Sentences with phrase «much on the act»

I am a Christian and part of my work outside of the church is to explore the church's history focusing as much on its acts of evil as on its acts of good.

It allows me to keep moving without focusing so much on the act of painting - in the end, I just want to make things.

Not exact matches

Sen. John McCain stunned much of the US and his party leaders on Friday, when shortly before 2 a.m. ET he voted against against a «skinny» plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act.

A monitor in the centre of the room acts as a digital scoreboard, ranking staff in real time on the quantity of articles they've written, the amount of online traction their work is getting and how much it's being shared on social media.

Since the book is a key reason my kids were able to go to the colleges of their choice, the moral seems clear to me: Get as much input from your customers as you can and act on it.

And while the bill's supporters argue that the legislation is a sensible fix that gives states much - needed flexibility on health care programs, the AMA, AAMC, and AARP say it would benefit the young, the healthy, and the rich at the expense of the old, the sick, and the poor by taking hacksaw to the Medicaid program that covers low - income Americans and allowing states to opt out of benefits requirements and other regulations under Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act.

Much of FCi's work consists of verifying the details on federal documents, including U.S. visa applications and Freedom of Information Act requests.

(Although, new research on this topic suggests that it is not as much of an advantage as you think, since our birth order is really about how we act with our family and not out in the real world.)

I've got a story in the new issue of Canadian Business magazine about the rise of cloud gaming — or online services that act much like Netflix do in that they sell streaming access to the same sorts of video games you'd find on your Xbox or Playstation.

We do random acts of appreciation throughout the year, like taking the whole company out for ice cream midday or bringing in McFlurrys for everyone in the office... we have breakfast catered every Friday, rebirthdays (celebrations on the anniversaries of hire dates), all the ladies receive flowers on Valentine's Day, parents receive letters on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and so much more... plus, the whole company is going to Miami for an all - expenses - paid trip in a month (revenue and nonrevenue producers) for hitting a sales goal.»

Both Twitter and Facebook said Tuesday ahead of the hearing that they would support the Honest Ads Act, a proposed piece of legislation that would require tech firms that sell ads to disclose how much they are paid for placing political ads on their platform.

There is room for governance lawyers who are unambiguously there to act only for directors, on behalf of shareholders, much like auditors and compensation consultants.

Furthermore, entrepreneurs remain divided on what and how much should be done to improve the Affordable Care Act.

And if his own ambitions stray too much from the public good, then hopefully the «discipline of the market» will act as a check on the tech visionary himself.

Though much of the attention paid to the Affordable Care Act has been focused on health insurance exchanges, the new law actually does something radical: It changes the underlying business model of all of health care.

The act of realization and putting your stress into the bigger picture of life, as well as remembering how much good you have going on, can help you feel immediately better.

«If you believe passionately, act with integrity and take personal ownership of the impact of your decisions, have the ability to look at yourself in the eyes and admit when you are wrong, the rewards are that much greater than if you never had the courage to make bold moves, affect transformation, or ultimately strive to have a positive impact on your life as well as the life of others.

Imagine how much more productive you could be if you had a team of Dampeners feeding you only the information you needed to act on or that you needed to pass on to the team or your board?

With so much to act on and think about just to keep your business in the black, it's easy to shunt aside longer - term planning

And so this mother of all skills, communication, is something that all of us — whether acting in the capacity of boss, employee, colleague, spouse, sibling, parent, customer, team member, etc. — must work on pretty much every day of our lives.

That much influence comes with enormous social responsibility, on which you have failed to act and to protect and to consider.»

With so much information available, it becomes hard to know what you should be learning and then acting on.

I very much look forward to shooting this again and again — not just to learn more about the blade culture, but also to continue to hone the craft of being able to act on the fly and learn on the fly and communicate that in a way that is entertaining... or at least not sound like a fool.

You might have heard that the American Health Care Act, aka Trumpcare, went out with not so much a bang but a whimper on the floor of the House of Representatives last week (it didn't even get a vote).

EMLP is not as much a pure - play infrastructure MLP approach as it is a diversified, complex basket that goes beyond MLPs in order to meet 1940 Act restrictions on the amount of MLP exposure an ETF can have.

