Sentences with phrase «landscape as the act»

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In many ways, your business plan can act as a map in an entrepreneurial landscape full of potholes, dead - ends and uphill paths.

However, the landscape has changed as sections of The JOBS ACT — legislation intended to free up small business capital — rolled out to the public over the past year.

Within this landscape, Square serves as a payment service provider, acting as the touch point for the seller to the rest of the payment chain.

A WORLD OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES The Global Opportunity Report acts as a GPS, helping leaders navigate an increasingly complex risk landscape.

Talk about a green light situation, leading up to last Friday's release of the February employment data, the investing landscape had three forces acting as potential headwinds to an otherwise secular bullish trend — increasing interest rates, rising inflation and global trade tariffs.

Out of these shared convictions and the culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens in their origins, the common destiny for which they longed, and the virtues necessary for success in their individual and collective journeys through life.

In the act of conceiving of God (an act made necessary by His removal of «His way from human sense») we conceive, bring into being, put into place, a landscape in which actions are labeled «possible,» «desirable,» mandatory,» «unthinkable,» and so on; and each time one of those actions is taken or avoided or not seen as a possibility, that landscape becomes ever firmer in its configurations and ever more resistant to a basic alteration.

«Amidst the shifting global landscape, the Commonwealth can act as a bridge across divides of religion, ethnicity, culture and wealth, to the benefit of common humanity,» Mr Hague said.

In one of his last acts before leaving office, former DEC commissioner Joe Martens signed off on what had long been pilloried by critics as a «mega-resort,» with two 18 - hole golf courses, hundreds of hotel rooms and condos scattered over 1,700 acres of pristine mountaintop landscape.

Eight months after that vote, the political landscape of Westchester has changed vastly, with Democrat George Latimer now acting as county executive and three new Democrats on the County Board.

In their conclusion, the authors state that it is important for conservationists to see climate change not as one of numerous independent variables acting on species survival in mountain landscapes, but as an exacerbating force over the many direct human alterations to these areas.

In a new study, the team argue that the springs acted as pit stops to allow early humans to survive as they moved across the African landscape.

They found that after the Sutlej River changed course, the scar it left in the landscape acted as a topographic low to capture river flow during the monsoon.

«It's possible that the mobility of charcoal on the landscape and it's tendency to become concentrated in low - lying spots could make it more likely the charcoal from wildfires becomes buried and incorporated deep in soils and that these deposits act as a kind of charcoal reservoir that releases charcoal into the soil over long time spans.»

Gardens atop city buildings can act as refuges for threatened species and help plants colonise the surrounding landscape.

Her lab also discovered a hidden regulatory landscape on the surfaces of cellular proteins, which act as traffic cops for telomerase.

EuroScience, the European grassroots organisation acting since 1997 as a voice for scientists and other stakeholders in science, technology and innovation, has been a keen participant in the discussions and actions to create a new European landscape for science and innovation, and a better working environment for Europe's scientists.

It's well acted, but as so often happens with Canadian films, the landscape is the greater part of the story.

The beautiful desert landscape has been transformed into a spiritless wasteland, who's exquisite aesthetics act as a mere facade concealing its true dangers and pungent realities.

Howard's proactive in a landscape where people buy guns to feel safe, the weapon acting as a talisman shielding all horrors.

The bleakness of the Sheffield landscape serves to show the barrenness of the unemployed men's lives, and acts as a backdrop to the optimism symbolised by the glamour of a strip show.

It isn't often that the landscape of a motion picture becomes as integral as the acting, writing or direction, but in the newest Ridley Scott («Prometheus») outer space adventure, The Martian, the planet's crimson hues, frozen nights and horrifying sand / dust storms bring the story of an explorer stranded there with little help of survival to full life.

The representation of nature in Letter Never Sent is as important as the acting, however, and the images of landscapes are indeed unforgettable.

Since then, the government's involvement in education policy has come to seem a given, part of a recognizable landscape marked by familiar signposts such as Head Start, Title I, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001.

This entire project of PPTs, including LI's, Success Criteria, resources and AfL opportunities acts as a complete landscape project investigating a range of different artists, materials and techniques.

Instead of just filling budget holes as it did elsewhere, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress last February offered Arkansas — one of the few bright spots in a dismal national landscape for K - 12 spending — a rare opportunity...

Logs act as simple balance beams, rocks and other natural materials found in the landscape are «installed» to help younger children develop better motor skills and an understanding of play without the aid of computers.

The high school testing landscape is even more fragmented, as states increasingly choose the SAT or ACT college - entrance exam instead of common - core tests.

If left as is, vouchers would simply act as a way to further segregate our students and stratify the learning landscape.

The bumps act as a surrogate for the poor conditions of many roads in the U.S. and once stateside, Kia's new sedan will be a formidable match for the potholed domestic landscape.

The mortgage - lending landscape is a crowded field that includes traditional lenders like Bank of America, online mortgage lenders such as Better Mortgage, credit unions like Navy Federal Credit Union, regional banks like SunTrust, mortgage brokers acting as middlemen, and more.

These traditional landscapes — historically photographed by men — act as metaphor for a male view, and through this the feminine metaphor of the «red dot» emerges and creates a visual enigma which deliberately defies this tradition.

Set on ten acres of sweeping tropical landscape, the resort features a picture - perfect lotus - filled lagoon which will act as a flawless backdrop to your wedding vows.

Clever visual design helped sell the illusion: EAD's graphical designers used some effective illustrative tricks to create a sensation of depth, of a raised racetrack hovering above futuristic landscapes, flanked by electric orbs that acted as bumpers and hazards to prevent driving off the road.

The trailer we were just shown showcased the beautiful landscape of the new world of Zelda, voice acting from an unknown character, breath - taking wild - life, and some new features such as the ability to cook, cut down trees to build a bride, and climb seemingly almost any building or mountain.

They have a very strong compositional relationship to history painting, such as Da Vinci's, shown with the abstract landscapes that act as moments of memory.

PDC reviews permanent works of art, architecture and landscape architecture proposed on or over City - owned property, and acts as caretaker and curator of the City's public art collection.

In this series of photographic works landscape is explored as an agent that not only acts as a central character but also forms the characters that populate it.

Media acts as the landscape, the wallpaper, or the air, against which highly intimate and personal visual codes unfold, creating a complex constellation of meaning within the work.

From the lyric, dark grisaille of Gorky's inner landscapes it grew to epic stature: In 1952 art critic Harold Rosenberg observed that «at a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act, rather than as a space in which to... «express» an object, actual or imagined.

What changed for Thiebaud in his landscapes of the 1990s and 2000s was the incorporation of Diebenkorn's sense for structure, with angled rays acting as both abstract lines of force and illusionistic lines of sight.

Centering on the idea that physical spaces can be designed to nurture intellectual enrichment, Azikiwe Mohammed aims to create an installation that acts as a continuation of the visual landscape created by the 1 - 54 New York participating galleries and exhibited artists.

The characters act as vehicles to express the hope that change can occur, whilst the vastness of the wintry landscapes highlight the small place humankind has in the environment.

In the Upper gallery, «Essential Elements» comprises of a selection of photographs that act as journey through Burtynsky's past projects, Oil, Water, China, Manufactured Landscapes and Quarries, drawing on the core themes that mark his entire oeuvre.

Painted guitar shapes act as the body in relation to the abstract still lifes and landscapes.

Existing symbiotically with nature but wholly inorganic, they act as a bridge between the visual landscape and the realm of the spiritual.

Perhaps because of the material's industrial origins, Bove's work seems to thrive in imperfect and raw spaces and environments, acting in symphony with otherwise inconspicuous elements in the landscape, such as abandoned architecture, detritus, foliage, or subtle color palettes.

These partial landscapes act as a middle point, not just conceptually in the paintings but also in the exhibition as it repeatedly transitions the viewer between the public and private dichotomies Castellana is constantly dissecting in his work.

This exhibition is led by her writing, which will act as a prism through which to explore feminist perspectives on landscape, domesticity and identity in modern and contemporary art - with works by over 70 artists.

In total, installation calls to mind distant spaces that act as a counterpart to Wave Hill's garden landscape.