Sentences with phrase «true capacity for»

Adolescents operate at a crucial stage in developing the social skills necessary to acquire a true capacity for compassion, empathy and understanding — the foundation for peaceful dialogue and cooperation that is the vision of Montessori.

Sometimes children come home with bad grades and report cards that don't reveal a child's true capacity for learning.

Not exact matches

«What's true of the most eminent individuals in society is that they have the capacity for zest and sustained hard labor,» she said.

That's especially true for western Canadian producers, who wait behind North Dakota producers for limited pipeline capacity headed south.

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

To discover the depths of our true self and its capacities for wisdom and compassion, they say, it is important that on a regular basis we intentionally release ourselves from the vicissitudes of reflective awareness, descending into that domain of pure alertness which characterizes zazen.

While all this is no doubt true, it is no less true that our humanity depends on our capacity for being alone.

In the above - mentioned person - and - rock discussion in which he rejected the superiority of the person's nonstone capacity for «inclusion» of the stone in his field of thought and action, Professor Nishitani maintained that Zen Nothingness (sunyata), because of its indeterminate character, could include both the person and the rock in a «loving» relation, in which (1) each party could relate to the other in the true meaning of «love,» without let or hindrance; and (2) at the same time respect the true identity of the other being without coercing it into any preformed, or prejudged, relational framework.

In a true sense, the capacity of the body for affection defines the capacity of the body for perception, since it is one with the capacity of the body to respond to its environment.

We would possess the capacity to feel, to love and be loved, to show compassion and selfless sacrifice, to think and to be engaged in the quest for what is true and meaningful.

True freedom is love, the capacity to sacrifice one's Ego for the good of others.

It is true that none of the capacities and abilities noted above is much encouraged by a fast - changing society which displays little toleration or appreciation for careful thinking and reflection, not to mention decent art and music.

One suspects that for them, as for the audience, it is a matter of duty, of insisting that it simply can't be true that mankind has lost its capacity to produce music of consequence.

Their own intimate consciousness of the real nature of love will be the best incentive to help them keep firmly clear of all those external stimuli which necessarily subject a person more and more to the absorbing power of lust, and so lessen his or her capacity for a true, freely given and faithful love.

In the recovery of the true capacity of reasoning for both moral and religious insight and of course in the witness of lives well lived, the evidence of schools well run.»

The soils are mostly granitic sandy loam and are of low fertility and water holding capacity - perfect for limiting excessive vine vigor and producing well balanced and varietally true wines.

It is probably true to some extent that the remarkable habits of discipline acquired during her years of competitive skating stood Tenley in good stead at Harvard; all medical students could use a capacity for seven or eight hours of intense concentration and a habit of getting up at 4 in the morning.

As I have worked with children over the years, I have seen the diminished capacity for true play and a loss of the sense of wonder in their world as children are groomed to be consumers rather than citizens.

The same holds true for Port Authority commissioner and real estate executive Michael Fascitelli, whose now 2 - year - old term technically expired last June, but has been serving in a holdover capacity.

True, humans have an extraordinary capacity for picking out subtle differences in shape.

«This holds true in Oregon, where rest areas and truck stops in high - use corridors have a demand for truck parking that exceeds capacity.

As such engaging southern partners will be vital to the successful delivery of this project and critical for building local capacity to assess the true risks from extreme events, addressing knowledge gaps and ensuring climate information is communicated effectively to key audiences.

Developing skills like discipline, dedication and acquiring a capacity for high - performance first requires tuning in to your true self.

Thanks to Craig Ballantyne for creating such an effective program, and thank you to Catherine for pushing us to our true capacity, and introducing us to her Sugar Freedom diet!

The body has a limited capacity to store excess carbohydrates and, to adjust for the rise in blood glucose, the body secretes insulin and the rest is added to your waistline — sad but true.

But, of course, the opposite is also true: When you train for only one biomotor capacity (e.g. hypertrophy), your other capacities (e.g. endurance, strength) wane, or at least remain relatively stagnant.

