Sentences with phrase «as a society for»

In the past, Suffolk County officials have been reluctant to indemnify other nonprofit groups with contracts, such as the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, because of the potential exposure to damages in a lawsuit.

International groups, such as the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB), play an important role in building the mathematical biology community by holding annual meetings and mentoring young researchers.

I also think it is demeaning as a society for people to get pleasure out of watching others fight and that we should consign this public spectacle, as we have done public executions, to the dustbin of history.

Instructional technology associations such as the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education have social studies committees that interlock with social studies education groups (Bull, Bell, & Hammond, 2008).

The 2010 SEMA Show provided the collision repair industry with an expanded program that featured larger and more prominent floor space, targeted educational programs (such as the Society for Collision and Repair Specialists» Repairer Driven Education — RDE — series) and close collaboration with groups (including the SCRS, ICAR and Collision Industry Conference — CIC).

She has received accolades from many organizations such as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, New York State Veterinary Medical Society, University of Pennsylvania Alumni Award, voted Woman of Distinction by Distinction Magazine and was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a third time honoree as one of the 50 Most Influential Women on Long Island, by Newsday's Long Island Business News.

Since September 2016 he has been collaborating with Circus, in Milan, a reality born as a society for photographic services which now aims for the fusion between the profit world and social cultural projects.

The Wanderers art movement, known formally as The Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions (and less formally as the peredvizhniki or Itinerants), was formed in 1863, among members of the St Petersburg Academy of Fine Art, including Ivan Kramskoy (1837 - 1887) and (later) Ilya Repin (1844 - 1930).

From that point, the committee dug in for a great deal of research: looking at accreditation standards in other fields of professional education, studying the work of regional and national accreditation commissions outside legal education, and reviewing submissions by groups such as the Society for the Advancement of Law Teaching.

Ashurst's charge achieved immense popularity when it was taken up by conservative organisations, such as the Society for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers.

We work with many different companies, and are involved in various associations such as Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) and National Association for Professional Background Screening (NAPBS), giving us critical insight and expertise in the challenges and decisions faced by organizations today.

Sacha has more than twenty years of social work experience, which includes working on home visiting policy as a consultant to the Pew Charitable Trusts» Home Visiting Data Performance Initiative and as a Society for Research in Child Development Policy Fellow with the U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

Duane is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists as well as the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health.

Founded in 1952, NASAP thrives today as a society for a broad spectrum of professionals in the fields of education, psychology, psychiatry, counseling, social work, pastoral care, business, and family education.

Not exact matches

A 2006 study by the Society for Human Resource Management found that «as many as 40 % of workers have had an office romance.

Franklin, then just shy of her 32nd birthday and working as a research chemist at King's College in London, had to rush off to a meeting at the Royal Society and so didn't wait around for the full image to come into focus.

This organization is impactful, not only for those it helps, but for society as a whole.

«When I think of the perfect analogy for what we're suffering as a society, it's getting on an airplane,» Sutton said.

and that the ability to collect and store such vast amounts of consumers» personal data carries with it tremendous implications for both individuals and society as a whole.

Sessions has specifically cited the dangers drugs pose to society as a rationale for stronger sentences.

Unless you're living in a society with arranged marriages, however, this is much more about your children's choices than anything you can do for them as a parent.

The term can sound a little woo - woo at first, but as Li, a doctor and chairman of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine, explains, the idea is anything but New Age nonsense.

Gordon's basic argument is essentially that lawyers play too important a role in modern society for them to think of themselves as solely beholden to their clients.

«By recognizing and rewarding entrepreneurial pursuits, we're encouraging young people to use entrepreneurship as a means to a better future for themselves and all of society.»

In the end, the existence of programs such as PRISM and Stellar Wind is disheartening for Diebert, since democratic societies are supposed to be better than the less - free countries they often condemn.

«As a society we don't give you credit for not getting sick,» says Shah.

