Sentences with phrase «large focus of my life»

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The largest investment of the year to date was an $ 800 million round that went in January to Verily Life Sciences, a health - focused division of Alphabet.

Previously, Mr. Mousseau served on the boards of Impark Corp., one of North America's largest parking management providers, Premier Lotteries, OTPP's holding company for lottery management investments, and Aurigen Reinsurance, a Bermuda - based life reinsurance provider focused on the reinsurance of life insurance policies of North American residents, and was an alternate board member of Camelot Group PLC, the operator of the UK National Lottery.

The scholarly orgy of debunking has obscured the importance of the facts that such ideals were professed at all, and that debate about them helped to focus the attention of a large, diverse, professional community on the question of what kind of life a lawyer ought to try to live.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

In the early days bioethics focused on such larger issues, but the field was in time overtaken by an interest in what can be called regulatory bioethics: the protection of research subjects, the advancement of patient rights, and the devising of procedural guidelines for end - of - life care, for instance.

Members of a church may identify the focus of their common hope with the phenomenon of warmth20 and point to specific occurrences of warmth in places or phases of congregational life.21 Members of Corinth Methodist experienced warmth at various physical and temporal thresholds that bound its life to its larger neighborhood.

However, the focus of my work in this article has been contextualized to the Black experience in America to help Christians at - large to thinking critically about the Black Lives Matter movement.

Learning to learn has become the primary focus of my classroom work, and this focus is expressed in such methods as dividing large classes into rotating discussion groups; assigning shorter, more frequent written work that can be rewritten; structuring group oral examination experiences; and stressing the application of what is learned to other disciplines and life situations.

Focusing on our sons, spending positive time together and talking about life lessons, scattered with a large dose of quiet and engaged listening, will help fathers and sons develop nurturing and meaningful relationships and help our sons form attitudes which will allow them to develop into men in the richest sense of that term.

It is an unfortunate fact of life that large scale tragedies will continue to occur, as the earthquakes in Japan and the horrific events in Norway attest, so Elizabeth's advice to other psychiatrists looking to help survivors and rescuers in future events would be to not focus on the therapy they have learned but instead invest time in listening and providing comfort by simple human contact.

The danger is there's not sufficient focus on the disturbingly large number of young people who are living dysfunctional lives.

At the New York Law School, Bratton also defended broken windows, which calls for a focus on small, so - called «quality of life offenses» to prevent larger crimes — and wouldn't even consider one attendee's calls during the question - answer - session to do away with the practice.

Although the same phenomenon may occur with other infectious diseases, the study focused on TB — one of the largest causes of morbidity and mortality in Zimbabwe, especially among people living with HIV.

«New Yorkers tend to focus on rats because they are larger and we see them scurrying around in streets or subways; however, from a public health vantage point, mice are more worrisome because they live indoors and are more likely to contaminate our environment, even if we don't see them,» says senior author W. Ian Lipkin, MD, senior author of both papers, John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, and director of CII.

Many cities have focused on more expensive responses to the poor living conditions brought on by large inventories of vacant properties.

Large - scale genome sequencing efforts, like the Human Microbiome Project, have focused on the community of microorganisms that live in the human gut.

A large part of Gray's pioneering research has focused on tracing the evolutionary history of mitochondrial genomes in some of the most humble forms of life around: protozoans, slime molds, and certain types of algae.

Malin Pinsky, an ecologist at Rutgers University who studies population dynamics of coastal marine species and who was not involved in the research, described the study as significant because of its unusually large scope, as well as its focus on different fish life stages.

The focus of the study was the skull of Erlikosaurus andrewsi, a 3 - 4m (10 - 13ft) large herbivorous dinosaur called a therizinosaur, which lived more than 90 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period in what is now Mongolia.

The team's research focuses on «sperm competition», a phenomenon that looms large in the lives of many animals.

It is the largest and most productive clinically - focused HD research group in the UK, and is at the forefront of neurodegenerative disease research and has real potential to transform people's lives.»

Facebook - The Social Network As one of the largest social networks focused on college students, «Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

With the launch of this feature, Tagged becomes one of the largest live - streaming apps focused primarily on an African - American user base.

