Sentences with phrase «kind of a focus for»

In its heyday, through the mid-1980s, the Birth Place did about 100 births a year, and «became kind of a focus for social support for pregnant women and new mothers,» he said.

Like, «I'm so hungry but I really want to lose this baby weight» and that becomes kind of the focus for some women.

Not exact matches

Markets are pretty much focused on the symmetric language, thats kind of code for willing to let them...

Tribal branding is focused on a new kind of consumer — one that isn't a consumer, but a prosumer, helping to form the direction for demand and innovation rather than absorbing the new direction created by the producer.

«Our patents are strong enough to make it possible for us to develop all those kind of applications in the future, [but] right now we're focusing on the bicycle helmet.»

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance.

This can be an incredibly grounding experience and works very well to focus on what kind of energy you want to have for your event.»

Last year, for example, a study conducted by Unilever — a company that does have an admittedly vested interest in knowing this kind of information — polled 20,000 consumers in five countries and 33 percent said that given the option, they would choose to buy from brands that are focused on sustainability.

Entrepreneurs in the field say that focusing on the price of Bitcoin is missing the point — its value is as proof of concept for a new kind of payment system not reliant on third parties like governments, big banks or credit - card companies.

That knowledge has prompted us to focus more on safety than we generally do for other kinds of appliances.

A quality link building campaign must focus on providing the kind of value that can survive the changes in the search engines and provide long - term benefits for years to come

The BDC will be the industry's first healthcare - focused fund of its kind with a target raise of $ 1.5 B in capital for...

In response to albeit leading questions posed to many of the integral players in the company who were on hand for the premiere of General Magic, most focused on climate change and lack of diversity in tech (not of the ideological kind) as major problems.

Using an analytics package such as Google Analytics is recommended for all but the smallest campaigns as this kind of reporting system will show where site refinements need to be made — high bounce rates and declining visitor numbers will be picked up, suggesting that on - page efforts be focused in certain areas rather than spread around the site as a whole.

As for the judge aspects â $ «I kind of have varying views on that â $ «but its not my focus either.

They've been very involved in interfaith dialogues for many years; in fact, they're just the kind of Muslims we should be looking at and encouraging dialogue with because they've been doing it for 10 years... Some people are trying to convince the Imam to focus on the multi-faith aspect of this and perhaps dedicate the whole institution to the victims of 9/11.

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

In summary, the theology I am proposing is a kind of heuristic construction that in focusing on the imaginative construal of the God - world relationship, attempts to remythologize Christian faith through metaphors and models appropriate for our time.

It follows, third, that theological schooling as paideia focuses on the student because it supposes that for the student to understand God some kind of shaping or forming of the student is required.

A person who does any kind of coun - seling with preconceived notions of what is best for the client, or of what the person «ought» to be and do, is not a good counselor no matter what the focus of the problem.

This is because the stress in the pictures is on the divine all - sufficiency, total control, demand for moral rectitude, and active self - assertion, none of which fits in very well with the focus on Love — for love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of them.

Steve, what do you mean when you say «I think this kind of thing happens when the focus is taken off of Christ and His work FOR US, and then we start focusing on ourselves too much»?

At the moment I think, we might rather try to be life - giving in some other sense, as looking for some kind of project or social work we can do together (as I think it is very important for a relationship to not just focus on each other forever).

His papacy had become, and would remain, the kind of happy, hopeful, and uplifting phenomenon that kept focusing the eye, and the mind, on things higher and more essential» even for me, a Jew with a rather different set of worries and angers of my own about the state of the world to contend with.

You seem like someone who is interested in these kind of word studies so maybe you know if this is accurate or not: Someone else pointed out to me that the word for «punishment» in the sheep / goat passage is a Greek word that has more of a correction / discipline / child - training / restorative / purifying focus than «punishment» does in English.

There are great differences among these three spokes - persons for social possibility and pathology, but they all focus on the fact that societies have ways in which to articulate and distort certain kinds of truth that make human life possible Or problematic.

