Sentences with phrase «like building societies»

Our contention remains that to have a single high leverage ratio that applies to all institutions, systemic banks and new and existing challengers like building societies alike, misses the point.

Not exact matches

There's been this «Slackification» of our society, where we like to say that physical spaces aren't as important, and we can do all of our team building over direct messages.

By reducing the potential for clone - like mindsets that traditional systems can incur, Trinkler hopes to enable future generations to not only think in unique ways, but also to build tools that are beneficial to the collective good of society as a whole.

He said that Facebook wants to build services that people like but that are also good for society.

Your involvement in the liberal «mainstream» media, and those like you, are a big reason there is a war on Christmas, and everything Christian, and undermining every traditional thing and value that American society was built on.

The church, like all other institutions of our society, has for 2000 years built its house of relationships between the sexes on a shaky foundation.

The full sentence reads, «This is a good morality for building a decent society, but maybe not one for people interested in things in the next world, like eternal salvation, for example.»

The building block electronic and protonic actual occasions are, in the case of human beings, swept into vastly more complex, Chinese box - like sets of containing societies within which there are social levels that can be identified with cells, others which answer to Aristotle's levels of tissues and organs, and which finally are presided over by what Whitehead refers to as the regnant nexus, a social thread of complex temporal inheritance which, Whitehead suggests, wanders from part to part of the brain, is the seat of conscious direction of the organism as a whole, and answers to what in Plato and Aristotle is called the soul.

Individuals like Manar Waheed of South Asian Americans Leading Together and Muneer Panjwani of Do Something are actively building a more equitable and just society in America, and they are competing with others to do good.

In a sense, they provide a blueprint for what a flourishing society would look like — and the various ways in which our own is not built to those specifications.

Finally, Charles Villa - Vicencio takes up the new work of making liberation theology not just a theology of resistance but of reconstruction in places like South Africa and El Salvador, where civil war has ended but the crushing burdens of building a more humane society continue — in a new world order with less and less compassion or creative insight for the plight of the poor.

Funny I never thought of Jesus as having a hercules style body... Just average build... He did work as a capenter and the carpenters I know have good muscle tone... by are not body builder status, Hercules built to excess... They are just like a average farmer, strong and even in muscle tone... Jesus's whole life was about being humble and coming from the low end of the society... he was born with the animals in a very humble place... I do not see him as a super strong human... but then being the son of God, he would have had super powers if he wanted them... he just did not need them...

Nevertheless the Christian doctrine of the relation between the ethics of Law and Grace, the Hindu concept of paramarthika and vyavaharika realms, the Islamic concept of shariat law versus the transcendent law, and the equivalent ones in secular ideologies like the Marxist idea of the present morality of class - war leading to the necessary love of the class-less society of the future need to be brought into the inter-faith dialogue to build up a common democratic political ethic for maintaining order and freedom with the continued struggle for social justice, and also a common civil morality within which diverse peoples may renew their different traditions of civil codes.

That letter made it clear that we respect the right of people to their religious beliefs but that in a very diverse society like today's we need to build an inclusive national identity not a narrow one.

«But most of all, the good society is built on people, decent people, inspiring people, like all of you in this hall today — good people doing good deeds.

They are uncomfortably aware that Tory policies in the 1980s, like the demutualisation of the building societies, helped to create the problem.

Glenn Martin, Vice President of Development and Public Affairs at the Fortune Society, said, «Commissioner Brian Fischer has built enormous respect and trust among advocates and reentry service providers like The Fortune Society because of his commitment to increasing the likelihood that people released from prison have the tools necessary to be productive and contributing members of their communities.

We would like to see how seriously the commission is taking it, in building consensus with civil society and the rest of Nigerians to deal with the issue.»

«Others, like myself, believe the role of government is to make smart investments that build a better society, and that we have an opportunity in this city to shape the economy of the future.»

Marvel at the maverick doing superb establishment jobs like organising the building of the Anglo Australian Telescope and becoming president of the Royal Astronomical Society.

This means, rather than fending off specific threats like droughts, we must build resilient societies.

Different people use different things - my kids use IM and not email, use Myspace and YouTube, SecondLife, not web pages and download / upload -LSB-...] «Its like asking a plumber, an estate agent and a building society manager to give a metaphor for urban spaces.»

As my responsibilities have changed, I have come to realize that professional membership organizations like AAAS (the publisher of Science and ScienceCareers.org) and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)-- the organization I direct — provide among the most effective networking opportunities that you can find, leading more often than you might imagine to new professional opportunities, as well as building a strong and lasting sense of community.

