Sentences with phrase «shape the forces of»

We will be better positioned to shape the forces of cloud, big data, mobile and security that are changing the way people live, businesses operate and the world works, just as we did when we helped revolutionize the power of the PC almost 30 years ago.

Indeed the incredible shaping force of technologies such as the Internet and television have been widely documented and explored already.

But it is this very invisible shaping force of technology that is revelatory and so, is in need of our critical engagement.

«It provides a unique vantage point from which to consider the intricate interface between capacities inherent in the human infant and the shaping force of experience,» said Sandra Waxman, senior author of the study, director of the Project on Child Development, faculty fellow in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology at Northwestern.

They are slight, but powerful, and frankly stunning: small sculptures made by world - shaping forces of heating and cooling, flowing and congealing.

Not exact matches

The sum of all interactions over time becomes a force that helps shape and evolve the core of your company.

Swinburne has been called «the architect of Mifid II» for her role in shaping the far - reaching European financial legislation that took six years to complete and came into force in January.

Our main message is that developing a theory of time allocation and occupational choice is important for understanding the forces that shape gender differences in labor market outcomes,» the researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Toronto and Princeton University write.

Fair enough, but under the new EU net neutrality laws (which aren't yet in force), the only kind of outright traffic shaping that will be allowed will be for highly specialized services — think dedicated packages for Internet TV or cars or medical applications.

In his book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future, Laurence Smith, a professor of geography and earth and space sciences at UCLA, argues that we're about to see a productivity and culture boom in the north, driven by climate change, shifting demographics, globalization and the hunt for natural resources.

That's why many savvy entrepreneurs take a broader view of the forces shaping supply and demand before taking the plunge and founding a company.

Kohlberg and Boulay joined forces, with the latter using his own time on the road to shape the user experience of Sharethebus.

Summary: «A sitcom following the lives of a group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.»

«The deal represents a sudden and stunning turn of events for The Post, Washington's leading newspaper for decades and a powerful force in shaping the nation's politics and policy,» Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi wrote on WashingtonPost.com today.

The impacts of the major technological forces that will shape the 20th century are not yet clear, but their capacity for disruption will be so great that your company has only roughly 50 % chance of surviving the next decade.

Today, I will offer a framework for assessing the forces that have shaped the recent performance of the U.S. economy.

This is partly because there are other forces that are likely to be more important in shaping the next chapter of the Australian economy.

As we have said in past commentaries, the historic levels of quantitative easing following the global financial crisis — that is the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet from around $ 900 billion to nearly $ 4.5 trillion today — was one of the most dominant market - shaping forces over the last decade.

Lifelong health, the spiritual forces that shape our lives, and the immense power of the mind - body connection

Over the next 10 years, major structural forces such as technology and a changing workforce will shape a new era of business.

Shaping Account - Based Marketing, the concept of marketing to one entity, into a new powerful force.

Since 1980 when the trucking industry was economically deregulated it was a goal for trucking to be shaped by market forces under a nationally uniform set of regulations.

As I've noted before, the greatest act of respect for American troops would be for the Bush Administration to extract the U.S. from the role of occupier and to legitimize its role as peacekeeper; to abandon the objective of unilaterally shaping Iraq, shift enforcement to a wider force of NATO troops, and expand the role of the United Nations in civil matters.

Pete Kendall explores the socionomic forces that shaped the life and career of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century.

It is important that investors understand the forces that shape each generation's investment behavior and how the pursuit of financial goals differs from generation to generation.

A spiral galaxy (same goes for a spherical planet, a galaxy cluster, a comet) is shaped by forces big and small that rely on the physical properties of matter, energy, dark energy, and dark matter.

There is order ALL around, and it is a corollary of the matter and natural forces which shape the world.

Neither, however does a knee - jerk belief that everything is due to the individual, that nothing is shaped by outside forces and the structure of civilization.

The openhearted observer of Islam in the West can discern the shape of hope in the increasing willingness of people of the two faiths to come together for dialogue and consultation on the mutual problems they face; in the reevaluation of Islam forced upon Muslims by their minority status in many places; and in the development of the concept of international law and universal human rights.

The shape of his utterance (he had been likening acceptance of God's will to freedom and resistance to imprisonment) can exert more force than its content.

According to one of his analogies: just as the sequence of letters on a page is extraneous to the chemistry of ink and paper, so the sequence of nucleic acids in the DNA molecule (which, when translated, determines the shape of an organism and its specific characteristics) is extraneous to the chemical forces operative in the genetic process.

Because the Bible is the most effective force in history for lifting women to higher levels of respect, dignity, and freedom, we join an historic succession of women whose Christian faith is forged from biblical truth and whose lives are shaped into Christ's image on the anvil of obedience.

But the self's vision of the promise of life is surrounded by an awareness of the many ways in which the future is being shaped by forces and circumstances that can neither be predicted nor controlled.

More than any other force it shapes the attitudes, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child.»

During the social and political turmoil of the centuries following Alexander's death — in which his empire was dismembered, the «members» seemed continuously to war with one another, and then were largely absorbed into Rome's growing empire — the practice of paideia continued to be the dominant force shaping the educated classes.

Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.

It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.

This means moreover that our reflection on and use of Scripture must also take their impetus and starting point from the forces that shape our consciousness.

As an existing force, these traditions, which have shaped the ethos of so much in the United States, have never been more than one tradition among many.

I want the Church to have a voice in shaping the emerging world consciousness and I suggest that the Church needs to change in several ways in order for it to be a vital force in influencing the shape of the future.

However,» caste is now seen as the major socio - economic formative force in shaping and understanding the history of Dalits.

It treats all modes of human speaking as potentially aesthetic while holding to a concern with the historical, societal, and political forces that shape the preaching event.

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

The ever more desperate attempts to force the world into the shape of a text has been translated and mistranslated a million times into as many languages over thousands of years are the vicious attacks of a cornered animal.

Most strikingly, it faults colleges and universities for the kinds of students they enroll, shaped as they have been by the forces of the larger cultures from which they come, while paying no attention to the kinds they graduate.

To interpret this text as a historical vestige, moored in misguided hopes from Israel's past, is to misunderstand the canonical forces at work in shaping the prophetic tradition into a corpus of scripture directed to Israel's subsequent generations of faith.

To all who work in shaping public policy, the Pope directs a special plea to make a concern for the health of the family «the basis and driving force of all social policies.»

Although it would be false to reduce an individual to the societal forces that shape his behavior, it would be an act of blindness to ignore their influence.

More significant, though, has been the continuing impact of Benedict XVI, who at the beatification Mass in September 2010 paid «particular tribute to [Newman's] vision for education, which has done so much to shape the ethos that is the driving force behind Catholic schools and colleges today.

As much as American religion is «American,» it is also local, shaped by the particular history of immigration and economic forces of each place, as well as the particular landscape that often fires religious imaginations.