Sentences with phrase «kind of the model for»

«Bowie represented, to my generation, in a way that is hard to explain, this kind of model for what it meant to be an artist or creative person,» says Evan Ziporyn, who will also present a novel arrangement of Satie's Gymnopédies.

I think we need to adopt that kind of model for cyber — have an extension service, at a local level, that people can go to for classes, advice as to what software to get and help to identify a problem.

«I think we all look at this as kind of the model for the West, and that's why it's so important that this work and that we move more quickly to expedite this activity,» said Sen. Jeff Flake (R - Ariz.).

I've not seen anyone attempt to do any kind of modeling for true investment portfolios.

That sort of inconspicuous computing can serve as a kind of model for «inconspicuous lawyering,» in which the lawyer is a permanent but largely unseen part of the client's day - to - day life.

«At SS&C, we have products that do this kind of modeling for financial analysts in other fields,» Stone continues.

Not exact matches

What's ironic is that while YouTube started purely as a repository for user - generated content, the company has recognized that it needs higher quality videos to draw the kinds of advertisers it wants — which sounds a lot like television's model.

This kind of section is critical and helpful not only for creative types (for whom Action Method Books were originally created) but also the rest of us in the business world who find ourselves drawing business models and other graphic representations of our strategies all the time.

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation takes effect in May, and many privacy advocates look to it as a model for the kind of baseline privacy law the US sorely needs.

After all, you know what kind of lists you're looking for thanks to the modeling process outlined above.

The proposed regulations, put out for public comment Jan. 4, would ban high upfront fees and restrict the kinds of contracts debt settlement companies can offer, effectively outlawing the business model most popular with, among others, Cambridge Life Solutions, a company Matt McClearn and I wrote about in this magazine last fall.

Rather than selling VIA or using an ESOP, I was hoping I could achieve better outcomes for all by creating a different kind of employee - ownership model — the rare «perfect deal.»

Giphy and its investors argue that it is essentially a model for a new kind of media company.

This is much more the traditional technology push kind of model, where the pendulum hasn't swung completely away from customers and markets, but it's much more oriented towards leveraging the technology base, seeing what you can push out, seeing where there might be applications for the technology.»

All Falcon 9 rockets launched today use a design called block - four — a kind of «model year» for the rocket system.

Still, in the wake of the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, he started thinking that the way of the future for financial institutions might be a different kind of business model — one that emphasized social good as much as turning a profit.

Just as Silicon Valley companies are laboratories for new technologies and business models, so Toms is becoming a kind of Darpa for the social - venture set.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

The SMART Box is a first - of - its - kind model pricing disclosure and comparison tool launched by the ILPA in partnership with the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the leading advocate for microbusiness in the United States.

Not just the restraint of Playboy's images — a problem for the magazine since the pre-internet advent of Penthouse and Hustler, with their para-gynecological explorations of the female reproductive tract — but its insistence that Playmates have not just a backstory, but one that emphasized a certain kind of «niceness,» the famous «girl next door» quality of its models.

We already now know how to do this kind of designing and testing for business models: by combining the Business Model Canvas with the Customer Development process.

These «Blue Star» agents will be the first of their kind for MSI, and if successful, the model may scale across Marie Stopes» global system.»

Aberdeen Group provides you with the right kind of leads for the right stage of the sales funnel — from leads based on predictive models to machine and human - verified leads.

But for a huge media conglomerate like Disney, even that kind of success isn't enough, especially when Disney knew that a licensing model would mean higher margins and less risk than running an internally - funded effort that shoulders responsibility for marketing, distribution, toy production, physical inventory, and a 300 - person game development studio.

Despite this, banks still prioritize credit scores and use an outdated credit - first model for approving (or denying) you for a business loan of any kind.

I got in touch with Tony because we share the interest in persona modeling and the belief of its importance for any kind of conversational marketing.

-- partly because the shared space model is not associated with the kind of multi-billion valuation WeWork has made for itself.

«She's on the board, so she's a logical interim choice, but not a person who's going to be driver for HP as it transitions to a software and services kind of model,» Gruia added.

Netflix's stock valuation has been a constant source of debate for years, and currently is trading at a price - to - earnings (P / E) ratio of 123x, which is rich by almost every measure — no matter what kind of business model it is.

He added: «For any kind of blockchain technology to prevail it has to be open: it has to be built around a community where this is a governance model, similar to the governance model with OpenStack Cloud Foundry, Docker and Linux.»

We are continuing to have this insane debate because we continue to beat our heads against the wall hoping that some kind of magical solution that no other country in the world has ever thought of will drop down out of the sky that allows us to keep the for - profit model and still deliver care to all.

The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote a column that might be the model for this kind of thinking about public affairs» this way of feeling about public affairs.

«Hey did you guys see that Rosie ODonnel has a problem again with her lover and she has kids good role model just the kind of person that is great advertising for gay marriage.

In some ways, we're modeling for them this kind of compartmentalized life.

His range of experience was restricted by the kind of man he was; and this in itself raises certain difficulties if he is held up as an example to all human beings everywhere and at all times, for it is at least in some measure unreal to present a first - century Galilean as a model for the conduct of Western or African or Asian men in a twentieth - century industrial society.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

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.

The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote a column that might be the model for this kind of thinking about public affairs — this way of feeling about public affairs.

The genius of Britain, discovered both in the internal relations of the home country and in the various parts of its actual Empire, is a curiously flexible method for the changing of the status quo — a method which prevented crises from reaching the desperation point, ensured the gradual development of liberty, and provided a model of the kind of change which is just in time to anticipate the resort to violence.

This kind of experience would not be what Cobb's model would lead us to expect at all, for if the fully conscious, regnant occasions totally encompassed the region of the brain, inheriting from every part, how could the content of some of the brain occasions have remained hidden from me?

«When the physical model of wave - motion in a material medium had to be abandoned in physics», writes Mary Hesse, «it left its traces in the kind of mathematics which was used, for this was still a mathematical language derived from the wave equations of fluid motion, and so, for the mathematician, it carried some of the imaginative associations of the original physical picture.»

I'm sure the last thing Jesus cares about is what hat a woman wears, when the women with the issue of blood went to Jesus to be healed God didn't care about what kind of head covering she had, or if she was a top dressed model for church, Jesus recognized her as a woman with utmost faith that Jesus could heal her.

By its method natural science aims at absolute equivalence of functionally linked phenomena and «local movement», change of place, in the sense referred to, is still fundamentally the dominant, if hidden, model for this kind of thought.

Here was Alyssa Rosenberg at the Washington Post claiming that the whole point of Wonder Woman is that she's a role model for prepubescent girls, a kind of «Fearless Girl» avant la statue: «[T] he movie... argues that it's... little girls all over the world who stand to gain if they can grow up free of the distorting influence of misogyny,» Rosenberg wrote, with a schoolmarm's didacticism.

This was just the kind of religious life portrayed in the New Testament, not only as a model and pattern, but as a challenge and inspiration The New Testament was thus the abiding source of power which enabled man to realize the true life of religion, and Christ was the eternal symbol for the cultus of the Christian Church.

What, then, constitutes a viable model for preaching that features the kind of dynamic, multi-dimensional approach of a David Landry at Faith Church?

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

The kind of models we make here are typically for mini-land attractions within the Legoland and Legoland Discovery Center parks.

Many models may be used for this kind of testing.

The religious right, at its best, modeled the kind of civic engagement and civil society that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton wanted for this country.