Sentences with phrase «past practices as»

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.

The show calls attention to past practices as well.

Not exact matches

Global investor confidence grew in the U.S. in the past year but cooled in some previously hot emerging markets such as Brazil, China and India, according to a report released today by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Deloitte's Emerging Growth Company Practice.

About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.

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.

Lars Schmidt, a former HR practitioner who now runs Amplify, an employer branding and search consultancy, points out that while the field has evolved significantly over the past few decades — becoming more strategic and aligned with business, as well as more automated and data - driven — the practice of employee relations, or how workplace grievances are handled, has hardly changed.

This is directly tied to the previous point: Just as daydreaming frequently involves events from the past, it also frequently involves rehearsing future conversations, allowing us to practice planned encounters, be it with our boss, our spouse or anyone else with whom we have meaningful relationship.

In the past year, the Major League Soccer team the Seattle Sounders signed up to use Starfire as their practice facility, giving the nonprofit additional cachet and revenue.

It is easy to get in the rut of always following best practices, or using what has worked well for you in the past as a starting point for what you will do moving forward.

It's also a legacy of «redlining» by banks — the past practice, now illegal, of classifying minority - dominated neighborhoods as too dangerous for lending.

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.

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.

Chris has been a instrumental influence in the growth of the search marketing industry with his 10 + year old search consulting practice, past involvement with Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies as well as his new role as Executive Editor at Search Engine Land, running the Search Marketing Now webcasts and helping to program SMX conferences.

If cash flow has been flowing less than you'd prefer, here are a few of Durand's suggestions for amping it up: Establish regular invoicing procedures (and to boost cash flow, consider switching from a monthly invoicing cycle to a biweekly invoicing practice); offer incentives to customers for paying invoices early, such as small percentages off; and finally, don't let past - due invoices fester.

As another example, in the past twelve months, Coca - Cola has experienced both widespread panic in Europe over a supposedly tainted product and protest marches in the United States over purported discriminatory hiring practices.

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.

Because these expectations are hard to measure, past inflation is often used in practice as a proxy for expected inflation, but it is important to remember that this may not be accurate.

The nature of the insults have changed, but insults have been around forever and bad as they are, they sure beat people killing each other over political and religious differences, practices frequent in the past and common around the globe today.

Yes, us atheists could be more polite, but believers need to take that big step past childish beliefs and / or practice their silliness in private (as in stop pushing their beliefs into politics and government).

It may come as a surprise, therefore, to learn that the majority of Buddhists, past and present, have never performed regular meditation practice.

They were regarded as practices of a pagan past from which the Hippocratic tradition, assimilated into and reshaped by Judeo - Christian ethical thought, rescued humankind for two millennia.

«Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.»

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.

The presently discussed theory and practice of human rights are very much as evolved in and by Western society during the past few centuries.

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?

Evangelism in the U.S. today, as practiced by the denominations, is a very different thing from what it has been in the past — and it is constantly changing.

But there is one recurrent story from which, if I am honest, I have repeatedly averted my gaze when considering what to write about in these columns: the seemingly never - ending story of the world - wide pandemic of paedophile scandals among the Catholic clergy, and the apparently universal practice of episcopal cover - up, involving as it did (I use the past tense hopefully) a - to put it mildly - less than adequate concern with the sufferings of the victims.

As I've participated in conferences and events over the past couple years, I've noticed that some of the wisest and warmest people I've met have been Mennonites, so I've been trying to learn more about their theology and practice.

At least the doctrine and practice of AE / Dalahast's nasty religion has shifted enough that they are no longer torturing and threatening scientists who expose the Christian god fraud, or at least not as much as in years past.

My 18 year old daughter took it this past year because we wanted her to discover for herself what she believed in and she walked away as an Atheist... a choice she made for herself and one that her practicing pagan father is fine with.