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As the title implies, the focus of this hour - long live - action series is not on the larger than life costumed superheroes who turned The Avengers into the third highest - grossing film of all time, but the employees of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, the government agency of espionage and law enforcement that has worked with and sometimes against the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and the Hulk.

Just as there are no stars on the Spotlight team, there are no star turns in the movie; it's too focused on creating a tapestry — a living, breathing conception of a city and its people — to accommodate any larger - than - life performances.

In both the films» smaller moments of character growth (there are several of those here) and its larger - than - life epic battle sequences (there are plenty of those), Jackson uses the camera uniquely to focus on elements in the story that would've otherwise been ignored.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

A few years ago, I did a small, informal research project examining the mission and vision statements adopted by the nation's hundred largest school districts to see whether they still view the preparation of students for participation in democratic life as an essential focus of their work.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Participants will explore Out of Eden Learn, an online program that brings youth from diverse backgrounds together for learning experiences focused on slow looking and listening; exchanging perspectives; and connecting individual lives and larger human stories.

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On the other hand, I can zoom in and get a clear and crisp larger - than - life picture of any panel — or any part of a panel — I want to focus on.

Specs wise, HTC HD7 is having a large 4.3» WVGA touchscreen, 5 Megapixel camera with LED flash & Auto focus, 720p HD video recording capability, Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 GHz processor, 576 MB RAM / 512 MB ROM, 3G, Wi - Fi, 16 GB internal storage, Bluetooth 2.1, micro USB and 1200mAh battery, T - Mobile special services, and a whole host of Microsoft services like Zune, Xbox Live and more.

Problem: Perhaps you neglected to build a large emergency fund to focus on getting out of debt, paying for family activities, or simply living a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle.

«I focus on people for whom the sabbatical is symptomatic of the need for a larger change in their lives.

Copy Cat Chic is all about living large on a small budget, with articles focusing on teaching readers how to get designer interior style at a fraction of the cost.

If you compare the fund with its peers like Birla Sun Life Top 100, Reliance Focused Large Cap Fund or Quantum Long Term Fund, you will see that SBI Bluechip has done admirably well, and besides this, it has one of the lowest expense ratios among its peers.

Last year, she worked to form a coalition called Michigan Friends of Companion Animals to focus on pending state legislation (HB 4898), the Large - scale Commercial Dog Breeder Act and local ordinances that would prohibit the retail sale of dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets, long lived birds and large reptLarge - scale Commercial Dog Breeder Act and local ordinances that would prohibit the retail sale of dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets, long lived birds and large reptlarge reptiles.

Regina Humane Society mobile clinic Regina Focused on the inner - city Heritage and North Central neighbourhoods, where up to 85 percent of Regina's at - large unsterilized animals live.

The Power of Tea - Tree Oil Since people spend a large portion of their lives indoors, Indoor Air Professionals» focus has been to improve indoor air quality.

Our tour is focused on bringing you closer to the «real life» Spain, away from the large bustling cities, and into an assortment of medieval villages and larger towns of major historical and cultural interest that were influenced over the centuries by the numerous inhabitants of Spain including the Celt - Iberians, Romans, Visigoths, Moors, Sephardic Jews, and Christians.

The focus of this trip is to learn about the unique ecosystems of the Yucatan peninsula with its underground river network and cenotes, rich marine life and the world's second largest barrier reef, as well as Mayan history, culture, and archaeology.

Main Pavilion Large white palimanan pavers walk you immediately to the central focus of the villa - the magnificent and expansive 12 m x 10 m open - air living and dining pavilion which opens directly onto the flat lawn garden and main pool deck, giving a seamless flow from indoors to out.

A private outdoor pool is the central point of focus, its wood decking leading to not only the master bedroom, but the large plush living room and a sumptuous outdoor space too.

Despite a greater and more mature focus on storytelling, the new God of War still features plenty of larger - than - life action, which feels more personal thanks to the new camera perspective.

, killing zombies, and completing quests grants progress towards three distinct skill trees: Agility, which handles the parkour abilities like slide - dashes and drop - kicks (the latter of which I found utterly useless, though the Internet at large has taken to calling the game as a whole «Drop Kick Simulator»); Survivor, which deals with crafting recipes, backpack size increases, and general quality - of - life upgrades; and Power, which focuses on dealing damage, granting elemental effects, and making melee weapons last longer.