Sentences with phrase «great labor of»

I am very excited to carry out this great labor of spreading Gottman Method Couples Therapy in Monterrey, Mexico, and to meet the therapists and consultants of Familia Unida and the people of Monterrey.

Not exact matches

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, since the end of the Great Recession, small businesses have created 62 percent of all net new private - sector jobs.

• Great Range Capital led a group of investors that including The Bradley Family Office to acquire Labor Source, an Olathe, Kansas - based professional staffing company.

The charming Midwestern city offers great job potential and has a low unemployment rate of 3.7 %, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Not only are the figures for women - owned companies very low, relative to the female fraction of the labor force, but also the growth of women's business ownership seems to be greatest among non-employer businesses, which have little economic impact.

With lowering levels of entrepreneurship in the country, chances are that other countries could provide greater competition, often at lower labor rates, creating increased pressure on U.S. entrepreneurs.

Also, a widespread problem in industry with waste — of time, inventory, labor, and emissions — provides a great deal of work for consulting companies in China, Ding says.

What's more, if the GDP accounted for unpaid labor, (which is currently does not), the economic impact of all women refraining from all work on Wednesday would be far greater.

That thinking — markedly boosted by the carnage of the Great War, which was sparked in Sarajevo by a 19 - year old Bosnian student assassin, not a capitalist — made Labor a honey - pot for all forms of pacifism.

One reason this desire was strong was that so many of those gravitating to early Australian Labor hailed from class - ridden Great Britain — England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

According to a new study for the Labor Department conducted by Sanat Monica, California - based nonprofit research firm the RAND Corporation, nearly half of U.S. employers with a minimum of 50 workers offered workplace wellness programs in 2012, while 90 percent of companies with greater than 50,000 workers offered the programs over the same period.

The disappointing trends of the Great Recession and its aftermath come on the heels of the weak labor market from 2000 - 2007, during which the median income of non-elderly households fell significantly from $ 68,941 to $ 66,575, the first time in the post-war period that incomes failed to grow over a business cycle.

The conventional wisdom in the economics community is that the labor force participation rate would have continued to decline even if the great recession never occurred, because as the nation ages the share of retired workers would grow.

A topic of intense debate among economists is what the size of the labor force would be absent the effects of the great recession.

If Brexit - like sentiment in other nations leads to restrictions on the flow of trade and labor, he adds, «that is going to create greater uncertainty and volatility» — at a time when some commentators believe that global stock and bond prices are overdue for a tumble.

Her view, as she articulated in a speech to the AFL - CIO labor union in February, is that the spike in unemployment that followed the Great Recession was largely the result of the economic downturn, and not of a skills mismatch problem in the labour market, as some have suggested.

Greater attention to treating children with language disorders, such as stuttering, also drives demand for these professionals, about half of whom are employed by schools, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

It's been a long summer for Labor Leader Bill Shorten, who in eight weeks seems to have run the full gamut of Queen's greatest hits, from I Want it All to Under Pressure.

And the Council of Economic Advisers announced that policies such as work flexibility «lead to higher labor force participation, greater labor productivity and work engagement, and better allocation of talent across the economy.»

5 of 20 full - time workers in 2008 are out of the workforce, and there is a great amount of labor slack.

On the employment side, it generally begins from an elevated unemployment rate, because a great deal of labor slack enables sustained growth in employment.

And for all the muddle, the one thing that seems clear is that the risks to the economy and particularly the labor market — which is generating solid job growth and even some wage gains (for which we should all give Chair Yellen and the Fed serious credit)-- remain «asymmetric:» there's a greater risk of needlessly slowing non-inflationary growth than there is of inflation accelerating.

Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics» has shown an interesting trend in the years since the Great Recession: More Americans are quitting their jobs than ever.

In support of this hypothesis, we saw that places with less - effective labor markets for CEOs were typically associated with a greater disparity in the performance of firms run by managers, relative to firms run by leaders.

