Sentences with phrase «powerful promises of»

Certainly, understanding how the S&T Policy Program intersects with AAAS overall also is important, she noted, citing the powerful promise of the thousands of former S&T Policy fellows spread abroad and around the country in government, academia, industries and non-profits.

The most powerful promise of standards - based reform, however, lies in the kinds of individualization happening in Adams 50.

Not exact matches

Three female investors — Anjula Acharia of Trinity Ventures, Leah Busque of FUEL Capital, and Nisha Dua of BBG Ventures — gathered at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in Laguna Niguel, Calif. to outline the qualities that they look for in promising entrepreneurs.

The founder of Pencils of Promise, Adam Braun, unexpectedly discovered the secret to success by courageously exposing his weakness in a room filled with powerful business leaders.

Dietary interventions can have powerful effects, and a way to get the benefits of fasting without having to drastically cut calories all the time could be promising.

«These powerful words of promise produced significant increases in specific areas of performance — from price and fair treatment, to quality and competency.»

«[America] was founded on a promise, the simple yet powerful promise that it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, how you worship or who you love, all of us are Americans.

The experts agree: the promise of good work can be more powerful than the lure of stock options.

Trump's central campaign promise, as you know, is to build a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» along the U.S. - Mexico border, which analysts at investment firm Bernstein estimate could cost anywhere between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion, requiring 7 million cubic metres of concrete and 2.4 million tonnes of cement, among other materials.

But on October 5, the New York Times released an extensive report alleging that Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax and one of the entertainment industry's most powerful executives, has spent the past three decades using his position to sexually harass women by dangling the promise of future success.

He makes a compelling case for rethinking human rights on the ground that it has become «a powerful ideology that promises to relieve us of the burdens of political responsibility for the common good.»

Also fear of death or an eternal hell is a powerful motivator to subscribe to something that promises an afterlife.

Our profound need for a powerful, attractive, imaginative picture of the way God is related to our world demands that we not only deconstruct but reconstruct our metaphors, letting the ones that seem promising try their chance.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

Trusting that God had not abandoned Israel, he wrestled with scripture and found his way to a powerful new reading of God's promises.

We're a culture that loves to carry on about innovation, progress and the «promise of the future,» but doesn't seem to grasp the powerful role hope plays in the lives of individuals.

Today, it has become a powerful ideology that promises to relieve us of the burdens of political responsibility for the common good.

But the power and persistence of evil in frustrating the promised goodness of life raises questions as to whether God can be called perfectly powerful in any traditional sense.

(It is especially for this reason that a lifetime marriage commitment is such a powerful sacrament of God's own character as promise - keeper.

That is why the holy city of Jerusalem and the land of Israel have remained to this day powerful and palpable symbols of the presence of God's promise.

They all worshiped very powerful beings — that, after all, is what gods and goddesses are — and the more recently imported cults were very much concerned to offer salvation, including the promise of eternal life, to their adherents.

He concludes by describing the personally comforting, otherworldly salvific «promise from Jesus to soothe our sorrows, heal our hearts, and drive away our fears,» for whosoever believeth «will be part of something far more powerful, enduring, and good than all the forces here on earth.

God is patient and powerful enough to wait out our doubts and to win us back, although we should be wary of holding onto our doubts instead of the promises of God.

In other words, an ethics of obligation is possible because, among other things, moral alternatives can appear as more powerful «lures for feeling» — that is, more promising of stability — that those of mere self - interest.

As one of the most powerful consumer groups, this is promising news.

The promise of cash, access to the rest of the Europe and - perhaps most importantly - legitimacy and good standing as a modern state - is a powerful incentive to want to join.

i thought it was one of his best speeches yet - packed with references to everyone from Kennedy (ask not what your country can do for you), to King (we will get to the promised land), via Lincoln, Reagon and even Nixon, as Sunder points out... he demonstrates a powerful generational consciousness, the ability to join the dots between his country's social and political history, and to see his own forthcoming presidency's place in that context.

