Sentences with phrase «field a force of»

Was Revelation's reference to an army of 200 million fulfilled in Chairman Mao's boast that he could field a force of exactly that number?

Liberty Life Insurance Company provides a wide range of insurance protection and retirement income products including life insurance, critical illness and cancer expense insurance, and annuities to consumers through independent marketing companies, regional and independent broker dealers, the Internet, other direct marketing channels and a field force of approximately 200 full - time career agents.

Not exact matches

Nike is the official sponsor of USA Track & Field through 2040, but Symmonds is sponsored by Brooks running; while he was happy to wear the Nike kit in competition, he did not like being forced to wear the brand at subsequent events.

In honor of International Women's Day, to encourage women across all fields to pursue their goals, CEO, designer and philanthropist Tory Burch has joined forces with big names such as Sheryl Sandberg, Anna Wintour, Laila Ali and Reese Witherspoon.

Unfortunately for the Patriots, the ball fell right off of Brady's hands and incomplete, forcing a field goal attempt for the Patriots.

And Prince Fielder, formerly of the Texas Rangers, will make $ 24 million this season even though he was forced to retire due to a neck injury last year.

«There needs to be a hole in the force field that protects their sense of reality before they will actively explore, examine and change their beliefs and behaviour,» writes executive coach Marcia Reynolds in her 2014 book The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs.

Business schools can expose you to a curriculum you might not seek out on your own, and force you to learn the basics of fields like accounting that can be hard to learn by yourself.

The company also works with the Armed Forces, which requested an Oakley style pair of glasses so field operatives wouldn't have to risk their lives whenever they opened a laptop in the field.

Create a force field of love and protection around your Scorpio daughter by giving her the name Haven, suggests Grant.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

They are also forced to learn lessons about areas of business that are out of their field of expertise (marketing, sales, finance, etc.)-- lessons they would never learn (at least to as great a degree) if they worked as an employee at a company.

When things go wrong in the U.S. Military, whether in the field or in garrison, the nature and structure of the Army forces one to be held accountable for his or her actions.

Labforge is working on systems that incorporate drones, wearable sensors and smart cameras to give security forces «situational awareness» or a better idea of what's happening around their personnel in the field.

David Barton, of the San Antonio - based Gardner Law Firm, who represented Rothe, said the decision will force minority - owned businesses to compete on an equal playing field.

«Today, however, China is fielding an array of conventionally armed short - range ballistic missiles (SRBMs), as well as ground - and air - launched land - attack cruise missiles (LACMs), special operations forces (SOF), and cyber warfare capabilities to hold targets at risk throughout the region,» the report said.

Fine added that «community bankers are not afraid of the competition» if the largest banks were forced to operate on a level playing field.

The bottom line is that Hillary Clinton is a force field of power in both arenas, integrating them in new ways.

Yet they're forced to compete on an un-level playing field — one where they bear the brunt of declining credit and wages — and where megabanks are rewarded with subsidies and bailouts.

As the forces of globalization, automation, and artificial intelligence combine to disrupt every field, having a good idea isn't good enough.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

A surplus of crude could overwhelm Gulf Coast and Canadian refineries that weren't built for the type of oil now in abundance from new fields in North Dakota and Texas, forcing the issue, McKenna said.

As the forces of globalization, automation and artificial intelligence combine to disrupt every field, every company, and every career, having a good idea isn't good enough.

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

The president's Insourcing American Jobs forum and his new Trade Enforcement Task Force are just more talk and study, without the muscle of U.S. government action to rebalance a tilted playing field.

Research data used to generate Grassroots ® Research reports are received from reporters and Field Force investigators, who work as independent, third - party contractors, as well as external research panel providers — all of whom supply research that may be paid for by commissions generated by trades executed on behalf of clients.

As the combined forces of globalization, artificial intelligence and automation disrupt every field and every career, the persuaders are irreplaceable and irresistible.

The stories of players in these accounts challenge our moral imagination by forcing us to recognize that the uniformed men on the field are not just Football Players, but Persons - brothers, fathers, husbands, and sons like me.

