Sentences with phrase «narrow their interests in»

In short, cynicism robs moral life of its «zest for adventure» by its inability to transcend a narrow interest in hopelessness.

They have to establish cause as per the contract, but I also very much doubt this contract is written so as to narrow the interests in the way you suggest.

Kerry's research project found Aussie media had little & narrow interest in covering indigenous health, politicians had largest voice #nco14

Not exact matches

You'll notice there seemed to be a dip in interest in 2013, but that's because they changed the definition of podcast listening to a more narrow scope in their research.

«If you're creating unique, or highly stylized capital structures, the more unique that structure, the narrower the audience of people that would be interested in being part of that group.»

His lengthy complete post offers some interesting questions to help you narrow in on your purpose, as well as advice on how to move from this realization to practical marketing tactics.

The real value lies in the ability to target very narrow audiences which are most likely to be interested in your product and buy it on Kickstarter.

This list underscores the surprisingly narrow scope of even the White House's opening bid on tax reform, before the special interests swarm in to protect the deductions they use.

Asking them to spend a bunch of time with investors may not be in the best interest of your company, so I would limit that activity to once you've narrowed your search down to the firm you want to work with.

(Heffernan touches on the big - picture disservice in the media's insidious practice of narrowing our horizons for profit, rather than expanding them in the public interest: «[Media companies] know that when we buy a newspaper or a magazine, we aren't looking for a fight... The search for what is familiar and comfortable underlies our media consumption habits in just the same way as it makes us yearn for Mom's mac»n' cheese.»)

It's possible we could see the interest rate environment play out as it has in the past by rising sharply or staying in a narrow band for some time to come.

The tail - end of this period saw rapidly rising inflation and interest rates, but it's worth noting that the risk premium hasn't always been quite so narrow (stocks were up 10.5 % per year in that time).

This means that as long as the PBoC intervenes in the currency, it can not provide debt relief to struggling borrowers, and to the economy overall, by lowering interest rates without setting off potentially destabilizing capital outflows as the interest rate differential narrows.

Current mortgage interest rates can vary from state to state — and from bank to bank — but most rates are in a fairly narrow range.

When the interests of successive layers of management are «aligned» in this manner, the corporation may become so biased toward the narrow interests of its current shareholders that it fails to meet the requirements of its customers or other constituencies.

It would have almost no impact on U.S. interest rates, except to the extent perhaps of a slight narrowing of credit spreads to balance a slight increase in riskless rates.

Higher interest rates and compressing cap rates have increased the cost of capital and narrowed investment spreads for medical office - focused REITs, prompting Stifel to downgrade three stocks in the space.

In addition, these low ownership thresholds would make it easier for stockholders with a special interest to use the company's proxy materials to publicize and campaign for their narrow agenda rather than the long - term best interests of all our stockholders.

The normalisation of interest rates by the Fed is therefore expected to result in a narrowing of the interest rate differential between the two countries, especially at the short end.

In fact, mortgage interest rates and mortgage - backed securities prices have stayed within a pretty narrow range for weeks.

Wein Views Byron Wein shares his thoughts in Barron's about indicators that could disrupt the economy, including the narrow yield curve, the Fed's interest rate moves, and an exogenous event such as military conflict.

Consequently, investors in the US Dollar can plainly see that the interest rate spread between the United States and other countries will begin to narrow rather dramatically within the next 12 to 18 months.

Instead, he presents his proposal in the terms of a labor - union manifesto: «It is long past time for faculty members to rise above narrow self - interest, give up the doctrine of academic exceptionalism, and agree to the same terms of employment as everyone else in the workforce.»

Voxovreeson The art, then, is to either find enough voters that share your narrow self - interests, or fake enough interest in the narrow self - interests of a large enough group to ensure being elected.

The explosion in information, the need for increasingly specialized skills to acquire or understand that information, and the resulting emergence of a professionalized faculty more interested in their narrow research programs than the general education of students: these have led, the canonicists argue, to a dangerous «dispersal of authority,» to a «loss of integrity in the bachelor's degree» (ICC; TM).

