Sentences with phrase «impact on their lives by»

The big seed companies had no interest in these poor man's crops, but I knew that science could have an impact on our lives by solving these plant problems through breeding and biotechnology.»

We seek to protect the rights of our clients and make a positive impact on their lives by obtaining them the adequate settlements for their injuries.

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The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

Sure, there are many other factors affecting this trend besides on - line merchandising — most notably real estate firms which have accelerated neighborhood declines by escalating rents — but those factors combined have decimated downtown and suburban shopping areas and have had a major impact on our way of life.

Cook met with USA TODAY to discuss the company's expanded corporate partnership with (RED), the 20 - person organization founded by U2 singer Bono that has had an outsized impact on those suffering from HIV / AIDS by providing life - saving medicines.

I've learned more about who I want to become as a leader and discovered how I want to change the world by making it my mission to have a positive impact on the lives of one billion people.

The digital revolution has made such a positive impact on our lives that we often forget the challenges still faced by so many men, women, and children around the world.

Purchases, we all know, can sometimes make us very happy, the choices afforded by financial security (or lack thereof) have a huge impact on quality of life, and trying to keep up with the Joneses is generally regarded as a recipe for misery.

By being able to witness firsthand the positive impact we're making on the lives of our patients, supporters may be even more so inclined to support us on our journey,» Smile Train CEO Susannah Schaefer explained to me.

I'd be remiss to exclude the hurt that I've brought on people who I work with and have worked with who's professional and personal lives have been impacted by all of this, including projects currently in production: the cast and crew of Better Things, Baskets, The Cops, One Mississippi, and I Love You Daddy.

A study performed by Gila Bronshtein, Jason Scott, John Shoven, and Sita Slavov found that delaying retirement by 3 - 6 months has the same impact on your standard of living in retirement as an extra one percent of earnings over 30 years.2

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

What impact will the anti-corruption campaign have on the Party's patronage networks and its poorly paid cadres, who live by rent - seeking?

By now, if you don't understand the huge impact social media is having on our society today, then you must be living under a rock.

More visible to the outside world than modernizing our Membership model, we also strive to lead by taking public stances on issues that impact businesses across Greater Vancouver, and thus our communities and the standard of living we aspire to have for our families.

The difficulties faced by American producers and consumers alike in curtailing their use of Freon were a testament to its profound impact on postwar life.

A survey last month by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found «little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates» respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.»

By pairing practical ministries of coaching, career counseling, and mentoring along with the Truth of who Jesus is, regardless of the season of life in which we find ourselves, I believe that the local church can have a real impact on the largely unreached twentysomething population.

It is made even more extraordinary by the reality that though we don't know what the Queen thinks about a great many things — Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and, in spite of reports, Brexit — she is remarkably, one might say uncharacteristically, open about her belief in Christ and his impact on her life.

No Robert your cult allows people to make excuses for their lives by stating it must be god's will, it's why your followers don't take responsibility for their lives or their impact on this planet.

RVIM said in a statement: «We know this is Nabeel's gain, but a tremendous loss for all those who loved him and were impacted by his life and testimony on earth.»

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

I shall never forget the impact on my ministry when I sat down a few years ago and jotted on paper «the great rocky facts of being» (Augustus Hopkins Strong): some elementary but elemental truths I felt certain of, with certainty defined as «no doubt about it» but as «convictions by and for which one lives and dies.»

Through their associated non-profit, Sudara Freedom Fund, they have an even greater impact on the lives of women and children in India by equipping even more women and their children with education and housing and micro-loans — tools needed to build and sustain a new life such as the Sunetha Home, supporting long - term, systemic change by directly addressing issues that lead to generational sex work.

By letting others learn from us, we feel like we can make a big impact on how the rest of America can live up to our high standards.

