or other extravagances to attract attention and thus bolster self-esteem.
According to the Mayo Clinic, these bonds can help reduce stress, increase happiness and bolster self-confidence.
Results suggest that MORE, as an integrative therapy designed to bolster self-regulatory capacity, may hold promise as a treatment for intersecting clinical conditions.
There are books to improve technique and bolster self-belief; academies to build the perfect cookie-cutter swing and gadgets to help refine it; gurus to quiet the mind; and equipment to add length and make one's deficiencies disappear.
How do we balance the need to find the economic wherewithal to educate children, to bolster self-confidence and a sense of self-determination, with the need to preserve our cultural integrity and our homelands?
The Florida Legislature is on the verge of passing legislation that would bolster self-defense laws and shift the burden to prosecutors during immunity hearings to show that such laws should not apply.
"General Abizaid has consistently understood that if conditions on the ground warrant it, a smaller coalition footprint could bolster self-government in Iraq," said Lawrence Di Rita, the chief Pentagon spokesman.
While many programs bolster self-esteem and promote good cheer -- it can be fun, after all, to pelt the boss with paint -- most take place away from the office and all the frustrations and power struggles that go with it.
Mr. Schneiderman does propose some steps to bolster self-policing by nonprofit groups, including the use of independent directors to monitor compensation and other issues — though it's not clear from the report or a legislative summary provided by Mr. Scheiderman's office how an "independent director" would be defined.
"Missing Top Model" tries to bolster self-esteem yet revels in the piquancy of physically imperfect women competing in a profession that demands physical perfection, which one judge defines this way: "It's what 99percentt of the population do not have and never will".
In this manner, moral beliefs function to bolster self-control against practical irrationality" (301).
