Sentences with phrase «larger than a community»

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By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

«This is the only chance we will have to make history right,» says Charlie Okeese, a counsellor and former chief of the Fort Hope First Nation, a community larger than Marten Falls but farther away from the prime mining targets.

Today HighWired.com is the world's largest online community of high schools, with more than 10,000 from 50 states and 65 countries.

Detroit has more than double the population of the Northern California community of Stockton, California, which until Detroit had been the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy when it did so in June 2012.

We all want to stand out in some way, but we also want to fit in: to feel we belong, that we're part of a community, or that we're part of something larger than ourselves.

Vivino is also the world's largest wine community, claiming more than 15 million users.

In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.

Community banks have also opened more branches - and closed fewer branches - than larger institutions.

About Communitech: Communitech is an innovation centre in Waterloo Region that supports a community of more than 1,000 tech companies — from startups to rapidly growing mid-size companies and large global players.

Between the year of its signing and 2014, the U.S. lost more than 14 percent of its small community banks, while the number of large banks rose 6.3 percent, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Thus, while it initially appeared that the bill was designed to foster entrepreneurial development of decentralized systems, such as the Ethereum network, to allow individuals to reclaim some power from large companies, the bill does not accomplish that aim as it treats public and private blockchains (and possibly even legacy payment systems) equally.By opening this loophole in the definition of blockchain, Nevada does not appear to be showing any more support for the blockchain upstart community than it shows for multinational financial institutions and banks at large.

With about 94,000 residents, it is the state's second largest city and residents enjoy a thriving community and shopping district and more than 100 parks.

Our efforts represent the single largest block of community support in the history of New Orleans, contributing more than 54,000 volunteer hours and investing more than $ 1 million in local projects like painting, landscaping, and building playgrounds.

In London or Singapore, most of the family offices are based in the same area, even the same neighborhood, making for a greater sense of community among family offices than you might find in a larger state like California with its multiple large cities (Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose).

The truth is, you should be more interested in a small, highly engaged community than a large follower or fan count.

Recology is the parent company to over three - dozen subsidiaries serving more than 50 communities and is the largest employee - owned company in the industry, providing services to more than 600,000 residential and 60,000 commercial customers.

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

Meridian is Ontario's largest credit union, serving more than 247,000 Members at 61 branches and 8 Commercial Business Centres in communities across south central Ontario.

We, the Seoul Bitcoin Meetup, the largest bitcoin community in South Korea, founded in 2014 with more than 1600 members, would like to voice our staunch opposition to this November's proposed hardfork.

Community banks are highly capitalized, so they are better prepared than their larger competitors for economic crises.

It has a larger population than some of the other communities on this list, and as a result home buyers might find more properties for sale.

Moreover, it stands to reason that if something is true for the world at large, that truth should surely have been discovered by more than one community in isolation.

graduates are more likely than other ministers to have made a recent job move and to be serving somewhat larger churches in larger communities with more highly educated members.

From the ethos of economic life to the chatter of talk radio, our society is busy promoting the appetites and fantasies of the individual more than it is encouraging an investment in the larger aspirations of a community.

They offer one another personal support and a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves — a community of shared pain.

Rather than conceptualising a larger community to which media outlets have a social responsiblity, society tends now to be seen commercially as a composition of smaller «markets», to which the various media address themselves.

There is a much stronger sense of community in countries that have a large indigeneous population and a deeper shared sense of belonging to the natural order than there is in Western nations that have experienced the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

They tend to depict the larger community and its ideas more as threats than as sources of new insight.

In the larger social community, in the affairs of business, and in civic life the notion of the infinite value of personality is a noble abstraction more than a living reality.

Mutual funds in counties with larger Catholic communities tend to embrace risk more than those in majority - Protestant counties, the study found.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

(6) Have people discover what the bible has to say in community rather than by someone telling them what it says and like someone else said «stop idolizing the bible» (7) Stop making the weekly worship gathering the main part of church — this may mean not having large gatherings every week.

judicial) together allow, first, a much larger degree of economic / environmental self - regulation than is now possible, and second, a much larger degree of community - adopted morals legislation than is now possible.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

The community, though it embraces the geographical area in which one lives, is a far more pervasive thing than this, for a community is in a large part defined by the social standards of like - minded people.

However, in spite of the prodigious numerical losses, the largest proportionately which Christianity was to know, by A.D. 950 Christian communities were scattered over a broader area than they had been in A.D. 500.

Rather than welcome diversity, however, some of us seem to think we have the only correct understanding, and in practice tend to isolate ourselves from the larger Christian community.

Recent developments in «milieu therapy» and the «therapeutic community» approach indicate that therapeutic goals can be achieved in much larger groups than had been thought possible in orthodox group therapy theory.

NGOs became «convinced that large - scale, top - down development concentrates wealth in fewer hands, transfers power to TNC's -LCB- transnational corporations], destroys traditional communities rather than developing them, disempowers the poor, and degrades the environment.»

Chapman could put this property to better use for a larger, more diverse community than the Catholic church.

In consequence the new middle class has cultural clout enormously larger than one might expect from its relatively modest numbers and financial resources (the latter are considerable, but still modest when compared to the economic might of the business community).

If it is objected that production in and for small communities would be less efficient than large - scale centralized production, it could be answered, first, that when the true costs of transportation are calculated, this may not be true, and second, that efficiency in that sense is less important than a good life in a self - reliant community that has some control over its own destiny.

Brazil is said to be home to the largest number of such groups» more than 70,000 such communities, according to Phillip Berryman, while Arthur E McGovern, S.J., estimates 80,000 to 100,000 groups.

The report called the churches to search for an authentic community in Christ at the local level, which would encompass, but be larger than, the local church community (because the kingdom is wider than the church).

The one who is certain against all odds they are right and good and are constantly told so by their community or the one who is given every path and knows he is no better or worse than those he is surrounded by and the community at large is distrustful?

On the contrary, the strength of the enforcement devices, the clerical and moralistic character of the legal approach at large, the duty of disclosure, the close control exercised by the community upon the individual and upon the law, if compared with the analogous legal institutions of the Latin countries, seem to disclose rather a more collectivistic than a more individualistic character of the common - law system....

At Southern the smaller schools of religious education and church music probably offer closer - knit community experience and potentially put a whole educational experience together better than the larger school of theology.

The range of concrete materials with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of NationCommunity» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nationcommunity» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of NationCommunity and State in Relation to Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»

But it also nourishes the achievement of a vastly larger number of voluntary associations, a higher degree of voluntary social cooperation, a broader base of love and gratitude for the commonwealth, and a more explicitly consensual national community than was known in ancient or medieval times.

Several characteristics of its Protestant community help to account for this: the doctrinal emphasis (more favorable to the use of impersonal means of communication than sacramental traditions); the evangelistic imperative; and the impulse towards alternative socialization, creating a range of cultural activities parallel to those of the larger society.