The introduction to process theology which David Griffin and I wrote together in 1975 as a summary of where we had come accurately reflects the interests and concerns that had dominated our reflection prior to that time.11 Political interests, in the narrower sense of political, were consciously omitted because we had not engaged them sufficiently to have anything distinctive to say.

If the economic reform measures in India have therefore been sponsored by a tiny, though exceptionally powerful and influential, minority which is pursuing them to safeguard and promote its own narrow interests, they are unlikely to be of benefit to the bulk of the people, in spite of claims that they are not only necessary and inevitable, but also in the national interest.

«Now the task is for religious leaders to stand up in their own communities and, in particular, press their own political representatives to put narrow political interests aside and take a moral stand for necessary reform.»

They have no interest in using politics to impose a narrow religious or moral agenda on others.

When biblical scholars have interested themselves in ethical studies, they have tended to focus on rather specific, narrow topics: social justice, the status of women, war, vengeance, property rights, ecological concern for nature and the like.

However, the spontaneity we need must be distinguished from acting according to habit or in terms of a narrow self - interest.

The secular historian does not have this particular and narrow concentration of interest, but thinks of «tua res agitur» in the comprehensive sense that «nothing human is foreign to thee».

But self - interest that is not held in tension with wider commitments tends to become narrower and narrower.

How many noble causes are frustrated by quarrels that express the narrow interests of the parties more than genuine differences in belief about how to move forward!

I am speaking generally, of course, but I think Christian women wrestle with these questions most of all, perhaps because in a religious culture that often puts forth narrow and contested definitions of womanhood, young women whose interests and personalities might lead them away from the list of acceptable rules and roles are subtly punished for not exhibiting a more «gentle and quiet spirit,» for not reigning in some of that ambition and drive.

If I am correct that there has been a narrowing of the horizons of concern in the American public, and a franker affirmation of individual egoism and of national self - interest as determinants of action, we need to ask why.

The breadth of Moltmann's interests may be one reason that the term political does not appear as the encompassing horizon of his theology, even though he is never oblivious to the political dimension, in the narrower sense, of what he is doing.

I am not interested in the narrow issue of who was to blame, but in suggesting to you that the present crisis of faith and life in the Church is not an incidental confusion, but the culmination of a long, slow crisis of truth and error in theology, perhaps the greatest since the rise of Arianism, and that we may no longer refuse to admit it, and to meet it.

Beyond this narrow academic interest, however, intellectuals and policy - makers generally dismiss the phenomenon as marginal to the major currents of political change in South Africa.

Although his general observation is interesting at best, the problem though, is that all of his supporting arguments are nothing more than judgmental in the most narrow - minded way.

And when he was speaking religiously, he was interested in a decision that sets forth «the universe» for that time and place and for persons living in that rime and place, and that is so comprehensive it offers a context for all narrower decisions.

In Charles Dickens» perennial classic, A Christmas Carol, the central character, Ebenezer Scrooge — «a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner» — is redeemed only when he is drawn away from his narrow self - interest and obsession with money.

Of course, both supporters and opponents of free trade include among their number persons who have narrower interests, but in a conference of this sort we are seeking to understand the arguments of those who genuinely care for the future well - being of the people of both the countries involved.

At no time in its history has the Judeo - Christian tradition been able to confine its interests within narrow ethnic, regional, or national boundaries.

As in the presence model, the networking / resourcing model ends up serving a narrow population with rather distinct interests.

Christianity urges us to attend both to the inertia and to the narrow self - interest, which it calls sin, and to the transcending concern for truth and for others, in which it discerns the Spirit that is Holy.

Coontz misstates the historical record to give the impression that marriage has typically not been a province of law and only became such in an effort to preserve the narrow interests of certain powerful sects of society: wealthy parents in requiring parental consent, Catholic authoritarians in proscribing divorce, and Southern racists in preventing miscegenation.

«Mammon Ascendant» deserves a paragraph - by - paragraph refutation, but in the interest of space, I'll limit my comments to a narrow set of observations — some of which David Bentley Hart will likely find heretical.

The Culture Trip is a good choice for the people who are interested in narrowing down all of the great food options that might exist in Toronto in the first place.

It is interesting that in the case of the NHL, SportsInsights» researchers have shown that a filter that helps «fading the public» results — is to take a narrower range of odds.