Sentences with phrase «important than me as an individual»

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Particularly in a time of corporate fiscal responsibility like we are in today, individuals need to prove to their companies perhaps more than ever that trade show / conference attendance is just as important to business success as it always has been, and perhaps even more.

She described Beijing's view of these islands as more than just individual small nations, but collectively as an important factor in China's ability to resist Western containment.

For BtoB startups — cost reduction or increasing the sales are the only two most important reasons why customers buy product as their decision are more rational than individuals who may buy the product for variety of other reasons.

Global equity markets broadly appear to be pricing in significant earnings growth, but we believe some regions such as Europe and Asian emerging markets were more attractively valued than their US counterparts as of late 2017, making it increasingly important for investors to focus on individual company fundamentals.

It is also important to state that this industry is made up of self - employed individuals who work as independent contractors or small operators with fewer than three employees.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

What each of them as individuals think is more important than what their generic religions purport to be the truth.

Evidently, with much of the judiciary in this country, certain individual «rights,» such as the right not to be exposed to faith, are more important than an individual right to pray.

We have become very self centered as the individual becomes more important than the whole.

Or it might be more accurate to say this: We feel that certain values more important than our mere individual personalities have been violated, and it is only because we are committed to those values that we ourselves, indirectly as it were, become victims of an outrage.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

What started as an emergency action, however, has now become a way of life: the role of government in the economy is infinitely more important than that of the entrepreneur, whether corporate or individual.

Its three volumes include more than 300 articles on key individuals (from Abraham, al - Ghazali and Rumi to Malcolm X, Salman Rushdie and Osama bin Laden), empires (such as those of the Mughals and Ottomans), contemporary countries (Algeria, Indonesia, Syria and so on), important doctrines (including those related to abortion, the afterlife, fasting and suicide), and groups and movements often in the headlines (such as Hamas, al - Qaeda and the Nation of Islam).

While a concern for the common good respects and serves the interests of individuals, it upholds the collective good as more important than the good of any one individual.

That is, they can easily be interpreted as supporting the contention that God also believes «justice» (maximized freedom for the greatest number) to be more important in some contexts than the maximal preservation of freedom for each individual.

Just as in tribalism the destiny of the tribe is more important than that of the individual, so the destiny and well - being of humanity as a whole must now take precedence over that of any tribe, nation or regional culture.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

Only in a tradition where adults continue to refer to the family life of individual church members as «the Christian home» would pastors, educators, and theologians have continued to believe for so long that parents are more important than the church is to the faith of children.

«As she has said herself, the work of this inquiry is more important than any individual and an announcement will be made on who will take over the chairmanship and membership of the panel as soon as possible so this important work can move forward.&raquAs she has said herself, the work of this inquiry is more important than any individual and an announcement will be made on who will take over the chairmanship and membership of the panel as soon as possible so this important work can move forward.&raquas soon as possible so this important work can move forward.&raquas possible so this important work can move forward.»

Every individual has equal rights as everyone else, and to me those rights MUST be more important than an organization, and here's why.

You listen to anyone who has played CB or coached defenders and they will give a coherent and reasoned explanation as to how CB chemistry as a pair is nearly always more important than individual attributes.

History shows we shouldn't be worried about how bringing in aWC player will affect some1 like Coquelin, having greater quality around should help him improve, an what if he get injured?many fans seem to be 4getting that one of the reasons Coquelin never had a good run in the team over the years is down to his record of injuries last season aside.The team as a whole is more important than the individual, bringing in top quality improves the squad / team, so i disagree with you, there should be no dilemma.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

There is no dichotomy for me as the club (the badge, colour and heritage) is more important than any individual who may be present be part of it.

Indeed, new work by Sarah Hrdy (2009) and Lee Gettler (2010) illustrate the important role that direct care and investment by others likely played throughout human evolution, causing scientists to consider that we are really «cooperative breeders» insofar as individuals other than the mother have significantly enhanced the human infant survival.

Using his new technique to study wild animals, Amos has found that inbreeding could be more important in determining an individual's chances of survival than random factors such as environmental change.

Perhaps Polis» most important contribution was assembling a list of cannibalism - related generalizations under which most examples of invertebrate cannibalism could be placed: 1) Immature animals get eaten more often than adults; 2) Many animals, particularly invertebrates, do not recognize individuals of their own kind, especially eggs and immature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given population.

