Sentences with phrase «social standing in»

Originally, if a person of sufficient social standing in a community walked into a court and told the judge that you confessed your crime last night, you would be convicted on the good character of the witness (him being a Duke, and all).

The issues in this historical romance are very contemporary, such as the heroine's sham of a marriage to a man who is gay but, due to his lineage and social standing in Victorian England, is just as much a victim of society as Tallie is.

The acerbic Adams and the idealistic Jefferson were divided by geography and social standing in addition to temperament.

As the film begins, she is seemingly content in her surroundings; she has children who she loves dearly, more money than anyone could possibly spend and a fine social standing in upper class Italian society.

The work could throw new light on the brain mechanisms that dictate social standing in people and its effects on anxiety, motivation, addiction and relationships, says Hu.

It also appears to say that, while perhaps not a pronounced as once thought, «the improving trend in black violent crime indicates that African - Americans are experiencing better social standing in the U.S.»

To me this picture depicts the fact that most of our Christianity is made with human hands, perpetuated by human wisdom and sustained by lusts for money, power and influence, popularity, and a proper social standing in the community.

Not exact matches

In fact, 78 percent of millennials and 74 percent of the general population think more companies should take a stand on important social issues.

The stand - off also comes amid a growing campaign by politicians, regulators and courts across Europe to rein in Google's power over the Internet search market and the impact it has on deeply ingrained social norms around personal privacy.

Tournament and money standings aside, the new - age way to gauge standings of a player, and to attract the next generation of fans, lies in their social narrative.

Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

According to bestselling author Ben Angel, one of the biggest challenges in the new social media economy is how to create important content that stands out from pack — but, more importantly, content that will convert prospects into customers.

As much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter century.

Here's a list that maybe standing in the way of better planning, measurement, integration, and bottom - line results for your strategic social business plans?

She also used her social media platform to stand up for those in need and make us laugh.

Ongoing concerns over privacy may be Facebook's biggest weakness, but it's also the most significant obstacle standing in the way of Dumbill's social web ideal.

Other companies now use OkCupid's vast trove of social data, and Yagan, a self - professed introvert who is married to his high school sweetheart, stands as the foremost authority in a fast - growing $ 2 billion industry.

As a result of their remarkable generosity, philanthropy in 2016 is poised to stand alongside government and business as one of the most powerful forces influencing social change.

A free download, the app makes its money with in - game sales of «koins,» which can be used to improve a player's social standing.

How a children's clothing company stood out in social commerce, catching the eye of prominent investors.

So how can you make your particular social enterprise stand out in the crowd?

For example, more than a million people used social media to «check in» at the Standing Rock Reservation, center of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

Thanks to the popularity of social commerce, more social media brands are considering the model and tinkering with their own advertising strategies; expect to see a more fluid online experience for online shoppers in the near future, which may decrease the need for your own stand - alone website in an SEO context.

Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

«What sells on social media is what sells in celebrity: having a big personality, having an engaging and fun personality, and having a personality that takes a stand.»

The rumor had many facets: that police were using Facebook check - ins as an intelligence tool, that their doing so was beneficial to law enforcement operations at Standing Rock, that flooding social media with check - ins would disrupt police activity, that participating in the action was helpful to the protesters, and that it was possible to stealthily maintain the ruse.

This idea of paying for attention seems to fly in the face of everything that we inbound marketers stand for: educational content, and attracting prospects through social media, email and blogging.

Though they have made their mark in the private sector, these men and women are taking public stands on hot button social and environmental issues ranging from gay marriage to climate change to gender equality.

In the speech that urged the Alliance to embrace social conservatives, Harper also said that left - wing Canadians stand for «radical, responsibility - free individualism» and «tribalism in the form of group rights.&raquIn the speech that urged the Alliance to embrace social conservatives, Harper also said that left - wing Canadians stand for «radical, responsibility - free individualism» and «tribalism in the form of group rights.&raquin the form of group rights.»

But his standing also reflects Novo Nordisk's deep engagement with social and environmental issues, which now factor in to our calculations.

The survey of 925 Americans was conducted as new revelations surfaced that the company connected to the 2016 Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, inappropriately harvested personal information on millions of Facebook users The sharp rise in negative feelings is a significant departure from Facebook's standing prior to the 2016 election, when the rise of so - called Fake News and polarizing content led to calls for the company to take greater responsibility for the content on the popular social media site — or face government regulation.

On TV, wearing his trademark hoodie, 28 - year - old Mark Zuckerberg, creator of the world's largest social networking site, stood in the courtyard of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

Today, consumers in China don't associate the Line characters with the Line app — the IP stands on its own, said Alexis Bonhomme, general manager and co-founder of CuriosityChina, a company focused on social customer relationship management and Chinese digital platforms.

To highlight the everyday absurdities that stand in the way of productivity, American Express OPEN is launching a campaign that features the real struggles we all face in the office with videos, social media content and a series from workplace expert Lynn Taylor on OPEN Forum.

Cryptocurrency is exciting because it stands to (and is in the process of) disrupt traditional financial, social, and political institutions, and supporting its message of decentralization, security, and efficiency is the medium in which it is conveyed.

Where do you stand, philosophically, in the social discussion of a world in which computer - driven machines continue to replace the work of humans?

That's why, when I saw the list of social media marketers cited in The Sophisticated Marketer's Guide to LinkedIn, it made sense to publish the list as a stand alone blog post.

Social media has enabled people around the world to watch events at Standing Rock unfold in real time.

The second generation leader of Alberta's social democratic party is smart, witty and well - positioned to boost her party's standings in the opposition benches.

Calgary - Hawkwood: Social Credit Party leader Len Skowronski will stand as a candidate in this newly created constituency.

«Although the French government has introduced or announced a number of measures intended to address these competitiveness and growth issues, the implementation and efficacy of these policy initiatives are complicated by the persistence of long - standing rigidities in labor, goods and services markets as well as the social and political tensions the government is facing,» Moody's said.

Being in the unique position of being able to look back on over a dozen years of involvement with persona development strategy, I see the evolution of the Social Business Persona addressing what user personas and buyer personas can not do on their own standing.

The idealist in me can't help but envision how global crowdfund investing stands to facilitate sustainable and attributable social impact with unparalleled scale and efficacy.

Our social experiment, Honest City, placed pop - up beverage stands in nine major cities across the country and generated extensive media coverage.

As it stands, it's a site which people voluntarily choose to sign up for, and if they do so knowing that they must as either women or men (and that their networks are thus restricted to those groups), they're not being oppressed... they're willingly participating in a social network medium which openly airs those restrictions.

When Santorum or Rick Perry was the nominee it was all about social issues and bringing us back to being a «Christian nation» in good standing with God for the Republicans, we heard a never ending drumbeat about abortion, prayer in schools, teaching creationism, and trying to end funding for planned parenthood, even stopping the funding of birth control.

The lack of a positive, high - priority response from a series of Republican administrations to what is now a long - standing, continuously worsening social problem has allowed politically marginal and intellectually moribund elements to retain a credibility and force in our political life far beyond what their accomplishments would otherwise support.

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

Perhaps, as some argue, Trump channels the anxieties of a class whose economic and social standing is in demonstrable decline as a cynical ploy to win popularity — this is a man who once called the poor «morons» — while winking at the «establishment,» who can take comfort in knowing that this reality - television caricature of themselves actually shares their political opportunism, if not their economic values.

If that is offensive, intolerant, or unacceptable to anyone, then they can choose to join a social club, support group, or any other number of options, but the true church will stand her ground and preach the infallible Word of God without fear or favor in love for lost humanity and a with a real hatred of sin that destroys and condemns.