Sentences with phrase «other than the practice»

Overall, practice explains about 18 percent of why some athletes perform better or worse than others — with 82 percent of this difference attributed to factors other than practice.

Factors other than practice believed to influence athletic performance include genetic attributes, such as fast - twitch muscles and maximum blood oxygenation level; cognitive and psychological traits and behaviors — including confidence, performance anxiety, intelligence and working memory capacity — play roles as well, though researchers don't yet know the significance of each.

If you do not have any specific intentions when you chat to a woman, other than practicing chatting for its own sake, then you are not going to risk rejection, which may be one of the fears holding you back.

There is no single player mode currently available other than the practice modes, though the devs have said they are working on bots to fill in empty spaces so playing by yourself may be a future option.

«Should law firms ever be in businesses other than practicing law?

In the NLJ piece, career consultant Stephen Seckler puts it this way: «Going to law school gives you a certain set of credentials that really aren't valuable for anything other than practicing law.»

Of course, the notion of lawyers using their legal degrees to do something other than practice law is nothing new.

Counsel not admitted to the practice of law in this jurisdiction but admitted in any other U.S. jurisdiction or foreign jurisdiction, who is employed as a lawyer in Wisconsin on a continuing basis and employed exclusively by a corporation, association, or other nongovernmental entity, the business of which is lawful and consists of activities other than the practice of law or the provision of legal services, shall register as in - house counsel within 60 days after the commencement of employment as a lawyer or if currently so employed then within 90 days of the effective date of this rule, by submitting to the Board of Bar Examiners the following:

That practical consideration does not change the fact that it is hard to characterize the actions of the lawyers at litigation finance firms whose business model includes active investing rather than passive investing in a claim as anything other than the practice of law.

In terms of the comments re communication and legal services other than the practice of law itself, some very pertinent comments.

Note (added October 22, 2006, 9 PM Mountain): Here are a couple of articles about a Stanford Law School grad doing something other than practicing law.

Not exact matches

As a business owner, I find that there are few things more valuable than being compared to what other businesses are doing so that I can learn from and even copy their best practices.

Confident people are good conversationalists, but it's a skill that some people need to practice more than others.

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

Leaders who master the practice of good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story by searching conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up with the right solution.

Put his maxim into practice: Next time you're in a meeting, focus on discerning the other person's needs rather than your own.

While conducting research for their book, The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter interviewed more than 1,000 leaders and found that practicing mindfulness, meaning a focus on the present, achieved by meditation and other techniques, helped those leaders engage with their employees, create better connections and improve company performance.

Kobe is Kobe because he practices more than even the most elite professionals in a hyper competitive industry and because he is simply more dedicated to his success than many other people are.

They often suffer from both mental and physical health problems at a higher rate than workers in other industries as a result of their working conditions, which include operating under hard - nosed management practices and getting yelled at all day by irate customers.

Besides identifying the most effective opening phrase, it turns out the study also examined the closing phrases people often use, and came up with a best practice there, too: a simple three - word phrase that prompted a much higher response rate than other, more common closings.

As the year progressed, CEO Travis Kalanick resigned amid an investor revolt, many of Uber's other top executives resigned or were forced out, shady business practices were revealed, and more than 20 employees were fired as a result of an investigation into bad behavior in the workplace that includes sexual harassment.

Since the early 2000s, splitting the Chair / CEO roles has become the norm in Canada, and with good reason: more than any other individual governance best practice, Chair / CEO split with an independent chair is highly correlated with adoption of other good governance practices and disclosure.

«The [U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission] enforces the ADEA and considers the ADEA to prohibit an employer from using neutral employment policies and practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on applicants or employees age 40 or older, if the policies or practices at issue are not based on a reasonable factor other than age,» writes Elliot at VirginiaWorkplaceLaw.com.

Although some people are naturally more fearless than others, practicing how to be fearless — or at least project fearlessness — is a completely doable task, one many have achieved in order to fulfill their role as an amazing leader.

The overall takeaway was clear, «some people failed to achieve the highest level even after completing substantially more than 10,000 of practice; others achieved the highest level with only relatively modest practice,» reports The BPS Research Digest blog summing up the findings.

