Sentences with phrase «relationship as a period»

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«Feel good» is a good strategy for an event watched together as a family over a long period where there's time to build a story and a relationship, rather than the Big Game's single chance to break through the clutter.
-- > The value of investing in relationships for the long - haul — > Investing in your health and longevity as a way to increase your lifetime earnings — > Why longer life expectancies should change the way you think about investing — > The shockingly low rate of personal savings and investment in the US — > My favorite part of the interview: whether we can reasonably expect the US markets to keep going up at their long - term average 7 % per year after inflation, or whether that was a unique period of US expansion which won't be repeated again.
This relationship helped us to achieve more significant scale and to build greater awareness with prospective sellers, strengthened our board of directors by adding Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to our board for a 12 month period, and included an equity investment by Starbucks in our Series D preferred stock financing on the same terms and conditions as all other sales of our Series D preferred stock by us in that financing.
Other risks and uncertainties include the timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed transactions between ILG and MVW, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals for the proposed transactions that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transactions; the possibility that ILG's stockholders may not approve the proposed transactions; the possibility that MVW's stockholders may not approve the proposed transactions; the possibility that the expected synergies and value creation from the proposed transactions will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period; the risk that the businesses of ILG and MVW will not be integrated successfully; disruption from the proposed transactions making it more difficult to maintain business and operational relationships; the risk that unexpected costs will be incurred; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing; the possibility that the proposed transactions do not close, including due to the failure to satisfy the closing conditions; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties.
Except for a period in the early 1960s, when Robert Triffin explored what became known as the Triffin Dilemma, in which foreign hoarding of U.S. dollars was linked to persistent U.S. trade deficits, the relationship between the capital and current accounts seems since then to have mystified most economists, including those specializing in trade, even as U.S. trade deficits and foreign capital inflows soared, and as the growth in international capital flows, once consisting largely of trade finance, exploded relative to trade flows and relegated trade finance to minor importance.
Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.
As Professor Paul Evans and I have argued in a paper for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada could once lay claim to a «special relationship» with China — a legacy of missionary and humanitarian contacts, early diplomatic recognition, and as a reliable supplier of wheat during a period when trade with China was nascent at best, if not taboAs Professor Paul Evans and I have argued in a paper for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada could once lay claim to a «special relationship» with China — a legacy of missionary and humanitarian contacts, early diplomatic recognition, and as a reliable supplier of wheat during a period when trade with China was nascent at best, if not taboas a reliable supplier of wheat during a period when trade with China was nascent at best, if not taboo.
Businesses have a three - year «transition period» during which they can still send messages of a commercial nature if they can prove they've had a business relationship with the recipients, known in law as implied consent, in the past two years.
Following this rapid growth period, we anticipate that GFI will slow their expansion over the next year.9 They are planning to increase their fundraising capability primarily through strengthening their relationships with existing donors as well as identifying new potential groups of donors.10 They hope this will allow them to maintain sustained growth beyond the startup phase.11 Given additional funding, we do think that GFI is structured in such a way that they could continue to expand their organizational capacity across all departments; however, we think that it's possible they will continue to encounter some hiring issues (although not to the same extent as those seen in 2017).
As the United States and China enter what is likely to be a turbulent period, former American officials and other China experts said the lack of a point man for the relationship could aggravate tensions.
The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
It would just bring a major impact say if half the Americans were gay over a long period of time, sure it might solve a few problems with the decline from the billions, but in the end it... you should join speech & debate my friend, just my opinion they shouldn't allow gay marriage, they can have their relationships all they want, just my belief about it, I respect your beliefs as long as you respect mine.
Second, one may well argue against my view, that although the Hebraic development as consummated in Jesus won out over the decadent Hellenism of the first and second centuries, this tells us nothing of its relationship to the healthy Hellenism of the axial period.
