Sentences with phrase «change agents by»

I encourage you to be change agents by using grants to not only benefit your own students, but also reach beyond your classrooms.

Media is the predominate proving ground for a red teams work, it can't expect to be a change agent by relying on serendipity or on scientists who know little about messaging and branding.

Given the Cupertino company's history in technology trend - setting, the hiring of Vigier positions Apple to become a change agent by integrating NFC features in mobile devices.

Parent - centered preventive interventions, however, which work directly with parents and place them in the role of primary change agent by strengthening their sense of responsibility and control over the lives of their adolescents, may be more efficacious than interventions aimed directly toward adolescents (Tobler et al., 1998).

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In the last 24 hours before the NBA's moratorium on signing free agents was lifted, the tide seemed to shift with an 11th hour play by the Clippers to get Jordan to change his mind.

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.

Founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1997, the organization trains and mentors women leaders as agents of transformative change in economic development, human rights and political participation.

Following an initial (very) small grant from an NGO, the bank's operations are funded by a) interest from microcredit loans (up to 3.5 % monthly but also as low as 1 % depending on size of and purpose of loan) b) fees from the corresponding bank (i.e. Banco Palmas acts as local agent for regional bank to widen access to banking services), and c) commission for changing Palmas to Reais16.

Therefore, investors act as agents to transmit changing policy expectations and changing inflation risk premiums into the real economy by adjusting their risk exposures across the yield curve.

This includes disagreements over judgment calls made by lenders or their agents; changes in circumstances occurring after the underwriting process has been completed; small mistakes that bear little relation to either the credit risk or the subsequent default; and inconsistent interpretations of the rules.

«A particularly strong factor in deciding to publish this new edition was driven by the continuous change in terms of the standards of practice required not only of agents and brokers, but also of lawyers, mortgage brokers, lenders, financial advisors, appraisers and other involved parties,» says Rumack.

As proposed by New Keynesian economist and Ph. D. Huw Dixon, there are three properties to a state of equilibrium; the behavior of agents is consistent, no agent has an incentive to change its behavior, and that the equilibrium is the outcome of some dynamic process.

Every created agent is limited to bringing about a change in form only (a sheep can transform grass into its own body matter by digestion), but God — as the ultimate cause of all being — can surely bring about changes at the level of being: converting one entire substance into another.

That is, their role is to be agents of reconciliation and share how men and women are to be redeemed and changed by the power of the gospel.

They do so by providing motivation, training, and opportunities to be change agents.

There are now persons in the pews who were born in the city, who are secular in their outlook, who are keenly aware of the ways in which their lives are shaped by structures which they do not control and who are concerned that their religious institutions should be active agents of social change.

Perception for Aristotle does involve being acted upon physically and being changed by natural agents, but sensing is not explained by these bodily transformations alone.

These constantly repeated messages have been shown to be effective agents of social change: not so much by producing direct change in individual behaviour, but by slowly affecting perceptions of social reality and meaning which underlie behaviour.

Ultimately it permits the introduction of real changes by the agent.

Persons who are grasped by the power of such visions, who are inspired by a «sublime madness in the soul» (Reinhold Niebuhr), are the probable agents of redemptive social change, even though they know in their critical moments that no future achievement is likely to embody the full measure of their treasured ideal.

From the beginning of what we may call the «gender revolution» in the 1970s to now, when the goals of a minority of western agents of change are about to take on a more visible, global and powerfully financed institutional form, the normative and operational activities of the gender equality process has been led by «experts», NGOs, UN Secretariat bureaucrats, panels - not by the man - on - the - street or his legitimate representative.

The chairman of the Association of Sales and Merchandising Companies Australasia, Paul Meyer, said the peak body representing field agents had not been approached by Coles in regard to changes to its merchandising rules.

Across the board 129 players fetched more than $ 350 million in new contracts by changing teams during this inaugural free - agent auction.

Most rumours are born, live, and then die without ever coming to fruition: negotiations collapse, circumstances change, other players move or pick up injuries, or the whole thing turns out to have been a plant by an agent.

It's the new, legalized normal — the result of years of changing what owners should be financially responsible for, and the last ones to realize that might be the ones impacted the most by it, the ones still sitting around in mid-January waiting for a worthwhile free - agent offer.

The Leicester City goalkeeper is said to be changing agents this week to join forces with Luca Bascherini, as reported by The Sun, with the Italian representative having strong links with Old Trafford.

