Sentences with phrase «at common denominators»

Recognizing doctors alone can't fix the maternal mental health problem, 2020 Mom looks at the common denominators in a woman's life during this time: 99 % of women deliver at hospitals and 83 % (as of March 2014) have health insurance, and has identified the best practices in our framework for change, called the 2020 Mom Project.

But it hasn't happened that way, the same sh ** keeps happening to us which means we need to start looking at common denominators.

Not exact matches

«The environment is evolving toward what I would call a highest common denominator,» says Paul Conlin, a lawyer at Norton Rose in Ottawa specializing in bribery law.

Indeed, Personal File invites a strong re-assessment of the middle period of Cash's career by providing the evidence that, while there was money to be made crafting music that pandered to the lowest common denominator, Cash worked at his own expense to develop his artistry.

Well, I see at least we have found one common denominator between the two of us: we are both 50 years old.

Given this has happened at work and here it seems there is one common denominator — me.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

At the present stage of man's development the broadcasting of public events is the most obvious example of the most significant common denominator of international acceptance.

However, offering slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received by a serious world as adequate penance.

If world society is ever to evolve, and social evolution is at least as important to man as biological, it will require a common base such as «being - before - the - cosmos,» i.e., a cosmic common denominator.

The bible was written by a few scribes for an illiterate world population who had to have their existence explained to them at the lowest common denominator.

He warns of the real danger of dialogue leading to the dilution of confessional standards, leveling out all genuine differences, doctrinal minimalism, or what he calls common denominator ecumenicity, all of which have resulted in darkening the light of truth such that «believers do not even know at what points they are really one, to say nothing of the points on which they are divided.»

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

but at the end of the day the common denominator we have on here is that we want to be successful and win the league again, which I am afraid we wont under this present regime i.e AW and his staff lets not attack people who don't share the same views as you, even though it might frustrate the hell out of yourself lets all look forward with envigorated enthusiasm to the changing of the guard

blame andnpoint the finger at everyone else except the most obvious common denominator that has been present all these years..

What we talk about here is real worship, not rituals or hierarchies or dogma, but worship, the common denominator in the mystery of God, and shared, even if it seems only wonder at what we don't understand.

Although Highbury was a library so perhaps it's the Arsenal fans that is the common denominator here??? I am one and go regularly (not regular enough as i can't afford to) and am always amazed at some of the «support» that turns up.

The CVs have common denominators, both featuring spells as a player at Mainz and in management at Borussia Dortmund.

«He has been a common denominator in City's rise too, facing them at Wembley as Gillingham's manager in the notorious 1999 third division playoff final, which many consider was the skin - of - the - teeth catalyst for City's multicoloured journey to the European elite.

Whether it is sleep when the baby sleeps, taking shifts at night, or even trading off nights, each couple is different, but the common denominator is that all parents need sleep.

And we started hearing these common denominators and so Donna and I really looked at «okay, how can we fix this problem and solution» and in 2017 we are going to roll the classic bra out, we are going to re-design the pattern a little bit to make it so it is a closed back bra with...

But those of us who fit outside of the soul destroying, lowest common - denominator style hive mind politics we have at the moment and want to see a pluralist, inclusive political system are looking for an alternative, not a system that produces more of the same.

This appears to be an option for some the existing EFTA members, at least according to some tabloids, and as Dan Roberts put it in The Guardian: «if there is no political consensus in Britain for how to proceed over Brexit, this is perhaps the lowest common denominator.

The common denominator in these aforementioned flaws, were the lack of conscience and conviction in our dealings with the electorate,» he stated at a conference with former NDC appointees at the Mensvic Hotel in Accra on Saturday 12 May 2018.

FPTP infects our politics with an adversarial approach and, at times, the lowest common denominator of argument, and this spills over into policy.

It is inevitable, though, that at least some of the various mutuals, cooperatives and other groups will prove less successful than that «lowest common denominator» - that they will, in short, make things better than worse.

The common denominator that appears to guide the presence or absence of resilience at the individual tree level was shade.

