Sentences with phrase «from tight knit groups»

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Bounce Exchange CEO and co-founder shares with us how the digital - marketing company was able to maintain a stellar company culture despite going from a tight - knit group to a business with 130 employee...

It will go from a small, tight - knit family feel to what, hopefully, will be a really interesting, diverse and large group of people united by a common goal, values and strong cultural fabric.

Heathcote thinks that the tighter - knit friendships that come from small groups allow guppies to more effectively cooperate in their predator avoidance activities.

Petrillo, who has just left Argentina for a research post at the Medical University of Vienna, says that he will sorely miss the camaraderie of the tight - knit group of RNA researchers from labs and universities all over Buenos Aires.

Waring says his «ingredients» for growing environmental cooperation include «a population of tight - knit groups, under high pressure to preserve resources, who have the power to manage them, and who learn from each other's successes and failures.»

Female elephants live in tight - knit matrilineal family groups so mutations in mtDNA, which is passed from mothers to offspring, are closely tied to geographic populations.

As she returns to her seat, Christmas explains that she knows the lawmaker from the «bird suppers» held each year by a tight - knit group of influential Georgians — overwhelmingly men.

02 — who, since graduating HGSE, has worked as a USAID contractor implementing the Afghanistan Primary Education Program — benefit directly from the program's tight - knit group.

Since its founding in 1989, critics both from within and outside the tight - knit Teach for America family have called for the group to reassess its model of recruiting elite young college graduates and career - changers to teach for two years in low - income schools after a brief summer crash course.

On the other hand, though the group of painters represented here form a tight - knit «generation» (one constraint of the show is that all the artists were born between 1939 and 1949), and though the selected works originate from the same period and place, the works are aesthetically independent enough to resist any easy categorization according to style or aims... Rubinstein's curation in Reinventing Abstraction proposes something — an idea, a possible history — that may connect with others but which is, nevertheless, its own.

The painting scene in San Francisco in the»40s centered around a small, tight - knit group of teachers and serious students at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961), who were influenced by Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a major first - generation abstract expressionist painter, who taught at CSFA from 1946 until the early»50s when he moved to New York.

In 1963 Janet Fish received her MFA from Yale, where her fellow students included Chuck Close, Rackstraw Downes, Nancy Graves, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and Richard Serra, a tight - knit group who formed an intense, ambitious, competitive cohort that motivated one another to develop and defend their work.