Sentences with phrase «of opportunities they afforded»

... long - term - oriented investors should be taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by the recent sell - off.

It becomes a privilege by virtue of the opportunity it affords to engage in the uniquely human activity of world - making.

True digital resilience means thriving in a new environment, not just surviving disaster, avoiding harm and recovering from setbacks, but also making the most of the opportunities afforded by technology.

A leading provider of apprenticeship and careers advice is set to hit the road during half term, as it undertakes a shopping centre tour in a bid to raise awareness of the opportunities afforded by apprenticeships.

In a few places, it has managed to leverage the court orders or federal agreements to fight inequities that otherwise would be hard to remedy — though plenty would fault the Obama White House for not doing enough to fight resegregation and the lack of opportunity afforded to many students.

Many people from all over the world call Loa Angeles home, hoping to take advantage of opportunities afforded here that can not be found anywhere else.

To truly maximize your executive search efforts, you may decide that relocation is an option; if so, you will significantly boost the number of opportunities afforded to you.

Whatever the facts of a particular case, however, if there are retirement plan interests and either spouse is under age 59 1/2 counsel may wish to consider taking advantage of the window of opportunity afforded by the exceptions to the penalty tax on premature distributions found in Code § 72 (t).

Many agents look forward to the holiday season because of the opportunities afforded by less inventory and the added drive.

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Add those reasons to the long, frequently cited list of why women lose confidence in their careers: They make, on average, $ 8,000 less per year than their male counterparts; they aren't afforded the same opportunities for advancement; they're penalized for having kids.

Another benefit to non-paper receipts is that they are conducive to the efficient collection of customer contact information, affording you the opportunity to build up a customer database and send specifically targeted coupons.

Considering the prospects, no brand or content owner can afford to miss out on an opportunity of this size,

It's a huge sales opportunity that Target can't afford to mess up, says Jeff Doucette, general manager of Field Agent Canada, a Calgary - based retail consultancy firm that works with Target Canada suppliers.

B.C.'s relative fiscal stability affords Clark and her government the opportunity to spend their time pursuing their chosen agenda rather than satisfying the needs of the bond market.

It was, I knew, a rare opportunity to own the kind of clothing I'd be unlikely able to afford for another decade.

«We can't afford to have women sitting on the sidelines of the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty and into the middle class,» says Spitz.

I founded MSTQ, a Chicago - based design and innovation firm, which has afforded me the opportunity to have a hand in some of Chicago's most exciting tech startups.

My «6 Life Hacks Learned In Prison» column has afforded me all types of opportunity.

«The reality is that one in four poor individuals in the city of New York unfortunately can not afford a fare, and we all know that we have a responsibility and a duty to address opportunities and also address access to opportunities,» she said.

That may present be an opportunity for visitors who couldn't afford a theme park vacation this year, but it won't be anything on the order of the fire sales held almost 15 years ago.

«Mortgage insurance allows Canadians across the country, in rural areas and big cities, to have the same opportunities to access home ownership and at the same interest rates as people who can afford to put down a 25 % down payment,» says Pierre Serré, chief financial officer of CMHC.

The results show that Canadian companies take full advantage of the tax opportunities afforded to them, and aren't afraid to battle it out in court over their interpretation of the rules.

As a former professional basketball player, longtime coach, and founder of CoachUp, the nation's leading sports coaching company, I've been afforded a rare opportunity to see coaches at their best - and at their worst.

«But Ryan's employers are having him there because he's been cleared and you have to remember, Ryan has relationships with a lot of people personally,» he said, pointing to Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel's recent announcement that he will let Seacrest interview him: «Listen, you know, we should at the very least afford people the opportunity for truth, what the facts of the story are before hanging them out to dry,» Kimmel told Variety.

The media afforded a group of high school students the opportunity to wedge our foot in the door, but we aren't going through this alone.

While the popularity of video doorbells is on the rise, the lion's share of the product's potential has yet to be realized, though, and dealers and integrators are beginning to realize the opportunities this product affords them.

Work flexibility is important to me because it affords me the opportunity to continue my career while living abroad from time to time, with the love of my life, my husband.

