Sentences with phrase «perform more acts»

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For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

Openness asks that we eliminate biases, empathy demands that we push for a more genuine understanding of one another, and generosity requires that we perform an actual act of kindness.»

It's been close to half a century since Trump retained Cohn (and more than 30 years since the iconic fixer, who died in 1986, performed an act of legal brutality for Trump).

More than 130 concert goers purchased tickets to hear Broady perform, along with seven other acts.

American politicians know that they need something more than secular contract theory to persuade Americans to perform these acts of political loyalty.

A good death, he says, «is finally nothing more or less than a death approached and performed in a manner consistent with a good, well - lived life... Dying well is a morally significant act insofar as it bears evangelical witness to our most profound theological convictions.»

If, said Mr. Chicken, «for every criticism of the Pope you wished to make online, you were to pay for the privilege by first performing an act of real charity for someone in secret (for you can not be certain that the comment you planned on making is such), then we would have a holier Church and a lot more gentle comments.»

God requires more than just faith; he also requires that we stop doing evil and perform acts of kindness.

He writes, «Every man, no matter how innocent he may be, owes God more than his life; and so, although these persons do not will it by any explicit act, yet they perform an act that is owed, since all men are obliged to give their blood and their life whenever God's honor demands it.»

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

It is an act that can scarcely be said to be performed more than to a certain degree.

An obvious example of this habit is the term «pro-choice,» which refers to someone in favor of performing a certain act without actually naming and, more important, scrutinizing what that act is.

If, e.g., as sometimes happens, the man, after a time, more or less, recovers the faculties of which the injury to his brain had deprived him, and that not in consequence of a renewal of the injured part, but in consequence of the inhibited functions being performed by the vicarious action of other parts, the easiest explanation certainly is that, after a time, consciousness constitutes the remaining parts into a mechanism capable of acting as a substitute for the lost parts.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

Scripture does not require us to perform acts of kindness to an enemy which will help that enemy do more harm to us or a loved one.

Nutritionist Jonny Bowden explained that fiber performs several crucial functions for the body: it helps digestion, acts as a pre-biotic and maintains blood sugar for more consistent energy levels.

Ambitious CEO who can do his job would push more on transfers and act quicker, he would find a new manager to replace Wenger if Wenger can not perform with his main targets being bought.

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline

More than 20 million children nationwide are expected to perform 2 billion acts of kindness during the 2018 Great Kindness Challenge.

It makes you aware of who needs help and who is helping, and allows you to find more chances to perform acts of kindness.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

Both of these commentators focus on the comedian who performed at the after - dinner entertainment and, more importantly, Nigel Farage's defence of his deeply unpleasant act, leading Dan Hodges to say in the Telegraph: «Ukip is now a racist party».

Like Speaker Sheldon Silver and Vito Lopez, they appear to walk «Scott» free, to perform more morally reprehensible acts on our behalf.

In his need to perform a balancing act with his restive, divided, bemused party, his dependence on a seemingly disreputable Downing Street court and in his knackered, resilient, scheming determination to keep going almost as an end in itself he reminds me more of Harold Wilson.

Politics professor Meg Russell has clearly distinguished the various potential functions of a second chamber — representing different interests (regional or religious, for example); being more independent of the executive than the first chamber; acting as a «veto player», and performing different parliamentary duties such as more detailed scrutiny of legislation.

Indeed, more than a year has passed since Mr. Reynoso and Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres put up a pair of bills jointly called «The Right to Know Act,» which would obligate police officers to identify themselves before performing a search without a warrant, and to inform civilians of their constitutional right to refuse to comply.

He thanked Cuomo for introducing and signing the SAFE Act, which broadened the definition of banned assault weapons, increased the reporting duty of mental health providers, mandated all gun sales be performed with a background check and banned magazines capable of holding more than ten bullets.

More advanced versions of this palm - size flapper could spy and perform reconnaissance while acting like an ordinary hummingbird in the bush.

Rich, who acted as a consultant on the U-Multirank project, says that the top performing universities will still perform well in this ranking system, but they won't always score more highly than institutions with different aims.

Moreover, they plan to perform more and longer simulations to understand how the instability acts together with neutrino heating and enhances the efficiency of the latter.

Yet according to Willem Hillenius, a physiologist at UCLA who is also a paleontologist, maxilloturbinals perform an even more fundamental task than acting as a filter: they permit mammals like us to be warm - blooded.

Working closely with more than 200 data contributors, WWARN is able to use this powerful resource to perform pooled analyses that uncover new insights into the emergence and spread of malaria drug resistance, including evaluating the efficacy of antimalarial combination therapies (ACTs), and examining whether known molecular markers can predict clinical outcomes.

