Sentences with phrase «more purpose which»

Not exact matches

The colour, which has the bonus of conveying calm and cheerfulness, serves as a subtle reminder to employees — who bop to music and wave friendly hellos to passersby — of their purpose: feeding healthy foods to more than 15,000 kids every day.

These findings echo those of the 1994 classic «Built to Last,» in which Jim Collins and Jerry Porras reveal that over a more than 60 - year period, purpose - guided companies earned six times more for their shareholders than their narrowly profit - focused competitors.

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

Since then, he's scrapped the site, which he disparaged for having poor graphic design (he wanted more color, less copy) and for not illustrating the company's purpose accurately.

In what may be the clearest sign that Morrison is intent on doing more than «putting the barn on the package,» she backed Plum's decision in 2013 to become a public benefit corporation, which codifies the business's social and environmental purpose in its charter.

Preston says workers, especially Millennials, value purpose in companies they work for, and paid leave is one area in which Deloitte, with more than 70,000 employees in the U.S., can push progress.

I have ignored reasons that might justify lower discount rates or higher GDP adjustments for China mainly because the purpose of this essay is to explain why the U.S. multiple is so much higher than China's, and of course these reasons exist, but I think whatever the correct ratio should be, there is no question that advanced economies always justify higher multiples than developing economies because they tend to be economically more diversified and politically more stable, and they usually have institutions, including clearer legal and regulatory frameworks, more sophisticated capital allocation processes, less rigid financial systems, and smaller state sectors (which make smooth adjustment, one of the most valuable and undervalued components of long - term growth, more likely).

Safeguards are in place to ensure that the information is not disclosed or shared more widely than is necessary to achieve the purpose (s) for which it was obtained.

The term «applicable educational institution» refers to an educational institution which a) had at least 500 students during the preceding taxable year; b) the aggregate fair market value of the assets of which at the end of the preceding taxable year (other than those assets which are used directly in carrying out the institution's exempt purpose) is at least $ 500,000 per student of the institution; and c) more than 50 percent of the students are located in the United States.

Interesting criteria for a list of unique stocks I don't have any of those names in my portfolio but I have other companies within the same industries such as the mega cap Chevron Corp Which has a forward P / E of 11.4 x so it's more expensive relative to Noble or CNOOC but I hold it in my hedge fund for hedging purposes.

On the positive side, if the Conservative Government does table its proposed legislative aid mandate, it will afford an opportunity for a more open public debate, in which we will have a chance to address the fundamental purposes of the aid program, and how those purposes may be best achieved.

Under these rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities.

Filecoin and Bancor raised more than $ 200 million and $ 150 million in the same year, respectively.The amount raised was revealed in an SEC notice of securities exemption, which also indicates that the firm aims to use the funds for «the development of the TON Blockchain, the development and maintenance of Telegram Messenger and the other purposes described in the offering materials.»

The Urban Development Institute, which represents developers, has warned the NDP against imposing too many demand curbs, pushing instead for incentives for purpose - built rental units and less red tape to promote more multi-family construction.

«In the District, our entire inventory of peanuts doesn't amount to more than 30 pounds, which is kept on hand in a freezer for sampling purposes only,» says Alex Slowatek, the company's president.

Safeguards are in place to ensure that the information is not disclosed or shared more widely than is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was gathered.

if your theory of no god were truth, then we are a bunch of living garbage and deserve to be nuked to ashes, birds would have more right to exist than us, but since god does exist life really has a purpose, unlike your view of life which to me seems like an empty story.

This means that they do not arise from any supposedly more fundamental good and there is no common standard by which one could value them for purposes of exchange.

This concept was originally extremely useful for heuristic purposes and has made possible a great many individual analytical investigations, but it now threatens to degenerate into a mere slogan which conceals more than it is able to illuminate, and therefore itself requires analysis.

Arguably Holloway is doing no more than drawing out the implications of St. Paul's claim that in Christ God has «made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.»

When they deign to reply to a woman, which is itself far more rare than their replying to men who issue identical challenges, it almost invariably is for the purposes of condescension and dismissal.

But more importantly for my purposes, the NKJV translation has not suffered from the blatant Calvinistic interpretive bias which is found in various other Bible translations.

The aspect of life which most stirs my soul is the ability to share in an undertaking, in a reality, more enduring than myself: it is in this spirit and with this purpose in view that I try to perfect myself and to master things a little more.

More sophisticated theologians have qualified this outrageous notion by saying that God can do nothing which is irrational, such as make square circles, or which is contrary to God's own nature and purpose, which are assumed to be good in some ultimate sense, and therefore that God can not engage in genuinely evil acts.

Amid the palm - trees of the oasis Gibreel appeared to the Prophet and found himself spouting rules, rules, rules, until the faithful could scarcely bear the prospect of any more revelation, Salman said, rules about every da - mn thing, if a man farts let him turn his face to the wind, a rule about which hand to use for the purpose of cleaning one's behind.

