Sentences with phrase «periods of adversity»

Statistics and theory reinforce the robustness of value strategies as a structural source of excess return for those with a long horizon and the staying power to hold through periods of adversity.

We want to know management very well and it's important to see how their operational view varies over time — especially during periods of adversity.

Thus, well established profitable businesses tend to be stable, consistent, even surprisingly predictable, and are capable of withstanding periods of adversity without lasting damage.

Resilient children are those who do well during or after an adverse event, or a period of adversity.

«I knew from my time before in Springfield, one of the great assets there were the people who dug in for a long period of adversity and who were deeply rooted in the community and could have gone elsewhere but they didn't,» he said.

Not exact matches

There is an ever present question for those of us who have never had to face a period of real and overwhelming adversity.

It's period piece, check, recounting the indescribable trials faced by an underdog, check, triumph of the human spirit over adversity and injustice, check, directed by queen of the A-list, Hollywood darling AND penned by the Coen Brothers!

Previous research has suggested that «reducing adversity and promoting learning in the first 1,000 days of life is particularly critical, as this is a period when children's brains are most sensitive to environmental input,» McCoy says.

Recognizing that priorities for both laboratory - based investigation and community - based action are determined by the meeting participants, a preliminary menu of potential topics includes the following: 1) Advancing the frontiers of scientific research: • construct a developmental framework to study the differential effects of biological embedding of significant adversity related to age, beginning in the prenatal period and extending into adulthood.

You may have a period of intense growth — perhaps some adversity that drives you to your knees and calls forth the blessings of heaven.

Sparkling with charm and full of captivating period detail, Letters from Skye is a testament to the power of love to overcome great adversity, and marks Jessica Brockmole as a stunning new literary voice.

Consequently, any action towards sustainable development already commits governments and stakeholders to take the lead in the development of the information necessary to facilitate the actions needed to cope with the adversities of climate events, from the transitional period until a new climate system is established, and to take advantage of the new climate system's potential advantages.

Through a long period of apprenticeship learning, an individual acquires a vast body of knowledge that includes mindfulness (although Minuchin didn't use the term), and a deep understanding of self in relation to others, under the pressure of family circumstances and social adversity (which he did describe, in Families of the Slums).

Finally, the BEIP data are unique in having detailed information on the timing of exposure to adversity, which allows us to determine whether there is a sensitive period of stress response development in humans.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.

Adversity for the child was measured using the Quality of the Family Environment (QFE)[56], a clinician rating scale of the lowest quality of family environment to which the child was exposed during a substantial period (at least 1 year) before the age of 12.