Sentences with phrase «of adversity at»

Their strength, courage and positivity in the face of adversity at such a young age inspires me every day.

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A few years ago, we marveled at how the Inc. 500 — our annual ranking of America's fastest - growing private companies — sustained momentum during economic adversity.

She's good at seeing opportunities where other people see walls, navigating crossroads where other people see dead ends, and unwrapping the gifts of adversity and struggle.

No one enjoys times of adversity, but with capital efficiency, they present an opportunity to return to the roots of the value creation process at its best.

However, pockets of stress continue to emerge and lend adversity to a limited amount of issuers, according to a new report «Retail REITs — US: Credit risks limited across retail REITs, concentrated in weak malls,» available to Moody's subscribers at

His long - neglected daughter Florence yields «to the impulse of her affection, timid at all other times, but bold in its truth to him in his adversity, and undaunted by past repulse,» and she tries to comfort him.

That is why the most human reaction to adversity is to say that «my kin have abandoned me, and my fellows have forgotten me» (Job 19:14); that is why at the moment of death the most human reaction is to cry, «My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?»

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

Looking at how things go in American politics and what seems to be happening in the American church to what degree is that representative of mature debate with love and grace and to what extent playground behaviour and polemical adversity?

The answer has nothing at all to do with the associated consideration of whether or not such adversity is in some way deserved.

God is credited with success rather than the individual who strove to overcome adversity and blame for failure is laid at the feet of a fallen state of man.

So there is recalled the bitter, sarcastic cry of Israel, always ready on the lips at the first sign of adversity, «Is the LORD among us or not»» There is also recalled a marvelously tolerant and patient word of the Lord which repeatedly in effect provides the «sign» and offers tangible reassurance - although, be it noted, in matters by and large of sheer survival.

He had never really faced adversity in his life before the NFL, coming from an extremely well - off family and having been the unquestioned «guy» at every prior level of play.

The Bulldogs arrived in Knoxville having allowed only 212.5 yards and 6.3 points per game, but at the first sign of adversity they reverted to the mediocrity that has been their trademark in recent years.

At any rate, I'm proud of how much adversity this team has overcome in the past years and I can't wait for what the future holds for this team..

Alan Hern says that in the year after the bombing, he lost some of his intensity for coaching and struggled to reconcile the adversity already thrown at his first - born child.

If you could list a quarter of that number, that would be a very small number given how long he's been at the club and how he's had to be flexible in the face of financial adversity.

Each season the NFL awards the Comeback Player of the Year Award to an individual who has overcome adversity to achieve at the highest level.

But what if Remi Garde can use six years - worth of torment and adversity at Red Bulls Arena to stoke up his troops for Saturday's lunchtime kick - off?

To raise your game at important moments, as well as overcoming adversity, is the mark of winners, a quality that rarely goes hand - in - hand with youthful energy and exuberance.

If you are siding towards them to come good in the face of adversity, then grab the big value odds of 3/1 on them to do it at Paddy Power, who are also running a Money Back Special for the round of sixteen at Brazil 2014.

A certain test of character now for the Terriers in the face of adversity, and a Palace pressing game similar to that which David Wagner's men utilised in the 3 - 0 victory at Selhurst Park back in August.

Economics is the thing to catch the conscience of the King — so triumphing against adversity: even beating Newcastle United at home in the league -LRB-!)

With one shot on target from three attempts against Julian Speroni, who looked inspired by the adversity that faced him (and the incompetence directly ahead of him in defence) in between the posts for the visitors at Old Trafford, Rooney still looked able to reach out and strike at goal.

But then, at the same time, thanks to the support of a number of charitable foundations that are committed to increasing opportunities for children growing up in adversity, we are also making the contents of the book available as a free downloadable PDF and as a scrolling web article, both of which will be accessible on my website.

The project of creating better environments for children growing up in adversity is, at bottom, the work of individuals.

There is a paradox at the heart of much of the new research on early adversity and child development: While the problems that accompany poverty may be best understood on the molecular level, the solutions are not.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

Our work overlaps in many ways, though while his focus is primarily on the education system, mine looks more broadly at application of the brain science of early adversity.

