Sentences with phrase «center of the life of»

Producing goods and consuming goods has become the center of life of the Westerners.

But because, I think, of the combined effect of affluence and the busyness of life in the city, it was no longer a center of the lives of the Catholics who attended Mass there.

He entered into the shared remembrance of Jesus which lay, has always lain, and lies still, near the center of the life of the Christian community.

Its claim is that the only Object worthy of man's worship and adequate to serve as the center of his life of devotion is the Reality that is ultimate — God Himself.

A lay leader of a congregation where worship is the spiritual center of the life of the congregation — like the hub of a wheel — reported that her pastor's gifts in worship leadership and preaching are «unequaled.»

As Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone told education philanthropist Katherine Bradley when she began her school reform efforts a decade ago, it is critical to overhaul the schools at the center of the lives of children and their communities.

More importantly, we can not ignore the consequences of American public education's failures on the very communities at which its schools are the center of the lives of the children who live in them.

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The company also required that buyers live in a city that had a Tesla service center — even though, as of mid-2014, only Beijing and Shanghai had such centers.

According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the life expectancy for a baby born in 2016 fell to 78.6 years, which is a small but statistically significant decline of 0.1 percent.

The Omaha - Council Bluffs area has a big volunteer community, an affordable cost of living, a low poverty rate among older adults, many fitness centers, and short commutes.

After the trip, Hsieh decided that Vegas was the perfect destination to grow the company: The city would be able to provide plenty of call - center talent trained in Vegas» entertainment and hospitality industries, and the lower cost of living could foster accelerated growth.

With more plastic than plankton at the center of the seas, marine life is consuming this waste.

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

When the Pew Research Center surveyed thousands of Americans about their social media lives, they discovered that 44 % of Facebook users «like» content posted by their friends at least once a day, with 29 % doing so several times per day.

This is amply demonstrated by a 2012 survey of retirees by Bankers Life and Casualty's Center for a Secure Retirement.

The National Weather Service called the rainfall event «unprecedented», and while the National Hurricane Center's warnings of «catastrophic and life - threatening flooding» have subsided, the floodwaters in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana will take days, if not a week, to retreat.

«Right now, there is absolutely no question that there is an association between having a history of repetitive hits to the head and later - life neurodegenerative disease, and in particular chronic traumatic encephalopathy,» says Dr. Robert Stern, professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and director of clinical research at BU's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center.

He has long been a key power center in the Trump Organization and a fixture along the edges of Trump's nascent political life.

One of my favorite quotes is by Katherine Center who said, «You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs.»

The meals, which were developed internally in about two months at the company's culinary innovation center, have a shelf life of three days.

«CEO life has become politicized,» said Charles Elson, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.

Apple and Microsoft are betting that people still want to make the television the center of their lives.

But even the company's seemingly eccentric decisions are centered on Sears's old expertise: becoming an inextricable part of consumers» lives.

«Walmart's vision of the future is centered around people — by serving the communities people live in and the people who work at Walmart,» Walmart chief information officer Clay Johnson said in a statement.

Last week the company said it is rolling out a worldwide private network and load balancers of its own to speed file access for the 75 % of its half - billion users living outside the U.S. (Dropbox still uses AWS data centers in countries that mandate that user data stay local.)

Leiweke is the former president and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), the international sports and entertainment company that owns the reigning Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings, the reigning MLS Cup champion Los Angeles Galaxy, a stake in the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, as well as sport and entertainment facilities such as the Staples Center, the Home Depot Center, the L.A. Live entertainment complex, and other high - profile venues around the world.

The concept of phubbing (using your phone while someone talks) centers around the fact that we think there's something more interesting in life.

He battled an alcohol addiction that nearly ruined his life from the age of 17 to 31, when he finally went to a treatment center.

FedEx managers and employees live by what the company calls the Purple Promise: «Placing customers at the center of all we do.»

The 7 Line Army, as it's become known, packs fans into the center field stands at Citi, bringing life to the stadium — and giving the beer vendors some of their busiest days of the season.

Like Steve Jobs (who was so insistent that employees bump into one another that he placed Pixar's single bathroom at the center of the building), Pogue recommends motivating people to leave their normal workspaces by making life a little less convenient.

One out of every four American Internet users — about 33 million people — has rated a product, service, or person online, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an initiative of the Washington, D.C. - based Pew Research Center.

The move into the refrigerated section is part of a broad push by consumer packaged food companies to get their products into the perimeter of the supermarket, which has experienced more growth as consumers move away from the processed and packaged fare that tends to live in the center of the store.

Minutes after the governor announced in a press conference Wednesday that electric generation had reached 50 percent, a power outage affected the north of the island, crippling San Juan and forcing the closure of several shopping centers, where those living without power or air conditioning shop and take refuge.

I wanted cycling to be at the center of whatever I did in my life.»

Thirty - six percent of Millennials — otherwise known as Generation Y, which includes those born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s — were living with mom and dad last year, according to a report by Pew Research Center.

Turczynski and his wife enjoy attending «TPC Cafes,» financial life planning group discussions hosted by their planner, Marty Kurtz, founder of The Planning Center in Moline.

Vasilis Fthenakis, director of the Center for Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University, and Ken Zweibel, former director of the Solar Institute at George Washington University, concluded it was «not only technically and economically feasible, it might even be more practical than a traditional wall.»

The mindset of today's 20 and early 30 - somethings have given rise to human - centered technologies that are transforming the way we live and work.

Living in Silicon Valley, the center of the startup universe, and working as a journalist, I am asked by many entrepreneurs how can they get press coverage.

What started as more or less a backup plan for a military communications system, has arguably today become the center of many peoples» daily lives.

The success of live tweeting ultimately comes down to your ability to interact with followers and engage them in conversation that's centered on your brand.

They also have resource centers and blogs that offer insights to help you gain a better understanding of your financial life.

Tickets run from $ 650 to around $ 3,000, but Robbins streamed over an hour of his talk in front of a sold out crowd in New Jersey's Prudential Center over Facebook Live.

The «Royal Bed,» as Savoir Beds is calling it, is inspired by 17th - and 18th - century British beds, when royal bedrooms were the center of palace life and beds were meant to impress anyone lucky enough to get an audience with the monarch in his chambers.

Mike Judge's «King of the Hill» is a dry satire of suburban Texas life, centering itself around the life of propane salesman Hank Hill and his family.

«What we've seen is that the economic climate has had a huge effect on people being willing to take vacations,» says Karen Sumberg, vice president and director of projects and communications at the Center for Work Life Policy.

The study ranked urban centers — excluding the larger metro areas — using three factors: local business environment (length of the average workweek, revenue growth, industry variety), access to resources (financing and the amount of venture capital investment made per capita), and costs (office space affordability, labor costs, corporate taxes, and cost of living).

Rather, the pager is a symbol of Apstein's other life: as a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, where he specializes in diseases of the digestive tract, including the liver.

Toys have always been at the center of our imaginative life but recently they have seen a decline, likely due to the increase in popularity of both console and mobile gaming.