Sentences with phrase «vested than the foundations»

But, as Jay Greene of the University of Arkansas argues, foundations can't compel change, because the resources they invest are so small relative to the budgets of the organizations they seek to affect, and any effort to impose a solution will draw out opponents who are far more powerful and vested than the foundations themselves.

Not exact matches

Bill noted that because he has been in the public eye longer than his wife that he is sometimes viewed, from the outside, as the final word about foundation decisions, but he explained why that couldn't be further from the truth.

After having worked for more than a decade as an entrepreneur (and CEO), I have found the foundation of productivity is focus, and the key to focus is meditation.

Our expedition tents have summited more of the world's top peaks than any other brand, and every product we make is designed and built with technical precision from this foundation.

Laying a legal foundation and staying calm can make a stressful situation, while never pleasant, less traumatic than it would otherwise have been if both parties start shooting from the hip.

Over nearly three decades, the foundation says, it has raised and provided more than $ 110 million to support family literacy programs nationwide.

Due to his philanthropic donations — since 2014, Buffett has donated more than $ 2 billion to charitable foundations — Buffett was chosen to receive such a prestigious award.

The complaint added fuel to the fire of some on Capitol Hill, who have grown increasingly uneasy about the confusing ownership structure of the Chinese conglomerate since a July announcement revealed that a charitable foundation owned more than half of the firm and company executives and board members owned most of the rest.

Parsons and his wife, Renee, have donated more than $ 103 million to charitable causes through their foundation over the past four years and signed the giving pledge in 2013.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy estimates that this would bring the total of Gates» donations to the foundation to more than $ 18 billion.

A seemingly good idea with flaws can cause the entire foundation to collapse, while a questionable idea with more merits than faults might be abandoned despite having a real shot at success.

Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky first introduced this concept more than 30 years ago in a study that built the foundation for what would become the field of behavioral finance.

The foundation, which operates a range of philanthropic projects around the world and pulled in more than $ 200 million in revenue in 2014, has raised around $ 2 billion since its founding — but that money has come with a cost.

The foundation will be headed up by Derek Yach, a former World Health Organization (WHO) executive who has been a notable advocate for the switch to e-cigarettes that heat, rather than burn, nicotine - packed substances.

However, Liss, who has worked with Warhols for more than a decade, appraising works for the Art Gallery of Ontario and other museums across the country, thinks collectors should be concerned about the foundation's decision this year to cease its authentication business.

The foundation's biggest fundraiser — its annual Tech Jam, a party that attracts more than 1,000 attendees — has raised as much as $ 120,000 for the organization in a single night.

This book laid the foundation of «servant leadership» that has had a major influence on the church but in many ways I found the book condescending and patronizing rather than empowering.

In fact, women have had more success in claiming top leadership spots within the foundation world than any other powerful U.S. sector.

He has given more than $ 3 billion to his charitable foundation.

The firm has raised 21 institutional funds totaling more than $ 37 billion and currently manages capital on behalf of more than 350 domestic and international investors including public and private pension funds, insurance companies and university endowments and foundations.

While the pace of monetary tightening is likely to be gradual, more than a few investors are worried about the equity impact of any marginal tightening, believing that the entire edifice of today's bull market has been built on a foundation of cheap money.

Gates probably has directed more than 700 million shares of Microsoft into the foundation, adjusting for stock splits, and he would be about $ 50 billion richer today had he kept them.

Influencer marketing is a popular strategy for B2C content marketers, but none have approached it with a more solid foundation and open mind than Marriott.

But they get to recommend where their cash goes, and in exchange for giving up some control, they get a bigger tax write - off than they would with a family foundation.

I feel like this looks more flawless than my Fenty beauty foundation and other high end foundations I have.

The company's 16,000 Realtor network has raised more than $ 20 million through the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, the largest public foundation in Canada committed to ending violence in the home, and providing support to the women and children who fall victim to it.

It has raised about $ 4 million from more than 34,000 donors, who gave through the crowdfunding website GoFundMe as well as directly to the foundation.

