Sentences with phrase «over the discipline of»

Stepfathers are expected to form instant loving bonds and quickly take over the discipline of stepchildren.

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But according to a new study, if the problem was more personal, such as a weakness of character or failure of self - discipline, picking over the bones of the past isn't going to yield insights.

if the problem was more personal, such as a weakness of character or failure of self - discipline, picking over the bones of the past isn't going to yield insights.

But, looking back over my own experience, I feel sure that you can teach people how to work more empathetically — that is, to consider more thoroughly the needs of other people and other disciplines.

Looking at the strategy of the company, I think we've succeeded over the last year since we transitioned to Alphabet to be more disciplined about the bets we're supporting.

But over a career at the highest levels in corporate finance, Porat has been equally unflappable, navigating physical obstacles and fighting great metaphorical discomfort — the race - the - clock stress of the financial crisis, the tension of negotiations among big - ego executives, and now the culture clash of imposing financial discipline at tech's biggest idea factory.

Capital control regulations in China will result in greater discipline among Chinese acquirers over the long run, says Harsha Basnayake of EY.

But if you worked at GE at that time and heard Welch speak, he would have focused over and over again on just three things: globalize the business, drive service and recurring revenues, and improve quality throughout the company by embracing the discipline of six sigma.

Consider that over the past 20 years, software development has been the discipline from which some of the most radical breakthroughs in business have emerged.

The report's conclusions: The issue most commonly raised in the cases is that an employer has «overbroad policies restricting employee use of social media or that an employer unlawfully discharged or disciplined one or more employees over contents of social media posts.»

A sub-field of AI known as «machine learning» is particularly promising — this discipline is interested in creating algorithms that improve at tasks over time to come to original conclusions.

If you've been on the site for awhile, you have a head start because we've already discussed the importance of a discipline known as asset allocation, which involves selecting among different asset classes to build a well - balanced portfolio that can weather different economic environments, tax regimes, global conditions, inflation or deflation, and a host of other variables that history has shown will fluctuate over time.

Fairfax seeks to differentiate itself by combining disciplined underwriting with the investment of its assets on a total return basis, which Fairfax believes provides above - average returns over the long - term.

Mr. Xiang's dismissal had been widely expected after Chinese anti-corruption investigators announced a month ago that they had investigated him over «severe violations of discipline.»

The message is to encourage investors to think carefully about their risk tolerance, their true investment horizon, the extent to which they experience distress if an overvalued market advances without them, the extent to which they believe that historical evidence should inform investment decisions, and the extent to which they would be able to adhere to their investment discipline in the face of what could very well be a 50 % market loss over the completion of this cycle.

We'll confidently pursue our investment discipline in any event, in the full expectation that far better conditions will emerge to embrace market exposure over the completion of this cycle, as they always have in market cycles across history.

«People just peed in bottles because they lived in fear of being disciplined over «idle time» and losing their jobs just because they needed the loo.»

It can be out of the ashes of economic disaster or through diligent and disciplined investment over time.

What we were really providing investors was a level of discipline that few individual investors can muster over time — by adopting a long term asset allocation strategy and using low cost investment vehicles, our long term performance was always going to be better than the average individual investor who tends to time markets and chase performance, with little understanding of the costs they are incurring.

Looking back on my experience in digital marketing over the past 20 years with the advent of disciplines like SEO, social media and content marketing, I'd say the momentum around influencer marketing has many of the same characteristics.

The difference between the two traders is that only one of them may have the mental abilities to manage risk, plan for losses, manage trades and execute capital management correctly and consistently (meaning with discipline over time).

Technical analysis can help you add objectivity to your trading strategy, thereby allowing you to make more disciplined decisions over the long - haul and ultimately improve your profitability and chances of beating the broad stock market.

While these are all legitimate connections to make with the Buffett name, perhaps he is most synonymous with the discipline of value investing — the style and mindset Buffett has made famous over the decades.

As I noted in Chumps, Champs, and Bamboo, «part of the ability to sustain discipline comes from understanding the profile of returns from that discipline over time.

From these and other experiences, Ameet developed a deep appreciation for the power of disciplined savings and investment over time.

«I turn down many otherwise down attractive investments because of their weak balance sheets, and I believe that this discipline is a material reason for our success over the years.»

He is the editor of several investing newsletters with the central belief that «a disciplined quantitative analysis system can discover stocks that should significantly outperform the overall market over the long term.»

Our trading discipline has been honed over the past 14 years of trading, analyzing and covering the gold and silver mining industry group.

Continue reading to see how that reliable recipe of discipline and patience led to an individual stock gain of more than 70 % over a six - week period.

Over the past decade, EURO leaders were incapable of agreeing on the political institutions that would ensure fiscal discipline, as well as the structural policies needed to make their economies competitive.

Over the past two months, in which the main stock market indexes have been trending steadily lower, the benefits of consistently following a disciplined, rule - based swing trading strategy and market timing system have again been brought to light.

When measures of both are hard - negative, as they are now, investors should think carefully about their own risk - tolerance and their ability to sustain losses without abandoning their discipline, making sure to align their investments with the actual horizon over which they will need to spend the funds.

Robotti & Company offers a disciplined investment philosophy derived from over thirty years of experience.

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Over the long years that I have known Wayne, beginning in 2002 when T. Rowe Price purchased 8 % of POT, Wayne has proven to be one of the most disciplined and thoughtful CFOs with whom I have had the pleasure of working.

Management has a long track record of disciplined capital allocation, having reduced the share count by nearly one - third over the past decade, and it recently initiated a fairly generous dividend.

As we evaluate the performance of the Oakmark Funds over this period, we are reminded of the importance of staying true to our research discipline and the value of having a long - term investment focus.

The central message of our discipline is that valuations are enormously informative about prospects for long - term and full - cycle returns, but that outcomes over shorter segments of the market cycle are driven by changes in the psychological preferences of investors toward speculation or risk - aversion.

So even if we can plausibly imagine that a slightly better Morsi and a slightly more disciplined opposition might have existed and could have made better choices over the course of the last year, and thus allowed the fragile shoot of democratic compromise to take hold, these choices weren't made, and so the chasm between the liberals and the faithful, and the dependence of the former upon the army, are now simply the facts of Egyptian situation, the ones that one must now work from, right?

Of course he and his attorney claim it was the views themselves, but he even admits that he was disciplined repeatedly over a period of years for harassing peoplOf course he and his attorney claim it was the views themselves, but he even admits that he was disciplined repeatedly over a period of years for harassing peoplof years for harassing people.

I should point out that biblical studies has a distinct advantage over theology when it comes to finding a place in the university, since it is a historical discipline which can and often does just as well locate elsewhere — for instances in a department of Near East studies.

The result of these disciplines, over time, is that Molly never feels so angry that she wants to devastate the offender.

Second, many are not demonstrating more disciplined reason, as they are falling all over them selves to embrace many types of spirituality which are completely baseless and clearly entirely self - serving.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

All such ministers were directly under the supervision of the secretary who exercised a strict discipline over each of them.

(2) «Religion sacralizes the norms and values of established society, maintaining the dominance of group goals over individual wishes, and of group disciplines over individual impulses.»

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

Here's an observation, too: if these people are debating over what the best objects are to strike children with, they've gone beyond violent discipline into an area of seriously evil pathology.

The book is an anthology of over forty writers drawn from a wide spectrum of disciplines and perspectives.