Sentences with phrase «other control groups»

In the other control groups, participants were asked to list five hassles or major events that occurred that past week.

Not exact matches

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

«Right now you've got a bizarre situation where two groups of investors, one led by Carl Icahn,... the other led by Starboard Value... [are] fighting for control of Newell's future.»

A day after the shooting at Stoneman Douglas, gun control advocacy groups occupied the Massachusetts State House, demanding action on a bill that would prevent individuals who pose extreme risks to themselves or others from possessing a firearm.

Boyle also elaborated on the reason he and Coleman were in Afghanistan in the first place: to aid» the most neglected minority group in the world» in the remote villages in Taliban - controlled territory where other aid workers won't go due to the danger.

The other half were the control group.

BERLIN, May 2 - Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

South Korean family - run business empires like Samsung Group have a reputation for low dividend payouts and other governance practices that favour controlling shareholders at the expense of ordinary investors.

BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters)- Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation have been making precisely that case for years, pointing out as early as 2005 that EULAs force users to give up not just control of their data, but many other legal rights.

Elliott owns 9 percent of the former state phone monopoly and is calling on other investors to help it wrest control away from French media group Vivendi, which effectively runs Telecom Italia as its top shareholder with a 24 percent stake.

Diess, who now controls VW as well as many other carmakers within the group, will retain his role as Volkswagen brand chief.

It was two hours of me chasing her down and getting laughed at by groups of other teenagers for trying to control my little sister and probably the awful sunburn on my face.

Vice's other shareholders include 21st Century Fox, which is currently trying to acquire full control of Sky, WPP Group, the marketing services giant, and Technology Crossover Ventures, a leading investor in digital businesses.

Electronic firearm tracking technology is defined as «a platform, system or device or a group of systems or devices that uses a shared ledger, distributed ledger or block chain technology or any other similar form of technology or electronic database for the purpose of storing information in a decentralized or centralized way, that is not owned or controlled by any single person or entity and that is used to locate or control the use of a firearm.»

As manager of the firm's Corporate Governance Consulting Group with over 30 years of experience in the field, Bill has guided companies through a wide range of governance and takeover challenges, including contentious shareholder proposals and compensation - based initiatives, proxy contests, tender offers, and other corporate control matters.

In 2012, Delek Group reached an agreement to sell Gadot Biochemicals to FIMI Opportunity Funds, controlled by Ishay Davidi, but the deal fell through, as did deals with other reported candidates for a possible acquisition.

Vice's other shareholders include 21st Century Fox, which is currently trying to acquire full control of Sky, the marketing services giant WPP Group and Technology Crossover Ventures, a leading investor in digital businesses.

Students at the Florida school where 17 people died last week said Sunday they will organize nationwide marches for gun control next month and try to create a «badge of shame» for politicians who take money from the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups.

«If a group of miners controls more than 50 percent of the computational power on the network, it can always mine blocks faster than whoever has the other 49 percent.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Every religion in the world, past and present, stems from the same basic premise «it's probably a good idea to be nice to each other» after that it gets twisted so that one small group of people can have some measure of control over a larger mass of people.

Obviously that millions of innocent people died because simple - minded men are in power and yield control over groups of other simple - minded men who do their bidding... see Hitler and the Nazis, Stalin and the Soviet police, etc...

We controlled for a variety of other factors that may also have influenced STI rates in particular areas and we also used older age groups, unaffected by the schemes, as a further control.

Still, though, this is the same group that screams «Cafeteria Catholic» at those that want them to accept Abortion, birth control, men doing it with other men, priests marrying and by that I mean doing it with Adult Women....

For the same reason that we group together other entities: for intellectual simplification and greater efficiency in management and control.

Despotic capitalism, on the other hand, is characterized by control of the government by an individual or a relatively small group such as military junta, an aristocracy or elite class, or a minority political party.

In elite capitalism, where a small group of families may control the vast majority of land, capital, or other resources, this openness to competition is seen as a threat and is not present.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

Ignoring the fact that all the Koran, Bible, Tora and other doctrines (not necessarily Buddism) seem to want to group people in to groups and control there thinking and questions.

The others represented a control group.

Assumption of control by any one member of the group can have as a consequence the denial to others of the proper exercise of their capacity for free decision.

If you believe otherwise, you are (by default), stating that your deity is, in fact in favor of a special and elevated group of individuals (such as yourself and your favorite authors) who can and should control others faith by virtue of their special understanding of this god and his «inspired» word.

A study of the patients visited regularly by the students (compared with a matched control group of other patients) showed that the program had made a significant difference in the general improvement and discharge rate of those visited.

Each was created by a person or group of people to fulfill a certain behavioral need, prevent change and control others.

It's about power, control, money, politics, inequality between the races and genders, who's in and who's out (of the Kingdom, of the social group, and more) and many other things that don't pass the «smell test.»

This resonated with the experiences of a number of other women in the group until one of them — also post-abortive — lashed out angrily and defensively, saying that the abortion was the best thing she could have done to regain control of her life after a man had so badly messed it up.

The fifth group was a control group for whom no prayers, chants or other supernatural imploring occurred.

«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

The colleges are among many evangelical and Catholic groups — most notably the Little Sisters of the Poor — who challenged the Obamacare requirement that employers» heath plans include emergency contraception, intrauterine devices (IUDs), and other birth control.

What is true for the unity of a group of people, is equally true for the individual integrity of each person, The various elements which make up each personality are in continual communication with each other through control mechanisms which themselves have the nature of communication.2

Sounds like a social group trying to control other social groups.

So while I don't like that religious groups attempt to control what others do, so long as they aren't doing it in government (or directly infringing on others rights, which is generally against the law anyway) they are free to do as they feel is right.

Like all the other Middle colonies, New York found that no one religious group could control the religious life of the province.

Standridge resembles the «bad ape» who sometimes manages to bully his way into control of a group of other apes, but only for a year or two before his tactics cause him to be deposed by the smarter, younger apes, or by apes simply leaving the group to form their own.

The successful Italian chain is part of the Brinker group of restaurants that controls several other high - profile casual eateries including Border Mexican Grill, Maggiano's, and Chili's.

It would appear so, since this is the only thing the control group ate, while the other groups had coconut oil added, and the control group had the highest LDL level.

The double - blind, placebo - controlled study, conducted by Glyn Howatson and Phillip G. Bell at Northumbria University in the UK, involved 16 well - trained male cyclists who were divided into two groups: one consuming Montmorency tart cherry juice and the other a placebo beverage including an equal amount of carbohydrates.

The other group of subjects (the control group) did not consume these foods.