Sentences with phrase «life chances by»

ImpactEd will improve pupil outcomes and life chances by addressing the evaluation deficit.

How Much Could We Improve Children's Life Chances by Intervening Early and Often?

This is in spite of the wealth of evidence that poverty can devastate children's life chances by damaging their cognitive, emotional and social development, physical and mental health, and educational outcomes.

Not exact matches

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to compete with Twitch and YouTube for video game streaming: The company is now offering select video gamers a chance to monetize their gameplay live streams on Facebook by giving their audience a way to tip them as part of a test of new monetization options.

Given the chance to talk after the Olympics, I would want to bring with me people who's lives have been hurt by legislation he has championed.

Buffett fans will get a chance to hear him discuss his stocks and their performance on Saturday, even if they're not in Omaha, by tuning in to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting live stream starting at 10 a.m. ET.

Netflix description: «After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind - bending murder.»

Not even the chance to view a selection of outfits worn by the Queen of Country Pop and the promise of a «live concert simulation» could bring tourists to Timmins, Ont.

It means having a chance at the kind of life described in 1931 by James Truslow Adams when he coined the term «American Dream»: a life that's «better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.»

If you're depending on your portfolio to throw off a certain amount of cash and you take too much risk by choosing investments that are too volatile, you could come up short regarding your living expenses and be forced to accelerate withdrawals, increasing the chances that you'll run out of money or shortchange your estate.

Since that time, he has written a long - form essay broken into three books: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

But in fact a whole generation of young adults is likely to see its life chances permanently diminished by this recession.

1 Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, 2nd ed., (New York: Thompson Texere, 2004), 61.

Gerecht was essentially with (see his 2012 essay «Living with Islam») certain voices in the Obama State Dept., or among the academic supporters of the Revolution at a site like The Arabist, which for a time held that the Revolution presented a chance to split the broad Islamic constituency represented by the Brotherhood, to separate the Brothers ready to meet democratic secularists half - way, from the rest, and to let the latter earn the scorn of the populace through their own policies, actions, etc..

This article claims that a word game can gauge motivation levels, which is absolutely false on many levels, motivation is shaped by a strong purpose in life and not those that claim they are a product of chance.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

Glen Beck is a Christian if you believe that saved means that we get to live in the afterlife with a chance to have eternal life in the mansion where God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough by doing good works to progress to be there and that God's grace comes after all we can do.

Mormons believe we all just have a chance to be there by our faith in Christ but if we aren't worthy enough, then we will still live in a lower heaven but eternally out of the presence of God the Father.

For them, at last, there would be some kind of future; some older faces to apply to their unfolding lives, some language in which their identity could be properly discussed, some rubric by which it could be explained - not in terms of sex, or sexual practices, or bars, or subterranean activity, but in terms of their future life stories, their potential loves, their eventual chance at some kind of constructive happiness.»

- We were randomly spewed across the universe by a super nova - spinning rocks randomly affixed themselves in an orbit around a sun - by chance, the third rock from the sun was precisely the right distance to sustain life.

The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).

Or how about that the odds that the universe would be able to support life by chance alone is 1 out of 1 followed by 1230 zeroes.

rea · son — noun / ˈrēzən / a.Think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic — humans do not reason entirely from facts b.Find an answer to a problem by considering various possible solutions c.Persuade (someone) with rational argument — I tried to reason with her, but without success» I accept nothing on faith» can you prove we evolved from primates or that life started by random chance?

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

I'm not saying Ratzinger was a bad man, he simply was never going to live up to the bar set by his predecessor... now the new pope will get a chance to form his own legacy... just saying..

It's a chance, but one way too slim to live your life by, right?

There is no chance for mastery in living, by working out what is properly credible on the basis of notions like demonstration, experiential tests, sufficient evidence, and so on» the fool's errands that modernity has sent us on, seeking a kind of legitimation that neither exists nor is needed.

I hope you are happy in your life without God but I personally can not understand how simplistic some people can be as to think that the entire world was created by chance or some catastrophic «big bang» event.

Antony Flew an ex-atheist became convinced that the universe, the laws of nature, and life could not arisen by chance

If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by scientific training into the conviction that life originated spontaneously on the Earth, this simple calculation (of the 2,000 proteins coming about chance) wipes the idea entirely out of court.»

The theory developed that perhaps lightning struck a pond of water causing several molecules to combine in a random way which by chance resulted in a living cell.

It is a chance to say a word about their lives as a kind of testimony in miniature or to add a coda to the sermon by pointing out something that, in their opinion, the preacher left out or got wrong.

Anyway, I was thinking about that word «undignified» after that come - to - Jesus moment a few weeks ago, and realised that I've almost always found God most in my undignified moments — by dancing ridiculously, by telling secrets, by being willing to be foolish, by taking chances, by working hard, by engaging in the mess and weirdness of family life, all of it.

How can any man look at the universe from the sheer size to the unseen atom and say «we just happened by chance, from cosmic goo...» That sure takes a lot of faith — to make something from nothing, especially life.

Then recently the scientific community finally concluded it is virtually impossible that the life sustaining nature of our universe and earth could have come about by chance.

The postulate that life originates purely by chance out of mindless and aimless shuffling of atoms and molecules is all part of our central question here concerning the logic of an emergent view of nature.

Jesus is then the living analogy of God, and it is not by chance that He expressed His message in parables and gave Himself in finite symbols.

But also it does seem to suggest that the universe exists because of God's creative action and the scientific evidence we have indicates that this creative action was not a one - off event because, in addition to the problem of inheritance, the actual conditions for life to occur on Earth are so stringent that they could not have happened by a process of natural chance.

In this view, we humans have common ancestry not only with monkeys but also with trees and fungi and all other living things by a process of natural chance.

Not by chance, Christ lived noticeably close by the invalids, not by chance, blind man, paralytics, deaf - mutes, lepers, lunatics were irresistibly attracted by him and seeked his community.

For the story of the evolution of life is the story of innumerable chances, fumbling and gropings through countless ages.38 «Life advances by mass effects, by dint of multitudes flung into action without apparent plife is the story of innumerable chances, fumbling and gropings through countless ages.38 «Life advances by mass effects, by dint of multitudes flung into action without apparent pLife advances by mass effects, by dint of multitudes flung into action without apparent plan.

The odds of the finely tuned universe we live in coming about by chance are so unlikely that it's difficult to conceive of the astronomically large numbers involved.

You laugh at the Supernatural, even though scientists have calculated the odds of life forming by natural processes to be estimated less than 1 chance in 10 to the 40, ooo power — But you find nothing wrong with believing that billions of years full of random mutations would result in the impossible.

Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:

It is love to obey God, and by having a swift death penalty we love the people in our society [many of whom are our enemies also] and offer them the best chance for a life free from fear and crime.

Some scientists have so struggled with the extreme improbability of the conditions for life resulting from randomness that they go so far as to dream up theories of parallel universes to explain the problems presented by simple math on the likelihood of random chance.

The stupidest thing that I have ever heard in my life is that life formed by chance.

Science also does not know how life began on earth nor is it reasonable to speculate that life would form by chance.

Unfortunately, they don't have the sense of autonomy that would lead them to refuse sex if their own life - chances (as well as those of their as - yet - unborn children) are in danger of being damaged by male reluctance to use the simple means of contraception readily available.