Dr. King referred to Dr. Johnson's statement that the capacity to absorb calcium diminishes with aging and noted that some literature suggests the same is true for iron and possibly zinc.

Based on the true story of a boxer wrongly accused of murdering three people in 1966, the film featured stellar work by Washington as the wronged man, further demonstrating his remarkable capacity for telling a good story.

The same is true for access to more capacity / memory / CPU power and the like.

That's doubly true for schools, which can regulate the speech of their teachers, at least while they are working in their official capacity.

If you don't have a mechanism to renew your enthusiasm or at least sustain it and keep it going, then over time your organisational capacity will diminish — and the same is true for principals and teachers personal capacity to keep pace with educational change.

Topics of discussion include: • Creating, executing, and evaluating measureable goals and benchmarks to ensure TRUE college and career readiness • Scaling implementation of programs to assess student growth and close math learning gaps • Building teacher capacity through TRUE professional learning communities and collaborative internal support systems • Leading a district - wide mindset shift toward ensuring lifelong learning for both adults and students All school and district - based leaders, and K - 12 educators are invited to attend.

As a major bonus, SUV models now have a full third row (spares are mounted on the outside as on the SUT) for true seven - passenger capacity, and we were thrilled that our early production testers exhibited no squeaks or rattles.

This also holds true for the IONIQ Plug - in and the IONIQ Electric which despite larger batteries both offer generous cargo capacity of up to 650 litres.

While hybrids have a reputation as not being powerful, the opposite is true of the Ram 1500 as that electric motor adds up to 130 pound - feet of torque onto the already rugged engines for a towing capacity up to 12,750 pounds.

The same is true for seating capacity in the sport utility market.

Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, is compelling literary crime fiction that explores the capacity for good and evil in us all.

The LG Optimus F7 sports a 4.7 - inch True HD IPS display and a 1.5 GHz Dual - Core processor powered by a large capacity 2,540 mAh battery for long lasting performance.

Throw in the built - in Wi - Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, an HDMI out for content sharing, a 1.3 megapixel built - in front camera and a high capacity battery for up to 8 hours of battery life, and you get the ViewPad 10pro — a fully optimized, true dual OS tablet to keep users connected.

While it's true that most, if not all, of our characters are like us in some capacity, we probably should never name them after us (or any real people, for that matter).

«E» has this extraordinary capacity to tear down physical or territorial barriers — and that's true for everything from books to [insert vastly different thing here].

And with the capacity for Touch + true inking (with their Duo - Sense Screens) they could be the next big thing.

The dog's capacity for learning is more a matter of memory than of true understanding.

If this is also true in dogs it may have implications for the development of CM, as the CCF may have a restricted capacity to adapt to the volume of an enlarged cerebellum through expansion of the sutures between the occipital bones and their neighbours.

The same is true for many flying birds despite their greater capacity for Overwater dispersal (Boessenkool et al. 2007; Kretzmann et al. 2003; Wilson et al. 2009).

However, they still fall flat compared to true SSD performance, and can get quite expensive when purchased in large capacity, so if you've got the money to invest in a hybrid disc, it's often a good idea to see if you can buy both a small - capacity SSD and a standard 3.5» HDD, and use those instead of a single disc for increased capacity and performance.

Wind Waker allowed Link the capacity to pick up weapons wielded by enemies for the first time, but it did not permit him to keep them, while Skyward Sword, which is set at the earliest point in the Zelda timeline, is effectively the story of the forging of the Master Sword and thus has a sequence of swords that represent the steps along this path (Goddess Sword, Goddess Longsword, Goddess White Sword, Master Sword, and finally True Master Sword).

Xbox One X is similar: it plays the same games as Xbox One, but with some dramatic visual upgrades and the capacity for true 4K gaming.

Notably known for exhibitions such as «Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art» (2014) and the 1993 edition of the Whitney Biennial, Thelma Golden will join the artist and the curator of the show «True Value» to discuss art and its capacity to transform institutions, history re-writing and social practice.

I am not convinced that that is true, but in any case intermittent distributed electricity production from wind and photovoltaics can dramatically reduce the «need» for baseline generation capacity.