Sentences with phrase «life by the highest standards»

An avid student of history, Major Follansbee was dedicated to and lived by the highest standards of Special Forces.

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Our standard of living is high by global standards, so it's tempting to conclude we haven't suffered unduly thus far through our heavy reliance on the natural resources industry to drive our economy.

Simon Baptist, chief economist at the EIU, told CNBC by phone that these cities were able to provide the necessary amenities needed for a higher standard of living, without suffering from congestion.

Indeed, the CNBC Millionaire Survey, which was conducted by market research firm Spectrem Group, found 19 percent of high - net - worth respondents wish to leave enough for their kids to be comfortable and maintain their standard of living, but not all they have, while 17 percent indicated they will be «very cautious» in how much they leave, because they want their children to learn self - reliance.

As has been pointed out by several authors, rising living standards in the developing world have seen rising demand for a higher - protein diet and hence grain to feed animals.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Though her high salary could have afforded her a much more extravagant apartment, Livingston chose to live with a roommate in a three - floor walk - up on the Upper East Side that cost her $ 1,050 a month — a reasonable price by New York standards.

High - saving countries created employment, and low - saving countries enjoyed faster consumption growth as cheap imports meant that living standards rose by more than the increase in production — worth around half a percentage point a year in the United Kingdom.

Increased productivity, and ultimately higher living standards, comes from investment in capital, provided by financial intermediaries like private equity firms.

That Canada still has one of the world's largest economies (15th by some measures) and as high a standard of living as almost anywhere is of less interest to the doomsayers.

If you want to live your life to a higher standard by someone else's definition, then do so.

The median Swedish family has a standard of living rough iv comparable with that of the median U.S. family: wages are if anything higher in Sweden, and a higher tax burden is offset by public provision of health care and generally better public services.

If, on the other hand, the Sermon is intended to be a Discipleship Manual, then the high standard of living presented by Christ makes much more sense.

We will aspire to the highest standards of Christian morality and virtue by living an «examined life» enabled by God's Holy Spirit.

Can we claim that God calls us to a higher standard than He even lives by Himself?

Efforts to improve the quality of life of the elderly will almost certainly continue lengthening life as an unintended by - product (the main increases in longevity for those beyond 65 have been an offshoot of higher socioeconomic standards of living and disability - oriented technologies).

By letting others learn from us, we feel like we can make a big impact on how the rest of America can live up to our high standards.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The main problem with this way of thinking is that if Christ is presenting a new law to live by, it is more impossible to keep than the old law, for it's standards are higher.

Over and over again, Jesus says, «You have heard that it was said [in the law], but I tell you...» So people think that Jesus is teaching his higher standard of the law, that He has brought his own, new law which we are to live by.

This growth is part of an overall increase in online shopping in China, which soared more than 70 percent in 2015 to $ 672.01 billion driven in part by a higher standard of living and the advent of global digital sales platforms such as Alibaba's Tmall Global, launched in 2014.

Well then, I'd rather keep my season ticket, support my club, hope they win everything going and live in a pre modern fan era, where standards were a lot higher than those you now seem to live by.

It has been well documented and discussed that the manager who was ready to replace the great Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United would be under a great deal of pressure to live up to his very high standards and with the reigning Premier League champions currently sitting in the second half of the table after six games, Moyes is already being grilled by the media.

Their mission is to create ultra-comfy and stylish cotton apparel and accessories that don't hurt people — all products are ethically made by workers being paid living wages, and are held to the highest environmental and social standards.

These federal standards do not override any higher protection given by states in which the woman lives.

As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards by moving to higher - earning jobs in dynamic regions.

