Sentences with phrase «instead of other activities»

This is the cost of the mother having to spend hours each day breastfeeding instead of other activities, such as paid work or home production (such as growing food).

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Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

It's all part of the phenomenon of repressed yields and cheap credit: Companies are borrowing large amounts of money to buy back their own shares and to buy out each other, instead of funding investments in productive activities.

Add the hundreds of billions of hours people spend annually driving and riding in cars instead of engaging in other, potentially more productive (or stimulating) activity, and automotive transportation as practical utility and time - consuming necessity seems ripe for a redesigned consumer experience and relationship.

If God's activity is free, obviously He can do either this or that, and I can ask Him to do one instead of the other.

It would be tremendous if they would be faithful to the Gospel, live in full communion with the Church, and fully commit themselves to teaching and sharing ALL of the teaching of Christ instead of using a portion of His teaching to justify other activities.

In other words, some other events / activities that show the school district how as a community we need to become more sustainable - minded instead of relying on industrial, processed sources for meals.

There was enough music, dancing, food and other activities to make visitors think they were hanging out in Norway, Sweden or Denmark instead of the northwest suburbs.

Caregivers pass on these germs by sharing saliva - by sharing spoons, by testing foods before feeding it to babies, by cleaning off a pacifier in their mouth instead of with water, and through other activities where saliva is shared.

Schoolwork is most often accomplished in a matter of hours, instead of consuming the entire day, allowing for creative play, social activities, and other pursuits.

If instead you allow the times of your child's feedings, playtimes, baths, and other activities to change constantly, chances are his sleep will become irregular as well.»

Instead, they immersed him in music and movement activities, and imitated his sounds and behavior to help him become aware of himself and others.

Instead, an official report that accompanies the legislation notes that while it includes language to prohibit the CDC and other agencies from funding activities to advocate or promote gun control, «the Secretary of Health and Human Services has stated the CDC has the authority to conduct research on the causes of gun violence».

But Clark and her colleagues have taken a new approach: instead of looking during the height of activity, they examined lesion sites after treatment, and identified T cell receptors of cells at these sites that were shared across psoriatic patients but not found in healthy individuals or those with other skin conditions.

They have also looked for the activity of similar genes in the silk glands and other tissues of cobweb - weaving spiders, a subset of orb weavers that build 3D webs instead of flat ones.

Instead of devoting time to charities and other extracurricular activities to shore up their college applications, many lower - income students hold down jobs to help their families.

In other words, the flies no longer restricted their sleep to the dark and their activity to the light, but instead showed more random distribution of these behaviors

Adding a signaling molecule called WNT, while also blocking the activity of another molecule known as BMP, promotes differentiation into one kind of mesoderm; conversely, adding BMP while blocking WNT drives the cells to instead become the other type of mesoderm.

Researchers have discovered that a subset of human antibodies have catalytic activity against a particular antigen, breaking it down into smaller and less harmful fragments instead of trapping it for removal or destruction by other immune cells.

While studying the basic function of the IKK complex in zebrafish and mice, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered that one subunit reigns in the activity of the other instead of boosting it, as was widely believed before.

Instead of waiting for her illness to fill up her schedule, though, she stocks her good days full of other activities and listens to her body about when she needs to cut back.

When it comes to training for endurance, it's very easy to instead get caught up in an endless cycle of swimming, biking, running, rowing, hiking, and a host of other «chronic repetitive motion» activities, while neglecting the stuff that actually keeps our bodies able to do what we love.

Yes, it's made from the femur bone down to the knuckle's end... Yes, it provides the whole bone matrix... Yes, it provides all the goodness of the bone marrow... Yes, it's rich in cartilage and collagen... they may share the same ingredients but our Bone Marrow product is freeze dried instead of heat processed to keep growth factors and other heat sensitive biological activity intact.

Instead of attempting to isolate an abdominal or other muscle in a workout, such as with tradition sit - ups, it is best to create natural activity for activation of more muscle fibers.

Instead of talking about how old you are, you should definitely focus on discussing your hobbies and other activities you enjoy.

