Sentences with phrase «as challenges rather»

Exercising not only gives you a good looking body which ultimately boosts your confidence but it also results in you having a better mind set and outlook on life, allowing you to see obstacles as challenges rather than as setbacks.

In fact, 75 % of job successes are predicted by optimism levels, an environment of social support, and ability to frame stress as a challenge rather than a roadblock.

Accordingly, they see problems as a challenge rather than as evidence of their incompetence...

It's just unfortunate that a vociferous few half - wits took Pete Willett's comments as a challenge rather than the somewhat accurate portrait it turned out to be.

However, Plummer and the Grizzlies view it as a challenge rather than a problem.

It definitely pleases us that you view this circumstance as a challenge rather than an obstacle.

anti-IP crowd seem to take DRM as a challenge rather than a deterrent.

Eric # 65, Luckily there are people who regard difficulty as a challenge rather than an excuse for inaction.

Not exact matches

Blackburn conducted research focused on mothers caring for children with autism and other chronic conditions, and found that moms who were more resilient to stress — perceiving their situation as a challenge, rather than something hopeless or overwhelming — kept their telomeres longer.

Other studies by Kross suggest that, when people use their first names, they're more likely to see stressful situations (like public speaking) as challenging, rather than threatening.

«They are designed with a primary goal of engendering high levels of immersion, engagement, and enjoyment for the players, -LSB-...] They do not tend to focus on one specific cognitive skill, as exercises usually do, but rather expose players to multiple demands that challenge a broad range of abilities.»

They often see new challenges as obstacles in the path of their success rather than opportunities for growth.

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation,» she has written before recommending that, if you really want to feel jazzed up after a break, you should proactively schedule challenging or engaging activities rather than just planning to chill and take things the days as they come.

But rather, that it's a case that illustrates the challenges of leadership, and an opportunity to reflect on the ethical demands that fall on leaders in particular, as a result of the special role they play.

«I was viewed as being too ambitious and aggressive simply because I dared to challenge the status quo and venture where many women of my age and in my culture would rather not,» Kirabo tells me.

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.

Even a statement as simple as «people are less likely to be involved in accidents while Autopilot is engaged» could be misleading if drivers tend to rely on Autopilot more in ideal driving conditions, rather than challenging ones, and the distinction isn't taken into account.

ZBB can also raise communication and PR challenges, by sending the wrong signal to employees and markets; as it may be perceived as a recessionary action rather than an investment and marketing strategy.

However, the counter-argument was given that the banks recognize that these innovations are inevitable, so the banks have an incentive to be active participants, rather than facing challenges from outside, such as from global players like Google and Apple.

Rather than scrap Nafta's arbitration tribunals, regarded by some free - trade critics as secretive bodies that give private corporations unbridled power to challenge foreign governments outside the court system, the letter proposed to «maintain and seek to improve procedures» for settling disputes.

As companies realize that content publicity and link building must be a core part of online marketing, rather than just the latest SEO fad, those same companies are faced with the challenge that there's no consensus or body of research to help them pinpoint the person with the perfect skill set to do that job.

Rather than avoid volatility, we see the challenge of managing risk as trying to take advantage of the market's movements — an essential skill for any successful active manager.»

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

The proposition of gambling by New York's most high profile progressives as a solution to economic challenges would be vexing to an earlier generation of progressives who, rather than seeing it as a solution to economic woes, perceived gambling as a primary cause of them.

«Prospective employers do not want a future workforce of graduates who seem thin skinned, humourless and brittle, but rather one that is composed of well - rounded people who have learned to challenge, reject or embrace some of the new and difficult ideas they encountered as students.

The Catholic challenge seems clear: if the way forward depends on intentional communities of Christian formation rather like Benedictine monasteries, then what shall we hope for from the parishes located, as it were, outside the monastery walls?

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

They may need a gentle reminder that their success is not an unambiguous reward for virtue; rather, each new achievement stands as a challenge to learn to do good on that level of accomplishment or proficiency.1

This only proves how much failed you are from challenging the contents of the Quran and all you managed to do is making accusations with out a slightest idea of what you are talking about never even cared to take the beauty and leave out what you think of as beast rather than letting out all... but what the use of me talking to a brick of wall that has no religion faith that we can consider as a candle light to guide you to the straight paths to God..?

