Sentences with phrase «powerful agents of»

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.

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.

But if we are sincere about parents being powerful agents of change in their communities then we can't just assume our agenda is their agenda.»

Families can be powerful agents of change in their children's learning through their «funds of knowledge» and advocacy efforts.

Enter the Chaos - infested Caligari Sector and purge the unclean with the most powerful agents of the Imperium of Man!

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.

Sororities see themselves as powerful agents of change at Yale.

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.

Furthermore, melatonin is an extremely powerful agent of our body that protects it from undergoing DNA mutation.

Teaching is a powerful agent of change that can transform lives and counter inequality and injustice.

In its ability to act as a powerful agent of emotion and memory, each song works in tandem with an image to capture the joys, agonies, highs and lows of life.

It was formed in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives and believe that a unified and polyvocal front is a powerful agent of change in the fight against racialized violence.

«Humans are as powerful an agent of geomorphic change.»

Emotion is seen as a powerful agent of change in the therapy, not just as a manifestation of relationship distress.

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Why it's hot: The popularity of social - media platforms continues to be a powerful source of revenue for influencers — and for agents in search of a cut.

Forde and Thamel obtained documents from former powerful NBA agent Andy Miller, his former associate Christian Dawkins, and Miller's agency, ASM Sports, that appear to detail expense reports and cash advancements to college basketball prospects, some of whom are in the NBA today.

It could be a House of Cards political thriller: A high - ranking elected official and his family are wined and dined by a rich and powerful foreign agent who does business with the government.

By far the most interesting case happened in Russia, where FSB secret service agents arrested multiple suspects who had used one of Russia's most powerful supercomputers to mine Bitcoin.

2014.11.26 RBC leaders honoured as Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winners Each year, the Women's Executive Network (WXN) honours strong women leaders who have become agents of change in reshaping Canadian organizations at the highest levels.

A loan agent's role is extremely powerful because loans are the meat of business; serving in the negotiator position can be very lucrative.

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.

As Kaufman states, two groups of American Christians currently rely on these images of God in their responses to the nuclear situation: one group claims that if a nuclear holocaust comes, it will be God's will — the Armageddon — and America should arm itself to fight the devil's agent, Communist Russia; the other passively relies on the all - powerful father to take care of the situation.

It is the world's most important source of news and information, and its most powerful propaganda agent.

Pius XII already commented on the unitive significance of this powerful biblical expression: «In its natural structure, the conjugal act is a personal action, a simultaneous and immediate cooperation on the part of the husband and wife, which by the very nature of the agents and the proper nature of the act is the expression of the mutual gift which, according to the words of Scripture, brings about union «in one flesh»» (Address, October 29, 1951: AAS 3 (1951), 850).

Is Prof. Delasanta not admitting that the papacy, especially the current Pope, has wielded amazing temporal power as a primary agent in bringing down one of the most powerful empires ever?

So let me get the story line straight in my head: An all - knowing, all - powerful, all-wise and holy (morally pure and perfect) God creates a God - like malevolent entity with God - like supreme powers who roams the universe with his untold legions of foot soldiers / agents (i.e., demons) wrecking havoc and trying to compel us mortals to sin?

If God is conceived as all - powerful, as in classical theology, and this attribute is taken to mean that all decisions are God's — that in truth God is the only agent — then the theist must surely deny either the existence of God or the existence of evil.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

In this soup, I've added turmeric powder given that it's one of the most powerful anti-inflammatory agents known to man.

Turmeric is one of the most powerful natural anti-inflammatory agents in the world.

Cauliflower is full of sulfur compounds called glucosinolates such as the powerful sulforaphane and isothiocyanates which have been studied to be very effective for phase II liver detoxification and as cancer stem cell neutralizing agents.

It is quite possibly one of nature's most powerful anti-microbial agents (3, 4, 5).

This is where team representatives, agents, and journalists like to huddle under fluorescent lights powerful enough to cook a rotisserie chicken and decide the future of baseball.

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.

The allegations Miller is facing involve Christian Dawkins, a former associate of once - powerful NBA agent Andy Miller, and a central figure in the FBI's probe of corruption in college basketball.

The FBI's case revolves in large part around agents» efforts, with the help of other powerful people in the sport, to steer prospects to sign with them upon turning pro.

Add in the practice of powerful coaching agents trying to package different clients together and attempting to vertically integrate a staff, and the natural loyalty of longtime friends or associates is often missing.

The west Londoners were confident of signing Pogrebnyak, a free agent after refusing to sign a new contract at Stuttgart, permanently, with the powerful hitman expressing a determination to stay in the Premier League

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.

Dawkins is a former associate of once - powerful NBA agent Andy Miller at his agency, ASM Sports.

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.

Mulcaire admitted to hacking the messages of the five other victims: Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers» Association; Simon Hughes, a member of Parliament; the model Elle Macpherson; Max Clifford, a powerful public - relations agent; and Sky Andrew, who represented some of England's biggest soccer stars.

Tom Libous, one of the state's most prominent and powerful Republican lawmakers in the Senate, has been found guilty by jury of lying to federal agents in a case stemming from his son receiving a job at a politically connected law firm in Westchester County.

The government's key witness in the corruption retrial of Sheldon Silver used Hebrew code to tell the then - Assembly speaker in 2014 that he had been visited by FBI agents who were poking around the powerful politician's finances, it was revealed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday.

A day after federal agents put handcuffs on one of New York's most powerful lawmakers, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Friday denounced Albany's political culture that concentrates power with «the proverbial three men in a room.»

As federal agents tell it, the kickback scheme that led to the arrest on Wednesday of Norman Seabrook, the powerful leader of the New York City correction officers» union, was hatched one night in late 2013 in a hotel room in the Dominican Republic.

«Thus, we hope that its potential as a powerful therapeutic agent for the treatment of autoimmune diseases will facilitate its use in future clinical trials.»

These days, medical X-rays come in multiple formats: plain film used in dental exams and doctors» offices; fluoroscopy, which bounces a continuous X-ray beam off contrast agents you've either injected or ingested, providing a moving real - time image of arteries and intestines; and the computed tomography (CT) scan, which couples a powerful computer with a circular array of extremely sensitive detectors to turn X-rays into detailed cross sections of the body.

The drug they identified is a powerful agent that is already used clinically to treat severe fungal infections of the brain and spinal cord.