Sentences with phrase «of useful actions»

«Art is a history of doing nothing and a long tale of useful action,» is how Liam Gillick put it in the opening sentence of his essay «The Good of Work,» reprinted in the aforementioned Are You Working Too Much?

Not exact matches

The FCPA Blog recently published a useful roundup of enforcement actions taken under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act during 2011.

Some of the kinds of transactions that Bitcoin can support include so - called M of N transactions, which require agreement between a certain subset of a group, and can be used for escrow, mediation, or shared financial management; time - locked transactions, in which bitcoins are distributed on a strict schedule, useful for trusts or wills; and even data - conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real - world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.

The project's purpose was to create an intelligent piece of software that could sort through and analyze reams of data, then suggest useful courses of action.

Given that valuations and market action have generally been a useful guide to setting investment exposure in normal post-war market cycles, it may be helpful to detail how these factors behaved during the period between 1929 to 1935, which represents the greatest period of credit strains observed in U.S. data.

Provide useful information and positive action steps, make your customers and prospects aware of new developments and trends, and reap the rewards,» he says.

A useful generalization is that decisions that would make a significant change in the structure of the business enterprise, or the structure of control over the enterprise, are extraordinary corporate actions, and therefore are normally outside the apparent authority of senior executives.

Action: Say no to always - on voice assistants Who is this for: Anyone who values privacy more than gimmickry How difficult is it: No real effort Tell me more: There's a rash of smart speaker voice assistants on shop shelves these days, marketed in a way that suggests they're a whole lot smarter and more useful than they actually are.

Innovative top - of - funnel content should be useful, enjoyable and inspired — will your audience get anything from the content, will they be entertained or enlightened, and will they be inspired to take further action?

Your website may look great on the outside — it has a nice design, is easy to navigate, and has lots of useful content and call to actions to encourage visitors to take the next step.

They used to remember thinking but now it's no longer necessary and with the enriched water it is no longer possible after the cataclysmic campaigns of the last decade when it was decided that facts no longer mattered so therefore truth no longer existed so therefore thinking was no longer necessary but in fact futile so therefore not only sterile but dangerous and therefore behavior alone was substantial and adherence to action alone was useful.

The spirit is in fact the only thing that matters; the particular actions of the body and forms of worship are only more or less useful tools to discover the true life of the spirit, and once that is found they can — and should — be cast aside.

Dewey, who died in 1952 after reigning for more than fifty years as America's most influential public philosopher and educator, appreciated that the churches had not gone out of business, and that they could even be useful in promoting peace, fighting economic injustice, and, more generally, in «stimulating action» for what he called «a divine kingdom on earth.»

One of the most useful ways of doing this is by what psychotherapists call taking an «I» position — «making clear statements about your own thoughts, feelings, and actions without using others to explain the way you are.»

The evidence of reality is quite useful for action, but can in no way help us to understand the meaning of our lives.

There is a way to get started in social action that is equally useful for clergy and laity, and equally useful as a start and as a style of continuing involvement.

Of course, the word «information,» as it is used in ordinary speech, often has some implication that the information will be useful as a guide to action.

Factors in the struggle of a people to exist as a corporate body are set forth in the four - function paradigm of Talcott Parsons.10 Although the adequacy of his analysis is challenged by other theories, especially those focused upon social change, 11 Parsons's model provides a useful delineation of the actions implicated in a group's toil to perpetuate itself.

The book does contain useful information on the 1940 fall of France, and it satisfactorily recounts the conflicts created by the Dreyfus Case, Action Fran?aise, Algeria, and Vietnam.

It has a natural ability to inhibit the action of histamines and is very useful to reduce the effect of seasonal allergies.

Baby Milk Action has been engaged in «dialogue» with Nestlé since long before the creation of the UN Global Compact and the involvement of the GCO has served no useful purpose: Baby Milk Action has copied the GCO in on its correspondence to Nestlé and the GCO's sole action has been to copy these letters to Nestlé a secondAction has been engaged in «dialogue» with Nestlé since long before the creation of the UN Global Compact and the involvement of the GCO has served no useful purpose: Baby Milk Action has copied the GCO in on its correspondence to Nestlé and the GCO's sole action has been to copy these letters to Nestlé a secondAction has copied the GCO in on its correspondence to Nestlé and the GCO's sole action has been to copy these letters to Nestlé a secondaction has been to copy these letters to Nestlé a second time.

Useful forms and lists assist the parent / child team in assessing the complete health picture and devising a plan of action.