:: Urgently pay Edo State pensioners over 42 months outstanding pension benefits and entitlements from the over N29bn Paris Club refunds received by your government and meant for the payment of pension arrears and gratuities;:: Adopt a human rights policy of guaranteeing regular payment of pension benefits and entitlements so that pensioners and their families can live decently;:: Recognize the human rights of Edo State pensioners and ensure their full and effective enjoyment of those rights, as well as provide them with information to enable them to claim their rights;:: Treat all pensioners in Edo State as individuals with humanity and dignity and respect and promote their higher standard of living and improve economic and social conditions for all pensioners;:: Provide Edo State pensioners with proper support and assistance to alleviate their plight, including by ensuring informal, community - based and recreation - oriented programs for pensioners to help develop their sense of self - reliance and independence;:: Reduce opportunities for corruption in the spending of the Paris Club refunds

It is not too late for Miliband to persuade voters that he is able to deliver higher living standards for all, not just the rich; but Cameron will hope that by this time next year, enough voters will feel better off, and sufficiently optimistic about the future, to spurn Labour's message.

A statement in Ado Ekiti on Monday by the governorship aspirant appealed to Fayose to place high premium on how best to improve the standard of living of the Ekiti populace.

«However, if private providers are to be used to meet the two - week target, it is essential that structures are put in place to ensure a continuity of care between these and NHS services so that women affected by breast cancer can receive the highest standard of care wherever they live.

The higher bound for lives saved is comparable to estimates by the EPA, but the possibility that no lives are saved is not reflected in standard EPA analyses of these regulations.

It's standard in Pakistan to build these humongous compounds, where living quarters are covered by green space and that green space is then gated and there's a boundary wall, which is usually substantially high with barbed wire on top of it.

Hiring - time enthusiasm can easily turn into tenure - time trouble, as young scientists realize — too late — that they are being judged by standards different from those (equally high, or higher) that they've spent the last several years of their lives working to meet.

Although the pentaquark's life span is rather long by subatomic standards (10 - 20 seconds), it's so unstable that it can be created only by high - energy cosmic rays striking Earth's atmosphere or by the forces at work within the center of a neutron star.

Professor Kontopantelis said: «We define relative deprivation as a standard of living or quality of life below levels enjoyed by the broader society, to a high enough extent to introduce hardship, with little or no access to resources.

He adds that as a result of the discoveries, «The traditional vision of some mass of hapless lemmings — scrounging for whatever they can pinch from the side of a street, or huddled around a bowl of gruel — needs to be replaced by a higher fare and standard of living, at least for the urbanites in Pompeii.

Improvements in efficiency, driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, could for many years offset increases in demand from a growing population with higher living standards, forestalling the need for reactors.

It may not seem high by U.S. standards, but experts note it places an unfair burden on villagers who already live hand to mouth.

Our doctors and scientists include world - renowned experts dedicated to the highest quality standards and driven by the commitment to improve the lives of people affected by cancer.

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Greta calls herself the Ladies Relationship Coach because her focus in on showing women how they should be treated by suitors and boyfriends and encouraging them to set high standards for their love lives.

I Love my name Darcie I'll be 22 January 15th - Capricorn I Graduated with WMRHS Class of»09 I Graduated The Airline Academy»10 in Daytona Beach FL I was a Flight Attendant for GoJet / United Airlines for a year My highest goal in life is to travel the world full of exciting experiences I live life day by day with no regrets I have high standards / expectations in life meeting new people everyday is always exciting I have amazing friends, I love hanging out with really outgoing & & Love to have a good time.

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I've been told by many people throughout my life that I have high standards and unrealistic expectations for people.

With only passion and determination to keep him going, will Andrew pursue his career as a drummer or be taken down by the pressure of living up to Professor Fletcher's high standards?

Even by today's standards, the film's gore factor is quite high, with some truly grotesque and convincing creatures to give you nightmares the rest of your life.

Stretchmo is a sequel to Pushmo that came out of nowhere, but does it live up to the high standards set by previous installments?

Directed and partially written by Peter Sohn, this Pixar adventure certainly lives up to and surpasses expectations in animation detail and texture to the point at times it's hard to believe you're looking at a computer generated image and not a real forest, field, or river; the bar of standards and expectations just keeps getting raised higher and higher.

«Django Unchained» is propped up by a pair of fantastic performances and is filled with plenty of classic Tarantino moments, but it's hard not to feel a little letdown, because it simply doesn't live up to the high standards set by his previous films.

Josh Forward is disappointed by this Helen Mirren project, which fails to live up to the actor's normal high standard.