Sentences with phrase «worked by degrees»

The great reforms of the past were minority movements that worked by degrees until some sort of critical threshold was passed and reform became inevitable.

Not exact matches

Unlike other professions that are regulated by a professional body, you don't need a university degree to work your way into this job.

The technical feasibility of automation is best analyzed by looking not at occupations as a whole, but at the amount of time spent on individual activities, and the degree to which these could be automated by using technology that currently exists and adapting it to individual work activities.

And though I'm a strong critic of such practices, I do have a degree of sympathy for the person who has spent, say, 20 years believing that homeopathy really works, and «seeing» it help thousands of people (a fact that can readily be explained by the operation of a whole range of well - documented cognitive biases).

While Pew reports that one - third of 25 - to 29 - year - olds in the U.S. had completed at least a bachelor's degree in 2012 (a record number), a survey by Braun Research for staffing firm Adecco found that 66 percent of hiring managers do not believe college grads are ready for the work force.

StriVR's VR technology, designed by former Stanford kicker Derek Belch of StriVR Labs, uses 360 - degree high definition video capture of each position on the football field and every play on both offense and defense for each team it works with.

The system, inspired by work done at Stanford's VR lab, uses 360 - degree video to put players — primarily quarterbacks — through their paces, with less physical risk and wear - and - tear than on - field practice, and more interactivity than just watching game video.

By maintaining a high degree of self - awareness and knowing I don't have the answer to everything, I am the kind of mentee who authentically works to apply the lessons passed on to me by the mentors I admirBy maintaining a high degree of self - awareness and knowing I don't have the answer to everything, I am the kind of mentee who authentically works to apply the lessons passed on to me by the mentors I admirby the mentors I admire.

By the time they finish, they have had a far better practical education than most American students — equivalent to an American technical degree — and, as a result, they have an easier time entering the work force.

On a cached version of Confido's website, the CEO of Confido, someone who goes by Joost van Doorn, claimed to have a master's degree in international business and said he had worked at eBay and PepsiCo.

Factors to consider may include whether a possible employer has the power to direct, control, or supervise the worker (s) or the work performed; whether a possible employer has the power to hire or fire, modify the employment conditions or determine the pay rates or the methods of wage payment for the worker (s); the degree of permanency and duration of the relationship; where the work is performed and whether the tasks performed require special skills; whether the work performed is an integral part of the overall business operation; whether a possible employer undertakes responsibilities in relation to the worker (s) which are commonly performed by employers; whose equipment is used; and who performs payroll and similar functions.

Under his watch, Tennessee adopted the Drive to 55 initiative in 2013, which set the goal of awarding 55 % of the working - age population post-secondary degrees or certificates by 2025.

Need I remind you the State of Working America lamented stagnant wages for college degree wage earners in the 2000s by showing the most successful segment, Tech workers, managed to average only.3 % up to the recession.

LocalBlox claims on its website that it is capable of offering a «true 360 degree people view» by «marry [ing] work - life and personal - life individual data to generate combined intelligence.»

Can I become a property manager or a residential manager without a degree, although Im working on getting one in the future, I already collect rent for a few units, deal with leases and property issues, I have been asked by several property owners now if I could do it for them and I do want to pursue this and make more money.

However, when all respondents were asked whether they know, with a high degree of confidence, how much of their current income would be replaced by income from a retirement plan at work, 38 % did not know.

The best part is that by the time they would have graduated college, they'll have 4 or 5 years of solid work experience and a professional portfolio that makes their degree status irrelevant.

Having a college degree doesn't help you with those kind of jobs, and the kind of professional work that rewards higher education typically can't be obtained by someone without legal permission to work.

Many of you seem to be thoughtful articulate peolpe, however, I must call out the fact that many of you presuppose our system as the best possible system (by system I mean our capitalist society) ie it does not matter to great degree which party you espouse they still work within the confines of a system.

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.

Grondin has done substantial archival work to settle what the book's jacket calls «the facts of Gadamer's life»: upbringing, schooling, teachers, degrees, appointments, major publications, and other signal events (Gadamer's early illness, his two marriages, his arrest by East German police).

While it may be a caricature, I could not help but think of a degree course inspired by Rousseau in which you set your own subject, design your own course work and assess the result yourself!