Though, that being said, I do think there is a place for this kind of evangelism, it just shouldn't be our focus.

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

The individual blessings recognized the magnitude of the gift by elaborating its variety: the fruit of the vine, the fruit of the tree, the different kinds of seeds, the herbs — each focused on the origin of the table's bounty in a way that praised God for the earth's glorious fertility.

Thank you for your very honest post Ella, you are so kind and wise beyond your years: o) I agree, a lot of people (myself included at times when i'm low) focus on all our differences which set us apart and make us compare ourselves to others.

I love these kinds of one pot recipes for company because you can actually focus on your guests instead of frantically cooking, but this one is also simple enough that you can do it on a weeknight.

Regular almonds are cheaper, if that is what you are focusing on; plus, blanching the almonds after soaking can be kind of fun — or time consuming, so find out what works for you.

This recipe is one that I have been working on for a good few months now — it was inspired by Mary, The Paleo Chef's — Phat Fudge recipe (which you can find here) that Mary created to give her clients; «long lasting sustained energy, memory, focus, combat inflammation and act as a natural thermogenic «in replacement for those weird little gel packs that are laden with all kinds of sugars and weird unpronounceable chemicals and ingredients (#nothanks) which I guess is why I called fudge.

The things you're willing to shell out for when you're an expat... I've had a bonkers busy weekend — the kind of weekend you need a weekend from — so in spite of my best intentions I didn't get a lot of lunch focused...

In both games, City were kind of broken for 80 minutes, and were losing the game, only for Yaya Toure to score a brilliant goal and the team to suddenly snap into focus.

«I think we can speak now — I know the media likes this kind of press conference — but what is important for us is to focus on our next game and let everybody judge and criticise.

Our goal is to stimulate a love for the game by immersing you in the sport and giving you the kind of focused, intensive training essential for your improvement.

YES I was one of them at the start of the season that was furious with Arsene at the start for not signing anyone but Cech (who has been a God send) it seems that he focused on a different kind of transfer this season TEAM SPIRIT and belief in this players and the players are paying him back for that..

«What you expect from these kinds of games is [that they are] always high intensity, full commitment and of course you want to prepare for that and play with a full focus.

These high performance camps provide elite coaching to student athletes across the country by immersing you in the sport and giving you the kind of focused, intensive training essential for your improvement.

What is important now is for us to be capable of focusing and coping with that kind of expectation level.

One person's focused creativity is another's flighty confusion, and you really don't want to be roaming the mountains looking for enlightenment without proper training and some kind of guidance.

«In these kinds of games you need a bit of luck going in your side and you need to be focused for 90 minutes.

I want to have some epic psychic Master Cleanse and I've tried everything I can think of to facilitate this, but every morning I still wake up wracked with anxiety and distracted by a million zinging thoughts and unable to find the kind of focus that it takes for me to write anything longer than a blog post.

This all might sound daunting for a new parent, who could still be tempted to overdo the focus on the infant and how the connection is going — potentially leading to the same kinds of stress and guilt that the attachment parenting movement creates.

It's hard at this stage to think about anything but her — and our — sleep routines, but I feel kind of the same way about people asking about breastfeeding: it's been tough for us and I hate that we can't focus on how terrific our little one is without a whole discussion of latch.

The kind people at Kodak and Focus Features have offered to provide a pair of tickets to a reader at Mommy Niri (in fact they are sweet enough to be sending a pair for my date night too).

During these two years, your little one will go from taking a few tentative steps to running, jumping, and moving with increased coordination; from using a handful of words to having a broad vocabulary (and talking up a storm); and from being able to focus for three minutes or less to having an increased attention span that opens the door to all kinds of new toddler activities.

It provides us with a wonderful opportunity to begin the dialogue for what kinds of activities we will be focusing on.

These kinds of parents are excessively focused on their children and take on an excessive responsibility for the experiences their children have in life.