Sentences with phrase «more acting work»

«Right now I'm trying to lose about 20 lbs because I think it will allow me to get more acting work,» says Dennis.

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In their rush to work around the federal law — called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — state lawmakers could make an already unfair and complicated tax system even more so.

When you act on ideas you truly care about, you are more likely to be right and more likely to work hard enough to succeed.

Instead of viewing work and life as a balancing act, Bezos said that it's more productive to view them as two integrated parts.

And with the advent of the Affordable Care Act, even if you'd been working in the U.S. market for 20 years, you didn't know any more than someone that had been in the U.S. market for one or two years because so much had changed so quickly.

A more realistic understanding of authenticity at work might not be simply «bring your whole self to the office» but a more nuanced balancing act.

It's been more than 50 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which mandates that men and women receive equal pay for equal work, but women are still fighting for compensation equality.

After months (well, technically, closer to a decade) of wait for an official Republican plan to replace Obamacare, the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees unleashed legislation dubbed the American Health Care Act (AHCA) late Monday that would nix the existing health law's unpopular mandate to buy insurance and pare back its far more popular expansion of Medicaid for the working poor, among other provisions.

The RAISE Act's lower quotas and emphasis on English and other skills would make it harder to fill those jobs with immigrants, and thus mean more Americans would be diverted from higher - paid, more productive tasks into cleaning - or else have to live and work in dirtier conditions.

Some people said the screed, directed at CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, drew attention to prevalent wage issues in the area; others accused the employee of acting entitled and failing to find better or more work or a place to live that costs less than her current $ 1,245 rent.

But if you act on these principles every day, every member of your company will see higher quality work — and when you zoom out, you'll see a more productive culture for your whole team.

The danger is in suggesting that those times when you might act more outgoing will lead to some long - term personality changes, or that there is a «better» way to act that leads to more success in work and in life.

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They believe UTXO has much more in scalability terms for business functions by having limiting information and «Proof of Consensus» model, and they wanted to build something that could act as the ether for those who were hard at work mining in the bitcoin UTXO community.

Our office played an integral role in implementing the Recovery Act — I was the Vice President's chief economist, I worked with a brilliant staff, and «Sheriff Joe» was the... Read more

Aquinas does make a number of statements that sound like the view Cardinal Kasper wants to defend: He says in I. 21.4 that «the work of divine justice always presupposes the work of mercy and is founded upon it,» and that in acting mercifully God is «doing something more than justice,» for mercy «is the fullness of justice.»

In question 21 of the Summa, Thomas writes that «the work of divine justice always presupposes the work of mercy and is founded upon it,» and that in acting mercifully God is «doing something more than justice,» for mercy «is the fullness of justice.

If we actuall had a Congress who cared about the People they swore to serve and did not take vacations 1 week for every 2 they work (new Boehner rule when he became Speaker), actually did work and created bills that were other than ending abortion rights or killing Medicare, stopped opposing ending the fraud Bush wars that raise our debt by more than a trillion a month (and Republicans then blame Obama for the rising debt from their wars), and acted like humans we would already be well into recovery.

There may be some benefit in what he's doing if it helps him to find out more about how his life works without the intentional act of relying on his faith.

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

The daily act of «working out my salvation» is more than just believing a statement of personal redemption; it's about partnering with God in the things that were important to Jesus.

If the church's theology were informed more by biblical expectations of a redeemed creation and less by general religious longings for ecstatic experience and timeless truth, Christians would find themselves at the very least congenial toward those who, with a passionate «loyalty to things» and a «cosmic act of allegiance,» struggle to unpack the secrets of life on this planet and to work with it toward a new day.

Viktor Frankl's work on the problem of suffering is far more valuable to me because it is based in reality and doesn't require an imaginary deity to resent for not acting.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

More importantly, Aquinas held that the sperm of the man acted like an agent of the male (whom he took to be the active partner in generation) in carrying out the work of developing the blood into a body fit for a rational soul.