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

The superpatient person is like one who has a very serious illness, who has come through the most dangerous phase of the illness yet later unexpectedly dies from a sudden relapse of fever; the fever was finally the cause of death.15 Again, the superpatient person is like a soldier who has had a great victory in the field — the main battle is over; going into the city thinking the victory already secured, the negligent soldier is stupidly captured by a small, insignificant force within the gates.

But Einstein, 105f, sees that the infinite lines of force on any body would result in a field of infinite intensity, which is impossible; hence he argues that Newton had to postulate for his universe «a kind of centre in which the density of the stars is a maximum, and that as we proceed outwards from this centre the group - density of the stars would diminish, until finally, at great distances, it is succeeded by an infinite region of emptiness.»

Matter seems to possess only a negligible amount of «mentality» or «feeling» (though some philosophers insist that sub-atomic events are also actually constituted by their «feeling» the fields of force surrounding them).

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Pannenberg understands spirit as «field,» a conception somewhat like the field theory introduced in 19thcentury science, which describes the interaction of material bodies in terms of interlocking networks called forces (e.g., magnetic fields).

Lorentz's explanation of this situation was along these lines: he showed, using Maxwell's equations (assuming that Maxwell's equations hold in the frame of the ether), that if the field of force is spherical in the rest frame of the ether then it contracts along the direction of motion: l = l0.

Moreover, by emphasizing the notion that personality was the sum total of its constitutive relationships and was subject to the interpersonal forces at work in a given field of energy, Sullivan was expressing in psychological terms the more complicated notions entailed in Whitehead's discussion of the extensive continuum.6

The way he elaborates them is at times idiosyncratic (for example, his understanding of the divinity that the persons of the Trinity share as analogous to a force field), but he shares these themes with many other theologians.

Gravity from space (Einstein's relativity) operates on mass through space and matter interaction is a natural process like centrifugal force which made its appearance when a body is morning in circle Jean mass is the amount of matter that must be present before gravity becomes effective or felt, once this minimum amount of matter is reached or exceeded, gravity with mass interact with space - time to bring geodesics and gravity begin to control other bodies and then orbit around each other, another aspect of the twin effect of gravity and mass is the necessity to account for energy required to sustain gravitating mass and where does this energy originating from Einstein's field equation says from space but never refer to the origin of gravitation.

Commander Doyle presented Schwartz with a batch of telegrams, some addressed to Hickham Field in Honolulu, some to Vandenberg Air Force Base, some to other military bases.

What is necessary is a philosophical analysis of nature in which the very existence of equational fields of force in the material universe is linked to a metaphysical view of what an object is and how it is related to other objects.

We experience this particular chair as it exists in the swirling field of force which impinges upon us and causes us to see, feel, perhaps alter our path.

Furthermore, while working on the foreign field, they found that needless competition between various Protestant groups only stood in the way of evangelism; therefore, they were forced to seek cooperation with one another.

Robert's battle is with (i) philosophers who think Nothing is absurd, a fallacy of language, a false problem, and (ii) physicists who have defined for themselves a rather densely populated «Nothing» of laws, fields and forces with which they then go out and generate universes «from nothing.»

Everyone also knows that good can come out of evil, as when a plague of insects devastates the fields of a one «crop economy, forcing the region to diversify.

That is, life is an emerging field of force supporting networks of interrelationship and interdependency ceaselessly occurring in all entities in the universe.

The dominant image of the local church, the one that gives Reed's and Evans's findings much of their coherence and argument, is that of the congregation as a mechanistic field of traceable forces.

For mechanists, the world is a field of force whose properties are basically numerical and instrumental.

In origin this is a material force, that of terrestrial compression acting on a rapidly growing population composed of elements whose field of action grows even more rapidly.

The complexity of the field forces oversimplification when an attempt is made to cover all religions in one volume, and the attempt to be brief seems to create an irresistible tendency to force the religions into patterns.

Writers of science fiction have field days imagining how universes with stronger and weaker forces of gravity or different ratios of weights of protons and neutrons could lead to forms of intelligent life.