Sentences with phrase «bear on the study»

Since the three books were written the most important development bearing on the study of the origins of Christianity has undoubtedly been the discovery and the progressive investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This was an effort to bring the methods and models of the natural sciences to bear on the study of history.
All this is self - evident, and yet we have largely neglected to bring discourse analysis to bear on the study of religion within the social sciences.
Vanderbilt University's Institute for Public Policy Studies will use a $ 140,000 grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to bring the information contained in an international electronic database to bear on studies determining how public policy affects childhood poverty in the United States.
The students objected to having their time taken up with tests that had no bearing on their studies, at a time when some students didn't even feel safe inside the school.
Linda Nochlin, the perspicacious art historian who brought feminist thought to bear on the study, teaching, and exhibition of art, reshaping her field, has died, according to people close to her family.

Not exact matches

Millennials — Americans born in the 1980s and 1990s, also referred to as Generation Y — will spend $ 69 billion on discretionary items this year alone, according to data from a recent Harris Interactive study.
«Studies of CEOs have shown that those who are first - borns tend to run their companies conservatively — improving things by, say, streamlining product lines, simplifying distribution routes and generally making sure the trains run on time,» Kluger wrote in an article for TIME.
Earlier on Friday, U.S. health officials published a study estimating that as many as 270 babies in Puerto Rico may be born with the severe birth defect known as microcephaly caused by Zika infections in their mothers during pregnancy.
The study, like most research done on our galaxy and space in general, uses models born from calculations.
That research actually bears out an earlier, more detailed study that Yesware conducted (albeit one that examined substantially fewer emails — about 500,000, focusing on sales emails).
A study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch bears this out: They found that students who turned in work at regular intervals during the semester got higher grades than those who chose to turn in all their work on the last possible day.
Born in Germany, Roscheisen, 48, studied engineering at Stanford University with Larry Page and Sergey Brin and went on to found an email messaging company with Page's brother that Yahoo later acquired for $ 450 million.
Generation Z, those born 1997 to present, now represent 27 percent of the U.S. population, a larger group than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information company.
Vancouver's steady population growth, in particular its unusually high percentage of foreign - born residents, is the basis of this confidence, said Mario Lefebvre, the director of the board's Centre for Municipal Studies, in an analysis released on Thursday.
Plus, it's just plain smart to study something that will have a major bearing on one's future career.
Subsequent studies have borne out this view (Abramson et al. 1988, Herman and Chomsky 1988, Entman 1989, Chomsky 1991, Dahlgren and Sparks 1991, Greider 1992, Barnet and Cavanagh 1994, Krugman 1994), From 1972 to 1992 there has been a steeply rising curve of money and time spent on political campaign media, especially television, and it has directly matched a descending curve of actual political participation (Phelan 1992).
Now, with more study, we could probably get more specific about the actual year Jesus was born, but for our purposes this morning, we are more interested in the day of the year on which Jesus was born.
While Reform's growth could be challenged based on their redefinition of Jewish identity (to include those Jews born of a Jewish a parent), what can not be waved aside is the very noticeable emphasis it is placing on ritual adult education and Jewish study.
At this point our discussion of the institutionalization and polity of a theological school in chapter 8 comes to bear on the discussion of a theological school's course of study in this chapter.
Rather, the proposal is that study of every subject matter that is selected for study (using whatever academic disciplines are appropriate) be shaped and guided by an interest in the question: What is that subject matter's bearing on, or role in, the practices that constitute actual enactments, in specific concrete circumstances, of various construals of the Christian thing in and as Christian congregations?
That a theological school inescapably has some concrete identity and ethos does not mean that it schools by focusing study only on congregations whose own identities bear the strongest family resemblances to the school's identity.
Gazing out over the dark sea they study for themselves the lapping of waters along the hull of the craft that bears them, breathe the scents borne to them on the breeze, gaze at the shadows cast from pole to pole by a changeless eternity.
I was born into the «lucky one», as you say, but I have studied Religion & found that while it works as a crutch for ppl whilst on Earth, it makes no difference which religion — or lack of one — you are born into!
Another is the study of the social background and situation of the members composing the group, these factors having a bearing on its nature and structure particularly in the case of transitory phenomena (meeting, festival).
The article recounts how an ambitious team of research psychologists undertook to study the entire group of children born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, beginning with prenatal histories taken from the mothers and following up on each child's development at ages one, two, ten, eighteen, and again at thirty - one or thirty - two.
Nor have they drawn on the empirical studies bearing on the stability of «sexual orientation» or on the lives of children raised by same - sex couples.