Some may wish to use it as an historical book; after all, it is a collection of writings bound up together in one volume, telling us of the way in which the Jewish people came by God's self - disclosure to a deeper understanding of the God they worshipped and a more adequate conception of his purpose for his «chosen» race.

Now, with more study, we could probably get more specific about the actual year Jesus was born, but for our purposes this morning, we are more interested in the day of the year on which Jesus was born.

Conceding to believers that they can redefine the term «religion» to encompass «atheism», or whatever other ideas they wish to encompass within the word, if that suits their purposes in trying to put anyone who doesn't believe in their god or any god into the same category as themselves, grants to them the opportunity to dismiss anyone who doesn't believe in their god as holding a religious belief no more valid then their own and to classify you as just another follower of a «false religion» unlike their own, which is the «true» religion.

His readers need to be ever more fully reconciled to, or set apart entirely for, the purpose which is adumbrated in the wondrous peace that they already know.

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

It is the belief of the churches that this providential ordering provides the framework within which our sexual lives can best serve not only our well - being, but also the more general purposes of God.

My purpose is a much more homely one: to bring to the attention of writers and translators alike the bafflement in which their work leaves not only the American seminary student but also the besieged pastor in Bangkok or Bogotá.

But the value determining intentions and purposes are likely to be more variable, more relativized to context, to small groups, to individuals» personal histories and particular context than the respects in which interpretation might be made.

More pointedly, these events are held to involve a decisive self - revelation of God, through which we learn about God's nature, purpose, and mode of agency, and thus about humanity and the world.

If you, my listener, should see such a man, although it is unlikely, for without a doubt weakness and mediocrity are the more common, if you should meet him in what he himself would call a weak moment, but which, alas, you would have to call a better moment; if you should meet him when he had found no rest in the desert, when the giddiness passes away for a moment and he feels an agonizing longing for the Good; if you should meet him when, shaken in his innermost being, and not without sadness, he was thinking of that man of single purpose who even in all his frailty still wills the Good: then you would discover that he had two wills, and you would discover his painful double - mindedness.

Regardless of the criteria used for class placement, the purpose of such grouping is either to enable the teacher to manage the students more effectively or to use the school to sustain class distinctions recognized in the society of which the school is an agency.

This certainly is for the best; nothing could be more splendid, nothing more rewarding, than the confident assurance that we matter to God and that he is both able and willing to use what we have done, and hence what we are, for the further expression of the love which is the divine nature and purpose.

These patriarchs had lived, and fulfilled their vocation, had done that which God purposed for them to do; now they were unforgettable, not only in the trite and obvious sense that they were great men with great achievements to their credit, but in the much more serious sense that they had altered for ever «how things were to go» between God and the world and between the world and God.

But it is important, for our present purpose, to observe that in this central act of Christian worship — in this act, therefore, which more than any other expresses all that Christianity is — there is included an act of remembrance.

How about the more pragmatic factor that the law with regard to marriage is for the sole purpose of addressing the special circu - mstances of the family unit which includes raising of children.

About this belief in the resurrection of Jesus more will have to be said later, but for our present purpose it is important to note that the various stories about the «appearances» of the risen Christ to his followers — which differ considerably in the several gospels and perhaps can not be fully harmonized — have one constant feature in common.

And often a congregation's stated purpose is very different from their «operational purpose,» which is more concrete.

In this case the will does not constantly become concrete in the same degree that it is abstract, in such a way that the more it is infinitized in purpose and resolution, the more present and contemporaneous with itself does it become in the small part of the task which can be realized at once, so that in being infinitized it returns in the strictest sense to its self, so that what is farthest from itself (when it is most infinitized in purpose and resolution) is in the same instant nearest to itself in accomplishing the infinitely small part of the task which can be done even today, even at this hour, even at this instant.

As such, I think for strategic and clarity purposes we ought to keep the scope of those issues which are «pro-life» more narrowly focused on bioethical concerns, while coming up with other ways of describing our positions elsewhere.

Created in the image and likeness of God, principally in the soul, he yearns for more; he yearns for the soul's trueenvironment which is the love and knowledge of God, for the goal and purpose of all spiritual nature is to rest in God.

Instruction in good table manners serves more than esthetic purposes, for good table etiquette preserves the sense of leisure and order and the relaxed atmosphere which are requisite to good health.

And the Oscar figure's head will look toward the sky because, according to Yegovora, «when a person looks at the sky, the stars, only then does he realize his true purpose and become a part of nature,» which is a sentiment that is more beautiful than the shiny little statue itself.

And so I accept God, and I accept him not only without reluctance, but what's more, I accept his divine wisdom and purpose — which are completely beyond our comprehension.

The more satisfying enjoyment of life depends upon making the right responses to the needs of the community around us, in short, of offering the contribution to the world, for which we have the potential and which may be said to be the end, or purpose, for which we exist.

The former is the more traditional Thomistic approach, which makes allowances for a diversity of secondary agents that can bring about the primary agent's designs or purposes.