Sentences with phrase «from social standards»

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An acronym for impact reporting and investment standards, Iris helps impact investors speak the same language so they can compare social returns from one investment to the next.

To prevent any employee departure from ever going viral on social media, clarify the company standards in initial contracts, including whether personal Twitter accounts need a disclaimer and who has the authority to speak on behalf of the company online about specific issues.

In a blog post titled, «Google + is the social backbone,» Dumbill described the new project as the first major step toward integrating all social applications, much like e-mail went from a number of closed systems to incorporating one online communication standard as a foundation.

One way to keep yourself from trying to live up to your friends» standards is to dial back your use of social media, advises Derek Sall, who paid off $ 116,000 worth of debt before age 30.

Among the findings: Results from the federally - funded General Social Survey, considered the gold standard on social behavior and one of the few surveys that collects data about sexual orientation and workplace discrimination, show that 42 percent of LGB respondents had experienced employment discrimination at some point in their Social Survey, considered the gold standard on social behavior and one of the few surveys that collects data about sexual orientation and workplace discrimination, show that 42 percent of LGB respondents had experienced employment discrimination at some point in their social behavior and one of the few surveys that collects data about sexual orientation and workplace discrimination, show that 42 percent of LGB respondents had experienced employment discrimination at some point in their lives.

Washington insists it has not actively discouraged countries from joining the new bank, but it has questioned whether the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will have sufficient standards of governance and environmental and social safeguards.

There, it is true that the arbitrage gains arising from free trade between economic zones of vastly different living standards without trade balance equilibrium and being captured by a small minority are correctly viewed as un-earned gains and giving rise to social tensions which could easily degenerate into political tensions.

Vietnam's has recently jumped from low to lower - middle income, and policy makers are now facing questions about avoiding the «middle - income trap» and generating economic growth without increased exploitation of natural resources and cheap labour that would result in deteriorating environmental and social standards.

The End of Link Building As We've Known And Loved It — with authority signals used by Google to rank websites shifting from the time - honored standard link to focus on social signals, webmasters need to adjust their link - building strategy accordingly.

Moral and social standards derive from our spiritual nature.

At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

From this perspective, the modern assault on sex standards in the name of freedom (more properly called license) presents a major threat to individual and social welfare, for it justifies and confirms sensual satisfaction as the regulating principle of life.

Expanding from a Jewish to a Gentile world the early church concluded that no legalism, Judaic or Gentile, was adequate to fulfill the gospel standard of agape, that the Kingdom of God was already present and yet to come, and that in living the gospel in this world with its political, economic and social challenges would require faithfulness and patience.

Do they guide social action and foster a concern for the well - being of others or are they used as standards to rationalize self - preoccupation, a withdrawal from worldly concerns or an indifference to the plight of others?

Locus Corporation wishes to apologize regarding the first elements of our marketing campaign (in the form of a Cannes billboard and a trailer) which we realize has had the opposite effect from that which was intended... Our film, a family comedy, carries a message designed to challenge social prejudices related to standards of physical beauty in society by emphasizing the importance of inner beauty.

If the authentic self is defined largely through its autonomy from the collective standards of social propriety and aesthetic judgment, then conformity to collective expectations is a sign of the self's distortion and even corruption.

Taken together these add up to the highly contestable proposition that individuals should be able to live their lives as they will, free from social mores and external standards that would constrain them.

Instead, it buys from Coops and small growers who enter into a social and environmental standard promoted by Britt.

The web site specifically says, «Every bean we grind at McDonald's Australia is made using 100 % Arabica coffee beans sourced only from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms in Brazil, Colombia and Costa Rica that meet strict environment and social standards.»

«We source many of our tea blends from tea producers that meet international social and environmental standards.

Twitter have named their team of the year, creating the XI from the players who have been mentioned the most on the social media site according to the London Evening Standard.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

A Europe where workers employed in different Member State benefit from the same minimum standards, from simplified transferability of social rights and from the full recognition of professional qualifications.

Campaign profile pages are free, for starters, and more and more of the standard political - world web - hosting tools are providing options (from widgets to badges to petitions) that allow campaigns to encourage supporters to become evangelists on blogs, discussion groups — AND social networking sites.

But after an outcry from the company, Unbound, which accused the M.T.A. of a gendered double standard, was quickly seized on by several publications and on social media, the M.T.A. found itself once again mired in an issue that has plagued the agency — determining what is appropriate to promote on its buses, stations and trains.

