Sentences with phrase «rather than young people»

«We all must be wary of any system that creates a climate where students are viewed as part of the pay equation, rather than young people who deserve a high quality education that prepares them for their future,» says Bill Raabe, NEA's director of Collective Bargaining and Member Benefits.

Religious programs on American television have traditionally been viewed by older rather than younger people; females rather than males; and the less - educated rather than the more - educated.

Rugged and straightforward, Joe looks at Gary as just another worker in the woods — rather than a young person struggling to support his family.

Not exact matches

To justify its relatively high valuation and fend off concerns about slowing user growth, Snap has emphasized how important Snapchat is to its users, how long they spend on the app and the revenue potential of the emerging trend for young people to communicate with video rather than text.

Young people who look forward with anticipation rather than dread make the best entrepreneurs.

Increasingly, young people are moving into cities to rent, not buy, and many prefer to spend their money on experiences rather than material goods.

With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

Young people should hear this message sooner rather than later.

But then you know why young people get to thinking that way sometimes rather than cutting back.

Looking a bit deeper reveals a method for young people to identify their passions and determine the most expedient path forward, rather than having others set a path for them.

Rather than make decisions in a leadership vacuum, they recognize the tensions that swirl around cultural issues, especially for young people who may interact every day with those who believe — and live — differently.

Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.

The school's curriculum is traditional, ordered toward the end of nurturing faith and reason rather than preparing young people to climb the greasy pole of meritocratic status.

In other words, these young people aren't that much different from other spiritual seekers almost everywhere who, consciously or not, cleave to a faith that demands rather than accommodates.

«The changes are primarily due to generation — suggesting people develop their sexual attitudes while young, rather than everyone of all ages changing at the same time,» said study leader Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University.

I would suggest that it's due to an awakening to the real pain that promiscuity and abortion entail; others might say that it's actually based in «rights talk,» that young people identify with aborted children (as of this January 22, anyone under the age of thirty could have been aborted) and see abortion as an attack on their siblings and classmates, rather than a matter of women's self «determination.

Rather than lapsing into shamed silence the Church should redouble her efforts: she should direct her attention to this area and should allocate substantial resources to sex and relationships education, to dynamic programmes that meet the complicated pastoral challenges in the field of sexual education in order to provide young people with a healthy vision of human sexuality.

Ralph Nader claims that today America is «growing young people up corporate rather than growing them up civic.»

Our religions and culture are constantly reinterpreted and reshaped through the combined myths of the suffering and crucified Jesus — as Jaime Vidal has stated: «El Señior del gran poder» — combined with the myths of Cuatemoc: the young Aztec prince who allowed himself to be burned to death slowly rather than give the Spaniard the secret of the Gold and Quetzalcoatl who sacrificed himself for the good of his people.

«The consumers driving the trend forward are more likely to be younger consumers rather than their older counterparts — although older people are quickly realizing the benefits of following flexitarian or vegan diets,» said Mogelonsky.

Unlike their parents» and grandparents» generations, for whom marriage and parenthood were prerequisites for adulthood, young people today more often view these markers as life choices rather than requirements, as steps that complete the process of becoming an adult rather than start it.

It also sets off a bureaucratic chain of events which backs up the message that fathers can treat parenting as optional, as health visitors talk to mothers rather than fathers, children centres build their services around what they perceive to be mothers» (rather than families») needs, schools fail to record contact details of fathers and, when a young person ends up in court for misbehaviour, magistrates hand down parenting orders to mothers rather than fathers, even when the father is resident in the household and present in the courtroom.

In most cases, that's not an issue — if it's not a full flight most people would happily switch to allow a parent to sit with their young child (if not out of a sense of goodwill than certainly because they'd rather not babysit someone else's toddler).

It illustrates that people are hungry for an alternative to the status quo where content is increasingly brought through computers rather than teachers, academic learning is being pushed down to younger and younger children, and the focus in the classroom is «teaching to the test.»

