Sentences with phrase «influence over our actions»

The Fed has remained surprisingly autonomous over the years — meaning congress and the President himself has had little influence over its actions.

Therapy is the process of learning to slow down, reflect, and move forward with greater influence over our actions.

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But while beating people up over unconscious bias is pointless (especially as science shows basically everybody has hidden biases), we all do have a responsibility to take action to make sure bias doesn't influence hiring.

Yet Facebook, despite undergoing its own grilling by Congress and despite vowing to undertake a self - reckoning in response to its unwitting influence over the past two years of geopolitics, did not take further action against CA until this past Friday, when it reported to the New York Times that it had suspended CA's Facebook account, along with CA's original researchers, Kogan and Wylie.

In addition to their board seats, such persons will have significant influence over corporate actions requiring stockholder approval, irrespective of how the company's other stockholders, including you, may vote.

«When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of public obligation, imposed by State law).

Koeman, as per the Mirror, had concerns over the forward's drinking habits with the Dutchman demanding there would be no more alcohol - fuelled antics before Rooney put pen to paper, with Koeman wanting the recently - retired England star to be a mentor to the club's younger stars and not be a bad influence with his off - field actions.

There was additionally a very thorough discussion of Campaign Finance Reform with Kristina Andreotta, of Citizen Action NY particularly focused on New York State legislation that may be influenced over the next month by positions Gov. Cuomo will announce in launching the budget and legislative priorities for 2014.

(CNN)- The House Ethics committee said Friday they are closing their investigation of Rep. Vito Fossella over his arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol, and taking no action.

Our company's biggest lever is that it is world - renowned; we get covered by the press all over the world, and small actions on our part can often influence disproportionate change.

«In this way of thinking, there is an implicit assumption that the female has relatively little latitude for action or influence over her reproductive success beyond choosing the right male,» says Halberg.

Bienenstock points out that proving the existence of microbial influences on host behavior could upend basic assumptions about the control we have over our thoughts and actions.

A talisman is essentially any object whose presence exercises a remarkable or powerful influence over human feelings or actions.

In subduing Lady Macbeth's influence over her husband's actions it becomes a pretty bland story of one man being corrupted by power.

It didn't occur to me'til it was over just how evasive they all are: I think they refer to the onscreen action, like, a half - dozen times (it's mostly used to spark debate, as in a lengthy tangent about the corrupting influence of Bill Clinton), which is probably in everyone's best interest.

question led to it becoming a pop culture phenomenon on release: it took over $ 450 million worldwide, and influenced almost every action movie to be released in the next decade.

Each of these actions is positively associated with student success — but are these behaviors that nudges can positively influence and sustain over time?

Your beliefs greatly influence your actions and are cemented over time based on your experience, while you are often unaware of your underlying values.

Building relationships over time, earning trust and showing genuine interest in your community is what allows you to influence your audience's actions (to purchase your book, to share your posts, to spread your ideas, and so on).

You are offered a sidelong view of the black - and - white action and given ways to influence it, guiding your unthinking chargers over the booby traps they would otherwise fall blindly into.

It acted as an influence towards the change in combat type in video games as well, with many games adopting its real - time action over the standard turn based combat systems that came before.

Often your actions influence the outcome in some way, giving you varying degrees of control over the world in which the game takes place.

In fact, the dominance of the term «abstract expressionism» over «action painting,» which seemed more applicable to Pollock and Willem de Kooning than any other members of the New York School, is emblematic of the influence of formalist discourse.

James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Wayne Thiebaud, or Andy Warhol and Warhol's influence hardly looms over the action.

While clearly influenced by the Guerrilla Girls, La Barbe has managed in its relatively short existence to be a non-hierarchical organization with presence in over eight cities in France and a very open platform for anyone who wishes to be part of their actions in a variety of capacities.

Over the weekend, I posted and alerted senior members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Friday.

The debate over spending and influence and climate legislation, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

This brief discusses two distinct forms of these measures: voluntary programmes that drive action by businesses, and government shareholder influence over state - owned enterprises.

As the influence of environmental thinking has increased its hold over the political establishment, the failure to win the public support that might create the basis for decisive action to save the planet has also increasingly been blamed on climate sceptics operating on the internet.

Mann and other scientists like him have no control and little influence over UN actions (think «oil for food»).

The potential consequences of climate change are great and the actions taken over the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.

Deniers are losing their influence, while the global campaign for climate action has shifted to a much higher level over the last three or four years and will only gain strength through new avenues like the divestment campaign.

Friends of the Earth believes that UN climate change negotiations must expand its influence over global economic and development policies to ensure that actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change under the UNFCCC are not undermined.

Adverts by CEI aired in the US «they call it pollution, we call it life» have greatly influenced the state of public opinion over there and added legitimacy to the Bush administrations lack of action.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

With the possibility of FSA enforcement action, regulated firms will wish to ensure that anyone else in the chain they instruct or have influence over has adequate procedures to protect information.

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Government program delivery The role of program delivery can be actioned through directly engaging in service delivery or through exercising influence over program delivery.

Neither parent has influence or say over the actions of the other parent.

Thoughts are different from actions but clearly can influence them over time.

To date, less research has examined the role of low perceived control, the belief that one's actions do not exert influence over important life outcomes (Weisz et al. 2001).

The action of meshed gears is introduced as a metaphor to illustrate how responses occurring within a brief time frame, for example, immediate reactions to stressors, can influence developmental and health processes unfolding over much longer spans of time.