Sentences with phrase «of writing progress»

What is it that mires the wheels of writing progress?

Davis writes slow and shudders at the idea of using word count as an effective measure of writing progress.

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Even though the planners had, in effect, spent more time thinking about their task, with no progress made on the task itself, as Baumeister and Tierney explain, «their minds had apparently been cleared by the act of writing down a plan.»

«In 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grist.

«I deleted all the gym selfies from my Instagram, and all of the «progress» shots from my phone,» Malcolm wrote.

Write down your goals in the form of daily to - do lists, weekly task - based schedules, monthly progress reports that track your successes and an annual business plan that evolves alongside your professional development.

Blake, founder of The Nonverbal Group, helped me shift my focus from writing a great book — an overwhelming thought — to making small daily progress.

In a letter to David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a progressive action group, Reid wrote:

«Fantastic advances in technology are not always a sign of progress,» writes technology blogger and friend Neil Hughes.

«We think (the company) has very solid fundamentals, progress in stated objectives and a relatively inexpensive valuation of 8.9 x 2015 EV / EBITDA,» writes March.

«Upgrading systems to take advantage of technological progress is important and can increase efficiency,» the analysts wrote in general advice to any company looking at blockchain.

«Taking stock of what you have accomplished can create a feeling of progress, which can boost self - esteem and motivation,» writes Meyer - Shine.

«That should be viewed as a positive development by the (Bank of Canada), though progress on reducing the «key vulnerability» of elevated household debt will likely be very slow,» RBC economist Josh Nye wrote in a research note.

Besides simply viewing meetings as «a big company thing,» entrepreneurs are «constantly pushing, and always on, they don't consider the important of cadenced checkpoints to measure the progress against their goals, and reevaluate that their previously agreed goals should continue to be their goals,» he writes.

'' [A] s technological progress allows the exchange of goods and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of trading partners, other people become more valuable alive than dead, and they are less likely to become targets of demonization and dehumanization,» Pinker wrote.

To help you disconnect at night, and to reinforce that you are making progress, try this exercise: For five days in a row, take time at the end of the day to write a list of tasks you worked on and of lessons you learned along the way for each day.

With present programming knowledge and novelty of the blockchain, writing solid and comprehensive smart contracts can sometimes be difficult in practice and at the moment are only really useful for simple contracts (however, it's progressing rapidly).

As many as 107 House Republicans expressed deep concerns last week, writing in an open letter to the president that the «new taxes in the form of broad tariffs would undermine» the «remarkable progress» made by the tax overhaul.

«We find the gaps between the stated procedures for MFP estimation [a measure of productivity commonly interpreted as technical progress] used by Statistics Canada and the BLS are substantial,» Michael Harper concluded in an open, written response (pdf) he co-authored with Alice Nakamura, another renowned expert on productivity, and Lu Zhang, both from the University of Alberta School of Business.

I await confirmation from the researchers at Think Progress, but I suspect that the religious right's obsession with morays in particular and eels in general, derives not from the canonical Book of Job but from the non-canonical early church writing, The Epistle of Barnabas, which in verse 10:5 reads:

♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

But in that year the editors began to write frequently about the war in Europe, publishing a series of editorials with the titles «God and War,» «Prayer and the War,» «The President and the War» and «Human Progress and the War.»

This, then, is the great religious obsession spun into all of Kristol's political writing: the belief that secular liberalism breeds a valueless individualism that necessarily progresses toward moral disorder and even nihilism.

Thomas's thought, wrote one biographer, was a mixture of Christianity, anarchism and Marxism (Bernard J. Johnpoll, Pacifist's Progress: Norman Thomas and the Decline of American Socialism, Quadrangle, 1970).

The changing meanings of holiness in the Bible are thus among the most indicative signs of progress, and obviously by the time the Isaiah of the Exile wrote, some men were praying in secret to the holy God.

We can diagnose their performance as a bad case of libido dominandi, in which their own egos have been written so large that they must depict history as a story of progress culminating in their own genius.

«Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice, not because of the danger of complete annihilation which is hanging over its head... but because humanity is devoid of those vital values for its healthy development and real progress,» he wrote.

Nisbet, who died in 1996, wrote numerous books, including The Quest for Community (his first, in 1953), Twilight of Authority (1975), and History of the Idea of Progress (1980).

But as the season progressed and Alabama continued to win, I realized that this was the perfect scenario: An Auburn fan is forced to write about the glorious comeback of his arch-rival.

Isn't it possible that science has progressed through knowledge gained over the last two thousand years that has been answering many of the questions that perplexed those who wrote the bible?

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

As Scientists, we do need to prove each and every theory we bring forward which is why Science has progressed since a few old men wrote the bible thousands of years ago and what do you have?

In brief: Such websites point to logical and factual flaws in the writings of the Intelligent Design movement and take issue as well with their intellectual honesty — as when, ever eager to write the obituary for Darwinian theory, they fail to acknowledge progress in evolutionary biology.

As Sachs writes, «Technological progress has been fueled by the ongoing revolutions of basic science and spread by the power of global markets and public investments in health, education, and infrastructure.»

`» Progress, he writes, «was [like] a tractor that laid its own roadbed and left no permanent imprint of its own track, nor did it move toward an imaginable and humanly desirable destination.»

If, he wrote, «the progress of science showed later that that conception of the world [that of Dante's age] rested on no sure foundation», still the fundamental principle remained that the universe, whatever be the order that sustains it in its parts, is the work of the creating and preserving sign of Omnipotent God, who moves and governs all, and whose glory risplende in una parte piu e meno altrove.

When Dorothee Sölle wrote in 1971 of the indivisible salvation of the whole world, she and her readers assumed without reflection that the whole world is the world of human beings.1 But as the seventies progressed and the environmental crisis forced itself on public attention, more and more Christians became troubled about the separation of humanity from the rest of nature.

The fact of progress was symbolized for Whitehead in the year he wrote, 1931, by the achievement of a peaceful settlement between Gandhi and the Viceroy of India.11

«Jewish commentators on these and related topics in medical ethics,» he writes, «nearly always come down strongly in favor of medical progress and on the side of life — more life, longer life, new life.

But one has only to read the book of a leading liberal, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick's Christianity and Progress, written in 1922, to see that the deeper insight of Christian faith was not surrendered.

In this book, CS Lewis mixes autobiography with the religious / philosophical history of Western culture, and writes about it in the form of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

Thus, Simone Weil writes that «the progress of the war in the Iliad is simply a continual game of seesaw.»

It is interesting that Lester Thurow, a leading American economist, closely related to the more progressive wing of the Democratic party, has written that the agricultural sector is the one great area of progress in American society since World War II.

The Recorder for the Center keeps a written account of these recommendations, along with a progress report.

One of the reasons Madeleine L'Engle's [book]... had that strong Christian element to it wasn't just because she was Christian, but because she was frustrated with things that needed to be said to her in the world and she wasn't finding a way to say it and she wanted to stay true to her faith... In a good way, I think there are a lot of elements of what she wrote that we have progressed as a society and we can move onto the other elements.

Gregorios correctly warns against a «Committee Theology» and writes that «at the moment the ecumenical dialogue has not progressed to the point where a group of theologians can sit down and write an «ecumenical theology» that is vital and coherent.»

On Tuesday, Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College won a legal round against the HHS contraceptive mandate not only for themselves, but for all fellow plaintiffs as a D.C. appeals court prompted the Obama administration to promise not to enforce the mandate (as currently written) and — on top of that — regularly report on its progress toward new rules that better protect religious freedom.

Berne wrote, «A game is an ongoing series of complementary ulterior transactions progressing to a well - defined, predictable outcome.»

May writes: «Actually in real life it is a matter of long, uphill growth, to new levels of integration — growth meaning not automatic progress but re-education, finding new insights, making self - conscious decisions, and throughout being willing to face occasional or frequent struggles.»

One of them, Walter Hilton, an experienced spiritual director who died in 1396, wrote The Scale of Perfection, to guide the soul in its progress towards God.