It allowed you to get a sense of Linklater's ideas as an artist through more laidback means, rather befitting of the nature of his films, as he goes about doing various activities with Benning, such as hiking or playing catch, offering anecdotes to the other artist, instead of delivering filmmaking mantras to camera in an interview set - up.

We believe that if children are taught sound decision - making, relationship - building, conflict management and other valuable life skills from pre-school through 12th grade, more of them will choose to go to college or enter the workforce instead of joining gangs and participating in negative activity that will only land them in jail before they begin their lives.

Far more common instead is a seemingly random selection of disparate elements, often superficial or exotic: clothing styles, food, holidays, religious observances, leisure activities, rituals, and other customs.

Although there is nothing wrong with a behavioristic approach for MOOCs, I strongly believe that MOOCs should be taken a step further; instead of relying exclusively on information transmission on a stimulus - response basis, other learning theories may be employed in order to offer learners variety of online activities and keep them engaged in the learning process.

Instruction should be task - oriented instead of promoting memorization — learning activities should be in the context of common tasks to be performed by the others.

«The school's major task is to find activities which are not, on the one hand, too easy or, on the other, too difficult, which stimulate instead of discourage or dull interest.»

• Unions will be forced to spend larger amounts of time and money on membership maintenance instead of other more progressive union activities.

The volume of ready - made materials for other subjects, mathematics in particular, provided the teachers with an opportunity to weed out activities that did not fit their instructional approach, instead of having to create them from scratch.

Instead of test scores, Dr. Cobb suggests that we should have looked at other variables, such as student success in extracurricular activities and graduation rates.

Instead of owning this outrageous record of failure, Achievement First uses their commentary piece to rationalize their abusive behaviors writing, «Although we have an unacceptably high number of suspensions at many Achievement First schools, the technical definition of suspension (which we hold to) is a removal from class or other activity for more than 90 minutes.

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 5, 2012 Many school staff members have expressed a desire to volunteer at a shelter or other organized relief effort for Hurricane Sandy instead of attending the professional development activities at their school.

Instead of using a conventional key fob, drivers can lock and unlock a 2018 Range Rover using the Activity Key wristband previously seen on other Jaguar Land Rover models.

Instead, according to John G. Gunderson, a psychiatrist at Harvard, they tend «to engage in solitary activities which often involve mechanical, scientific, futuristic and other non-human subjects... [and] are likely to appear increasingly comfortable over a period of time by forming a stable but distant network of relationships with people around work tasks.»

Sometimes the two of us being so different can be challenging, particularly when he feels I could / should be doing group things instead of «just» reading, knitting or some other restorative activity (that I cherish).

Instead of just showing the last five books read like Kobo's other ereaders, the Aura HD shows all your recent activity.

According to the University of Wisconsin, an estate or a trust may not claim the domestic production activities deduction if the organization passes its income through to other taxpayers instead of filing its own tax return.

Stop feeding the product if your dog shows any of the following signs, which may occur within hours to days after feeding the product: - decreased appetite, although some dogs may continue to eat the treats instead of other foods - decreased activity - vomiting - diarrhea, sometimes with blood - increased water drinking or increased urination Call your veterinarian if signs are severe or last for more than 24 hours.

If your pup prefers spending time with people instead of other dogs, our personal daycare options provide the same benefits of daily activity and enrichment as our group daycare, but in a one - on - one situation.

They prefer spending the time they have with other activities — walking outside and playing for example instead of more time for grooming and brushing.

This condo was affordable and nice which I like because we could put more money towards doing other activities instead of paying a arm and leg for our lodging.

We prefer hiking, climbing, swimming and other such activities instead of just sight - seeing.

The couples are demanding quieter part of Puri to spend time with each other instead of staying in the middle of the Puri activities.

1 -2-Switch: This is the first Nintendo video game in which players compete in fun activities while staring into each other's eyes instead of at the TV screen From Wild West gunslinging to copying each other's dance moves, the games in 1 -2-Switch make creative use of a broad variety of Nintendo Switch features to liven up parties with anyone, anywhere, at any time.

1 -2-Switch: This is the first Nintendo video game in which players compete in fun activities while staring into each other's eyes instead of at the TV screen.

This is the first Nintendo video game in which players compete in fun activities while staring into each other's eyes instead of at the TV screen.