Sentences with phrase «usually rise to the level»

When we give our children sufficient support, they usually rise to the level of our expectations.

Not exact matches

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

They usually have too much bilirubin because their immature liver can't clear it quickly enough, leading to rising levels on days two and three and a peak by day four of five after they are born.

Phototherapy is usually effective, but if a baby develops a severe case of jaundice, or his bilirubin levels continue to rise despite phototherapy treatment, he may need to be admitted to the intensive care unit for a blood transfusion called an «exchange transfusion.»

Because ectopic pregnancies occur in tissue that isn't made to feed an embryo, growth is slow, and hormone levels fail to rise normally, usually allowing diagnosis within the first eight weeks.

They usually cause heart disease when their levels are high in the blood, and also when they are oxidized in the blood vessels by free radicals and so build up a mass that restricts the flow of blood in body, giving rise to strokes and heart failure.

Ironically, this decision to own less of these two items — the exposures that usually provide stability to a portfolio when risk levels rise — was the very thing that worked during this event.

For me (a value investor) this means I am usually buying below the market's «normal» P / E and expecting the stock to at least rise to that level.

Although phosphorus levels occasionally begin to rise in the early stages of CKD, usually P levels go up in tandem with the other tests I mentioned earlier as the severity of the disease progresses.

As is usually the case with games of this nature, we were quickly sucked into competitive battles with those on our Xbox Live friends list, repeating levels and using earned mulligans in hopes to rise above our friends on the leaderboards (which are displayed during and after every level).

This barely perceptible audience «click» usually occurred when I mentioned the predictions for sea level rise should the West Antarctic Ice Shelf begin to float on the ocean.

References about land surface water contribution to sea level rise usually reference the IPCC, and those references mostly referencing model runs and intoning CO2 causation of surface air heating.

This usually occurs in coastal and estuarine areas due to reducing land - based influence (e.g., either from reduced runoff and associated groundwater recharge, or from excessive water withdrawals from aquifers) or increasing marine influence (e.g., relative sea - level rise).

Aside: It is usually interesting to ask just what observations or evidence your skeptic would consider «proof» that global warming is caused by rising CO2 levels.

Since an inversion will usually control the upper level to which heat is carried by convection, only a shallow layer of air will be heated if the inversion is low and large, and the rise in temperature will be great.

As an east coaster hit by Sandy, do you think hurricanes combined with rising ocean levels might continue to devastate cities that usually aren't prepared for such conditions?

Seeing as sea level rise usually takes centuries, we need to look at the whole picture.

They tend to be people a bit older, wiser, and higher up the career ladder than you are, and usually see in you the potential to rise to their level and beyond.

Persistent, poorly controlled antisocial behaviour, however, is socially handicapping and often leads to poor adjustment in adults.1 It occurs in 5 % of children, 2 and its prevalence is rising.3 The children live with high levels of criticism and hostility from their parents and are often rejected by their peers.3 Truancy is common, most leave school with no qualifications, and over a third become recurrent juvenile offenders.4 In adulthood, offending usually continues, relationships are limited and unsatisfactory, and the employment pattern is poor.