Employees benefit from a creative exchange of information with peers and management, which promotes independent thinking and affords unique opportunities for motivated individuals.

On the positive side, if the Conservative Government does table its proposed legislative aid mandate, it will afford an opportunity for a more open public debate, in which we will have a chance to address the fundamental purposes of the aid program, and how those purposes may be best achieved.

He couldn't afford to pay reputation firms thousands of dollars to help fix his results, and lost job opportunities because of the mixup.

High - quality businesses also provide natural tailwinds to returns by virtue of their economics, and their resiliency enables portfolio concentration, which is valuable because it affords the opportunity to perform deep primary research.»

The platform offers traders the opportunity to trade in binary options no matter their level of income such that they can afford the overall capital risk involved.

The day after the budget, Mr. Julian was given five consecutive questions in QP (off the top of my head, I'm not sure that in my five years here I've seen anyone but an opposition leader, rising at the start of QP, afforded that many opportunities in a row).

Digital health and the convergence of mobile technologies, sensors, persuasive design of software and analytics has afforded providers the opportunity to leverage the «labor» of healthcare to achieve equal or better clinical outcomes than traditional care has afforded them.

Digital Interventions: A Tour of Approaches and Evidence Digital health and the convergence of mobile technologies, sensors, persuasive design of software and analytics has afforded providers the opportunity to leverage the «labor» of healthcare to achieve equal or better clinical outcomes than traditional care has afforded them.

Instead, Puerto Rico seems to have mostly taken advantage of the opportunity to run a somewhat more generous welfare state than the island could really afford over the long term.

He subsequently served as senior assistant deputy minister in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade with responsibility for managing Canada's relations with the United States and the implementation of NAFTA, including providing advice to business on how to take maximum advantage of the opportunities that NAFTA afforded.

The Forum is a monthly venue for CIO's and CTO's to discuss topics of relevance in their daily lives, and has afforded these leaders the opportunity to develop a close network to discuss current challenges in a peer group environment on a confidential basis.

A: Amazon (AMZN) is a company we have long admired, but only recently were we afforded an opportunity to purchase it at a lower price - to - sales ratio than the average bricks and mortar store (defining sales as gross market value of all items sold on its website).

But in his Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990)-- where he notes that a university represents a «universe» of discourse only where rival and antagonistic views are afforded the opportunity both to develop their own positions and to debate other viewpoints — he implies that his quasi-Benedictine community will be one of civil conversation across the barricades.

Were it not for that fortuity, nothing in his own interpretive canons, so it seems, would have led him to conclude that deaf - mutes are also fashioned In His Image and should be educated, and afforded the opportunity of consciousness and expression, just like anyone else.

These omissions are regrettable, because detailed literary analysis may afford the best opportunity of redeeming the full register of voices and moods in Job from the temptation either to attribute to the book a uniform message or to reduce it to a series of obscure fragments.

A more «tolerant» attitude towards Tertullian, in Conyers» own sense of the word, might have afforded him a further opportunity for redeeming this notion from the Lockeans and other relativists.

We followers of the Way have been afforded a wonderful opportunity to use the death of Michael Brown and the confusion surrounding Ferguson to show to the world love — true love.

I met with the Jan and Yousef families in northern Amman, where the 14 members of their families live in a small apartment that they can not afford with zero opportunity to return, work, or emigrate.

Prison affords a variety of opportunities to indulge despair, including every kind of drug imaginable, homebrewed alcohol, the tattoo subculture, situational homosexuality, gambling in its many forms, and the Dungeons & Dragons subculture.

If the breezes of the Spirit are ablow, there is no reason why such hands should allow others to pre-empt the opportunity that these breezes afford.

People claiming to be pro-life, predominately opposed the Affordable Healthcare Act which will save thousands of lives by affording «live» people the opportunity to see a doctor on a regular basis.

(6) The parabolic statement of the binding of the strong man in Mark 3:27 affords another opportunity to see Jesus Christ as the hidden and sometimes the explicit meaning of the scriptural text.

What sort of old age are people looking forward to when they contemptuously reject all the opportunities that life affords to form lasting, mutually attentive relationships?