Sentences with phrase «viewed as a buffer»

Well, because dividends offer are viewed as a buffer or protection against stock market losses.

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The jokes hit upon every elementary school kid's favourite subjects: comic books, movies about comic books, sex (but only some vague notion of sex — as if viewing a porn video through a scrambled pay - per - view feed or, for today's generation, via a slow - to - buffer WiFi connection).

Silly hype notwithstanding, the doc should be viewed before tackling the audio commentary track with Carpenter and Debra Hill because, while some minor information is repeated, the doc acts as a concise intro and visual alternative to watching the film a second time (making a nice buffer between viewings), and adds the perspectives of cinematographer Dean Cundey, production designer / editor Tommy Lee Wallace, and actors Adrienne Barbeau and Janet Leigh.

He proposed that the psychological basis of cooperation, competition, and emotional and mental health is a tendency to hold tightly to anxiety - buffering cultural world views or «immortality projects» that serve as the basis for self - esteem and meaning.

We hypothesized that social support would act as a buffer to stress because (1) we measured perceived availability of social support that has supported buffering effects and (2) the buffering hypothesis may be particularly relevant to chronically ill persons since a chronic disease could be viewed as an accumulation of stressors (Schreurs & de Ridder, 1997).