The PCS is a 24 - item self - report questionnaire measuring beliefs about one's perceived ability to
exert control over outcomes in the academic, social, and behavioral domains, and as it is a trait measure, was assessed only at Time 1.
«Respond» to your children in a respectful manner to correct unwanted behavior rather than «demand» to
exert your control over them.
The daily routine allows for consistency and security for the children yet the freedom within to
exert control over themselves, their environment and their activities.
Parents who were mistreated as children may have an excessive need to
exert control over their children in order to avoid feeling vulnerable.
Moreover, many spouses still may attempt to
exert control over the other spouse because they are still technically married.
It is a series of behaviors where the abuser seeks to
exert control over his or her partner.
His collage and photomontage work tries to
exert control over the flood of images we are confronted with daily; playing with relationships between scale and perception and disparate pop culture associations.
Demonstrated ability to
exert control over factors causing unrest.
This may be the biggest stretch in our X-Men analogy, but you have to admit: it would be nice to
exert some control over the interview environment.
In this case, the things stolen were not legal to sell, transfer, distribute, own, possess, or
exert control over.
Certain factors will
exert some control over your homeowners insurance quotes: the age of your home, the type of construction, and its distance from the fire department.
The biggest problem with this strategy is that the decedent can not
exert any control over the death proceeds.
All states
exert some control over the rates used by insurers.
Rates were somewhat limited by clients, but firms could
exert control over lawyers» time by increasing the hours they were expected to work.
[34] I conclude that the reasonable expectations of both the miners and Pinkerton's as well as Pinkerton's undertaking to
exert some control over the risk to the miners supported the trial judge's finding of proximity...
Using control of the household money to
exert control over you.
It provides tools and techniques to broaden the options for mutual gain beyond the narrow issues commonly focused on in deal making and dispute resolution and inspires ideas on how to meet top management expectations, to acquire internal authority to lead negotiations and to
exert control over the process and outcome.
She also looks to the ways people try to
exert control over nature, and how nature responds.
As result, Mozambique has been able to resist pressure from politically connected carbon - trading companies — which have applied for rights over one - third of the country — and other actors with vested interests seeking to
exert some control over the process.
This is a question with implications for figuration in art as well as for the self, struggling in the world to
exert control over motions, emotions and fate, as the abstract expressionists were during the early post-war period.
And, if you want to, you can
exert control over every factor — enemy difficulty, aim assist, gravity, and windage — using the «Custom» difficulty setting.
This can be at odds with a designer's intentions, given that you may still wish to
exert some control over what kind of final behaviours the AI crafts.
It's also disappointing that Bioware seem to have missed a beat, because while you're building up these forces feels like you're going to be the one that decides what to do with all these assets when the times comes, able to effect the games outcome by careful use of the fleets and troops that you've acquired through missions, planet scanning and more, yet there's only one moment in the entire game you even get to see your assets, and you certainly never get to
exert any control over them.
Effective August 1, 2016, the order may now restrain or enjoin those mentioned individuals from engaging in the following actions if that person has the intent to cause the petitioner mental distress or to
exert control over the petitioner with respect to an animal in which the petitioner has an ownership interest: (1) injuring, killing, torturing, neglecting, or threatening to injure, kill, torture, or neglect the animal; (2) removing the animal from the petitioner's possession; or (3) retaining or obtaining possession of the animal.
It would behoove us to
exert some control over non-native predators prowling our backyards.
If you don't continue to
exert some control over the consequences of your dog's behaviour, his obedience will become unreliable.
It is up to the adults in the family to
exert control over the relationship with the puppy.
Living debt free is obviously an ideal route for most people, but I'm not of the opinion that all debt is bad; only when that debt has grown to
exert control over your life.
The location based authentication along with the policy engine can then be used to
exert control over the device, like enabling or disabling various features and applications.
Interestingly, as more authors begin to
exert their control over their work by turning to self - publishing, cover design remains one of the areas where traditionally published authors often have little to no input.
Jason Nelson, a Republican state representative from northwest Oklahoma who sponsored the bill to withdraw the state from the Common Core, said he and his colleagues wanted to «break any kind of nexus where any private organization or the federal government would
exert control over our standards.»
Rather than a politics that seeks to
exert control over the system from the federal level (too many cooks, too great a focus on data - driven accountability models = too many mandated assessments), the provinces get to spend the transfer payments where they believe it will make sense.
While foundations or organizations may provide funding or
exert control over certain programs in a district, the participation of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in the Jackson model is unique because the foundation is «formally involved with a set of specific goals,» he added.
However, students can learn to
exert control over other significant influences on their emotional outlook and, in doing so, sharpen their focus on positive outcomes.
In Michigan, there's a clash over a new state body that could
exert control over Detroit's schools.
A Night at the Opera (1935, Sam Wood): No director could ever
exert control over the durable comic anarchy of the Marx Brothers.
As a result, we let other people or circumstances take over or
exert control over us.
Instead of trying to
exert control over ourselves and our worlds through crazy planning, addiction or food, we can use our yoga postures.
To achieve this level of response flexibility, the brain must
exert control over posterior sensorimotor representations and maintain relevant data in mind until actions are selected.
Our goal is to identify conserved signaling mechanisms through which the nervous system may
exert its control over the cellular protective machinery.
Güler added, «If we can use gene therapy to
exert control over neurons, the potential exists to modify or eliminate the effects of certain neurological diseases by controlling ill - firing neural networks.
A key aspect to being able to
exert control over light is to be able to control a specific property — the refractive index — of the material that is transmitting the light.
Neurofeedback is a way of training the brain by allowing an individual to view some type of external indicator of brain activity and attempt to
exert control over it.
The findings reveal that the actors are often drawn to areas with abundant food resources, whereby, they aim to
exert control over such resources.
For example, belief in a God that can
exert control over worldly events has been found to satisfy the motivation to perceive order.
That has been their intention from the start and so the creation of a federalist state, which would
exert control over national Parliaments, has long been known.
«It's just another sad chapter in the ongoing saga of the Legislature's failure to
exert any control over this ongoing waste in the name of economic development,» said E.J. McMahon, executive director of the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank.
«His plan is another means by which he is seeking to
exert his control over NYRA and the future of our thoroughbred racing industry.»
Conservative committee member David T. C. Davies lamented the decline in Britain's ability to
exert control over its extradition situation.
Can the UK, even as EU members,
exert control over the immigration of people from outside the EU?