Sentences with phrase «much change and growth»

We often hear from couples that they couldn't imagine how much change and growth could happen in such a short time.

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The Great Stagnation: In «Why the global economy may be doomed to lower growth — maybe forever,» Simone Foxman gives four reasons why economic growth may be much slower in the future: scarce resources, an aging labour force, stagnant technology growth and externalities from climate change.

It wasn't immediately clear how much of the change reflected confidence that the tax - cut legislation moving through Congress will boost growth, or other factors such as pickups in business spending and global growth.

They will do this at a time when the country and many of these places face very real economic and social challenges that will not change that much from Amazon's expansion, all on the hope for growth that is destined to happen somewhere, but probably not there.

As we gradually put the crisis behind us, we are inevitably confronted with how much the global landscape has changed and what this means for future growth.

The forecasts of FOMC participants with respect to growth and inflation have not changed much this year.

If, as I have indicated, the U.S. growth and inflation outlooks have not changed notably, then why have expectations about U.S. monetary policy shifted so much?

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

However, while demographic shifts are fairly predictable, it is less clear how much of the decline in productivity growth reflects a structural change and how much is a cyclical response to the subdued recovery.

«Overlooked in the comparison of income growth and unadjusted house price growth is that a change in household income is not the only factor that influences how much home one can afford to buy,» Fleming said.

Growth is likely to be stuck in this narrower corridor in the years ahead for other reasons too, including changing demographic trends across much of the globe and the natural evolution of maturing economies.

Projects we pick have so much potential and room for growth that a small investment of a few hundred dollars can become a life - changing amount of money.

What they're saying and what they argue is that the issue is that the demographics which are changing dramatically... You know the baby boomers aren't buying as much, the Millennial's don't have as much money, at least in the United States, but around the world even in China where we've had a dramatic reduction in the growth in population, we don't have the youth that's coming on in relationship with the accumulation of wealth that the previous generations have had.

Changes in monetary policy might not do much to raise the economy's «long - term» growth potential, but they certainly affect output and employment over the course of the business cycle.

(1) the healing community is supportive of individuals in it; (2) it must cope with the question of how much it will impose conformity and whether such imposition is inevitable or necessarily repressive; (3) it has self - awareness; (4) it can adapt to change and growth; (5) it is small enough to function effectively; (6) in some cases it may be institutionalized to reach out in love and service to those outside the group.

Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as hypnagogic hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams about the time of their conversion, etc., he found these relatively much more frequent in the group of converts whose transformation had been «striking,» «striking» transformation being defined as a change which, though not necessarily instantaneous, seems to the subject of it to be distinctly different from a process of growth, however rapid.»

«Business was pretty much the same for about 50 to 60 years and then with the growth of craft beer — the No. 1 buzzword in the industry — things started changing,» President Randy Truitt says.

Most importantly, Banducci has delivered much - needed cultural change — putting customers rather than shareholders first to underpin long - term growth, repairing damaged relationships with suppliers, rebuilding the confidence of staff and creating a less centralised structure by giving Woolworths» business units more control over their own destinies.

There has been so much growth and changes these last two years and I couldn't have done any of this without the fantastic women in the agency and our clients!

I've been doing this for a long time and although I sleep trained my last child five years ago not much has changed since then, and I am pretty sure no new research has come out showing that sleep for babies is becoming less important to their health and growth.

The growth and development will be much slower compared to the preschool years, but you will still see a lot of changes.

They changed their mind because they concluded that the impact of tax rises and spending cuts on economic growth — the fabled «fiscal multipliers» — has turned out to be a much bigger drag on growth than they, the Government or the OBR originally thought.

Climate change and population growth will mean increased pressures on how much water is available, a report concluded today.

Ice - sheet growth, coupled with favorable changes in Earth's orbit, pushed the planet past a climatic tipping point and led to both the rapid buildup of a permanent ice sheet in the Antarctic and much larger changes in global climate, says Hren.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

«The growth, physiology and behavior of these developing pink salmon are very much influenced by these small changes.»

Integrins bind to protein scaffolds in their environment and regulate pretty much everything a cell does — movement, change and growth.

You can either increase or decrease intensity, depending on how much growth you want to achieve — but you can not specifically change the muscle definition without losing body fat and you can not increase muscle separation with special exercises.

Certain lifestyle changes, such as the proper exercises and getting enough sleep can alter how much growth hormone your pituitary gland secretes.

I've had so much fun teaching yoga to children and am really seeing great growth and change with them (and me!)

