Sentences with phrase «social pressures on»

Alice Ray, co-founder and CEO of Ripple Effects, maintains that «there are so many familial and social pressures on kids, we want to give them a way to get supports for those needs without having to break cultural taboos.»

The point is that there is a global demographic shift of massive proportions happening where there will be huge social pressures on retirement / eldercare systems, because the ratio of workers to retirees will fall globally.

As social pressures on cities mount and the Federal financing share of urban education drops (from 12 percent in 1980 to 9 percent today), many parents say their search for a trustworthy city school is growing more frantic.

Not to mention having social pressures on top of everything else.

If the data were acquired by asking students about their own college, then especially at schools with strong denominational ties there are almost certainly social pressure on individual students to maintain the appearance of piety.

The «miracles» are almost always medical recoveries in circu.mstances where the recovery is perfectly explicable by natural events and where there is social pressure on the church to declare the particular corpse a «saint.»

We should be putting social pressure on people to do what is best for the environment.

We can examine the Shy Tory theory by considering where there is likely to be social pressure on Conservative voters.

Researchers have hotly debated whether the puzzling discrepancy stemmed from reduced social pressure on kids to switch from left to right, a tendency for lefties to die earlier than righties or plain old fibbing by survey respondents.

Yet there will be significant political, economic and social pressure on countries that fail to pull their weight or even quit the treaty.

«For many LGBT people there is so much social pressure on shedding or hiding one's identity, and therefore an inner demand to find ways to design and express another,» he says.

Personally, I think this concept is just modern dating propaganda designed to put additional social pressure on those of us who are unattached.

However, the biggest risk I see that might eventually warrant considering divestment isn't based on the merits of this analysis, but on the possibility of creating a self - fulfilling prophesy by means of drumming up social pressure on institutional investors.

Social Pressure on Patient Decision Making through Shifting Mental Models: Presenting Evidence to Patients

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«Please help us focus attention on Rasool's case, by sharing the hashtag on social media of #FreeRasool, and keeping pressure on the Turkish authorities to free him immediately.»

As long as you understand this and both embrace your stress rather than battling it and reach out for social support when you're under pressure, «the harmful effects of stress on your health are not inevitable,» McGonigal concludes.

In addition to compromising the indigenous areas (Rio Paru D'Este and Waiãpi) that fall within its borders, environmentalists are also fearful of the potential for deforestation, destruction and even the potential of a gold rush that could result from this official order, as well as the additional pressure on social problems.

Under pressure from some members of Congress following social media reports, airlines have taken the unusual step of publicly announcing price caps on tickets out of areas in Irma's course.

That's because, as a new study notes, meeting patients» basic social needs — including for heating, electricity, food access, and medicines — can actually have a significant effect on basic health indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Lauded for its ease and speed, the countertop pressure cooker Instant Pot gained a loyal following on social media.

There's this pressure to determine the infamous ROI of social, and yet when you look at other major marketing channels over the last few decades that we've used — billboards in the sky, ads in newspapers, even commercials on television — those extensions of campaigns are traditionally measured in eyeballs or ears.

And they're not just saving money on rent and commuting costs, Matt tells CNBC: «We also need less stuff to fill our place, and we feel less social pressure to buy more things to match our living situation.»

Adding to concerns, Facebook's rival photo application, Instagram, is expected to be the biggest share gainer among any social network per ad buyers, putting pressure on Snap performance in 2018.

There's a lot of pressure to look like you have an interesting life on social media, but not all millennials are honest with themselves about the cost.

But the rise in social media use in the region could also keep the pressure on political systems that have held on to the status quo to open up.

Allianz argues peer pressure on social media is part of the problem.

Nextdoor could put pressure on other social networks to adopt similar changes, said Porter.

For example, anonymous social apps such as Whisper, which have faced pressure to step up content policing efforts, rely on TaskUs employees to manually flag inappropriate messages — nude photos, threats of violence, etc. — and keep them off its networks.

There's a lot of pressure to be everywhere at once — to be fully active on every social - media site out there.

Those hectic schedules — combined with the pressure to look like parent of the year on social media — cause many people to lose sight of what's really important in life.

He wasn't an angel, but he was a good kid on the right path who held up under the social pressures common in the Bronx.

Facebook has come under intense pressure to tackle the spread of false stories, which came to prominence during the U.S. presidential election last year when many inaccurate posts were widely shared on it and other social media services.

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That means there's cultural and social pressure to stay on the platforms that people are most likely to use to find you — for example, when, disaster strikes and you need to mark yourself safe.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

Downward pressure would be exerted on the rating if (1) there is a significant deterioration in the government's balance sheet (2) a substantial erosion of official financial buffers that undermines confidence in the country's external stability; (3) the manifestation of significant political and / or social tensions that could hinder the country's medium - term growth prospects beyond Moody's current expectations.

This is consistent with national survey reports from the General Social Survey where employee owners report that they have greater job security and lower likelihoods of being laid off in the previous year compared to other employees.29 When faced with recessionary pressures, employee ownership firms may retain workers to sustain a workplace culture based on cooperation, information - sharing, and commitment to long - term performance.

In the wake of an open letter in January from Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, exhorting businesses everywhere to focus on their social impact rather than simply maximizing profits, they wondered whether Moynihan might feel under more pressure to do so now that tax reforms would be lightening the burden in the future.

There's still social media pressure on other companies to sever relationships with the NRA.

«The Wildrose was not founded on political principles, like the fiscal conservatism of the Progressive Conservatives, or the social democracy of the New Democrats — but rather it was created, out of nothing, for the sole purpose of exerting political pressure on the PC government.»

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Marketing and business leaders are experiencing tremendous pressure to get online, embrace and start leveraging the social networks, create content, launch corporate and executive blogs, design new Instagram profiles, fill Twitter feeds with amazing content, build Facebook communities, embrace live streaming and the list goes on.

Responding to popular pressure, Merkel's conservatives and their left - leaning Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners agreed on Thursday to tighten asylum rules, reaching a compromise on how to stem the influx of migrants.

Since then, pressure has mounted on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and the social media site to follow suit.

Pride, commercials, Hollywood, social media, parental pressure, success, disappointment, failure, the Devil, aging, bereavement, the church and so on have been far more successful at stealing our identities than any online thieves.

This is one reason — perhaps the most prevalent reason — why religion fares so lamely in high school groups and on the college campus, for where the atmosphere has become predominantly secular, as it has in most communities, social pressures have enormous power.

The list of benefits attributed to regular Transcendental Meditation — 20 minutes with one's mantra, twice a day — is reminiscent of the labels on bottles of «snake oil» sold from medicine wagons in former days: improvements in metabolism and blood pressure, relaxation from anxiety, clearer and more creative consciousness, improved social relations.

Social change is still accelerating and on a global scale; the population is expanding exponentially; technology is ever more powerful; the environment is under acute pressure.

Its appeal is complex, drawing on belief in anthropogenic global warming and trust in the «scientific consensus» behind it; the Great Recession and a protective reaction to rapid social change; a basic need for the concrete, local, and personal; the waning of religious observance; peer pressure, star power, money, and more.

Conversations are frank, and real problems are tackled: poor RE in Catholic schools, grave worries about plans for sex education there, pressures on the young from social media, a longing for strong leadership on some of these issues from Bishops.