Sentences with phrase «compasses point in»

I happen to be an ed reformer first — my moral and professional compasses point in the same direction, and I act in a fashion that is aligned around changing policy for kids.
San Diego's culinary compass points in all directions with hundreds of restaurants capturing the cuisines of nearly every continent as well as domestic, contemporary meals that pay tribute to our local farmers and fishermen.

Not exact matches

She credits a mentor who gave her a fundraising «compass» — or the four points of one's «story» to keep in mind, and to convey clearly to investors.
Issac Boltansky, an analyst at Compass Point, said in a note to clients to Tuesday that the near - term embarrassment of the healthcare failure will give way to a renewed push for tax reform.
The hearing is set for September 20, and according to Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Compass Point, it will likely evoke memories of the 2013 London Whale hearing, where the bank's top brass were dragged up in front of lawmakers.
«We are bearish on efforts to curtail entitlement spending in this Congress given the lack of Democratic support for the effort in the Senate, tentativeness among certain Republicans, and a basic lack of procedural bandwidth before the midterms,» the Compass Point analysts said.
In any event, Compass Point has the right resources for companies that are stuck below the threshold of larger, traditional finance groups.
Separately, Compass Point is watching Fed's Randal Quarles testimony later for issues including cash carve - out for custodian banks included in the bank regulatory relief bill, utility of layering risk metric atop eSLR; clues about Fed's regulatory priorities
To distinguish these worlds I shall first use the four narrative genres identified by Northrop Frye.6 Frye has laid out all of Western literature in a great imaginary circle that has four cardinal points much like those of a compass.
They point independently in the same direction as the Christ, much as we might use landmarks to complement our compass reading.
This research suggests that, unlike an actual compass, inferences about God's beliefs may instead point people further in whatever direction they are already facing.»
The additional point can be made that to the extent these people do in fact treat the whole Bible as equally sacred, they are using the whole of Scripture as their compass instead of Jesus of Nazareth.
i think the writer misses the point that many who are spiritual and not religious have explored what religions have to offer in the form of moral compass and dogma and organizations and whatnot — and have found it hard to find the peace within themselves that they innately attribute to what they seek through contact and participation in religion to begin with.
That's one of the reasons it fails as a moral compass» God was revealed to a people at a point in time and we look at that point with today's eyes.
They point to the lack of a «Bible» and say that without the «moral guidance» of a stack of paper covered in ink, we'd have no «moral compass», nothing but «anarchy», etc...
There are few points of the compass where the cathedral's role as reconciler has not been felt — Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, most notably in Germany itself.
We know that people do very well morally and emotionally without religion, so what is the needle in your compass analogy pointing to?
And so when one reads the actual documents that the Council produced, especially the four Constitutions on liturgy, revelation, the Church, and the Church in the modern world, which Pope Benedict recently called «the four cardinal points of our guiding compass,» one finds all sorts of beauty, goodness, and truth, authority, nobility, gravity, and unity.
There are certain immutable characteristics of leadership, and in my view, the most important compass points for every great leader are these:
But that's sort of the point, according to Mike Haft and Harrison Suarez, the owners of Compass Coffee in Washington, D.C., where the drink is served.
They currently sit in 3rd place just a single point behind FC Dallas and remain unbeaten at BBVA Compass Stadium.
Neuroscientific insights point to three key characteristics of human nature: emotionality (we are far more emotional than we think we are, and emotionality play a central role in decision - making), amorality (we are born amoral and our moral compass is developed in the course of our existence), and egoism (we are driven to survival, which is a basic form of egoism, i.e. preservation of the self).
No matter in which direction your political compass points home, the current democratic framework appears incapable of realising the hopes, and assuaging the fears, of the British people.
However, context is a compass that doesn't always point in the same direction.
I'm not equating Speaker Silver to President Nixon, but I am pointing out that it's an age old political dodge to say a Politician, in spite of his lack of a moral compass, is just too valuable to let go, and after all he enjoys broad based political support.
The Conservatives are down slightly compared to the last YouGov poll carried out for Compass a week ago, but that one in turn had seen them rise 3 points.
He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north.
«The bacteria exist preferentially at the oxy / anoxy transition zones,» Marcano points out, «and the internal compass might help them to find the best level in the stratified water column for satisfying their nutritional requirements.»
From a physics standpoint, then, the north needle of a compass (or any magnet) points to what is physically — but not in name — the south magnetic pole of the earth, in other words, in the direction of the Arctic.
These atomic magnets tend to point in the same direction, like an array of tiny compasses fixated on a common magnetic point.
Measuring 475 feet in diameter, the fortress is perfectly circular, with four gates aligned to the four compass points — a uniquely Viking - age Danish style called Trelleborg.
In Boston, for example, a compass points a whopping 16 degrees west of north.
Spin often is compared with a tiny bar magnet like a compass needle, either pointing up or down — representing one or zero — in an electron or an atom's nucleus.
They arranged the values in a circle with four compass points.
Instead of up and down, the spins can have, say, five possible settings, or like compass needles can point in any direction.
Electrons also have a property known as spin; an electron can «spin up» or «spin down,» pointing like a tiny magnetic compass needle in one of two directions.
As Aschenauer pointed out, «There are a lot of initiatives in the world to measure this asymmetry in electron - or muon - proton collisions, using fixed targets at other facilities such as COMPASS, HERMES, and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Anger is a compass, pointing us in the next right direction.
Fiona hopes her moral compass isn't leading her astray when she reconnects with her married high school crush, but when she finds an abandoned purse with over five hundred dollars inside, she assumes her luck is finally changing; Frank is willing to do just about anything to stay in Dottie's good graces, even marry her; after Harry's passing, Debbie becomes obsessed with death; Kevin thinks about buying the Alibi; Lip meets with a colonel to glean information for Ian about West Point; Jody asks Frank for Karen's hand in marriage.
«At some point in everybody's life you have to decide if you're gonna stick with the way you were raised or listen to your own internal compass», Veronica says about her inspiration for the story.
Manny finds himself drawn to the photo, and the result of his obvious sexual attraction to her is best left insinuated: Hank finds himself in possession of a magical compass, which always points due Sarah whenever it's, well, activated.
He'll be sporting a very different look in The Avengers: Infinity War, complete with a full fugitive beard, but there's no doubt that his moral compass will point true north as always.
One student holds the rope in place at one vertex of the triangle, while the other two slowly move in a circle, using the rope as a giant compass to mark out the other points of the triangle.
When the Stephen Perse Foundation in the U.K. opened their new library, the guest speaker described it as quaquaversal, meaning «directed outward to every point of the compass from a common center.»
In this lesson, learners will be able to: derive and use the standard ruler and compass constructions to construct the: construct the perpendicular bisector of a line segment, construct a perpendicular to a given line from / at a given point, bisecting a given angle recognise and use the perpendicular distance from a point to a line as the shortest distance to the line Lesson can be used as whole class teaching by teachers and at home by learners.
We create a learning atlas that points our learners in the right direction, providing them with a navigational compass.
This is a cooperative game in that players work in groups to try and find their way out of the subterranean maze using mathematical visualisation, compass points, problem solving, and scaling.
There is a huge emphasis on geographical skills at this stage; pupils should be able to use the eight points of a compass, four and six - figure grid references and keys on Ordnance Survey maps in order to build on their knowledge.
This is a three lesson powerpoint covering: - weather terms in past, present, future - compass points - creating sentences - ks3 writing levels
In fact, as others like Montessori Compass (2013) have pointed out, the CCSS may generate an opportunity for Montessori to shine and step into the light of mainstream education.
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