Sentences with phrase «powerful account of»

Sandra Bloom and Brian Farragher have co-authored Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis in Human Services a powerful account of how organizational trauma in human services systems both mirrors and magnifies the trauma - related problems their clients seek relief from and then provides a framework for creating truly trauma - informed services.

A major audiobook about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half - billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted.

At a meeting on human rights in the CDM, two representatives for the Ngäbe - Buglé indigenous community in Panama gave a powerful account of the negative impacts of the CDM - supported Barro Blanco Dam.

A powerful account of eighteen months in the lives of three soldiers and a journalist, all patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed's amputee wing Time magazine's Michael Weisskopf was riding through Baghdad in the back of U.S. Army Humvee, an embedded reporter alongside soldiers from the 1st Armored Division, when he heard a metallic thunk.

The powerful account of a blind woman who was raped in her home and then victimized by the legal system.

By a former Marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.

In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming that grabs readers by the throat even as it touches their hearts.

This raw and powerful account of his 10 years on the road is consistently gripping and often hilarious.

By coincidence, The Big Short opens in UK cinemas just as Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes, a powerful account of the human cost of the housing crash, comes to DVD.

Mad To Be Normal offers a powerful account of Laing's Kingsley Hall experiment with a stunning performance from David Tennant that really gets under the skin of an utterly compelling figure.

Though carefully rendered from a historical perspective, this powerful account of female friendship and bonding under the most cruel conditions lacks the narrative focus and dramatic shapeliness to generate emotional excitement.

Gary McLain's simple, straightforward, powerful account of his addiction ought to be required reading for every junior high school student.

Listen to the powerful account of how a seasoned Wall Street and Derivative trader succeeded after attending our course.

From personal childhood stories of poverty and violence to the immense struggles that ESL students face today — these teachers share their personal and powerful accounts of the moment that crystallized Read more about New audio podcast series: «Teachers of the Year» -LSB-...]

«For those entertaining the idea that we should just rocket away from an overheated planet to some new world, or perhaps fill the atmosphere with sulphur to block out the sun, here's a remarkably powerful accounting of our actual responsibility — past, present, and future.»

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Taking just households into account, the powerful winds produced enough to power 7.116 million homes — almost three times the number of residential properties in Scotland.

«The single and most powerful element that any successful company can have is adaptability,» says Michael Hsu, founder and CEO of autonomous accounting firm DeepSky.

But some experts argue that many investors are passing up (or underutilizing) a powerful savings tool — the triple tax - advantaged health savings account — in their pursuit of a secure retirement.

Hackers looking to gain access to your work and personal accounts can use powerful software to crack encrypted passwords by guessing millions of variations per second.

Many of the businesses that freelancers work with rely on powerful accounting software, like QuickBooks ® or Sage, so it is important that they consider an expense management system that directly integrates with the most popular accounting software on the market.

This instance of success shows just how powerful and profitable your account can be even if you don't sell your own product.

The most powerful hit to profits will come from rising labor costs, which account for between two - thirds and three - quarters of all business expense.

Her account appeared in the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the stern upholder of German financial orthodoxy and not a publication usually given to accounts of workplace abuse by large and powerful corporations.

The powerful Cyberspace Administration — the ultimate authority over what is online in China — also shut down dozens of blogs and social media accounts for covering celebrity news and gossip that month.

High - frequency traders, using powerful computers to trade at exceptionally high speeds, now account for up to 60 percent of daily turnover.

With a powerful and experienced in - house accounting and finance team, Fairview is able to provide institutional investors with a range of innovative private equity portfolio management solutions.

Powerful integrations with virtually any ERP, accounting or other line of business application gives you an even better return on investment.

The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.

LinkedIn Groups are one of the most powerful sections of LinkedIn, which is part of the reason you should rely on your individual accounts more than your company account in the first place.

Profoundly powerful and fast - emerging technologies — from ubiquitous digital connectivity, to smarter big data, to computing systems that can reason and learn — are transforming a business landscape that accounts for almost 20 % of the U.S. economy and steadily growing shares elsewhere in the world.

The disintegration of the news business — and, especially, of newspapers, which continue to produce most of the journalism aimed at holding government and other powerful institutions to account — has been nothing short of breathtaking.

Experiential word of mouth is the most common and powerful form, typically accounting for 50 to 80 percent of word - of - mouth activity in any given product category.

I often recommend leaving IRAs and other tax - advantaged accounts to grandchildren, as it allows for the possibility of decades of tax - deferred and potentially tax - free distributions, which can be an extremely powerful estate transfer strategy.

Shaping Account - Based Marketing, the concept of marketing to one entity, into a new powerful force.

With an average return of 2:1 made by businesses using AdWords, the all - powerful search engine that is Google offers a pretty sound return on investment by all accounts.

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The most charitable account one can offer of the actions of the characters addressed in James is that they were seeking to cultivate the favor of the rich and powerful to benefit the church and its mission.

But the law made 18 years ago didn't account for the advancement of technology and reach of YouTube — rendering it much less powerful.

He gives several accounts of such experiences, his own and those of others — experiences that alerted him to the potentially powerful effects of reading.

Will, funny that your «omnipotent» sky fairy isn't powerful enough to block the supposedly false accounts, and that there are hundreds of conflicting variants of his «message», and thousands of cults with varying and conflicting claims about what your sky fairy wants.

How many evils and horrors in our social and historical life can be accounted for simply as the result of attempts by powerful individuals to conquer or cover up their own private disgrace?

Once the literacy factor is accounted for, however, one must not underestimate the indirect, and for that reason perhaps more powerful, influence of the press.

This account of rights has the powerful advantage that every legal right can be justified by reference to some good or range of goods it protects.

Changes would include a drastic increase in overseas development assistance in the field of communication and under conditions more favourable to recipient parties, the adoption of the UNCTAD Code of Transfer of Technology on the terms proposed by the developing countries, a revision of provisions on the protection of intellectual property in the GATT / TWO multilateral trade accord so as to take the interests of less powerful countries and small producers into account, and the adoption of a multilateral accord on space cooperation and equal benefits.

This kind of repentance is selfish, a matter of the senses, sensually powerful for the moment, excited in expression, impatient in the most diverse exaggerations — and, just on this account, is not real repentance.

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His Honour considered that, in the present case, the separation of wholesaling and retailing functions tended to confuse the analysis and that, in light of the more powerful constraint imposed by the major supermarket chains on Metcash, compared with the lesser constraint imposed by Franklins, it was not possible to determine the competition consequences of Metcash's acquisition without taking into account the constraints from the major supermarket chains as market participants.

As you see, food waste is the largest waste stream going to landfills in the US, accounting for 21 percent of the American waste stream and contributing to climate change as food waste in landfills decomposes and generates methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas.