Sentences with phrase «more of a nudge»

I gave her more of a nudge than the others, as I was ready to be done by that point.

If you needed any more of a nudge to get festive the holiday sales and pre-Black Friday deals are already starting to appear... Here's a few good ones I've noticed if you're eager to get your shop on!

It's less of a clicky press and more of a nudge.

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Which is to say it could nudge China toward a kind of governance we in the West are more comfortable with, but that's just one scenario.

There are all sort of techniques to reduce the amount of time you spend in useless meetings, from team - wide initiatives like having employees «pay» for meetings and simple gizmos that nudge people to use their time more effectively, to personal strategies for winnowing the number of meetings you're obliged to accept.

We may all have suspected that heat waves don't bring out our best selves, but having scientific confirmation of the fact should nudge you to be more aware of the effect.

Bitcoin has been on another tear of late, nudging a record of $ 1,300 per unit — more than an ounce of gold.

If you have a seriously anxious child, the Times and WSJ article are worth a read in full for a more in - depth understanding of the science, but the takeaway of both is clear for those facing more garden - variety youthful anxiety: Be kind but be firm and nudge your kids to face their fears.

So instead of trying to get more users with marketing, the company focused its efforts on nudging the behavior that locked in the interest already there.

But also, more importantly, because the whole point of thinking about seasonal rhythms is to nudge you to pay more attention to what is natural for you and to respect those tendencies rather than being a slave to a fixed routine.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 1 - Facebook Inc is entering the dating game, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday, planning a dating service to matchmake millions of people on the world's largest online social network and nudge them into spending more time there.

They may not be able to make you feel as if you've just hitched a ride on a unicorn for a jaunt through a lollipop forest, but they hope to at least nudge the edges of your office face into a bit more of a smile.

«Likes» on a Facebook page provide at the very minimum a type of social proof of brand acceptance and is just one more small nudge in the psyche of buyers that helps them pull the trigger at the ZMOT.

Although short - term interest rates did rise this year as a slightly less timid Federal Reserve (Fed) nudged the policy rate higher, for the long end of the curve it was more of the same.

I see my role as that of nudging the Catholic Church gently towards a more genuinely humanistic worldview and practice.

As the year unfolded, I began to realise that my little nudge to choose Fearless was more of a gigantic shove off a cliff by the Holy Spirit, a sort of dinner bell clanging «COME AND GET IT!»

He constantly directs us towards understanding our relationship with God as a living and lived reality, always nudging us to take this understanding out into the world in service of our neighbour, which in turn leads us into a deeper and more fulfilling relationship with Christ.

February's report from the Global Public Policy Institute, «Authoritarian Advance,» catalogued the extraordinary range of parties that have been prodded or nudged or steered toward a stance more acceptable to Beijing.

So «miracles» are not an interruption of the laws of nature; but more like beating the odds, which may (or may not) involve a Divine «nudge.»

And, by contrast, a world in which charity was magnified was one in which friendship was nudged more and more toward the periphery of life.

After the heaviness of the holidays this soup is a nice nudge to a slower, and hopefully more calm month.

If you are really craving a low fat sweet potato blondie, I will nudge you in the direction of this brownie recipe — replace cacao with more flour and add cinnamon and vanilla.

The first 25 minutes of the second half also carried on with the hogs share of the ball, but they could simply not take advantage, and Newcastle were looking increasingly more confident the longer the game went on, so it was little surprise when Perez was in the Arsenal box on his own again, and gave the ball a little nudge to Ritchie who made no mistake, and the Magpies wwere looking to get their first win against Arsenal for 13 years.

Going aggressively for fifty fifties, and nudging it because you wanted it more, it's a beautiful feeling and I can only dream what it's like in front of millions of spectators with cheers ringing around.

Which makes it easier to for him to hold out for at least one side of this offer to nudge north and be more to his liking.

The Lions actually outgained the Cardinals by more than 100 yards but the Cardinals had four takeaways (now is when you nudge your date because I said the name of the column) that led to three touchdowns.

