Sentences with phrase «social projects rather»

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Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Massolution predicted $ 5.1 billion would be raised via crowdfunding platforms in 2013, with a greater shift towards funding new businesses and small firms rather than social projects, which are currently the most popular category.

At the moment I think, we might rather try to be life - giving in some other sense, as looking for some kind of project or social work we can do together (as I think it is very important for a relationship to not just focus on each other forever).

An alternative deepening of European integration in such a direction requires a common project to be led by influential social and political forces, rather than a common European identity.

In a video circulating on social media, the Kwabenya lawmaker, condemned the NDC over the project, saying it was laughable that the NDC is taking credit for the facility when it was rather her intervention that resulted in the securing of a World Bank facility to build the school.

This is the first time FIMI has granted a Social Awareness Award to a pre-mining project rather than an established mining operation.

Rather than talk about his coming fiscal plans — including how he'll push to use a projected $ 6.2 billion surplus — the governor's campaign has leaned on social wedge issues, including abortion.

Dickinson may have been a proto - feminist, but the film is hardly a resurrection of the 19th - century poet as an icon of social justice — surely one market - friendly direction this project could have taken — but rather a hard look at the contours of her sequestered social universe, and how those sometimes limiting parameters nevertheless fueled her work.

Don't ask students to imagine something they can not actually see happening — rather, invite them to participate in meaningful endeavors, such as social entrepreneurship projects through Kiva.

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

Rather than taking the place of the typical social studies curriculum, this project was an add - on for the teacher, requiring significant realignment of instructional time for work that would not directly prepare students for the state assessment.

Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work.

Thanks, Robert — couldn't agree more about the importance of using your name as your social - media handle (rather than blog title, etc.), if for no other reason so that you get continuity of community from one project to the next.

I'd rather spend my time writing my new project that spending an incredible amount of time every single day working social media.»

Rather than aesthetic cohesion, Rachleff focuses on social networks to map a constellation of galleries, venues, and projects that nurtured experimentation and collaboration.

The boundary of a contemporary art object or project is no longer thought of solely in physical terms but rather in relation to the specific social field it creates.

Adrian Piper's work Mythic Being (1973) and the work of Sara Greenberger Rafferty, an artist whose critique of social roles in stand - up comedy Grabner also curated into the Biennial, appear to have directly influenced Scanlan's choices.The problem with his project is that it functions by exploiting rather than critiquing the severely limited representation of minority artists at the Whitney, and in the art world more broadly.

Returning to New York in 1976, Winters teamed up with a group of artists to form Collaborative Projects (Colab), a rather anarchistic organization dedicated to artistic collaboration and the creation of art that questioned social values.

Tim Rollins and KOS had their first exhibition in 1986 and have shown in many galleries, museums and other art institutions in the United States and abroad since then, insisting that their work be contextualised and assessed as fine art rather than as a social project.

In assembling an archive rather than producing art objects, Chan stresses the collaborative community - oriented process involved in the project, and shows how, in the face of social, political, and environmental collapse, there might be an antidote to the alienation of contemporary life in such collaborations.

Matthew Darbyshire on the exhibition and commission: «In the development of this project, rather than getting too pop and «Twenty Twelve», I was thinking about the very real possibility of regression, and the potential for a more oblique commentary on the social, political and cultural implications of what's being built around us today.

Many countries have found these prospects to be very challenging, and many have argued that the rates of population aging and population decline that is projected for many European and other very low fertility countries is not sustainable: it implies rather insurmountable problems for social security and other transfer systems, and it may lead to declines in well - being as a result of lower productivity and incomes.

They always began with the social, cultural, and economic returns of the project, rather than focusing solely on environmental implications that for some are less tangible.

«The younger generation is more apt to organize, social network and commit themselves to projects (rather) than just making money.»

The reviews will be known as impact assessments, rather than environmental assessments, because they are to consider a broader range of factors including the health, social and economic impacts of a project.

Inspired by Lon Fuller, who, in Rod Macdonald's words, «saw law as a human project, a human accomplishment, and a human aspiration that emerges from ongoing patterns of human interaction and the reciprocal adjustment of human expectation,» he conceived legal education as being, at its core, learning how «to attend to the complexities of human beings in interaction with each other,» stating that we should teach how law could be «a facilitator of human interaction» and «about finding social outcomes that help solve human problems [rather than] perfecting abstract concepts to solve legal puzzles.»