Sentences with phrase «at the role social»

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Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto has resigned to accept the role of chief executive officer at Social Finance Inc., according to both companies.

Less than a month after the Jan. 20 luncheon, the first lady announced she had hired Niceta Lloyd to fill one of the most coveted behind - the - scenes roles at the White House: social secretary.

Experts suggest that machine intelligence is at its best in roles where minimal amounts of social intelligence, creativity, or insight are needed.

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of social news site Reddit and partner at startup accelerator Y Combinator, talks about how platforms like Kickstarter are making his role as a startup investor more challen...

and very likely you've looked at third parties and tried to get some ratings and assessments from other people like you: That's a primary role of social media.

At a recent Nasdaq luncheon Q&A, Schultz was challenged about his expansive view of «corporate social responsibility»: Was it not the role of the corporation simply to maximize profits for shareholders, who in turn can use the proceeds to do good in the world if they choose?

She went to NYC for Twitter and ran the social network's North American media partnerships business before coming to her new role as Chief Strategy Officer at Diply.

Darren Rowse @problogger Blogger, Speaker, Author, Podcaster and Online Entrepreneur — Owner and Editor at Problogger Presenting: The Changing Role of Blogs in a Social Media Age

Prior to joining Social Capital, Ashley held product management leadership roles at DocuSign, Optimizely, and SurveyMonkey, joining each as an early employee and playing an integral role in their respective hyper - growth phases.

From May 2011 to November 2012, Mr. Gupta served in two roles at Zynga Inc., an online provider of social game services, including as Senior Vice President and Treasurer.

Stamos, who joined the social giant almost three years ago after a very public stint in a similar role at Yahoo, ran the team inside Facebook tasked with hunting down ads related to the Kremlin's efforts to sow unrest in the U.S. ahead of the presidential election.

While federal and provincial governments will continue to play an important role investing in infrastructure, they simply do not have the resources to meet the demand — pegged at somewhere in the neighbourhood of $ 500 - billion — without a large increase in tax revenues or drastic cuts to social programs.

Beyond her role at George Brown, she also sits on the boards of numerous organizations, which give her a 360 - degree perspective on the social and economic challenges facing the GTA.

The need for deeper advisor awareness and understanding of the broader role Social Security claiming strategies can play in creating a secure retirement was becoming abundantly clear and it was at that point I realized a firm dedicated solely to the education of financial professionals made sense.»

On the contrary, it's the combination of owned, earned, shared and paid media connections — with social playing a crucial role at the heart of our activations — that creates marketplace impact, consumer engagement, brand love and brand value.

Although I frequently find myself at odds with First Things over issues pertaining to economics and the role of government in public life, I usually find its critique of American social mores and ethics to be insightful and illuminating.

Sure, religion plays a role in legitimizing power and rationalizing colonization (just look at the Spanish conquest of the Americas, for example), but if the Abrahamic holy books were really a good social agent the rest of the world would be imitating the most backward parts of the Middle East.

Every time I talk about social capital to people in Britain or Sweden or France, and then talk about the role of religion, people start looking at me strangely.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

At least we are doing no better or worse as married individuals than we are doing in our other social roles.

As sex roles fall, as more and more women and men refuse to play along for profit and social gain at the expense our true selves, the heterosexual box begins to weaken.

And so in Christianity we again come upon that mysterious law of additivity and social heredity which in every field governs the processes of Life; while at the same time the fundamental role of education is again manifest, as the human instrument of divine instruction.

But he never asks what social, economic, political and ideological forces were at work in the creation of the modern scientific world view, any more than he looks at the role of those forces in the eighteenth century celebration of it, the romantic reaction against it, or the nineteenth and twentieth century codification of positive science.

But he is so adept at playing social roles that his manners in another sense please everyone — everyone but the perceptive Fanny, who takes time to look and think.

In either case a claim for experience is being made, whether at the historical or the redactional level: that religiousness can be a social neurosis which blocks the healing of others and oneself, and that its resistance to healing arises from the splitting - off and repression in oneself and in society of what is unacceptable to consciousness (hence the role of forgiveness in the story).

The scholar's task in exegesis is obviously to explicate the social roles of the two figures, explain that the hearers would at first identify with the Pharisee as the bearer of religious and social status, and then suffer shock and consternation at the wholly unexpected justification of the publican.

They had been at least minor movers and shakers in their communities, people who felt some responsibility for what went on around them largely because of a match between the moral teachings they grew up on in church and the possibilities inherent in their middle - class social roles.

The same difference in response holds true for making contributions to the local church, for participating in nonworship activities at a church, and for social attitudes such as upholding the traditional role of women, being dissatisfied with today «s moral climate and holding traditional and more restrictive sexual values.

Again and again in reading the works of these and other critics of the role of technology in the contemporary world, one comes upon the claim that at the core of the modern dilemma is the association of scientific and technological rationality with power, control, and domination — where these are seen as operative both in the natural and social realms.

