Sentences with phrase «on past practices»

Kushner also asserted that his new White House office of American Innovation will seek to «modernize the government's technology infrastructure» as well as make «an effort to bring business sensibility to a government that for too long has relied on past practices as an automatic justification for their continuation» which out of context would be a scary thing to hear coming from an administration with little regard for the foundations of American democracy but in context was mostly kind of boring and about migrating to the cloud.

Whether the investigator should be someone who is agreed upon by the parties or is unilaterally selected by the employer may depend on past practices relating to such investigations and practical considerations such as the need for a prompt investigation.

Information on past practices can improve future principal hires.

At the start of a new school year, I tend to become very reflective on my past practices and the perceived impact on student achievement.

Current attention being focused on the deteriorating condition of America's school facilities has put the spotlight on past practices that have contributed to the present dilemma.

Based on past practice, we can expect students in some districts to take much greater damage than others, probably roughly like this: Those are...

According to Miller, «Assuming Congress enacts a 2013 appropriations bill that is structured similarly to the pending House or Senate bills — a reasonable assumption based on past practice — there is no reason to believe that a sequestration would affect funding for the 2012 — 13 school year.»

Although it's been rumored for a while based on past practice, Ubisoft finally detailed...

Justice Collier explained that «[t] he law in Québec concerning the payment of bonuses is similar to that in other Canadian provinces... [a] n employee is entitled to receive a bonus owed during a notice period when the employee has a reasonable expectation, based on past practice, that it will be paid.»

Not exact matches

But over the past few decades the burdens on medical practices have drastically increased.

«This work has not progressed past the planning phase, and we have not received, shared, or analyzed anyone's data,» Facebook told CNBC, which reported that the plan was put on hold following the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, and the subsequent revelations about Facebook's data - sharing practices.

Often lauded for his independence, Comey had come under intense scrutiny in past months for his role in the agency's investigation into the email practices of Trump's opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, including a pair of letters he sent to Congress on the matter in the final days of the campaign.

A matter of focusing on the present moment rather than reliving the past or worrying about the future, this practice has been shown to reduce stress and improve performance.

While being one of the headliners at this past weekend's D.C. Pride, Cyrus stepped on stage wearing a rainbow bindi, a cultural item worn by people who practice Hinduism.

But Lindsay and other entrepreneurs like Mark Falcone, who co-found tCheck, a company that makes a spectrometer device to test the potency of edibles, says they were kicked off all the processors at once - which is highly unusual based on the previous «Whack - a-Mole» cancelation patterns these processors had practiced in the past.

Each year as we say «goodbye» to the old and «hello» to the new, many of us have made a practice of reflecting on the year past.

If you're in the kind of a job where maybe someone else can look at the record of what you've done in the past and — based on looking at that, studying it, practicing it and repeating it — they could learn your job, then there's a good chance that an algorithm could also do that.

In fact, despite its cover date, the law required The World to distribute its Sunday edition on Saturday night, a practice also popular in the U.S., with the difference being that employing staff past midnight in Canada would be a federal offence.

«Talking to coal exporters there, «Greed & fear» hears that demand from China for coal is strong while, interestingly, in stark contrast to past practice, China SOE steel producers now pay on time.»

In the past, it's been considered a sound business practice for brands to avoid taking public political stances on hot topics.

Also, much has been written over the past 2 - 3 years about the importance of buyer personas, but these articles, books, and blog posts have stressed them as profiles or lead - generation tools as opposed to a best practice that informs on business, sales, and marketing strategies that help best identify and reach buyers.

These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»

I have been critical of the Globe «s business reporting practices in the past (especially its tendency to quote Bank economists as «objective» observers of economic events) but on Saturday, it ran one of the best business pieces I've read in a long time.

Over the course of the past week, a spotlight has been firmly fixed on the sales practices of Toronto - Dominion Bank (TD).

Research on these pastures also shows that the management practices developed over the past 80 years has resulted in higher levels of biodiversity and soil quality than in comparable privately - owned lands - factors that may become increasingly important with the advent of climate change.

When David, or a client of David's has an interest in a security mentioned, full disclosure will be given, as has been past practice for all that David does on the web.

