Sentences with phrase «of high society of»

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While only 18 percent of U.S. organizations offer paid parental leave, according to the Society for Human Resource Management's 2016 Employee Benefits Survey, many high profile employers have begun announcing plans that both increase the amount of paid time off for new parents and offer it regardless of gender.

But the former «Punk'd» host lost his scholarships and was kicked out of the National Honors Society after breaking into his high school as a prank.

First, the encouraging news: A record 86 % of U.S. employees say they are satisfied in their current jobs, the highest percentage since 2004, reports the Society for Human Resource Management.

If you accept this, prioritizing short - term gains comes through the optimization of management and spending, which allows the company to grow, in turn supplying higher returns, more jobs and other benefits to society, and better products.

Indeed, citizens» satisfaction is related to what they get for their tax dollars, Sachs tells CNBC Make It: «They are happy because these societies are not only prosperous but also with high equality, social trust and honesty of government.

In Canada, the report notes, unlike in the U.S., there have been strong efforts to emphasize diversity at the highest levels of government and society, most notably that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who appointed 15 men and 15 women to cabinet positions.

Then the question comes if you've managed to do that, you as a society, then the next question is about things like purpose and those kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think about.

A society is most productive when all its talent is unleashed by a combination of two factors: equal opportunity (for example through free quality higher education) and social mobility.

There is no other path in the context of society that will give us the opportunity to bring our gifts to the world at such a high level as an entrepreneurial path.

This may come as a shock, but organizational constructs like tribes, societies, and companies are not the result of high - level intelligence but of primitive survival impulses reinforced by neurotransmitters in the brain's ancient limbic system.

Society still hasn't come to grips with the possibilities of having a high - definition camera and television studio in everyone's pocket.

The annual high - society event, created by Princess Grace of Monaco in 1954, draws an impressive guest list that includes royals and celebrities.

Most of this research backs what happiness gurus have been telling us since before R. H. Tawney wrote about The Acquisitive Society a century ago: that the constant pursuit of more and better stuff — higher salaries, privilege and the baubles that accompany success — doesn't result in increased happiness.

They found that the people who were able to choose what to think about experienced a greater reduction of high - arousal negative emotions and a boost in low - arousal positive ones, as Christian Jarrett writes in a piece about the findings for the British Psychological Society research digest.

Last week, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May gave a speech at the Conservative Party conference in which she said that, «When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.»

So while my quest to understand the nature of a powerful, lock - and - key euphoria I call the «baby high» might seem silly, researchers told me the mystery does intersect with two gravely important and possibly interconnected issues facing our society today.

And the red peppers, green grapes, and golden pineapple chunks are all perfect specimens — huge, gorgeous, and, of course, much too expensive — because while Kings is a superior alternate universe of freshness, it's also the hub of Short Hills high society.

Meanwhile the National Space Society estimates the industry's size could eventually swell to as high as $ 1 trillion, with the proliferation of satellites, global positioning systems and other technology already giving consumers a taste of space's vast reaches.

It built a prosperous high - consumption society that hit a wall of stagnation around 1990.

You can have economic malaise that others call mythical sec stag to describe a stagnant economy that mimics feudal society only with much higher standard of living.

«Your success in a knowledge society depends on mastery of soft skills and practical intelligence — and yet they don't show up in college or high school curriculums.

As an experienced partner of institutional investors and financial service providers, oekom research identifies those equity and bond issuers whose businesses exercise a high level of responsibility towards society and the environment.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

Society for Human Resource Management found that 72 % of employees consider respect to be the biggest factor in job satisfaction, and with low pay and status at the office, it is important to keep your intern in high morale.

High school seniors today are more likely than previous generations to say that making a contribution to society is extremely important to them, according to an October 2014 report from The White House's Council of Economic Advisors.

Throughout history, no society has sustained a higher quality of life without access to cheap commodities or materials.

Grammy - winning performer and producer Wyclef Jean believes the combined creativity, ingenuity and energy of young people in their last few years of high school and early college is a musical, cultural and political force that a society ignores at its...

«It's high - tech eugenics,» said Marcy Darnovsky, director of the Center for Genetics and Society, a Berkeley, Calif. nonprofit focused on reproductive technologies.

4 a: a body of persons const!tuting a special class in a society: estate 3 b plural: the members or representatives of the governing classes assembled in a legislative body c obsolete: a person of high rank (as a noble)

«In trying to build a society that celebrates high self - esteem, self - expression, and «loving yourself,» Americans have inadvertently created more narcissists — and a culture that brings out the narcissistic behavior in all of us.»

This CNN forum, and the vitriol it has induced, is a good example of precicesly why a civilized society keeps religion out of the public forum... (and for the record, the high stress atmosphere of an airplane is clearly a particularly bad forum to inject religion).

Yet shortly after the council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a deep hostility to gospel truth (especially moral truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those truths out of public life and into a privatized existence on the margins of society.

«In societies where there is a greater disparity between the richest and the poorest, that causes lower levels of economic wellbeing amongst the whole childhood population, both those on lower incomes and those on higher incomes.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

Common sense would dictate that if the people of a large society wanted to pay less to house criminals, wanted fewer abortions, and more people working — they would put their resources towards educating their youth on how to not get pregnant, providing contraception to those women who do not want children until they are equipped to raise them, and towards making sure all children obtain the highest possible education they can achieve.

The only explination is that these laws and good and evil are constucts of society, not some higher power.

For a certain sector of society, religion has been replaced by the aesthetic, by culture understood as high culture (and, increasingly, as deviant culture).

Society remained resistant to the high - minded measures of both Protestant and Catholic reformers.»

Latter - day Saints place great emphasis on families, believing that through them — and not alone — people can find a place in the highest level of heavenly society.

On the contrary, given the presumption of a collective agency for the cell as a unified field of activity, it makes excellent sense to account for the stability of the field in terms of societies of inanimate actual occasions with their ongoing transmission of fixed patterns and for the vitality of the field in terms of the nexus of living occasions with their higher degree of novelty and originality.

The high school senior and Boy Scout participated in the annual Iftar dinner - or «breaking of the fast» meal - hosted by the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Scout program on Saturday night.

Duddington also provides discussion of the issue of conscience in contemporary society, citing a number of high - proile cases in which the state has intervened on issues of religious conscience and human rights.

A male, who held the highest position in society, and held the highest class status, was seen to be «feminized» by penetration, and designated as a social inferior, (female), by a male of lower class status, and thus his status was lowered, to that of a woman.

He pointed to low rates of marriages and high rates of divorce among trends that undermine «the well - being of society and the health of the family».

Private plaintiffs joining the seven states included Pius X Catholic High School, Catholic Social Services, Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America and private citizens Stacy Molai and Sister Mary Catherine.

Yet, even if we lack James J. Walsh's unequivocal enthusiasm for medieval Christendom, H. Richard Niebuhr, in Christ and Culture, was surely right to say that the High Middle Ages witnessed the greatest synthesis of Christianity, culture, and society ever achieved.

The reality is that high levels of debt have become normal in wider society — huge numbers of people have high levels of personal debt and even larger numbers of people, myself included, have a mortgage that well exceeds # 30,000.

While basic literacy was higher before the days of Horace Mann, it was so because all had a basic understanding and agreement with respect to standards and common values, two things lacking in our society today.

In the case of human mentality, we maintain that the requisite order is supplied by a vast reservoir of unconscious temporal societies, which sustain its higher initiatives.

Groups like the Hindu American Foundation and the Hare Krishna Society have lists of priorities they plan to present to Gabbard, making clear that expectations are high for the groundbreaking congresswoman.