Sentences with phrase «ways of nudging»

The EU high - level group on sustainable finance was set up by the European Commission last December to look into ways of nudging the financial system towards long - term environmental and social objectives.»

The Riot team has also tested other ways of nudging player behaviour.

Why U.S. players didn't just get a similar Mystery Gift option is a bit odd, but perhaps it's also one way of nudging them into Target stores.

(Yes, this is my way of nudging discussion of McIntyre's submission, or the S&T committee report in general, to this thread — the IOP thread should be for IOP only.

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Back in Barrie, Leone checks on a one - year - old elevator to demonstrate how an ideal maintenance job should go: He climbs into the pit at the bottom of the shaft and replaces the pads that absorb dripping oil; he wipes the crud and cobwebs from the elevator's bottom; he rests an ear against the door to listen to its mechanical innards; he straddles the door to ensure it nudges him out of the way properly.

Is there any way to slow the clock at this physical level and nudge your brain to resemble that of a younger person?

But according to Erika Ettin, relationship coach and the founder of dating site A Little Nudge, this is just one of the many ways we are doing ourselves a disservice when it comes to looking for love.

After peaking near 1190 last week, gold has nudged its way back down to 1165 as of writing.

The wink and the nudge, the giving of the benefit of the doubt, the charitable looking the other way — none of these can be tolerated any longer.

Midday super-latte making is a really fun routine to add to your day if you're around a blender, and it's good for your in a number of ways: it gets you out of the busyness of the day and nudges you to take a break, it's creative, and the beverage you'll end up with will likely be good - for - you, warming and tasty.

Cut 1» off top of each pita and stuff back into pocket, nudging it all the way to the bottom.

This proved to be particularly disastrous because Lynch nudged Carpenter on his way inside of him and kinda knocked him off of his block of Jones.

Given the circumstances, Busch had one of two options before the checkered flag waved: 1) He could wait and hope a golden opportunity presented itself to pass Larson, or 2) force his way by executing a patented bump - and - run move where Busch would use his bumper to nudge Larson up the track allowing him to go by.

From the back ofthe field Montoya started passing cars, taking the high line and the low line, riding the draft as if he could see the flow of air streaming over his hood.Slicing through traffic, he bump - drafted past his new rivals and nudged a fewmore out of the way.

Avoiding the carnage, Lewis took control of the race in very difficult conditions and negotiated his way through various re-starts and unnecessary Safety Cars (as opposed to VSCs — when Ericsson nudged the wall and spun there was no huge amount of debris on the track, just a Sauber facing the wrong way, how could they justify a Safety Car for that?)

Once you've figured out what might be bothering your child, the best way to handle the situation is to act with a combination of empathy and gentle nudging.

We kind of just followed his cues — with a little nudging along the way.

It's like tools in your toolkit and you're filing that away and it's like that idea of lifelong learning, you're always going to be adding tools to your toolkit, you shouldn't let it get full of cobwebs like you need to keep adding to it because there's always something that's going to work and make it a little change and for me the mechanics of it... and understanding all of those mechanics and bringing that to the mechanics of the pelvis and how babies come down and all of that and so there is a part of me that kind of, I can think it's very cool that there are ways that this baby can come down and the more experience you get the more you realize yeah we can nudge this a little bit.

I think the most important thing from my perspective is that my grounding in normal helps me recognize the abnormal... it's like a line, the straight line of normal and if there's a wavering off to one side or the other you just try a little tiny subtle intervention to nudge it back to normal... like if the baby is malpositioned you know, ideas and ways, and position changes, manoeuvres we can do to try to get the baby into a better position, things like that... so you know if she's dehydrated, hydrate her.

The plan approved in the finalized budget is aimed at nudging county government leaders to have local municipalities develop ways of consolidating functions in order to reduce property taxes.

The government's «nudge» unit is to become a profit - making enterprise, as part of the Cabinet Office's drive to make «public assets pay their way».

In the spring of 2010 the behavioural insights team quickly known as the «Nudge Unit» was established and a different way of doing politics seemed to be on the cusp of being born.