But, curiously, what has not changed at all is the underlying principle of every variety of culture - religion: that the churches should reflect the moral concerns of their social milieu; even more, that the faithfulness of this reflexivity is the criterion by which the legitimacy of the churches» role must be judged.

Most Likely to Totally Nail It in Less Than 600 Words: Mason Slater at Deeper Story with «Gender and the Gospel» «So then part of faithfully proclaiming that Gospel is proclaiming to the people of God that gender, social class, and ethnicity do not define who God can use and how he can use them... So yes, I think the neo-Reformed movement is right, gender roles have everything to do with the Gospel.

Even a glance at the issue's table of contents shows the article by the Acton Institute's Kevin Schmiesing, «Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,» which highlights and quotes CA: «The pope approves of that capitalism «which recognizes the fundamental and positive role of business, the market, private property, and the resulting responsibility for the means of production, as well as free human creativity in the economic sector.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Rachel Holms, Walkers senior marketing director at PepsiCo, says, «We are seeing an increase in social occasions, and while savoury snacks are playing an increasingly important role, there is no mainstream «perfect snack» for this occasion.

After all, the company was founded in response to academic research proving that even small cash rewards triple the effectiveness of weight - loss programs; that people are more effective at losing weight when their own money is at risk; and that social dynamics play a large role in the spread of obesity, and will likely play a large role in reversing obesity.

Paddy Power are world - renowned at this stage for their creative, humorous and often controversial advertising campaigns and one or two bookmakers deserve mention for the role they play in social sports betting.

In each role, he has been helping children, adolescents and families explore issues, such as social difficulties with siblings and classmates, attention and behavioral issues at home and school, emotional issues such as defiance, aggression, addiction and self - esteem, and the vital role living a balanced and simple life brings.

Block grants are a favorite tool of conservatives to shrink the role of the federal government and reduce the size of social programs, but as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities well articulated in a statement hastily released yesterday, block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at risk:

I was very drawn to the themes of gender roles and reproductive justice within social movements and finished out my time there in an internship at DDESER (Network for reproductive and sexual rights in Mexico).

By regularly attending services and social events at a place of worship, your toddler will come to see that spirituality plays a central role in the life of the community.

The term «birthmother» was invented to limit our role in our children's lives to 1) being production units («breeders» as social workers also called us) whose sole purpose was to serve a genital function, and 2) to having only been parents at the time of birth, but not afterwards.

Depressed mothers are often overwhelmed in the parenting role, have difficulty reading infant cues, struggle to meet the social and emotional needs of their children, and are less tolerant of child misbehaviour.7 Offspring of depressed mothers, particularly if they are exposed to depression in the first year of life, are more likely to be poorly attached to their caregivers, experience emotional and behavioural dysregulation, have difficulty with attention and memory, and are at greater risk for psychiatric disorders throughout childhood.8 Home visiting focuses on fostering healthy child development by improving parenting and maternal functioning.

They particularly looked at the role of social support on the mother's feelings of self - efficacy — the mom's beliefs about her ability to be successful in the parenting role — which is known to be important in postpartum depression.

As mentioned earlier, I'll be on Digital Politics Radio at 3:30 Eastern this afternoon to discuss the role of the internet and social media in the North African revolutions.

Turning to young people, the mayor said: «There are still deep social problems that we've got to address by looking at what happens in the lives of young people, their role models, their ideals, what they want to achieve.

The state has a vital role to play in both ensuring that all companies that operate under its jurisdiction meet their social obligations (by, for example, taxing them on all revenue generated within a territory), while at the same time promoting forms of corporate governance that cement company independence as a means of protecting against the abuse of economic power.

Defining our offering to the electorate through our traditional values of personal liberty, social progression, meritocracy and a radical shakeup of the establishment - all of which I believe are at the core of Tim's beliefs - will help to make sure the public have a strong instinct of what the party stands for, why it's not a «split - the - difference» party, and why it plays a crucial role in British politics.

But that the concerns over Facebook and Twitter were clearly overblown (Prime Minister David Cameron at the time considered «restricting» social media services) does not mean that digital technologies played no role — they are, after all, integral to much of what we do, legally or otherwise, today.

Miriyam Aouragh discussed the useful and useless roles of the internet in the Arab revolutions by revisiting mainstream narratives on its role, and satirising the surprise voiced by some observers at Arabs» use of social media.

In doing so, Macmillan pays specific attention to the role of concepts such as honour and masculinity and the overarching interaction between these archaic codes of behaviour and the social changes occurring at that time: «As Europe went through its rapid social changes in the last part of the nineteenth century, honour became both an attribute that the old landowning classes could cling to with increasing determination as something that distinguished them from the newly prosperous middle classes and, for the socially ambitious, a mark of a higher and better social status.»