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They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism : the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

Leah's first yoga studio was by no means an immediate success.

Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat.

To get alcohol out of drivers' immediate sight.

value immediate benefits most.

If your complaint doesn't require an immediate response, it often helps to complain by letter.

Francesca Haass, a senior at middlebury, says, "I find the in-class ones are more stressful in the short term, but there is immediate relief as you swallow information like mad, and then you get to forget it all."

The immediate cause for the collapse has been Britain's slide toward recession, which has cut into consumer spending.

They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism: the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

We have everything to gain by encouraging them to explore the world beyond their immediate experience and to prepare themselves for their turn at shaping that world.

But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

Evolution has programmed humans to pay most attention to issues that will have an immediate impact.

The fight for racial and economic equality is intensely pragmatic (講求實(shí)用的) and immediate in its impact.

It may not bring about immediate economic gains

This will help improve produce handling in the harvest, and immediate post-harvest stages of food production.

Indeed, the Obama effect can be surprisingly immediate and powerful, as Ray Friedman of Vanderbilt University and his colleagues discovered.

A global campaign has been launched to create a network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the seas in the region and Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to fishing in areas being considered for sanctuary status.

Instead, they perform routine and laborious tasks, freeing nurses up to attend to patients with immediate needs.

The immediate effect of printing was to increase the circulation of works that were already popular in a handwritten form, while less popular works went out of circulation.

The study by Greenpeace analysed the movements of krill fishing vessels in the region and found they were increasingly operating "in the immediate vicinity of penguin colonies and whale feeding grounds" It also highlights incidents of fishing boats being

Deliberate practice activities require effort, produce no immediate rewards, and are motivated by the goal of improving performance rather than the goal of enjoyment.

For example, a sociologist may read news of crime as a social problem, rather than for its immediate reward.

For want of better names, we shall call these two classes immediate reward and delayed reward.

If you have somewhere you want to go, something you want to accomplish, someone you want to become...take immediate action.

In any given story of corruption or disaster, a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience, but also the delayed reward of information and preparedness.

In general, the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news of crime and corruption, accidents and disasters, sports, social events, and human interest.

News of delayed reward will induce the reader to prepare for the reality while news of immediate reward will lead the reader to withdraw from the reality.

News of immediate reward will seemingly take their readers to the very frightening scene without actual involvement.

One morning, I had to book an immediate flight home for a family emergency.

Some of the early ventures were immediate failures.

Without immediate medical care, Paris would die.

But in dealing with the young, the fact of association itself as an immediate human fact, gains in importance.

Perhaps willfully , it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

Because electronic payments are immediate, they eliminate the float for the consumer.

kids tend to get stuck in the features and the immediate benefits to them personally, Norris said.

Perhaps willfully, it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.