Sentences with phrase «natural leader of the group»

The charcaters of Alby; the natural leader of the group and, as it later emerges, the very first boy to be brought into the Glade, along with Newt; second in command, Minho; the Keeper of the Runners, Chuck; Thomas's faithful 12 year old companion, Thomas and Teresa have all been written with such strong, believable characteristics that it is easy to visualize them and to feel such strong emotions towards them.

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The natural facilitators who emerge, after some additional training, can become co-leaders of groups while continuing in an ongoing leaders» growth group.

Even if we consider the three major religious groups as ethnic traditions rather than religious in the narrow sense, their brightest and most creative intellectuals and artists have been absorbed into the general American intellectual and artistic community so as to deprive the communal groups of their natural cultural leaders.

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Conference is concerned about evidence from the research which shows that when members who are being bullied initiate Grievance Procedures against headteachers or other senior leaders, they may experience a lack of natural justice in the forms of honesty, fairness and impartiality because this same group are the most likely perpetrators of workplace bullying.

They belong to all Americans and the public wants them preserved and protected, not sold off to multinational oil companies,» read the statement, which was signed by leaders of the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, League of Conservation Voters and other environmental groups.

Jürgen Hauer, a co-author of the report and a junior research group leader at the Photonics Institute of the Vienna University of Technology, explained that natural systems have evolved to use light efficiently, but there are some caveats before engineers can design a solar cell that works as effectively as a leaf.

«Although social media data is seemingly chaotic and sometimes biased, it can provide increased understanding on the use of natural areas» says associate professor Tuuli Toivonen, the leader of the research group.

«There are some very extreme natural environments on our planet,» said Argonne's Paul Fenter, Interfacial Processes Group Leader and co-author of the study appearing today in the journal Science.

To ensure their experiments were relevant to fruit flies» real - world experiences, Card teamed with fellow Janelia group leader Anthony Leonardo to record and analyze the trajectories and acceleration of damselflies — natural predators of the fruit fly — as they attacked.

«Lignin is a very brittle natural polymer, so it needs to be toughened,» explained Naskar, leader of ORNL's Carbon and Composites group.

In the article, «The Natural and Social History of the Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas Corridor of the Xingu River Basin,» the authors cite original interviews with indigenous leaders who note significant changes in the forest's rainfall patterns, river levels, fires and agriculture cycles their groups have relied on for thousands of years.

is a group leader and practitioner of Chinese Medicine and the founder of Natural Healing & Acupuncture in Los Angeles.

As the only married man among the group, Phil steps in as the natural leader to keep his buds out of trouble.

Avoid manipulating students into compliance by giving them a voice in classroom management procedures, using musical cues, or making allies of natural group leaders.

A great group of leaders from the Texas Regional Collaboratives met at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences for a two - day immersion into Science Formative Assessment.

«As we enter the second decade of the 21st century experiencing a horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a devastating natural gas explosion in California, death of 25 West Virginia coal miners, kidnapped uranium miners in Niger — it's about time for the United States to reposition itself as a global leader in solar and the entire portfolio renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies critical to our economic and national security,» said Scott Sklar, president of the Stella Group, which promotes renewable power generation.

In the 1960s and 1970s, California's electric utilities had planned to build a string of new reactors and new plants that were ultimately killed by anti-nuclear leaders and groups, including Governor Jerry Brown, the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Fund (NRDC).

For many of the groups working for the equal involvement of women in climate change issues, the deliberations on climate change are too narrowly focused on the politics of emissions reductions, rather than the long - term social and community initiatives that could underpin a real shift in a global consciousness or more effective practices of post-disaster rebuilding.In a statement to the U.N. General Assembly in July of this year, executive director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), June Zeitlin, points out: «Women have always been leaders in community revitalization and natural resource management.

We work with leading scientists, policy makers, government leaders and conservation groups to produce the highest - quality documentary images of both the beauty and wonder of the natural world and the challenges facing it.

Debora Juarez, Member and Practice Group Leader of the Tribal Practice at Williams Kastner, concentrates her practice on providing legal and financial counsel to tribes in such areas as debt financing, corporate structure, economic development, natural resources, gaming and tribal - state and inter-local agreements.

A trained group leader helps guide the children in their use of the skill and provides support and positive feedback to help children become more natural and spontaneous in socially skillful behavior.

Years of experience in private practice and as an individual and group therapy leader have inspired Vicki to work from the perspective that we all have a natural tendency toward health.