Sentences with phrase «as a group tend»

It actually makes sense that so many Americans, who as a group tend to be religious, are so ignorant about religion.

But the article is directed towards athletes and active individuals, who as a group tend to get less protein than they need.

Unfortunately sleep medications as a group tend to have unpleasant side effects, so many people prefer to use natural substance such as melatonin, and others, instead.

Just as doctors often make challenging patients and mechanics often drive cars in desperate need of a tune up, teachers as a group tend to be reluctant passengers on the training journey.

Girls as a group tend to do better academically than boys.

Bull markets — periods in which prices as a group tend to rise — and bear markets — periods of declining prices — can lead investors to make irrational choices.

Some breeds as a whole take longer to reach social maturity (golden retrievers, labrador retrievers, standard poodles), while others are more open lifelong in general (scent hounds as a group tend toward being dog social lifelong as a function of how they were bred to work in groups for humans).

Moisture limited trees as a group tend to grow more slowly (have narrower rings) than trees that are not.

Epstein, Landes and Posner found that federal district judges as a group tend to apply legalistic reasoning to resolve cases rather than relying upon their own ideological preferences.

Finally, the cost to obtain a law degree and to maintain a practice seems to be increasing exponentially such that family lawyers, as a group tend to be lower paid than others in the profession.

If you look at the data, a picture starts to emerge that women as a group tend to be more sexually fluid than men.1, 2 Here are just a few examples: Lesbian identifying women are significantly more likely to have heterosexual sex (with men) compared to gay men having heterosexual sex (with women).

Not exact matches

Well, that brings up the second surprise: The presence of armed guards tends to dramatically increase the likelihood of violence and injury during a robbery, as the Center for Investigative Reporting found when it analyzed detailed FBI crime incident reports from 2007 to 2011 — which the group got through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Agencies also provide a crucial stepping stone into the job market for groups that tend to have trouble finding their first jobs, such as young workers and new immigrants.

In both cases, channelling as many warm bodies as possible to stores, where they tend to make unplanned purchases, is the goal, says Arcus Group retail strategy consultant Merril Mascarenhas.

Christoph Randler, a biology professor at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany, found that morning people are often more successful than evening people because, as a group, they tend to be proactive.

Polling is «an interesting laboratory for testing out methodologies,» he says, such as who tends to respond to telephone versus online surveys, or different demographic groups» values, which are starting to be recognized as an important factor in consumer decisions.

However, if your buyers tend to be older, getting active on Facebook might be a better choice, as 45 percent of online adults ages 65 and older maintain profiles on the site, while only 9 percent of this group is active on Pinterest.

People who support kids having larger friend groups in place of best friends tend to view these larger groups as healthier for nurturing a sense of belonging.

The latest CBO report on average federal taxes by income group was released in June 2016 and includes data for 1979 - 2013 on before - and after - tax income and taxes paid for each quintile, as well as for the top 1, 5, and 10 percent of households., [20][21] Because of the effort involved in preparing these analyses, CBO's annual updates tend to lag about two years behind the publication of the necessary SOI data.

As a group, they're more concerned with job security than millennials, who have tended to seek out companies with social missions and values that align with their own.

Millennials, as a group, tend to be active on social media — so invite your customers to leave comments and recommendations about your loyalty program via a Facebook page or Twitter account.

«For higher - education institutions, such as Wellesley, the munibond market can be a practical and cost - effective way to raise capital,» says Eric Wild, Managing Director and Head of Morgan Stanley's Higher Education Finance Group, adding: «Investors understand and trust such institutions, which also tend to carry higher credit ratings.»

Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

We tend to view other cultural groups as homogenous.

Notice that many fringe biblically oriented groups tend to be similar, even as the old WCG was very similar to SDAs and JWs, with many more breaking off that.

Many of these are reinforced by group activities based on values clarification, which tend towards rejecting external moral restrictions and setting up the individual as the judge of what is right and wrong for them.

Group polarization happens when, in the absence of diverse influences, homogenous group members tend to adopt more extreme and narrow - minded thinking as time paGroup polarization happens when, in the absence of diverse influences, homogenous group members tend to adopt more extreme and narrow - minded thinking as time pagroup members tend to adopt more extreme and narrow - minded thinking as time passes.

