Sentences with phrase «than family ties»

Often, friendships are more powerful than family ties.

Is friendship sometimes more powerful than family ties?

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(Undoubtedly, the recent stock market rally certainly has some Americans feeling a lot richer as well, but since average U.S. families tend to have most of its wealth tied up in real estate rather than the financial market, the impact of housing is probably the more relevant one.)

It takes more than 15,000 Christmas - tree farms to produce that annual harvest, most of them small, family - owned businesses with longstanding ties to their land.

Rather than cater to retail investors demanding growth every quarter, these companies plan and invest for the long term, since the founding family's wealth is tied up in the business.

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

The new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 36 percent of firms with more than 200 workers, and 18 percent of firms over all, use financial incentives tied to health objectives like weight loss and smoking cessation.

And he did so based on the belief that this is the New Testament vision: a family «built around the quality of relationships shared by the members of God's kingdom rather than blood ties.»

Research shows that people with strong social bonds — those who are married or enjoy close family and church ties — tend to be happier and healthier than those lacking such bonds.

Hence, the only theism taken very seriously was under the first column — God wholly necessary This group of views, related with conceptual ties stronger than what Wittgenstein called family resemblance, can without exaggeration be called «classical theism.»

More than a few in Christian history have felt impelled by these words to sever their family ties, with the result of cruelty to those nearest and otherwise dearest, sometimes with the distortion of their own personalities.

Some have advanced the theory that the strong family and in - group ties of the Jewish culture provide a more secure childhood than in other groups, thus producing less need for artificial escape.

Pederson's works with real farmers on self - sustaining family farms rather than industrial farms because it adds a more personal touch, which ties into the family feeling of the overall company.

And what better comfort food is there than a recipe that has been with your family for decades, a dish that ties a nation together, something that reminds me of home sweet home?

The Carter family, which owns Bell Carter, Lindsay's parent company, has enjoyed strong ties with California's agricultural community for more than 100 years, even before it acquired the Lindsay brand.

Rather than a genuine desire to have a family, the meaning of having children was often tied to the need to be supported and protected.

Assume they are just average Jewish Frenchpeople, rather than having family ties or extraordinary skills.

@SJuan76 Family ties are of much greater concern than shared political alignment.

Siblings with full biological ties are more likely than others to stay with their family and help day to day, a new Oxford University study has found.

More than 150 of you replied — and most are tired, deleting apps, unfriending people, tuning out politics or worried for family ties.

Less of a comedy than meets the eye, it's a probing look at the disconnect between family ties and professional drive.

Beginning in 2003, after our data were collected, the Chilean government sought to alter several features of the system, although not all of the changes have been fully implemented: Rather than providing vouchers at a flat rate, voucher amounts are to be tied to family income.

While the loss is potentially less financially devastating than a loss of the life of the main breadwinner in your family might be, a Santa Rosa apartment fire or a burglary in Cloverdale can ruin your day, your bank account, and even the very fabric that ties your family together!

Rather than tying your stock market moves to your assessment of market conditions, the right thing to do is make saving and dissaving decisions based on your family's actual financial circumstances.

In 1988, a study was conducted by the Journal of Mental Health to determine if the human / canine bond could be closer than some of our human family ties.1 Most of the participants placed their canine family member almost as close or just as close as their human family member in terms of importance.

Mr. Skeldon, who got his job mainly because of old family ties, loves the law better than animals, and has a prejudice against pit bull breeds so entrenched he even kills puppies far too young to be considered vicious.»

Several organizations with ties to the family, including the Kozuki Foundation and Kozuki Holdings, appear on the list of the company's top 10 shareholders, and together hold more than 25 % of the outstanding shares.

In a more emotional story than we've seen him in before, more seems at stake this time around for our protagonist, as old family ties are unearthed, and current ones are a threat.

The main story itself was gripping, and rather than settling for the mundane, clichéd Spaghetti Western narrative, Neversoft opted for gritty, with captivating family ties, friendships, and enmity — a world away from skateboarding.

According to the alleged informant, this playable section featuring the ill - fated protagonist may be nothing more than an end - game scenario of sorts that ties into the opening events of this title's predecessor, allowing players to go through the mundane task of building his family's ranch at Beecher's Hope.

Based in Boston with family ties to the East End of Long Island, award - winning photographer, Dave Burns specializes in wildlife, travel, and landscape photography having photographically chronicled his journeyed experiences from more than 25 countries over the past 20 years.

Rutter Family Art Foundation invites you to Work Release for their upcoming exhibition, Native, featuring more than 20 artists with local ties to Norfolk and southeastern Virginia.

The death benefit of universal and variable universal life insurance are tied to the success of investments, so the actual death benefit payout may be less than the policyholder planned to leave his or her family if the investments do not yield the anticipated return.

Because of the likelihood of deployment and relocation, many military families rent their homes rather than be tied down by home ownership.

Rather than having to cram Messenger full of ads or convince you to buy Sticker packs, it just has to tie people closer to its big brother Facebook where lucrative mobile ads earn enough money to provide for the whole family.

Similarly, although a lack of parental supervision is associated with delinquency in boys and girls, conflict over supervision appears to influence offending more strongly in girls than in boys.85 Poor emotional ties to family are more strongly associated with violence in girls than in boys.86 Not surprisingly, incarcerated females view their parents more negatively than do non-incarcerated females.87

Although it appears that the intergenerational stake exists within the parent — child tie with regard to how parents and children feel about one another, it is not clear whether the stake also exists between ties (G1 — G2 vs G2 — G3) in the same family or whether the stake is more prominent in some family ties than in others.

A family today is defined more by its common history than by its blood tie.

«The stronger association between adolescent outcomes and ties to nonresident mothers compared with ties to stepmothers stands in contrast to the results reported in prior research on resident mother families where close ties to resident stepfathers are more strongly associated with positive adolescent outcomes than ties to nonresident biological fathers (King, 2006; White & Gilbreth, 2001), suggesting important differences in the role of nonresident parents and stepparents by gender....

As the most stigmatized group due to their lack of biological ties, adoptive families would be expected to show lower well - being and poorer relationship quality than would the other family structure groups, and two parent biological families would be expected to look the most well adjusted.

Consistent with this premise, Buchanan et al. (1996) report benefits of a close father - child relationship for adolescent outcomes in father - resident families but found these effects to be weaker than the benefits of a close mother - child tie in mother - resident families.»

Sharing a home can also strengthen family ties in a world where the traditional family unit is far less common than a generation ago.»

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