Sentences with phrase «influence over your community»

This method of collective management gives you more influence over your community.
According to folks in the bitcoin community, Wright invited Andresen, likely because Andresen had influence over the community, to London and convinced him he was Satoshi.

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Over the next year, Markle says she wants to acquaint herself with the various communities in the UK and find ways to benefit people in need with her influence.
Finally, companies need an advocacy plan for identifying consumers in each community or network who exert especially strong influence over Millennial customers or potential customers.
First off, remember that everyone has influence over their own community, regardless of size.
The financial services and investment community was even less engaged, staying mostly quiet on suggestions that it wield its considerable influence over gun merchants to encourage firearms - related changes.
It should be noted that, although their power to amend the source code is effectively subject to the approval of users and miners, the Core Developers have substantial influence over the development of the Bitcoin Network and the direction of the Bitcoin community.
We do so because for over two decades, we've felt that this business platform gives us the best opportunity to minister to our community and to be an influence for Jesus Christ.
It is incumbent on those of us who are in position to influence the thinking of faithful people to make clear that the neo-liberal economic thought that informs most current top - down development, riding roughshod over communities, and reshaping the lives and thinking of hundreds of millions of people, is based on assumptions that are antithetical to ours.
Such Jewish sectarian groups seemed to have influenced Jewish Christian communities all over the East, not least in Adiabene where sectarian Judaism might well have taken root even before Christianity arose.
Here and there an «apostolic man», one of the followers of Paul like Timothy or Titus, or the unknown elder who wrote the epistles of «John» exerted a personal influence over a number of communities, but we know from 3 John (Chap.
When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.
They also have influence over the country of origin labelling laws, and despite massive community support for change, we are yet to see any positive and real advances on this front.
At issue is how much influence the Park District will have over a yet - to - be-built community center.
PCCs will remain dependent upon soft influence over wider issues such as reoffending, community safety and crime prevention, drug and alcohol services and, crucially, employment and welfare.
By constituting police and crime panels (PCPs) with a strategic and effective role in the shake - up they see an opportunity to exert renewed influence over crime and community safety issues.
«Speaking more generally, this looks to us like a clear example of a wider policy by the Church of England to slowly gain influence and control over former community schools that are now Academies — initially by affiliating with them, before slowly increasing the religious nature of school life.
We're anxious to see more people involved in the process and community power grow to influence more pots of money over time.»
Moderators asked the candidates several questions, including how they would use their existing status and influence to mobilize assistance for Sandy victims in various communities, including the Rockaways, over the next three months.
If so, it's likely because of the huge, paradigm busting influence of the Weston A. Price Foundation around the globe over the past 16 years on the public's perception of what a healthy diet really looks like and how to source the foods of our ancestors locally within our communities.
By engaging students the impact can also carry over to their home life, and influence parents and communities.
Whether we like it or not, teachers have an enormous influence over every child's future and it is our responsibility to provide them with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to achieve their goals, contribute to our community and live fulfilling lives.
Over time, the initial focus on better sibling care broadened to include the power of children to influence their own age group, their family and community.
If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»
The latter may be influenced by students» homes and neighborhoods and may give teachers in middle - class suburban communities an advantage over those teaching in less advantaged communities.
Yet overall private schools are reported by teachers to embody a greater feeling of community, offer more teacher autonomy, and more teacher influence over curriculum.
Most of the work in classrooms is governed by collective bargaining agreements (which are negotiated in secret) and by state laws (which, while technically democratic, doesn't actually work because of the greater influence of teachers unions and school boards over that of parents and community members).
SEDL's policy research focused on the following school reform strategies as they played out in selected states and local districts: resource allocation in local districts, teacher mentoring, policymaker participation in community dialogues on education reform, and the charter school as a policy instrument affecting school - site influence over education reform.
While fights and protests over a rough draft we disagree with may feel cathartic, it will not be as effective as working with diverse community, education and civil rights groups to answer this fundamental question and influence the vision for a plan to create great schools for all students.
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).
If a community operates or has influence over a store, consider the following sample contract terms for the store manager's contract of employment.
BEHAVIOR: Use locally inspired social art forms to raise awareness, mobilize communities and influence positive behavioral change over the long term.
In addition to her professorship in the Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Program at UF and her influence on students all over the U.S. and globally, Dr. Levy has been a leader in advancing the science and well - being of community cats.
This was the initial spark behind the Ubud artistic community and has, over the years grown into an internationally famous scene with the influence and presence of influential people from the world over.
No one can dispute the influence that the Metal Gear Solid series has had on the gaming community over the years.
The discussion will address both personal experiences transcending boundaries and finding community, and broader perspectives on how the movement of people influences society and culture over time.
The first group of authors tries to label the climate science community as an army of influential catastrophists, alarmists, and profiteers — glossing over the reality that the vast body of climate science and climate policy analysis is, as in any field, full of gradations (not to mention that there's not much evidence of substantial influence).
The responsibilities of local governments give them large influence over energy use in their communities through land use and zoning, building requirements, property taxes and transfers, transportation investment decisions, economic and workforce development, and, in many cases, the provision of services such as water and electricity.
Social, political, economic, and sectarian strife — combined with more personal issues like family and community ties, as well as financial well - being — influence the choice to start over elsewhere.
We have a small, tightly knit and perhaps even insular community that everybody is relying on for accurate information on how the Earth's climate is changing over time, and what influence human activity is having on it, yet there appears to be little of self - auditing activity in that field, but rather, if anything, more of a wagon - circling going on...
Over time, these efforts will enable a woman to have greater influence over herself, her family, and her communOver time, these efforts will enable a woman to have greater influence over herself, her family, and her communover herself, her family, and her community.
In testimony before the US Senate in 2003, he stated: It is the consensus of the climate research community that the anomalous warmth of the late 20th century can not be explained by natural factors, but instead indicates significant anthropogenic, that is human influences... More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the northern hemisphere in past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millennia.
Voluntary participants from all over the world work in their local spheres of influence to emphasize the sensible, progressive and compassionate means human communities have to stabilize our numbers and seek an improved balance with our home planet.
While scientists long understood the greenhouse effect and understood that the earth's climate is complex and always changing, our company scientists and the scientific community did not know with precision to what extent and in what ways rising CO2 emissions from industrial activity might influence the earth's climate over time.
When it does blow its top — perhaps in a contained, tourist - attraction manner or perhaps in a tidal wave of lava that steamrollers over flora and fauna, wiping out human communities and lives, it will be beyond our ability to influence.
Part 2 of the Welfare Reform Bill, as it stood on 19 March 2009, at the end of its passage through the House of Commons, contains provisions whose purpose is to allow disabled people to have similar influence over a range of social welfare services as they currently have over services provided under the community care legislation.
Korea had been the most active trading community in the world for Bitcoin, its influence still conspicuous; a petition even calling for senior ministers to be fired over legislation mismanagement accrued over 130,000 signatures in days, Bitcoinist reported last week.
Buterin, unlike Satoshi, is a known entity in the crypto community, and the degree of influence he has over the Ethereum community leads to frequent comparisons of his role to that of a «benevolent dictator.»
Effective engagement provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with the opportunity to have real influence over decisions that impact on their community.
The policies of self - determination and self - management, 18 in theory, shifted control over Indigenous development from governments to Indigenous communities, although as Young notes, assimilationist thinking was entrenched in bureaucracies and continued to exert influence even after the policy had officially been aband oned.19 The granting of land rights and the recognition of native title rights support this shift, through growing Indigenous control over land and resources.
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