Sentences with phrase «effect of the practice of»

Therefore, in these studies, the effect of the practice of lesson planning was combined into other teacher leader practices as well as other school reform strategies.

Not exact matches

And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.

SPECIAL REPORT: The effects of a Fifo lifestyle on the workforce have prompted changes in workplace practices among some of the major resources sector players.

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

Many of these practices were in place when researchers began an eight - month pretest at Gap to study the effects of more stable schedules for retail workers in three of the chain's stores.

The effects of visualization can be multiplied if meditation is practiced beforehand.

«If Mylan engaged in anti-competitive business practices, or violated antitrust laws with the intent and effect of limiting lower cost competition, we will hold them accountable.»

However, the company responded to comments to that effect on its Facebook page, writing, «Audi has diverse hiring practices to ensure equality across our staff and we pledge to put aggressive hiring and development strategies in place to increase the number of women in our workforce, at all levels.»

Either way, the privacy rules were enacted on a limited basis in January, while a provision that would generally require ISPs to «engage in reasonable data security practices» in the event of security breaches was set to go into legal effect on March 2.

It will be some time before anyone knows the effect of these card company practices on small businesses.

However, «recent public scrutiny of data management practices at Facebook may have a tempering effect on citizens» willingness to opt - in, especially in the near - term,» the Goldman team said in a note to clients.

He said that it's impossible to not feel positive effects from practicing a particular form of meditation: one focused on compassion.

«Because Verizon's go90 competes in a less developed segment of the marketplace than AT&T's DirecTV Now, the current magnitude of any anticompetitive effects of Verizon's practices may be smaller than AT&T's,» the FCC wrote.

Dr. Rebecca Levy Gantt, MD, OB / GYN, told INSIDER that the patients in her practice report the most side effects of any birth control method with Depo - Provera.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

Based on the results of this assessment, Tesla does not believe that its compensation policies and practices for all employees, including non-executive officers, create risks that are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Tesla.

These gains were matched in many economies around the world, the result not just of the now widespread practice of having a central bank with instrument independence commit to an implicit or explicit goal of price stability, but also of course of the effects of global economic integration on competition and labor costs.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

Thomas J. Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Tuesday that there were «serious, growing and legitimate challenges» about Chinese practices, but he also cautioned against the effect of a tit - for - tat tariff war.

This is, of course, a best - practice strategy — however, what it fails to take into consideration, is that within an artificial manipulation of a link strategy to avoid filters, there are also other patterns that take effect that Google might penalize in future iterations of their algorithm.

You can use your blog to demonstrate the effects of your practice and experiments.

White House officials reiterated on Wednesday that China must stop the «unfair» trading practices President Trump believes have disadvantaged American companies and workers, but they held out the possibility that tariffs on $ 50 billion worth of Chinese goods outlined on Tuesday might never go into effect.

On Wednesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, refused to say whether the tariffs would ultimately go into effect, adding, «I would anticipate that if there are no changes to the behavior of China and they don't stop the unfair trade practices, then we would move forward.»

In practice this should allow targeting a positive yield curve against the backdrop of negative short - term rates and negative expected long - term real rates, thereby mitigating the debilitating effect of yield compression on the financial system.

GFI aims for diversity in their hires primarily through hiring practices that are intended to help them minimize the effects of bias, such as encouraging staff to score applications anonymously, using generalized ability tests, and meeting applicants only late in the process.88 While they've hired many women, including in seven of nine director roles, they find that their team is lacking in diversity in other ways, and they've met with Encompass to discuss further steps they can take to develop their diversity strategy.89 One staff member we spoke to mentioned that they hoped GFI would be able to begin paying interns, which might help diversify their team by broadening the pool of potential interns who could afford to take a position with GFI.90, 91

Not only is the historical basis for current practice meager, says Ratzinger, it has the effect of closing the Liturgy in on itself.

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

No ecumenical courtesy can change the fact that, on this reading of Luther, the two parties to the schism were, in effect, practicing different religions.