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

Getting more hits, and concert tours, often did depend on the celebrity - friendly - manners and publicity - work that labels like Motown emphasized, but still, pop - music celebrity always remained somewhat different from the image - drenched Hollywood method of star - creation, which especially in the early days tended to be far more about the star's type - cast and sex - appeal possibilities than acting talents.

This act of obedience is never more than a «dead work of the law «7 but it must be done because Jesus commands it.

It is more an act of self - expression on Endō's part than a work of historical reconstruction; less a work of imagination than projection.

Nonetheless, the material helps us to see that «there is more to come,» and Christian faith would insist that God is actively engaged in working toward that end, not remote from and unconcerned with what takes place, but genuinely and vigorously acting toward it and in it with respect for and use of creaturely freedom and accountability.

More than ever, churchgoers must have help to understand the bursting energies that are shaping society and church, to rediscover the God who acts in history, to join him in the arena of his work.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

has aroused quite the greatest commotion in the reception of his work, we can also concentrate on the determination which sustains itself in the feelings of diverse objectified occasions or on the common element which sustains itself in these objectified occasions, and we speak about the act of feeling a more or less complex «eternal object» (cf. PR 233/356 with regard to the shift of perspectives presented here).

Whenever a tree incarnates the World Tree or when a spade is associated with the phallus and agricultural work with the act of generation, for example, one could say that the immediate reality of these objects or actions «bursts» or «explodes» under the irruptive force of a more profound reality.

When more emphasis was given by preachers to the gaining of indulgences — for instance, by the good work of making a cash contribution to the building of a church — than to the sacraments, the liturgy and ordinary acts of charity, then it was made to appear as though the values of the Gospel were being abandoned.

Or, in a less moralistic and more psychological mode: To understand God is to act in such ways in this given situation involving another person that I may discern how God's grace is at work in the trans - actions between us to correct what is amiss and, where life is broken, empower for new life.

That moment of over acting aside, Arnautovic did get more involved than in most of his previous appearances although much of his work was deep in his own half.

Here's how it works: Once you've registered, find an Act that you'd like to complete to learn more about it.

Get started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so long.

Acting out subjects, role - playing games, demonstrations, and experiments and lab work will be of more interest to them.

In addition to his work at Puppet Showplace, his skills and passions range from sports, acting, martial arts, music, cooking, event planning, video games and more.

How children and mothers interact together and not stressed shows more of how the attachment model works than how the child acts when the mother leaves and then returns.

In fact, more than half (56 %) of all working parents say this balancing act is difficult.

The AAP says that to make a time - out work for your 12 - to 24 - month - old, it's important to act immediately (while the unwanted behavior is happening) and tell him calmly in no more than 10 words why he has to sit down and be still.

we have an entire committee that was developed from my initiative that has administrative members, board members, community members and food service... all were supposed to work together on this... but that never happened, as the food service would just go back and do what they wanted, it was more to appease the superintendent and the board that they attended and acted as though they were trying to work with us.

More hands make light work but when you engage in charitable acts together, kindness spreads.

Both of you are working together to care for your child, so a caregiver shouldn't act as if she knows more about raising your child than you do.

«Baroness Smith of Basildon to move that this House regrets that Her Majesty's Government's plans for the introduction of the draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment)(No. 2) Order 2014 do not include provisions for a 12 - month review of the impact of the reclassification of khat in view of the highly unusual community focus of its use, for putting a detailed policing strategy in place before a ban takes effect, or for a health strategy to prevent a transfer of addiction to other substances; and do not commit the Department for International Development to do more work with the government of Kenya to alleviate the effect of the reclassification on the Kenyan economy.»

We are entering an era of pre-crime, more or less, where you can say, «Let's work out who the criminals are before they have even thought about acting».

It explains why we should do more to explain how the Act works, but that is not something Gove is undertaking to do.