Sentences with phrase «benefits than challenges»

The age difference however has provided more benefits than challenges that the couple could have faced.

Instead, he fell in love with a woman eight years older, an age difference that has provided far more benefits than challenges — except for one thing.

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And like us, Ravensburger is a family - owned company that has thrived for more than a century by staying true to its mission — a belief in the benefits of challenging the mind and the importance of creative play.

Prodding your people to be less conflict adverse can lead to real benefits, according to Thompson who cites recent research that shows, «brainstorming groups that engage in open debate, challenging each other in benevolent ways, perform better than groups that don't have any debate at all.

Arsenal fans, and the media, have been crying out for new signings but let us not forget that despite a raft of injuries we have a team that came very close to challenging Chelsea for the league last season and a settled, connected squad can reap more benefits than a disjointed collection of individuals that require time to settle in and gel with each other.

His performances on the wing for Germany in the World - Cup suggest he is more than capable of showing positional versatility if it will benefit the overall team and should be up to the challenge.

There are a number of options available in the market, which poses different challenges for the buyers rather than just benefitting them with various options.

Indeed, it would not make much sense at all if the incremental benefits from devolution were little greater than the cost of its collection, challenging one of the key principles of taxation, the canon of economy, espoused by Scotland's own Adam Smith.

«Our current pension and benefit structure is simply not sustainable,» she said, but offered no specifics others than adding, «I urge both the mayor and our city's labor leader to be equally open to negotiating and making fair and responsible changes to meet the difficult challenges ahead.»

More than seven months after these very serious allegations by the NPP neither the NDC nor its NEC and other members who benefitted from the loot have issued any action to challenge the allegations against the Party and those other members mentioned.

«There is great potential through the connections to the east and west coast main lines for cities other than Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds to benefit from HS2, but the challenges around realising these benefits must be tackled now to ensure these locations do not fall behind.

A study by two bipartisan groups estimated that the country's poorest families would lose more than $ 2,500 in average annual health care benefits once the legislation was fully phased in, illustrating the political challenge the GOP bill poses.

«I look forward to it bringing real benefits to Welsh farmers, more important than ever in the challenging times ahead.»

Brian Fusco, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association trustee who announced today that he'll challenge union president Pat Lynch in the next election, told Capital on Tuesday that he plans to focus on Lynch's inability to secure a labor contract and other benefits for members, rather than on Lynch's combative posture toward Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Now a study finds that research that challenges a bilingual benefit is less likely to be published than studies that find one.

The challenge drew inspiration from a similar competition at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) focused on influenza prediction — a field that has received more scientific attention than chikungunya and benefits from an annual influx of data during the peak season.

We want to world to be able to benefit from the program and what we would love more than anything is to hear about your experience in participating in the 30/30 Squat Challenge.

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

In an article titled «All Around the Block: The Benefits and Challenges of a Non-Traditional School Schedule,» Michael D. Rettig and Robert Lynn Canady estimate that «more than 50 percent of high schools in the United States are either using or considering a form of block scheduling.»

While self - care is more of a habit or practice for your own well - being than an actual classroom management strategy, the benefits include improved executive function, greater empathy, and increased resilience — all qualities that will empower you to make better decisions when confronted with challenging classroom situations.

Held to a higher standard of accountability than traditional public schools, but with the benefit of added autonomy that puts local school leaders and teachers in charge, Tennessee's public charter schools are empowered to create a challenging and focused learning environment for students, while giving parents even more direct and meaningful opportunities to participate in their children's education.

With the benefit of significant research on this topic (much of it by the authors of these guidelines) and sobered, like them, by the «hype cycles and the techno - romance of emerging technologies» (Hicks et al., 2014, para. 5), social studies scholars today have a better informed and more theoretically sophisticated perspective concerning the affordances and challenges of digital technologies in social studies teacher preparation than once was the case.

Rather than repeating an academic program or retaking it in a novel way, many of these youth would benefit from the structure, support, and goal orientation of programs such as YouthBuild or the National Guard Youth Challenge.