When researchers asked women to watch either an erotic film, a sports video, or a «neutral» video of a train, and then perform a series of unpleasant acts (like drinking out of a cup with a bug in it), they found that those who'd watched the sexual acts rated the tasks as less disgusting — and were also able to complete more of them.

It seems that the very act of lifting an unguided (i.e. «free») weight recruits more muscle fibers than performing the same movement on a guided machine (even bodyweight Pull - Ups have been shown in MRI analyses to intensely recruit more muscle fibers than Pull - downs with a cable.)

Like a research subject performs better when they are wearing a «doctors lab coat» instead of a «painters coat», perhaps I too will act more professional by simply giving myself such a title.

Try making relationships less of a performing act and more of a partnership in writing the story.

Victims are lured into an online relationship through social media or pornographic websites; they are then coerced into performing sexual acts in front of the camera, the CAFC said.This ensures a better chance at developing a lasting relationship because it's built on more than merely attraction and chemistry.We believe in the quality of the introduction rather than the quantity.Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 416 -222-TIPS (8477), online at text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637), or Leave A Tip on Facebook.When it comes to the apps on our phones, we tend to become loyal to a select few.

If you have sent them any sexual pictures or recorded yourself performing sexual acts, the fraudsters will threaten you with showing the pictures or videos to your family, friends, or workmates, unless you send them more cash.

I don't understand why this show is called flash gordon, if we ignore the newer, more realistic technology, the compleatly different Flash Gordon charicter and everything else the only thing that reminds me of the original show is the bad acting... if we look beyond the fact that this show is in no way flash gordon... well it still under performs when compared to even the worst of

In the New York party scene, Del Toro had to restructure the waltz performed by Thomas and Edith to be only performed by Hiddleston and Wasikowska, lest the production have to shell out over a million more dollars in upgrading his acting extras to «dancers».

It's already been confirmed, that Wii U is indeed more powerful than the PS3 & 360, also Wii U's GPU has the ability to act and perform the same functions as a CPU, so that means the GPU can take alot of slack off of the Wii U's CPU, and that's what's going to make it possible for Wii U to keep up with the PS4 and next Xbox, it's called a Memory Intensified design, and it's a unique and very clever design of hardware by Nintendo, Wii U has a bit more power under it's hood than you think, just wait till 3rd partys start to master Wii U's hardware, I see good games on Wii U's horizon.

The deleted / extended bits are as follows: Andy Samberg (4:12) on Bob Dylan, Aziz Ansari (1:42) on acting and Twitter, alternate Reggie banter (0:39), Medi - Ship complications (1:06), Fabrice Fabrice (4:21) performing a poem on a lost city, Anna Kendrick (1:47) recalling her Tony nomination as a 12 - year - old and eating a cat's liver, Rodney Waber (5:34) dishes more Harrison Ford gossip, dances, and reveals a senior citizen ticket price trick, David Cross (2:49) talks talking animals and white toilets, Senator Dewhurst (3:14) confesses strange sex dreams about his aunt and his plan to drive drunk, Zoe Saldana (2:03) answers questions about movies and acts out a Jerry Maguire reboot, «Garry Marshall» (1:19) explains why he's done with movies, Gillian Jacobs (1:38) discusses the ghost of Christopher Marlowe and the conflict in Nebraska, Chef Emeril Lugosi (0:34) endures a pun about sun - dried tomatoes, Andy Richter (4:59) delivers a kid - friendly version of «The Aristocrats» joke, pulls a gun after not answering a fart question (a task handled by Andy Samberg on the show itself), and responds to the 1990s TV movie The Shining, Tom Perdy (0:44) shows off a couple of additional cartoons.

catches up with the country star, who says that performing in concert is more satisfying than movie acting because of the «instant feedback,» and chillingly confesses he could relate to the abusive character he plays in Friday Night Lights.

LOS ANGELES, CA (May 17, 2018)---- One of the most popular live acts in the world, Dutch violinist and concert leader, André Rieu, has announced that the film of his 2018 Maastricht concert will premiere in U.S. theaters nationwide for one night only on Tuesday, August 28 as he performs his hometown Maastricht concert with a celebrat... [Read More]

KW: You're a Renaissance Man who does acting, directing, producing, performing, recording, scoring movies, and more.

The acting is good, but as is expected of child actors, some more emotional scenes are performed quite poorly (and dare I say it; laughably).

The Every Student Succeeds Act pushes states to move beyond test scores in gauging school performance and gives them all sorts of new flexibility when it comes to funding, turning around low - performing schools, and more.

The authors of the No Child Left Behind Act wanted to force districts and states to take more aggressive steps to improve low - performing schools.

Labeled as chronically under - performing under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, all electives had been stripped away to make more time for reading and math drills in an effort to boost state test scores.

The fact that students at APIP schools were no more likely to graduate from high school or take the SAT or ACT makes it improbable that an influx of high - performing students is responsible for the improvements observed for other outcomes.