Sentences with phrase «toward more growth»

A movement toward more growth - centered understandings of human beings and of therapy has occurred in many traditional as well as contemporary therapies.

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Another thing to note about IBLN is that it tilts toward growth stocks and technology names, and that has made it significantly more volatile than the S&P 500 but has failed to boost returns, Bogart said.

The soft first - quarter results are the latest challenge that Big Food must confront: Larger food and beverage manufacturers have faced tough growth prospects for many of their legacy brands as consumers tilt toward healthier fare and show more support for startup brands.

«In the early years, for one fund family, you'll find more «risky» equity exposure to growth - oriented stocks, but toward the later years, it's more value - oriented equity exposure,» said Aaron Pottichen, president of retirement services at CLS Partners in Austin, Texas.

Using budget toward employee wellness initiatives may seem secondary to other efforts with a more direct link to revenue growth.

Chinese dairy production and consumption has soared in the past three decades, averaging a 12.8 % annual growth rate since 2000 as a result of changing diet trends that are shifting more toward Western foods, according to a report by the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Global Brand Building Officer Marc Pritchard has pushed for a faster shift toward programmatic digital buying in recent months, said people familiar with the matter, which comes as P&G has been under investor pressure to get more from its ad budget amid slower growth.

Across the world, many countries are trying to rebalance their economies toward more stable sources of growth — be it China, trying to rebalance away from investment toward consumption, or Germany trying to boost domestic sources of demand.

Small - and mid-cap equities also are more heavily tilted toward Financials and cyclical sectors, which tend to do well as economic growth accelerates and interest rates rise.

Information infrastructure for the industrial world is now more important than ever, so we offer our congratulations to the OSIsoft team and look forward to the company's next phase of growth as sensor data continues to proliferate and the sector rockets toward a future of 50 billion connected endpoints.

A revenue - neutral tax reform that shifts the balance of taxation more toward consumption and recurrent residential property taxes could thus strengthen the growth of output over the medium term.»

Given our first quarter growth came from North America, our largest and most profitable segment, we believe it is more likely that we will perform toward the higher end of our 2012 guidance range.»

«We are still experiencing a healthy, constant growth and, more importantly, we remain confident in the state's willingness and financial ability to continue its substantial investments in infrastructure and toward the economy's diversification.»

Nor have we yet deployed a comprehensive set of policies to support the rebalancing of the U.S. economy toward a growth path based more on business investment, trade and broad - based income gains than the type of asset price gains and credit - fuelled consumption, which dominated the last business cycle.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Among these changes, crucial developments included the penetration of market forces into the countryside, where the vast majority of the population still lived; the appearance of a popular press and the growth of literacy; and a set of ideas conducive to popular dissent, such as anticlericalism and a more rationalized orientation toward material and spiritual life.

We see it in the Jesus movement, the charismatic revival with its speaking in tongues, the growth in conservative churches while others decline in numbers and influence, the turn toward Eastern meditative cults, the upsurge once more of belief in an imminent second coming of Christ to put an end to the distresses of our time.

Growth toward more mature meanings and relationships in one's life should result from such exploration.

Only the development of more effective methods of institutional and societal transformation, undergirded by a groundswell of personal and relational growth, can turn the tide toward planetary sanity.

(Roger Gould, «Adult Life Stages: Growth toward Self - Tolerance,» Psychology Today February 1975, p. 74) Potentializing, on an individual level, means the actualization of more and more of one's unused strengths, including the unique assets of one's particular life stage.

It also makes possible growth in the economic pie, as people and resources move toward activities in which they are more productive.

so why should you be more willing to eat an organism that has been modified by evolution toward survival, than to eat an organism that has been modified for robust growth, hardiness, etc?

Saddleback demands far more of its multitudes than mere church attendance, and it actually drops from the rolls people who do not move toward membership and evidence this growth by making covenants, giving generously and developing from members into ministers.

First, there is the growth perspective, a liberating way of viewing persons (including yourself) in terms of (1) their present strengths and their rich unused capacities — intellectually, spiritually, interpersonally, creatively; (2) their profound inner strivings to fulfill more of these good gifts of life; (3) the pull of a better future toward which they can move by the fuller use of their inner riches.

When it is pointed out that its god, or economic growth, has not in fact done much toward reducing poverty, we are told that we must be more faithful to the precepts of this religion.

The recognition that economic growth has caused natural disasters and is leading toward far more catastrophic ones has had a different kind of effect.

