Sentences with phrase «future value of our lives»

So we have to insurance in a good company to protect the future value of our lives.

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The Board and the Executive Leadership Team are confident that Dara is the best person to lead Uber into the future building world - class products, transforming cities, and adding value to the lives of drivers and riders around the world while continuously improving our culture and making Uber the best place to work.

Thiel has supported the work of philosopher Nick Bostrom, who argues for weighing the value of the trillions of lives that will exist in the future in today's ethical calculations.

«The Board and the Executive Leadership Team are confident that Dara is the best person to lead Uber into the future building world - class products, transforming cities, and adding value to the lives of drivers and riders around the world while continuously improving our culture and making Uber the best place to work,» Uber's board said in a statement late on Aug. 29.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

Based on our analysis, we developed a living model that we update monthly predicting the future value of each customer.

Our accounting for acquisitions involves significant judgments and estimates, including the fair value of certain forms of consideration such as our common stock, preferred stock or warrants, the fair value of acquired intangible assets, which involve projections of future revenues, cash flows and terminal value which are then discounted at an estimated discount rate, the fair value of other acquired assets and assumed liabilities, including potential contingencies, and the useful lives of the assets.

Had the individual purchased permanent life insurance, he or she could have access to a potentially significant source of supplemental retirement income in the future (depending on the policy type), while preserving the death benefit in perpetuity (note, however, that the death benefit and cash value of a policy is reduced in the event of a loan or partial surrender, and the chance of lapsing the policy increases).

And as in the past, so in the future, they must be trained in the highest Jewish value of all — that human life is a sacred absolute

Instead of fighting over the amount of money that was spent on who - knows - what, shift the focus toward what really matters: (1) your fear of not having influence in important issues impacting your life, (2) your fear of not having security in your future, (3) your fear of having no respect shown for your values, or (4) your fear of not realizing your dreams.

The value of ethical goodness, or virtue, is that besides helping to make life in the present good in itself it will tend to make life in the future good in itself.

It points, in Luke 16:19 - 26 to the future life as a reversal of the values of this (see comment on Luke 13:30, above, and also 16:15).

The future may contain more of value than the past or the present, but in any event Whitehead's God lives in terms of adventure.

Yet to grasp the full significance of the eternal recurrence, we must first recall Nietzsche's basic intentions: namely, to accord an ultimate value to the realm of becoming and temporal life; to redeem and to unleash the creative potentials of earthly will to power; and to help create a humanly significant future.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

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The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

In short, it means caring about and for the future, by investing something of yourself in nurturing those persons, causes, and values which will live after you and will help in some small way to make the planet a better place for the children of the human family.

He proposes the following possibilities: (i) So act as to maximize value for yourself in the present; (ii) So act as to maximize value for yourself for the rest of your life; (iii) So act as to maximize value for all people for the indefinite future; or (iv) So act as to maximize value in general.

But if we reject the materialist, utilitarian vision and instead define our goals in terms of human values, then we are freed from the entropy trap and can create alternative futures to improve our quality of life.

Any philosophical discussion of the future life is apt to be related to the conservation of values.

Second, we move on toward the time when as living persons we will be no more.34 This means that all the beauty we have known will have only the most trivial value for the future.35 It also means that the compensation of novel experiences is nearing its end.

We are nothing apart from what our moments of living contribute to future life, and this means to some or all of the following: our own future experiences; future experiences of other human beings, nonhuman animals, or plants; divine experience, this last contribution containing all the value whatsoever that our moments can have.

Ervin continued, «Hippie Butter and iHerb have similar and compatible core values: to conscientiously meet the needs of our customers and employees and to promote delectable, natural foods for people who live a natural lifestyle, love healthy foods and work to leave a healthy planet for future generations.»

Petra Colindres is a Family Dietitian and Lactation Consultant with a passion for infant nutrition and prenatal education, valuing the importance of the first thousand days of an infant's life (from conception to 2 years) to be the standard for future successful health outcomes.

The Foundation, which has service, diligence and integrity as watchwords, also has the mandate of inculcating leadership values and training as a way of grooming future leaders in all spheres of life.

She explained that humanists share the vision which underlies the principles of the UN, which is that of «a world where everyone lives cooperatively on the basis of shared human values, respect for human rights, and concern for future generations».

We need to get behind the industries of the future so we're backing the skilled, high - value industries like green technology, aerospace and life sciences in which Britain has a real comparative advantage.

«Ofsted must now take this opportunity to engage with teachers and school leaders to ensure that inspection can be reformed further so that it accurately reflects the full value that schools add to the quality of children and young people's lives and their future prospects.»