Still, there's stuff to like here: Elizabeth and Raleigh sitting alone, talking about the possibilities of the New World, the new societies that could be built there.

Like A Separation, About Elly reveals a society built on deception and suspicion, but it never lays blame on any particular individual.

Building on the tradition he had established in films like Alps and Dogtooth, he there brought his obsession with societies built on arcane systems of governance to glorious fruition in a mesmerizing tale anchored by a deliriously deadpan performance from Colin Farrell (Seven Psychopaths).

The Film Society said of Zürcher's feature: «In the hands of masters like Jacques Tati, Lucrecia Martel, and Chantal Akerman, cinema that at first appears to merely observe and record is in fact masking intricately constructed commentaries, built from seemingly mundane experiences.

Like all public endeavors in a democratic society, public schooling is built upon and reflects democratic systems.

Through the collaborative efforts and experience of the select committee and membership, the WTC will continue to provide relevant education, monitor regulatory policies as they come down the pike, and work with the likes of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Tire Industry Association to assure that our segment of industry is represented and building a prosperous future.

Certain financial institutions like banks, building societies or credit unions are specially regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to make sure that, under all reasonable circumstances, they can meet their financial promises to you.

Community - based financial institution usually owned by its members that offers traditional banking services like savings accounts and loans, listed on the APRA website as a building society.

You can do this by using a comparison website or by talking to a few different lenders (like banks, building societies and credit unions).

* We are members and support various industry organizations like the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI), the California Real Estate Inspectors Association (CREIA), the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the National Academy of Building Inspection Engineers.

The society's rummage sales and other annual fund - raisers «barely bring in enough money to meet monthly expenses; it's nothing like what we need for a building,» said member Sue Manning.

Like humans, the animal body was never built for the chemical - laden food of modern society.

Any advice for idiots like me who seemingly have no idea how to build a city that doesn't experience traffic jams so long that several generations of kids could be born within them and a whole society built?

Set in the year 21XX, Mega Man X builds on the groundwork of the original Mega Man games while taking a slightly darker and more serious approach to storytelling in a future world filled with Reploids, human - like androids with independent thought and free will, and Mavericks, Reploids that have turned against society to cause harm and destruction.

Hopefully subsequent research will continue to build on this so that people can understand topics like racism, sexism, poverty, ableism, heterosexism, and cissexism, and the marginalization and oppression they produce as functions of structure and society rather than personal responsibility.

No matter what gleaming highrises are made in the modern medium, a segment of society feels out of place because very few great buildings (like museums and capitol buildings) are made in the old style.

A lot of work from the late»70s was showing a world that was rapidly being built, yet people in photographs were often treated like actors, representing an idea or branch of society.

The girls wonder aloud: If we could build the perfect society from the ground up, what would it look like?

From her first Houston exhibitions in public spaces, like Two Allen Center supporting the Asia Society's vision of creating their new building where Colton sponsored major contemporary Asian art exhibitions from Thailand, China and Japan in October of 2000, 2001 and 2002... to supporting FotoFest in 2002 by bringing the film Downtown 81 featuring Jean Michel Basquiat to the Angelika Film Center and the accompanying exhibition to a funky art space restaurant in Montrose..., then going to Summer Street and opening Deborah Colton Gallery in 2004, which started the revitalization of that area... Colton has always paved the way to help positive things happen for Houston in the future.

Other references are more obscure: Rasputin's fingernails are presented in a vitrine in a chamber built like a tree house (you have to climb a ladder to get to it), and it is pretty difficult to concentrate on the vitrine of objects related to polar exploration, which are on loan from the Royal Geographic Society, because there's a DVD of The Cure's Greatest Hits blaring over it.

Sometimes I am amazed that we as a society ever got complicated machines like cars and airplanes built on such a large scale with such craziness going on.

OTIS is proof that, as a society, we can design and build unique structures that meet our needs for space and can function like a traditional larger home.

I know a lot of engineering societies promulgate things like building and testing codes, but does anyone certify software?

Kohler has built computer simulations called agent - based models that take virtual ancient societies, puts them in geographically accurate landscapes and generates how they likely responded to changes in things like precipitation, resource depletion and population size.

So from the looks of this project, it seems like we've come a long way from shiny, hypothetical imaginings to a more realistic assessment of what and how a progressive society can build — especially for these kinds of exhibitions which look to the future.

It takes institutions — old institutions, and new institutions still to be built — that stand ready to both report and stay with society - shaking stories like this one.

The credit risk analyst role is particularly important in a number of organizations, like specialist credit agencies, insurance companies, asset and investment management companies, building societies, and foreign, investment and commercial banks.