Little does he realise, his nudge may not be in the way of reform but furthering tensions within the coalition.

I don't believe some of the nudges and winks being directed at John Randall, which infer that the Deputy Chief Whip wanted his prickly superior out of the way.

I'm instinctively in favour of the coalition's efforts to use «nudge» theory to steer us towards sensible behaviour in ways short of instruction or legislation: some nudges are financial, others merely crafty.

If you look at something like the economic crisis that came last September, I think the real opportunity for the Labour party is to say that we did not just witness the demise of individual institutions, we ultimately witnessed the demise of an ideology that says that the only role for government is always to get out of the way and that the right response to a financial crisis is to nudge, privatise and deregulate.

Many governments, including those of the United Kingdom and the United States, have funded teams of behavioral economists, called nudge units, to develop ways to nudge people to, say, apply for government benefits or comply with tax laws.

Like a boulder perched at the top of a hill, with a bit of a nudge, the electron tumbles from higher energy states to lower, releasing energy along the way.

The same conflict that gives rise to autism and schizophrenia may be at work in all of us, nudging us one way or another on the spectrum from father - brain to mother - brain.

The good news is, there are ways to nudge them out of our path — if we have enough warning.

-- Checkmate Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, MA, has nudged its way into the combination immunotherapy game with promising early data presented Monday.

Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.

The next time you feel the nudge to grab a kombucha or mineral water on your way into the office instead of your usual cup of joe, act on this impulse of self - love.

This missing piece could be something nutritional or emotional and cravings are our body's way of giving us a nudge to address this lack!

I also am noticing that these mules are starting to nudge their way to the front of the shoe line.

That Lincoln has to keep doing both seems less the product of thorough research and more a way to nudge the viewer into staying alert.

The fact that a woman has Crohn's disease is meant to be hilarious, in a nudge - nudge wink - wink «You know she's not giving her husband any sex» kind of way.

The movie winks and nudges its way through a lighter, modernized variation of the classic, proud of its own cleverness every time Gemma's life mirrors Madame B's.

Since his debut film Pi in 1998, director Darren Aronofsky has cultivated a unique brand of esoteric cinema that implants itself into audiences» brains and refuses to nudge, and that's probably the best way to explain his latest film, mother!

Hailing from executive producer Armando Iannucci (In the Loop), the series provides a candid look at the world of U.S. politics through the eyes of Julia Louis - Dreyfus» Vice President Selina Meyers, who just can't quite manage to nudge her way into the political world's inner circle.

It should be noted that I've been awaiting Jim Broadbent's appearance in this series since the first film, so now that he's finally appeared the film gets a little extra nudge of popularity in my book; the man has an interesting way of handling himself in his roles.

The movie milks its formula of nudging the period for all it is worth in the first act (There's a running joke about the lack of smiling subjects in photographs, and the racism of the time is acknowledged with a shooting gallery with targets that are despicable racial caricatures — acknowledged but not addressed in any worthwhile way until a cameo that concludes the movie).

Solondz might have overcome this problem the same way he overcame his schizoid presentation of the heroine in Palindromes — by telling a story so shocking and brilliant that it nudged the stunt casting to the sidelines.

Yet, educational software has been slow in adopting nudges as a way of improving student outcomes.

A little «nudge» can go a long way in building a culture of learning within an organization and also in inspiring and motivating instructional designers to design and develop learning.

The way the engine pulls at the top of each gear is astonishing and we nudge an indicated 200mph with the R still pulling hard in sixth...

Thanks, also to you, for nudging me in the way of conducting my own virtual book tour for my chocolate travel book.

Sometimes he just gave it a gentle tap to nudge one of his kin toward his way of thinking, but sometimes he used it with all the subtlety of a nine - pound sledge.

This amount can differ, but a good rule of thumb is three months before you want to send a nudge their way.

There is a handy tip on using the shift key (up arrow) as well as the right - side of the 5 - way controller button to just nudge the screen over a little so you can read the whole sentence.