The common denominator is some kind of negative emotion, but the culture and time will determine which negative emotion is commonly provoked, whether it's disgust at bodily secretions, or dread of deities, or repugnance at sexual perversions.

The common denominator in every situation, though, was our ability to adapt and recognize that in the grand scheme of things, these mishaps were inconveniences at most.

Aging is a common denominator when we look at growth hormone deficiency causes because the pituitary gland begins to reduce the secretion volume of HGH after most people turn thirty.

Most of the women at our practice have similar complaints, and while the symptoms may vary, a common denominator exists: hormone imbalance.

Most of the women at our practice have similar complaints, and while the symptoms may vary, a common denominator exists:

It was the common denominator — if I could find a way to be completely satisfied with what I was eating, while at the same time eating less, this would tick all the boxes that I needed to tick.

Also pork dumplings are my favorite thing to order at dim sum places — I can judge how good a place is based on this common denominator.

Director Andrew Waller and screenwriter Erik Lindsay constantly (and consistently) aim Beta House squarely at the lowest common denominator, as the film possesses plenty of lewd elements designed to appeal to precisely the sort of drunken frat boys it exclusively portrays.

All the same, it's a feat to find the lowest common denominator at 40,000 feet; View From the Top would be perfect as the first in - flight offering of the new Hooters airline.

Sniggeringly mining the lowest common comedy denominator, Lucas and Moore happily poke fun at insatiable moms - to - be, dangerously pneumatic porn stars and vulnerable babes - in - arms (whose response is projectile pooing in Dave's face).

Daniel Mecca, The Film Stage Too often the filmmakers rely on lowest - common - denominator prison rape jokes and lazy plotting to allow for action - comedy set pieces, resulting in a poorly - constructed scene at a White Supremacist stronghold and a sloppy third act that feels like an afterthought.

But, fascinatingly, Catch Me If You Can resembles Hitchcock's pictures in general in its self - mocking self - awareness: Spielberg's film is a canny satire of American culture and cinema, and, shockingly, a sly auto - critique of his decades - long pandering to the lowest common denominator; to the blinding flash of materialism; and to his almost pathological desire to restore nuclear order at the cost of any faithfulness to theme and mood.

The elderly uncle character provides the same graphic bathroom scene as in the original, which is just as unnecessary now as it was then; «Death at a Funeral» is at its most appealing when it's daring and a little bit kinky, and doesn't need to appeal to the lowest common denominator in this manner.

For the most part the spoof is entertaining, but occasionally it goes too far, as it seems to be aimed too often at the lowest common denominator.

Otherwise serious scenes are punctuated with lowest - common - denominator jokes; important character moments are completely undone by ham - fisted attempts at non-sequitur comedy.

Between Greengrass and Damon, The Bourne Ultimatum moves at an impressive, exciting pace, taking care to insert proper rest periods, and never stopping to wait for the lowest common denominator to catch up.

Strange Magic, told with about a 60/40 split between «70s hits and dialogue — leading to some artful integration of song and story and some very artless attempts at integration of same — feels dumbed down, lowest common denominator.

It's lowest - common - denominator stuff to be sure, but the effects, if a little clunky at times, are routinely disgusting, contributing to an atmosphere of stifling chamber horror on this isolated Antarctic base.

The characterizations here are thin, and the acting somewhat pitched at a lowest common - denominator, sure, but the pacing is zippy, the production design colorful and the attempted imparted lessons sincere, so «Prom» generally gets a pass, at least for its target demographic.

A mean - spirited cartoon beneath a thin veneer of faux - grit, screenwriter Brian Helgeland's feature debut is aimed squarely at the lowest common denominator:... read more

«The common denominator I see in my students is that they're impatient — they realize that they can only affect one wave of kids at a time in the classroom,» says HGSE lecturer on education Robert Schwartz, director of the Education Policy and Management Program.

Unlike teaching a required course to college students with a common denominator of age and educational preparedness, the challenge at a community college is to create a supportive and active learning environment for the discussion of ideas, writing assessment, and peer reviews among a community of strangers.

Children that enter kindergarten classrooms where most of the children have not benefited from high - quality early education are at a disadvantage, as the teacher is forced to teach to the lowest common denominator.