Sentences with phrase «other life measures»

The children who were willing to delay gratification and waited to receive the second marshmallow ended up having higher SAT scores, lower levels of substance abuse, lower likelihood of obesity, better responses to stress, better social skills as reported by their parents, and generally better scores in a range of other life measures.

Not exact matches

That estimate comes from the Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) 2015 Family Budget Calculator, which measures the annual cost of necessities for one adult to live a secure, yet modest, lifestyle by estimating the costs of housing, food, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes.

Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

Beyond measuring worker satisfaction, the partnership, in conjunction with Deloitte, studied attitudes on pay, teamwork, work - life balance, training and the match between skills and mission, among other categories.

Absent growth, the only other option for restoring some measure of financial integrity and standard of living for its citizens is to enact fiscal and structural reforms and restructure the existing burdensome debt, with the long - term goal of putting the island on a sustainable growth trajectory.

John Wooden once said that the measure of our life is not how well we did in comparison to others, but rather, how well we did in comparison to our potential.

If ultimate meaning in life were nonexistent, then you would have no purpose in living other than to try to do some measure of good and perhaps pass on your genetic traits to the next generation.

I can personally measure how spiritually fit I am in how I treat others and live my life.

How often, in all walks of life, do we judge others by a different standard than we measure our own shortcoming?

As an atheist who believes in «Choice» (I dislike the idea of abortion but see the need for people to be able to opt for it) and polygamy (marriage should be for any number of consenting adults regardless of gender) and believes that the idea of draconian anti-gun measures is anathema as it takes away an individual's right to live the way he wants to live, I think that if believing in a deity makes a person treat other people nicer then we should leave that person and his beliefs alone.

Get lost in people's eyes today and in swaths of sun on any afternoon, and lose track of time and get lost in a good book, and smile abundantly, till your cheek hurts, because you are alive after all, and you have time to feel wind on your face and you have time to reach out to one person and remember how we all belong to each other and each of us gets a place to belong and the abundance of your life is not measured in the ways you gained — but in what you gave away.

If we are Christians, then surely this means that we believe that the life and teachings of Jesus the Christ give us the truest understanding of God, and that this understanding is the benchmark against which we measure other interpretations.

But they part ways with many other Christians over a measure that would expand the legal definition of human life.

For Holloway, the Eucharist not only feeds the personal love of God as a living experience, it also engenders love and care for others in the measure that we are conformed to the personality of Christ whom we have received.

When one looks for the secret of such goodness in others or in gratitude thanks God for such a measure of victory as has come to his own life, the explanation lies in humility, loving outreach, a sense of divine forgiveness, and power that comes from dwelling in «the secret place of the Most High.»

It seems the Anne Jacksons in our lives are not really «out there,» but rather «in here» — in our hearts and in our heads, when we look to other people to define us and to temporal standards to measure our success.

But let's be honest: these words resound with less and less truth when the other aspects of our lives don't reflect any measure of worship at all.

For others, their goals may be more based in quality of life measures even at the expense of time.

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As long as one's size and sense of worth are measured by the strength of one's capacity to influence others (and this influence always takes the form of shaping the other in our image), as long as power is associated with the sense of initiative and aggressiveness, and passivity is indicative of weakness or a corresponding lack of power, then the natural and inevitable inequalities among individuals and groups are the means whereby the estrangements in life become wider and deeper.

«Equally they measure, the one by the complexity of its structure and the other by the intensity of its awareness, the quantity of choice that the living being has at its disposal» (CE 286).

The remaining sixty five books of the Bible in some measure or the other also struggle with understanding who this God is and why He allows bad things / evil in our lives.

Nonetheless, the Justices gravely declared that «the character of a nation of people who aspire to live according to the rule of law» is ultimately to be measured by the people's willingness to put aside their deeply held moral and religious views and accept the Court's pronouncements on this and other divisive questions.

Our faith life is measured by how we attend to and improve the lives of others — by feeding them, quenching their thirst, clothing them, visiting them in prison, healing them, and welcoming them.

