Sentences with phrase «time of diminished»

This is a time of diminished sexual activity, so keeping the affection alive is important.

Her work investigates the American West and what means to be an American in a time of diminished expectations.

They contend that the Christian community has entered a time of diminished influence, becoming a marginal community, or perhaps even beginning a kind of cultural exile.

The Conversation: In a time of diminishing global biodiversity, Bhutan's conservation achievements read like an environmentalist's heavenly dream.

Not exact matches

And: This isn't the typical tech - startup burn rate that will diminish over time; these aren't startup expenses to hire lots of people, build up sales and marketing, or develop shiny new products.

And that means, over time, a diminished population of the pests which carry Zika and other pathogens.

The amount of times I hear that a company only uses social media because they think they ought to has diminished over the years, but there are still some out there who don't get that digital is here to stay, and therefore fail to embed it deeply in their future plans.

«We found that a high mental load consistently diminished the originality and creativity of the response: Participants with seven digits to recall resorted to the most statistically common responses (e.g., white / black), whereas participants with two digits gave less typical, more varied pairings (e.g., white / cloud),» writes Bar in a New York Times article explaining the research.

A recent study conducted by the Harris Poll found that one - third of respondents decided to steer clear of the leadership track to avoid further diminishing their personal time.

The value of having a high IQ has greatly diminished as a result of unlimited real time information available on the internet.

Many (66 percent) think the threat of identity theft diminishes over time after their personal information is stolen, with 14 percent believing risks lasted just a few days after an information theft, 20 percent saying a few months and 23 percent a few years.

Every time a man, whether it is our president, or a news anchor, demeans or diminishes a woman by grabbing her ass or talking about her body, or coming on to her instead of asking for her ideas and treating her like a professional in the workplace setting, they lose something too.

For leaders in business, it's time to break out of the traditional mold and «be bold for change,» whether it's for equal pay or diminishing the gender gap from entry - level to C - suite.

If investment returns in China have diminished, then it is time to move money out of the country.

The reason behind this is simple: Time is money, so the potential for return on investment is diminished with each additional hour of owner involvement.

Not everyone will benefit: now that Republicans have swept the US government for the first time since 1928, it means Obamacare is over - just a matter of time - and Affordable Care Act - vulnerable stocks such as Universal Health Services, AmSurg and Mednax will likely plunge; on the other hand pure pharma stocks like MCK and ABC will benefit as rhetoric on drug pricing will diminish significantly, leading to more stable earnings if / when changes in drug pricing become more stable.

But none of globalization's effects on inflation, not even the potential reduction in inflationary bias, diminish the importance of the principal objective of central banks: setting policy to achieve low and stable rates of inflation over time.

You can very clearly see that the popularity of «notebook» is diminishing while «laptop» is becoming a bit more popular with time.

Because boards tend to grow conservative over time, every year, the Amazon board gave a report of an organization that was diminished by the «institutional no» — doing more analysis and take fewer risks.

The cuts show the immense power large asset managers have to curb fees they pay banks and the diminishing role of sell - side research at a time when Wall Street firms are facing a slump in stock trading commissions.

Critics of the Fed's easy - money policies say they had diminishing impact over time and subjected the nation to side effects that could lead to serious problems in the future.

Admittedly we are a net importer of oil (increasingly so as Bass Strait reserves diminish), but Australian entities make large exports of natural gas and thermal coal, whose prices are highly correlated with oil prices over time.

They say the Fed's easy - money policies, including huge bond purchases and a seven - year period of record low rates, had diminishing effect over time and subjected the nation to side effects that could lead to serious problems in the future.

If the final rule «is not dealt with» either by statute or other means, «then what we'll see over a period of time is a self - fulfilling prophecy: What happens with less advice is more diminished returns and over a period of time what happens is a wider and wider [savings] gap,» Roskam said.

At a time when virtually every newspaper's staff was being cut in an effort to stay ahead of diminishing revenues, the Post was moving in an entirely different direction.

(The time devoted to psychotherapy is invariably higher (significantly) and seems to track closely with, the presence of a diminished bank account, an impending payroll, and the closing date of a financing that appears to be slipping.)

In this sense Bitcoin is better than the dollar, of which a lot more can be issued at any time, diminishing its purchasing power through inflation.

The capped supply of 21 million is known to all, and the rate of supply diminishes over time in a predictable way.

The reputations of the great often diminish over time.

A church of almost 400 people rapidly diminished to 200 people, then over time to 100 people, and now...

Instead books and blog posts like many of you my ministry has been more person to person (I am not diminishing your ministries in anyway, I am very grateful for them, but I have quoted many of you here many times!)

I'm not attempting in the least to diminish all that has gone on in this thread in the least, but each of us speaks (and feels) strongly from a certain perspective which each of us has assimilated over time for multitudinous reasons.

However much she continues to be missed, would the right time to die have been months or years later, eyesight progressively diminished, hearing no better, even intellect liable (unthinkably) to decline, unable to be of use to herself or to others, forsaken to the attentions of strangers?

The continued use of a repressive device like suggestion over a long period of time may have resulted in diminishing enthusiasm and decreasing therapeutic return.

if he spent half as much time going after his own instead of kids, the problem would be diminished...

Paradoxically, the church must diminish the particularism of its various local, regional and national histories, but at the same time include them in the stories it tells, reinforcing its own authority as it does so.

4 And there is the relativistic motion of objects moving near the speed of light (wavelength shifts red as its, let's say rate of time, diminishes) and this is not dependent on direction as the Doppler effect is.

I am aware of diminishing time, of the sum of my life, of many things left undone.

It does not diminish a man or a magazine to believe that 1908 was, in the providence of God, precisely the right time for Charles Clayton Morrison to become an editor and for The Christian Century to become an «undenominational» magazine devoted to church and public affairs.

In times of great unbelief his social authority will be diminished by the fact that the office points to divine authority; he will participate in the humiliation rather than in the exaltation of Christ.

The fact that the human female does not have limited periods of sexual desire and availability (although she does have times of heightened and diminished desire), is probably a major reason for the development of two - parent family life in the dim prehistory of human beings.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how people with my kind of theology, have acted in the past, and I am convinced that splits inevitably diminish the influence of the kind of orthodoxy that I cherish — for at least two reasons.

The tension between building the city set on a hill and the land fever noted by Increase Mather had not diminished by the time of the Revolution.

Owing to the expansion of the universe, the mean density of matter would appear to be diminishing all the time, contrary to the assumption that the system is unchanging.

... It must be confessed that the best intellects of their time gave themselves up to abstract speculation, which shows, as the centuries progress, a law of diminishing returns.

If «art» in this sense seems to take a disproportionate amount of time in sermon preparation, it can be safely assumed that this time will diminish as the process of unlearning clears away artificialities that obstruct communication.

Over time, a diminishing sense of commitment to the church affects the morale of the congregation.

A tabloid story then accused Hinn and televangelist Paula White of having an affair, something they both strongly deny, but which diminished his popularity at the time.

«Despite diminished energy and strength, at 91 years of age, Billy Graham continues to have the heart of an evangelist and has expressed a desire to preach a Gospel message one more time,» Ross said.

Pleasurable sobriety: At peace with oneself and the world; anxiety and shyness diminish in genuine interpersonal relations; enjoys sobriety; rewards of sobriety clearly exceed tough times.