This conclusion is especially poignant in light of the past century, when violent suffering has taken on the proportion of two world wars, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Sudan, Congo, Hiroshima, the partition of India, the massacres of 1965 in Indonesia, Stalin's Russia, Armenia, Timor - Leste, Bosnia, and the global practice of abortion.

You can't mention your god in schools because christians in particular have a very, very nasty habit of not just mentioning it, but of trying to ram it forcibly down the throats of the unwilling, and giving them the power of the state and an innocent audience of children to practice this forced indoctrination on has never worked out well in the past.

These focused on changes that had occurred over the past three decades in culture, church and educational practices.

For the past seven years I have written extensively on indicators of malignant ministers and toxic organizational systems, principles and practices for personal recovery from traumatizing abuse of spiritual authority, and constructive system solutions for dealing with destructive organizations.

Furthermore, Christian religious practice follows the scriptural view by reliving past events of the Old Testament and commemorating the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary in the Mass..

Though I still have bad running days, my running has been on a gradual incline over the past few years, which came about through practice and by educating myself through running books, blogs and seminars.

I can watch the practice and see none of the kids trying hard, none of them are interested... I can predict that we will lose our next game, and likely be correct based on past performance... but through shear luck, they might just win one, so predicting the future?

Even newfound practices of sustainability and restoration of ravaged lands border on cheap grace, helping us too easily to forget our past sins and too readily easing our needed lamentation.

Both carry on practices from the dim past but each has so industrialized the process with advanced technologies that the fundamental activity is transmuted into something new that raises questions beyond standard discussions of right and wrong.

Both carry on hoary practices from the dim past but each has so industrialized the process with advanced technologies that the fundamental activity is transmuted into something new that raises questions beyond standard discussions of right and wrong on battlefields or in the marketplace.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

Since God, on this view, is contemporary with every finite actual entity, being neither in the past nor in the future of any other actual entity, God, on the principle in question, would be able neither to prehend nor to he prehended by any other actual entity, a conclusion more radically at variance with religious experience and practice than the doctrine Whitehead was invoked to repair.

The ancient human civilizations gradually developed by the conserving and handing on of the knowledge and practices which had proved themselves in the past.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

Unethical or religious freedom??? What about the LDS practice of Proxy Baptism — baptizing deceased persons of other religions into the LDS faith without the written consent of the family members of the deceased (proxy LDS baptisms have been performed on past Catholic Popes and other top religious figures).

Over the past few months, Ahava has offered valuable insights on everything from interpreting Proverbs 31 to celebrating Passover to practicing family purity.

Christians have carried on this practice of role reversal for the past two millennia, particularly during Holy Week.

God is neither omniscient nor omnipresent God is Always Here with us in the Now God Permeates and Imbues our being — our thoughts, emotions, choices, and actions — only through our invitation and practice God is an Influential Presence only to the extent that we make ourselves aware of it and learn to be sensitive to it God is in Relationship with us while being deliberately unaware of our future and forgivingly dismissive of our past God is not in the past or the future God can not intrude in or impose on life God does not preplan or predestine the course or end of life

Since faith does not arise through rational conviction of a superior conceptual system, but instead through the memory of past events and especially the passion of Jesus, its embodiment in practice does not depend on any overview — only on the effective power of the memory.

The Reformation was utterly dependent on what came before it, but it transformed the past by using parts of it against other parts, by taking key emphases already widely accepted among the faithful and showing that, if one saw this doctrine or that practice from a slightly different angle, everything was changed — all the while managing to maintain continuity with the deepest sources of the tradition.

The creation of a feminist goddess - centered religion need not be dependent on whether the worship of Ishtar or the practice of witchcraft was such a religion in the past.

Improved postharvest practices: A recent research study undertaken by WFLO with funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides an great assortment of data on the results of 12 past projects, postharvest losses % for 26 crops, a description of the value chain for 30 crops in 4 countries (Rwanda, Benin, Ghana and India) and 21 field trials of postharvest technologies suitable for helping small farmers reduce losses and improve their incomes.

The proposed Harper competition reforms can boost national prosperity and help turn the tables on many years of past poor infrastructure policies and practices, ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said today at an Infrastructure Partnerships Australia conference in Sydney.

The SEPC is reinvigorating our roadshow program from years past to provide our foodservice members with an educational opportunity on June 13th in which they will gain insight into trends and best practices within the foodservice sector.