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defines values this way: Important and lasting beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable.
John Heenan, founder and Director of «The New Zealand Foundation for Character Education Inc.»
defines values this way; «Values that are «Preferences» are personal choices that are subjective and changeable at any time.»
Not exact matches
Defining your purpose and your
values, and standing by your purpose and
values, is a great
way to start.
Because bottom - line
value can be
defined in two
ways — as an increase in market share or as a reduction in costs — different avenues exist for linking your environmental responsibility to such growth.
Here's one
way to
define a healthy company: When every employee is
valued enough to give feedback that promotes action.
There are probably as many
ways to
define value as there are businesses.
In our first chat — which was free, by the
way — he pointed out that
defining myself as a writer doesn't come close to describing my
value.
The only
way brands can hope to do so is to choose which subcultures to go after and pay very close attention to the specific
values, beliefs and ideas that
define them.
People bring different things to the table, but if they all
define success in a
way that shares in your mission,
values and culture, it will help fuel the fire for your company.
In upholding beauty, we prepare the
way of a renaissance when civilization will center its reflexion, far from the explicit principles and degraded
values of history, on this living virtue upon which is founded the common dignity of the world and man, and which we have to
define now in the face of a world that insults it.
We are called to be light and salt, and one
way to do this is to stand up and speak out FOR BIBLICAL
VALUES and against sin... yes, of course we should be preaching / teaching / living God's «theology of marriage» in our own marriages...... but God has clearly
defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and therefore, when our government says it's otherwise, we should be light and salt and speak up, and vote accordingly.
So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims,
values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any
way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual as its opposite those characteristics that
define its behavioral patterns as purposive.
You can
define perfection in certain
ways, for example, all
value possibilities, all actualized.
It may be
defined as that society, with its own geographical area, which was subject to the rule of Christ, and whose culture and
way of life had become so permeated and shaped by Christian beliefs and
values as to form a cohesive whole.
And I know of no
way to
define truth so independent of
value that a metaphysical scheme could be called true if it leaves our experience less rich than it found it.
The vision of the «good» life, the central
values, even the corporate identity expressed by a congregation's host culture in its dominant languages will in various
ways stand in tension with the congregation's own understanding of its own communal identity, its own picture of the good life, its own central
values as they all are
defined «in Jesus» name.»
This would mean ditching the NHL's point system that has
defined the league, but would stop the league from
valuing regulation wins the same
way as overtime or shootout wins, along with the overtime / shootout loss «loser point.»
The following principles guide and
define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many
ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is
valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.
I spoke with several other students that I personally trained at the Honor Council's first ever Integrity Day about
defining success in qualitative rather than quantitative
ways, organized presentations for parents in the local community, wrote brochures explaining of the program for the teachers, and held discussions about how Challenge Success ties into Jewish
values at my Hebrew School.
Public Waldorf schools across the nation are at the forefront of
defining themselves as exemplary educational models that
value measurement of growth in meaningful, developmental, and authentic
ways.
An electron, for example, might behave much like a bullet or billiard ball, following a path through space and time with well -
defined values of position and momentum every step of the
way.
(I happen to agree with what I suspect Lomborg was trying to say, which is that the energy efficiency of the U.S. economy
defined as the
value of the goods and services delivered divided by the amount of energy used could be substantially increased in
ways that would be cost - effective even at current energy prices.
5 effective
ways to lose weight In today's era where sexy is
defined as a weight
value just under the normal BMI, emerging measures to lose weight have gone from diet programs to pills that provide drastic loss of pounds.
However, the
way I approach food and health do
define how I'm able to live according to my
values, and I will never be ashamed of that.
Whether dead or living, my job is to
define the signature style of a designer, highlight what makes them different, and showcase the signature visual aesthetic, proper to their
values, in a
way that draws in and stimulates a modern audience.»
But alternative lifestyle can be
defined as a mode of living or doing something in a
way that is not within the accepted norms or
values.
«Now that I'm a grown - up person and have things of such greater
value to pin my idea of joy and fullness on, if something like that were to happen again, my feeling of thrill would be
defined in a completely different
way,» she added.
I believe in the
value of strong outcomes that represent high expectations, but I know that if we aren't applauding the processes along the
way, we're setting ourselves up to fail — some people's efforts will be devalued because they aren't achieving the
defined goals in the given time.
In fact, creativity, which I
define as the process of having original ideas that have
value, more often than not comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary
ways of seeing things.
Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful
way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical
values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly
defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.
They
define school culture as an «underground flow of feelings and folkways [wending] its
way within schools» in the form of vision and
values, beliefs and assumptions, rituals and ceremonies, history and stories, and physical symbols.
Different school districts
define and compute
value - added scores in different
ways.
Moreover, as with defending job security as a cheaper
way to attract decent teachers,
defined - benefit pension plans have big downsides with hidden costs: They make it unappealing for a talented person to work as a teacher for just part of a career, make it hard for teachers to move around, offer huge bonuses to older teachers who don't add any special
value, etc. (And this is all viewing education in isolation — committing future taxpayers to pay for pensions teachers are earning now is going to mean spending less on other priorities in the future.
Go to a bookstore and you'll see thousands of titles by authors who followed directions,
defined their audiences, understood the
value proposition of their books, and found a
way to convince a traditi9onal publisher that their work was worthy of investment.
Intellectuals are not
defined according to the jobs they do, but [by] the manner in which they act, the
way they see themselves, and the
values that they uphold.
The policy will prohibit use of PayPal for the sale of e-books that contain child pornography, or e-books with text and obscene images of rape, bestiality or incest (as
defined by the U.S. legal standard for obscenity: material that appeals to the prurient interest, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive
way, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific
value),» said Anuj Nayar, director of communications for the eBay - owned payment site.
Fed up with the
way society has formed around her, Brooklyn quite literally pulls away from New York — its bridges breaking and tunnels flooding — and proposes thathumanity return back to days of old where things and people were
defined by their ethics,
values and contributions; where skills and art could be bartered and traded; where land could be farmed to sustain life and spawn beauty.
There are other
ways to
define value to society, each with its own set of flaws and data dirtiness problems.
These pundits not only take the quote out of context buy ignore the fact that the followers of Graham were even before then time taking Graham's principles and
defining a bargain in a new
way considering the quality of the business and in some cases considering what are called «catalysts» to the
value of a business.
This is a very crude
way of
defining a
value stock.
There are many
ways to
define value.
Backtesting though does has it's
value, as it is the best
way to identify the patterns and set - ups which will eventually
define your edge.
There are
value investors who think about investing seriously and
defined the
way you do it, we are not far apart in our investment philosophies.
Yield spreads over Treasuries are not a good
way to
define value in bonds, and particularly not junk bonds.
«
Value investing, the
way I
define it, is finding a good business run by smart people, at a reasonably good price relative to its
values today and five or more years from now.»
When trying to
define growth investing, the easiest
way is to compare it to
value investing.
A pet's right to maintain a good quality of life, as well as treating our clients with empathy and respect, are part of Dublin's core
values that
define the
way we practice veterinary medicine.
The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible used medieval works from the Morgan and The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, to explore
ways in which Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures used storytelling to
define themselves and their
values.
That a museum is both the location of the event and the context in which elements from it are subsequently shown, along with the
way that the gifts are laid out to evoke a market - style display, again cleverly brings to the fore questions about how art is
defined and
valued.
Installed within an intimate display designed by the Brussels - based architecture firm Lhoas Lhoas, the objects offer an alternative to the
way we think about collecting, one which attaches high emotional or sentimental
value to objects and is
defined by individual histories and memories.