I would have thought a key foundation of value investing is to look at the long term rather than short term implications.

Their foundation has pledged more than $ 1 billion to health care transformation.

In general, the number of donor - advised funds at SICs has grown at a much slower rate than at National Charities or Community Foundations.

«But even more than Christ being the Rock — the foundation of His ecclesia (the Body of Christ and His followers), Christ would build His ecclesia on a specific principle — the principle that God would teach His followers directly.»

Culturally, young adults have increasingly come to see marriage as a «capstone» rather than a «cornerstone» — that is, something they do after they have all their other ducks in a row, rather than a foundation for launching into adulthood and parenthood.

The Protestant evangelical primacy of justification by faith, coupled with an overemphasis on discontinuity between the covenants, has more often than not resulted in the confusion of soteriological and ethical categories, in the end breeding among evangelicals a moral mindset devoid of both foundations and fiber.

Besides polluting the free flow of ideas, manipulations such as these are nothing less than subversive: they undermine the United States and its institutions — universities, the press, charitable groups, foundations and the churches — by exploiting the legitimacy they may inherently possess, in order to gain for insidious designs credibility which the CIA would not otherwise be able to command.

Gottlieb's nonchalance toward this fundamental limitation of Mendelssohn's thought suggests that his own strong sympathy for Mendelssohn has less to do with the foundations of his philosophy than with its practical ramifications.

But in many cases it is less a matter of creating new images than it is of recognizing a more solid foundation and criterion upon which to evaluate existing images which have long been in competition.

If it is true, as Holloway argues, that the very foundations of matter and the identity of human nature are aligned upon the coming of the Word made flesh, then a society which is uncertain about the existence of God and whether Man has any meaning or purpose must be subject to crisis, alienation and chaos even more inevitably than CiV is able to show.

Rather than making kindness and compassion the foundation of our faith, Christians have re-framed Christianity as intellectual ascent to a set of propositional statements.

Nobody has done more to put the metaphysical foundations of theology in that simple and tidy package than David Bentley Hart.

For instance, a hypothetical public high school teacher who advanced New Age ideas and attitudes under a neutral or secular wrapping would be far less vulnerable to legal challenge than would be a teacher who spoke of God by name or who expounded on the biblical foundations of Western thought.

Nowhere have the weak social foundations of American liberal institutions been more evident than in the battered and tattered nature of the welfare state, and in the cynicism with which it is viewed by nearly the entire populace — from the wealthy to the poor, for different reasons.

i'd be glad to talk to you about Christianity, but I also know all you hear is readily dismissed «fairy tales» until you see your own perceived foundation is much more ethereal than you're admitting.

The only thing that bugs me about this guy is that there are more people than not who are teetering on the brink of faith in Jesus, and all this guy does is try to knock people away from faith... This is his word against Gods word, I've been reading these articles they've been posting, and nothing he's said has any biblical foundation whatsoever...

Rorty feels that philosophy should not be thought of as a foundation for education or politics; on the contrary, he insists that grounding social and political action on philosophical theories of human nature has done more harm than good.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

Mexico — after the Revolution and Cristero War — had (and has) a much different understanding of «church and state» relations as laicite / laiciudad than does the U.S. with its Puritan separatist foundations.

«At the beginning and end of all our ways is One in whose steadfast will and purpose there is indeed no shadow of turning and in whom all our confidences have their unshakable foundation... In his inmost actuality he is «pure unbounded love», pure personal relation to others, who has no other cause than the ever more abundant life of the creatures of his love.

What better foundation than to have a «common belief system» through religion, or to have or reinforce (or even invent) a common prejudice regarding someone else's religion to generate distrust towards that opponent?

That philosophy has no foundation follows from and reinforces Paul's insistence that «no one can lay any foundation other than» Jesus Christ (1 Cor.

Of course, in the process of writing this, I have issues with «intervene», as it points to a God who is separate from creation and who only interacts at select times, rather than a God who is the foundation for, and permeates all of creation.