Although Monster has its share of critics who feel more could be done related to television buys and at - track activation, the reality is the company has brought a much needed fresh approach that has nudged NASCAR out of its comfort zone.

Vincent Kompany got the first of many yellow cards on the evening for a nudge on Wayne Rooney, as things started to get more feisty on the pitch.

We are never more essential than when we are rearing our young — as that enterprise becomes condensed, parents are nudged into the twilight of insignificance and forced to mourn the loss of their relevance.

It's like tools in your toolkit and you're filing that away and it's like that idea of lifelong learning, you're always going to be adding tools to your toolkit, you shouldn't let it get full of cobwebs like you need to keep adding to it because there's always something that's going to work and make it a little change and for me the mechanics of it... and understanding all of those mechanics and bringing that to the mechanics of the pelvis and how babies come down and all of that and so there is a part of me that kind of, I can think it's very cool that there are ways that this baby can come down and the more experience you get the more you realize yeah we can nudge this a little bit.

The Forest variation of Forrest, used by actor Whitaker, nudges the meaning more toward the woods and away from the woodsman.

But if it's a mom who doesn't sleep easily with her baby right next to her in the bed and finds that she's not getting adequate sleep herself especially the mom that has to go back to work, then I think she has to work a little bit harder to do some gentle nudging in the direction of baby sleeping more at night and eating more in the daytime.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan nudged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide more information on how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funding for education as a precursor to considering an extension of mayoral control of public schools.

Senate Republicans are nudging de Blasio to release more information on how the city spends its education money; the Assembly on Monday passed an omnibus bill that packages a two - year extender with a continuation of local government tax measures.

This will be perhaps more of a shove than a nudge, and I think it will be difficult to ignore.

A more controversial aspect of the strategy to encourage non-compliant people to come forward voluntarily has been the use of «nudge» letters.

«But it's worth noting that our environment is full of nudges that, for the most part, make our lives safer, easier and more comfortable.»

The team compared the effectiveness of nudge - type strategies with more standard policy interventions, calculating the ratio between an intervention's causal effect and its implementation cost.

The results showed a pattern: In each of the domains that the researchers examined, nudges were highly cost effective, often more so than the traditional policy interventions.

«We had a hunch that nudging, and especially digital nudging, would be very cost effective, but I was truly surprised to see that the cost effectiveness of nudging is often 100, and even 1,000, times greater than more traditional interventions,» says co-author Shlomo Benartzi, a professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

A small sampling: Looking upward nudges people to call to mind others who are more powerful, while looking down prompts thoughts of people we outrank.

This increase should result in a more uniform field that allows the ball, when struck, to keep on a straight path instead of being nudged in one direction or another by the fake grass blades.

«After the change, there was some discussion among practitioner press that Facebook gave users these controls just to increase the openness in content sharing — that the intention was seen not to facilitate better protection of privacy, but rather to nudge people to share openly more.

Every aspect of Active Physics is designed to nudge students to be more engaged in learning and to think more and memorize less.

Read more about the power of nudges: Knowing you're being manipulated doesn't stop it from happening

On the other hand, statistical analysis of the past century's hurricanes and computer modeling of a warmer climate, nudged along by greenhouse gases, does indicate that rising ocean temperatures could fuel hurricanes that are more intense.

Each succeeding room will reveal a faster moving and more intricate part of the mechanism and / or display, until, at the end, the visitor comprehends, or is nudged a bit closer to comprehending, the whole vast, complex, slow / fast, cosmic / human, inexorable, mysterious, terrible, joyous sweep of time and feels kinship with all who live, or will live, in its embrace.

«The concern we raised, and was raised much more forcibly by the House of Lords report, is that government and policymakers were in danger of ignoring some of the very potent means or levers for changing behavior if they focused only on nudging,» she says.

The Tohoku slip generated infrasound waves that rose more than 200 kilometres through the atmosphere, nudging the orbit of the European Space Agency's GOCE satellite (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/qb8).

«I think what is needed is more research to find out the characteristics of nudges that are effective and the context in which they will be most effective with and without regulation.»