Keep track, in your growth logs, of your progress toward implementation of a more intentional and value - guided lifestyle.

The more skills you acquire, the larger the group you'll be able to lead toward growth.

He clearly opposes the present steps toward the globalization of the economy, for he believes that it will damage the poor in developing countries, reduce the political will to upgrade welfare in the United States, make it more and more difficult for political power to control the corporations, and most particularly exacerbate those pressures for growth that will degrade the environment.

«This growth,» said an article titled 1999 Restaurant Industry Forecast: Food Trends, «reflects a trend toward the use of spices in Asian (lemongrass is particularly big), Mexican, South American and Mediterranean cooking as well as the use of more and different flavors to compensate for less salt and fat in foods.»

Toward an even more rigorous selection Already regarded by many tasters as one of the pillars of Haut Médoc, considered by some to be equal to the classified growths * and presently included in Wine Spectator's famous TOP 100 ranking, Agassac has chosen for all future vintages to significantly restrict the heart of its plot selection destined for the domain's flagship wine.

The goal of this new Level 2, would be to help members have a more realistic professional development path and help them strive toward continued growth and experiences beyond Level 1 requirements.

To this end, China will further commit itself to world scientific and technological development and devote more effort toward international cooperation and growth.

As population densities of hunter - gatherers slowly rose at the end of the ice ages, bands had to choose between feeding more mouths by taking the first steps toward agriculture, or else finding ways to limit growth.

Pegging the trend toward giant sizes to the Plio - Pleistocene ruled out other hypotheses such as the threat of predation by the huge shark megalodon — which had already been around for millions of years before the whales» growth spurt — or the advent of filter feeding, which had been around for more than 15 million years at that point.

Limiting the use of antibiotics for animal - growth promotion is an important step toward reducing bacterial resistance to medical drugs, says Levy, but he emphasizes that doctors also must be more prudent in prescribing antibiotics if medicine is going to combat growing drug resistance in microbes.

The inability of cells to differentiate makes them vulnerable to genetic mistakes that drive cancer, since more «stemness» means a tendency toward rapid, abnormal growth seen in tumors.

«What is more, the technique identifies key genes and enriched gene ontology pathways, as well as categories related to stem cell differentiation — and specifically toward osteochondral lineages (that is, related to bone and cartilage tissue growth).»

In it, Canfield argues that more effort and funding needs to go toward the design, discovery and growth of materials that exhibit new or exotic properties.

The first two are more geared toward muscle growth, and the last one is for powerlifters.

He is a cipher of sorts, at times more of a representation of Joy's hopes and fears than his own self, but he is an engaging screen presence who faithfully fulfills his growth toward something quite different from where he started.

In order to work toward more of a growth mindset, we need to observe ourselves and find our triggers.

So for Australian managers the easiest thing to do is provide little or no feedback, making performance reviews more of a time - wasting exercise than true provocations toward growth and identifying real opportunities to support employee growth.

Together, these two changes — measuring performance levels using a performance index with as many categories as possible and weighting growth more heavily than status — will go a considerable way toward improving the design of accountability policy and reducing unintended consequences.

Quickly identify who needs more support and adjust students» individual paths toward growth.

Both teachers demonstrated shifts in practice toward greater community building and inclusivity and more inclusive classroom management, which resulted in decrease in referrals and requests for three - way conferences and growth in student voice and leadership through a more facilitative or diffuse teacher stance.

The sensitive progress monitoring included in aimswebPlus enables more brief assessments, making it easy to demonstrate growth toward individualized goals and to document response to instructional changes.

To promote cultures of continuous growth, schools and school districts should encourage and support feedback loops, honest coaching conversations, and collaboration toward improved student outcomes.59 A recent report found that when teachers are more open to feedback, their evaluation scores are more likely to increase over time.60 Furthermore, the introduction of new teacher evaluation systems in recent years has created an opportunity to provide teachers with much more effective feedback and to more intentionally target professional learning to individual teachers» needs.61 When professional learning is rooted in collaboration and meaningful opportunities to apply new skills, these systems can become essential components of evaluation systems that support teacher growth.62

Now, with the growth of charter schools, the policy pendulum has started to swing back toward decentralization of districts, giving both traditional public schools as well as public charters more autonomy.

Additionally, students are pleased to observe their personal growth, they tend to have better attitudes toward their work, and they are more likely to think of themselves as writers.