Sentences with phrase «more national character»
Retail shopping, the news business and politics have taken on a more national character because the Internet lets people connect along interest lines rather than by geography.
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There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.
They thus are more in the character of medieval debts to Europe's kings and princes than national debts to which the people are committed to repay under the rules of parliamentary democracy.
While not denying the impetus that abundance gives to the spirit of competition, I think it is more enlightening in this context to stress the similarity of focus in both the religious and the secular versions of America's national character.
Does the change in me represent anything more than this: that the practical relevance, the struggle and the confessional character of my theological teaching have become visible to many, and now for the first time to most, against the background of a time which has taken shape at the hands of National Socialism?.
It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.
Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.
As I connect with more and more bloggers around the world I realised that there are some characters that are almost «national treasures» and Curious...
You can read more about the national Promising Practices award winners and State School of Character winners at character.org.
Read the OSA's decision: https://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/AD2410The-London-Oratory-Hammersmith-Fulham-28August13.docx Read the BHA's previous press release on the OSA decision: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/08/29/schools-adjudicator-london-oratory-school-must-overhaul-admissions-criteria-after-bha-complaint/ Read the BHA's press release on the threat of judicial review: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/11/05/london-oratory-school-challenges-schools-adjudicators-decision-must-rewrite-admissions-policy/ Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
«I'm fascinated by the national psyche, by what drives people, it's much more interesting to write a script that has something to say, not just character stories.
There is a feeling that we may not see their like again, that we are doomed to a period in which politicians without character or backbone inundate our national debate, ever more robotic and disconnected from their principles with each passing generation.
Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
Read The Times report: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article3807588.ece Read the CofE's press release: http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2013/07/secretary-of-state-for-education-calls-for-continuing-partnership-with-cofe.aspx Listen to Michael Gove's comments at the event: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/data/files/resources/5093/130703-Lambeth-Education-seminar.mp3 Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
However, like the man behind the cloning corporation known as Merrick (Sean Bean, National Treasure), Bay is more prideful of the art of his technical artifice than he is in the humanity of the characters and consciousness of his story.
While the more serious - minded «Moneyball» focused on the true story of how sabermetrics changed the way baseball teams assess players, the fictional «Draft Day» ultimately is about the way in which character can prevail over combine figures during one of the biggest events on the National Football League's calendar.
The character is portrayed confidently by Joseph Gordon - Levitt, no spoiler alert there, but the movie that surrounds him feels more like a college lecture on national security rather than a dramatization that could have shown us specifically what made the ideologue's pursuit of government secrets — namely, the NSA's tracking and collecting of mass amounts of user data by tapping into cell phones — so disturbing.
Several of the National Lampoon movies (such as Christmas Vacation) work because they are exploring new stories with the same great characters while the first Hangover sequel failed (critically) because it was exactly like the original (only more mean - spirited).
Students develop the following skills: - skimming and scanning - reading for meaning - note making - summarising - making sense of difficult texts - understanding character, mood and setting Students explore a range of texts on varying topics including: - hurricanes - Christianity - Harry Potter - Shakespeare - Hunger Games - Animals A booklet of the texts (and many more) is included which was taken from the national literacy strategy
What's more troubling, though is the extent to which our national education debates have come to focus on the character, motivation, experience, and relationships of those who hold different views — rather than on the substance of those views or evidence about how different policies and practices do or are likely to impact kids.
To learn more about educating students for digital citizenship, don't miss the keynote panel at the upcoming National Forum on Character Education and the remarks of digital citizenship expert, Dr. Jason Ohler.
If you want to learn more about CEP's Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education, there will be lots of opportunities at our national conference, the 17th National Forum on Character Education in national conference, the 17th National Forum on Character Education in National Forum on Character Education in October.
Kali Horn of York International School Wins More Than $ 15K in Awards for Scholarship, Service, Leadership, and Character Reston, VA — Kali Horn, a senior at York International School in Thornton, CO, has been named the national winner of the 2016 National Honor Society (NHS) Schonational winner of the 2016 National Honor Society (NHS) SchoNational Honor Society (NHS) Scholarship.
Coldwater Elementary School (one of our 2015 National Schools of Character) recently submitted a blog for us that began with this quote: «A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.»
«With more than 100 schools and 13 networks now engaged in the programme, involving schools of every character and context, Aspire is now well on its way to becoming established as a national school improvement movement, reflecting the power of research and evidence to guide in - school practice, building collaboration and trust between schools, and investing in the development of the current and prospective leaders that are so critical to the future health of our education system.»
For more information about National Schools of Character and how schools can improve through high - quality character education, watch the video Schools of Character: A Roadmap to ECharacter and how schools can improve through high - quality character education, watch the video Schools of Character: A Roadmap to Echaracter education, watch the video Schools of Character: A Roadmap to ECharacter: A Roadmap to Excellence
This special lunchtime event features Andy Brammall from Spirit AI, who will deliver a talk, «There's more to characters than polys — how Spirit AI is looking to breathe new life into NPCs», plus we'll also hear from Claire Bromley from Sony XDev Europe and Dr Jo Twist from national games body Ukie and Professor Peter Cowling from the research and innovation in games group at IGGI.
While it is nice that games overall are making an effort to include more playable female characters, in this case FIFA 16 is quite limited: there are only twelve national teams (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the United States) and three modes (offline friendlies, online friendlies and Tournament Mode).
jpeg / tiff; limit for one image: 1Gb)-- docx document with website, written bio, artist statement and image information (title, medium, dimension, year) note: brief may not contain more than 1300 characters — # 40.00 non-refundable submission fee via PayPal — ELIGIBILITY AND RESTRICTIONS: The competition is open to all artists, both national and international, working in all medias.
About the Abstract Expressionist movement and his fellow artists Motherwell said: «But really I suppose most of us felt that our passionate allegiance was not to American art or in that sense to any national art, but that there was such a thing as modern art: that it was essentially international in character, that it was the greatest painting adventure of our time, that we wished to participate in it, that we wished to plant it here, that it would blossom in its own way here as it had elsewhere, because beyond national differences there are human similarities that are more consequential...» (5)
The play's mix of identifiable characters and scientific debate inspired Cosson to seek funding from the National Science Foundation, known more for research initiatives than backing stage plays.
Common Ground Foundation (Insert City, ST) 2007 — 2009 Executive Director • Launched foundation and directed all operations on behalf of Grammy Award Winner Common • Created and implemented marketing collateral to educate, engage, and inspire clients and supporters • Recruited key corporate, private, and industry players for Board of Directors and Advisory Board • Generated in excess of $ 500,000 in first year of operation through varied fundraising efforts • Obtained pro bono legal team saving foundation more than $ 75,000 annually • Directed youth outreach events furthering social service, education, and character development including Be Empowered, «A Minute» Campaign, & The Corner Book Club • Partnered with MTV, Kaiser Family Foundation, National Education Association / Read Across America, American Library Association, and nationally acclaimed singers, songwriters, and authors • Directed multiple charity concerts featuring Common, Kanye West, Ludacris, The Roots, and Nas
Learn more about the criteria Character.org uses to determine its National Schools of Character by downloading our 11 Principles of Effective Character Education.