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Of course «our» tax dollars and the welfare and he got college degree pay by us too everything free, but my kids pay student loans to go to college how sad the criminals get help and honest people don't, my kids work hard babysitting, delivering newspapers, washing cars, packing groceries, cutting grass oh that make me so proud of my kids!

As early as 1770 one observer noted that «the minds of the people are wrought up into as high a degree of Enthusiasm by the word liberty, as could have been expected had Religion been the cause.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

The contradiction is summed up by the presence of more than 100,000 Filipinas in Hong Kong, many of them women with university degrees, working as maids to strangers» children as a means of providing for their own back at home.

It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

Kurt Willems is an Anabaptist writer and pastor who is preparing for church planting by finishing work towards a Master of Divinity degree at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary.

too specialized for the historian of biological sciences to be concerned with certainly reflects Whitehead's continuing interest in mathematics; his fellows may well have been impressed by their colleague's work on mathematical logic and the equations of relativity theory when they agreed to this subsection in addition to «Prolegomena to Mathematics» (D.VI), one of three options open to the degree candidate.

You were regret it later when you find that any non-religious school provides a more well rounded degree that is preferred by the workforce at large... unless you're going to work in Utah maybe.

I have to reckon with the degree to which my theological thought may be vitiated by a readiness to conceive or to represent the work of atonement in ways that depreciate the extent to which it necessarily includes within it personal response on the part of those who are (to use traditional language) recipients of its benefits.

Because the only way to really heal our pain — particularly our soul pain, I believe — is to do the work at the place of the pain, to chase it all the way down, over and over, week after week, moment by moment, to keep resetting ourselves to the truth in hopes that someday the truth will hold, to believe that all of the healing by degrees that we are doing will someday turn into wholeness.

To the degree that we collapse the divine call into the work we regularly do, work pretty much like that done by many others, we really collapse the two love commandments into one.

A certain grave doctor said that he would rather spend his life in picking up straws by obedience, than by his own responsible choice busy himself with the loftiest works of charity, because one is certain of following the will of God in whatever one may do from obedience, but never certain in the same degree of anything which we may do of our own proper movement.»

You can definitely limit the size of the church (in a healthy way) by making sure that you multiply small groups that grow beyond a specified size (18 - 20 works nice, at that point you are losing a degree of intimacy already) but more important you make sure that you cultivate the gifts needed to lead these groups — otherwise you end up with a bunch of small churches and a burned out pastor.

i have been very affected by the control of the amygdala, so it is extra important that i call my fears and adrenalin release in to question... others may be less aware of how the brain works and leads them because they have not experienced the damaging effects of fight or flight quite so dibilitatingly... as i understand it, it drives us all to some degree.

And we begin to rank people by the degree that they publicly display their Christian work.

Couples who have achieved some degree of psychological intimacy can increase it by working at marriage in some of the ways described in this book.

Kurt is writer and pastor who is preparing for church planting by finishing work towards a Master of Divinity degree at Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary.

I succeeded in never losing sight after this of my real being, by constantly affirming this truth, and by degrees (though it took me two years of hard work to get there) I expressed health continuously throughout my whole body.

I will be finishing my undergraduate degree in Southern California and am so inspired by the work you two do.

He got his start in the industry by getting his degree in food and nutrition at the same time that he worked as a night chef to pay for tuition and books.

I made a thin layer of the dough on baking paper by pressing it and shaping it with my hands (rolling pin just didn't work for me but I can imagine it would work if I put another sheet of baking paper over the dough to avoid contact of the dough with the rolling pin), then I cut it with pizza cutter into little squares, made holes in each square with a fork and baked it * without any turning * for 30 minutes in the oven preheated to 170 degrees Celsius (350 F).

I also tried making a batch with all whole - wheat flour and I think I found a way to work it: I replaced half a cup of the brown sugar with a third of a cup of maple syrup and lowering the temperature by 25 degrees.

I don't run cold, but had the misfortune of working in places that got up to all of 55 degrees F. by noon which was brrrrrr for an office job.

She hopes to pursue a higher degree in Food Science and Technology in the future so she can work towards mitigating problematic causes of climate change, poor human health, and animal cruelty by providing healthier and more sustainable plant - based food options.

Much of my husband's time was spent providing for us by working, getting a master's degrees and helping raise and enjoy our two young boys.

The theory of supply and demand for someone with a degree in Economics you would have thought he would have worked that out by now.