Sentences with phrase «serve as a kind»

Food banks, Saul argues, serve as a kind of «moral release valve» for government, permitting it to appear as if it were doing something about hunger when it's doing nothing to address the poverty and social isolation that lead people to food banks in the first place.

For Inc.'s 30th anniversary, we decided to bring these two business thinkers together for a conversation that would serve as a kind of state - of - the - entrepreneurial nation — examining where we have been, where we are, where we are headed, and what it will take to succeed once we get there.

The buddy takes the new recruit for lunch and serves as a kind of guidance counsellor from then on, so the person always knows who to turn to with questions.

Like an email program or a Web browser, the news reader serves as a kind of information portal, and provides a real - time interface to the feeds you select.

However we may feel about adoration and praise, including it in «vocal» prayer or letting it serve as a kind of borderline approach to «mental» prayer, it is obvious that when we come to meditation we are concerned with a kind of exercise that can quite readily be carried on with no verbal articulation u such.

Some students had offered to have their Wesley Foundation serve as a kind of collective pastor to a church that could no longer afford to pay a preacher and was slated to close.

ECT is an ancillary initiative, serving as a kind of advance scouting party to explore possibilities, and, as such, has received much appreciated encouragement from many sources, both Evangelical and Catholic.

Kass would like nature to serve as some kind of moral guide, but he does not develop how that could best be done.

These three days serve as a kind of grand finale to what's known as Holy Week.

The folk wisdom that gets expressed from time to time by various actors thus serves as a kind of implicit Greek chorus commenting on the action.

They are free to express their discontent, and perhaps even serve as a kind of rein on out of control big government, but they themselves do not, and most likely will not, rule.

«Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life can not possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.»

«Every family we've served as a kind of impromptu therapist,» says Naoum, «giving the families people to talk to who speak their language and know what's going on.»

Such a method can even serve as a kind of closet evangelization, so to speak, offering remedial literacy for the religiously unlettered.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Those sorts of businesses that have direct relationships with their producers are clearly going to be better for the eaters as they serve as a kind of conduit between the two, rather than a brick wall like the current system (I'm looking at you, ColesWorths).

«Norman Van Aken, the influential Florida chef whose «New World Cuisine» serves as a kind of encyclopedia of cooking from the Caribbean basin» — The New York Times, Sam Sifton

Sure, he's started other games in the competition this season, which could serve as some kind of hint for us when it comes to trying to predict which way Allegri will go with his lineup.

He came to believe that the primary caregiver (he focused mainly on mothers) served as a kind of «psychic organizer» to the child, and that a child needs this influence, especially at certain times, in order to develop successfully.

On the other hand, it also takes effort from baby to get milk from the breast, but that develops and strengthens baby's palate and it serves as some kind of exercise.

There's evidence that it serves as a kind of insulation from all of the other problems of poverty.

English does serve as a kind of de facto lingua franca in a number of international settings, but it is not, from what I have read, taught universally in South America, many African countries, or in parts of Asia, at least not at an early age for effective language acquisition (and I am unaware of any evidence that English is projected to take over in a reasonable period of time on its own; I have read that in Southeast Asia, for example, emphasis may even be shifting to Chinese).

While the secretary has traditionally served as a kind of all - purpose gatekeeper and governmental chief executive, Mr. Cuomo has tended to prefer a different model: a small handful of deputies, each reporting directly to him.

Wu will talk about his views on what the Lt. Governor of New York state should be; if he happens to win and Teachout loses, Wu could end up serving as a kind of ombudsman in the Cuomo administration.

It seemed as though this helter - skelter mess of lines served as a kind of skeleton for the map — its «mathematical structure» — just like the tidy grid does for modern maps.

Gryb credits not just Barbour but also the idyllic surroundings of College Farm, which serves as a kind of private research campus, for inspiring the work.

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which serves as a kind of moral compass for scientific publishing (but has no authority to enforce its advice) has no guidance on the practice, but urges journals to vet reviewers adequately.

But small chips packing photon detectors, generators and these memory devices could serve as a kind of photon pit stop between optical fibers, to help quantum messages go the distance.

«The Lagrangian coherent structures serve as a kind of temporary scaffolding around which an atmospheric river can grow and lengthen,» Perez - Munuzuri said.

Between September 2014 and December 2015 it made nine observations of Pluto and its moon Charon, which have served as a kind of eye test for the probe.

Skwarnicki's work focuses on quarks — fundamental constituents of matter that serve as a kind of scaffolding for protons and neutrons.

Hameroff is best known for serving as a kind of gadfly in the fields of neuroscience and philosophy.

The hypothalamus serves as a kind of thermostat, setting not only body temperature but playing a key role in hunger, thirst, fatigue, and sleep cycles.

They have discovered that a single amino acid difference in the structure of histone H3.3 enables it to serve as a kind of memory device for the cell, marking genes that need to remain active.

Recent work from Professor Takao Hensch's Harvard lab shows that a close molecular cousin of the krait's toxin, called Lynx1, serves as a kind of brake in the brain.

But because the overwhelming majority of those who attended the NPA meeting had also been at the convocation, the second gathering served as a kind of follow - on to the first.

The perforated spheres are biodegradable and together serve as a kind of structure for new cells to grow on.

They like to swallow big things and so serve as a kind of mixing bowl where viruses and bacteria can swap genes.

The silver serves as a kind of intermediary between the gold particles while not dissipating energy.

They also serve as a kind of cellular railway network.

Most adult cells have little to no telomerase activity, and the progressive shortening of their telomeres serves as a kind of molecular clock that limits the cells» — and, some believe, an organism's — life span.

In Alaska, already, researchers have discovered remnants of the 1918 flu that infected as many as 500 million and killed as many as 100 million — about 5 percent of the world's population and almost six times as many as had died in the world war for which the pandemic served as a kind of gruesome capstone.

The primary adrenal hormone called cortisol serves as a kind of moderator in making sure your blood sugar between meals, especially during the night, stays adequate.

We do these at my firm — not sure if this is what you are going on, but here, they are the night before the callback, typically with two younger associates and serve as kind of a preliminary intro to the firm, overview of your interview schedule the next day, etc..

Modest Dressing, as a Virtue (The New York Times) «In a vulnerable, volatile time — perhaps one particularly so for women — figure - obscuring clothing serves as a kind of armour, as well as a retort to a reality - TV - inured culture apparently intent on exposing any private moment, any intimate body part, for public consumption.»

This can help to serve as a kind of outlet or safety net, especially when you don't really have people in your daily life with whom to share these things.

Here, the memory of the living serves as both a kind of currency as well as a life source.

Rogers serves as a kind of de facto interviewer, drawing Mayfield's thoughts on storyboarding, casting, and preparation out in a series of pointed and scene - appropriate questions.

The World's End is the final part of the so - called «Cornetto trilogy», named after the paper wrapped snack ice cream that serves as the kind of processed food glue sticking three of Edgar Wright's films together.

The story of Adam and Eve serves as a kind of parallet to Nic's stories.