Sentences with phrase «important agent of»

I value the therapeutic relationship as the most important agent of change and therefore strive to provide a safe and nonjudgmental environment for my clients.

The relationship the client and therapist build is itself an important agent of change and therefore, is an integral part of the therapy focus.»

Is the Common Core an important agent of change?

Using genome sequencing, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues have tracked the evolution of the antibiotic - resistant bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 (ST258), an important agent of hospital - acquired infections.

The most important agent of breast milk is known to be secretory immunoglobulin that can be found in colostrum.

Thus liturgical renewal is an important agent of change in American Protestantism.

Supernovas are «important agents of change in the universe,» says Princeton astrophysicist Adam Burrows.

In other words, humans have «become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin,» as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 19.

There may be small but interesting time - variations in eruptions, but the record is almost entirely one of «noise» — if volcanoes could get organized they could be very important agents of climate change, but they aren't organized.

Individually and collectively, we human are now acting as important agents of geologic change to our physical world and biosphere.

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He went off to the library and scoured the U.S. Department of Commerce database of foreign companies for multinationals that had anything to do with phone systems and sent them each a letter soliciting them as customers and, more important, as agents for that country.

There may be pressure on traditional commissions, but more important, there will be a realignment of agents» service model with their customers» needs.

For more than seven months, Sumner Redstone, now 93 and barely able to speak, has asserted (through lawyers and PR teams) that he remains mentally competent — sharp enough to change his health care agent, to erase a $ 70 million bequest to an ex-girlfriend from his will, and, most important, to remain in control of Viacom (VIAB) and CBS (CBS), the jewels in his $ 42 - billion media empire.

«However, it is incredibly important for area brokers of all sizes — and for their agents and the home sellers they represent — to be able to market their listings to San Diego's largest audience of home shoppers, and we are working hard to help the MLS realize that opportunity,» the company said.

«In our March survey of Chinese overseas property buyers, buyers ranked trustworthiness as the single most important factor in choosing an agent.

According to a new survey of Realtors, sustainability is becoming increasingly important to home buyers and their agents alike.

That is why it is important that you work with a licensed insurance agent to review the insurance section of your investor's contract.

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

The preacher is important as the educated and skilled agent of that dialogue.

But always within limits; there is no complete freedom for anybody, It is important to affirm man's freedom of will, or as it was put in the older diction, to say that man «is a free moral agent,» for otherwise all idea of morality and of sin collapses.

I propose that the concept of relational power is an important contribution because (as Loomer points out) it blends the best of these traditional roles into a unified theory of power in which agents are sensitive and nurturing as well as effective.

He ceases to be an independent, initiating agent; he is part of a system in which nothing has weight or meaning; and (this is important) so far as he obeys these inescapable compulsions he is no longer a moral being.

We can imagine a world in which the overall good is very important but also very complex, far too complex for any individual agent always to be sure of how his work contributes to achieving it.

It is the world's most important source of news and information, and its most powerful propaganda agent.

Scripture presents Mary as an important agent in her own right, not just as the mother of her son.

From these considerations it becomes clear that mathematics, which superficially appears to have no relevance to the knowledge of human nature, actually affords important insights about human beings, not only as rational agents, but as persons with freedom yet also bound by necessities in the spatiotemporal order.

This is that Jesus was heavily indebted to his past, but was no copyist of it; that he spoke as an apocalyptist, but that his apocalypticism was probably distorted and exaggerated in the records of the Synoptics; more important, that he had a prophetic sense of mission as God's suffering servant and agent of redemption; that he deeply respected the law of his fathers, but gave it a new depth of meaning in self - giving love.

I find the argument of objective vs subjective morality less important that the actions of rational agents themselves.

But he is keen to emphasize that Luther was just one, if the first, of the agents of the dramatic upheavals of the period, and in the long term, by no means the most important.

It was the leading representative of nascent monasticism in Gaul, Martin of Tours, who became also an important agent in the spread of Christianity in that region.

Important as the just - war tradition has been in the development of Christian thinking about war and peace, it gives insufficient weight to the central Christian calling to be agents of healing and reconciliation.

There isn't roomhere to do more than illustrate the case with a few examples, but an attempt will be made to show how rich Paul's view of ethics is, how his teaching on law is original and relevant, how his emphasis on love is important, and how he forces us to consider not only the human act that, as St Thomas says, is what moral theology is all about, but also the adjectival human agent transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a friend, indeed a child of God.

This step is particularly important since shortbread cookies have no leavening agent (i.e. no baking soda or baking powder), so the tiny air bubbles you're beating in now are the only source of fluffiness in your cookies.

As an initiative of the South Korean government, the Organic Farming Innovation Award (OFIA) is awarded by IFOAM — Organics International and the Rural Development Association (RDA) to demonstrate organic innovation promoted by extension agents, scientists and practitioners as well as to boost and motivate important stakeholders to push forward further innovative developments in organic farming.

This was fortuitous for New Mexico because, 100 years later, chile (paprika) used as a red coloring agent has become an important part of the New Mexico chile industry.

It is important to note that this free agent compensation system won't take effect until next offseason, after 2017, per Jon Morosi of MLB.com.

«We have to try to get some of our most important free agents --[pitchers] Mark Langston, Bryn Smith, Pascual Perez — re-signed, then work some of our kids in,» says Expo general manager Dave Dombrowski.

I had followed Arsenal long enough that we have pretty strict wage structure (the belief of football as a team sport and squad harmony is important) and we never pay over the odd for player or greedy agent — which in turn can help us to get the best value for our money All in all, whether it is a smart move, we should patiently wait until end of the transfer window.

It's important to remember just how ridiculous of a free agent Alex Rodriguez really was.

More important, only a couple of months earlier, the warmhearted prince in Botham had reemerged when, with no prompting from any agent, he announced that he would walk the length of Britain, the 874 miles from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End.

That in turn has seemingly led to talk of a move for Verratti, with The Mirror adding that although he signed a new five - year deal with the French giants in August, his agent, Donato Di Campli, has suggested that unless the club win something important this season, they could consider their options.

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If a pool cover and kid - friendly design of the house in general is important for your family's enjoyment and piece of mind, make sure you really question the rental agent on the subject.

I had so much to learn, not only about the right equipment and cleaning agents; it was important to learn how to conserve my strength, how to protect myself, and most of all, I wanted to learn how to respect the space of other people.

The most important thing to consider, however, is the nature of the lethality and toxicity estimates for nerve agents.

«Our study contributes to an improved understanding of how cellular metabolism plays an important role in the acquisition of resistance to certain therapeutic agents,» said Sérgio Dias.

«This is important research to identify the causative agents of these environmental scourges,» says marine ecologist James Porter of the University of Georgia, Athens.

Dr. De Carvalho says: «Another important implication of our finding is that since decitabine induces an anti-viral response, which is highly immunogenic, it may be useful to combine this agent with immune therapy to further advance personalized cancer medicine by boosting an individual's natural defenses to fight disease.

Banik cautions that neither of the contrast agents has yet been tested on animals injected with breast cancer cell lines, which he calls an important step to take.

In my view, the most important omission related directly to science and technology aspects of the greenhouse gas issue is the failure to point out the tremendous opportunity that exists to limit warming over the next few decades by imposing strong, mandatory controls of short - lived warming agents (so methane, black carbon, and tropospheric ozone).