Sentences with phrase «better advocate on»

By engaging your investors for operational assistance, you build stronger champions for your vision, and empower them to better advocate on your behalf with the outside world.

«But to be honest, I never felt that he was the best advocate on the issue, at the time.»

Not exact matches

Sinek said he also advocates for teaching kids independence and resilience; the best teachers I've found on these two points are former Stanford dean of freshmen Julie Lythcott - Haims and former Navy SEAL commander Eric Greitens.

For now, however, patient advocates are cheering what may well be the first step on the road to a revolutionary new kind of personalized cancer medicine.

The outraged scientist sued under a law governing copyright issues that Colombia created to establish better trade relations with the United States, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has been advocating on behalf of Gomez.

Masiyiwa, who sits on the Africa Progress Panel as well as the boards of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and the Rockefeller Foundation, is a persuasive advocate for development opportunities and the creation of strong government institutions.

«If employees are a company's best brand advocates, then why not let them share on behalf of the brand?»

This is intended to encourage «good faith editors,» while hanging a scarlet «P» on the work of paid advocates.

Better Consumer Understanding If you don't have somebody with a diverse viewpoint in your boardroom then you very likely don't have your finger on the pulse of a demographic group you purport to serve if somebody's not advocating for that position.

The good news is, aside from a few government - mandated requirements, the terms of your lease agreement are negotiable if you're willing to advocate on your behalf.

New York City Parks Advocates had argued the event was taking away public space from, well, the public, by setting up on Damrosch Park, an area of greenery on the Lincoln Center compound.

In fact, they have already launched a proxy fight and are committed to sending out their board director ballots to shareholders, as well as paying organizations to advocate on their behalf.

I am a huge advocate of being a master of managing our time and finding new ways to incorporate better structure into our lives on a daily basis.

«This is a conversation that obviously needs to be had,» Franco said on the program in reference to the issue, as well as to the criticism he received online for wearing a pin advocating for the Time's Up movement of women in Hollywood working against sexual misconduct and gender imbalance in the industry.

Better Markets, a non-profit organization that advocates for the public interest on Wall Street, says a potential promotion by Williams to lead the Federal Reserve Bank of New York would reward failure - because the San Francisco Fed failed to prevent widespread customer abuses at San Francisco - based banking behemoth Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), which it's supposed to supervise.

Developed by the New York Fed's Community Affairs department, the Facts & Trends series provides analytical summaries intended to present key facts on topical issues to assist governments, community advocates and others to better understand, monitor and address specific economic concerns within the Federal Reserve's Second District.

It is you and those alike you that ditched the idea of Bitcoin system in favor of something completely different, fact that r / bitcoin and all of Blockstream advocates and associates use propaganda, name calling and openly do and call for regulation and censorship, proves that all of you shit on Bitcoin system and its idea, but love to pretend to be the ones protecting it... well your propaganda won't work, there are plenty of us who do love and support Bitcoin (CASH) system and we will continue to expose your lies and propaganda.

It also offers insider details from shareholder advocates and issue experts, as well as resources for how institutional investors with a social mission can better align their values with their votes, with a sharp eye on the financial bottom line.

And anyone managing an Employee Advocacy program needs to think about how you will help your employee advocates deal with the persistent problem of information overload and how best to then act on what's important.

Steady, sustainable growth that can provide customers with a great product and security and a good quality of life to those who work at Basecamp is what Fried has focused on for his own company, and has advocated in his writing.

«We have engaged with both the prior and the current administrations in advocating on business issues that we believe are in the best interests of our consumers, teammates, and shareholders,» the statement said.

Because of the nascence of impact investing, I often found myself advocating to create a defined job focused on sustainable and impact investing across the organizations that I worked for, rather than filling a well - defined position that already existed.

This work included representing two First Nations in a successful legal challenge to the federal government's approval of Northern Gateway, as well as advocating for a strong federal oil tanker ban law on BC's north coast.

«If it touches on jobs, growth, the economy, or finance, Gary's opinion is sought and very carefully weighed,» said Dennis Kelleher, chief executive officer of Better Markets, which advocates for tougher financial regulations.

The Chairman's Council is comprised of a group of advisory firms who came together in 2015 to advise on and advocate for the Institute's Best Practices.