It is the belief of the owners that the best way to counter the losses incurred by the league is to propose changes to the current CBA that include: the institution of a hard salary cap with incentive - based salaries that also includes a salary floor, elimination of free - agent exceptions, raised age limits for players to enter the draft, revenue sharing among all NBA teams, and as a last resort, relocation or contraction of teams in the league.

Everton striker Romelu Lukaku has changed his agent and is now managed by Mino Raiola — the same man who looks after Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Samuel Eto'o and Mario Balotelli.

Tottenham star Dele Alli has reportedly made a big career change by switching agents to the CAA, who work closely with Jorge Mendes» Gestifute agency.

Watch a film created by Challenge Success and student David Lopez where he interviewed Challenge Success student team members about their experiences as school change agents.

It represents an ideal opportunity to bring positive relationship change directly into the family home by empowering parents and carers as change agents.

By a margin of 63 - 23, poll respondents said the AG is someone who'll help clean up Albany rather than too much a part of its dysfunctional culture to be truly effective as a change agent.

Changing global configurations of power also suggest that it is increasingly difficult to pin down agents, such as a particular state or a particular government within a state, that could be held responsible for the conditions within which people attempt to craft their lives or which people try to change by moving.

Grassroots, one of Buffalo's most influential political organizations that is already under scrutiny by federal and state law enforcement agents, failed to file required financial disclosure reports, and its offshoot, Be the Change, didn't file, either.

This guide, produced by Jason Collins, a member of the CIOT's Management of Taxes Sub-Committee, should bring tax agents, journalists and others with an interest in tax compliance up to speed with the rapidly changing landscape in this area

Atiku, who made this assertion in Kano on Thursday through the Chairman of Atiku Loyalist Group, Alhaji Muhammadu Abdullahi Sugar, stressed that those nominated by President Muhammad Buhari are the true agents of change which the country requires.

She added that «one election day, if you want to influence the process, you have to change your election sheet and change all the result sheets being held by all the candidates» agents... So it is really impossible.»

Massey's message, that he is a change agent and problem - solver who will unite the Big Apple while reversing the overly - leftward shift ushered in by de Blasio, is resonating with some.

The Bayelsa State governor wanted an order of interim injunction restraining the first defendant, whether by itself, servant, agents, privies or howsoever called from accepting from the second and third defendants any fresh submission of names of governorship aspirant from Bayelsa State, to change / substitute the name of the plaintiff which had already been submitted to the first defendant after the primary election of January 2011, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

The study by the Planetary Sciences Group reports that this gigantic storm is another of the agents of change in the equatorial jet stream.

When navigating, the area scanned by each agent changes size and shape based on the speed and density of the crowd.

She explained that phages outnumber their bacterial prey by a factor of 10 to 1, and that they have been proposed as the agents of change in recipients of faecal microbiota transplantations used to treat resistant or recurring bowel disease.

The NIH Common Fund's Library of Integrated Network - based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) program aims to create a network - based understanding of biology by cataloging changes in gene expression and other cellular processes that occur when cells are exposed to a variety of perturbing agents.

This new study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, furthered this research by examining the changes in physical properties of these aerosols due to aging, or oxidation, provoked by ozone or other oxidizing agents.

Certain chemical pollutants can trigger such changes by mimicking or altering the action of the body's hormones, important signaling agents.

The heights of the rectangular bars denote best estimate values guided by published values of the climate change agents and conversion to radiative perturbations using simplified expressions for the greenhouse gas concentrations and model calculations for the ice sheets, vegetation and mineral dust.

This basic idea has been taken up by a section of the solar physics community, and a good recent summary of the evidence for the proposition that solar variability is an agent, if not the main agent, of the perceived recent climate change associated with global warming, is given in Hoyt & Schatten (1997).

Heavy sedation would have had the effect of stopping the nerve cells firing very rapidly and becoming damaged, which is one of the changes caused by nerve agents.

River waters worldwide are impacted by disease - causing agents including bacteria, protists, flatworms, viruses, and harmful algae that derive from domestic sewage and farm runoff, and / or are emergent due to nutrient pollution and climate change.

Forcings, measured in W / m2 averaged over the globe, are imposed perturbations of Earth's energy balance caused by changing forcing agents such as solar irradiance and human - made greenhouse gases (GHGs).