The same effect could have been achieved by temporary employment, as the Bible itself stipulates for Israelites (Lev 25:39)» @Chad «LOL you have ZERO understanding of the practice at the time, over 30 % of the Roman population was slaves.

Essays on censorship, ethinic programming, pornography, popular religious practices, media criticism, effects research, ritual and transmission models of communication.

Sociological evidence on the deterrent effect of the death penalty as currently practiced is ambiguous, conflicting, and far from probative.

Practice in telling and hearing each other has the effect of improving their ability to explain the difference that being a Christian makes in their lives.

Yet we only know his love by knowing the presence of Jesus, a presence wherein God eternally dies for man; and by practicing the reality of God's love as mediated through Jesus, we ourselves effect the death of God.

The values and imitative practices described in The Underside, inspiring as they may be to his character, Godefroid, are supported by only a tiny secret society whose practical effect on the marketplace of ideas of 19th - century Paris is nil.

Bob Jones University had been following religiously motivated practices that had the effect of discriminating against blacks.

Referring to the tendency of converts to resort to non-Christian practices to ward off the «evil» effects of «former gods,» Bishop Hodges wrote, «The Pulayas are often found to be uncertain and foolish as children, and easily led away.

He asks us to stand and raise our right arms in a gesture of blessing» a practice that's become increasingly popular in Catholic churches and is distressing not only because of its questionable theology, but also because the net effect of the sight of a thousand people, right arms stretched forward seems unsettlingly... well, fascist, to put it bluntly.

As I saw all this, and saw too the effects of the regular practice of meditation on at least some of the men, I made a connection as a theologian — speculative, to be sure — that I had not seen before.

I encourage you to read some of the prominent works, which examine the differences between the effects of those practicing monotheism with those who adhere to polytheistic systems of belief.

Without RFRA, the cumulative effect of such proabortion regulation may be to close down pro-life medical facilities in some states, or to prevent prolife medical personnel from practicing in obstetrics and gynecology.

It might not be immediately obvious that prayer, especially the sustained practice of silent prayer, could effect anything positive in the intimidating context of a jail.

Even if my intellectual history is questionable, the collocation of ideas gave me a key to understanding why the practice of silent solidarity might have deep political as well as personal effects: the unleashing of «dark,» subversive divine power as the antidote to racist despair, marginalization and repression is symbolically encoded in this practice.

Deregulation of broadcasting in the U.S. and the Federal Communications Commission's apparent indifference to the practices of broadcast licensees and cable operators in effect seem to legitimize the operation of these media as businesses like any other business, disregarding the public trusteeship that is required by the Communications Act.

What these men have in mind was expressed by one of them who said in effect: The seminary prepared me for preaching and taught me the difference between preaching and public speaking; it helped me to become a pastoral counselor and not simply a counselor; it prepared me for the work of Christian education; but it gave me no preparation to administer a church as Church; what I learned about church administration was a nontheological smattering of successful business practices.

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

For both many African - Americans and many white liberals, to speak openly of this personal responsibility is, in effect, to exonerate European Americans for their complicity in deeply embedded racist practices.

Sociological theology has focused on questions of justice, but as it has recognized that the effects of human beings on their environment are having seriously deleterious consequences for humanity, it has extended its concern to questions of the sustainability of human society.23 Yet in practice the difference of the amount of attention given to these two issues of justice and sustainability still leads to opposing judgements on important issues.

While this grieves us, it should not surprise us, for it is the unavoidable effect of relativism in theology and pastoral practice which has its roots in the Reformation philosophy of private judgment which has held sway among Catholics for some decades now.

Pious practice should therefore be done in such a way that this relationship is expressed adequately, reflecting both the compassionate loving character of God on the one hand, and the transformative effect of knowing such a God on the other.

2 The scientific definition of power as the capacity either to produce or to undergo an effect seems to be an exception to this general practice.