I think if anything this country would be a mormon country since it was founded here... but since mythology is all myths lets all be happy we live in a country where people can believe what they wish and be open about it yet those beliefs based on nothing more then each persons personal «experiences» which are questionable at best have little impact on the government which dictates the laws we live by... WRONG!

In an article on «The Impact of Pastoral Psychology on Theological Thought,» Tillich emphasizes this point: «Intellectual and moral preaching fails to reach those levels of the personal life which can, however, be opened by authentic symbols — symbols which themselves have roots in the unconscious depths of individuals and groups.»

I was so incredibly struck in writing these stories by the incredible power faith had in people's lives, it has made a profound impact on me in my belief.

Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.

Also it should not be surprising this guy focuses on Christianity, that is the religion that by far has the most impact on his life.

Jesus when he touchs that which is unclean which symbolises sin makes it clean.Dead bodies and lepers were unclean to the jews under the law if you were clean and touched either you became contaminated by the uncleaness but when Jesus touchs a dead body the person is raised to life and if he touchs the leper he is made well.So that which is unclean is made clean by Jesus i heard that message once and it had a profound impact on me.So our lives are the same we were once unclean sinners but through his blood we have been washed clean and make righteous.That is so awesome..

«Taken together with earlier research results, the authors» findings suggest that the improved living circumstances experienced by children born after the legalisation of abortion had a lasting impact on their lifelong prospects.

As it turned out, of course, Asia more than doubled in size and set off a new industrial revolution whose impact on human welfare has been of revolutionary proportions by virtually any measure: infant mortality, literacy, life expectancy, caloric intake, etc..

[10] Concerning the impact of Pentecostal conversion on daily life, see the recent study by Manuel Ossa, 1991.

I know I talk about the weather a lot, but when you live in a rainy place that is really impacted by weather, it is often on your mind.

This encourages all the company's employees to make a sustainable difference by considering and acting upon the impact of their home and working lives on the future of the planet and environment.

By partnering with an organization as dynamic as SoldierStrong, Rosati Ice will be making a direct impact on the lives of veterans, as over 90 percent of the funds that SoldierStrong raises go straight to providing these rehab devices.

The initiative follows on he heels of another report by Oxford academics, which last year found that levying a tax on animal products — pricing them to reflect more accurately their harmful impact — could reduce meat eating to the extent that 1 billion tonnes of carbon a year would be saved... and 500,000 lives.

The Basque Culinary World Prize was launched in 2016 as an initiative that would bring to life examples of the ways in which gastronomy can make an impact on society, by showcasing the work of entrepreneurial men and women who strive for excellence and who are, most importantly, strongly committed to their societies.

I'll say what I have said before — those who so clearly get upset by what a Frenchman they have never met does (and who truly has no real impact on your life), must be very weak individuals.

Research funded by the ESRC and conducted at the University of Bristol has looked at the impact of fatherhood on men's employment and found that although overall fatherhood status is largely irrelevant for men's level of engagement with the labour market, there is some accommodation in work hours in the first year of a child's life.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

And with your support, you'll make an enormous impact on the life of a child by helping to prevent them from entering foster care in the first place.

In fact, there's been a lot of research done lately on how specifically feeding and how your baby was delivered (either vaginally or by a C - section) impacts exactly what bacteria live in your baby's digestive tract.

Drawing on stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step - by - step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassionate and resilient children.

Another reason we decided to join the community is to minimize our footprint and impact on the environment — driving less, sharing resources, and living in a home that reduces heating costs by 90 %.

Nestlé, the UK's most boycotted company over its marketing of baby milk, is trying to improve its image by sponsoring the London Marathon on Sunday 17 April 2011 with its «Pure Life» bottled water brand, but is also attracting criticism over the impact of its bottled water operation.

Nestlé launched Pure Life water in Brazil shortly afterwards, demineralising water from a spring in the water park in the historic spa town of São Lourenço, which had an adverse impact on other springs and the tourism industry, leading to a mass petition which prompted a civil public action by the public prosecutor.