This paper notes the attributes of character, suggests relevant operating principles or premises for best practices based on these attributes, why these principles matter, and how they starkly differ from principles underlying common brokerage sales practices aggressively advocated by brokerage lobbyists.

«Your Facebook won't be as good while it relearns your preferences,» he said, before conceding that it was something users have been asking for and saying the company was working with privacy advocates on.

Both the Bush and Obama administrations have relied too much on endless and unproductive diplomacy and commissions, and have failed to take the concrete actions advocated by the likely GOP nominee, Mitt Romney (as well as this author and other economists).

It is also not uncommon for ICCR to invite other stakeholders to the conversation including representatives from NGOs and community groups as well as subject matter experts advocating on any given issue as a way to build bridges between companies and the communities impacted by their operations.

Well, yeah... and I mean if what someone is really trying to achieve with this is to reduce practices that in any way, shape or form could indicate that someone bears them or their faith ill will... I don't think publicly humiliating people who would take the time to look up your dead ancestor's name and then take the time to drive to a temple and then get immersed in water on their behalf so that they (by their belief) have the option to accept your religion post mortem is really misguided and contrary to the spirit of freedom of religion in what it advocates.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

Wonder as a sought - after object (as opposed to a manner of apprehending what is found) becomes, perhaps, just another way of curing boredom — Walker Percy wasn't advocating a Russian assault on Greece so that we could better appreciate the Parthenon, but pointing out how that situation, stumbled into, might force one to confront the sight as sublime.

Topher is the best advocate for atheism on the blog.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

Based on what the Bible advocates and the supposed actions of God in it, there is a good chance that those other options could involve much nicer and kinder creators.

Last week I had the distinct honor and privilege of joining a formidable group of clergy, activists, advocates, and scholars for The Trinity Institute's Creating Common Good conference on economic inequality in New York City.

After college, my ideas turned into practice, and life marched on in a series of how to be the best possible Christian, with a social justice flair (eschew money, buy fair trade, advocate for social justice causes, create programs for the needy in my neighborhood).

Lest this should be taken as a wholesale rejection of Hadith, Sir Sayyid advocates closer scrutiny of the Hadith relating to the personal habits and social circumstances of the Holy Prophet, as well as the Hadith bearing on political and administrative matters.

And they would consider it barbaric to treat any of us like, well, animals based on whatever distinctions advocates like Singer conjure.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and leading Supreme Court advocate Paul Clement — the same legal team that won Hobby Lobby — filed the petition on behalf of the Little Sisters as well as the Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust, Christian Brothers Services, Reaching Souls International, Truett - McConnell College, and GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.

However well - intentioned, the arguments of the restoration advocates are usually grounded in an epistemological skepticism that is alien to normal constitutional interpretation and harmful to the political morality on which free government is based.

And it's having a dynamic effect on the members because it empowers them to heal themselves and be their own best advocates.

Advocates of a new public philosophy for black Americans, men like Clarence Thomas, are drawing on an old wisdom, well suited for our times.

On the other hand, Calvin offers what is probably a better account of the role actually played by intelligent design among its advocates.

Thus some advocates of abortion on demand are now admitting that the fetus might very well be more than a part of the body of its mother but, nevertheless, because it is dependent on its mother for its life, she has the right to end that life if it interferes with the exercise of her own personal liberty.

Well just to play devil's advocate, and since your older posts imply that we can learn from paganism, then shouldn't we think that the pagans got right that there's a penalty / judgement / wrath to be averted but got wrong on how such a fate / judgement is to be resolved.

On Tuesday, a non-profit organization that advocates for the complete separation of church and state, as well as civil liberties for atheists in the U.S., announced that they are suspending president David Silverman.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

If we are lucky enough to be chosen, then we have the good fortune of having the resurrected dead man as an advocate, a heavenly lawyer that continually pleads our case to the creator so that he doesn't act on his overwhelming urge to kill us on the spot for being exactly how he made us.

For Megyn Kelly to argue that either Jesus, as embraced by Christians as the Son of God, or Santa, as the infinitely generous being who lives at the North Pole and delivers presents to every well - behaved child on the planet on Christmas Eve (What other possible understanding could she be advocating?)