Sentences with phrase «individual effort as»

Sacramento countered with a big - time individual effort as well.

Not exact matches

But unlike us overconfident individuals, companies such as Humana put a lot of money and effort into closing that gap.

That research will be crucial: An earlier effort by another company, Pathway Genomics, to create a «liquid biopsy» for cancer was greeted in September by a stern letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning that the agency had «not found any published evidence that this test or any similar test has been clinically validated as a screening tool for early detection of cancer in high risk individuals.»

But all of that said, he is just as impressed with individual efforts like 8 - year - old Ella Salerno of Austin, Texas, who started fundraising for her birthday.

«The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts,» Comey said.

This past summer, when Congress considered ditching the individual mandate as part of a «skinny repeal» — an effort that ultimately failed — the CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans cautioned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that, should the mandate go, «premiums will rise rapidly, few or no affordable coverage options will be available and more people will be uninsured.»

It involves such things as the development of customised bond market indexes, and efforts to remove the various small impediments that individual countries have managed, perhaps unintentionally, to put in the way of investors.

The Starbucks Inclusion Academy will help unlock new opportunities as we look to accelerate our efforts to engage individuals with disabilities who are seeking a great job in manufacturing or distribution.

But VCs vary tremendously — both as firms and as individuals — in how much effort they put into advising and assisting portfolio companies.

Everyone feels the need to be recognized as an individual or member of a group and to feel a sense of achievement for work well done or even for a valiant effort.

Efforts ranged from family ministries in individual churches to «parachurch» pastoral groups such as James Dobson's Focus on the Family to national political organizations such as Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority.

For each would - be black Horatio Alger indicts as inadequate or incomplete the deeply entrenched (and quite useful) notion that individual effort can never overcome the inheritance of race.

Yet where there can be no black Horatio Algers to celebrate, sustaining an ethos of responsibility which might serve to extract maximal effort from the individual in the face of hardship becomes impossible as well.

I agree with L.Nielsen's sentiment that you are «almost there» — close to realising that this is the only life you have and that all your effort should be directed at living it well for it's own sake, close to realising that you are strong enough as an individual to face the world without the psychological crutch you call god, close to realising that you are a good human being in your own right, close to realising that your own successes, failures, loves and fears are yours and yours alone, not attibutable to an imaginary creator.

It takes the individual effort of each person deciding to feel that way, and we can encourage it through something as simple as a «party mindset,» where we celebrate the things that are good rather than focusing on the things that are bad.

I see duplication of effort, with denominations and individual churches not working together; and the «not - invented - here» syndrome, as very often the information or the thing we are trying to produce is already being produced somewhere else.

This is why we are inviting you as individuals or churches or other communities to contribute to this effort.

It refers to groups as well as to individuals, and demands continuous efforts toward justice, which is basic in it.11

Thus did Origen, for example, speak of theologia as the effort of the individual to «make sense» out of Scripture but he immediately asserted the tentative nature of any such interpretational In Gregory of Nazianzus the element of indirectness, of being one step removed from the original data, is identified with the word theologia and Pseudo-Dionysius employed it as a synonym for mysticisms

But this natural conclusion of the vital effort, as we can now see, is not to be regarded as something consummated separately in the secret heart of the individual.

The concepts which Kierkegaard employed in his therapeutic effort are such ones as «paradox,» «the aesthetic» and «the ethical,» «despair,» «anxiety,» «the individual» and «subjectivity.»

Faith does not originate in the individual believer's own efforts, but is rather a gift of grace to the believer, usually received in baptism, as one means among many of participating in God's own life.

Equally so, a civilized society, as one whole and regardless of its particular political orientation, exerts its influence solely in terms of the individual effort of persons, acting either alone or in concert with one another.

As a Pagan, I tend to direct my charitable efforts to individuals as welAs a Pagan, I tend to direct my charitable efforts to individuals as welas well.

With religious organizations focusing their efforts on individual spirituality, on meaningful worship experiences, on music, youth pro grams and small groups, is it likely that reli gious commitment is going to challenge people to be con cerned about economic justice as well?

