Sentences with phrase «role models past»

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«During the past decade, PepsiCo has become a role model for global companies by demonstrating that aligning business and societal interests is a recipe for strong financial results,» said Bill George, senior fellow, Harvard Business School.

In contrast, bond market exposure (in the form of yield curve and spread risk) has played a relatively minor role in driving convertible bond risk and return in the recent past and seems likely to play a minor role in the year ahead, based on our model.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

Cheers to all the great Dads, role models and mentors in our lives, past and present.

Just because he's physically past it doesn't mean he can't be a role model and teach others to improve and better themselves as players.

His political role models — past and present — are Governor Andrew Cuomo, «but he's only been in office for a year, it's too early to tell yet,» he said, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President.

Consequently, in the past 20 years his research has evolved from an early focus on prioritizing the effects that humans have on coral reefs and the role that marine protected areas play in conserving biological diversity and ecological processes, to developing theoretical and simulation models of coral reefs that will help predict and suggest alternatives to reduce detrimental effects, to developing practical means to restore degraded reefs through manipulation of the food web and management.

Studies of the link between orbital parameters and past climate changes include spectral analysis of palaeoclimatic records and the identification of orbital periodicities; precise dating of specific climatic transitions; and modelling of the climate response to orbital forcing, which highlights the role of climatic and biogeochemical feedbacks.

He has studied the role of mitochondrial dynamics in neuronal apoptosis and neurodegeneration, and for the past five years bioenergetics and mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease models and mechanisms of insulin secretion in pancreatic beta cell models.

Not only has Winslet been a champion for aging happily (and realistically), but in the past few months she's also been a role model for body positivity.

The first time I ever ran at altitude was this past winter in Mammoth Lakes, California with the Mammoth Track Club — home to incredible athletes, including one of my role models, Deena Kastor.

I'm so proud of the loving mother she's become over the past year and she has always been an amazing role model for me.

If young black role models like Michael B Jordan continue to show that male intimacy should be celebrated, not feared, maybe this outdated notion of what it means to be a black man will be a thing of the past.

So many of the contemporary stories set during that more shameful chapter of America's past invent white role models who seem downright progressive by the standards of the day, and enlightened even by ours (à la Atticus Finch).

Directed by Chris Columbus, the screenplay was written by Timothy Dowling whose past credits include Role Models and Just Go With It.

Meryl's enthralling body of work across a diverse set of genres has made her a role model over the past 40 years, and she will continue to do so for generations to come,» HFPA president Lorenzo Soria said in a statement.

The better reading of We Are What We Are is that one must break away from the family unit, or the grotesque father figure, a popular Gothic role model, Bill Sage's Frank Parker echoing a Heathcliff-esque villain, in order to stop repeating the mistakes of the past.

We should try to see past the feminine / masculine side of things and provide new role models for the youth,» writes Reetta Heiskanen.

One way to increase their openness to talking with adults is to be more approachable by taking the issue seriously, investing the time and space to listen before moving into problem - solving mode, not harping on the past, and being a role model by not engaging in gossiping and name - calling yourself.

Entering the teaching profession after a TV / film acting career, James Encinas has served for the past fifteen years as an educator and role model for the heavily Latino population at Westminster Avenue Elementary School.

It received its charter from the State of Arizona to educate students in traditional basics, with emphasis on the great role models of the past.

He told the audience to consider which standards they are not willing to «walk past» and how they could «embody» these values, making them a good role model for other school staff.

I have found that usually these type of people have had role models in their past that exhibited these same traits and characteristics to get by and this behavior is considered necessary for survival.

The most common admission essay topics are: events and achievements which contributed to the self - development, situations in which you assumed significant responsibility, your strengths and weaknesses, working with other people, career aspirations, challenges you faced, academic interests, role model, past experiences, causes of particular university or college choice, and personal information.

With a kitsch role model from Barkley L. Hendricks, the struggle for civil rights may even seem a thing of the past.

Lemus» interest in the topic stems from his involvement in social work over the past 14 years, where he has worked with boys and young men with absent fathers and a lack of positive role models.

Named for the founder of the Gray Panthers, the awards were designed to correct the «negative stereotype people have of aging — to reverse those images and show some real role models... people past 60 who are active, creative and vital.»

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

Ironically, while some continue to attack this nearly decade - old work, the actual scientific community has moved well beyond the earlier studies, focusing now on the detailed patterns of modeled and reconstructed climate changes in past centuries, and insights into the roles of external forcing and internal modes of variability (such as the North Atlantic Oscillation or «NAO» and the «El Nino / Southern Oscillation» or «ENSO») in explaining this past variability.

The paper also cites a number of modelling and empirical papers that are of relevance to your questions, like Pagani, M., Caldeira, K., Berner, R. & Beerling, D. 2009 The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO2 decline over the past 24 million years.

As part of my past and ongoing research I have used a range of observations and models to examine how clouds interact with background aerosols, how clouds respond to warming, and what role clouds play in the global water cycle.

In their paper, Swanson et al. use climate models to hash out the role internal variability has played in average global temperature changes over the past century (Figure 1).

Paleoclimate data — model comparison and the role of climate forcings over the past 1500 years.

On the other hand, climate models using up - to - date solar forcings don't show noticeably lower temperatures in the past decade, and that data runs counter to the idea that longer - term changes in the solar cycle are playing a major role in the pause.

«Our stars, who are people just like us — do care about our environment; they have served as role models, and in the future will create a wave of change in a much shorter time trajectory than is typical of this sort of crisis in the past,» Shegerian concludes with enthusiasm.

He is highly experienced in public international law disputes and investor - state arbitration cases, with past roles including acting as part of the Law Commission of India's study group into the Indian Model Bilateral Investment Treaty.

For the past 25 years, it has been largely though that the development of childhood aggression was down to learning from bad role models.

Maybe you got it from your parents, your past relationships, Hollywood movies, or just a lack of role models.

Maybe you are afraid of committing to a relationship because you've had negative experiences in the past, bad parental role models, or believe that a good relationship only happens if you «find your soulmate.»

Reflecting on the past — they way you were conditioned growing up and how your role models taught you how people treat each other.

And the kicker is that children ARE their own unique selves, formed of DNA from huge numbers of persons of past generations, all combining and recombining differently... (Ignoring of course the disparaging role modeling as affecting self - esteem... because it's not what daddy did that harmed anyone, it's that mommy complained about it...)

In order to address theoretical and empirical gaps in past research, the primary aim of the present study was to examine the role that perceived control played in both diathesis - stress and transactional models of depression in Canadian adolescents.