But if you're changing sanitary products every few hours, that's heavy flow, caused when your body produces too much estrogen (which thickens the lining of the uterus) and too little progesterone (which keeps the growth of that lining in check).

I really hate how I look in that post if I'm completely honest but it just shows how much I've changed since 2016 and it's always a great aspect to look back on my personal growth and the changes made over the year (s).

So many changes and so much growth in such a short period of time!

The world of work also is undergoing rapid change with greater workforce mobility, growth in knowledge - based work, the emergence of multi-disciplinary work teams engaged in innovation and problem solving, and a much greater requirement for continual workplace learning.

Consider another example from the same dataset in which high school students» cumulative grade point averages (GPAs) are related to their scores on Panorama's Growth Mindset scale, which measures how much students believe they can change their intelligence, behavior, and other factors central to their school performance.

This score is called the median growth percentile (MGP), and it is useful because, unlike a simple average, it doesn't change much if one or two students do unusually well or unusually poorly relative to their peers.

Judging pediatricians on the changes in the height and weight of their young patients as measured at their annual physicals from one year to the next makes just as much sense as using student «growth» on annual standardized reading and math tests to evaluate teachers.

When we, as educators, change the way we provide feedback to look at where students currently are, what they understand, and what they need to do next, we have a much clearer picture of the strengths and areas for growth of each student.

For instance, to the statement «You have a certain amount of intelligence, and you can't really do much to change it» (a positive response coded as a proxy for growth mindset), English learners had a 23 % increase in positive responses between fall and spring 2017, additionally narrowing the gap between their responses and those of their non-EL peers.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

«The Optima changed the way people felt about the Kia brand, and Kia owes much of its growth and success in this country to the car's head - turning design and sporty performance.

We experience, literally, daily life on a farm in Iowa and watch the changes and growth in not only people but aptitudes, attitudes, nature, and so much more.

The reason for lack of clarity is that Amazon owned Audible have never released any of its sales data and as the company now accounts for such a large proportion of the market it's hard to assess accurately how much their contribution has changed the overall growth in audio sales.

Again, history's not likely to be much of a guide, since the Fed will be responding to changes in inflation and economic growth as they come along.

While near - term dividend growth might slow a touch (because of an elevated payout ratio), we can see that Realty Income has painted a very consistent picture — both the long - term FFO / share growth and dividend growth are coming in at at that mid-4 % mark, and I don't see that changing much going forward.

Over 134 years and counting, the WKC and Westminster Dog Show have undergone much growth and change.

Although we can also see how much Sophitia's character design has changed over the years as well, and surprisingly, things began very humbly before she had a... ahem, growth spurt.

- Link doesn't have much of a character in this game - they wanted players to relate to Link and play as themselves - Link's face doesn't have much expression in this game, and that was done on purpose - for Zelda games, the devs always try to make the player feel like Link - that was pushed even moreso for this entry - everytime a Zelda releases, Aonuma watches fan feedback and considers that for the future - the items Link uses to solve are always going to be important - regardless of the tech that Nintendo provides, exploration in the series is important - Link's growth through who he meets is also an important element of the franchise - Aonuma thought about Zelda freedom when considering Breath of the Wild, and was brought back to the days of the original Zelda - this was a big point of inspiration for Breath of the Wild - with Ocarina of Time 3D, Nintendo wanted to really utilize the 3D and had a desire to let players enjoy Ocarina of Time outside - the goal with A Link to the Past was creating more depth - Aonuma used to think that getting lost in a 3D world wasn't okay - this lead Aonuma to putting in tons of hints and guiding players - he has since changed that idea and convinced himself that it's okay to get lost - the first two years of development the devs created a game where just running around was fun - climbing is very important, because players can climb high and see destinations they want to visit - you can place your own markers to decide where you want to go - when the devs create a Zelda title, they consider not using the name Link - since they don't have anything else to go with, they choose Link - the name Link doesn't hold much value, since the player is the one creating the journey - when Nintendo first created Link, they wanted a character that is literally the link between people - that is why his name is Link - to think that the Zelda series has been around so long that there are all sorts of urban legends and myths makes Miyamoto really happy

In a world where we have become used to having to decode the artist's intentions, Altmejd presents work so filled with content and embedded with meaning that it allows the viewer to bypass the need for a simple intellectual explanation and allows him or her to instead become a visceral participant in the construction of worlds that much like our own are forever a mystery, infinite in their ability to change, generous in meaning - a world of glittering growth and sublime decay, of heart rending pain and ravishing desire.

In a year full of extremely grim news of observed climate change that is much more rapid and extreme than scientists had predicted, the rapid growth of clean renewable energy technology is definitely good news.