Sentences with phrase «social situations i was in»

But the more I looked around the social situations I was in, it made sense with my lifestyle.

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«Social skills» represents behaviors you can learn that are useful in social situations, like to introduce yourself to someone new, to carry on a mutually interesting conversation, to shake hands, and Social skills» represents behaviors you can learn that are useful in social situations, like to introduce yourself to someone new, to carry on a mutually interesting conversation, to shake hands, and social situations, like to introduce yourself to someone new, to carry on a mutually interesting conversation, to shake hands, and so on.

You wouldn't necessarily think a high - pressure situation would be a great time for a cuddle, but oxytocin is actually there to drive you to seek social support to help you in difficult times.

How do you handle a situation where someone loves your product, and is active on social media, but isn't necessarily posting in a way that you consider appropriate?

In social situations, I ask myself how I want to be perceived and what my goals are for any given event.

It should address both the particular nuances of the company's industry as well as its broader goals for social responsibility and should be concrete enough to serve as a guide for employees in a quandary without laying out rules for every situation that could arise.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

Most of us have been in situations where someone asked for a favor long before they built the social capital to make that kind of request, if they built any capital at all.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.&social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.&Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

These days, it can be worn in most offices and social situations without causing anyone to bat an eye.

So what we have here is a classic «social dilemma» — a situation in which everyone could do better if everybody held back, but any given individual (or in this case, corporation) has reason to act in a more straightforwardly self - interested way.

Attempting to stop an escalating situation with Senigaglia by going mute might have seemed like a reasonable response for Yelp in this situation, but lawyers say determining the correct response to an employee issue on social media is more complicated.

«The court rejected (the plaintiff's) theory that the newspaper's publication violated her right to privacy because her post to MySpace was made virtually to everyone with an internet connection,» Zaller wrote in a blog post two years ago, asserting the case could apply to situations of employees posting on social media.

In contrast, pessimism was rampant in developed economies, where only 36 percent of millennials expected the social and political situations to improve over the next yeaIn contrast, pessimism was rampant in developed economies, where only 36 percent of millennials expected the social and political situations to improve over the next yeain developed economies, where only 36 percent of millennials expected the social and political situations to improve over the next year.

Extroverts thrive on social situations, so common areas in design for office space are ideal for them.

But even if the social isolation came first, it did not seem to be alleviated by spending time online, even in purportedly social situations.»

It's a way out for them to get out of social situations they don't feel comfortable in, while allowing them to not have to suffer consequences or answer a million questions about where they were or what was going on.

Tell your daughter she's «the shy one» and you'll only encourage her to be more nervous in social situations.

Sometimes we're lazy or plain afraid of tackling new topics in social situations.

Most extroverts tend to «wing it» quite often, as a natural tendency: they like to get into a situation and figure things out as they go along, which is a great quality in social settings and creative work.

Driven by social and Enterprise 2.0 technologies, buyers are able to expand their ecosystems and networks in complex situations.

This allows people who are conversing in social situations to get to know each other, on more informal topics.

The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.

This is, in the purest of senses, privilege: the ability to avoid the consequences that most anyone else in the same situation would have to endure — and, along with that, the ability to walk all over less powerful people in order to avoid those consequences — due to one's own power and social position.

Mentioning your charitable involvement in your literature and on your social media channels is a win - win situation.

In situations where the spouse's Social Security monthly benefit is greater than their partner's, the longer a spouse waits to claim Social Security, the higher the monthly benefit for both the spouse and the surviving spouse.

To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).

We do not know whether persons in this group, while moved by the presence and claims of individuals with whom they are in face - to - face relations, may, on another level, be oblivious to and unmoved by more impersonal social structures and practices that consistently put and keep persons in situations of oppression and deprivation.

If God is not much concerned about religion as a separate sphere of private or public life and if he is present where the needy cry out for help, then as Christians we can not fail to take most seriously the analysis of the concrete social situation in which we find ourselves.

When such rationalistic and scientific claims dominate not only in their proper domain, but in the other domains of social and human life, the situation is very serious, and yet this is the present situation.

Most Asperger's people are very loving, kind, intelligent, high functioning, and while often uncomfortable in crowded social situations, and often prefer to not be around too many people at one time, and are often a little «quirky» in their mannerisms, I have not met one who is like you described.

Then, too, Christians are convinced that the church can no longer play its traditional role in regard to the poor — the role of assistance, partial response, individual aid, palliative measures — because, as they see it, the problem is no longer that of the poor individual but of the system; and to ameliorate the situation of some poor people is in fact to reinforce the system, and to end injustice for one individual is to refrain from combating social injustice.

Superficially but with widespread potency, one's degree of culture is judged by his manners and conformity to correct social usage, good taste in dress and appearance, cleanliness and freedom from offensive odors or habits, ability to converse agreeably and to fit smoothly into any social situation.

These examples suffice to show that we are dealing with the same simplification of the problem of the Christian's presence in the world and of the politico - social questions of our time — though the above descriptions of the situation obtaining in Guatemala seems indeed to be accurate.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

That is, many contemporary theologies tend to believe that we can derive the normative content of faith, truth and justice directly from the immediate contexts of our social, economic and political situations; at the same time, other contemporary theologies have abandoned even trying to argue that theological claims are in any sense normative.

This situation can be explained by two basic reasons: the social expense growth linked to unemployment, that increases in thousands of millions of dollars in the State social budget, and the increase of the share of pensioners in the population which also contributes to the increase of social expenses.

Having fallen behind, it was difficult to catch up; since she was both shy and socially inept, she continued to fail in social situations.

In such a social situation a man came on the scene and it was none other than Martin Luther King Jr..

Healthy Christian theology is always written in view of the real situation of the time, whether the issues it addresses are social, cultural, or more purely intellectual.

Disciplines strive for universality, and that cuts away from interest in the concete cultural, social, historical situations to which they are applied.

The «Let me play devil's advocate» strategy is bizarrely inappropriate in such a situation, as it assumes that the young people in our secondary schools are so indoctrinated that they need to be shaken out of the complacency of a life of faith based on social approval.

As a sensitive participant in the contemporary situation she is convinced that Christians should be involved in righting the social wrongs that degrade so much of humankind.

It is this which makes religion an opiate in a situation which cries out desperately for social reform.

Then one comes home at night to the noise of the family, who have themselves been jostled upon all day in different but equally imperative social situations.

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The basic issue is indeed how to unify a clutch of courses into a course of study that honors and is adequate to genuine pluralism of construals of the Christian thing and to profound pluralism of the social situations in which the Christian thing is practiced.

But the term «relative» must be used here not only because the Mother Church has for years contributed substantial sums to relief efforts in wartime and emergency situations, such as the recent earthquake in Mexico, but because it continues to publish the Christian Science Monitor, in itself a far from negligible social commitment.

Still, Mack's book is helpful in alerting the preacher to the structures of argument at work in many biblical texts and to the social situations that produced them.