Sentences with phrase «life functions like»

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For people pursuing a fast life strategy like that embodied by the Dark Triad traits, it's better to occupy and exploit a low light environment where others are sleeping and have diminished cognitive functioning.»

We all go to the doctor to see how our body is functioning and we speak with retirement professionals to see what life after work will look like, so why not give your business that same kind of assessment for your most important asset — your people?

«I really like to understand the society that I'm living in and how it works and functions and what people are thinking, you know.

«This is a passion project for most people,» said Claire Nelson, owner of the Bureau of Urban Living, an accessories boutique, and one of the organizers of a loose network of local entrepreneurs that functions like a support group.

It functions almost exactly like a term life insurance plan, except that you can dial in a term length to meet your permanent life insurance needs.

It's my term for the texts that function like scripture in American public life, the voices to which we are forever returning as we reflect together on what America is all about.

The war between right and wrong, good and evil, the old self and new self in Christ rages on, and so to look for instructions and fulfillment on how to live better lives is like looking to a country in the midst of civil war for instructions on how to set up a functioning government.

Some of these pioneers in changing the church find that the best way to function as the Body of Christ is to leave the institutional church behind, and live and love like Jesus with other people in their community and their neighborhood.

This means that Scripture will function much more like a musical score than a blueprint for our lives.

What is written is what is needed to know and believe what God is like, what God is doing, and how we are to live and function in this world.

What is written is what is needed to know and believe what God is like, what God is doing, and how we are to live and function in this world.When man sin against God, he first loves us, that's why he sent his only begotten son that who so ever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life.

Israel, much like any other nation in history, was a child of its times, and set about living and functioning in a way that resembled the surrounding nations.

Their writings (and she says it almost like this) «create a framework of interpretation which can provide overall orientation for human life» — which is Gordon Kaufman's view of the function of theology.

The more deeply we began to look at the training function of the church, the more popular became things like Group Life Laboratories, Sensitivity Training and, later, Transactional Analysis.

The best one I have found is perhaps this: «Not only consciousness, but every stirring of life, depends on functions that go out like a flame when nourishment is cut off....

«Scripture will function much more like a musical score than a blueprint for our lives.

There is another way to conceive of our life in God, but it requires a different worldview — not a clockwork universe in which individuals function as discrete springs and gears, but one that looks more like a luminous web, in which the whole is far more than the parts.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Just like the different organs in our body collectively help us live and enjoy life, business functions to help society not only survive but thrive in many ways.

... said the guy who thinks a catastrophic explosion like the Big Bang had no source, and that all life and things in nature just mysteriously created itself, then somehow managed to function perfectly.

On the other hand, the transcendent can function in a person's life, much like the traditional God, as a real resource for living and a continual challenge for growth.

Those are not beliefs — not in the biblical sense of the term «belief» — or if they are a form of belief they are disconnected from any relevance to you and I. None of these «so called» beliefs affect much of what you do with your life — knowing about a virgin birth won't give you the tools to be a better parent — these «beliefs» do not function like that — they are more suppositions about the character of God.

When Aristotle turns to living organisms, the words he uses to expressthe form are words that signify vital functions: words like «perceive», «reach for», «think».

For instance, motion pictures of living brain cells taken through a microscope reveal tiny microglial cells that look like spiders and climb the trunks and branches of neurons cleaning up debris and performing who knows what other functions.

Apps devoted to live video streaming have popped up recently as well, adding a new dimension to the «crowdsourced newsroom» function of popular platforms like Twitter.

Not only do I simply enjoy the taste and feel like I could live off carbs forever, but cutting them down / out also screws up with my stomach and, um, regular «system» functioning, if you know what i mean.

From core functions like talking and walking to more nuanced, emotional responses - what happens to us in our early years, quite literally changes our lives.

The severity to which the person over or underreacts to the sensory information affects the level of difficulty the person will have functioning in daily life situations, like going to school, trying new foods or going to crowded places.

But other common practices in southern Europe, like turning public office into a livelihood by living off public resources indefinitely, appointing incompetent people to public positions, or shamelessly benefiting from the undemocratic functioning of political parties, are cases of serious corruption too.

The cost of living is lower in most rural areas than in most urban areas, although part of that lower cost of living is attributable to subsidies of rural governmental functions, (like road and bridge maintenance and K - 12 education), by residents of more urban areas.

The new drug - like compounds discovered by Vogel and her co-authors offer hope that using a computer - generated P - gp model, explained here http://bit.ly/1LVmR7a, developed to accurately mimic the physical, chemical and biological functions of the protein in the human body, will speed up the drug discovery process and work in real life as well.

At places like the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, researchers examine various aspects of consciousness to see if it functions independently of the physical brain, implying the existence of an independent life spirit.

However, the circuit in the fly's mVG described in this work functions to regulate a developmental step in the insect's life, unlike a behavioural urge like hunger that the hypothalamus regulates in mammals.

«The function of these excavated cavities is much like that of the webs of social spiders, which live in groups and share the trapped prey among group members,» explains Tanaka.

Like a candle that burns an inch each hour and thus functions as a clock, can the length of our telomeres tell us how much longer we have to live?

But we also know that for people already living with AD, physical activity can help them function better, decline more slowly and help them with symptoms like agitation, wandering and sleeplessness.»

Living cells express genes involved in physiological functions like development and metabolism via complex mechanisms.

Its feet functioned only partly like those of apes and much more like those of living monkeys and early apes such as Proconsul (which lived more than 15 million years ago).

«We should be investing in global functions, like research and development and constraining transmission of drug - resistant disease strains across borders, because these investments will help poor people wherever they live,» said Jamison, who is a senior fellow in Global Health Sciences at UCSF.

«A healthy gut microbiome functions like an organ, and it's something you can't live without.

Proteins are fundamental macromolecules for life, with a diversity of functions, like acting as channels through cellular walls, catalysers, DNA benders, etc..

«One ring fulfills the function of a wheel, the other drives it like an engine with the help of chemical energy,» explains Prof. Dr. Michael Famulok from the Life & Medical Sciences (LIMES) Institute of the University of Bonn.

Meanwhile, the native Iñupiat congregate in community centers and homes, swapping stories over pots of boiling walrus meat and functioning like a living, breathing supercomputer.

But deciphering a person's brain functioning with only six categories is like painting a portrait with only primary colors, Martinez said: it can provide an abstracted image of the person, but not a true - to - life one.

Almost 100 trillion microbes — some beneficial and some harmful — live in the human gastrointestinal tract at any time, helping to regulate immune function and inflammation, two factors hypothesized to play a role in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Living mulch functions like mulch on any farm or garden except — it's alive.

An insecticide — like chlorpyrifos, which alters how brains develop and leads to measurable changes in behavior and function later in life — will probably not be picked up by the proposed tests.

Proteins are responsible for the vast majority of the cellular functions that shape life, but like guests at a crowded dinner party, they interact transiently and in complex networks, making it difficult to determine which specific interactions are most important.

Scientists typically don't classify viruses as living organisms, but giant viruses like these, with their own protein - making machinery and other functions normally carried out in living cells, blur the lines between what's alive and what isn't.

«When we think about quality of life for older adults, and improving quality of life, it seems like targeting the individual is only part of the story, and our findings suggests that for older adults, a larger part of individual well - being is defined by our partner's health and cognitive functioning as well,» said UA psychologist David Sbarra, a co-author of the paper, which will be published in Psychology and Aging, a journal of the American Psychological Association.