Sentences with phrase «move a group toward»

The discussion about what each person wants and expects from the group and the decisions about guidelines move the group toward a sense of cohesion and common purpose.

Able to motivate and move a group toward a consensus.

Not exact matches

A move to dissolve Saskatchewan's real estate boards and provincial association with an eye toward forming a single organization has failed to pass after it did not receive the required two - thirds approval from the voting groups.

Perspective from Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group ® US Federal Reserve Moves Toward Gradual Policy Normalization With the US gross...

Walgreen has becoming the latest large employer to move toward private health insurance exchanges, and it certainly won't be the last, said Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health.

Even if the outcome falls far short of the just and sustainable communities for which we hope, the interaction among the many groups involved, the deeper levels of reflection, and the heightened understanding would by themselves move the institution some steps toward the just and sustainable community.

In the case of the Emergent movement, I wonder if some of the additional cognitive dissonance comes from it moving away from Young Leaders, which (in my understanding) was primarily a group that was evangelical and relatively conservative theologically, and moving toward progressive Emergentism.

We can not move toward global salvation without hopeful images of the future, and no image is hopeful which does not picture all groups as able to shape their own destinies.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

We may be efficient in the use of natural resources, or in the generation of a law - abiding public, or in reaching consensus among antagonistic groups, or in moving toward a more egalitarian society.

The chapter entitled «Waging Identity Wars» forced me to confront some of the reasons why I can be cruel and dismissive toward conservative evangelicals (``... when we're suffering an identity crisis, we take cheap shots at other groups in order to feel better about ourselves») and how to move forward (``... we must affirm who we really are as the people of God before we can begin to interact with each other as the people of God.»)

If we are to move toward a more just placement system for women, there are three groups of persons who can play an important role in bringing about such change: the men who currently serve as senior pastors, the men and women who serve as denominational placement officers, and the clergywomen themselves.

Both the left and the right effectively enact a pincer movement in which local associations and groups are engulfed by an expanding state and by the market, each moving toward singularity in each realm: one state and one market.

Russell Becker suggests that there must be enough instruction prior to confirmation so that the ceremony is a performative, and that afterward education through small groups can reinforce both understanding and commitment as one moves toward maturity.

In the past half century the several Christian groupings, usually called denominations, have slowly been moving toward restoration of visible unity.

Yet with our understanding of the way that life is involved with life, of the manner in which self and society are bound together, of the way in which small groups within a nation act for the whole, it seems that we must move toward a conception similar to the Hebraic and medieval one.

One result of television «s influence is that, within the religious community itself, the balance of authority is moving away from those denominations which emphasize the common welfare, toward religious groups that are distinctly privatistic and oriented toward utilitarian individualism.

We would assume that this impossible piece of news passed from the rear of the pathetically slow, ragged, fleeing column toward the front, moved along on incredulous voices, pushed ahead from group to group, from section to section, deeply doubted but ecstatically supported by hope suddenly reborn.

In the last ten years I have moved increasingly toward experiential teaching (using self - awareness exercises, role playing of counseling methods, live demonstrations of growth groups, and so forth), which involves the students» own feelings, responses, and needs; asking the students to draw up their own «learning contract» based on what they want to get from a given course or workshop; expecting students to participate in the teaching by sharing in some systematic way the insights they have discovered to be meaningful; revealing my own struggles, uncertainties, and weaknesses; and asking the students to evaluate anonymously the course, including my teaching.

A determined but patient group of leaders who believe that the Christian account of the world is publicly relevant to all facets of the college's life and mission can move such a college toward a new relation to its religious heritage.

Toward late afternoon they were maybe two - thirds finished, and one volunteer urged the group to move faster and complete it that day.

And the top veal and pork producers in the country — such as Smithfield Foods, Strauss Veal and Marcho Farms — have begun to phase out crates and move toward group housing systems for pigs and calves.

Furthermore, McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's, along with Compass Group, the nation's largest foodservice company, have recently announced moves toward gestation stall - free supply chains.