The next two weeks are the peak of the holiday season, so we'll likely see a retest of stock market lows, but this merely gives investors a second chance to buy great stocks at bargain prices before most traders return after Labor Day.

One of the greatest economic mysteries out there, according to many market watchers: Why labor market productivity has slowed sharply around the world in recent years.

The labor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statislabor force participation rate, the number of people working or actively looking for work, has fallen since the Great Recession and has stagnated near 63 percent for the last four years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisLabor Statistics.

A similar channel shows a downward direction, and even within the channel, as is noted, price labors on rallies and has greater EDM [Ease of Downward Movement], indicating sellers are still in overall control.

That's great if (1) you want to lie to the government and (2) there is no paper trail otherwise of the financial fruits of your labor so no way to track you (this is why your accountant says number of hours worked doesn't matter.

Meanwhile, on the labor market front, greater utilization of technology in business has placed a premium on high - skilled workers who can navigate and innovate alongside that technology.

The economic and social upheaval stemming from both the Great Depression and World War II forced the United States to seek out a source of inexpensive labor to meet its manpower needs in both agriculture and railway maintenance.

The Department of Labor's fiduciary standard, and new securities industry account statement rules for greater clarity in the prices of products, have forced nontraded real estate investment trusts to slice their commissions.

«We also believe that there will be a greater emphasis placed on benefit riders with variable annuities to validate their compensation payments, as the Department of Labor has expressed skepticism regarding the tax benefits of certain products when used within tax - qualified accounts,» the report says.

To have the only organized portion of the labor force heavily committed to the system is a great asset to the giant corporations, well worth the inconveniences of collective bargaining.

The Benedictine model of monasticism, with its stress on ora et labora, undoubtedly attributed great dignity to manual labor, though the first duty of the monk was always the Divine Office, called his «Opus Dei.»

His part of Switzerland had been heavily under the influence of Ragaz of Zurich, the blazing prophet of social Christianity who, like his friend Walter Rauschenbusch, saw in the labor movement the greatest single contemporary salient of the advancing kingdom of God.

He means, of course, that there is where production has been continued with the greatest reduction of labor.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

On the great question, Lincoln had never been pro-slavery, but his early pronouncements addressed it almost entirely in terms of free labor.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

Kierkegaard noted that many great minds of his century had given themselves to making people's lives easier — inventing labor - saving machines and devices.

We must construct new models, new pageantry, new hymns, new forms of prayer, new anthems of praise, new dramatizations, in which, for example, the labor movement may be caught up in the embrace of religion, the peace movement, the civic conscience, the community spirit, the family and every great aspiration of our time.

But it does, by the grace of God, manage to discover enough glimmers of meaning to continue to labor joyously despite great trials, hoping against hope, looking for significant ways to let the «least of these» know how much God loves them.

These values he contrasts with other beliefs and values with which it is readily apparent he is himself in greater accord: «a belief that government is sometimes a positive good, and that it should be cosmopolitan, expert, authoritative, efficient, confidential, articulated in its parts, progressive, elite, mechanical, duties - oriented, secular, regulatory, and delegative, with a division of labor.»

Progress and modernization of society imply a new division and organization of labor as well as greater complexity of social institutions.

Contemporary aristocrats — the people with the best education and the greatest ability — labor harder than ever at their increasingly complex tasks, while people with lesser endowments of energy and intelligence now have time to spare.

Even Jonathan Edwards spent a long period of his life laboring among the Indians at the Stockbridge mission in western Massachusetts while he was producing some of his greatest theological treatises.

The fact was that while a comparative few were building vast fortunes by every means conceivable, great masses of laboring people were being denied even the fair return of their efforts.

Whereas primitive and archaic cultures required little specialization of functions and little work beyond that required to provide food, clothing, and shelter, civilization required a high degree of specialization and a great amount of disciplined labor directed to providing wealth for the community as a whole and for a small class within it.