Sentences with phrase «reflect on the forces»

To that end, let's reflect on the forces that drove fixed income returns in 2017 and draw a few lessons from the experience that may help inform future investment decisions.

Goldenberg asserts that theology ought to be understood as psychology, that we should stop theorizing about a God «Out there,» and reflect on the forces and values within us.

We don't often reflect on the forces molding our childhood experiences until much later in life.

Farewell My Homeland reflects on forced migration at the time of crossing borders, meanwhile in No Name the focus is now on a deep sense of loss and burn out memories.

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«The process forces employees to reflect and to jot out a forward - looking plan for getting stuff done, all while requiring a minimal disruption in the employee's actual work,» writes Chen, who adds that as employees can compose their Snippets on their own schedule, the practice is maker friendly, i.e., it doesn't break up long blocks on concentrated work.

After meetings this week, the service leaders hammered out an agreement that rejected Army and Air Force requests for a two - year wait and reflected broader concerns that a longer delay would trigger criticism on Capitol Hill, officials familiar with the talks told The Associated Press.

Reflecting on his leadership style, Eisenhower remarked, «I adopted a policy of circulating through the whole force to the full limit imposed by my physical considerations.

The novel almost forced me to look back on my own life and reflect — to see what I can filter out of my life to make it better and more successful moving forward.

This is starting to force Wall Street to reflect on what that means for the economy.

It all suggests that the dramatic day and a half of legal proceedings are but a prelude to even more courtroom theatrics and combat in what has become a sordid, long - standing matter (for the full saga, read the Disturbing Decline of Sumner Redstone) that reflects poorly on countless participants, not least the boards of CBS and Viacom, which took no action to remove Redstone as their executive chairman until Herzer's case forced their hand.

It can create a huge void and can force athletes to reflect on their careers and question their performance: Am I weak or strong?

When you force yourself to do something daily, it not only becomes a habit but allows you reflect on the process and grow.

These improvements were reflected in the rise in the participation rate to 63 %, up 0.6 % since September, confirming there is greater slack in the labour force than conveyed by the headline unemployment rate, and suggesting that longer term unemployed or discouraged workers who have hitherto remained on the sidelines are being pulled back into the labour market by the growth in employment opportunities.

However, my impression is that the liquidation in commodities and inflation - protected securities overstates this inflation effect and instead reflects a great deal of forced selling on the part of hedge funds.

Below are two of his blogs reflecting on his experience and how an owner's legacy is often the driving force for an ESOP:

Paul's life was not turned upside down because he reflected on the value of Jesus» life and decided that goodness, even in defeat, is a more potent force than triumphant evil.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

First, his formulation reflects and summarizes the debates of the previous century and a quarter, in which canonists and theologians collected, thought through, and systematically organized earlier normative Christian thought on the use of armed force.

In reflecting on the Truman - Churchill decision to use the atomic bomb, Niebuhr said, «The question is whether they were not driven by historic forces more powerful than any human decision.»

Reinhold Niebuhr, writing in these pages nearly 50 Easter seasons ago, reflected on these matters: «The whole creation groaneth and travaileth; and if God is love rather than power, it follows that He gains his victories by pain rather than by force.»

I hope when he does die and is forced into limbo he'll have time to reflect on his arrogance and closed mindedness.

What the argument by probability does is to reflect on the «fine - tunedness» of a universe in which life can exist, reflects on the chance of life occurring through purely random events, and concludes that the chance of life coming into existence through purely random forces of nature is so infinitesimally small as to be almost non-existent.

«If they go on to Amazon, and Amazon cuts prices substantially, that forces other retailers to reflect on whether they should be stocking the brand if they can't do it and make money.

Through this prize the BCC aims to promote a deeper understanding of what cooking represents today, by inviting us to reflect on the role that chefs play in today's society, as well as the way in which cuisine can serve as a transformative force in society.

