Sentences with phrase «of more leisure»

It's believed the company was able to entice better candidates with the promise of more leisure time.

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The booming tech industry in Texas's state capital gets most of the attention, but the education, health, and leisure - and - hospitality sectors have added more than 11,000 jobs in the past year.

While we often feel to swamped with work, or too tired for leisure reading, research from the University of Liverpool's Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society found that reading made people feel happier and more satisfied with with lives, overall.

By 2021, more than 26 percent of leisure travelers and 20 percent of business passengers globally will be «mobile only,» operating with smartphones and tablets rather than laptop or desktop computers, according to the Atmosphere report.

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Because the sooner you start saving, the less you need to save each month, the more wealth you'll accumulate, and the sooner you can quit saving and start enjoying a life of leisure.

One of those companies was Eastern Hawaii Leisure Co., which would wind up with more than a quarter of the stolen funds from Bangladesh, according to the Philippine Senate report.

Instead, both ancient wisdom and modern psychology show that, when it comes to leisure, «the more you put into it, the more you get out of it.»

That's down three points from 2015, when 56 percent of respondents reported not having taken a vacation in a year and 41 percent admitted to having not been on a leisure trip of at least a week to a place 100 miles or more from home in more than two years.

Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

Now, both business and leisure travelers can disconnect even more on their trips, thanks to the growing number of extreme retreats that let guests unplug and reboot without accessing technology.

For companies such as Fitango, which has with a potentially large and diverse market, providing differing samples allows the company to reach more of its target audience with separate marketing for segments like education, business, and leisure.

Hours spent sitting in pointlessly long conference calls, or unnecessary meetings, are nothing but «disguised and ineffective leisure time» no more noble than sitting numb in front of the television.

More than 80 % of Shenzhen residents are migrants, most speak Mandarin and spend their leisure time away from home.

Homes here command high prices, and the Cape Quarter, right in the middle of this village - in - the - city, offers beach and leisure wear and accessories from some of the more imaginative independent retailers and designers in South Africa.

While the state's leisure and hospitality sector is also seeing significant job growth, more than half of Pennsylvania's non-farm payroll jobs exist in its three largest sectors:

Naturally, there are a lot of compelling reasons to retire early, such as more leisure time, vacations, and less stress.

More than half of travelers said they had used a mobile site to book their business trip in the last 30 days, and 31 % of travelers had booked a leisure trip on their smartphone.

[1] Raymond Houghton, To Nurture Humaneness, ASCD (curriculum arm of the NEA), 1970 «The Protestant Ethic will atrophy as more and more enjoy varied leisure and guaranteed sustenance....

In truth, for millions of Americans - hard - working Americans - leisure has come to mean little more than an ever more furious orgy of consumption.

Nevertheless, Americans have more to spend than ever before, a fact that has encouraged a wide range of leisure pursuits.

The term leisure (and the use of other related words yet to be defined, e.g., play, festivity, games, etc.) might best be limited to refer only to Clawson's «fun activities,» with a more neutral term such as discretionary time being used to indicate those moments or hours free from subsistence activity.

Staffan Linder takes an opposite tack, believing that the leisure problem can be understood by taking into account the fact that «the pace [of life] is quickening, and our lives in fact are becoming steadily more hectic.»

For most persons bedtime, in spite of fatigue, is a time of greater relaxation and leisure, and thus offers more opportunity for unhurried communion with God.

«The good life» is conceived almost entirely in terms of creature comforts, labor - saving appliances, better clothes, better and longer holidays, more money to spend and more leisure to enjoy.

This is the point of view of an elitist from the first world with total disregard to the circu.mstances of lots and lots of people in much more difficult circ.umstances in the rest of the world who have neither the leisure time, education, literacy, or resources to «study» any religion, let alone choose yours to study.

They will only be met when affluence liberates us more or less completely from concerns of this type in order that we might experience more leisure and give ourselves more fully to discretionary and recreational pursuits.

