Sentences with phrase «experiences of places like»

Canada can learn from the experiences of places like Sydney, Zurich and San Francisco in assessing which policies best address the concerns of residents and which policies may do more harm than good to the local real estate market.

Not exact matches

However, sustained engagement on issues of equity and inclusion, activities that place participants in the situations that oppressed people experience (what I call «addressing the empathy gap»), and setting goals — much like the one Starbucks envisioned a decade ago regarding pay equity — are some examples of evidence - based best practices.

According to The Farm 51's creative director Wojciech Pazdur, the VR app experience will be similar to watching a documentary, only the experience will be interactive and aiming to place the viewer right there in Pripyat, sort of like virtual tourism.

«We can't place someone who has no experience in running a large organization in this important position... The current state of the BOJ is different to the BOJ of the past, because nowadays it is on par with the likes of the Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank,» he said.

Students may pursue international study in places like India, China and Dubai, or may opt for the London Internship Experience, a partnership with the Canada — U.K. Chamber of Commerce.

And your customers and the people who work with you are more likely to feel your company is a place that values them when you demonstrate you value the thoughts, experiences, and contributions of people who look like them.

Most Disneyland fans know the basic secrets of the «Happiest Place on Earth,» like the hundreds of hidden Mickeys around the park, but we bet that even the most experienced Disneyland veterans have never heard some of these behind - the - scenes facts.

Australia: Australia, like Canada, is experiencing an affordability crisis and part of the blame is being placed on foreign buyers.

«When it comes to things like employee incentives, we're definitely part of this larger macroeconomic shift that's taking place — where there's less money being spent on material goods, and more money being spent on experiences.

While demo trading can not completely replicate what real money trading is like, it is always the best place for you to begin when you start trading at a new broker, regardless of how much experience you have in the binary options business.

According to Bloomberg, Google intends to create an Alphabet - run company dedicated to essentially competing with Uber, proffering cars that can chaffeur you from place to place without the hassle of hiring scores of drivers (according to SFGate, companies like Uber and Lyft experience a high employee turnover).

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I am glad that awareness of these issues is growing through many avenues including places like this comment thread where people are able to share their experiences and gain understanding from one another.

I have posted his information because he validates what I have found to be true in my own experience, and what I have read in numerous other books about the best and most cost - effective way of doing evangelism and missions in other countries, especially in places like Africa.

In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.

If such an eventuality actually took place, experience «would... include in an undivided present the entire past history of the conscious person, not as instantaneity, not like a cluster of simultaneous parts, but as something continually present which would also be something continually moving» (CM 152).

They have moved beyond religious frontiers to the frontier — which no thinker, however, brilliant can ever cross — to the meeting place of the human with the Divine where we find ourselves like Job speaking of things we do not understand, of things too wonderful for us to know and where, in God's mercy, we may experience the reality of the One God whose glory passes our understanding.

Like Berger, Bellah has in mind the need for an overarching sense of meaning, but the symbols Bellah discusses seem not so exclusively to consist of «theoretical traditions,» as Berger describes them, but of anecdotes, images, pictures, connotatively rich names and places, rituals, and personal experiences.

Heath, I covered some of this above, in particular that there aren't separate «places» called Heaven and Hell, but a common experience of God's love, which is like a consuming fire.

I wonder now if any of us had ever experienced anything like what took place there that day.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

One idea is that the elves represent something of the contemplative, withdrawn as they are from the world, living peacefully in hidden places like Rivendell, whose ambiance is described by the author with the love and awe of a person who has experienced the depth of retreat - like stillness.

The subliminal region, whatever else it may be, is at any rate a place now admitted by psychologists to exist for the accumulation of vestiges of sensible experience [whether inattentively or attentively registered], and for their elaboration according to ordinary psychological or logical laws into results that end by attaining such a «tension» that they may at times enter consciousness with something like a burst.

Nonetheless, a Christian trying to place himself in the shoes of his Jewish friends, at least as our experience in America allows us to do so, can dimly begin to imagine why, to a Jew, Christianity does not seem like a religion of the true Messiah awaited by Judaism for so many ages.

Speaking to Princeton students, the late Adlai E. Stevenson once declared: «What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas... but of people, places, actions — a knowledge not gained... by words, but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love — the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you can not see.»

