Sentences with phrase «as the occupations of»

As our occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq turned into major fiascoes, discrediting our military leadership, ruining our public finances, and bringing death and destruction to hundreds of thousands of civilians in those countries, I continued to ponder the issue of empire.

Personally I think there's a lot more to be gained via UK Uncut's genuinely peaceful, creative & artistic protests, as well as the occupations of various universities etc, where the occupied premises have been put to use serving their local communities.

Not exact matches

«The fact that a person may be employed as a computer programmer and may use information technology skills and knowledge to help an enterprise achieve its goals in the course of his or her job is not sufficient to establish the position as a specialty occupation.»

The technical feasibility of automation is best analyzed by looking not at occupations as a whole, but at the amount of time spent on individual activities, and the degree to which these could be automated by using technology that currently exists and adapting it to individual work activities.

Here are eight findings from our research, highlighting the automation potential of each sector — providing some technical indicators as to which occupations are most and least likely to go to a machine.

In management occupations it's 2 %, and within that category, unemployment in «business and financial occupations» as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is a near - invisible 1.7 %, equaling the lowest unemployment rate among all job classifications economywide.

This group of occupations has an unemployment rate of just over 1 per cent and wages that are «rising by an average annual rate of 3.9 per cent — more than double the rate seen in the economy as a whole.»

«What we do know is that the total number of Russian troops on Belarusian territory is not expected to exceed 3,000 personnel,» Gorenburg wrote, and «the likelihood of this exercise serving as cover for some larger nefarious aim, whether it is an attack on Ukraine or Lithuania or a stealth occupation of Belarus, is practically zero.»

If we can get all these occupiers who slept in parks for a few months all to start creating cognitive dissidence in their cities and pull off surprise occupations everywhere, then there will be a sort of low - level rumble of discontent that keeps on disrupting business - as - usual.

With, Amazon Career Choice, Amazon pre-pays 95 percent of up to $ 12,000 in tuition, fees, and textbooks for its hourly associates looking to earn certificates or associate degrees in high - demand occupations such as aircraft mechanics, computer - aided design, machine tool technologies, medical lab technologies, and nursing.

In contrast, when new immigrants are more fluent in English, as the Trump - backed proposal would encourage, the types of occupations they are qualified for are almost identical to those of American workers.

The Jewish Daily Forward referred to Johansson's affiliation with the company as an unhelpful «normalizing» of the Israeli occupation.

About 20 percent of teens want to work as musicians, athletes or video game designers, even though these kinds of jobs only comprise 1 percent of American occupations.

H - 1B visas allow companies to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialized occupations, which was a practice that was of particular use to tech companies as the digital boom began to take off.

The bill would revoke a law that allows for the suspension of various different licenses issued by the Division of Consumer Affairs ranging from occupations such as architecture and cosmetology to dentistry and social work (just to name a few).

Then came last month's NDP convention, where delegates behaved as though they just couldn't wait to turn their party into a kind of wholly - owned Canadian subsidiary of the American anti-war left - adopting even the exact wording of what is essentially a brand - name American slogan that refers to the U.S. occupation of Iraq: Support Our Troops.

In fact, because it includes a wide - range of occupations, a growing care economy should be a boon for men as well as for women.

If you work as a federal employee such as a teacher, or for a nonprofit, you may not want to refinance your federal loans since these occupations are more likely to be eligible for loan forgiveness after making regular payments for a set number of years.

The region also boasts one of the largest STEM workforces in the U.S. as more than 80,000 are employed in these highly specialized occupations.

Many people are employed in occupations that require them to sit for extended periods of time, such as office workers.

«All workers will need to adapt as their occupations evolve around increasingly capable machines... professionals of all stripes must quickly realize the growing importance of soft skills.»

Employment of economists is projected to grow 6 percent from 2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations.

In fact, the IRS is very clear that you can only deduct job hunting expenses if you are looking for a job in the same line of work as your current occupation.

As an occupation, massage therapy is in high demand: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 26 % growth in massage therapy jobs between 2016 and 2026, a much higher rate than average.

