Heterosexual marriages serve mainly as legal and social recognition of the relationship between two people.
The reward is a high score and social recognition within the community.
Gays want to marry precisely because they see marriage as important: they want the symbolism that marriage brings, the extra sense of obligation and commitment, as well as the social recognition.
To arrive early at the ambition to achieve some kind of greatness (or the social recognition of greatness) may be an adolescent point from which we cannot as adults convince ourselves to return.
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They also scavenge (detoxify) peoxynitrites and reverse part of their damage including partially restoring function to receptors involved in short-term memory, mood, sleep, smell, social recognition, alertness, and brain growth, increasing the transport of glucose reducing delusions and wandering, improving neurotransmissions by decreasing the hyperphosphorylation and tau proteins, and inhibiting the influx of calcium which kills neurons.
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This is the 21st Century, but in the council's constitution there's no recognition of social media.
The UI supports a rich set of services, including phone calls, text messaging with vocal read-out, navigation, object recognition, social network services, remote assistance, audio-book reading, and other leisure and entertainment offerings.
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Nobody could mistake the party of the free market and deregulation with the party of compulsory union recognition, the social chapter and the minimum wage.
Safe SIPP is one of many successful student ventures at ASU. Other teams such as G3 Box and Vantage Realized have earned national recognition for their social impact projects.
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It allows managers and co-workers to exchange feedback and recognition, using a social networking site type interface.
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According to a recent Cerulli Associates report on trends in retail product and marketing, 79% of firms say that the main motivation for embracing social media is to increase brand recognition.
Morocco's king, Mohammed VI, announced several reforms, including new parliamentary elections, civic and social equality for women, and recognition of the indigenous Berber language as an official state language along with Arabic.
With the explosive growth of social networking, Lenovo also continues to enhance its IdeaPad S10 netbook with new instant on capability, facial recognition and easy access to Lenovo's social networking community.
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Law enforcers, shops and social networks are increasingly using facial-recognition software.
And while there are just a few independent SMMPs left with decent name recognition (Wildfire, Hearsay Social, HootSuite), there are probably 2 dozen companies out there with growing platforms and revenues.
The main reason for filing was for the recognition that the company is a social enterprise with other bottom lines.
Awards like the Grammys and the Oscars have always been a balance of critical recognition and popularity contest, but social media has shifted the equation a bit.
When launched in 2004, it was all about celebrating the unknown social entrepreneurs, helping to give them global recognition, credibility and a platform to engage with policy leaders and large corporations.
He will be designated a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his contributions to education and social development through his artistic career and his dedication to the ideals and aims of the Organization.
Using its Community Impact Platform to create a fundraising challenge for two local animal rescues, Causecast leveraged social media, real-time reporting, peer recognition, instant donation processing, automatic tracking, micro and macro funding abilities, and good old competition with incentives to fire up the team and get them engaged in giving back.
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By implementing gaming mechanics that transcend departments and status, gaming for good within the workplace could be a way for companies to create social capital by tapping into the basic human desire for recognition.
But a greater recognition that finance is at its heart a social science, with all the uncertainty that marks human interactions, would, no doubt, make would-be financiers more humble, less dangerous, and, by extension, more useful.
GazeMetrix - The company monitors images in social media (currently focusing on Instagram) and uses image recognition technology to find brands appearing in images.
The very idea of cultural rights (by definition, group rights) represents a radicalization of liberal social theory and moves significantly beyond the ideas of tolerance and recognition.
The FA will foster the recognition of the value of groundwater as a critically important natural resource, and of the social, economic and ecological opportunities that sustainable groundwater management can provide through interdisciplinary dialogue.
In addition to the standard 3D and Smart TV capabilities powering 3D movies, live TV, streamed content, web browsing and search, social networking, games and apps, the WiFi-enabled XT880 features a detachable camera that supports facial recognition, gesture control and services such as Skype calling.
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