:: Urgently pay Edo State pensioners over 42 months outstanding pension benefits and entitlements from the over N29bn Paris Club refunds received by your government and meant for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities;:: Adopt a human rights policy of guaranteeing regular payment of pension benefits and entitlements so that pensioners and their families can live decently;:: Recognize the human rights of Edo State pensioners and ensure their full and effective enjoyment of those rights, as well as provide them with information to enable them to claim their rights;:: Treat all pensioners in Edo State as individuals with humanity and dignity and respect and promote their higher standard of living and improve economic and social conditions for all pensioners;:: Provide Edo State pensioners with proper support and assistance to alleviate their plight, including by ensuring informal, community - based and recreation - oriented programs for pensioners to help develop their sense of self - reliance and independence;:: Reduce opportunities for corruption in the spending of the Paris Club refunds

«Now that is not a sustainable situation because Europe can't protect itself, preserve its standard of living and social infrastructure if it has to absorb millions of migrants from Africa.»

He takes us from the analysis of largely non-justiciable constitutional provisions on socio - economic rights, through the commendable array of legislation in the field, to Nigeria's acceptance and ratification of international and regional standards such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights.

Social work researchers from the University of Washington have found that among a group of active - duty Army personnel who use illicit drugs, the most abused substance is synthetic marijuana, which is harder to detect than other drugs through standard drug tests.

As well as using standard social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, political activists make use of live audio and video streaming sites, including Audioboo and Bambuser, to keep the world up to date with news from the front line.

«These results come from a randomized experiment of the sort that generates gold - standard evidence in medicine, but remains far too rare in the area of social policy,» noted Roseanna Ander, Executive Director of the UChicago Urban Education Lab.

This ongoing awareness of the emotional wellness challenges in body acceptance drive Ivy toward changing the face of wellness from skewed social standards to love and appreciation based lifestyle choices for people of all sizes.

From birth we are bombarded with the opinions and social norms dictated by a superficial standard of beauty and gender stereotypes.

Because the «normcore» girl refuses to follow standards, social norms, and conventionalities established by society and wants to redefine the traditional concept of femininity by androginy and borrowing from the boys».

This is a woman who knew her calling from day one... she has never wavered in her desire to serve the public and her confidence in her own ability to do so, even when that flew in the face of social standards.

In addition to standard dating features, The Inner Circle also lets users select their favourite hang - out spots, share their travel plans as well as crowdsourcing the most popular events in town every weekend from social media feeds.

Remember that many years ago, it was the social standard that whites went with whites and blacks with blacks and those who broke the rules were ostracized from the community.

LoveMe.com is an online dating platform for Ukranian singles that is well equipped will all the features of a standard social platform that allows members to communicate and socialize with other Ukrainian singles from their comfort zones.

However, Adult Fun will always allow you to choose your adult dating or personal social preferences, and can choose from standard dating, casual no - strings fun dating or social meetings.

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is a blindsiding comedy sequel, not just because it is surprisingly a much more enjoyable film than its predecessor from 2014, but for the fact that its crowded team of five different writers actually managed to tell a follow - up story layered with social commentary on hot topics such as feminism, equality and double standards.

Under pressure from a number of groups, NCATE president Arthur Wise announced that the agency would drop «social justice» from its accreditation standards; he maintains that social justice was never a required disposition.

An excerpt from an Aspen Institute report highlighting the close connection between social and emotional skills and college - and career - ready standards.

When the middle class youth leaves the bars / clubs they enter paying a fortune by their own standards, saying the «slum dwellers are here»; when they are turned away from malls they go to for shopping on the grounds that they are deemed «dangerous»; when they are subject to ostracizing behavior at stores they do manage to enter they are repeatedly reminded that it is nearly impossible to attain the desired social status and trying to be like the middle class and not being able to do so generates considerable rage.

To illustrate this, we highlight required SED skills — including emotional, social, cognitive, character, and mindset — for a selection of English, math, and science standards, drawn from different states and organizations to illustrate how CCR expectations from across the country are dependent on SED.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The Common Core Standards for Literacy in the History / Social Sciences, Science and Technical Subjects are all standards that non-ELA teachers, from art to science, can target.

Is in this point in which we should reinvent and strengthen the standards and values we have created to educate and inform about this subject, given it to consumers and / or healthcare professionals, reinforcing groups such as Energy Control, taking them from only being in social gatherings to be part of educational strategies

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

Teachers and curriculum designers are encouraged first to establish their program frameworks using the social studies standards as a guide, and then to use the standards from history, geography, civics, economics, and others to guide the development of grade level strands and courses.

The integration of Michigan's content expectations along with the C3 Framework and where appropriate, literacy standards from the CCSS assess comprehensive skill sets in social studies thinking.