Sentences with phrase «influenced by the action»

Was this decision influenced by actions recently taken by the HKMA?

Despite are assumptions that we are not influenced by the actions of others, science has clearly proven otherwise.

When you know what you own, you're far less likely to be influenced by the actions of others and take your cues from the stock price.

Witt added that if the demonstrated Pong effects generalize to other action - specific effects, knowing that perception is influenced by action won't protect against the effects.

His far - sighted vision for genomics means he leaves behind a global field firmly founded on the principles of open access and a generation of scientists influenced by his actions and values.

They get influenced by the action taken by the role model that made them famous and remembered.

The random banter (influenced by your actions in the game) was a nice touch as well.

Franz West's work is influenced by the action and performance art of the 1960s, including Vienna's Actionism movement, in which artists engaged in destructive, violent acts of public behavior.

A Non-Molestation Order can also allow an abused spouse space and confidence to pursue divorce proceedings, knowing that they will not be influenced by the actions of their abuser.

Many local landlords are influenced by the actions of a few and their mindsets are stuck on negativity instead of real metrics of what is going on in the market.

Not exact matches

According to studies conducted by Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University, «people who frequently played video games were more likely to report lucid dreams, observer dreams where they viewed themselves from outside their bodies, and dream control that allowed people to actively influence or change their dream worlds — qualities suggestive of watching or controlling the action of a video - game character.»

His tweet got the instant like from Minister of Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad who had earlier warned the Facebook of taking «stringent action» if any attempt was made by them to influence the electoral process in India.

Studies have found that longer sentences do not have appreciably greater deterrent effects; many serious crimes are committed by people under the influence of alcohol or drugs, who are not necessarily thinking of the consequences of their actions, and certainly are not affected by the difference between a 15 - year and a 30 - year sentence.

After all, when a central bank influences the cost of financing through changes in the policy interest rate, its actions affect the economy by changing asset prices, encouraging or discouraging risk taking, and influencing credit flows.

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.

Moreover, this latest action from the Swiss regulator may have been influenced by the recent visit of Johann Schneider - Ammann, Swiss federal councilor and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, to Zug valley, which is an international blockchain and cryptocurrency development hub.

Influence as the ability for a person to inspire action amongst a community is a very powerful thing and therefore, increasingly appreciated by digital marketing and PR pros alike.

In summary, these examples highlight how benchmark risk units can be influenced and changed by certain actions.

Because almost every financial action you take is influenced by your credit score — and because it's not uncommon for credit report errors to drag down your score — it's crucial to be aware of your score and do your best to keep it as high as possible.

Because the assemblies and committees of the World Council are peopled by denominational power elites, there is a minimum of the kind of influence from grass - roots evangelicals which tends to moderate the positions and actions of the denominations themselves.

The message for us seems to be that if we are to truly be able to influence Muslims then we should hope to emulate the holiness of St Francis, to preach the Gospel to them boldly but humbly, to be truly inspired by the Holy Spirit, so that our words and actions are not merely empty sounds and gestures.

It goes on to call for recognizing the legitimacy of a religious worldview «as a basis for socially significant action (including those taken by state) and as an essential factor which should influence the development (amendment) of international law and the work of international organizations.»

Psychological operations, according to a field manual produced by the U.S. Army, involve the «planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of [U.S.] national objectives.

Because environments do influence the decisions and actions by which we constitute ourselves as one kind of person or another, this book should be mandatory reading for those who may like it least» mothers and fathers of college - bound young men and women.

Anders never did this in the name of God or Jesus or wasn't influenced by Christian Theology or Church for him to carry out these actions.

Not only is it important to know about one's own faith but I feel you must also know about others as these influence the actions of those around you and therefore many of the policies made by governments around the world - many of the policies being unjust!

Since under modern conditions the actions of all people in key positions of power and influence are thus likely to be known almost immediately by nearly everyone, these people can not make decisions without reference to the reaction of the public.

In other words, the outcome of an action sequence may be a specific idea or concept distinguished by explicit substantive content, or an underlying metaphor that influences ideas without becoming a key concept itself, or a formal structure that has to be inferred from the relations among ideas.