At the midrange level, control is achieved by moving the tyrant inside the individual — Maggie Scarf refers to the «Invisible Referee,» Efforts to control thoughts and feelings as well as behavior refer to rules for behavior and cultural stereotypes, especially regarding gender.

Most of our efforts to help individuals within the church are mediated through our efforts to make the church as a whole a more faithful community and institution.

We choose to pay taxes to fund our collective efforts by electing governments who impose and spend them the way we want — not that it let's us off the hook for our individual actions, or what we do as the church.

Reality, once self - evident, and therefore not conceptually experienced, but which can now only be reached by an effort of the individual mind — this is what is contained in a true poetic metaphor; and every metaphor is «true» only insofar as it contains such a reality, or hints at it.

This effort must continue to the point where the child can see the problem of a life role more clearly as a sexually differentiated individual emerges from within.

It is riskier and certainly requires more effort to evaluate people as individuals.

It found its highest expression in the Stoic philosophy, which, for all its efforts to call men to the service of humanity, had for its aim the «self - sufficiency» of the individual (his «autarky», as the newspapers now say, adopting a word from the vocabulary of Stoicism, but usually misspelling it).

However, this effort to save Hartshorne's position seems in vain to Neville, for it terminates the explanation of the existence of reality in a transcendent individual who consists of or at least causes the illustration of the categories; for Neville, such an individual needs an explanation as much as any other instance of order, and the fact that no explanation can be found on Hartshorne's grounds simply shows again the futility of «rationalism» on this issue.

But there is a process of automatic co-ordination which, as Polanyi has pointed out, 4 does not endanger freedom because it is the scientific tradition which governs individual efforts.

There is also the opposite danger that failure to accept the reality of choice, a fatalistic acceptance of absolute determinism, may lead to such slackening of individual and social effort as to bring about the end of civilization.

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

Despite the efforts of individual bishops, the church may also be criticized for turning a deaf ear to the expressions of pain and frustration voiced by faithful women, many of whom have no desire to be ordained, who are working as diocesan social action directors, parish - based directors of religious education, parish administrators, and in a host of other critical capacities.

Brown agrees that Scripture is crucial to the Church as a source of transformation and that evangelicalism's emphasis upon transformed individuals gives it a valuable vitality Pinnock accepts the liberal effort to recognize the diversity in Scripture and the importance of Christians speaking to the contemporary situation.

Yet efforts emerging from the Christian faith were conspicuous and were partly successful in resolving those contradictions in such fashion as to bring individuals and the nascent world community more nearly to conformity to the demands of Christ.

From the mother of a drug addict who self identified marijuana as his gateway drug, any effort to keep this drug out of the hands of individuals is welcome.

This saying, also, the Christians expounded further in their effort to produce as many of Jesus» instructions as possible for individual situations in their own life: they understood it as an exhortation of Jesus to the amicable settlement of lawsuits (Matt.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

These individuals also can help corporate new product efforts in more technical, highly visible areas such as sodium reduction.

When they come up against a dysfunctional team like Arsenal who play as individuals, no tactics and don't have a team effort then they might mash us again..

Cech came in to be part of that team, as such the results so far represent a collective effort not individual exploits.

As they are well aware of the club's policy with regards to the salary payment structure, I don't think they are requesting an exaggerated pay raise which would separate them that much high from other players of the club as football is a team work though some special individual's effort is vital to motivate the whole team spiriAs they are well aware of the club's policy with regards to the salary payment structure, I don't think they are requesting an exaggerated pay raise which would separate them that much high from other players of the club as football is a team work though some special individual's effort is vital to motivate the whole team spirias football is a team work though some special individual's effort is vital to motivate the whole team spirit.

In a 5 - 1 rout that probably still ranks as the best team performance of the tournament so far, Robben finished things off with this brilliant individual effort.

Though it's worth noting that both the 2010 and 2014 World Cup winners, Spain and Germany, triumphed less through the efforts of any one or two individuals but much more as a team.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

We did that, and everybody's individual efforts brought us together as a whole.