While about half of the 65,000 worker visas issued in 2014 under Zuckerberg's favored immigration program, H - 1B, go to the tech industry, the other half go to people working in various other occupations such as architecture, food service, and health care.

Wages and salaries vary widely across the country, including within specific occupations, as does the share of household income local residents are accustomed to dedicating to housing costs each month.

To apply, customers provide information such as occupation, main source of income, income before tax, SIN, and others.

Kansas City fared better than New York City and Los Angeles in metrics such as tech workers per capita, share of workers with a Bachelor's degree or higher, entrepreneurial growth and share of «knowledge» workers, defined as those in occupations such as architecture, social science, health care and education.

The writ petition filed by Kali Digital claims that the decision of the Reserve Bank to deny services to crypto traders and exchanges violates various acts of the Indian constitution - Article 19 (1)(g) and Article 14 - which promise individuals a fair treatment among the eyes of law, as well as the freedom to practice any business or occupation of their choice.

There simply is no correlation between the occupation of clergy to pedophilia just as there is none to hom0s3xuality and pedophilia.

«To write on literature or art was considered an honorable occupation,» he wrote in 1997, «whereas any time notions taken from the language of religion appeared, the one who brought them up was immediately treated as lacking in tact, as if a silent pact had been broken.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

The errors in estimating the costs of the war, the incompetent planning for the occupation, and the failure to understand the sheer length of the commitment are at least as important in understanding questions of when, if, and how, the U.S. should get into wars.

For those who by occupation or obsession (or a mix of both) monitor such things, the Times is as good a window as we have into the perversities of what passes for — because, unfortunately, it is — our high culture.

It should give one pause, however, that Abraham Lincoln was quite comfortable with the idea that law is a business as well as a profession, and that his idea of virtue in a lawyer was not much different from common decency in any other occupation.

It seems like Christians get indirectly blamed for the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, because the U.S. is a majority Christian nation and is viewed as Israel's chief supporter.

Presumably the people who produce them listen to the Rolling Stones, follow occupations and strikes on television, and go to the cinema to see a Western or a Goddard; only in their capacity as producers do they make an exception, and, in their analyses, the whole media sector is reduced to the slogan of «manipulation».

Yet in the sixth chapter of Acts Stephen is chosen as one of seven who will «wait on tables,» an occupation...

This is now being properly researched by historians like Dr Foa, who insists that, as a result, we can be sure that the «more recent image of the aid given to Jews by the Church arises not from pro-Catholicideological positions, but above all from thorough research into the lives of Jews during the occupation, from the reconstruction of the stories of families or individuals.

Bandwagon «wave - of - the - future» theology has proven to be a very hazardous occupation in an era of accelerating change, especially when the continuities of history are not as evident as its discontinuities, and when the media focus the public eye upon society's distortions rather than its solidities?

Having spent my whole life listening to stories of German occupation I am full of warmth after reading this story - My grandparents and other relatives lived throught the war and some escaped the Nazi regime as well.

Over against the desire to uproot, the creational mandate revels in this - worldly occupation, preferring to flatten out apocalpytic into the idea of a Christian society as the natural outgrowth of human life.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

Our principal form of struggle is the occupation of the «latifundia» but also other forms such as, notably, walks.

From time to time crises such as strike action remind people that they are dependent upon one another, but for the most part they live and work within the confines of their own occupation, and there is extraordinarily little communication of ideas of any significance.

In answer to a question about the attitude of churches to the occupation, I was criticised for implying that I regard the Messianic churches as an abomination.

Do you dare think of your occupation it as a responsibility for eternity?

642) after Amr Ibn al - As had concluded the occupation of Egypt, but the effective invasion came some forty years later under the Umayyads who established a Muslim Arab garrison town at Qairawan near Tunis.

Therefore, my listeners, in the carrying out of your occupation, which we have assumed to be something good and honorable, are the means without exception as important to you as the end?

On that account, if you should ever be almost ashamed of your mean occupation, because, among the world's distinctions, it is so mean, the transfigured one's visit to you as an individual will give you the courage of frankness.