Sentences with phrase «less conflict on»

«I think it's a good idea for anyone living together because there will be less conflict on breakdown,» Shinehoft says.

For all the curves of destruction — deforestation, ocean acidification, CO2 — the other curves that we mark our progress by, like lifespan, infant mortality, rising prosperity, and the Stephen Pinker curve of less conflict on a per capita basis, these are all doing great.

Not exact matches

That means some financial advisors — basically, brokers and insurance agents - will once again be able to give conflicted investment advice by recommending high - priced 401 (k) investments that pay them rich commissions over less expensive - but comparable - alternatives on May 7, 2018.

«We are seeing that our focus on the middle class, by putting more money in the pockets of hard working families, and giving less advantages to the wealthiest, is growing the economy,» Trudeau said, as he also attempted to distract the media horde from his finance minister's loose interpretation of what constitutes a conflict of interest.

The upshot of my politico - economic studies is that the difference is based on the ability or less of an economic system to gauge the level of social conflict in a given society.

Either Jesus was a real man in history who we know absolutely nothing about, due the the Bible's completely innaccurate and conflicting accounts, or he didn't exist at all and was a lesser god that was created based on many of the tenets of the Cult of Osiris.

All human beings face contradictions and sharp differences within their souls, but few have the conflicts in their souls put on display as a national tragedy no less than a personal contradiction.

But in addition to terrorism and military conflict, Americans still need to confront the growing reality — and awareness — that the global economy remains highly unequal, including over 2.8 billion people who survive on less than two U.S. dollars per day.

Practices and games may be on the weekends and in the evenings, so these can present less of a conflict for a parent whose work schedule isn't particularly flexible.

In other words, if women are less assertive in their communication, it is because it is part of their nature to convey messages in a milder, softer and more subtle way, as well as to avoid situations of conflicts, to be less aggressive, more cooperative, empathetic, passive, generous, and so on and so forth.

Russia's backing of Serbia isn't exactly a new development - previously, a less - known conflict involving Serbia got Russia involved in certain unpleasantness with a couple of other countries on European continent.

A clue is provided by research which compared outcomes for children in single parent families, on the one hand, with those of children in «intact» families experiencing high levels of conflict, on the other; it found the children in the intact families fared less well.

They are allowed to vote on issues relating to their interests but must declare any conflicts no less than 24 hours before the vote.

OTOH, if they picked on a lesser foe, like France / UK it is quite possible that France / UK would do something about it and then China wouldn't want to risk the conflict.

Other city employees who misused their work vehicles less frequently than Romano and Youssef have been fined or suspended by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board, or at times put on probation.

On Wednesday, the conflicts board decided that all donations to such a legal defense fund would be considered a «valuable gift» — and as such under campaign finance laws would be restricted to less than $ 50 per contributor.

Perhaps the company's most potent new ally, though, was a less surprising mayoral critic: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who waded into the conflict on Wednesday as a staunch defender of the company.

Authors speculate that perceiving more goal conflict could also have other behavioral consequences, that marketers should take into account: consumers may spend less time in - store on shopping trips or may utilize online shopping outlets at a greater degree.

Theory on resolution of parental conflict over care provides a framework to explain how such a pattern may emerge: when, for the same cost to the parents, the benefits derived by the offspring produced from the care of each parent are unequal, then the parents contributing less in absolute terms (the lighter females) may not be able to compensate.

«We also learned that workers who experience excessive on - the - job pressure feel less in control of their lives, primarily due to the conflict triggered between work and personal or family life,» says Schieman.

Climate models agreed even less on how the conflicting daily changes affect annual mean rainfall.

It may involve conflict management, in which the parties continue the conflict but adopt less extreme tactics; settlement, in which they reach agreement on enough issues that the conflict stops; or removal of the underlying causes of the conflict.

The researchers speculate that faithful males are better at keeping tabs on a mate or are less likely to return to a place where they've encountered conflict.

By being less reliant on imports, they would be partially insulated from climate vagaries, global resource shortages and distant military conflicts.

The hospital itself was bombed less frequently, however, because it treated people on both sides of the conflict.

Once you start to work on relaxing your mind regularly you will be astonished at the difference it can make to your daily life, you will have less conflict with others, achieve a lot more and be free from the nagging pain that muscular tension causes to so many unsuspected people each day.

The claim that rats on the low - protein diets ate more but weighed less, based on papers published in the 1990s, conflicts with Campbell's earlier studies showing that rats actually ate less food on low - protein diets.