I hesitate to take much solace in that, and in any case, we wouldn't act on any signal that was not also accompanied by favorable trend uniformity.

I don't know how much Starbucks can do about employees» racial biases in one day of training, but by providing clear - cut, companywide policies on restrooms and customer ejections and posting them in its stores, it will give its employees fewer chances to act on whatever biases they have.

Legal experts, speaking on a not - for - attribution basis because precise measures have not been announced, said one possibility is the government might change the Competition Act to say that «abuse of a dominant position» would include «exploitative pricing» or, in effect, charging too much.

Twitter is working on a «transparency center» to show how much political campaigns spend on advertising, and the company endorsed the Honest Ads Act, a Senate bill that would subject online political ads to the same sort of disclosure rules that govern similar content on TV and radio.

«The scheme outlined in the indictment focuses on bogus sleep studies that the defendants utilized to engage in a much more lucrative fraud involving Lap - Band procedures,» said Acting United States Attorney Sandra R. Brown.

We act as your human resources team to complete the full recruitment and selection process from advertising to screening, interviewing and referencing your applicants, on an hourly not placement basis, which is much more cost effective.

There are, of course, risks to putting so much impetus on companies to act and turning them into the arbiters of what is and isn't allowed online.

Both continue to highlight the moral case for acting on climate, and are looking forward to Pope Francis driving home that point on June 18, when he delivers his much - anticipated encyclical on the environment.

The Act will require fast - food chains to display calorie counts on their menus, unmasking just how much its biggest drinks count towards your daily intake.

Women entrepreneurship is a competitive market on its own, but successful women business owners advise that nurturing and mutually beneficial collaborations can be much more successful for business growth and revenue than acting as a lone wolf.

The Baltimore Sun filed a request under the Public Information Act seeking a copy of the proposal, which could reveal details on how much taxpayer money and other benefits the city and state were prepared to offer the Seattle company.

Surprisingly, the approaching repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as «Obamacare,» hasn't had much of an impact on the sector at all.

Readers who acted on my advice could have profited by as much as 657 %.

Since Congress has, so far, not acted we are now on the precipice of a much more uncertain and chaotic situation in which Puerto Rico will attempt to selectively cancel debts and bondholders will seek to use the federal courts to block the Puerto Rican government from operating until it pays up.

my use of the 15th century switch in languages was just an example of the uproar such acts can cause common folk... but that was clearly lost on such common folk on you... read much?

With the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act last year and same - sex marriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takeover.

But Mormons believe, as Paul of old, that one's faith is truly manifested by how they act, a concept seemingly lost on much of Christianity today.

In making their choice they had as much reason as the libertines did to believe they were acting on the sanction of an infallible avant - garde.

------------- Much older than many who appear on this blog to be under 18... I know they're under 18 because they act like they know everything.

These «failed attempts to act on behalf of God» (Stark, The Human Faces of God, 232) were done with evil in our hearts and the name of God on our lips, and thus reveal to us not so much of what is in the heart of God, but what is in the heart of men.

(CNN)- One year after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Defense of Marriage Act, this much is clear: Justice Antonin Scalia is a prophet.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

For those whose homosexuality is not a phase but a condition (Catechism 2358) sexual education needs to cover not only a blanket warning on genital acts, but practical advice on such matters as falling in love, touching, kissing — how much?

In the act of admonishing even he will say (for it is no rare speaker that is here introduced to talk, and just on that account the praise of the Good is so much the more glorious because it does not require the approval of eloquence, for here it is well to note that it is one of life's most tragically spoiled children who speaks admonishingly to a youth) even he will say, «Do not be afraid, be slow to judge others, but attend closely to yourself, hold firmly to willing one thing, to willing the Good in truth, and thus, from now on, let this lead you wherever for now it will lead you — because eternally it will lead you to victory.

Now, in the further interest of National Security» or, in the Fast and Furious matter, for reasons that remain unjustified and murky» it pleases some on the secularist left (even those who once fiercely opposed the very «Patriot Act» that seems almost tame by comparison) to cultivate a quiet disinterest as the government accrues ever more power, without so much as a «do what, now?»