Sentences with phrase «much a practice of»

My family didn't use the word wellness, but in retrospect, the way we lived was very much a practice of wellbeing.

«Consider that vast constellation of tasks, that are really not so much the practice of law, but how legal practice is leveraged, and how it's supported and delivered as a more efficient business,» he said.

Not exact matches

Thanks to Malcolm Gladwell's best seller Outliers, pretty much everyone has heard that it takes 10,000 hours of practice or more to make a master.

However, sustained engagement on issues of equity and inclusion, activities that place participants in the situations that oppressed people experience (what I call «addressing the empathy gap»), and setting goals — much like the one Starbucks envisioned a decade ago regarding pay equity — are some examples of evidence - based best practices.

The issue at hand is how much control Uber exercises over its drivers, according to Aimee E. Delaney, leader of the Labor & Employment Practice Group at the Chicago headquarters of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP.

These people practice and promote a bogus brew of pop sociology and psychology and shared «wisdom» that has as much contact with reality as Fox News.

Some of this should be addressed in an employee manual or handbook, though much of its practice is learned and passed along through culture.

At Google, an audit of their pay practices by the Department of Labor found «systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,» showing, one official has said, six to seven standard deviations between pay for men and women in nearly every job category.

«[Once it was time for me to start my practice] there wasn't much guesswork; I knew, because of a great mentors, what I needed to do to succeed,» he said.

As much as I respect a lot of the happiness work out there, most of it is either anchored in psychology practice or spirituality, or matters that are a little softer than what today's typical person who prioritizes logic needs to understand.

Lately pharma execs have been taking yet another volley of criticism over drug - pricing practices from Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio — and plenty of others — without offering much in the way of a defense.

Thus was restored the don't - ask - don't - tell practice of supplying discount mortgages without making too much of a fuss about it.

Gotlieb's call for marketers to be more proactive in explaining targeted advertising echo those made in September by Macy's consumer strategy executive Julie Bernard, who attributed much of the public's ambivalence about the practice to negative media spin.

Much of the new news media — Buzzfeed, Vice, Vox, Breitbart — has abandoned allegiance to «old - fashioned» values of fairness and balance that were once espoused, even if imperfectly practiced, by the U.S. media.

But retail consultant Ron Friedman, co-leader of Marcum's retail and consumer products practice, says Walmart «runs the risk of alienating customers» if the prices online are much different from at the stores.

If every successful app today emulated the best practices of the earlier generation, we wouldn't see much innovation, would we?

You'd think the need for so much practice would run counter to the idea that four hours of intellectual work a day maxes out our brains.

As you discover and practice new emotional intelligence skills, the billions of microscopic neurons lining the road between the rational and emotional centers of your brain branch off small «arms» (much like a tree) to reach out to the other cells.

Another Reddit user responded: «I understand that some people genuinely have to limit their salt intake as much as possible (McDonald's isn't really the best place to practice that sort of diet, but hey, not my life) but for me, at least, it's easy to tell who genuinely needs it salt free and who's just trying to get the freshest fries they can.»

Last year, Virgin America was purchased by Alaska Airlines, who proceeded to retire the brand and is attempting to integrate its successful practices (much to the chagrin of Branson).

But that presented a marketing problem, because other, much larger practices in midtown Manhattan were making heavy use of Google AdWords, in which advertisers bid on such search terms as «New York City dentist.»

On so - called «income sprinkling,» it's hard to justify letting, say, a doctor split income with a spouse or kid who doesn't have much to do with the practice, just so a chunk of income can be taxed in a lower bracket.

English mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson saw that the pre-war practice of weather forecasting was much too archival in nature, merely matching observable weather phenomena in the present to historical records of previous weather phenomena.

Some retailers make a practice of buying businesses only for their locations rather than how much or what they sell, or who they sell it to, figuring that a high - traffic spot will eventually prove a winner for some business combination.

«Under the proposed ePrivacy Regulation, much of the EU data subject data on which Facebook and Google currently sit could lose its value because it could not be used for online behavioral or targeted advertising purposes, without dramatic changes to their current practices.»

Not much — until you consider that the practice is part of a cultural shift engineered by the CEO, a shift that has profoundly changed the way he and his employees relate to one another.

Truly bad parents don't show much of an interest in scientifically validated parenting practices, nor are they generally much inclined to introspection and self - criticism.

The problem is that when capitalism is practiced the way it is today, wealth becomes so concentrated that much of it doesn't get spent.

«People struggle to define unique identities - with no apparent reason to develop a talent, practice creativity, engage their intellectual curiosity, or achieve much of anything, many people are left feeling purposeless, unmotivated, unfulfilled and alone,» says Bolton.

But it's much easier to point out what is a «correct» practice than the 100s of bad pieces of advice out there.

With all the extra time on their hands sans practices, games, and travel — and with most of them not even 40 yet, much less 65 - plus — how will these men spend their time?

Shares of Facebook cratered as much as 6 percent Monday after the Federal Trade Commission announced it is investigating the company's data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica leak of 50 million users» information.

In this sense, much of what I learned both as a resident and surgical fellow, no longer is utilized in my daily practice.

Shares of Facebook fell as much as 6 percent Monday after the Federal Trade Commission announced it is investigating the company's practices.

Just - in - time (JIT) procurement, which is much facilitated by the selection of a single, well - qualified supplier, arose from Japanese practice aimed at taking cost out of inventory control while maintaining very - high quality.

And while their numbers aren't huge, there are enough of them to suggest a pattern of behavior that raises questions about whether pre-politics Trump was much of a friend to small business in practice.

Duarte pointed to her group's efforts to get Facebook to crack down on affinity targeting in ads, for example, routing ads related to homebuying away from minority groups — a social media ad version of the unfair mortgage and real estate industry practices that made homebuying for African Americans difficult for much of the 20th century.

On the one side is an American technology company with a history of questionable business practices, and on the other is an outdated bureaucracy that does much to keep transportation costs high in the city.

Now, under Mulvaney's leadership, the CFPB is letting payday lenders continue these practices, much to the aggravation of consumer advocates.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Much of global produce comes from geographies with low penetration of organised players, use of many different seed varieties and farming practices and a multi-point value chain.

These proposals do not affect law firms as much as other businesses given the restrictions on who can be a shareholder of a law practice.

In practice, much of the decision - making appears to lie with NSA analysts, rather than the Fisa court or senior officials.

It's far easier to save a steady percentage of your income from a young age to allow compound interest to do the heavy lifting for you but for many this idea is much easier in theory than practice.

As Nassim Taleb argues in The Black Swan, banks have a tendency of losing as much money as they make in the long run due to shady business practices and high - risk ventures.

Learn how to clean various commercial locations, observe best practices for cleaning up tough stains, see demonstrations of cleaning equipment and solution pouring, and so much more.

Also, much has been written over the past 2 - 3 years about the importance of buyer personas, but these articles, books, and blog posts have stressed them as profiles or lead - generation tools as opposed to a best practice that informs on business, sales, and marketing strategies that help best identify and reach buyers.

In contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.»

Capital controls have historically been as much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts of flight capital, and living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges of reserve currency status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency status (and that transfer ever more of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.

Rona and I talk about the science of gratitude, and why consciously practicing gratitude can boost our happiness so much.