Thus, at the lowest level, electrons tend to unite and converge in the atom; atoms converge by molecularization, crystallization; molecules unite by polymerization; cells unite by conjugation, reproduction, association; nerve ganglions concentrate and localize to form a brain by what might be called a process of cephalization; the higher animal groups form colonies, hives, herds, societies, etc.; man socializes and forms civilizations as foci of attraction and organization.

We tend to forget that movements start locally, as small groups in many communities begin to create communications networks to exchange ideas and to support one another.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

However, as writers in this group tend to suggest, that type of argument overlooks the fact that characterizations of the «essence» of Christian faith are themselves deeply shaped by the social and cultural locations of the people who make them.

As foreign - born Americans tend to be a Democratic - leaning group (and even foreign - born Americans oppose increasing immigration), all the partisan incentives argue against Republicans» supporting increasing immigration.

Powerful groups influence the media and they tend to see the rich and powerful as the newsmakers.

As time went on several groups of verses began to grow up and tended to become independent unities as new verses were added according to the instructions given by the Prophet, who was following the orders of the Revealer SpiriAs time went on several groups of verses began to grow up and tended to become independent unities as new verses were added according to the instructions given by the Prophet, who was following the orders of the Revealer Spirias new verses were added according to the instructions given by the Prophet, who was following the orders of the Revealer Spirit.

Pluralist societies tend to view persons as individuated selves with rights and duties, who may form or leave independent political, social, business or religious associations; but socialist societies incorporate the self into an organic whole that guides each self and controls independent groups and associations.

Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at home in an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.

«Earlier anti-Muslim groups tended to be religious in orientation and disputed Islam's status as a respectable religion,» the center said.

A certain pietism dominated the West: Coast group so that its members tended to conceive of their role - as «ministering» to the people who worked in the industry.

The word Accountability reeks of the Law while God is «not keeping an Account / Record of our sins» 2 cor 5:19 Accountability focuses on self and we tend to look for our sin side as is habit in these groups... bad idea; consider Peter who said to Jesus» Depart from me I am a Sinful Man «after the miracle Fish thing.

The first group tends to take the law, see justice as its core expression, apply it in the public sector (social justice), and then see that as kingdom work.

As the chapter continues, Wright tackles postmodern scholarship, which he believes has offered some helpful critiques of Enlightenment assumptions while providing useful analyses of how certain texts might be received by particular groups, but which tends to veer into the complete dismissal of large portions of the biblical text.

As time passed, however, entire communities began to enter the churches en masse and Christianity tended to become a group affair.

As just a «group» people tend to get legalistic.

What makes matters worse is that the church as a closely - knit group tends to suppress conflict, rather than dealing with it head - on.

However, chaplains with clinical training tend to define the bulk of their work in nontraditional areas such as pastoral visitation to patients, counseling patients, teaching in in - service programs, developing liaison with the community, conducting clergy training, performing administrative work, teaching religious classes, participating in research, working with volunteers, counseling employees, and doing religious group work.

Not least since, as a group, converts tend to be more knowledgeable, more committed, more active, and more generous than cradle Catholics in general.

Informed opinion, however, agrees with Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma that there is a vicious circle at this point.8 Denied the cultural, educational, and economic advantages held by others, underprivileged groups tend to remain in this status, as in America the restriction of Negroes to unskilled labor and meager educational facilities has prevented their advancement to positions of leadership comparable with the more privileged.

Social morality is to a large extent viewed as this personal morality writ large: there is little understanding in evangelical ethics of group morality, corporate ethics or social behavior, Christian discipleship has tended therefore to be interpreted mainly in terms of individual morality and witness rather than in action for change in other dimensions such as social structures or political systems.

Though the converts of the Great Awakening were committed to the same central grouping of values and symbols as were the Puritans, they tended to hold these with a degree of absoluteness which made them highly critical of the elite in society who symbolized those values but did not live them fully and completely.

But since they tended to live a fairly isolated life of frequent travel they could not as a group be considered a community living together under orders.