A
powerful agent is someone or something that has a great deal of influence, strength, or ability to produce an effect.
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Families can be
powerful agents of change in their children's learning through their «funds of knowledge» and advocacy efforts.
And as a disruptive force, nothing may be a more
powerful agent for changes to legal culture, methods and technology than sheer volume.
I'm just a baseball writer, and you're the most
powerful agents in baseball, so this probably doesn't make a lot of sense to you.
Students come to see themselves
as powerful agents in their own lives — even when things aren't going well.
At this point in time, agents were doing more and more for writers, and the top writers had
very powerful agents, simply because the agents worked for the top writers.
In addition these oils
make powerful agents effective in fighting bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
The player feels like a
really powerful agent, affecting things, but they're also interacting with a system of rules that are predictable and they can use to make plans.
Young people are
powerful agents of change and must be engaged in the design, implementation and evaluation of research, policy and programs related their health.
All broadcasting is controlled to some extent by governments, partly because the frequencies are limited and must be regulated to avoid chaos, but more importantly because radio and television are
such powerful agents for shaping culture.
Carbon dioxide gets more press, but methane is the
more powerful agent of global warming, 21 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.
«A lot of money has been spent, and a lot of research done, to find a
new powerful agent for pancreatic cancer.
This oil - free pick is specifically designed to fight blemishes
with powerful agents like hyaluronic acid, peptides, aloe vera, chamomile, Chinese licorice, and vitamin B.
Advised
by powerful agent Jorge Mendes, the 1997 - born is already tracked by Liverpool.
«Worldwide research efforts have
developed powerful agents that can treat diseased tissues but if they can not be steered to where they are needed, they can also cause collateral damage.
Therapeutic - grade essential oils (4 drops each): Geranium, eucalyptus and juniper berry
possess powerful agents aiding in detoxification.
About 15 years ago, one of these same scientists discovered that an enzyme produced in the fermentation process, «nattokinase», is a very
powerful agent contained in the sticky part of natto that dissolves blood clots that can lead to heart attacks, strokes and senility.
We begin in 1930s Hollywood,
where powerful agent Phil Stern (Steve Carell) is seen nervily presiding over a pool party where there are always distractions at hand — names to be dropped (Ginger Rogers, Paul Muni) and phone calls to be made.
Her figures do not lend themselves to passive consumption but are
powerful agents who confront us.
Sudden life stress, environmental cues, and social networks can all combine to
create powerful agents for relapse.
These findings are consistent with the principles of social learning theory in that consistent models should be the
most powerful agents of social learning, whereas inconsistent models (such as one smoking parent and one ex-smoking parent) should be less effective in transmitting parental messages.
Utilize the «Therapy Relationship» as an effective strategy for changing maladaptive reactions; and as
powerful agent for change — generalizing newly adapted behaviors from the treatment room to the narcissist's world
health & wellness:: All hail, Ali Miller, a Houstonian passionate for helping people discover how food can act as a
more powerful agent in curing illness than the pills we're often prescribed.
The Human Rights Campaign believes that Amazon can be
a powerful agent of positive change but knows the issue is complex.
We believe that business is
a powerful agent for change, and like our products, it can be more powerful when its details are openly shared for inspection, modification, and replication by others.
For all its recent failings, the Internet has been
a powerful agent of democratization in conferring voice beyond the gatekeepers of old to a more diverse crowd of bloggers, commentators, subject - matter specialists and even movements such as #blacklivesmatter.
It's the feel good,
powerful agent that creates a sense of...
This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all -
powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.
Their most
powerful agent is the film.
It developed in a world in which God as
a powerful agent could act upon the world from without.
Woodward will be the man leading negotiations for transfer targets once again, but without a director of football many at United feel their transfer policy is too heavily influenced by personal relationships and
powerful agents.
The Qatari - backed Parisians were rumoured to be interested in AC Milan's rising star goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, but after reports of the stopper complaining about being coerced into signing his summer six million - euro contract extension, the club and player — and crucially
his powerful agent Mino Raiola — have made moves towards a reconciliation.
United's dealings with Mourinho and
his powerful agent, Jorge Mendes, have been cloaked in secrecy with even Sir Alex Ferguson said to be in the dark over the intentions of executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.
Not only are they rich in minerals and vitamins A, C, E, and K, they're
powerful agents of fiber and antioxidants.
Active listening, empathy and attunement act as the most
powerful agents of change.
The drug they identified is
a powerful agent that is already used clinically to treat severe fungal infections of the brain and spinal cord.
Humans are
powerful agents of evolutionary change: Wild animals and plants that are hunted or harvested evolve three times as quickly as they would naturally, according to a study from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
«And we need to think carefully before we put such
a powerful agent in the market.»
Such an endeavor aims at improving the quality of life of millions of people worldwide and creating a new paradigm for global scientific collaborations between academia and industry, one in which science becomes
a powerful agent for social and educational transformation.
A few minutes daily of breathing deeply from your belly, holding in and out for 8 seconds, is
a powerful agent.
It is also
a powerful agent against H. pylori bacteria.
In fact, melatonin is thought by many experts to be
a powerful agent for supporting the body's resistance to free radicals and the proliferation of oxidative stress.