The world has always been against the church, but there have been times when the world has been partially converted, and when the church has lived with it in some measure of peace; there have been other times when the world was more or less openly hostile, seeking to convert the church.

Today, though, we tend to regard it as a sacrament above and beyond all others, the measure of a happy life.

It functions in healing just in the measure that through it the person becomes able to move beyond the stage in which his positive and negative feelings are bound up with the counselor and to discover a new relationship to other persons in the family, the day's work, and the common life.

In response, these churches, temples, synagogues and mosques produce the cultural material that enables their members and adherents to locate themselves with respect to the places and time in which they currently live, to identify with others, to find their moral bearings, and to achieve some measure of efficacy with respect to their own needs and aspirations.

Contentment and significance in life is measured by how open you are to serving God and sharing Him with others.

In the other five categories measured — private life, family life, community life, national life, and church life — both countries received the worst scores possible.

Yes, we can study Scripture on our own, but whatever we think we learn must be measured against what others have learned and taught as well, and must be lived out and practiced in a community.

If you live your life measuring yourself against other people, you will be a very unhappy person.

Though younger voters skew progressive on other social issues they continue to side with life; by some measures, more so than their parents.

After all, when we offer a person (in reality) demotion to the level of the lowest, no measure of achievement, and approval only from the poor — all for the sake of life - giving community to others ---- we are making the same offer a Certain Man made to all of us 2,000 years ago.

On the other hand, he does allow for the discontinuation of medication and life support when such measures achieve no proportionate benefit.

I can see from all the other responses that it's not the recipe that's wrong — just perhaps my measurements - I'm English, living in France and although I have a «cups» measure for the flour etc the concept of «table spoons» of butter is beyond me!

It not only takes into account the stringent measures needed for optimal shelf life of highly perishable liquid consumables, like milk and other dairy products, juices & beverages and, but also help in making the packaging for such products look distinct and user - friendly.

it's all they have in life, with perhaps a couple other NFC rivals thrown in for good measure mostly.

Few cohabiting heteros live together for the long haul — most break up or marry in about five years, with many seeing it as a cost - saving measure (one apartment is cheaper than two) more than a statement of their commitment to each other.

The IVF refund plan states that if patients do not achieve a live birth after the transfer of all of the embryos resulting from their cycles, 100 % of clinical fees will be refunded back to the patients to use in pursuing other family - building measures such as donor egg or adoption.

Research has shown that the children of same - sex couples, whether adopted or biological, fare no worse than the kids of straight couples on mental health, social functioning, school performance and several other life - success measures.

One study cites a 26 — 31 % decrease in the development of breast cancer in females who had been breastfed as babies; if you or she takes no other preventive measures against breast cancer, breastfeeding her alone sets your baby girl up for a nearly 1/3 lower likelihood of developing breast cancer later in her life (Freudenheim et al., 1994).

This is my other mommy mantra, the one I reach too when life is feeling hard... and it's been healing beyond measure.

If you can read this article, we will teach you how to prepare your child for swimming practice, how to protect the kids during swimming exercise, behavioral patterns around the pool, and the basic swimming skills every child needs to know, how to save a life using simple cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) measures, and many other skills you need to know.

I've been thinking a lot about how we measure success lately — with our children, in our relationships with self and others, and in our work life.

If couples do not achieve a live birth after the transfer of all the embryos resulting from these cycles, 100 % of that amount will be refunded back to the couple to pursue other family building measures such as adoption.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

Last week, during a meeting with lawmakers, he seemed to express support for universal background checks — among other gun control measures — a move made on live TV that stunned his fellow Republicans.

But there's room in the legislative programme for other measures, especially those that make our country a nicer place to live for our citizens.

Whereas, New York State is a leading voice for women's equality and has raised that voice in action through such significant achievements as passage of the historic «Women's Equality Agenda» in 2015 - eight laws that advance women's equality in New York State by helping to achieve pay equity, strengthen human trafficking laws and protections for domestic violence victims, and ending pregnancy discrimination in all workplaces; other measures further safeguard and promote women's interests and help improve their status in settings where they live and work; and