Sentences with phrase «against the pressures of»

He was speaking in a religious context but nevertheless, his basic premise — that meditation can protect against the pressures of modern life — is one many secular experts would happily endorse.

When I began teaching I tried — against the pressures of institutional structures — to maintain positions both in the seminary and in a pastoral counseling center.

This experiment will illustrate what can happen when the changing pressure of condensing steam goes up against the pressure of air, which remains relatively constant.

Firm your belly against the pressure of the elbows.

Playing out somewhere in between Schindler's List and The Diary of Anne Frank, Director Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness tells the tale of one man's struggle to justify what he knows is right against the pressures of the time, his personal ambitions, and the unpredictable nature of war of weather.

In the upcoming sequel, the eponymous, underappreciated moms are fighting back against the pressures of the holiday season, but their lives become even more stressful when their own mothers come to visit.

In his review of DeFeo's posthumous 2012 - 2013 retrospective — her first — at SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum, critic Peter Schjeldahl hypothesized the origins of her obsession with The Rose: «I surmise that she was hampered by, even while being nurtured on, a scene that was dominated by men... It's conceivable that her withdrawal into obsessively reworking The Rose amounted to a tacit protest — a standup strike — against the pressures of her milieu.»

TO the 21st century art expert, it is a masterpiece that acts as a «buttress against the pressures of modernity, mass production and global capitalism».

And unlike his Abstract Expressionist forebears, for whom the painterly mark was often an index of the individual artist creating against the pressures of the external world — a reassuring gesture against the anonymity of modern times — Bradford's self - articulation emerges through the found objects of his modern environment.

Grueso has been widely perceived as one of the most inspiring leaders at the forefront of Latin America's «Black environmentalism» movement, one of the most exciting and important grassroots movements in recent times for championing human rights and the environment against the pressures of the global economy and military repression.

The 2013 report by the UN Special Rapporteur found that action on fully autonomous weapons is urgently needed to reinforce the international legal framework «against the pressure of the future... while it is still possible.»

Not exact matches

Mobile phone proliferation, cloud services and social networking have coalesced into the perfect pressure situation, where people are now more aware than ever that they are generating a good deal of data that can be turned against them.

WASHINGTON — Seeking to intensify pressure on Russia, President Barack Obama on Thursday expanded U.S. economic sanctions against Moscow over its actions in Ukraine, targeting President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff and 19 other individuals as well as a Russian bank that provides them support.

The sanctions are the latest against third - country companies and individuals in an effort to exert greater economic pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime, which has conducted regular missile and nuclear tests in defiance of United Nations resolutions and has developed weapons that may be capable of hitting the continental U.S.

That has cranked up pressure on Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi to resolve a political crisis or risk losing control of parts of Baghdad even as the military wages a counter-offensive against Islamic State in Iraq's north and west with the help of a U.S. - led coalition.

Without evaluating each skill against a standard, Turner says,» you might find yourself being pressured in your mind to pick the best of a bad lot instead of running the whole thing over again.»

Officials in Washington put pressure on their Colombian counterparts to bring down the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers and their partners in the early and mid-1990s, after years of what seemed to be little official action against their activities.

Some of the larger banks put a lot of selling pressure on their clients during the downturn, and there will be some backlash against them as things recover and debt becomes more available.

NEW YORK, Feb 5 - The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Monday as the U.S. bond market selloff levelled off after the 10 - year yield hit a four - year peak on worries that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates faster to counter signs of wage pressure.

In a legal filing on Monday, ETP asked a judge to grant the permit, saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in its decision, responded to «political pressure and an escalating campaign of violence and disorder waged by protesters» against the project.

Kvisle's aware of the pressure and the daunting odds against the natural - gas - weighted producer in an era of fracking - induced abundance and rock - bottom prices.

And given all of the pressure on Kroger, Cramer cautioned investors against investing in any of the grocery plays.

The dollar was under pressure, with the index down by 0.64 percent around Europe's close, against a basket of foreign currencies.

Salesforce came in and pushed the governor of Georgia up against a wall over a anti-gay legislation, and this week, Apple, Google and Facebook are among the companies putting serious pressure on North...

Munoz is under pressure to contain a torrent of bad publicity and calls for boycotts against United unleashed by videos that captured Dao «s rough treatment by airline and airport security staff.