The second thesis of my book was that homosexuals, rather than being somehow a menace to the values of society and the family, as Christians have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society (cf. also my article «Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and the Future: The Creative Role of the Gay Community in Building a More Humane Society,» in A Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church, edited by Robert Nugent [Crossroad, 1984]-RRB-.

The NRB makes a point of not challenging the discipline of celibacy for priests, choosing rather to stress that celibacy must mean celibacy, as in chastity.

The sermons that are preached from our pulpits may not be as bad as mine was, but most Father's Day sermons tend to beat up on dads rather than encourage them and challenge them to dream big, take risks for God, embark on an adventure, charge ahead, and be a man!

We reclassify his sayings as objective teachings to which we can give intellectual assent rather than letting them strike home as the personal challenge he intended them to be.

To some extent, it recognized the emergence of new voices, but it treated them as offering new challenges to the one normative tradition rather than as an occasion for re-thinking the nature and task of theology.

The point is not that the preaching is to be a discussion of moral issues, such as might be entirely appropriate in a lecture or discussion - group; rather, the preaching is both a challenge to and a demand for a response which will represent in act that requirement of love in action in the world.

Rather, faith is the immediate occasion for challenging and developing thought so that it can better integrate itself with reality as a whole.

As late arrivals on the historical scene, those systems enjoy the challenging and difficult advantage of building new social orders, rather than operating old ones.

I see the ambiguous talk as more of a challenge to people in church, one that would spark some thought about why they believe what they believe rather than an attempt to frustrate athiests.

So in spite of my trepidation, and in awe of tradition, and knowing that this gives an impression of audacity when what I feel is rather an obligation that I can not avoid, I am impelled by my understanding (such as I am capable of) to raise this challenge.

It is often better to live in humility and talk about the challenges of dealing with our own internal struggles rather than anointing ourselves as the expert only to be exposed later on.

In all cases, however, to accept such statements as true is to challenge the full autonomy of science and history within their own proper spheres; and it is this challenge to a genuinely secular outlook, rather than any particular statement in itself, which makes classical theism so widely unacceptable to contemporary men.

What is under challenge is the view of some people as to what constitutes real Faith and real science - a rather different thing.

So, rather than criticize or challenge (which I think is fine) they build their case up with falsehood, or as the 9th commandment puts it, they «bear false witness,» or as I will put it, they lie.

There was a certain complacency, rather too much triumphalism, and a reluctance to renew theology in such a way that it could face up to the new challenges, as St Thomas Aquinas had done in his own way with his Summa.

The medieval Scottish Catholic scholar, John Duns Scotus, challenged Thomas Aquinas's embrace of Aristotelian empiricism and reason, and inclined, rather, towards a God who was so sovereign that He was entitled to behave as irrationally as He pleased.

That's why I am encouraged when I see leaders like Lee Grady speaking up on some of the dangers of such heretical and carnal expressions — Grady and others do so not as professional critics, but rather as respected insiders to the movement, and they explain the challenges well.

American dominance and isolation and perfect security ended with the launching of Sputnik and the rise of a third world with its commitment to neutrality rather than to either communist or capitalist ideologies, and it challenged your notion and mine of this country's manifest destiny to be the city on the hill, the new Eden, the covenanted people — as never before in U.S. history.

When family researchers look at how families function, i.e., how competently they handle tasks, challenges, and conflicts, rather than how families are structured, the encouragement and support of individuality and difference emerges as a key factor In other words, what is important is how people treat each other within families rather than who they are or how they appear.

In this connection, I have been particularly struck by Gustavo Gutiérrez's observation that, whereas much contemporary theology seeks to respond to the challenge of the «nonbeliever» who questions our «religious world» as Christians, in a continent like Latin America the primary challenge comes to us rather from the «nonperson» who questions us about our «economic, social, political and cultural world.»

They don't see challenges to their existing beliefs as opportunities for their theology to be challenged, but rather as obstacles or hurdles to be overcome.