Sentences with phrase «by social choices»

The city was gutted by that social choice

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Instagram is quickly becoming the social media platform of choice — by both consumers and brands.

Throughout adulthood, we have a choice to pursue greater likability or greater status - a decision made so much more difficult by the growing number of platforms (reality TV, social media, etc.) designed to help us gain status.

«Throughout adulthood, we have a choice to pursue greater likeability or greater status - a decision made so much more difficult by the growing number of platforms (reality TV, social media, etc.) designed to help us gain status.

When speaking with my own clients who are aspiring or practicing content creators, I always help them boil down their niche as a creator by having them fill out the following statement: «I want to become the go - to authority on [insert your niche here] on [insert your social media platforms of choice here].»

Financial Engines, a defined - contribution managed - account provider, estimates the average single retiree leaves more than $ 100,000 in lifetime benefits on the table by fumbling his or her Social Security choices.

«We've created this social construct where your working life ends at 65 and retirement begins,» says Sinha, whose own parents are both still working as physicians — by choice, not financial necessity — in their 70s.

One barometer he's set begins in a social scenario — in this case a party — where a woman is complimented on her dress choice, and she responds by crediting the luxury designer who made it, rather than the store where she bought it.

Of course, Robert's choices are limited by the era's social, economic and political forces.

If, instead, social networks force users to slow down and consider choices from a list of reaction options, they might be surprised by the results — not to mention how diversity might put a wrench in the popularity plans of those who default to like - ing everything.

Irregular Choice support this by way of product launches on advertised dates and times and then market these within emails, around the site and on social media.

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Tough Choices for Canadian Labor Law, The Social Policy Challenge 10, by Roy J. Adams, Gordon Betcherman, and Beth Bilson.

By hosting all compliant branded content on one easy to use platform, employees can — in one click — share these on brand messages to the social network of their choice.

An income annuity may be the right choice for you if you have a need for guaranteed lifetime income; you know your retirement expenses won't be covered by other income sources, such as Social Security; and you have assets outside of the annuity to cover unexpected expenses.

I do think that how liberal - leaning journalists interpret events is powerfully and often unconsciously shaped by their social networks and that this influences their coverage choices.

Personal commitment, personal choice, faith as pure subjectivity, social liberations advanced by organized groups of self - designated victims - these become the substance, or rather non-substance, of the Christian faith.

It carried to fulfillment a long development of thought, disentangling persons from submergence in the social mass and giving to each one status, meaning, and rights of his own; it concentrated attention on the spiritual value of personality and its possibilities; it created a religion to be entered by free personal choice, regardless of race or nation; it set persons to building a social fellowship for the redemption of souls; and it proclaimed as the ultimate goal of divine creation and human hope the kingdom of God in «new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.»

In the life of a given individual, a way of experiencing is a result of both habit, itself conditioned by social and historical circumstances, and choice.

Social progress can well be measured by the criterion of personal liberty, and the level of civilization may properly be rated according to the range and variety of choices people can make.

A voucher for specific social services, provided directly to clients by the state, could be redeemed by clients at an organization of their choice — and that organization could be as secular or as religious as it wanted to be without raising any constitutional difficulties.

In any case, the assumption that social policy will be improved by giving freedom of choice to self - interested individuals is not obviously very good Christianity.

Rodney Stark's rational choice theory of religion has energized the social scientific study of religion by being big and wrong.

Like the pastoral letters on economics produced by America's Roman Catholic bishops nearly two decades ago, such ecumenical social teaching would not prescribe specific policy choices, but it would insist that concern for the common good and the building up of community are requirements for any economic system.

Every year at Liberty University at least some students, as do students at commencement ceremonies everywhere, express disagreement with the school's choice of speaker, but never has their discontentment been so amplified by both national media coverage and the power of social networking.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

He wrote, «there is involved here the... profound choice between religion as a form of social behavior rationalized and directed by intelligence and religion as a philosophy in which the historical and social elements of an organized movement are to be ignored».

«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

The fluid social construct of «gender» is entered by way of the choices of the autonomous individual.

This rights - based ethic is being challenged by the growing recognition among feminists that the notion of «choice» may be a myth; that not only social attitudes but public policies that promote so - called «free choice» can be subtly coercive.

The choice of clothing is a form of social communication, by which one can (for better or worse) say something about the order of one's life.

But the more basic insight that I take away from my memory of Hindenburg (or whoever it was) in his bathing suit is that it is important to guard the presentation of one's physicality in public, simply because the choice of clothing is a form of social communication, by which one can (for better or worse) say something about the order of one's life (and by saying it, reinforce it).

Our private and public choices may become dominated by the desire to preserve a way of life, a pattern of social relationships and even religious rites that we find comfortable.

Both generations are expressing themselves — especially on Instagram — through their restaurant decisions and meal choices, says Jodi Sweetbaum, president and managing director of Lloyd & Co. «Not all, but many young people are elevating their status by expressing themselves through food on social media,» she adds.

Food choices influence body weight and are shaped by environmental factors, including physical, social and policy, collectively termed the food environment (2).

I have taken a much - needed break from social media not necessarily by choice but by necessity.

, an international social group for people without children, and one by Laura S. Scott, author of «Two is Enough: A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice,» couples often decide not to have kids because they want to put their relationship first — having kids can get in the way.

When I interviewed Eric Anderson, an American sociologist at England's University of Winchester, a few years ago, when his provocative book, The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating, was published, I was disturbed by his claim that cheating is a rational choice for people constrained by the social dictate of monogamy.

How we feed our babies is often influenced much more by our social location - if we can afford professional help, if we get maternity leave, if we go back to a job with flexibility, if we have a partner to help - than by our choice or effort.

I told the social worker that I wanted to keep him - I was told that I had no choice by to sign.

This website, from Enviromedia Social Marketing, founded by Valerie Davis and Kevin Tuerff, lets consumers report brands that use vague of misleading claims about health benefits that make a food seem like a smart choice when it is not.

Advocating for adoption should not be about decreasing the number of abortions, it is not just a pro-life choice - it is a legitimate pregnancy option that is not owned by any political party, religion, or social movement.

However, as a society, we can support their choices by making sure that everyone has access to reliable information and by creating a positive environment so that breastfeeding mothers aren't subject to social stigmas or value judgements for doing what, after all, is only natural.

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The main choice was between the incumbent Hugo Chávez, backed by a coalition of progressive and left - aligned parties and social movements, and Henrique Capriles Radonski, a state governor with strong ties to the country's elite, who had formed a right wing coalition known as the MUD.

A recent survey by the Fabian Society indicated that 52 % of respondents believed those living in social housing were stigmatised by their choice of tenure.

Thinking about it, the closest analogy I can come up with is a discussion at a party — again, strangers brought together through a social connection, participating in a conversation by choice in a public place.

For example, greater «choice» in social housing allocations is determined much more by supply of housing than by housing allocations policies.

Whereas, throughout America's history, New York State has been a leader in civil, human, and social rights; this is well illustrated by the number of suffragists who called New York home and the choice of Seneca Falls for the first Women's Rights Convention held in 1848; this momentous event outlined certain rights that women should be granted, including the right to vote, thereby sparking the nationwide crusade for women's suffrage; and

John Denham, the Skills Secretary, will tell a rally tomorrow: «We have got into a terrible mess by counterposing ideals like individual aspiration, or choice in public services, with the virtues of social solidarity and collective strength... trying to tailor individual policies to different groups of voters is a political dead end.

The social justice and social action group chaired by Iain Duncan Smith - an ideal choice only to lead a one - way march on the South Pole - is expected to demand a tougher line on family values.