Speaking at the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) held at Muson Centre in Onikan with the theme: «Living Well Together, Tomorrow: The Challenge Of Africa's Future Cities», Ambode said government was embarking on massive reform in waste management system, expressing optimism that the plan will fully be actualized by July this yeaof the Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL) held at Muson Centre in Onikan with the theme: «Living Well Together, Tomorrow: The Challenge Of Africa's Future Cities», Ambode said government was embarking on massive reform in waste management system, expressing optimism that the plan will fully be actualized by July this yeaOf Africa's Future Cities», Ambode said government was embarking on massive reform in waste management system, expressing optimism that the plan will fully be actualized by July this year.

Health Minister Anne Milton reassured other MPs, responding to a question from Labour MP Nic Dakin, about the value of «free nursery milk in preparing young people for a good future and well - being in life».

«Investigators generating these torrents of P - values should be seen with sympathy as drug addicts in need of rehabilitation that will help them live a better, more meaningful scientific life in the future.»

«This study provides a foundation for future studies to evaluate the value of psycho - social interventions, such as cognitive therapies, to lessen the effect of major life events, as well as the use of estrogen therapy during perimenopausal and menopausal stressful times.»

ASHG 2015: Teens Value Results of Genetic Tests to Inform Future Life Decisions ASHG Press Release — October 9, 2015

If you're someone who really values saving up to take a big trip abroad each year and your partner likes to live in the moment and spend on weekly luxuries, that's not a deal breaker, but it is important to understand and be open about what you each value so in the future you can have a plan to take care of both of your needs.

Ann Arbor, MI About Blog We envision a waste - free future — a world where wastes become resources and sustainable systems bring value to businesses, institutions and communities, enhancing environment and quality of life.

Preston Sturges, in his 1941 classic Sullivan's Travels, sends a director of popular movies on the road in search of «real life» for future art films, only to have real life teach him the true value of popular movies.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

Imagine walking through this exhibition and seeing over a hundred humanoid robots that represent, in different periods over the last 500 years, what we thought of the world, what we valued, how technology would change our lives, how we dreamt the future would look.

In other words, the university education within a refugee camp opens and expands refugees» opportunities, adds value to their lives thereby transforming their situation from being that of a dependent population into one that has capabilities to secure its own future.

«Learning to live together, by developing an understanding of others and their history, traditions and spiritual values and, on this basis, creating a new spirit which, guided by recognition of our growing interdependence and common analysis of these risks and challenges of the future, would induce people to implement common projects or to manage the inevitable conflicts in an intelligent and peaceful way» (Delors et al., 1996, p. 22).

The correlation between teacher effectiveness (as demonstrated by value - added student growth measures) and student life outcomes (higher salaries, advanced degrees, neighborhoods of residence, and retirement savings) is staggering; it's not an exaggeration to say that great teachers substantially improve students» future quality of life and those students» contributions to the common good.

Dr Jo Saxton, the trust's current chief executive, said in a statement: «We are delighted that Paul Smith is joining Future Academies; he's committed to our trust's values of knowledge, aspiration and respect, and will work to help us to continue to improve the education and life chances of even more children.

HLC's program is grounded in the traditions and wisdom of the Hawaiian culture and through a project - based learning approach, strives to develop in each child the ability to engage in critical thinking, to apply creative problem solving approaches, and to demonstrate a mastery of the academic tools and positive values necessary to fully engage in life - long learning and to make life choices for a successful future.

Purple America Our mission is to showcase Americans living the core values that unite us as a nation and to inspire a civil dialogue as we imagine a future for our country based on the common ground of our shared values.

By working with parents to examine their privilege and understand that their impact matters more than their intentions, Integrated Schools prepares parents to support meaningfully integrated classrooms that reflect the diversity of their district as well as school communities that respect ALL families and are galvanized around supporting ALL children Through national organizing to promote local action, we support, educate, develop and mobilize families to «live their values,» disrupt segregation, and leverage their choices for the well - being and futures for their own children, for all children, and for our democracy.

Jo Kline Cebuhar, J.D., author of So Grows the Tree — Creating an Ethical Will: The Legacy of Your Beliefs and Values, Life Lessons and Hopes for the Future

In setting your initial withdrawal rate, you'll also want to consider how much of your expenses you can cover from Social Security and any pensions, what other resources you have to draw on (home equity, income from an annuity, cash value life insurance, income from a part - time job) and how much of your retirement spending goes to essential expenses that you would have a hard time trimming vs. discretionary items that leave you with a lot more leeway cutting back should you need to in the future.

A term life policy has lower premiums than a cash value poilcy of the same amount; however, it does not build up cash values that can be used in the future.