Sentences with phrase «around a diversity of»

A California native, Christina grew up in a culture that placed emphasis on dishes created around a diversity of fruits and vegetables with a wide variety of flavors.

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «We will continue to campaign for this information to be published, as while we are not opposed to Free Schools, we do have concerns around the diversity of religious and pseudoscientific Free Schools which are being backed to open by the Government, and believe there therefore needs to be more transparency in the approval process.»

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Even as Silicon Valley is being exposed for its dark sides — everything from its diversity shortcomings, to its focus on money, to scandals around sexual harassment, ageism and the cost of living — it's provided a playbook for growth and innovation for the rest of the world.

Diversity training has been around since at least the early 90's, and has been one of the most commonly - implemented diversity practices evDiversity training has been around since at least the early 90's, and has been one of the most commonly - implemented diversity practices evdiversity practices ever since.

The Kapors, who invested early in Uber, are known in Silicon Valley for both their investing prowess but also their passion and engagement around issues of diversity in the tech industry.

When Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, the largest publicly traded company in the world, came out as gay on Thursday, it sent a pretty powerful message to business owners around the globe: Openness and inclusion of diversity are key drivers of innovation and productivity.

The latter approach yields remarkable results, according to Calgary - based entrepreneur Suzanne West, who runs Imaginea Energy and pals around with the likes of Richard Branson: «Service - based leaders — people who value diversity, inclusion, kindness, compassion, collaboration, integration, intuition, personal development, all the beautiful parts of being a human — are more powerful than those who use command - and - control,» she says.

Consider, then: at a time when most of our peers are struggling, we're a prosperous society luring talent from around the globe and sitting on an unparalleled diversity of natural resources.

You know, people may say they understand diversity, but until you have lived it and have seen and heard the stories of people around the world, you really might not understand what diversity and inclusion really is or how important it is.

More visible women investors will help to begin to turn around the dreadful track record of diversity in venture capital, they hope.

«This year's selections — independently elected by 16 committees around the country meeting simultaneously — reflects the rich diversity of America,» Elliot F. Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust, said in a news release.

As CtW commented this time around, «While Ms. Friedman herself brings a modicum of gender diversity to the board, her failure to address the board's broader composition over her 21 year tenure suggests that the board will be better served by replacing her with a fresh and diverse nominee.»

Meanwhile, God - Is Rivera, director of inclusion and cultural resonance at VML, delivered a stark warning on diversity and inclusion, saying creatives have helped create a default narrative that revolves around Caucasian families.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

A recent Deloitte survey finds employers» priorities regarding workplace diversity is centered around recruiting and the use of new tools to reduce bias in recruiting.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

It is intentional around building diversity of experience, Young said.

The council's purpose is to advance Marriott's progress around the world and ensure the integration of the company's diversity and inclusion focus across all aspects of its global business strategy.

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

... The «cambrian explosion» happened over 300 million years... and also coincidentally was around the time oxygen became a large component of our atmosphere, allowing the diversity of life to explode since aerobic life tends to be much more efficient at metabolising food.

The Vineyard is particular in that it contains a fair bit of diversity, but we rally around a common set of values (those are readily available on any or our national websites — if you are really interested).

Science has disproven that the world was created 6000 years ago in your Christian world, has disproven the church's theory that the sun rotated around the earth, that the earth is flat, that creationism is responsible for the diversity of species.

Look around you at the vast diversity of thought and expression which is the outflow of creation.

I would say that the churches we are most often engaging today are those who have some capacity to engage questions and some of the complexities and diversity around this topic.

As I rooted around in the text, I discovered several eco-spiritual themes embedded within: the mystery of creation, the goodness of nature, the power of limits, the importance of diversity and sustainability, the ecology of time, the balance of work and rest, the interdependence of everything, and a sense of place, order, and harmony.

As a result, we witnessed and experienced a rich tapestry of diversity among us... anywhere from believer to atheist... all gathered around the value of love and mutual respect.

The reasons for the lack of diversity in leadership are complex, but Henry says that proactively encouraging it can only be a positive thing: «The experience of the secular world confirms that diversity around the board table adds great value and makes sense.

Equality, tolerance and celebration of diversity all around.

Civilization has moved on to being more progressive and caring — its time this kid's religion and his family do the same Or at least stay out of organized sports and other public events if you can't handle being around diversity.

Heritage Fire will showcase more than 45 notable chefs and butchers from Colorado alongside top chefs from around the country, cooking 3,000 pounds of heritage breed animals in celebration of breed diversity and family farming.

«Diversity» and «inclusion» are terms that are thrown around a lot in recent times, and of course, people only have the best intentions with respect to these ideas.

Australia's abundance and diversity of agricultural land offers many opportunities but also presents relatively unaddressed challenges around transport costs.

People who enjoy our products come from all corners of the globe and we respect their diversity, preferences and sensitivities around dietary and religious requirements.

The mission of the World Beer Cup is to create greater consumer awareness around the world about the quality and diversity displayed by the various beers of the world.

IRRI uses the International Rice Genebank - the most comprehensive collection of rice genetic diversity in the world with around 110,000 different types of rice - as a source of rice genes associated with traits that help rice cope with climate change.

The event aims to stimulate innovative thinking around the future of agriculture as well as flavor -, quality - and diversity - driven menu R&D, connecting leaders within the volume foodservice and American agriculture industries to foster better understanding of current challenges and opportunities faced by each sector.

Despite the pursuit of early - stage geographical diversity, seeding, which has been around in one form or another for most of the tournament's history, has kept them apart in the group stage, and this strange double - helix - like relationship does the rest.

Diversity surrounds us — our family make - ups are unique, our abilities and goals differ from our friends, we have different standards of living and sets of beliefs... both across our communities and around the world.

Theme: Learning About Diversity: Diversity surrounds us — our family make - ups are unique, our abilities and goals differ from our friends, we have different standards of living and sets of beliefs... both across our communities and around the world.

While being outside all the time is very different in Chicago, she has enjoyed living here for more than 15 years, experiencing four distinct seasons and the rich diversity of nature in and around the city.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

The difference now is that the people around Gordon Brown are also making the case against choice and diversity - and challenging the key elements of the Blair settlement.»

Perhaps they don't like the way diversity puts burdens on their worklife in the form of regulations around disability access, harassment, health and safety.

Theresa May overtly framed her reshuffle around the appeal of increasing diversity in her refreshed administration.

This greatly increases the diversity of news and opinion available to online news users around the world and forces journalists to raise their game

ALBANY — The state Legislature appointed three new members to the Board of Regents on Tuesday, increasing the diversity of the policymaking board, and suggesting tensions around education policy may have eased around the Capitol.

«There are a whole bunch of different ideas floating around right now, how it can be modified but still meet the goals of increasing diversity across academic racial and economic,» said Kristen Berger of the local elected parent council.

We are particularly concerned that the additional freedoms that Academies and Free Schools enjoy around admissions, employment and the curriculum allow them to religiously discriminate more than has previously been possible in state - funded schools, and that a wider diversity of state «faith» schools are opening than ever before.

And it was that image of this city - an image of modern Britain in all its diversity, compassion and strength - that was shared around the globe.