Sentences with phrase «embraced them as»

In 2017, the total market for such currencies topped $ 100 billion as investors of all stripes began to embrace them as an alternate asset class akin to gold.

Plenty of idealistic business people read it and, in the case of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh — who had already been experimenting with making the online shoe retailer a hierarchy - free «Holacracy» — embraced it as gospel.

Others are embracing it as an alternative to homegrown systems that have become difficult to maintain internally.

In other words, a risk - averse Pentagon is an ineffective Pentagon, and some cost overruns should be embraced as the cost of doing business.

It's lifelike enough, says creator Tiefeng Li, to fool other fish into embracing it as one of their own, and is being tested to explore or monitor water salinity.

«Instead of looking at an event where they need to perform as a burden or a risk or a task, which they might fail at, they really embrace it as an opportunity,» Daniel said of the speaker he spoke to.

The truth is though, that until you fail multiple times and really embrace it as part of the entrepreneurial journey, you won't ever realize what you're capable of accomplishing.

Salon - style retail is a trend consumers embraced as interest in personal achievement overtook the desire to just own or consume more things.

Whether or not you are successful depends on how you define success, and on the tradeoffs you are willing to not just accept but embrace as you pursue your own definition of success.

Bill Hunt @billhunt — President, Back Azimuth Consulting In 2015 companies will stop treating digital marketing as a tactic and embrace it as an ecosystem.

In many of today's workplaces, leaders view certain amenities as morale boosters or embrace them as part of a «work hard, play hard» culture.

If you've heard of ETFs or Exchange - traded funds, then you know that many investors have embraced them as an efficient investment vehicle.

But Mr. Trump's first embrace as president of any gun control measures was dismissed by gun control supporters as minor.

Although it seems sensible on the surface that an entity which controls 30 % or more of a company should be entitled to representation on the board of directors, independent directors are rightfully embraced as an essential component of good governance.

Japan slipped quietly into the driver's seat and pushed for the TPP to go ahead, as the deal now provided it an enhanced leadership role in setting the Asia Pacific trade agenda on terms that Prime Minister Abe had embraced as part of Abenomics.

So if hostage negotiators have no fear of No, and actually embrace it as a means to get to Yes, one can only wonder how effective it might be in the worlds of sales and business.

More Muslims are embracing them as an acceptable alternative to arranged marriages and the vagaries of 21st - century, American - style dating.

He sucks at math and embraces it as a tool of his subversive cartoons.

And the actual achievements of the best American popular art, including rock n» roll, become despised, or only ironically embraced as Pop Art, a trend both Siegel's essay and Martha Bayles's Hole in Our Soul tie to the Susan Sontag essay «Notes on Camp.»

We atheists should be embracing it as a sure sign of the deep inanity of the Christian faith.

Radicals move the center to where even a one time outsider like MLK can be «safely» embraced as a national hero.

According to Theodore Walker, Black theology's central challenge to process theology is that the God of the oppressed must be embraced as more inclusive than the God of all.

«Our countries were enemies, yet we found ourselves embracing as brothers and sisters.»

An opportunity to resolve long - standing pain could be embraced as a gift.

That's how I hope Christians today see it as well — not as a lightning rod of the culture wars, to be avoided or embraced as some sort of statement, but as a pleasurable gift of a good God, who made water, yeast, barley and hops, and human beings with the creative capacity to brew up something wonderful.

«We know that the earth is the Lord's and that it exists for his glory... So wherever there is truth or beauty, we embrace it as God's.

Although her decision was based solely on personal preference, she said it makes sense that when a woman learns to embrace her natural hair texture, she also learns to embrace herself as a creation in the image of God.

Berger suggests that in the days ahead — unless surprises occur — we will see the continuation of the secularizing trend which is already apparent in society, though he admits that the evidence is not as all - embracing as some have thought.

There are communities where you don't have to live under fear of being discovered, where you are accepted and embraced as you are, where you don't have to constantly hide or deny your identity...

When he threw himself down and embraced the earth, he was embracing as well the stinking body of Father Zossima.

We learn who we are through the stories we embrace as our own — the story of my life is structured by the larger stories (social, political, mythic) in which I understand my personal story to take place.

In this context the book elaborates that suffering is not to be feared but rather embraced as «a sure pledge of His tenderness... This guarantee, this real testimony of the Beatific Vision, which made the souls of the saints sigh with joy, is not the brilliant successes of this world, or temporal glory or happiness, but trialsand suffering» (p. 294).

And Orthodoxy can also be embraced as a refuge for alienated conservatives; it offers a place where no one is going to be calling God «she.»

Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

I am only saying that it is important to prove to yourself that what you embrace as true is actually true.

We were able to embrace him as the loved son he always was and will be... I am sad that he struggled so many years with the dread of rejection of us as his parents and held the «secret» of being gay for way too long.

This is why he joyfully embraces it as an answer to the problem of his own existence, plagued as he is by insecurity, instability, and change.

In America, that acquiescence was embraced as a virtue.

got ta love how Nye, abject hater of all things NASA, now suddenly is a backer of them and the media embraces him as some new Sagan spokesman to the layman for science.

What light does such an expression of faith shed upon the Christianity that Western churches embrace as their own?

Now, general and all - embracing as these questions are, they are not remote or abstract.

Instead of denying our estrangement or bemoaning it, why not embrace it as a gift from God?

I mean, c» mon, he wrote about reaching out to homosexuals, to embrace them as Jesus would have embraced them.

In either case, the project of mastering death — of aiming at it for ourselves or others — is a delusion, embracing as a good what should be, simply, undergone.

But duty is an adult virtue — indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self - love he was born with.

So he made a resolution never to embrace them as essential to his identity or accept them as permanent or untreatable — a resolution he has kept practically alone, without the support of community, family, or friends.

We didn't reject our son when he did reveal he was gay... we embraced him as the son we have always loved... it changed nothing in our relationship.

But because the Church successfully evolved, because believers were willing change their minds about the structure of the universe in order for their faith to makes sense in a modern world, what was once considered heretical is now embraced as scientific fact.

And prayer in schools is a matter of secularism which is something we all should embrace as it keeps us safe from someone else's religious view being foisted on us.

Social conservatism, both religious and secular, when wed to nationalism and embraced as state policy, has almost always turned into an enemy of tolerance and liberty.