His task was, in fact, impossible: to catch what Taoists called the ch'i, or life-force, of his subject.
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When first joining the startup scene, I had shied away from process, remembering it as often being a destructive, life-sucking force from my days at big companies.
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The study revealed that difficult work-life conflicts stall many tech women mid-career and force others to sacrifice their personal lives.
Secondly, Halifax has extended its reach in the long-term savings market by acquiring the sales force and unit-linked business of Equitable Life, the troubled mutual life insurer.
Brass-band funerals are a life force here, a send off carrying the promise of a more lyrical world to come.
Mr Aldrin describes the rockiness of his own post-moon life: alcoholism, depression, two failed marriages and a sad end to his air-force career.
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Second, we should distinguish between high-powered careers that really are incompatible with active involvement in family life and those that force people to choose between work and family only because of misguided employment requirements and inadequate work-family policies.
"We're working feverishly and aggressively to support and provide life-sustaining capability to the citizens of Haiti, " Air Force Gen.
The third force helping to revive old-fashioned civic life is religion, and one sort of religious organisation in particular, the megachurch.
Pros: The dividends can be steadier than stock returns or interest rates and can be borrowed tax-free as long as the life insurance policy stays in force.
Now he is about to relinquish that post in turn but to take up yet another, as a senator-for-life, as his constitution, which is even now in force, provides for former heads of state.
Physicians often don't have the time or training to coach patients through end-of-life-care conversations, says Bernard Hammes, chairman of a national task force that helps develop Polst programs.
But since the 1960s, belief in a "spirit or life force" has doubled, according to British Religion in Numbers - 41% of British people now believe in angels, 53% in an afterlife, and 70% in a soul.
What the tobacco wars show is how feeble even the most ruthless big businesses are compared with a newer force in American life: the alliance of citizen activists, public-health officials and trial lawyers.
But as the UK has got safer and healthier, the force-of-mortality has been decreasing for decades, so that life expectancy has been rising at about three months a year - it's odd to think we have been essentially ageing only nine months for each year that passes.
China Life said its sales force of about 740, 000 agents will be focused more on higher-margin policy sales rather than short-term or single payment products.
But when he tries to wield "The Force" on his dad's new car, the engine roars to life -- with a little help from dad and his keyfob, of course.
Summer has been out in full force for days, baking areas from Missouri to New York to Georgia in life-threatening heat, and unleashing thunderstorms that knocked out power to millions and killed 13 people on Friday and Saturday.
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Most countries in the region - where Roman Catholicism is a dominant force - allow abortion only in cases of rape, when the woman's life is in danger or if the foetus is severely deformed.
He denied allegations that he had used excessive force against Mr al-Baghdadi or that he had warned him that he would ruin his life.
The All Blacks then exploded into life with a dazzling attack from a line-out but Ugo Monye's despairing tackle was enough to just force Mils Muliaina into touch.
The son of an Air Force noncommissioned officer, Saylor grew up devouring history books and is obsessed with larger-than-life heroes and zealots.
"Among issues that businesses are concerned about is what kind of work-force will they have, what will it do to education and will it alter the quality of life, " he says.
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