Sentences with phrase «lesser social community»

Less chatting options make for a lesser social community than it used to be, the conversations are restricted and our characters mostly introduce themselves with a small number of prepared sentences.

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It's worth rewarding executives who have found ways for their companies to contribute less to the community and deliver more in the way of social results.

In less than a year, the C100 has begun to knit together a cohesive Canadian community in the Valley, one that now has its own social networking tool, Bridgescale Partners co-founder and C100 charter member Rob Chaplinsky's Digital Puck.

Thanks to the breaking of social bonds in our families and communities, and the lack of self - control that a culture of indulgence promotes, we will continue to become more bureaucratic and inefficient in our governance, while at the same time creating the conditions whereby citizens become less capable of leading their own lives.

Whatever their exact number, Christians are leaven in deeply troubled Pakistan whose Muslim majority disallows increasingly the Prophet's teachings about restraint from violence and his injunctions to honor the Ummah (religious community) Internecine Muslim murders are a daily occurrence in Pakistan, and, whatever the discrimination against Christians, it is more social and economic in nature and far less violent than what Muslims do to one another.

The Danforth Study of Campus Ministries, published ten years ago under the audaciously inclusive title The Church, the University, and Social Policy, has probably had little measurable impact on any of the three communities addressed — which focus respectively on goodness, truth and power — much less on strengthening their linkage with one another.

... the most important social task of Christians is to be nothing less than a community capable of forming people with virtues sufficient to witness to God's truth in the world.

If systematized these would fall into three main types: the beauty, sustenance, and orderliness of nature on which our lives depend; social relations in the family, community, nation, and all our past which have nourished and fashioned us; and, less obviously but essentially, the human capacity of thought, feeling, and will by which to live and act as morally responsible beings.

The abstraction from concrete social reality in each case tends to create the illusion that theological ideas or practices of worship or church legal systems have ghostly lives of their own that transcend the concrete particulars of the communities that more or less believe the dogmas, practice the liturgies, and follow the rules.

So the focus of this post is to offer a social perspective that I hope will make healthier communities within which the option of suicide may be less attractive.

Appearing in human form for social events, community projects or blind dates suggested by friends made more sense — it was more productive and less isolating.

But a new study finds that poor adolescents who live in communities with more social cohesiveness and control get some measure of protection; they're less likely to smoke and be obese as adolescents.

«In social community sites approved technologies like filter software are less effective.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

Community / Impact Investing: The investor is less concerned about the financial returns of his / her investment than about the greater social impact.

«My guess is that minorities may not benefit fully from these programs in their communities possibly due to greater stigma, and less family / social supports.

Ant communities living near to slave - makers are less highly specialized than colonies in areas which are free of these social parasites.

Choosing sustainable palm oil for food and personal care applications means that less land needs to be used, and if the palm is grown using sustainable practices (100 percent organic, regenerative agriculture, third - party certifications, and social programs), it is extremely beneficial for local communities and the environment.

The film of 2012 that provided the most piercingly accurate gauge of our current ideologico - aesthetic situation was Kony 2012 with its canny manipulation of youth culture, the drive for a global community, child - like whimsy and Apple Inc. utopianism — all as part of a project that has less to do with real social activism and more to do with the self - interested exploitation of our common desire for a better world.

Maro: «Átiko13 are five social workers, and there are also community organizers; there are monitors of leisure time; a recent addition of a degree in geography has also long been living in Mexico and has many ideas in music; there are musicians; we have psychologists; a social educator, designer, and artist... Apart from that, everyone then has a master's degree in Journalism, a master's degree in Human Rights, a more or less promising career in music and art in general... Right now, we are 11, with two recent additions.

In my mind, what is truly distinctive about these schools is how deeply invested they are in fostering the social development of their students, many of whom are reared in homes and communities that are dysfunctional and unsupportive in ways that undermine the youngsters» ability to function well in school, much less in life.

I was also thinking about how many of us are living out the paradox of being ever more plugged in, and ever more aware of what's happening in our community via social media platforms, while at the same time, face - to - face interactions are less frequent than ever before.

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

Perhaps less obvious but just as important are costs associated with social and economic exclusion of certain communities, many of whom were disadvantaged by poor transportation decisions in the past.

At $ 179, the Vox costs $ 20 less than the bigger name brands and it offers robust social reading community and a unique anti-glare screen.

It is again a heterogeneous world with less rapid, and more diverse technological change but a strong emphasis on community initiative and social innovation to find local, rather than global solutions.

It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power — specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

«They have fewer resources and receive less support from family, community, the financial system, and even social safety nets to prevent, cope and adapt,» it noted.

Created by local seamstresses under a social enterprise and community development program, the beanbags are new items that re-use post-consumer waste materials, which require less energy to produce.

In previous years, the conferences focused a lot on community and social mediation, and less so on commercial mediation and advances in law tech.

Currently, obligated organizations except for small organizations (19 or less employees) must file a report with the Ministry of Community and Social Services every year.

If you prefer a less social environment, there are also townhouse and condominium communities where you can rent a one bedroom, two bedroom or three bedroom room.

The DECA chapter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School decided to reach out to the less fortunate in the community by organizing an event that served food, with social hierarchy in mind.

Plan and manage a variety of business, community, and social events for groups of less than 10 to more than 300 attendees

Home - visitation programs include a «degree of social support that is difficult to provide in most clinical settings; outreach and liaison between the pediatrician, the family, and the community; involvement with socioeconomic issues that directly affect the well - being of the child and family; reinforcement and follow - up of preventive care, peer helper support, as well as encouragement, by the home health visitor who has the advantage of being with the family in its own home — a more accepting, less threatening setting for the family.»

They can enhance developmentally oriented anticipatory guidance with individualized content that meets families» individual needs.42 Home - visiting programs include a «degree of social support that is difficult to provide in most clinical settings; outreach and liaison between the pediatrician, the family, and the community; involvement with socioeconomic issues that directly affect the well - being of the child and family; reinforcement and follow - up of preventive care, peer helper support, as well as encouragement by the home health visitor who has the advantage of being with the family in its own home, a more accepting, less threatening setting for the family.7

It also improved peer networks (substance misusers were less influential), and enhanced community social capital.

Hence, their targets are not necessarily weaker or less social, on the contrary, they are often high achieving students involved in sports, clubs, volunteer organizations, and after school community activities and projects.

With respect to the school and community system variables, the results showed that school and community safety were associated with greater social competence and less externalizing behavior.

The men in both groups of the Harvard study who reported being closer to their family, friends, or community tended to be happier and healthier than their less social counterparts.

This means a shift in culture and spending across children and families agencies towards prevention so that local health and other public services, the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector and the wider community work together to co-produce and deliver less bureaucratic, more joined - up services for all families living in Community and Social Enterprise sector and the wider community work together to co-produce and deliver less bureaucratic, more joined - up services for all families living in community work together to co-produce and deliver less bureaucratic, more joined - up services for all families living in the area.

This social connectedness or «re-connectedness» is a strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities which the Work It out Program was able to foster in an urban context, where people can be more disparately placed and less connected [31].

Although scores of parenting programs for young children have been and are currently being used in communities throughout North America, in only a relatively few cases has their long - term efficacy been tested using comparison groups, much less with a randomized control trial (RCT).17, 18 Thus, drawing firm conclusions about their effectiveness in improving young children's social and emotional outcomes is limited to a few investigators who have used more rigorous methods.

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