This made use of the marriage symbolism of the Scriptures and patristic period to provide, as Podles puts it, an «imaginative playing «out of [a] privileged relationship with God.»
But as I have continued to read about the period, I have become convinced that it's deepest impact was not on our theory of truth and its relationship to rationality, but rather on our concept of our relationship to nature.
In this period of history, when militant homosexuals not only reveal their liaisons and lifestyles but actively and articulately promote the homosexual relationship as a morally acceptable alternative to marriage, legislation that would require the military to accept homosexuals would do much more to violate the rights of heterosexual military personnel than it would to promote the rights of homosexuals.
The president of Business International, Orville Freeman, describes the period following World War II, a period in which the United States solidified its relationships with dictatorships in Latin America and throughout much of the world, as an exemplary time of freedom.
It is the «we're in this thing together» attitude which allows a couple to use periods of crisis, conflict, or even estrangement, as challenges to work harder at deepening and expanding the relationship.
Written from a purely secular perspective, the book even speaks of the advantages of periods of abstinence for a relationship as a means of rekindling the romantic feelings of courtship and experiencing afresh the joys of the honeymoon.
The major reasons for this discrepancy is the fact that the local clergyman feels that (a) there is no one on the staff of the mental health center to whom he can personally relate, and (b) when he refers a parishioner he feels that his concerns are not adequately represented by anyone on the staff of the center, and (c) he feels that his role and relationship with the parishioner or the family is not recognized or utilized as an important part of the experience of therapy either during the treatment time or in the after - care period.
I have been thinking tons about bonds lately, as 90 % of my closest friends either got in our out of relationships... It's a weird feeling to cheer one friend up about being single for the first time in four years and then go back home and cheer my flatmae to go see the frist guy she's liked in pretty much the same period of time, who unfortunately happens to live on the other side of Europe.
This is so that more time can be spent on topics such as Breastfeeding, more opportunity for discussions about issues related to birth / postnatal period including Postnatal Depression / homelife / relationships and more specific issues such as babies going to the Special Care Baby Unit.
With 8 years of experience as a nanny to young children, personal struggles with the physical recovery during her postpartum period, and her personal pursuit of a healthy breastfeeding relationship with her daughter, Olivia has the knowledge and compassion to help new families find their way.
She is inspired by the ability of others to draw upon internal resources such as strength and compassion during periods of transition and grateful for the opportunity to witness the process of personal growth, healing, and relationship development that is unique to open adoption.
While we don't know whether Pink was hyperbolizing the couple's dips, such periods aren't uncommon: Relationship satisfaction declines nearly twice as quickly for couples with kids compared to those without, Fortune reports.
As teenagers start opening many relationships at this period of time, so control your teenager to have good relationships and good activities in his or her social life.
«I am privileged as my relationship is an ongoing one where I support during pregnancy, once the baby is here, and throughout the postnatal period supporting with feeding, sleep, and early child development.»
As a Certified Becoming Us ™ Facilitator, I am excited to help couples prepare for parenthood using a relationship program that fosters a strong connection for couples during pregnancy, birth, the postnatal period and the years beyond.
The ability to work as a duet during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period, grounded in evidence based strategies and procedures, reduces anxiety and depression and increases feelings of love and attachment within the relationship.
Upheaval and uncertainty during the prolonged transition period as the coalition developed alternative policies, has at times come to characterise the relationship between business and government in the regions.
«What I want to do is negotiate a new comprehensive free trade agreement with the European Union,» she said, «to have that negotiated within that two year timescale the treaty has set, and then as part of the ongoing relationship, of course we'll have an implementation period when that is put into place.»
Saraki's trial, according to analysts, worsened the relationship between the Presidency and the Senate as during this period, the Senate failed to approve the appointment of Mr. Ibrahim Magu [a Buhari's nominee] as the substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Dr Greg Edgecombe from The Natural History Museum in London, a co-author on the study, says: «Evidence of symbiotic relationships are rare in the invertebrate fossil record, and this beautiful example shows how these associations began to develop as ecosystems became more complex in the Cambrian Period.