A few of the places where the needles were (my hands and feet) felt a tiny bit achy after the procedure, but overall the experience is really relaxing — like a massage.

«Details like the Budweiser Beechwood Grill and the beer - food pairings make this place a dream for beer drinkers and food lovers alike, and we've made sure that the personalities of our brands will enhance the consumer experience in different ways.»

He's got like 3 years total of organized football experience, and at UTSA, of all places.

I would have liked Perez to come in place of Iwobi though to give the lineup a bit more experience.

It seems like a questionable decision all round considering Mourinho doesn't have a place for him and the experienced German international will want to play regular football at this stage of his career.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

In early August, Pittsburgh coach Ralph Willard hired Troy Weaver, whose only coaching experience had been with an AAU program in Washington, D.C. Weaver had several Division I prospects in his program, including 6» 9» senior Attila Cosby, whom he helped place at Oak Hill Academy, a school in Mouth of Wilson, Va., known for its basketball talent, and who suddenly looks like a lock for Pitt.

In a revealing snippet before the 1996/97 season, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson — like many of his ilk — was largely sceptical of Arsenal's decision to ditch Bruce Rioch and replace him with this lithe, unknown foreign type who had most recently gained managerial experience in JAPAN of all places...

The appointment of Terry will complement the wealth of football experience already in place in our First Team Manager, Nigel Pearson; Academy Director, Jon Rudkin and Football Operations Director, Andrew Neville, whose roles all remain unchanged.I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Terry to Leicester City and wish him great success in his new role.»

Not sure what his best role is still but I think his knowledge and experience around the place will be invaluable to the likes of Clough and Vela's development.

It just winds me up when fans have a go at the likes of Luis Boa Morte who gave 110 % in every match, but give credit to Nolan who seems to be a ghost 99 % of every match, but uses his experience to get into the right places at the right times to score a good amount of goals.

Potters boss Paul Lambert had elected to place faith in his more experienced campaigners in selecting the likes of Ryan Shawcross, Glen Johnson, Adam and Peter Crouch.

Last week, I had an interesting experience with a Facebook page for divorced people that I had «liked,» one that says its mission is to «create a place where you can find others to laugh with, to cry with, or to vent to as well as get referrals and specific information about divorce - related issues» and that hopes that «by being part of this community, you will be able to move in and feel supported in your new home.»

If you know what it feels like to experience medically managed hormones that are raging out of control - on top of your own emotions that are trying to fight for a place at the crowded table of rage and fear and sadness and hope and desperation.

The founders named their ministry Stepping Stones with the hope that, like properly placed stones across a running stream, Stepping Stones would build a bridge to guide travelers across the waters of discouragement, loneliness, and loss that are often part of the infertility experience.

A place where it is safe for children to be themselves, for them to experience a bit of freedom, and to find like minded folk at every turn.

It's light and fun fiction, but also really socially relevant with what today's experience of being a woman in the work place can look like and trying to climb to the top!

Whatever their experience, it is unique and relevant to them as partners, parents and family.This place Between the Worlds is the trance - like altered state where the opportunity exists to access the mystical state of transformation.

I write about wild cat herding, or maybe it just feels like it as I try and get my kids out of their rooms to expose them to new places and experiences.

They should not take the place of real - world experiences like taking childbirth education courses or asking questions to your doctor.

Hits right now include Sexion d'Assaut's (a group which remains signed to an independent label) song, Africain, which speaks to the African and African Diaspora experience of youth unemployment, voicelessness in the international debates (they reference the G8), dreams of going to Europe and America, the western media portrayal of Africa as a dangerous place, and the humiliation of racial profiling (rough English translation: «I will show my papers, OK, stop stressing; do not talk to me like I am another species»).

Though both have the hands - on experience people like in judicial candidates, that's no guarantee of their being placed at the head of the line.

«We have some challenges and you want an experienced team like Governor Cuomo and myself to fight back the onslaught of attacks from places like Washington on our healthcare system and our tax system,» Hochul said.

«I would suspect in the New York State Legislature, like so many other places — where you have men in powerful positions and young women who might not have a lot of worldly experience, who think these are very important men,» she said, «I wouldn't be surprised if more stories come out.»

«There is depleted uranium in a lot of armor - piercing munitions,» he said, «so places like the Middle East that are experiencing war could be exposed to high levels of uranium in the groundwater.»