Co-founded and jointly led by Stanford University and The Culinary Institute of America, the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative is a working group of leading scholars, foodservice business leaders, and executive chefs from invited colleges and universities who are accelerating efforts to move Americans toward healthier, more sustainable, plant - forward diets.

Youngest of an outstanding group of U.S. backstrokers, Bob Bennett is moving steadily toward his ultimate goal — a world record and an Olympic gold medal

Toward the end of the session, the well - caffeinated group of anxious participants became silent as the instructor moved on to the last topic of the session, shaken baby syndrome.

In moving toward the annexations, Glen Ellyn would take advantage of state statutes that allow a community to go to court to group unincorporated areas that have signed pre-annexation agreements with those that have not.

The group also included a memo outlining its legal footing as well, noting that other states are already moving in the direction toward repeal of donor contribution limits.

[The group] has been pitching donors and aiming to put together its first phase action plan for December, moving first in the Virginia and New Jersey state elections next year and with an eye toward coordination across gubernatorial, state legislative and House races going into the 2018 midterms.»

Here's hoping that the influence of her current group of prestigious co-authors will help move the wider community toward desperately needed change.

The deal sets different baselines and timelines for developed countries and for two distinct groups of developing nations, including a group of more than 100 nations led by China that has committed to move quickly toward more climate - friendly alternative coolants and a more cautious group of high - ambient - air - temperature countries that has insisted on more time.

In a mechanism that Tan hopes will become common, his group will now hand off this rational combination to other researchers at the CU Cancer Center and elsewhere who will move the drugs toward a human clinical trial.

While the move has been welcomed by many as an important step toward healthcare equality for women, religious groups are critical of the plans to support birth - control measures, particularly for drugs such as ulipristal acetate, an emergency contraceptive which can be used up to five days after sex.

Hiring managers, recruiters, and candidates are moving toward trimming their networks into tight groupings.

In 1986 a group of astronomers observing the motions of the Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies noted that the galaxies were moving toward the Hydra - Centaurus superclusters in the southern sky with velocities significantly different from those predicted by the expansion of the universe in accordance with the Hubble law (see Hubble's constant).

The first steps toward the international move began about 15 years ago with some gentle prodding by a group of leading international reporters — from New Scientist, The Economist, Nature and The Guardian — who had been urging an expansion of the program.

The group represents a trend in oncology to move away from defining cancer by the site where it occurs and toward defining cancer by the genetic changes that create it.

The wrist extensors are a group of nine individual muscles on the back of the forearm that act on the wrist and fingers and help carry out complex movements of the hands such as wrist extension, or moving the top of the hands backward toward the wrists.

The group of hip flexor muscles will be demystified as we take a look at what muscles actually move the leg away from and in toward the body.

Strong, firm buttocks are attention worthy not just for aesthetic reasons but for balancing out the hip flexors, a group of four muscles that move the thighs toward the abdomen and flex the knees.

In a group, move toward those talking instead of hanging back on the outskirts.

March 29, 2018 • Methodically moving state by state, a group funded by a California billionaire is working its way toward adding a victims» rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

I love trying to move throughout different groups of stakeholders, schools, business, nonprofits, government, and seeing how we can align toward great outcomes for children.»

According to researchers at the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, schools can move toward retaining new teachers by accounting for the different career experiences, types of teacher preparation, and career orientations of the two groups.

These basic changes in history's list of topics, moving toward a concern for a wide range of behavior and for groups far removed...

The current state funding formula is not providing nearly enough for students to meet state education standards, say leaders of the School Finance Research Collaborative, a statewide group that worked to determine the true cost of educating children as a way to move toward school funding reform.

We need to better understand how the work of coaches is organized to move from only working one - on - one with teachers toward also working with groups of teachers.

During projects, PBL teachers use group contracts, learning logs and more to give students ownership of not only how they show their learning, but of how they spend their time moving toward those learning goals.

We pull small groups to help ensure that students are moving toward and beyond grade level standards and that we are meeting individual needs.

As discussed previously, critical pedagogy encourages students to move toward human agency (Ball, 2000; Freire, 1990) by exercising agency through critical thinking, through individual social action, and through group social action.