Rather than just watching sporting events on television, young people should participate in age - appropriate sports or games.

My mom thinks people talked more behind someone's back rather than to their face when she was a young mother.

Letting kids know they're loved even thought they don't get what they want, rather than a condition of not getting what they want, makes for a happy, emotionally healthy young person.

They turn their noses up at young people who take the occupational route, rather than the academic one.

Britain should concentrate on training up young British people to fill vacancies rather than «taking the easy option of recruiting from abroad», a minister has claimed.

«What we in NDC do is always talk to people to canvass for their votes rather than plan to rig the election... the people of this country have said that they want a party that's progressive and have the young at heart and also, do what's right», he stated.

By your logic about «scarce public funds», surely it would be fairer to give the Child Trust Fund only to poorer families, rather than as a capital endowment for all young people?

«Rather than foster greater social mobility, this Government will only exacerbate the inequality and injustice we are already witnessing in our society, with children and young people bearing the brunt.»

«Yet scandalously, rather than embarking on a strategy to tackle poverty and inequality, it now appears the Government plans to change the definition of child poverty in an attempt to mask the terrible toll its policies are taking on our children and young people.

Liberalism will only bounce back if it appeals to young people, which means that the new vision of the open society ought to look forward rather than back.

Through the poignant juxtaposition of citizenship and slavery, young people's protest against attacks on their economic activity and more broadly against the employment crisis, reflects their efforts to force their way to political recognition, rather than existing a political space that seems to exclude their voices and needs.

Like many young people, they may be idealistic and looking for a principled leader who will seek to change the world, rather than engage in the routine incrementalism and compromise characteristic of mainstream politics.

While the Junior Imperial League's political education aimed to teach people why they should vote Conservative, rather than teaching them to make up their own minds, there is little doubt that then - Conservative leader, Stanley Baldwin, was sincere when he expressed a desire to «make democracy safe for the world» by educating young people.

«The Coalition Government was repeatedly warned about the growing crisis in school places, but rather than addressing the needs of children and young people, it has decided it is more important to fund its ideological free school programme.»

«Teachers now say that they believe they are working to meet the needs of inspection rather than the needs of the children and young people they teach.

Driving tests are to be made more difficult to ensure young people are equipped with the right attitude to driving, rather than just the basic skills.

«As it takes away opportunities for young people to earn or learn, this Government is blaming young people rather than addressing the real problems,» he said.

The fact the fall comes from a drop in applications rather than their rejection suggests this drop is now part of a long - term change in the way young people around the world view the UK.

Rather than looking at self - reported levels of turnout in post-election surveys ComRes did regressions on actual levels of turnouts in constituencies by their demographic profiles, finding the usual patterns of higher turnout in seats with more middle class people and older people, lower turnout in seats with more C2DE voters and younger voters.

It means looking out to guard against people who profit from dividing us; it means guarding against self - centered politicians whose utterances highlight our differences rather than what we have in common as a people; it means protecting our young people from militant and terror groups who through fake religious teachings may indoctrinate and recruit our youth to commit crimes.

«Let's stop the young people from getting caught in the gang pipeline to begin with, rather than just treating them as criminals once the gang takes over,» Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said at a news conference in Brentwood, N.Y. «Let's not treat the disease, let's prevent the disease.»

Home secretary Jacqui Smith said the government was aware young people were more likely to be victims of crime rather than perpetrators of it.

«Let's stop the young people from getting caught in the gang pipeline to begin with, rather than just treating them as criminals once the gang takes over,» Cuomo said at a ceremonial bill signing in a gymnasium full of elected officials and community members.

I think Parliament actually benefits from having people of experience on the back benches, rather than it just being a training ground for young, ambitious newcomers.»

«We were young scientists and it just seemed silly that we were going to go out and tell people that 75 % of the universe was missing and that there was this weird stuff that makes gravity repulsive rather than attractive.