Sentences with phrase «pressure than either of their peers»

We know this because patients who were given the new - look medication presented higher hypertension and systolic blood pressure than either of their peers whose medication was unchanged or simply wrapped in a different packaging.

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Churches were full; Christian festivals dominated the calendar; there was strict Sabbath observance; and the various patterns of Christian morality were enforced by peer pressure, even more than they were by law or from the pulpit.

Peer pressure can be dangerous, in a lot of ways, and though getting shin splints might seem a lot less of a risk than trying to drive buzzed or going to that college party, they can turn into a serious and even life - long condition.

In my former life, I was more than immune to peer pressure; rather, I would choose the «alternative» point of view just to differentiate myself.

Although it seems in others eyes I will not get the * faith points * I realize doing so would be more of giving into peer pressure rather than my personal faith.

On our first day she outlined her potty - training plan — wait for interest, let peer pressure do most of the work, toilet seat adapter rather than separate potty chair, emphasis on big - kid underwear and no pull - ups.

Regarding vitamin D deficiency, consider the following from August 2009: «A whopping 70 percent of American kids aren't getting enough vitamin D, and such youngsters tend to have higher blood pressure and lower levels of good cholesterol than their peers, according to two new studies published this week in the journal Pediatrics.

Older kids wind up costing more in clothes than younger kids do, thanks to peer pressure to purchase certain kid clothing brands and trendy clothing pieces that are the «must have» items of the season.

They may account on some Trump supporters hiding their vote intention because of peer pressure / embarrassment using historical data, but if peer pressure is higher in this election than in previous elections it is difficult to tune up that effect correctly (how can you measure peer pressure to adjust your model before the election day?).

The statement is based on a review of existing scientific research published in peer - reviewed medical journals that documents a strong association between adverse experiences in childhood and teen years and a greater likelihood of developing risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes earlier than those not experiencing adverse experiences.

For teenagers, learning to establish a healthy degree of autonomy and closeness in relationships (rather than easily giving in to peer pressure) is an important task.

Scheibehenne says that he and his colleagues tried to control for this unintended peer pressure by having participants eat dessert with a different group of participants than they lunched with.

A study reported in the Archives of Family Medicine found that kids who regularly sit down with their families for an evening meal make wiser food choices, eat more vegetables, and get more nutrients than those who do not.2 For older children, the American Psychological Association found that family mealtime plays an important role in helping teens deal with the pressures of adolescence, such as motivation for school, peer relationships, depression, and making better choices with drugs and alcohol.

This allows for far larger reassurance and comfort than conventional Tooth White lightening kits allow, which is especially helpful for teenagers that face the daunting pressure of their peers on a daily basis.

«Teachers are placed under enormous pressures to mold the young minds of tomorrow, but are expected to do so with less wages than their peers, and by working longer hours.»

He has both the dogged determination of a good journalist and the personal indignation of someone who loves a sport and sees it being destroyed, and the way his peers turn on him after Armstrong puts pressure on the sports media is more interesting than yet more scenes of Armstrong having blood drawn.

Peer - pressured by his two best friends to prove they're more important than a girl, Conrad Stevens (Tye Sheridan) pulls an innocent prank that has a disastrous impact on the family life of his girlfriend, Grace Turner (Kaitlyn Dever).

«A significantly greater proportion of females than males were worried about finding their way around or getting lost, hard classes, hard or unfriendly teachers, getting to class on time, fitting in or making friends, negative peer group pressure, being bullied, being made fun of, older students, new and more students and riding the bus.»

Advertising by tobacco companies has a greater effect than peer pressure or family influence on whether some adolescents take up smoking, according to a study of California youths.

Incentives and contests take advantage of the fact that students often respond better to positive recognition and peer pressure than they do to lectures from parents and teachers.

«eBooks make content more accessible than ever before so people can experience it, so they can experience the joys of all kinds of literature without feeling this narrow - mindedness, guilt, peer pressure, and community pressure that would prevent them accessing books.»

Or, on the other, maybe you felt peer - pressured to spend more than you wanted to or to gamble with your money, such as through a game of credit card roulette to pay off a tab.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

Few to none of these people know the least bit about science so they develop a rabid like attachment to the «experts» who support their view that is more based on peer pressure than it is science.

But of course IWTs are not cars and peer - reviewed studies consistently document that IWTs produce sound that is perceived to be more annoying than transportation or industrial noise at comparable sound pressure levels.

Heck, even peer pressure in scientific elites, a far weaker force than a full - on culture, managed to delay the proper emergence of the theory of continental - drift / tectonics for several decades, with pretty much the entire geological establishment against it at one point, despite a six year old child could see that the east coast of South America matched the west coast of Africa.

In our view, a better system of incentives, a wiser use of psychological insights (e.g. peer - pressure), and most fundamentally, a more open court, promise more than the proposed mechanical addition of more judges.

Bruce was remarking on the fact that the law firm managing partners are, in many ways, more aware of the pressure to change than their law department peers.

It's very interesting to consider the current state of the legal industry with this lens as the threat of new entrants, substitutes, competing peers and other pressures are more prevalent among the incumbents than any other time in history.

Devin has a theory for why her peers are better at handling the pressures of social media than adults are.

Cost of living, peer pressure, unforeseen expenses are compounding the need of making more than what...

One possible explanation for the high mean of this question may be given based on the fact that it states a somewhat socially desirable condition and by means of social construction, culture, peer pressure and social conformity / compliance people often tend to admit that they are happier than they really are.

In the recent meta - analysis of van de Bongardt et al. (2015), it was found that adolescent sexual behavior was more strongly associated with peer pressure of more distant peers (i.e., peers in general) than of closer friends.

Adult structuring concerns the use of proactive guidance, the success of attempts, the amount of guidance, the ability to set limits and to remain firm in the face of pressure, the use of both verbal and non-verbal suggestions and the ability to assume an adult role rather than a peer one.