Another useful bit of information from the Salsa Community Conference: according to ActionSprout's Drew Bernard, groups that are running «Tell Congress to Reopen the Government» actions through his company's service are seeing ridiculously high response rates, on the order...

To that end, claiming that the Hungarian population in Romania is in risk is a very useful narrative to convince his voters of the need of such actions (and, in consequence, of their support to his government no matter what).

Another useful bit of information from the Salsa Community Conference: according to ActionSprout's Drew Bernard, groups that are running «Tell Congress to Reopen the Government» actions through his company's service are seeing ridiculously high response rates, on the order of 30 %.

But while those actions may actually create politically useful space to the president's left, the other consequence of disillusion is what polls have found to be deepening apathy among Democratic voters.

A five - point ethics reform deal contains more useful measures to combat corruption, including reducing the size of financial contributions to political candidates needed to trigger disclosure and adding further restrictions to the political action committees that flourished after the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

3And of course, for some time it was useful to have some title in case it could be used to justify a casus belli or other action, should it be convenient.

In 2008 he told the Telegraph they were «doing something useful, an early example of social action.»

«Its unique mode of action suggests it may be a useful probe for examining energy metabolism,» she added.

But when a course of action is likely to be useful to everyone, they are quick to recognize it and go along.

Through these actions and the related intensive series of meetings that have taken place with those who administer to the Chinese scientists, EMBO has developed a useful expertise in the area.

«While this article does not constitute a course of action for clinicians, our findings provide useful long - term information to complement the extant short - term data for expectant parents and physicians who are considering whether to induce delivery at full term or wait another week until late term.»

A useful line of future research would be to investigate if framing the problem of climate change collectively is also more effective with people less inclined to support climate action in the first place.

Watching a video of a harmful or violent act being committed can provide useful evidence of the circumstances surrounding the action.

«This sort of side - by - side comparison of the long past and the long future has not been shown before, but is useful for seeing the geological scale to the consequences of carbon emissions since the dawn of industrialization until our actions today.»

«Our research highlights a potentially new mechanism of dinaciclib action, and raises the possibility that this agent could be a useful addition to current multiple myeloma and myeloid leukemia therapies.»

Theoretically, any of a variety of sensors on a person's body — from cameras to infrared, ultrasound, or laser rangefinders — could convey information about what is surrounding or approaching the person in the real world to a direct brain stimulator that gives that person useful input to guide their actions.

«The plant can judge, by simply counting the number of action potentials spreading over the trap, whether useless dead material has landed inside it or if useful animal prey has been caught,» says Sönke Scherzer, an electrophysiologist at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and one of the study's co-authors.

The study is «a useful contribution to the field,» and packing two modes of action into one drug has several advantages, says Christophe Biot, a malaria researcher at the Université des Sciences et Technologies in Lille, France.

Scientists have debated the mechanism of action of captagon, and Janda's vaccine approach has been useful in dissecting how the components of the drug exert their psychoactive effects.

They would then identify corrective actions, simulate the effectiveness of each action, and present the most useful responses to human operators, who could then quickly implement corrective action by dispatching the grid's many automated control features.

«This «molecular can - opener» approach — using a drug known to have a useful action without exactly knowing why — allowed us to examine and understand an underlying pathogenesis of bipolar disorder,» said Snyder.

The Institute of Medicine recommendations are only as useful as the action behind them, he said, noting that in addition to health policy and clinical practice changes, medical education reforms and interprofessional training programs could also enable doctors and their teams to make better diagnosis.

Finally, almost 40 managers and scientists met to discuss whether an adaptive management approach might be useful to gain an understanding of the interaction among habitats and management actions and how this will be affected by annual weather and climate patterns.

Assisted adaptation — often defined as management to assist gene flow or selection for specific genetic traits — may be a more useful tool than assisted migration whereby a species is deliberately moved to a different habitat; carefully consider implications of either action Identify potential climate refugia to focus restoration efforts Plant a mix of seeds genetically selected and adapted to likely future and current conditions (McLachlan et al. 2007; McKenney et al. 2009; Aitken and Whitlock 2013; Alfaro et al. 2014)

I concluded my presentation with a call for action: let's find creative ways to share certain aspects of the genetic data we all are accumulating, in a useful and responsible way.

They are made of several areas connected in complex ways that work together to produce useful actions.

When a clinical trial of a vaccine begins, scientists hope that the study will add useful information about the efficacy of the vaccine and its mechanism of action.

Fear is useful in that it tells us to be careful, watch out for, or take action in the presence of a potential danger.