Word: applauding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...handy excuse for not sticking with your workout program. If you can afford it or if your gym or health club offers it, try to work with a personal trainer at least some of the time--someone who can rein you in when you're doing something wrong, applaud when you're doing something right and, perhaps most important, make you feel guilty if you don't show up at all. Trainers are also good at knowing which muscle groups you need to strengthen for a sport you may be considering trying, and helping you exercise them into shape...
Having obtained a master's degree as a nurse practitioner with a specialty in women's health at 51, I am starting my own health-care practice at 57. You're right to applaud women who embrace midlife. For those of us over 50, things just keep getting better. It is a true time of empowerment...
...applaud the FAA for its early effort at preventing orbiting atrocities that would destroy sunsets and hinder the work of the world’s astronomers, but the measure is not without its shortcomings...
...like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth...
Finally, the Committee on Advising and Counseling has made a number of good suggestions (we particularly applaud their decision to reject Yale-style housing), but clear implementation problems threaten their future. Having all members of the faculty involved in advising undergraduates is impractical. And it should not be assumed that faculty will make better advisers than proctors or resident tutors. Indeed, many faculty members don’t know much about undergraduate education beyond the scope of their departments. Instead of faculty involvement, the key to better advising, regardless of who does it, is extensive training and support for advisers?...