Some of the newer guilds are trying to speak for contingent workers of all kinds, making it far more difficult to organize and apply pressure against any one company or sector.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

«Against a backdrop of overwhelming corporate pressure to free - up capital and reduce future spend - to the detriment of production growth - there is considerable scope for this wall of output to get pushed back further if prices do not recover and / or costs do not fall enough,» the Wood Mackenzie report concluded.

Yet Mr. Trump's immigration order has been so unpopular with so many tech workers — many of whom are immigrants themselves and who advocate globalization — that they are now exerting pressure on their chief executives to push back forcefully against the administration.

The pressure of real wages against living costs is enormous for the average American.

As US consumer prices declined unexpectedly on a month - to - month basis, Treasury yields retreated, while the Dollar remained under pressure against the Euro (although a break above 1.24 didn't happen in the EUR / USD), while the safe - haven Yen regained some of its recent losses against the Greenback.

Against a backdrop of deflation around the world, China's producer price index and purchase price index have been dropping for several years, and the latter is lower than the producer price index, further indicating that China shouldered the external deflationary pressure.

Though no amount of disclosure would help customers at «Amalgam» and Wells Fargo from fake accounts, perhaps banners like these would have at least armed customers — especially some of the more vulnerable ones — against pressure to legally sign up for a new account.

Though no amount of disclosure would help customers at «Amalgam» and Wells Fargo from fake accounts, perhaps banners like these would have at least armed customers — especially some of the more vulnerable ones — against pressure to

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

It's unfortunate for those who lament the rising costs of property in Greater Vancouver that the pressures of the capitalist economic system also weigh in against slowing down the accelerated growth and demand.

A pressure cooker environment is also described in a lawsuit filed by the city of Los Angeles against Wells Fargo in 2015.

For example, the cost of setting up a full - service state of the art pressure washing cum cleaning facility which has the following features: a seventy foot fully automatic tunnel; 3 high pressure wand self - service bays; 5 vacuum stations complete with fragrance and carpet shampoo dispensing machines, Insulator washers with a pump pressure of about 1000 psi and a nozzle pressure between 500 and 750 psi, centrifugal water pump, stainless steel water storage tank, high - pressure water hose, high - pressure dead - man type water wash gun, electrical grounds for the wash gun and washing system and chemical supplies for cleaning are same especially when bench — marked against the US Dollars.

It is possible, against a background of increasing inflation and a strengthening labour market, that the survey is signalling some pick - up in underlying wage pressures, but at this stage the extent of any such pick - up is difficult to assess.

Q: There's a lot of pressure and a lot of expectation that the young Prime Minister of Canada will lead the global resistance against Trump.

That downward pressure prompted the Swiss National Bank last week to abandon its effort to cap the value of its currency against the euro.

High prices, plus the added pressure of the necessary emissions standards, mean Canadian manufacturers are struggling to remain competitive against companies in China where such standards don't exist.

The dollar came under heavy selling pressure against most major currencies in the wake of the Fed's announcement, which triggered a round of complaints from emerging markets worried about controlling inflation and maintaining their global competitiveness.

Last year, Mr. Trump held off imposing tough trade measures against China because, he said, Mr. Xi was cooperating in his campaign to pressure the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong - un, over his nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

More specifically, it is against the law for a bank to «impose undue pressure on, or coerce a person to obtain a product or service from a particular person, including the authorized foreign bank and any of its affiliates, as a condition for obtaining another product or service from the authorized foreign bank.»

Accusations of price gouging against drugmakers and regulatory uncertainty ahead of the new presidential administration next year pressured XLV despite the earnings bump.

Friday saw heavy selling, as well as an increased use of futures and options as hedges against the market — actions which placed a tremendous amount of pressure on stocks.

The Board's decision to increase the cash rate in March was taken against the background of strong demand pressures combined with a significant pick - up in upstream prices during the second half of 2004.

The retail sector is under increased pressure from rising e-commerce threat which has caused many large brick and mortar stores to down shutters.However, Realty Income is quite insulated from this risk as 97 % of its total portfolio is protected against retail e-commerce threats and economic downturns.

A few dollar - denominated commodities moved higher on Friday in response to a weaker U.S. Dollar, a drop in U.S. Treasury yields and softer - than - expected U.S. economic data.The dollar was pressured against a basket of currencies after the initial reading on first - quarter gross domestic product came in at 2.3 percent.