The term «Slactivism» was born in 2009, when academic studies discovered that people who are the loudest on social media in favor of a cause or idea are the least likely to volunteer or make a donation.
In his magnificent book Transfigured Night, a study of the Zimbabwean night - vigil movement, the pungwe, Titus Presler reports: «Charismatic renewal, conflict with demons, and the liberation of women are other fruits bearing directly on the churches» mission in Zimbabwe.»
Otherwise the judgment is based on nothing more than their having been born later than the person they are studying.
I have left the pastorate so that I can better learn and study theology, but some days, as I spend hours on boring paperwork and mindless meetings, I think to myself, «I could be studying theology right now.»
Study size has no bearing on bias.
Born in 1880, the British theologian C. E. Rolt studied at Oxford and went on to a life of promising scholarship cut short by death from a lingering illness, only months before his translation into English of the major works of pseudo-Dionysius appeared in print, in 1917.
A study of Griffin's reflections on this topic thus brings the reader face to face with conceptual issues related to this concept that would be worthy of careful philosophical attention even had they no immediate bearing on the traditional problem of evil.
Luton has had a renewed focus in Britain after it emerged that Taimour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi - born terrorist who blew himself up on a Stockholm street in December, had lived there over the past few years and studied at a local university.
As far as salvation goes with obtaining it and losing it, theirs alot more studying to do on this topic for me, as far as I know, I do nt know at this time, but I do know that my salvation lies in God's hands and not the hands of men, same goes for anyone condemning anyone else to hell, they do nt trully know because they are not God, but the Bible does tell us that we will know who does the will of God by the fruit they bear, and that a good tree can not produce bad fruit, and vise versa, but ultimatly that persons salvation is in Gods hands, and only God knows the future and what will be.
After marrying my wife in the United States on completion of my postdoctoral studies, we returned to Australia, where our daughter was born a few years later.
Born and raised in Tanzania, Dr. Latham attended an English boarding school in South Africa and went on to university and medical school studies in Dublin.
I was talking to a person if he went to church and he stated all they want is your money.You got to give your money to read books about GOD, I mean like thirty dollars and more and the same for a dvd or like if you could give 1,000 or more to keep on the air.He and I both think we are better off stay at home and read the Bible and study it.I think if you are born with the new sperit of GOD you will understand the Bible without the loss of great somes of money.After they sell so many dvds it becomes 100 % profit and they never lower the price so can obtain one.For this is wrong, it states in the Bible that this would happen preachers for money to learn about everyones GOD.They forgot one thing JESUS never forced money from you to hear the wordof salvation Im a follower of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD He is the way.Im not a so called Christian just.
This was borne out by research, such as a 2014 study by Jeremy Galbreath of the Curtin Graduate School of Business in Western Australia that found «the representation of women in both winemaking and viticulture roles has declined since 2007, despite clear evidence to suggest that female enrolments in Australia's leading oenology and viticulture degree programs have been on the rise since the 1980s».
Worst of all, President Bush (George Herbert Walker, not his son) signed an executive order stating that no safety studies are needed on GMOs because the food producer bears ultimate responsibility «for assuring safety.»
Changes will be made, some based on careful study, some born of desperation, but every change will be a gamble.
Born into an affluent family with a long tradition in Hong Kong, Fu said he spent too much time on sports during his secondary - school education at St Paul's College and failed to secure a place at the University of Hong Kong, forcing him to go to the US to further his studies.
Send your sweetie an SMS telling them that you are thinking about them when you know they are in a boring business meeting, stuck on the train in a commute, or studying up for a company test.
The most thorough of these studies, which has tracked for decades 1,000 children born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in the early 1970s, showed that children with strong noncognitive capacities go on to complete more years of education and experience better health.
Additionally, a 2014 study done in Australia on almost 25,000 women showed that there was double the risk that babies born to mothers who smoked marijuana would end up in the NICU.
My mother insists that if there were studies done on IQ on babies who were born to mothers who didn't breastfeed and if the same baby was born to a mother who did that their IQ would be lower.
+ + + Jennifer is a French and social studies teacher in Toronto on maternity leave this year with her son Sebastian who was born last May.
Daughters born to teen moms in inner - city Baltimore in the early 1960s were 3.6 times more likely to be on welfare than those with mothers older than 25, according to the study in this month's issue of the journal Pediatrics.
Another study has reported on a unique intervention previously shown beneficial for preterm infants, using a «breathing bear» with gentle body motion rates that can be adjusted to match infant's breathing rates to serve as a comforting, nonintrusive crib friend for the infant, and a reassuring aid for the mother.47 As infant can use the bear at his own will, the infant can learn that he can either approach or withdraw from the bear providing him opportunity for positive reinforcement.
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