Being aware of our surroundings, where we are at, and the everyday miracles we see, gives us a different perspective to be kind to ourselves, find acceptance in adversity, and focus forward.

As reported by Reuters, Dr. William Copeland, a psychiatry researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, stated that: «This study is about righting a longstanding error and prejudice about the differences between these common childhood adversities,» adding: «It suggests that whether we are talking about prevention, screening or treatment, our notions of childhood mistreatment need to be broader and more holistic than they have been.

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

At 9 a.m., Approximately 900 specialists from a variety of scientific, psychological, social service and educational communities will gather at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversitAt 9 a.m., Approximately 900 specialists from a variety of scientific, psychological, social service and educational communities will gather at The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversitat The Egg, Center for the Performing Arts Hart Theatre to consider promising research on how, through understanding the emerging connections between trauma and the science of brain development, children can overcome the long - term consequences of extreme trauma and adversity.

«At Okpella Cement Company, they manipulated the transactions to the detriment of the people of Edo State and to the adversity of the state economy.

We are seeing one component of them is that, for many people, experiences of hunger have trauma and adversity at their core.»

Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

David Cottrell, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Leeds and one of the investigators, said: «Clinicians have not fully appreciated the risks facing children and young people who arrive in hospital emergency departments having suffered an adversity - related injury.

The analysis also found that such psychosocial adversities could help explain why individuals with epilepsy are at an increased risk of developing depression and anxiety disorders.

One caveat of the study is that the researchers did not control for the early life history of the adult macaques, even though many studies have shown that early life adversity can have lifelong effects on health, says Michael Kobor, an epigeneticist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who was not involved with the work.

And we discovered that exposure to specific forms of family adversity when children were two years old predicted their cortisol profile, which in turn was linked with notable differences in children's cognitive functioning at age four.»

«So much of our funding for children in adversity focuses on girls,» said Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at the Duke Global Health Institute.

«Even after accounting for age, race, sex and other early adversities such as parental addictions, childhood physical abuse was still associated with a six-fold increase in the odds of dyslexia» says co-author Esme Fuller - Thomson, professor and Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair at University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

But, as David Sandberg, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, has long argued, short kids do fine in the long run — finer than some of their peers, in fact, because of the adversity they've experienced and the resilience they've developed.

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL - EBI) and Wellcome Sanger Institute have found that the contribution of genetic variations to depression may differ between people who have experienced serious adversities in their life and those who haven't.

A personal practice is something you can return to over and over again to get your day off on the right foot, help you wind down at night, or give you the tools to cope in times of adversity.

Piranha Yama and The Art of Non-Biting, written by Dr. Bill Kalatsky, uses mindfulness, meditation and yoga to teach children to find calm in the face of adversity, overcome obstacles and how to tap into the benefits of these practices at a young age.

I'm inspired by people brave enough to transmute adversity into spiritual growth, vulnerable enough to let their imperfections be witnessed, and courageous enough to keep their hearts open, even when those hearts are at risk of getting hurt.

So yeah, we all know that Black Panther, a.k.a. Prince T'Challa, is going to triumph over adversity in his bid to bring harmony to the kingdom of Wakanda, that there will be the obligatory action sequences where actual danger is a distant possibility for both hero and bystander, and that the plot will pivot on a mysterious object of unknown origin («Vibranium,» in this case — don't worry if it sounds unfamiliar; the film's characters will mention it at least three - dozen times over the course of the movie).

If inspirational, against - the - odds stories of people overcoming cruel adversity are your thing then Unbreakable on RTÉ One tomorrow night at 9.35 pm should be right up your street.

Contradicting a speech made at the beginning of the film about how players are never remembered for what they do on the field if they don't win, Linden has Lengyel (McConaughey, Failure to Launch) give a speech stating the exact opposite, as the film concentrates more on the adversities that the players, coaches, school officials, and members of the community had to overcome in order for the program to not crumble under the overwhelming weight of the tragedy's grim reminder before, during and after every humiliating defeat.