Put simply, «high culture» requires a leisure class or, one might say more precisely, a superfluous class of people that is not engaged in the necessary work of maintaining the material basis for society.

Aristotle describes work as ascholia, the absence of leisure, implying that only schole is really an end in itself, all work being no more than a means to it.

Sister Sledge wonders why he's the greatest dancer, and given what the great Albert Murray says in Stompin'the Blues about the likes of Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, they are right to so wonder — dancing ability often is a sign of musical intelligence, and is often linked with good fashion sense, even if the latter is a more surface sort of excellence, in that it obviously requires the money and leisure to purchase the clothes, or as Aristotle might say, the «equipment.»

As more people have to work longer hours in order to sustain their levels of consumption, leisure is declining.

Instruction in good table manners serves more than esthetic purposes, for good table etiquette preserves the sense of leisure and order and the relaxed atmosphere which are requisite to good health.

It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.

Although it is hard to measure the number of hours spent on these productive activities, and there is difficulty deciding what dollar value to place on them, economists have given much more attention to this subject than to leisure.

I Wrote of «plausible views», as though all this were no more than a game of academic speculation inviting no intellectual commitment, to be taken up or dropped at our leisure, with all conclusions deferred.

Street graffiti artists have been at work on much of the wall space, and Budapest citizens» clad these days more often than not in jeans and leisure garb» stroll along, cell phones clutched to their ears.

Noting that more than 10 percent of New York City school students are Muslim, he suggests that the public school calendar grant the Islamic community the same holiday leisure as it already gives to Christian and Jewish students.

Television now consumes more time and attention of more people than all other media and leisure activities combined.

But when sports are dislocated from a life with a proper balance between work, study, and more contemplative forms of leisure, they can become pernicious.

He had not thought of them as individuals — young men and women who fall in love and want homes, folks who have babies and cherish for them the same ambitions which he feels for his, human beings who find this earth a perplexed and tangled place in which to live, and who want more leisure, more comfort, and more liberty.

James Cluer is known in the industry as «the nose of wine», is a professional wine judge, and has been profiled in Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, Drinks Business, TIME magazine, Travel + Leisure, Bloomberg, Forbes, Conde Nast, national newspapers, and many more.

It was a balanced mix of work (we'll tell you more about that later) and leisure.

But as the nature of leisure time changes and families become more involved in each other's activities, customers need more.

By giving one's body the sleep it needs to perform optimally, individuals are able to give 100 % of themselves in all of their relationships which helps relieve stress, maintains positive mental health and leads to a more balanced work / leisure lifestyle.

In both surveys there were significant linear associations between socio - economic deprivation and intakes of energy, non-milk extrinsic sugars (NMES) as a percentage of food energy, sugar - sweetened beverages, confectionery, crisps and savoury snacks and leisure - time screen use (all higher among children in more deprived areas), while intakes of fruit, fruit juice and vegetables showed the opposite trend.

In a discussion chaired by HVS chairman Russell Kett involving senior executives from Starwood Capital, Precis Holdings, citizenM and London & Regional Properties, the panel debated how it is leisure rather than corporate demand that is currently of more interest to hoteliers, as corporate rates have been relatively static over recent years.

While living in London, Curtis appeared in several U.K. cooking shows before catching the eye of television producers in Australia and the U.S. Curtis opened his first solo restaurant Maude in 2014, which continues to receive rave reviews from respected outlets, such as Time, Travel + Leisure, Eater LA, LA Magazine, Angeleno and more.

Indeed, there is an entire chapter devoted to the special problems facing women who because of leisure time and a growing confidence that they are welcome are more apt to become «tennis junkies» than men.

There are two important reasons for this: more leisure time for shooters to be afield and the rapid growth of shooting preserves and trap and skeet fields, many of them near enough to major metropolitan areas to draw on a previously untapped group of sportsmen.

The program stresses development of one or more leisure skills useful later on in life.