By conjuring up notions of the traditional wedding as timeless and unchanging, Howard writes, businesses have been able to slip in new products and requirements, resulting in what Mead dubs the «traditionalesque»: «a pleasing mélange of apparently old - fashioned, certainly nostalgic... practices that may have little relevance to the past or to the future and are really only illustrative of the present in which they emerge.»

Sufficed to say there are many examples of cultures, more past but some present that were / are generally accepting of homosexual practices as normal and natural.

The American bishops did much better: while also making the matter optional, they offered a powerful and sympathetic discussion of the religious reasons for the old observance and urged American Catholics to continue the practice as a gesture of solidarity with, and gratitude for, the passion of Christ, as an act of fidelity to the Christian past, and to help «preserve a saving and necessary difference from the spirit of the world.»

To give final devotion to the book is to deny the final claim of God; to look for the mighty deeds of God only in the records of the past is to deny that he is the living God; to love the book as the source of strength and of salvation is to practice an idolatry that can bring only confusion into life.

Hermeneutics is being defined as «the art of interpretation and application of texts, symbols and practices in the present and from the past, and the theory about the methods of such interpretation and application» (para. 5).

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Like Zora Neale Hurston wrote of the Sanctified Church, he understood the power of the «shouting» and yet how such practices were already being shunned as odd relics of a past no longer wanted.

As is often the case, today's troubling practices have their origins in the bad ideas of the past.

Sue is also a yoga instructor, which is something I admire, as I've been getting back into my yoga practice this past year.

This was one of my first recipes I tweaked and mastered over the course of the past year, inspired as a pre - or post-workout snack in between practices for my husband.

The significance of this property and its preservation practices can not be underestimated as, without the Napa River Inn's dedication to upholding its rich and storied past, downtown Napa on the whole just wouldn't» be quite as remarkable.

Our past reliance upon «the tradition of the ancient Greeks» and other similar archaic practices is one of the main reasons why our position as the world's top track - and - field power today is seriously threatened.

But no one knew that he was fast fast until his growth spurt came at age 14 and the defensive - backs coach at Arlington Lamar High kept seeing this skinny freshman wide receiver fly past the varsity cornerbacks during spring practice as if they were fence posts.

Isleib stayed atthe university as a therapist and eventually opened a private practice outsideNew Haven specializing in, she says, «the good old - fashioned psychodynamicsthat examine past history to shed light on current problems.»

I'm headed now to the sideline of Fremont HS as I'm familiar with some of the Oakland football kids from both teams that I coached this past summer at the Marshawn Lynch annual Fam1st Football camp which took place at the Oakland Raiders practice facility in Alameda.

She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Northern Virginia Dietetic Association where she serves is the current Social Media Chair and past Council on Practice chair, Virginia Dietetic Association, School Nutrition Association where she serves on the Young Professionals Taskforce, School Nutrition Association of Loudoun County where she serves as President, Nutrition Entrepreneurs Dietetics Practice Group, Sports and Cardiovascular Nutrition Dietetics Practice Group, Dietitians in Business and Communications Dietetics Practice Group, and is an active member of the Young Professionals Committee for the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce where she serves as Social Media Chair.

The irony is that — especially with all the domestic skills I've been practicing basically daily over the past decade — I'd accept being the SAHD in a marriage with a career woman (I trained as a historian; we're paid in pittances anyway) in a heartbeat!

Kimberley has worked the past several years in clinical practice as a Registered Dietitian, specializing in medical, infant, and prenatal nutrition therapy.

So if I were seeking to communicate a single resource to dads around cultivating vulnerability and spirituality, I would certainly recommend Brenne Brown's work, because she has such a great sense of how power and vulnerability work to support one another, engaging the idea of working toward healing our past wounds around a practice of vulnerability is essential, not just as fathers, but as men who work and live and engage in the culture at large.

On the subject of making mistakes, remember, just as you wouldn't want every youthful mistake, every wrong choice, every unfortunate decision to be broadcast to the world or even just joked about privately instead of being left in the past where it belongs, be sure to practice «The Golden Rule of Parenting» and treat your children how you prefer to be treated.