«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).

The imagination is attuned to the sounds, sights, scents, that is, physical sensations, so that the interstices or the spacelets of the imagination can be formed by the drama of the Mass. 12 Participating in the liturgy and the sacraments imprints upon the imagination beneficial experiences which influence the intellect and will and, subsequently, generate responses and actions that ow into culture.

The kind of influence that Jesus wielded was not based on implied threats or favors with strings attached; it was grounded in grace freely given — grace not earned by actions grown empty and devoid of meaning.

Specific notions of deity, and of divine action, that have figured in theistic conceptual systems of long - past civilizations have certainly been influenced by then - prevailing technology — the ways in which people made their living.5 In our own time, recent developments in technology and in science have had major influence on how the object of religion is conceived, at least for some theists.6 Whitehead wrote:

Is God still God, if He is influenced in His action by the prayers of men?

The first thing to give us pause, as we survey the progress of human collectivization, is what I would call the inexorable nature of a phenomenon which arises directly and automatically out of the conjunction of two factors, both of a structural kind: first, the confined surface of the globe, and secondly, the incessant multiplication, within this restricted space, of human units endowed by ever - improving means of communication with a rapidly increasing scope for action; to which may be added the fact that their advanced psychic development makes them preeminently capable of influencing and inter-penetrating one another.

But in all cases where actions are avoidable - where my choices do make a difference to what I do - it makes sense for the law to become one of causal influences upon my choices by sternly threatening me with punishment for choosing wrongly.

Freedom is an indetermination in the potentialities for present action which are constituted by all the influences and stimuli, all «heredity and environment,» all past experiences, an indetermination removed only by the actuality (event, experience, act) itself, and always in such fashion that other acts of determination would have been possible in view of the given total conditions up to the moment of the act.

The primitive conceptions of clean and unclean lie at the bottom of these rules; there are certain things and certain events in natural human life (like birth and death) which bring man under the influence of mysterious dæmonic forces; there are actions and situations in life which are full of these dangerous powers or are threatened by them.

But second, the sense of obligation is influenced by factors other than the anticipated consequences of the action.

When I willfully refuse to reflect or to be influenced by the fruits of reflection, I am surely aware that I do wrong, that is, my sense of obligation inescapably attaches to the course of action that I am not pursuing.

I mentioned that the Hermetic model rejected by modernity also affirmed action, or influence, at a distance.

Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that several factors influenced whether mothers of newborns would stick to their plan to breastfeed only, including actions by hospital staff in the first hours and days after delivery.

(1) Baby Milk Action is lodging an official complaint about misinformation put out by the European Commission in trying to influence the votes of MEPs.

In many cases company information is found to be misleading — proven by the cases Baby Milk Action has won at the ASA — and the sponsorship invariably influences agendas and topics for discussion.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Extraneous influences Malami, however, said in tackling the corruption cases, the Federal Government would not be assuaged by what he called «extraneous influences» or action by available prima facie evidence.

Monserrate's attack on a woman and subsequent use of his elected position to cover that up, influence the outcome of his trial and hide key facts from a committee of his colleagues all contribute to the feeling shared by some members that his actions were far worse than Parker's attack on a male Post photographer who was staking him out.

Decision: The Commission is satisfied with the actions of the Respondent after the gift was made, and accordingly finds that his conduct was not consistent with that of a person who had been corrupted by a gift or improperly influenced by same.

I reached Jacobs by phone in his Long Island office today, and he insisted his personal interests in no way influenced his actions at the committee meeting.

The women's action is said to have been influenced by recent robbery attacks in the area with a recent one been a day before as the people in the mining town have been subjected to some serious robbery attacks.

The witness was «pressured» to arrange for Adam Skelos to be paid «hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to influence official actions by Dean Skelos,» according to the complaint, with the cash coming in response to a «series of demands made to Developer - 1 by Dean Skelos,» including while the developer was lobbying Mr. Skelos on legislation critical to its business success.