Sentences with phrase «calling abilities for»

Stewart calls the ability for marginalized groups to seize the mic «tactical Twitter.»

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The study doesn't provide a definitive answer, but the researchers speculate that the ability to rapidly assess a situation, call funny associations to mind, or course correct when a response falls flat may account for the association between a quick mind and exceptional charisma.

I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP spill: 1) increased public consciousness of the dangers inherent in transporting oil and oil products and more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.

Terrafugia is a small American corporation that has developed a roadable aircraft called the Transition, best known for its ability for a vertical takeoff and landing and the fact that the cars are approved for both the road and air.

Also built into the wearable is the ability to get notifications for things like text messages, calendar entries and phone calls from your smartphone.

Part of Wells Fargo's success over the years has been its ability to get existing customers to sign up for new products — a practice called cross-selling.

Utilities are transforming themselves into what Williams calls «platforms,» hubs that are as important for their ability to receive power from other entities as they are for their ability to produce and distribute their own juice.

Tech executives in Idaho, for example, are calling for the repeal of a 2016 noncompete law — one of the most restrictive in the nation — that impedes an employee's ability to change jobs.

Net neutrality, or the notion that Internet service providers (ISPs) and governments should treat all online data equally, has raised many important considerations on whether the Internet should have so - called «fast lanes» that prioritize content based on the ability to pay — and «slow lanes» for providers who can't afford the special treatment.

The ability to make voice - activated phone calls is similar to a new feature that Amazon recently debuted for its competing Echo web - connected speaker.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

Microsoft itself opted for the «all - in - one entertainment device» vernacular at its launch event, where it stressed the console's ability to do video calls and control live television through voice commands.

AURA has the ability to wirelessly call for an elevator (the staff says it has a preferred one), but this time it hesitated to enter an opened elevator with several guests already inside with large luggage waiting to go to their rooms.

So for the past four years, Bailey has been using virtual PBX system 3CX, which allows him to manage his phone system via software, with features like automated call - forwarding and the ability to take calls on his mobile via VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol); a fancy way of saying that the call is relayed via an Internet connection instead of a phone line.

The company may have been founded on yoga principles, but Lululemon's real genius lies in what some analysts call the «Blue Ocean» strategy — the ability to foster new demand in an uncontested market instead of competing for pre-existing customers.

It was over seventy - five years ago that MLB player Lou Gehrig called himself,»... the luckiest man on the face of the Earth», for being blessed with the ability to spend the majority of his life in pinstripes.

There are a lot of things in government that limit the ability of the leader in, for example, making personnel calls.

In the US and Europe, deflationary pressures increase the ability of central banks to loosen monetary conditions, and because too many economists assume too easily that what is likely to be true in the US must be true everywhere, deflationary pressures in China are unleashing calls for lower interest rates and greater credit expansion in China.

A Globe investigation this summer called into question the department's ability to detect potentially dangerous contaminants, and revealed that Health Canada standards at the time did not require testing for myclobutanil and other banned chemicals.

«We've got to fix that,» Representative Luján, a Democrat, told Zuckerberg, calling for such disclosure, a move that would have unclear effects on the company's ability to target ads.

After dropping out of an elite Manhattan high school, he worked as an intern for Jim Cramer's hedge fund as a 17 - year - old and quickly impressed with his ability to call stocks.

BGV was founding investor in both companies, which are typical examples of the biotech sector's ability to generate so - called «unicorns» delivering outsized returns for investors.

RBC Insurance has launched PATH, a new travel mobile app that provides travellers with the ability to view local clinics and hospitals based on their current location, or search for facilities in other locations and / or call experts directly for emergency medical assistance.

2017.08.16 Don't forget to pack PATH on your next trip RBC Insurance has launched PATH, a new travel mobile app that provides travellers with the ability to view local clinics and hospitals based on their current location, or search for facilities in other locations and / or call experts directly for emergency medical assistance.

On either plan, you get free texting, 20 cents - per - minute calling, and the ability to use your phone in Canada or Mexico as if they were the 51st and 52nd states, with no roaming charges even for LTE.