But the first snub occurred early, when Smith broke a promise to appoint then - senator Bill Stachowski to chair the powerful finance committee, instead giving the post to Carl Kruger of Brooklyn.

This money came from major medallion owners, including $ 4000 each from Evgeny «Gene» Freidman (who was recently in the news for his assertion that Mayor Bloomberg personally promised to «destroy [his] fucking industry» when he leaves office), Guy Roberts, and Neomi Yakuel, all of whom are on the board of the Greater New York Taxi Association, a powerful trade organization.

There is a plan by the binational Niagara Falls Illumination Board to upgrade the lighting at the falls using LED technology, which promises a brighter, more vibrant illumination — three times more powerful and with all the colors of the spectrum — while using half the power levels.

Carwyn Jones told the Labour conference this morning: «The future we promised to Scotland must be delivered - an equal share of resources, a seat at the table, a powerful Parliament - that must be offered to Wales and Northern Ireland too.»

The governor is also expected push for a tougher teacher evaluation system by linking some, if not all, of the promised 4 percent increase in education aid while also overhauling the state pension system — two moves that will put him on a collision course with powerful labor unions.

According to the source «when we won the election, some of our party people who are very close to Nana have suddenly become so powerful that they are preventing him (Nana) from redeeming his pledge to some of these bigwigs he had promised ahead of the elections.

Obama's promise to «govern for all the people, not just the interests of the wealthy and well - connected» came across more Andrew Jackson («the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes») than Karl Marx.

A powerful governor now owes him a future favor and already promised that he would work to usher in a Democratic majority in the State Senate, a necessity for Mr. de Blasio to eventually cement all of his liberal priorities, many Albany observers argue.

«As promised, House Minority Leader John Boehner, along with Reps. Aaron Schock (R - IL) and Peter Roskam (R - IL), huddled this morning with representatives of the most powerful conservative business and trade groups in the country to field policy ideas and build a legislative agenda ahead of the November elections, when Republicans could retake the House.

Plenty of powerful and promising figures in New York politics have seen their careers end in scandal.

With hordes of cheap orbiters filling the skies, researchers and start - ups are promising a powerful new perspective on earthly activities that range from global commerce to perfecting the art of mining landfills for recyclable materials.

Powerful telescopes, clever astronomy and trips to some of Earth's most extreme and remote places are helping identify the most promising places to start

World's most powerful battery installation promises to enhance the reliability of renewable electricity

Extraction of DNA from fossil bones promises to be a powerful tool for analysing relationships among vanished populations, tracing their migrations, and finding their closest living relatives.

«Techniques to correct defective genes in «non-reproductive» cells are already at various stages of clinical development and promise to be a powerful approach for many human diseases which don't yet have an effective treatment.

To move on to other atoms and molecules will require more powerful lasers with shorter pulses, of the type used in coherent control chemistry, so the future of this method is very promising.»

«The project illustrates that the promise and ability to track things in real time on a mobile phone in the course of your daily life is incredibly powerful,» Killingsworth says.

«Additive manufacturing» offers manufacturers a powerful set of tools for making any number of products cost - effectively and with little waste, a groundbreaking development that promises to help revitalize the U.S. manufacturing sector.

The all - powerful potential of stem cells to become any kind of cell is what makes them so promising for restoring diseased or damaged tissues throughout the body — and also what makes them so difficult for scientists to control.

The nc - AFM microscopy provided striking visual confirmation of the mechanisms that underlie these synthetic organic chemical reactions, and the unexpected results reinforced the promise of this powerful new method for building advanced nanoscale electronic devices from the bottom up.

The process promises fields 10,000 times stronger than those of the most powerful conventional accelerators

Next door, the Institute of Spectroscopy pioneered the development of X-ray lasers, whose short wavelength promised powerful analytical tools and, later, devastating weapons.

The result brings the tiny flakes, called nanocrystals, a crucial step closer to fulfilling their promise of tailoring a laser's color just by changing the size of the crystal, which could lead to more powerful tools for detecting chemicals or sending information via flickers of light.