Sentences with phrase «individuals living on less»

LeapFrog's first fund of $ 135 million made equity investments of between $ 5 million and $ 15 million in eight companies in Africa and Asia offering insurance and other financial products to individuals living on less than $ 10 per day.

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What about those individuals living in the developing world without electricity — the 1.5 billion people who can't turn on a light switch much less charge a device?

I had a Spanish friend when I lived in Africa who had to leave her Bible when she went home on leave because it would have been confiscated when she entered the country Individuals and groups willingly give up freedom, believing that less freedom will lead to greater security and sometimes it does, but at what cost?

On this suggestion, «emancipation» means the opportunity to be creative, the measure of power that «issues from coordination,» and individuals are more or less emancipated depending on the natural and human context in which their lives are seOn this suggestion, «emancipation» means the opportunity to be creative, the measure of power that «issues from coordination,» and individuals are more or less emancipated depending on the natural and human context in which their lives are seon the natural and human context in which their lives are set.

I am an atheist... If this is the worst, I'll take it... What I will not take is the rest, the constant interference of religion in everyday lives, the less and less clear separation between Church and State, the bigoted right - wingers who look down on us (us who think that we have escaped the greatest delusion of all, us who believe that religion is a way to escape individual neurosis by adhering to a social neurosis...), the attempts at proselytism, the anti-Darwinian «oh - so - lame» criticism..

Instead of seeing moral obligations simply as individual and social ideals externally related to the factual order of life and physical reality, I began to see them as demands on human life no less intrinsically real than gravitation.

If, abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them remind us of what we find outside of conversion that we are tempted to class them along with other automatisms, and to suspect that what makes the difference between a sudden and a gradual convert is not necessarily the presence of divine miracle in the care of one and of something less divine in that of the other, but rather a simple psychological peculiarity, the fact, namely, that in the recipient of the more instantaneous grace we have one of those Subjects who are in possession of a large region in which mental work can go on subliminally, and from which invasive experiences, abruptly upsetting the equilibrium of the primary consciousness, may come.

If we had healthy loving communities, perhaps this would be less of an issue... but instead we focus more on individual salvation and not enough on living together in faith...

The broader issue is that smart political theologists have always conceded the same point: there is always a more or less small number of individuals who are able to live pretty well on Earth without recourse to religion.

It must be clear that this orientation toward hate and fear of life and all that is living, uncertain, and creative, characterizes the individual who, on a less pathological level, is committed to the type of ethics I have called «authoritarian,» rather than to the «creative ethics» I have attributed to Whitehead.

Focusing on the anthropology of the individual, we might perhaps concede that something like «objective immortality» may possibly be granted to Plato, Caesar, and Shakespeare, but that this is scarcely valid for every human being and even less valid for lower forms of life.

As you study the artfully rendered autographs of Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Mike Schmidt, you're forced to reflect less on each individual name and more on the most significant thing these men have in common: that at one time in their lives, each of them was the very best in the world at what he did.

No increase in childhood overweight Direct evidence for the effect of exclusive breastfeeding on childhood overweight comes from a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis in which individuals with any breastfeeding were shown to be less likely to be overweight or obese later in life compared to non-breastfed individuals.

Information on the diets of vigorous individuals living during these times and following low - protein vegetarian diets was largely ignored.2, 3 The healthy active lives of hundreds of millions of less affluent people laboring in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America on diets with less than half the amount of protein recommended by Dr. Voit (and almost no meat), were overlooked when experts established protein requirements that still affect us today.3, 4

In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.

When in 2010 The Los Angeles Times published individual teacher performances in similar tests on the rubric of «least effective», «less effective», «average», «more effective» and «most effective», one teacher, Rigoberto Ruelas, took his own life after he was judged «least effective».

Such pensions receive decades of payments from an individual who then winds up having to live on less in their supposed golden years.

They are less expensive than individual life insurance because they're paying out the death benefit farther in the future i.e. on the death of the second spouse.

