Sentences with phrase «people at act»

The people at ACT, the College Board, and NAGB have sweat bullets developing metrics that gauge what a twelfth grader must know and be able to do in order to be truly college - ready — again, in the sense of having solid prospects of succeeding in credit - bearing college courses in one subject or another.

Not exact matches

Many people have commented on the difficulty of knowing, in advance, what sorts of behaviours prosecutors are going to decide to take a swing at, whether in applying the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or deciding when CEOs have neglected their duties to shareholders.

Anyone acting with passion knows they had to work at it, like falling in love with a person.

I shared in my book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work, five ways that people could show others they're valued — through words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time, tangible gifts and physical touch.

«At Uber, you can see the connection between burnt out people acting out,» Huffington said.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

At this point, the indications are that Aghdam's attack was the kind of event that has become all too familiar in American society: an isolated act committed by a person with a shaky grip on reality.

Li Yi, chief fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said the act of publicly displaying images and selected private information on offenders could prove effective in China where many people are still indifferent to traffic rules.

Those people, according to the complaint, include Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Russian - American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin — both of whom attended a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower last June to discuss a possible repeal of the Magnitsky Act.

An editor also acts as a liaison between author and other people at the publisher.

«That is why we have committed to reviewing the Gender Recognition Act to look at ways of streamlining and demedicalising the process for changing a person's legal gender, as well as reviewing gender markers in official documents.

Simply put, the Rule of One is this: whenever you find yourself believing or acting as though any «one» thing, person, idea, time, formula, or form of value is all - important, it's the surest sign that you are missing the bigger picture and, along with it, the threat or opportunity at your doorstep.

At first, toxic leaders may act like they care deeply about the organization's cause and people.

The attack appeared to be the third major act of terrorism in France since January 2015, when 12 people were killed in a shooting at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's offices.

But anyway we did it and then finally I went to these acting classes there and I met some people and a cinematographer at Universal years ago named Irving Glassberg called me up and said who I'd met and he had... We talked about sports and swimming and all that kind of stuff.

By acting unselfishly you prove to your people that you have their best interest at heart, and you break down defensive barriers that might otherwise make it challenging to share honest feedback.

Some people said the screed, directed at CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, drew attention to prevalent wage issues in the area; others accused the employee of acting entitled and failing to find better or more work or a place to live that costs less than her current $ 1,245 rent.

The most successful people have adopted a set of habits that helps them attract opportunities, and then puts them in the right place at the right time to act on them.

More recently, researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of Manitoba found that when we expect people to accept us, we act warmer toward them — thereby increasing the chances that they really will like us.

Jeff Howe, a journalism professor at Northwestern University, who was one of the first professionals to use the word, defines it as «the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.»

I marvel at the «mature» people I know who refuse to act their age.

And if it's a young person you're putting on your books, the Fair Labor Standards Act sets the minimum age for employment in non-agricultural employment at 14 years old.

People in this job category often supplement their incomes in other ways, such as teaching acting at private acting schools.

The air attack, denounced by Damascus and its allies as an illegal act of aggression, was unlikely to alter the course of a multi-sided war that has killed at least half a million people.

Then came the task of assigning people to act on those goals, committing the company's director of business development, for example, to drum up at least one new international business partner within 90 days.

If you go at a person NYPD Blue style, you're bound to taint the subject; even an innocent person will act nervous if they're accused of lying or feel pushed into a corner.

In general, a person who has beneficially owned restricted shares of our common stock for at least six months would be entitled to sell their securities provided that (i) such person is not deemed to have been one of our affiliates at the time of, or at any time during the 90 days preceding, a sale and (ii) we are subject to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, periodic reporting requirements for at least 90 days before the sale.

«Our goal is to have a space environment that is populated by people acting responsibly,» said Peter Marquez, vice president for global engagement at Planetary Resources.

We have the right to acquire all of our then - outstanding common units at the then - current trading price either if 10 % or less of our common units are held by persons other than our general partner and its affiliates or if we are required to register as an investment company under the 1940 Act.

The technology companies have contended that their virtual marketplaces, in which people act as contractors and use their own possessions to provide services to the public at the touch of a smartphone button, afford workers flexibility and freedom.

At the very least, they're evidence that she's not the first person to accuse Trump surrogates of acting like B - movie thugs.

Mr. Trump also spoke at length about the standoff with armed protesters who last Saturday seized the headquarters at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, suggesting that he would have called the leader of the group to try to make a deal to end it — and would have acted against them if negotiations failed because «you can not let people take over federal property.»

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

As the burials began for the 17 victims, the F.B.I. acknowledged that it had failed to act on a warning last month that Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in Wednesday's shooting, might kill people at a school.

«Unless we can surveil them 24/7, they should be incarcerated,» Conservative MP says of people at high risk of committing terrorist acts

Unless we act now to preserve the DACA program, all 780,000 hardworking young people will lose their ability to work legally in this country, and every one of them will be at immediate risk of deportation.

The Official Residences Act gives the Prime Minister wide latitude to hire household staff «as necessary» — as of July there would seem to have been at least six people minding 24 Sussex, including the chef — but Trudeau is only months removed from taking his own stand on family assistance.

The answer is simply that the Williams Act gave the SEC authority to adopt rules regulating tender offers and this rule was adopted in 1980, at a time when tender offers were the principal means of acquisitions and there were concerns about people trading based on advanced knowledge of tender offers.

In general, a person who has beneficially owned restricted shares of our common stock for at least six months would be entitled to sell their securities provided that (i) such person is not deemed to have been one of our affiliates at the time of, or at any time during the 90 days preceding, a sale and (ii) we are subject to the Exchange Act periodic reporting requirements for at least 90 days before the sale and are current in filing our periodic reports.

«When you look at the enrollment numbers for the 1st District, the basic health plan enrollees are now 30,000 people, 30,000 North Carolinians who live in my district are now enrolled in the Affordable Care Act who did not have health insurance previously,» Butterfield said.

Consequently any person acting on it does so entirely at their own risk.

«The long, charitable answer is that cryptocurrencies act as money, at best, only for some people and to a limited extent, and even then only in parallel with the traditional currencies of the users,» added Carney.

In addition, any person who could potentially become an activist investor of a Texas - based public company and who solicits money from an investor must, before accepting money and at least once each year, provide written notice to any such prospective investor stating that it could potentially become subject to these rules and a copy of the Texas Act.

Companies, even without realizing it, have biases that promote people who look and act a certain way (like those traditional leaders) into leadership positions, perpetuating inequality at the top.

then have to take a good look at how they act towards people who are gay.

Haven't we been at war for the last 10 years with people who act based on what their religion told them to do?

correct the acts reflect the people at that time.

The gospels have different people acting as the high priest during Jesus's trial (There was only ONE high priest at a time back then).

We are good at writing songs that inspire people to think and feel and act and change.

But there is so little of the miraculous that happens at all in North America, that to tear down people (whatever they look / sound / act like) who seem them seems risky to me.