The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), enacted in late December 2017, created strong incentives for some high - income taxpayers to act fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.&raqAct (TCJA), enacted in late December 2017, created strong incentives for some high - income taxpayers to act fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.&raqact fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.»

This week, President Obama travels to Wall Street, where he'll demand — in light of the Street's continuing antics since the bailout, as well as its role in watering down the Volcker rule — that the Glass - Steagall Act be resurrected and big banks be broken up.

Whenever volume suddenly surges so massively as a stock / ETF breaks out above a tight range, it is the undeniable footprint of institutional buying activity, which acts as a gas pedal to propel the stock / ETF higher in the near to intermediate - term.

However, the broken support at $ 0.8280 and the 100 hourly SMA are likely to act as major hurdles.

An executive sponsor helps break down barriers, serve as a mentor and acts as political muscle.

The 50 % level was a key resistance level and was broken last week, so it could now act as support.

While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by President Trump on Dec. 22 provoked confusion and protest in many places, particularly blue states like New York, the corporate breaks in the law provide sudden opportunities as well.

The 23.6 % level was broken last week and could now act as support.

The inside bar strategy can act as a catalyst for an event in the market, this event is usually a simple turning point, stalling signal, or a false break.

- But the Euro Stoxx index is yet to break through resistance, and remains in the sort of «no man's land» zone of resistance around 3050 to 3100 that acted as a ceiling in 2010 and 2011, and a floor prior to the 2015 QE blow off top, and now is so far serving as resistance.

In addition to the prior high, the 10 - week moving average is also acting as resistance — remember that former support levels become new resistance after the support is broken.

As evidence, SolarWorld cites a 2014 Grand Jury indictment of five agents of the People's Liberation Army for acts of economic espionage including breaking into SolarWorld's computers.

As an indicator of your creditworthiness how much you owe and how it's broken up across the different types of loans acts as a signal about your capacity to manage your existing debAs an indicator of your creditworthiness how much you owe and how it's broken up across the different types of loans acts as a signal about your capacity to manage your existing debas a signal about your capacity to manage your existing debt.

I've been acting as a bit of a fly on the wall of this blog for a few weeks now, but I saw this cartoon, felt my heart break, read the comments, felt my heart break even more, slept on it, woke up with a still - aching heart, and so thought it appropriate that I break my silence.

As a follower of Jesus, I believe that the only thing that breaks us free from the fear of scarcity is a radical act of generosity.

If a person wishes to pursue a dubious moral course, the easy way is to disguise his conduct as the action of a free man, uninhibited by old rules, breaking loose and acting on his own.

As God is the sustainer of creation, when He is pushed away, creation starts to break down; this process and the particular acts involved with it are called sin.

Phoenix is a busy man right now - after a two - year break from acting, he can also be seen in cinemas currently as a traumatised soldier in Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here.

Performing it as a liturgical act, however, is an act which breaks it.

For example, when caught in the act of trying to break a window screen with a chopstick she had stolen from the silverware drawer, she placed the chopstick in her mouth as though she was smoking it and signed «Smoke mouth.»

11th commandment: In case you can't keep the commandments and are on the verge of breaking any of them, then try as much as possible not to get caught in the act.

Here Jesus himself, and not the disciples as above, is accused of breaking a law which required that only in extreme emergency could acts of healing be performed on the Sabbath.

He attacks them by considering iconoclasm as the first act of the Christian life: the first and continuous act, the breaking down of images through the Word.

Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh, who judge this inchoate NGO uprising as presently «the only force we see that can break the global gridlock,» finish their important study with a judgment about its high stakes: «The great question of our age is whether people, acting with the spirit, energy, and urgency our collective crisis requires, can develop a democratic global consciousness rooted in authentic local communities.

And to drive home his point, in Act II when Tannhäuser passionately breaks into the hymn again as part of the singing contest to win Elisabeth's hand, Wagner sets it in E Major» Tannhäuser sings to Elisabeth in the key of Venus.

New Delhi said: «[This unity] is being made visible as all in each place who are baptized into Jesus Christ and confess him as Lord and Savior are brought by the Holy Spirit into one fully committed fellowship, holding the one apostolic faith, preaching the one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, and having a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all and who at the same time are united with the whole Christian fellowship in all places and all ages, in such wise that ministry and members are accepted by all, and that all can act and speak together as occasion requires for the tasks to which God calls His people.»

Lear reads Plato's dialogues as attempts to explain, by the articulation of a psychology, how irony is possible: «why it is that we are creatures who, for the most part, do not grasp the real situation we are in; and how it is that on occasion an individual is able to break free of appearances and engage in genuine acts of pretense - transcending aspiring.»

If you broke up with your church, maybe it was because you did it as a bold act of self - care!

Give me a break!!!! This man is every bit as crazy as he acts and just because there are enough nuts in Texas to put him in charge there doesn't make him any more sane.

An inseparable part of the ecumenical task is to move the churches toward visible unity in, as the New Delhi statement put it (I abbreviate), «one baptism, one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all, a ministry and membership accepted by all, and the ability to act and speak together as occasion requires.»

the act of breaking said commandments is defined as «sin».

Acting in his capacity as president of the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence twice cast tie - breaking votes to gain passage in the upper chamber.

Early on, in a radical act of dispossession, Francis broke decisively with his former life as a soldier and playboy.

(c) The emphasis upon the fact that in the message of Jesus this eschatological act of God is still future, albeit imminent and even now beginning to break in, whereas in the kerygma of the early Church it is already past, although available ever anew as God manifests himself as eschatological event in the kerygma.

And Jesus gave expression to this devaluation in his own life: he broke the Sabbath when he felt that God bade him act; he excused his disciples (at least) from the custom of fasting; and the burning national question whether one had really to pay the poli tax to the foreign power of occupation (in Judea and Samaria) he answered in the affirmative, but he viewed it as a secular concern and pointed his questioners to the essential duty, «Give to God what belongs to him.»

Yes, we are still talking about a smoothie here, but trust me it can act as a de-stressing & fun study break snack / activity to get your mind off chemistry, oh wait, that's me again!

The salt acts as an abrasive to help break down the herbs.