Individual users may need to save more or less than the savings target displayed depending on their retirement age, life expectancy, market conditions, desired retirement lifestyle, and other factors.

Individual users may need to save more or less than the savings target displayed depending on their inputs retirement age, life expectancy, market conditions, desired retirement lifestyle, and other factors.

Individual users may need to save more or less than the illustrated targets depending on their retirement age, life expectancy, market conditions, desired retirement lifestyle, and other factors.

Use the manufacturer's recommendations on your dog food package as a guide, but keep in mind that the amount of food your dog gets may have to be adjusted according to the individual dog, your own observations and the climate in which you live (dogs in warmer climates may require less food).

Whether Abbey or Saul are right or not, it is clear that we live in a time when individual hedge fund managers on Wall Street are making over a billion dollars a year while most people in the poorest countries are surviving on less than one or two dollars a day.

We live in a time when individual hedge fund managers on Wall Street are making over a billion dollars a year while most people in the poorest countries are surviving on less than one or two dollars a day, and many think that is «fair.»

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

Canning has met up with hundreds of cargo biking individuals and families, and through the Less Car More Go film, she hopes to show that life on a cargo bike (as opposed to in a mini-van) is just better - healthier, happier, friendlier, more eco-friendly.

Some are less protective than others and may not take into account the implications of disclosure of genetic and hereditary information on living individuals.

Administrators will have to rely on experts to determine whether an individual is a spouse of a pension plan member, if the two individuals have been living together for less than three years, but may qualify as «spouses» because there is a child.

The premiums, which are based on age and the amount of insurance purchased, may be less expensive than individual life insurance premiums because of an employee group discount.

Underwriting requirements even for voluntary group life cover are far less onerous than for similar insurance on individual lives.

The average term for this type of life insurance is typically around 20 years although individuals can obtain it for more or less years depending on their needs.

For an individual or family that is living on less than $ 80k per year, you may find that your annual tax savings are in excess of $ 10k.

Another great route to take, and often a less expensive alternative than buying an individual life insurance policy on each child, is to purchase a life insurance with a child rider.

As mentioned before, whole life insurance is most suitable for an individual who more or less has needs that will not change drastically — for example, an elderly man who is not planning on having any more children.

On survival of the life insured till the end of the policy term, the higher of Total premiums paid including top - up premiums paid compounded @ 1 % per annum less partial withdrawals Or Balance in your Individual Policy Account.

IRDA has mandated that the minimum sum assured or death benefit on a life insurance will not be less than 10 times the annual premium for individuals below 45 years of age.

It includes a secure messaging system based on decentralized ledger architecture and blockchain implementation, which can provide repudiation or deniability, perfect forward and backward secrecy, time to live / self - delete for messages, one - time eyes - only messages, a decentralized infrastructure to be resilient to cyber-attacks and ease of use for individuals in less than ideal situations.

What you've experienced is a phenomenon known as stress spillover — stress that we experience in one life domain (e.g., work) «spills» out of that domain and into others (e.g., home life).1 And we know that spillover can have a detrimental effect on our relationships; individuals reporting higher levels of stress are less forgiving of their partners, more likely to criticize and blame their partners, less satisfied in their relationships, show poorer communication skills, and are more likely to have their relationships end.1, 2 (Find more about the effects of stress spillover here.)

How dependent an individual is on his / her relationship is believed to be a function of available alternatives.2 When people perceive desirable alternatives to their current relationship (be it another partner or just another way of life) they are less dependent on their relationship.

It's natural to have different priorities as you get older and to place less importance on your individual social lives as you spend more time with your partner.

For example, one could test the hypothesis that those with higher quality relationships or more shared activities would be less likely to develop diabetes or some other chronic condition than those with poorer quality relationships or fewer shared activities, or that the unpartnered would do worse later in life than those with a partner, or that an individual's welfare might depend on the characteristics of the partner or might differ by race or ethnicity.