Researchers have found that, as with humans, individual bonds within bands may be more important than group identity.

Remarkably, social network proximity is as important as genetic relatedness and more important than geographic proximity in predicting the similarity of two individuals» cooperative behavioral tendencies4.

«Factors other than parental eating behaviors such as community and school, food environment, peer influence, television viewing, as well as individual factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg School.

«At the same time, these results raise important questions as to why certain mutations impact some individuals more dramatically than others.»

Here we are less interested in the contribution of individual genes (as important as these obviously are) but in the behavior of large genetic networks — hence the emphasis on genomics rather than genetics in our group name.

Back related function was improved and symptoms were reduced with yoga at 12 weeks, and clinically important benefits, such as less usage of pain meds, lasted no less than 6 months for either yoga and stretching, with thorough followup of more than 9 in 10 individuals.

If you don't have a physically active job or aren't able to spend lots of time on your feet during the day, this intensity is important for training the body to use fat as a fuel, especially for individuals who compete in events lasting more than two hours.Although it will be difficult to keep your intensity low on these days, if you've decided that you have lots of time on your hands and the type of training you want to do is primarily aerobic (vs. interval based training), then performing your endurance efforts at a higher intensity than Zone 2 will reduce the effectiveness of your harder workouts on subsequent days by fatiguing muscle and depleting carbohydrate stores in fast - twitch muscle.

Superman (Henry Cavill), the movie submits, is a messianic figure, a giver of hope, floating beatifically midair with his cape flapping around him while supplicants reach out in tears, more important as a symbol than as a man of individual actions.

Working from a script by John Ridley (Red Tails, U Turn), who adapts Northup's own incredible memoir published in 1853, McQueen creates a powerful effect by not making the film «epic» or by proclaiming itself an «pretentiously important issues movie», but by keeping the emphasis on the characters and their individual stories much more so than as a film meant to cover the topic of slavery as a whole.

Our youth informants led us to believe instead that the type of horizontal support needed may be one where collective success is seen as more important than individual competition.

As more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classeAs more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classeas tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classes.

I am 200 percent in favor of personalized learning, defined as enabling every child to move through the prescribed curriculum at his or her own speed, progressing on the basis of individual mastery of important skills and knowledge rather than in lockstep according to age, grade level, and end - of - year assessments.

However, it is important to consider to what extent these can actually be tailored or moulded to best support your teaching, learning or administration needs as an individual school, rather than as a sub-set or lumped group?

As social media technologies for learning become increasingly important to organizations and to individuals, instructional designers will need to focus on broad learning events and strategies that incorporate many approaches rather than on individual courses.

«As decision - making shifts away from the federal government, it is more important than ever that our nation's schools be led by individuals who possess the skills and technical prowess to design and adopt school improvement strategies that truly make a difference for kids.»

And, as decision - making shifts away from the federal government, we recognize that it is more important than ever that our nation's schools be led by individuals who possess the leadership abilities and technical prowess to design and adopt school improvement strategies that will truly make a difference for students.

However, I know from emails that I get that a lot of people who follow me think that «price action trading» means trading any old price action setup; they seem to totally ignore the market context that the setups occur in, which is actually just as important, if not more than the individual setup itself.

While market risk has been a factor for individual securities held by the Fund, it has not been important for the TAVF portfolio as a whole, even though the Third Avenue portfolio seems to be far more concentrated than are the portfolios of other mutual funds of comparable size.

This is important when ascribing an intrinsic or long - term value to the operations, as the risk of obsolescence for the majority of the operations is considerably lower than other individual companies within the market.

While it's tempting to portray these individuals as dastardly villains out to wreck lives — and historically some of their behaviors have been less than admirable — it's important to remember one fact: Nobody is forced to borrow money.

As a long - term individual investor, I am very saddened by these developments and believe this to be a very important issue among long - time market investors like me who would prefer to keep consolidated investment portfolio information loaded and backed up on a personal computer rather than some public Web site.

Another important advantage of social trading is that when trading as part of a group or community rather than as an individual, it is easier to avoid the personal risks that often result in losing positions.

Evaluating the temperament of an individual dog is much more important than evaluating the breed as a whole when considering that dog for service dog work.