News Release Independent Senator Doug Black calls on the Government of Canada to immediately refer his bill and the constitutional question regarding Ottawa's ability to regulate the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Supreme Court of Canada for an expedited hearing.

If you're looking for an options strategy that provides the ability to produce income but may be less risky than simply buying dividend - paying stocks, you might want to consider selling covered calls.

I'm impressed by the ability of some of these so - called Christian leaders» attempts to rationalize their support for Obama and / or his positions despite Biblical teachings.

Larry, a widely experience overseer of a denominational region, for example, has frequently observed the tendency of leaders to allow their practice of ministry to become their identity over time, meaning that their call to ministry becomes so intertwined with doing ministry in a certain mode that they lost the ability to see the difference.

A literalist?!?!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Is that what they're calling inbred rednecks who don't have the ability to think for themselves?

Don't you think that it's more likely what people call the voice of god is simply a complex awareness created by the human brain which has been evolving its ability to recognize patterns for millions of years?

It is precisely this ability of narrative not merely to order the past but to run ahead of the present, to give us an expectation, which is the presupposition for the new to be recognized as new, as the surprise that changes the plot, or what Aristotle called the peripety, the unexpected change in fortune.

This task calls not for indifference or innocence or naïveté but wisdom — the ability to assess what is going on and to appraise new possibilities.

It is proper to call him doctor of doctors, the agility of the spirit without which there would be no doctor who could give good instruction; through the treasury of his writings they have enriched all they have gained; and through his commentaries they have acquired the ability to interpret; from him I have learned the habit of meditation of the divine word; his meditation became for me the guide towards scripture; and he has elevated me towards the understanding of the books of the spirit.

You so called enlightended people sure do lack the ability to think for yourselves and sure are full of hate for those who do and who do not support your stance on something so illogical and unatural.

They called for compassion, empathy, courage, health, safety and the ability to «know our neighbors.»

When large segments of the population, like the children in a school system, for example, are tested, it is found that their abilities are distributed fairly consistently along what has been called the normal, or bell - shaped curve.

Quite often, except for the calling to do our job to the best of our ability and to do it honestly and ethically, the specific tasks of our job may not have much to do with our faith.

Your notion of a «unitive act» (the ability to conceive) as a requirement for a marriage to be called such is, frankly, extremely disturbing.

For that ability to be absent is, to me, an indication that the person might not be called to the position they're in.

Anyone who make's an argument against anyone or any idea by simply calling others idiot, is truly lacking any real ability to articulate logical reason for their opposition.

Call this intellect and will from another angle, but the ability to think for oneself and to create speech without external stimuli are essential differences between humanity and the material creation.

It is MacIntyre's contention that, in modernity, particularly in that peculiar form of modernity called liberalism, the stock of descriptions has become inadequate for our ability to act in a manner that can be intelligible to others as well to ourselves.

The fundamental requirements for a true Islamic state — mutual deliberation, knowledge and ability, justice, responsibility, and control — have been stated in many places in the Qur» an, «The conduct of affairs of those who answer the call of their Lord and who do their salat [prayers] is always by mutual deliberation» (Surah XLII, 38).»

«The Challenge of Peace» emphasized the limited ability of states to resolve conflicts peaceably; indeed, Vatican II documents called for the formation of some kind of world government.

Perhaps this is the point to pause and address the objection that has probably arisen; namely, that this view of preaching calls for more artistic ability than most ministers possess.

But courage also calls for an equally important, somewhat more passive, endurance or resilience in defeat — an ability to pick oneself up off the floor and carry on.

The process of research is one based entirely on the analysis of light, calling for miracles of patience, ability and acumen; but it is astonishingly fruitful, since it enables exact measurements to be made of the mass, energy, diameter, distance and movement of objects vast in themselves but ultra-microscopic to us because of their remoteness.

Consider the differences between the abilities and capacities called for respectively by the game of football and by farming, by creating and maintaining human communities and by painting, by physics and by the worship of God.

Clearly, in order to engage with others in a practice requires that one have a certain range of abilities and capacities that the practice may call for.