Sentences with phrase «bonding groups together»

Rituals communicate values, which assist in reaffirming individual and collective identities, bonding groups together in common experiences.

«If you think about our evolutionary ancestors, you could imagine some kind of singing ritual to bond groups together very quickly so they could then take part in some sort of collective activity like hunting,» Pearce says.

This particular bus ride bonded our group together.

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«We don't tend to bond together like other expat groups do, and that's exacerbated in the U.S. because it's such a similar culture.

«As the EU by its nature brings so many countries together, it often jointly bats above its weight by working as a group... This helps to reinforce the political will needed to deliver aid and keep delivering,» said the statement from Bond and the U.K. Aid Network.

Bonds of an index with similar characteristics can be grouped together and will have similar risk attributes.

A mutual fund is typically made up of multiple people grouping their assets together in order to purchase more expensive stocks and bonds with larger payouts.

Their is nothing in the bible that small groups of Christians free from the burdens / bondage of institutional religion are forbidden from bonding together and going out to minister God's message to the world.

A group that does not experience such joy in belonging together is hardly likely to survive for very long, save by a superficial bonding of those who really have nothing in common.

The attachments that develop among the members of small groups demonstrate clearly that we are not a society of rugged individualists who wish to go it entirely alone, but are a communal people who, even amid the dislocating tendencies of our society, are capable of banding together in bonds of mutual support.

And Nelson has plenty of confidence in the rest of the Grizzlies, a senior - heavy group that has played together for years and formed a special bond this season, according to the team's highest profile star.

In fact, I found a group of midwife providers who worked together, so I knew if my midwife wasn't there for whatever reason, another woman whom I had bonded with would be by my side, coaching me through the process.

When people bond together, kin or not, they can become competitive as a group.

Practical jokes and pranks serve to both test social bonds and bring groups together, researchers find

It turns out that the answer lies in the interaction between the bonds that hold the atoms in the water molecule together and the much weaker bonds, known as hydrogen bonds, that are the glue holding groups of water molecules together.

In fact, they occur wherever animals live in «bonded» groups — where individuals gather together because of their personal relationships rather than being forced to by environmental factors such as a food source or safe sleeping site.

Evidence suggests that the really special thing that music does for us is encourage social bonding between whole groups of people playing and dancing together».

Now, research from the University of Oxford has shown that singing is a great ice - breaker and can get groups of people to bond together more quickly than other activities can.

«Singing's secret power: The Ice - breaker Effect: Singing together produces faster bonding in groups.»

Together with the working group around the surfaces specialist Professor Andreas Terfort (Frankfurt University), the Lindhorst group has now produced a system with which the orientation of the saccharide docking points, and thus the bonding of E. coli bacteria, can be controlled.

This excruciating male bonding comedy is about a group of friends who can't bear the thought that one of them is planning to abandon their booze and drug - filled bachelor life together to marry.

Together this group forms a bond under Leo's protection in the hopes of being able to survive this treacherous night.

Getting students to care would also seem connected with instruction that stimulates rather than anaesthetizes and a schedule keeps together students with the same group of teachers for enough time (most / all of the school day) to establish the necessary trust and bonding.

The teachers» collaborative efforts and significant time together have resulted in a very bonded group of professionals, said Malinowski.

They got the bright idea to trade cash bonds and CDS together as a group.

A group of three different credit agencies work together to calculate the score, which measures how likely the government is to make payments on the bonds that it issues once they mature.

Hedge funds and mutual funds are both actively managed investment schemes that group together various stocks, bonds, futures, options and other such investment products.

Bond mutual funds invest in portfolios of individual bonds, while stock funds invest in individual companies and group them together into a basket of securities.

Generally, 401 (k) plans let you invest in mutual funds, which group together stocks, bonds and cash.

It pools together the resources of a group of people and invests their money in equities, debentures, bonds and other securities.

We wanted to find out what would happen if we brought together a group of dissimilar bond - fund types and applied a momentum approach to that diverse universe.

You as an NRI - Non Resident Indian can think of a mutual fund as a company that brings together a group of people and invests their money in stocks, bonds, and other securities.

Bonds of an index with similar characteristics can be grouped together and will have similar risk attributes.

Sleep as a pack together in our rooms — a wonderful way for new dogs to bond with the group.

Veterinarians and horse rescues help the Havasu Falls tribe and its animals; animal welfare groups and human service agencies work together; memorandums of understanding prove imperative to partnerships; New Hampshire animal advocates chalk up a legislative victory for cats with chronic diseases; actress Adrienne C. Moore talks the human - animal bond; ways to alleviate the emotional turmoil when a dog has serious behavioral or emotional issues; how to identify cats» dental problems; and more.

He bonded with Camellia, the largest female in the group, and they were often found curled up together.

While it took more time than originally hoped to build on this early initiative, a few years later a very diverse group of companies and associations again joined together to form the extremely successful Human Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI).

Four government agencies and a nonprofit support group — the National Park Service, California State Parks, the Marin Municipal Water District and the county of Marin — have bonded together in an unusual agreement to help preserve and protect Mount Tamalpais, Marin County's signature mountain.

We were never board and the adventures we participated in soon helped our tour group bond together and become a second family.

But despite Velvet's cold exterior, she quickly gathers a group of followers that are initially together due to mutual goals, but that evolves into real bonds that slowly develop over the course of the game.

They meet together at venues like the Lavoisier Group where they bond and engage in mutual reinforcement, convinced that they possess a special knowledge that the rest of the world urgently needs

It also helps individual members of a legal group bond together as a unit.

Without a strong bond — a culture of team - building and working together, autonomous lawyers are destined to fail as a group.