Sentences with phrase «of high character»

When you have a bunch of high character guys you can take risks on a few character issue guys because you hope the culture keeps them in line.

Let me state upfront, that I believe Wiseman's mom is of high character — just like the long line of previous UK mom's — and I would love to see her a part of the BBN.

«These allegations are completely inconsistent with the man I know, who has always been someone of the highest character, outstanding values and a loving father.»

«These allegations are completely inconsistent with the man I know, who has always been someone of the highest character, outstanding values, and a loving father,» she said.

Not exact matches

«Now that we know which traits to look for, we can begin to make progress on how to best assess them in high - stakes settings such as hiring and promotion, where people are more inclined to hide the darker sides of their character,» she told The Huffington Post.

There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high school sports.

William Wordsworth's poem «Character of the Happy Warrior» describes a combatant «whose high endeavours are an inward light, that makes the path before him always light.»

This is about the character of our next president, and the stakes could not be higher.

The pop superstar demonstrates three qualities of high - character people that have potent implications for leaders of all stripes.

Taylor demonstrated three qualities of high - character people that have potent implications for managers, employees, and independent contractors of global corporations and small businesses alike.

Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy, is a keynote speaker and corporate trainer in ethics, leadership, and character, and his latest book is The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High - Character Echaracter, and his latest book is The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High - Character ECharacter Employees.

The editorial board for The Architect's Newspaper, writing in high dudgeon, posted a response condemning the AIA's «conciliatory note» and the «tone, character, and appropriateness of Ivy's memorandum.»

In victory and defeat, they witnessed his great strength of character, his high sense of duty, his humility and selflessness.

«Public relations nightmares such as this one could be mitigated or avoided entirely by hiring and retaining high - character employees at every level of the organization.

He is author of the book, The Good Ones: Ten Crucial Qualities of High - Character Employees.

Exquisitely shot high glamour doesn't jump smoothly from the pages of glossy magazines to the relatively low - resolution and low - brow Internet, with its schlock dancing - cartoon - character banner ads.

In the works since early September, the UA deal has left Wagner and Cruise «completely open right now» to all varieties of film projects, Wagner told TIME, «ranging from high concept to smaller, character - driven films.»

So do the founding family's commitments to faithful marriages, strong families, Sundays off and the highest standards of character for their employees.

High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

In A Higher Loyalty, fired FBI Director James Comey brings to front - and - center of our national discourse the idea of President Trump as a kind of organized crime boss speaking to both his character and his Administration.

My thesis has been that the sharp break from All Time Highs in late January was a «sign» that the character of the market had changed from a «buy the dip» environment to a two - way trading market and I've looked for opportunities to sell «bounce back» rallies that ran out of steam.

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.

I respect anyone, regarldess of your faith (even an athiest) who is struggling to move to a higher level of character and morality.

The notion that such «higher consciousness» might never arrive — that Cage's musical experiments were merely more of the rubble from the collapsed edifice of character — seems never to have occurred to his supporters.

My own father, a person of the highest moral character and integrity was accused of being shady by my abuser because he tried to find us alternative housing when my abuser (although court ordered to pay the mortgage) willfully and vindictively drove it into foreclosure and the kids and I homeless, while he went off and bought he and his spiritual wife a new home.

While they contain the best of the higher thoughts and longings of the Jewish people, they also contain much that is far from being representative of the character and teachings of the Father in heaven; wherefore must I choose from among the better teachings those truths which are to be gleaned for the gospel of the kingdom.

His purpose is «to set down the form and character of a true pastor, that I may have a mark to aim at, which also I will set as high as I can, since he shoots higher that threatens the moon, than he that aims at a tree.»

Every fall, I and several hundred of my high school - aged peers would gather in the auditorium of the local Baptist church and watch the play unfold: Characters Joe and Jane and Mike and Michelle are on their way home from prom when their car gets struck by a drunk driver.

She has a keen understanding of her place in Hollywood, right now — as one of the breakout stars of a beloved sitcom; as the most fascinating character on Legion, one of current TV's most fascinating shows; as a high - profile woman in an industry currently under an enormous amount of scrutiny for how it treats women; and as an actress building a singularly astonishing resume of excellent, low - flying indie oddball films like Ingrid Goes West and Safety Not Guaranteed.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Think of the low - rise, high - density character of neighborhoods in Paris, London or Charleston, or any pre-1945 American town or city neighborhood, which are characterized above all by a beautiful, walkable, convenient public realm that more than compensates for their small building parcels.

After 2012's The Avengers became the highest - grossing comic book movie of all time by combining most of their major characters into one super-team, the question is, can they outdo themselves yet again?

While we certainly need to be careful about putting theologians like Bonhoeffer on too high of pedestals, I still feel as though there are things about him that are both commendable and, if repeated by modern Christians, could help shape our collective character for the better.

The Board of Trust, in affirming him in the struggle, gave some sense of what «service in His name» would mean: ``... our chief concern is to promote the highest type of Christian scholarship and Christian character... «Nowhere in Kirkland's writings can we find that he acknowledged any intrinsic benefit for the mind in Methodism.

At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

The conspicuous tendency of our age... is not, as is sometimes supposed, directed merely against the sanctioning of... norms by religion, but against their universal character and absolute validity... their claim to be of a higher order than man and to govern the whole of mankind.

Do the Zombies see such intertwining of love's highs and low - downs as the tragically monstrous character of humanity's sexuality — a perennial trait, albeit one only recently reactivated on a wide scale after a long and unnatural cultural hibernation — that we simply have to learn to live with?

If they prove themselves worthy of public confidence by maintaining high standards of competence, if through professional associations and voluntary accrediting agencies they discipline themselves in matters of knowledge, skill, and character, independence of political control can be assured, and unwarranted interference and coercion can be successfully resisted.

Rush Limbaugh is devoid of morals and character because he sold out on those values to the highest bidder.

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

Mansfield Park's cast of characters is socially much higher than the characters in Austen's other novels.

The nation took on a character which we are to envisage as a very moderate expression of the high concepts put forth by the three accepted exponents of the way of the Lord; or perhaps it is better said that hee nation trailed far behind such ideals.

Romesh Dutt, translator of the Epics in Everyman's Library says of them: «The Hindu scarcely lives, man or woman, high or low, educated or ignorant, whose earliest recollections do not cling to the story and the character of the great Epics.

And your character assassination of others to somehow attempt to make yourself look more spiritual most certainly does not give you some sort of moral high ground.

There is ambiguity in the character of this Christ; even in him there is that old mixture of the highest and the lowest that so fascinated Dostoevsky.

Niebuhr analyzed man's highest possibilities by showing the relation of the second Adam to the first Adam (man's ultimate and original perfection), mutual love (the possibilities and limits of history), and the end of history (how the historical character of the perfection of history is preserved against attempts to surrender history to eternity in interpreting its fulfillment).

Series creator Peter Berg has a knack for bringing working class characters to life (Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day, Hell or High Water), and Friday Night Lights may be the most authentic work of his storied Hollywood career.

But although certain non-living systems, of which the thunderstorm is such a striking example, do show what we can call «organismal characters,» this property is nowhere found in so high a degree as it is in living organisms.

17To speak of concepts as «clear» and options as «conceivable» is simply (if also surely) to give one's theory the highest degree of the relevant sort of «refutability» or «testability» possible — in this case, that of a hermeneutical character (cf. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, p. 36).