Researchers from Harvard Chan School and Brigham and Women's Hospital examined the relationship between types of fats in the participants» diets and overall deaths among the group during the study period, as well as deaths due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and respiratory disease.
In SR, by contrast, the literature was a trigger to recall and expression of diverse life experiences — of work, childhood, family members, relationships — related to the entire life - span, not merely the time - period affected by pain, or the time - period pre-pain as contrasted with life in the present.
Additionally, extinctions below the species level are documented in this time period (e.g., 7) and, as argued in our Report, may contribute to the observed velocity - endemism relationship.
The discovery of this mammal, an ancestor of the present - day rabbit, represents an important biogeographic link that confirms the widespread distribution of this group as well as the relationship between Asia and Europe during this period.
Additional comments made by the author himself indicate virtually no knowledge of the structure of medieval European society, or of the relationship between sacred and secular learning, and include a condemnation which even readers who are not anxious to return to the Middle Ages may regard as rather extreme: «the suppression of scientific thought by the medieval Church represents one of the blackest periods of human history».
By studying the relationship between CO2 levels and climate change during a warmer period in Earth's history, the scientists have been able to estimate how the climate will respond to increasing levels of carbon dioxide, a parameter known as «climate sensitivity».
«The competition between commensal house mice and other wild mice continued to fluctuate as humans became more mobile in arid periods and more sedentary at other times — indicating the sensitivity of local environments to degrees of human mobility and the complexity of human environmental relationships going back in the Pleistocene,» said Weissbrod, currently a research fellow at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa.
This close relationship is often given as an example of coevolution, as the flower and pollinator are thought to have developed together over a long period of time to match each other's needs.
[3] Large earthquakes occur less frequently, the relationship being exponential; for example, roughly ten times as many earthquakes larger than magnitude 4 occur in a particular time period than earthquakes larger than magnitude 5.
Social psychologist Bella DePaulo analyzed 814 studies in 2016 and concluded that single people tend to be more self - reliant and motivated than those in a relationship, they're closer to their parents, friends, and siblings and are more likely to grow as individuals over long periods of time.
A clear, direct, one - to - one relationship between pesticides and polio over a period of 30 years, with pesticides preceding polio incidence in the context of the CNS - related physiology just described, leaves little room for complicated virus arguments, even as a cofactor, unless there exists a rigorous proof for virus causation.
1994 9 (1): 19 - 23 in an article regarding the relationship of changes in neck posture in patients with neck pain; as neck pain patients had the normal neck curve restored over a twelve week period, improvements were noted in all measurements of clinical symptoms.
More interestingly, Farup et al. (2014) found that the strength of the relationship between rate of force development and type IIX muscle fiber relative area reduced steadily as the time period moved further away from the onset of the contraction (r = 0.61, 0.56, 0.46, 0.26 for 30ms, 50ms, 100ms and 200ms).
::: Obviously I didn't enjoy that leaner physique much and I was terrified to miss a workout or eat the wrong things lest I gain any weight I'd worked so damn hard to lose - not to mention I had no period, a gazillion breakouts, was utterly exhausted, had a torn hamstring and a relationship that was in tatters and I hadn't slept well in as long as I could remember.
(Sidebar: In defense of my son's father, when I initially met him, he had a good office job working for Bell Atlantic, but got caught up into the times of street life and fast money as many young men did during that period, but he's a good guy and we have a great relationship) On the bus this particular day, I sat beside this young lady and we begin to talk.
So then, at first glance, Knapp's theory on the stages of relationships seems to explain the usual patterns couples go through when pairing up — think of the blissful «honeymoon» period and the enormous and powerful emotions that are bandied about as we fall in love.
These can include going public as a couple, being apart for an extended period, jealousy, friend's opinions, and either partner going through a tough time outside of the relationship.
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