The Alaskans defend their prerogatives not simply as remediation for past mistreatment but as a tool to provide for an entire society, not just a single entrepreneur.

And for the most part we refer to it, and general consumerism, as a dark and dismal part of society.

«The researchers think pre-questions probably have this benefit because they act as an «orienting device», directing viewers to look out for specific information, and perhaps also because they reduce viewers» complacency and overconfidence in their knowledge, thus motivating them to pay more attention,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest's write - up of the findings.

As IBMers, we have learned, through era after era, that the path forward — for innovation, for prosperity, and for civil society — is the path of engagement and openness to the world.

The Index's authors define social progress as «the capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.»

In Baltimore, the FBI's operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as «a cowardly, honky group» who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous «dirty work.»

Society's «longevity risk,» as financial planners call it, has been a slow - developing crisis, more a rising tide than a sudden storm, so top investment minds have had some time to prepare for it.

As business leaders answer that question, they are redefining the role of business in society and reassessing the notion that the primary purpose of a company is to deliver profits for its shareholders.

This will further entrench the on - demand economy in society, as large companies change the ways in which they conduct business, looking to on - demand providers for services that traditionally took place in - house.

From a value perspective, if the young adults with leukemia who respond to therapy end up with more years of life — an outcome that is quite likely — then Kymriah will be cost - effective for society as well.

As a marketer, I can better target the people who see my products, and more intuitively develop products for specific segments of society.

As a society, humans will have to decide whether it is acceptable to opt for genetic or neurological enhancement once the technology becomes available.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

While it is clear that as a society, there is still a lot of work to do to advance respectful, open dialogues, the events over the weekend serve as a reminder of why we — as leaders — rallied behind the CEO Action for Diversity & InclusionTM in the first place, and how important it is to create candid, safe, and trusting environments for our employees and communities.

As increasingly fast - paced change grips our economy and society, it's clear that it's time for unions to think about doing things in a new way.

«We as a society increasingly have woken up and realized this isn't good for us,» says Shaich, when referencing the additives and artificial preservatives that have become a mainstay in U.S. food production in the past half century.

As part of the partnership, the society will be able to give its own input as it can «review, update, and develop professional guidelines for pharmacy practice, and implementation tools for digital health,» according to the Minister for Health Greg HunAs part of the partnership, the society will be able to give its own input as it can «review, update, and develop professional guidelines for pharmacy practice, and implementation tools for digital health,» according to the Minister for Health Greg Hunas it can «review, update, and develop professional guidelines for pharmacy practice, and implementation tools for digital health,» according to the Minister for Health Greg Hunt.

Farquharson's CV says he spent a summer as an intern with the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building in Northern Ireland, appeared in a rugby video played at the World Cup opening ceremony in 2015 (which Prince Harry also appeared in), and was a member of the Rugby School's chemistry club, the Blue Bunsen Society.

Silicon Valley is facing an identity crisis — once the poster child for futuristic innovation, it's increasingly seen as a bunch of rich white guys chasing money at the expense of everybody else, including their employees and society at large.

So I think as long as readers — whether they admit it publicly or not — as long as readers have a hunger for true, critical, funny stories about how the system works and about the concentration of money and power in modern society, as long as they have that appetite, then a site like Gawker.com is going to have a continued purpose.

I believe that the re-orientation of British politics under Corbyn and in particular of the Labour Party is highly beneficial, not only to the large strata within British society that have been discarded in the last 20 to 30 years, but interestingly also for British business that produces real stuff as opposed to the City of London and various other service sectors that produce precarious jobs and nothing much of substance.

Giving entrepreneurs a leg up may make the Y Combinator team slightly less profitable, but Ohanian also said that as a whole, crowdfunding is a good thing for society.

Isaac Stone Fish, senior fellow at the Asia Society's Center on U.S. - China Relations, told CNBC via e-mail that the U.S. travel ban «comes as the Trump administration is looking for other ways to punish Pyongyang for the death of Warmbier and North Korea's frequent missile tests throughout 2017.»