Before companies like Fairchild and Hewlett - Packard began the practice fifty years ago, distributing stock options to anyone other than top management was virtually unheard of.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

With Clio as your firm's central platform, your practice can go deeper, and further, than with any other tool.

In this sense too, the RBA's communications strategy has evolved more gradually than other central banks, but practice has converged over time.

In short, the practice is nothing more than moving an investor's money into different asset classes such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, gold, other commodities, international firms, fine art, etc..

Benefits that have been earned or accrued, as well as prorated bonuses, accelerated stock or option vesting and other benefits that are consistent with HP Co.'s practices applicable to HP Co. employees other than the Section 16 officers, are not counted against the limit.

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Specifically, benefits subject to the HP Severance Policy include: (a) separation payments based on a multiplier of salary plus target bonus, or cash amounts payable for the uncompleted portion of employment agreements; (b) any gross - up payments made in connection with severance, retirement or similar payments, including any gross - up payments with respect to excess parachute payments under Section 280G of the Code; (c) the value of any service period credited to a Section 16 officer in excess of the period of service actually provided by such Section 16 officer for purposes of any employee benefit plan; (d) the value of benefits and perquisites that are inconsistent with HP Co.'s practices applicable to one or more groups of HP Co. employees in addition to, or other than, the Section 16 officers («Company Practices»); and (e) the value of any accelerated vesting of any stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock or long - term cash incentives that is inconsistent with Company Practices.

They entail significant risks that can include losses due to leveraging or other speculative investment practices, lack of liquidity, volatility of returns, restrictions on transferring interests in a fund, potential lack of diversification, absence and / or delay of information regarding valuations and pricing, complex tax structures and delays in tax reporting, less regulation and higher fees than mutual funds.

With more than 250 employees worldwide and expertise across more than 40 sectors, Sustainalytics» 120 analysts evaluate companies» management systems, practices, policies and other indicators related to environmental, social and governance risk.

Wells Fargo is not alone in such deceptive practices (though they seem to have been caught far more often than the others).

According to U.S. best practices, nonprofit boards should be comprised of at least five people who have little overlap with an organization's staff or other related parties.70 However, there is only weak evidence that following these best practices is correlated with success, and if they are correlated, that may be because more competent organizations are more likely to both follow best practices and to succeed — rather than because following best practices leads to success.

That's what this concert is, and it has no more military support than all those other religious practices being performed on the base every day.

He's a cradle Catholic that lapsed for 20 + years, hooked up with some friends that hooked him on reading the KJV without practicing other than his own blend of christianity, but has spent the last 3 years back as a practicing Catholic (getting catechised by moi.

not only are you judgmental and do you make egrgious assumptions about the practices of other posters, you seem to have no knowldge at all of that book you wave around in your holier - than - thou rantings.

He's a cradle Catholic that lapsed for 20 + years, hooked up with some friends that hooked him on reading the KJV without practicing other than his own blend of christianity, but has spent the last 3 years back as a practicing Catholic (getting catechised by moi).

I am VERY tired of people preaching to me and others about how «a Christian would and should act» when the hypocrisy of the matter is that I, a «none believer» practice «The Golden Rule» more than most!

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

In practice, it takes way more than one exposure for any bit of information to stick, and most of what does stick is transmitted no further than to other members of the same small tribe.

People should practice their religion at home or at their church and leave it out of the workplace other than setting a good example of honest behaviour.

Here's the Mormon logic behind baptisms for the dead: (1) Bible says you have to be baptised to get into heaven, (2) lots of people died without any chance to get baptised, (3) the Bible mentions baptism for the dead, which was practiced by early christians but isn't practised by anybody now (other than Mormons), and (4) God lvoes everybody but he is also truthful, so baptism for the dead reconciles the statement that everybody must be baptised with the unfair situation of not everyone being able to do so.

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

Sometimes a facially neutral governmental practice will affect some beliefs or institutions more severely than others.

If that is NOT what you are suggesting, please explain in what ways — how and where — you would accept the «free practice of religion» anywhere other than in a religious building or at home.

And since practicing righteousness, avoiding sin, and loving God and others are all results of being born again, rather than conditions to it, it seems that faith also must be a result of being born again, rather than a condition of it.