Consuming foliate on a regular basis serves 30 percent less probable to grow peripheral arterial diseases as conflicting to men who didn't consume foliate containing food sources.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

But «White Material,» the Frenchwoman's indirect tribute to the Southern African novelist Doris Lessing, would doubtless top my list in many a year: the cineaste in me thrilled to its tactile, tingly command of atmosphere, its laudably complicated politics and its on - edge performance from a peak - form Isabelle Huppert, but it was the personal connection I felt to its finely - drawn conflict between lines of blood and birth that drew an extra shiver from me.

The latest promotional video for «Assassin's Creed» has just dropped and, in a contrast to previous trailers and promos, this one focuses less on kick - ass action sequences (although there are plenty of those) and more on the film's mythic backstory — particularly the ongoing conflict between the Assassins and the Templars.

his clearest take on the mid-life crisis age of Generation X. Much of the conflict of the film comes from the sense that they are somewhat of a lost generation, sandwiched between the can - do hard working Baby Boomer attitude of those who came before (Grodin's character) and the less traditionalist, blunter millennial hipster culture (Driver's character).

For the most part, Baubach has aged alongside his protagonists, making While We're Young his clearest take on the mid-life crisis age of Generation X. Much of the conflict of the film comes from the sense that they are somewhat of a lost generation, sandwiched between the can - do hard working Baby Boomer attitude of those who came before (Grodin's character) and the less traditionalist, blunter millennial hipster culture (Driver's character).

Blunt's take on Norah is marginally less successful, although she certainly does an adequate job of Norah's conflicts and destructive personality traits, while allowing her moments of truth, particularly in scenes shared with flashback sequences of her mother.

That the film becomes far less ambitious in its aims after the flood waters rise is to be expected, given the reduced scope of the world with which to work, but Aronofsky and Handel accommodate this shift by putting the focus squarely on Noah's attempt to determine exactly what his and his family's role as the sole survivors of humanity (save for one unanticipated stowaway, who — forgotten often and disposed of quite easily — serves no purpose but for unnecessary external conflict).

A lack of focus on the marginalized has left the poorest five times less likely to complete a full cycle of primary education than the richest and over a third of out of school children living in conflict affected zones.

They don't seem to understand that the web of conflicting mandates that advocates have placed on the schools over the years — usually under the «equity» banner — are what make it next to impossible for schools to truly run themselves, much less innovate: «Do this on special education.

On the other hand, the term «refugee» refers to people who have to flee their countries due to an imminent threat to their lives such as armed conflicts, persecution, and / or natural disasters, and hence are more likely to be representative of, or even less advantaged and more marginalized than, the general population in their countries of origin.

I doubt those working on the standards wanted to open that particular can of maggot - infested worms until after they had successfully completed the less conflicted areas of study.

Unless it's a near - perfect manuscript, your editor will find things to consider changing / fixing, and should make suggestions on ways to tighten the storyline, increase the tension and conflict, make your characters less cookie - cutter and more complex, etc..

«USMI is also concerned with the lack of transparency about the program and its development as well as the inherent conflict of interest in Freddie Mac's role of imposing PMIERs standards on private MIs and then designing a program that relies on less regulated (and in turn less expensive) reinsurers to circumvent these standards.

I prefer them because they are relatively easy to understand, focus on what annuities were originally designed to focus on (providing lifetime income) and are generally less prone to the sorts of sales abuses and conflicts of interest described in a report just released by the office of Senator Elizabeth Warren.

The problem is that disclosure of conflicts of interest does not have any impact on the quality of the advice provided, and may perversely lead you to trust the conflicted party more, not less.

The second sub-theme linking the exhibition with society at large deals with the work's conflict with its own support, seen to less effect in Untitled (Angelica)(2013), which sits on a sterile shelf attached to the wall.

Laura McPhee's images, on the series «The Home and the World: a View of Calcutta», are less an overview of this city of 15 million than a few frank glimpses into its complex, often conflicted soul.

As Senator Feinstein's recent talk about making 500,000 acres of the Mojave desert off - limits to renewable energy development, on the conservation grounds, goes to show, conflicts over siting large projects is no less likely just because the project is

But clearly smaller population makes plenty of sense in many other ways, for example less use of resources overall, less conflict between peoples globally, and pressure on endangered species.

The latest figures from the UN show that three - quarters of the population are forced to survive in absolute poverty on less than one dollar a day; over 30 % of all children die before reaching the age of five and one child now dies of preventable diseases and malnutrition every three minutes (480 every day); overall life expectancy is a mere 45 years and almost a third of the country's population has been displaced by the conflict (some four million civilians).

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

«While we understand and appreciate the attractiveness for building dams for electricity as green energy, we need to recognize the impact of these «green developments» on local communities; from increasing poverty because of loss of lands, to increased conflicts over less grazing and water,» said Angelei who continues to advocate for dam - affected peoples.