Doug also helped raise more than $ 6,000 in the Corvette Challenge Bike Race to Fight Cancer which benefited the Lance Armstrong Foundation by racing C6.R driver Oliver Gavin in a lap around Road America.

Ciando views this is as a benefit, rather than as a challenge.

The decline of defined benefit pension plans outside of the public sector, coupled with the rise of self - employment, contract work and precarious, part - time labour have made saving for retirement more challenging — and more important — than ever.

While federal loans are often easier to obtain and can have better terms than private student loans, it is still necessary to know all of the benefits as well as challenges that may accompany them.

There are plenty of benefits to having a multi-cat household — but having more than one cat can also bring its fair share of challenges.

The immediate challenge however is one of devising, then agreeing, international policies and actions that can guarantee results and benefits for the more modest 50 percent target, recognising that this is not strong enough for a safe climate but much better than no target at all.»

The purpose of the challenge is to help people realize that they need much less than they may think; that it's possible to make do, even thrive, with fewer belongings; and that there are surprisingly benefits to be had by paring down one's material possessions.

As much as we like to tout the benefits and advantages of sourcing more of our food locally, actually getting homegrown and local food on our table is a bit more challenging than it ought to be.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

The UK's three major, publicly funded programmes completed their work in 2014, concluding that geoengineering would be «more expensive and challenging» than previously thought and have limited benefits.

People have responded successfully to other major environmental challenges such as acid rain and the ozone hole with benefits greater than costs, and scientists working with economists believe there are ways to manage the risks of climate change while balancing current and future economic prosperity.

i. amending the proposed project agreement so that no reduction in the total wages and benefits, expressed as a rate, of an employee represented by the bargaining agent challenging the project agreement is greater, proportionally, than the largest reduction that would apply to an employee represented by a bargaining agent that gave notice of approval of the project agreement, and

Because of their distinct treatment under the Internal Revenue Code and ERISA, tax - exempt and nonprofit organizations face different benefit - design challenges than for - profit organizations.

Even if successfully challenged there is no significant consequence other than having to pay the benefit that was otherwise owed.

One challenge in spinning off its gas network into a separate company and making it attractive to investors was the amount of debt it could hold relative to its assets — it would need to be higher than the energy regulator's limit, while at the same time needing to maintain an investment - grade credit rating so it could benefit from cheaper borrowing costs.

Backgrounder discusses how these policies reject the legal principles (including the thin skull doctrine) and instead try to «medicalize» the decision - making process through not only challenging causation but use of «expected recovery times» — rather than individualized assessment — as a tool to cut off benefits.

In spite of big headline life insurance challenges like Heath Ledger and David Carradine, the truth is that life insurance companies would rather pay a death benefit than fight legal battles and get bowled over by bad press.

Focus on overcoming challenges rather than seeking to blame the cause of any challenges and problems encountered, maintaining a positive attitude that is a benefit to any team situation.

Hard - working and goal - oriented professional with more than 15 years of experience as an analyst now seeking a challenging position of a senior analyst in an organization where I will get an opportunity use my all skills to benefit the organization

The experiments responded to a fundamental challenge: Low - wage jobs often leave families only barely better off financially than even subsistence - level welfare benefits.

Comparison of Primiparous and Multiparous Mothers: Healthy Families Program Participation, Outcomes, Challenges, and Adaptations, FY 1999 - FY 2010 (PDF - 316 KB) Galano & Huntington (2012) Pew Center for the States Presents an analysis and comparison of the participation and outcomes of mothers of multiple children and first - time mothers in Healthy Families home - visiting programs in Virginia to examine the idea that first - time mothers would benefit more from these services than mothers with previous children.

By the 1990s, articles on Indigenous health accounted for more than 4 % of all pages of the MJA (Box 2).7 At the same time, Indigenous scholars such as Lester - Irabinna Rigney began challenging dominant knowledge systems in their writing on Indigenous epistemologies and articulated their own research agendas and methods.25 A global Indigenous reform agenda developed, which aimed to decolonise and dismantle Western research practices by asserting an Indigenous perspective on research and ensuring that benefits flowed from research to Indigenous people, were in partnership with Indigenous people, and were driven by Indigenous people's agendas.25 - 27