AUSVEG is stepping up its pressure on food manufacturers who have dubiously suggested that changing Australia's Country of Origin Labelling system would place an unreasonable cost burden on businesses by forcing them to alter labels to reflect ingredient changes.

As you study the artfully rendered autographs of Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Mike Schmidt, you're forced to reflect less on each individual name and more on the most significant thing these men have in common: that at one time in their lives, each of them was the very best in the world at what he did.

With all of the activities at the three day event that is being planned, students and coaches understand that participating in The Honor Bowl is more than a win or a loss; it is a time to reflect on what our military has done and continues to do for the freedom America's Armed Forces provide us.

Without any action to get down on (besides the Home Run Derby and Midsummer Classic itself), sharp and square bettors alike are forced to take a step back, reflect on their first - half performance, re-examine winning and losing strategies and prepare for the second - half of the season.

Reflecting on the decision to introduce team orders last season, Szafnauer ultimately feels that Force India got the timing right given that they went on to secure their overall goal of fourth place.

And the Echo also reflects on Everton boss Sam Allardyce's comments about new additions Theo Walcott and Cenk Tosun strengthening his side as an «attacking force».

SO i was forced to reflect on my own.

«As my days as your Commander - in - Chief are coming to an end, and as I reflect on the challenges we have faced together and on those to come, I believe that one of the greatest task before our Armed Forces is to retain the high confidence that the American people rightly place in you.

At their best, mayors give us a mirror to hold up and reflect on the look, shape and feel of our communities — whether we identify with what we see and, if not, give us the tools to force change.

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.

As they walked together down the rear stairs of the RAF Voyager which carried Theresa May to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington DC last night, Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy could reflect on a job well done.

His comments reflect a call by Foreign Office minister Kim Howells on Monday for other Nato members to provide more support for the international force attempting to tackle the drugs trade in southern Afghanistan.

«I want to let you know that an expected family situation has forced me to reflect long and hard on whether to put myself forward for consideration to be selected as the next labour party candidate in the Lewisham East by - election,» she said.

Friends, I have been forced to reflect long and hard on whether to put myself forward for consideration to be selected as the next @UKLabour Party candidate in the #LewishamEast by - election.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday amended his proposed budget to incorporate Medicaid funding cuts and policy changes recommended by a task force that reviewed the program and to reflect some future economic optimism.

This collaboration reflects work of The Center for Engineering Mechanobiology, a National Science Foundation - funded Science and Technology Center that supports interdisciplinary research on the way cells exert and are influenced by the physical forces in their environment.

Having been confronted with the idea that a person may belong to more than one group, visitors are then forced to reflect on whether fixed groups — including races — with measurable differences between them even exist.

The number dropped in 1991, reflecting the recession which forced most companies to cut back on research.

As proposed by Andrew Goldsworthy in 1987, cyanobacteria and later chloroplast - related protists and plants developed after microbes that used a purple pigment bacteriorhodopsin that absorbs green light dominated the oceans, and so the new photosynthetic cyanobacteria were forced to use the left - over light with chlorophyll that reflects green light, which was too complex to change even after purple - reflecting photosynthetic lifeforms were no longer dominant (Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist, September 10, 2010 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

These included model structure complexity, atmospheric forcing and the human influences on streamflow reflected in the observed streamflow in regulated rivers.

Reflecting his national reputation, he was a member of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee for the FDA and currently serves on the NCI Prostate Cancer Task Force.

This forces me to get off my phone, reflect on the day, and break through racing thoughts before going to sleep.

Mistakes force you to reflect on how the mistake makes us feel, how it makes others feel, and what we could have done differently.

Losing my beloved family dog forced me to reflect on my own life and check in to see if I'm living fully.

By inhibiting lipolysis with niacin, acipimox, or beta - hydroxybutyrate, the body is forced to rely more heavily on glycogen and this is reflected in higher plasma lactate.

Perspective and repetition forces us to reflect on our insignificance in the world.