Sentences with phrase «often called today»

Sitting is often called today's smoking, and there's much truth to that.

Not exact matches

Edith Ramirez, chairwoman of the FTC, today recommended a comprehensive investigation of patent - assertion entities, companies often called «patent trolls» due to their aggressive and legally questionable tactics.

I've often called it the Iron Law of Valuation: the higher the price you pay today for a given stream of future cash flows, the lower your rate of return over the life of the investment.

Those who call themselves «evangelicals» today are also often in the forefront of efforts to bring the gospel to those who have not heard it effectively.

Whereas in Marx's day, most wealth consisted in land and capital in the narrow sense, today financial wealth, often called financial «capital,» dwarfs both of these.

Paul's letters are addressed to specific people with special problems which called for particular responses which were correct for that situation but must often be translated into underlying general principles if they are to be applicable to us today (e. g., 1 Cor.

This intuitional philosophy — often called emotivism or sentimentalism — has become the dominant philosophy in America today.

We are called today to a similar integration of words and deeds... We repent that the narrowness of our concerns and vision has often kept us from proclaiming the lordship of Jesus Christ over all of life, private and public, local and global.

Believing Hindus today may be roughly divided into two general groups: those who accept the philosophy of nondualism (or neo-Vedanta, as it is sometimes called), and a far larger group of a devotional nature, who are often of a more orthodox type.

As Saint John Paul often declared, Christians today are called on to be «signs of contradiction» (rather than signs of the kind of unvarying conformity with «progress, liberalism and modern civilisation» which you will find in the pages of The Tablet and of Cornwell's books).

Noting that John the Baptist often called Jewish people to repent and be baptized for the remission of sins, some evangelists today also call people to repent of their sins, believe in Jesus and be baptized in order to receive eternal life.

This is why I think such voices such as Berry's, who is often called a prophetic voice in America today, are needed in this world.

These delectable fruits were often reserved strictly for the privileged class in the Far East, another distinguishing reason why they are called mandarin oranges today.

The main point of my answer, however, is that some vocal supporters of both parties have taken to the lowest common demonstrator and make the worst possible comparisons and name calling they can think of, and what's crazy today, people seem to often believing it.

«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»

«I call on this administration today, talk about how we're going to bring problem - solving initiatives in our challenged communities, rather than talk about statistics that never trickle down to grandparents, to parents, to children who lose their loved ones on the streets of New York all too often,» he continued.

In what has become an annual ritual, the Department of Education has today released its latest school progress reports, often called school report cards, today.

He is a highly regarded foreign affairs and defence expert, often jokingly called the Lib Dems» spokesman for the Today programme, because of his frequent appearances.

«As I speak to you today, there are only about two companies that are still surviving, all the rest has been used for warehouses and this is an industry that one company can employ about 3 thousand people to work, I challenge you to visit Agyeben and visit a company called GTRT, they export 6 hundred thousand T - shirts to US every year and this is because they have the support of US adding that «we often read in the papers that textiles from China has be refused from entering the UK because exportation of textiles from China has reach its point so why won't you take advantage of this opportunity to get the textiles to the UK and now with no tariff» he said

Because these photons are so old, the familiar two - dimensional map of the CMB is often called a «baby picture» of the universe, providing a window back into the primordial conditions that created the cosmos we see around us today.

One study that predicted shortages, written by Richard Atkinson and published in Science in 1990, has been repudiated, and is often passed around by postdocs to demonstrate this phenomenon of false prediction — and, some argue, the cynicism of those who continue to call for expansion despite evidence that today's scientists are widely underemployed.

Yet today, Vogelstein often offers what he calls a «reality check» on such efforts.

Today's real cool fact of the day is that holistic medicine is used by about half the world's population and that the WHO, the World Health Organization, which is not a friend of alternative medicine or quite often stuff that works, other then very basic sanitary measures, but they're estimating that between 65 - 80 % of the world's population uses what they call alternative medicine as their primary from of healthcare compared to only 10 - 30 % of people who use conventional medicine, which actually means that since the vast majority of people use alternative medicine that's conventional medicine, and what they call conventional medicine is actually a radical alternative, if only 10 % of the world is using the burn and poison model of medicine, which is the one that's quite often promoted that way.

I absolutely love cooking, and I often call myself a mad scientist in the kitchen, doing my best to come up with healthy alternatives to some of today's most common processed and unhealthy foods.

