Sentences with phrase «of general reading»

Suffice it to say that I am now happily using a Pocketbook 840 Inkpad (8 inch screen) for almost all of my general reading except for graphic novels and magazines which I view on my desktop monitor.

Not all of the books discussed are available in Kindle editions, because most are published by university presses still operating on the outskirts of the general reading public.

I have designed two versions of this general reading award, one for boy students and another for girl students.

And it may take years for a low - income student to acquire enough knowledge to do well on a test of general reading ability.

We used this technology not just as an intervention, but also as a component of our general reading program to ensure all students were being monitored for progress and taught at the pace that best suited them.

I learnt this eventually, in the course of general reading, from a book, «Influence», aimed at a popular audience, by a distinguished psychology professor, Robert Cialdini... I immediately sent copies of Cialdini's book to all my children.

Not exact matches

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

A good way to pick up on trends and follow the direction of the general conversation is by reading leading publications regularly and looking at editorial calendars.

I read the stories of our general contractors and I remember that we're solving a real problem and people are grateful for our service.

By comparison, only two percent of the general population reads this much on a daily basis.

And according to the MPAA's stats about these frequent moviegoers, they love their mobile devices: «Frequent moviegoers tend to own more key technology products, such as smartphones and tablets, than the general population of adults 18 years and older,» reads the report.

When it comes to events, these are the first pieces of information people want to know (whether it's a reporter or just the general public reading your press release).

The complete post is well worth a read in full for Taggar's description of the emotional ride he took weaning himself off mobile email and how Y Combinator deals with email in general.

The Art of War says that victory comes to a general — read, a business leader — who avoids following conventional strategies and instead uses surprising tactics to unsettle a seemingly dominant opponent: David wielding his humble slingshot against a clueless, stodgy Goliath.

The Bank of Canada's Q2 Business Outlook, which surveyed about 100 representative companies across economic sectors, did not make for happy reading in general.

«As we read all the news with what the SEC is doing with general solicitation — and there has obviously been a good bit of debate as to how effective that is going to be, how valuable that is actually going to be for the ecosystem — what was clear to us was that it is definitely not going to be valuable if verifying the accreditation of investors is not easy and efficient and reliable,» says Nicholas Thorne, Basno's CEO and co-founder.

Click here to read Business Insider's full coverage of the new EU data privacy rules, known as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

I agree with it, for the most part, but as someone who reads a lot of investing articles, the general consensus among the «experts» seems to be that while we are OK now, within the next couple of years the bull market will end [as they always do at some point], and we will suffer a large crash.

With the EU General Data Protection Regulation only weeks away, privacy professionals have been contributing to the framework in hopes of making an efficient resource to help tackle one of the many challenging aspects of the new rules, while making it one of the... Read More

For daily musings on how to improve your health and performance follow me on Twitter and Facebook, where I share the best of what I've written and read along with general advice and tips.

Anyone wondering why Canadians sometimes lose faith in government's ability to get anything done should read a report that the country's auditors general released at the end of March.

Most startup founders have a general notion of the copyright principles associated with the written materials they write and read, and the media they enjoy.

You can read the original Bitcoin whitepaper for a general idea of Bitcoin is designed to do.

If you can learn to read basic price action, understand how to plot key levels on charts and understand the general trend of a market, you are already on - track to be in the top 10 % because you're looking at the real market without the hazy goggles that your competition (other traders) are looking through.

When Major General Manuel Quevedo became head of Venezuela's oil industry last November, the former housing minister and national guard chief promised to boost oil output by a million barrels Continue Reading

«We've reached a tipping point with regard to this issue [of gun control] in the general society and companies that are worth their salt — and CEOs specifically — are constantly trying to read the tea leaves,» Klepper said.

If you read this one book you'll know enough to invest sensibly for retirement without getting ripped off by financial product salespeople, and you'll understand more about investing than 85 % of the general population.

In addition, the general populace has had a daily diet of reading about the difficulties in the US and other countries.

On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban seat since its previous two were lost in the May general election, Rachel at least got a partial reading of the zeitgeist of...

I am not big with cooking pies and dessert in general, but had quite a chunk of butter left and there was no way I would eat it all on... Read more

A senior citizen reads the Money section of a newspaper while waiting for U.S. President George W. Bush to speak at New Britain General Hospital, June 12, 2003 in Connecticut.

Hon. Douglas Black moved second reading of Bill S - 245, An Act to declare the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project and related works to be for the general advantage of Canada.

When he picked up trading, he initially did a lot of reading about trading in general and always had the TV tuned to a financial news report of some kind.

He said: Your Honour, honorable senators, I'm happy this afternoon to have the opportunity, particularly after having heard from Minister Carr earlier today, to speak at second reading of Bill S - 245, An Act to declare the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project and related works to be for the general advantage of Canada.

The index of future general business activity fell 22 points to -24, and the index of future company outlook fell to -1.3, its first negative reading in nearly seven years.

Now, I didn't get to see Tony Hsieh when he spoke at the Reno PRSA back in January, and i haven't read his book «Delivering Happiness: A path to profits, passion, and purpose,» but i am aware of their general strategy.

I await confirmation from the researchers at Think Progress, but I suspect that the religious right's obsession with morays in particular and eels in general, derives not from the canonical Book of Job but from the non-canonical early church writing, The Epistle of Barnabas, which in verse 10:5 reads:

The ethical (read political and economic) program attempts to sketch out the «alternative models of society» called for by the General Secretary.

That was the same year that Title II of the JOBS Act launched allowing general solicitation (SEC lingo for advertising) under Regulation... Read More

Okay, you're right, Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese war general and author of The Art... Read Full Article

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

Through my love of learning and science I read many a book, articles, TV programs, and websites on science in general and evolution in particular.

Lieutenant General Robin Brims, a Christian who served in Ireland, Bosnia and Iraq, told Premier: «When the names on war memorials were read out [as a child], there were names of people who were clearly related to me.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

I read Mary Eberstadt's essay with great interest because, while my marriage doesn't suffer from (knock on wood, so to speak) a porn problem, it has been sorely tested by the more general problem she describes: the abandonment of traditional gender roles by the educated class and the ensuing confusions and strains when the baby arrives» that is, when the rubber hits the road.

And that was the general response from that side of the room: «I paid attention; I read all the papers» they all loved this guy!»

One common answer to the complex question of how to interpret the Constitution is that courts should read each provision, however broad or general in the light of the principles that those who drafted or ratified it, or the general public at the time, understood it to embody.

As a general rule of biblical interpretation, verses should not be read in isolation but in their greater context — including Matthew 7:1.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Under the general editorship of Robert Louis Wilken of the University of Virginia, the series (titled The Church's Bible) makes available to scholars, preachers, and the general reader a strikingly fresh way of understanding the Scriptures: the way they were read in the first millennium of Christian history.