Sentences with phrase «knack for supporting»

She has a special knack for supporting clients through conversations with family members regarding end of life, incapacity, and guardianship.

A good life coach needs listening skills, the ability to motivate and a knack for supporting others.

«Boulder has a knack for supporting local businesses and has a thriving art scene,» he says.

Not exact matches

John Chen is rallying support to restore it to greatness, and he has a knack for attracting top talent.

The senior senator from Massachusetts has led the fight for tougher regulations on Wall Street, and she has an uncanny knack for marshaling public support for such an esoteric project.

Not taking the lack of competition for granted, Iveson has kept up a healthy pace of campaigning and policy announcements, and has been spotted lending his support to a handful of incumbent City Councillors running for re-election — Andrew Knack in Ward 1, Dave Loken in Ward 3, Michael Walters in Ward 10 and Moe Banga in Ward 12.

I'm talking about your milk supply, your modesty, your baby's knack for nursing (or taking a bottle), your willingness to pump, other people's support or criticism and on and on.

In the same post, Loeb praised IDC Leader Jeff Klein and others who he said «stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack (sp.) kids.»

His statement, apparently referencing the Ku Klux Klan, also applauded Bronx state Sen. Jeff Klein and others who «stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack (sp.) kids.»

Ehrlich faces a tough job of convincing voters in this Democratic - leaning state to cross the aisle to support him for a second term, but he has shown a knack for doing just that during both his time in Congress and in the 2002 gubernatorial race.

Thank God for Jeff Klein and those who stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack [a typo for black] kids.

«Thank God for Jeff Klein and those who stand for educational choice and support Charter (sic) funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack kids,» the post read.

«Thank God for Jeff Klein and those who stand for educational choice and support Charter funding that leads to economic mobility and opportunity for poor knack kids,» Mr. Loeb wrote, with «knack» apparently a typographical error for «black.»

It is clearly evident that Ms. Lasker seems to have a knack for crossing party lines to support Republicans who end up under criminal or internal investigations.

First to support herself — and then because she had a knack for it — she became a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, teaching mathematics, English, computer science, and American history, primarily at a middle school in «a very rough neighborhood.»

Now researchers say they've found evidence to support Tammet's claim that his enriched perception is at the heart of his knack for number memorization.

Thomson still supports lifting Bush's restrictions, he said, because no one knows whether the new iPS cells can match embryonic cells» knack for growing into any kind of tissue — brain cells, heart muscle, insulin - producing cells and dozens of others — in mass quantities.

Younger clearly has a knack for visual storytelling and each of the performances on display here, with the supporting turns from Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, and Katey Sagal standing strongly next to Teller's lead performance, are far more than competent and in fact add heavily to the overall arc these characters experience allowing them to not just remain stock characters.

Demme also is a humanist who supports quite a few worthy causes and has a knack for bringing out the best in his leading ladies (Mary Steenburgen in 1980's «Melvin and Howard,» Melanie Griffith in 1986's «Something Wild,» Michelle Pfeiffer in 1988's «Married to the Mob»).

The film is bolstered by her knack for dialogue and character, but also in not pressing too hard in order to get laughs that aren't there, letting smaller conversations play out naturally, and having supporting characters mirror the main story in a fashion which draws out interesting tidbits without stopping the overall momentum of the character's journey at large.

Apatow, who deserves to be regarded as the preeminent figure in American comedy right now, has shown an uncanny knack for fostering bright young comic talent, and because he loves comics so much and is so fascinated by their process — the way John Cassavetes loved Method actors and their process — his productions tend to brim with scene - stealing supporting players, amusing non sequiturs, and running times (124 minutes in the case of The Five - Year Engagement) that few comedies in the history of moving pictures have shouldered without eventually buckling under.

Her character was great because Shane Black has a knack at writing parts for kids that make them equal to adults, not support them as evidence with movies like The Monster Squad and Last Action Hero.

Laguna Creek teacher Eric Johnson writes grant proposals and has a knack for getting community and industry support — an alternative fuel company donated a $ 17,000 gas chromatograph (used to check the purity of biofuels) to his school's GETA academy.

DPS attempts to hire and support principal managers that have shown a knack for leading multiple schools, and are recognized for their abilities to coach other leaders.

With its short, strong, declarative sentences and its knack for keeping kids engaged and returning for more, this ongoing story of a young girl mouse with a hyperactive imagination and a supporting cast of comfortably familiar characters is a great way to keep slightly advanced emergent readers interested and engaged.

Developers that actually create something new: RAD: The Order Evolution: Driveclub Zipper Interactive: MAG Superbot Entertainment: Playstation Battle Royal Potentially up for the chopping board: Project Siren: Gravity Rush SCE: Knack I don't blame sony for cutting down games that don't do well (Sony is a business 1st company after all so don't forget that); I'm just not sure if your supporting evidences are convincing given your perspective.

My manager soon realized I had a knack for solving computer related issues and moved me permanently into a technical support role.

Lawyers, paralegals, IT professionals and legal personnel with a knack for technology can find lucrative positions in the growing fields of litigation support, e-discovery, and computer forensics.

To succeed in this role, you should possess a knack for technology and enjoy providing administrative support...