Sentences with phrase «of affinity among»

Exposure effects in the classroom: The development of affinity among students.

Water binds all animate objects to the earth and is the source of affinity among living things, the ground of a profound, animistic empathy between humans and both animals and plants.

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Recently, I had a fantastic customer service experience with Delta that encapsulates an example of what a business should do to breed genuine affinity among their customers.

Among the many events currently taking place as part of Social Media Week, Tumblr founder David Karp sat down Wednesday with John Bell, Global Manager of Social@Ogilvy, to chat about all things Karp — including his dog Clark, his affinity for car commercials, and best of all, his favorite Tumblr.

Take the underrepresentation of women among tech entrepreneurs together with an overwhelmingly male VC population (with their presumably dude - heavy networks and natural affinity for the types of companies that speak to men) and the result has been dismal amounts of investor dollars going to female founders — less than five percent just a decade ago.

His independence of mind plus his affinity for Barth's theology made him suspect among the old - line theological liberals.

This approach, which is associated with Karl Barth, Jacques Ellul, and Wilhelm Vischer, among others, and which also has certain affinities with the confessional stances of Gerhard van Rad and Brevard Childs, seeks to supplement the historical - critical method by theological exegesis in which the innermost intentions of the author are related to the center and culmination of sacred history mirrored in the Bible, namely, the advent of Jesus Christ.

If there is one point about this predicament that Elshtain seems to wish to stress (and one central affinity among Augustine, Arendt, and Elshtain), it is that awareness of the fallen and pluralistic nature of the world «should usher into a rueful recognition of limits, not a will to dominion that requires others for one to conquer.»

On the other hand, self - identified evangelicals are linked among themselves by a set of elective affinities, while belonging to a potpourri of Protestant denominations that display only a limited and variable concern about their own existence in institutional separation from one another, let alone from the Roman Catholic Church.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

The campaign linked Vidalias to the beloved Shrek character and his affinity for onions and their many layers, resulting in skyrocketing national coverage of the Vidalia ® brand and increased consumption among kids, reaching a new target demographic.

Affinity groups are also a new trend among alumni associations, according to Julie Harris who acts as liaison between about seven newly established affinity groups and the alumni association of Northern Illinois University (NIU).

Such relatively larger differences in dispersion forces among these musks might be expected to manifest themselves in a small change in affinity of the musk for the receptor and therefore alter their odor character.

Aging - associated increases in oxidative damage to key enzymes results in their structural deformation and decreased binding affinity for the co-enzyme, causing a decrease in enzyme funtion.8 Ames» research has demonstrated that increasing the availability of acetyl L - carnitine and α - lipoic acid, two nutrients that serve as mitochondrial enzyme co-factors, restores the velocity of the reactions (KM) in the related enzymes, and thus restores aging mitochondria's ability to produce youthful levels of ATP.9 10 11 12 13 Part II focused on the inter-relationships among the folate, methylation and transsulfuration pathways, whose dysfunction results in increased free radical production coupled with disruption of glutathione (GSH) synthesis, thus accelerating mitochondrial decay and aging.

The Armor of Light Directed by Abigail Disney (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary This inspiring documentary digs into the deep affinity between the evangelical Christian movement and our country's gun culture — and how one top minister and anti-abortion activist undergoes a change of consciousness to challenge prevailing attitudes toward firearms among his fellow Christians.

This inspiring documentary digs into the deep affinity between the evangelical Christian movement and America's gun culture — and how one top minister and anti-abortion activist undergoes a change of consciousness to challenge prevailing attitudes toward firearms among his fellow Christians.

Please join NEP and the Black Teacher Project as we partner to explore the crucial work of building relationship and understanding among and across race identity groups, with a focus on using racial affinity group structures in sustained collaborative work contexts.

Bank of America has affinity agreements with many schools, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton among them.

Featuring nearly 100 works by Carla Accardi, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Martin Barré, Harry Bertoia, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Burri, Sam Francis, Grace Hartigan, Asger Jorn, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Conrad Marca - Relli, Kenzo Okada, Jorge Oteiza, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Pierre Soulages, Clyfford Still, Antoni Tàpies, Jean Tinguely, Cy Twombly, Takeo Yamaguchi and Zao Wou - Ki, among others, this collection - based exhibition and publication explore the affinities and differences between artists working continents apart, in a period of great transition and rapid creative development.

Watching Reinhardt reflect on Mondrian's series of elective affinities and oppositions, we see that he began to find his image among the «spaces» left by Mondrian, to whom the vista concept is central.

Focusing on the Museum's collection of modèles, the first and only set of bronzes cast from the artist's original wax and clay statuettes, Taking Shape considers the affinities among sculpting, painting and drawing in Degas's oeuvre.

By juxtaposing new and recent paintings by the four artists with historic works ranging in date from the 1930s to early 1960s by artists such as Franz Kline, Irene Rice Pereira, John Graham, and Reginald Marsh, to name a few, Open Windows reveals sometimes surprising affinities, influences, and contrasts among and between the twenty - first - century works and mid-twentieth-century paintings, opening windows on new possibilities and fresh ways of seeing.

«Although Rothko's approach to color and subject,» Gage wrote, «has something in common with, for example, Barnett Newman's, perhaps his closest affinities among contemporary artists were with the work of Ad Reinhardt, whose adoption of near - monochromatic color groupings form the late 1940s and exclusive concentration on symmetrical composition from around 1950 have clear parallels in Rothko's work.

Sure enough, formal affinities ripple among Picasso's «Women of Algiers» (1955), Arshile Gorky's «Enigmatic Combat» (1936 - 37) and Roberto Matta Echaurren's «Chamboles les amoureuses» (1947) like family resemblances.

Slavs and Tatars, founded in 2006, is an art collective whose installations, lecture - performances, sculptures and publications contemplate otherwise little - known affinities, syncretic ideas, belief systems and rituals among peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

Despite certain broad affinities among its artists, Expressionism was not a coherent style in the manner of Impressionism or Cubism.

The first can be traced directly to Darwin: Following the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, it became practice not just to note affinities among groups of birds but to make fine distinctions between subspecies and to track their evolution over time.

In addition, the show suggests two unexpected affinities among these artists» works: the intersection between pattern and landscape, and the use of repeated line to induce a sense of balanced energy in a geometrically structured piece.

We'd like to bring attention to the corridor, especially among people of Puerto Rican descent that live in the US mainland, as they have a strong affinity to the island.

A. I've written about this in a few places now (here's one), but I think we need to be equipping lawyers better in terms of collaboration, customer service, empathy, financial literacy, process improvement, and technological affinity, among other things.

The affinity group helps create a sense of community among attorneys who are the first in their families to graduate from college, graduate from professional school, or enter a professional career, as well as those who have a low - income or working - class background.

At the heart of the discontent among the salespeople and brokers who oppose affinity marketing plans is the reduced commissions earned in such deals.