Today I wanted to talk about a site that I use often to find recipe inspiration and food ideas, and that site is called Yummly.

Today I used my straighteners to create a soft kink often called beach waves, then I did the same to my largest piece of clip - in hair & pulled it all up into a pony.

And after previewing her fall 2012 offering (you can watch it too, here), it's no wonder that today's screen sirens (like Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Beckinsale) and fashion's favorite royal (the Duchess of Cambridge) often call on Packham to dress them in her stunning creations for their official red carpet appearances.

Often called a «translator,» Lindsey advises both young professionals looking to succeed in today's work environment and the organizations that want to recruit, retain and market to them.

He calls you pretty often he asks you on more dates and sends you good morning texts like «how are you today sweetheart?»

I always make sure that when I address the visual aesthetics of a game in my reviews, I call them visuals and not graphics, as the term graphics today often refers to things like polygon count.

The University of Maryland's Douglas Besharov calls them «hothouse programs,» noting that they were «run by top - notch specialists,... served fewer than 200 children, cost at least $ 15,000 per child per year in today's dollars, often involved multiple years of services, had well - trained teachers, and instructed parents on effective child - rearing.

Muhammed Akil, Parent Coalition for Excellent Education (PC2E) Executive Director added: «Today's so - called protest held by supporters of the troubled educational status quo was yet another example critics from predominantly suburban communities with excellent educational options for their children trying to limit high quality choices for parents in urban communities whose districts have too often failed to provide them adequate options.

Today, teaching children moral and socially acceptable behavior is often called character education.

Using Mazda's motto rightsizing, like other Skyactiv unit, instead of today's popular downsizing (reduction of working capacity and number of cylinders), this engine does not feature the typical disadvantages of turbocharged engines, such as the so - called turbo hole, and often high fuel consumption in real driving conditions.

Today they are called tuners, but years ago they were often termed wizards and every European country had them.

Today «high discount» clauses, calling for a royalty of something less that 15 % of retail (and sometimes a lot less than 15 % of retail) will often apply to more than half of the sales the publisher makes.

«By not providing Wi - Fi and high - quality computer facilities, libraries often present a negative image of being old fashioned places that have little relevance in today's society,» says the report, which calls for the Wi - Fi to be delivered «in a comfortable, retail - standard environment, with the usual amenities of coffee, sofas and toilets».

Today, you can quote and bind coverage online yourself, if you choose, and by dealing directly with Effective Coverage you avoid the torrent of phone calls that often come with online renters insurance quotes.

Today, even though we take effort to buy high end, even so - called «super premium» foods, they are filled with things that are often worse than we can imagine.

GDR officials called it the «Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,» Willy Brandt nicknamed it the «Wall of Shame,» and today it is often just referred to as «the Wall.»

This enormous animal, often called the sea cow, is scarce today.

Whether you are an indie developer solely responsible for your game's release or part of a large corporation with a team of hundreds of developers and publishers plotting a game's success, if you are a game designer today you are often also called upon to be a business strategist.

Matchmaking options, improved AI and new maps are apparently in the works and even if they weren't and the game stayed as it is today, I can't deny how often Code 51 calls me back and keeps me playing way longer then I intended... this is a blast!

Drawing his inspiration from pop culture and American expressionist painters such as Willem de Kooning, Todd James, often called «master of modern - day satire» seems to strip down his characters to a cartoon level showing them in absurd and meaningful situations as a witty comment to todays society and reality.

«People often say: «Earth was warmer in the past with carbon dioxide levels higher than today» Yes, there is a recent movie called Jurassic World.

In today's climate - change era, the only available housing such migrants are likely to find will be in vast and expanding shantytowns (or «informal settlements,» as they're euphemistically called), often located in floodplains and low - lying coastal areas exposed to storm surges and sea - level rise.

Today Earth is a pretty temperate place, but about 700 million years ago ice covered the planet from pole to pole, in an extreme glaciation period often called «Snowball Earth.»

Another important dimension to today's political climate is that politics often becomes what Schmidt called «scientized.»

Today arbitral decisions are often characterized as jurisprudence constante, even though contradictory decisionsoccur and calls for a review mechanismare common.

Today, you can quote and bind coverage online yourself, if you choose, and by dealing directly with Effective Coverage you avoid the torrent of phone calls that often come with online renters insurance quotes.