Sentences with phrase «as national community»

These organisations, along with representative bodies such as the National Community Controlled Health Organisation, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and Reconciliation Australia and others, helped us develop the campaign.

This is OUR opportunity as a national community of mediators.

As national community - based health - promotion interventions, both the CPNP and the CAPC help community groups to establish and deliver services that address the health and nutritional needs of at - risk groups.2

As a national community, we are attempting to make sense of the massacre Sunday morning at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

We ask too much of the Constitution, and too little of ourselves, when we view it as the wellspring from which to draw comprehensive notions of public virtue or when we project onto it our aspirations as a national community.

Not exact matches

«My opinion is that if you take care of the locals and support the community, even if your growth is contained [to regional growth instead of national], you're going to make a bigger impact on those other markets as you expand.»

Under the National Employment Standards (NES) eligible employees are entitled to be absent from work to engage in certain community service activities such as:

«As you consider the Administration's proposal, I ask that you consider policies that will bridge the partisan divide and serve the myriad needs of communities across the country — including those of Nevada,» Sen. Catherine Cortez - Masto of Nevada wrote in a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council.

In addition to our investment / mentoring role, we also serve as a community catalyst, developing and participating in many events that engage in the local, regional, and national start - up scene.

The scholars used two major national databases — the American Community Survey and the Baccalaureate and Beyond Survey — to examine the relationship between the choices of major of people aged 20, and how those choices shift as unemployment rates go up.

I should probably note at this point that I have been a staunch (and somewhat lonely) supporter of comments and the value of reader engagement since the days when I was the «communities editor,» or social media editor, at a major national daily newspaper in Canada in 2008, when anti-comment opinions and emotions in the newsroom were just as heated as they are today.

Additionally, she Chairs the University of California African - American Advisory Council, serves as a Board Member for the National Children's Defense Fund and the Bay Area Economic Council Institute, is a fellow for the MIT Community Innovators Lab, and formerly was Director for the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve System.

NEW YORK — As part of a new initiative to examine communities in more detail and enable locational comparisons, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York today released an interactive tool that provides information about home prices, distressed sales, delinquencies and foreclosures at the national, state and county levels.

Members of the local, national and international business community will play an important role in your Haskayne experience, contributing as mentors, advisors, guest speakers and financial supporters.

AT&T has also spent decades building a national alliance of local government officials and nonprofit groups — particularly from black and Hispanic communities — that it will certainly be asking to weigh in again in Washington, as it tries to get the merger approved.

In the venture capital community, he has served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association and currently serves as the President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and the Chairman of the VCNetwork, an organization comprising more than 1,000 venture capitalists.

Now HR McMaster, national security adviser, and Gary Cohn, director of the national economic council, who have been held out as the president's most rational globally minded advisers have now taken to the Wall Street Journal to proclaim that «the world is not a global community.»

Dr. Stephens has also been highly active throughout her career in industry and community activities, including serving as the Vice Chairman of the Orange County Council and National Board member of the American Electronics Association, now TechAmerica; participating on the University of California at Irvine School of the Arts Deans Advisory Council in the area of Digital Arts; and as a Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Orange County Board member.

Moldaver is also involved in the legal community, volunteering as a guest judge on final panels for national law school moot competitions.

SBP exists to shrink the time between disaster and recovery, and just as SBP has done in eight other disaster impacted communities around the country, we have committed to staying to rebuild long after national attention fades.

Appointed to the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia and the recipient of four honorary degrees, Audain has been a tireless supporter of the arts community, notably serving as Chair of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada.

The Forum, a group of corporate CEOs and university presidents, identified and acted on issues of national concern to the business and academic communities such as international competitiveness, technological innovation, and education and training.

We work with the national Public Banking Institute, and seek to work with other community banking organizations, as well as other community - minded people and groups, in and beyond Massachusetts.

Direct Relief is coordinating its response in Puerto Rico with the Asociación de Salud Primaria de Puerto Rico, National Association of Community Health Centers, National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters, as well as local public health officials.

Mike enjoys volunteering in his community and has volunteered for the Boy Scouts of America as well as contributed to the Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory as a research associate.

Prior to Impromptu Guru, Jill worked as the Communication Manager for a national franchise, was a faculty member at Arizona State University, and established a nationally - recognized presence in the online education community, by starting up two major online education offices at the largest university in the country, serving 60,000 + students and increasing online tuition revenue by nearly a million dollars in her first eight months.

«This report establishes a baseline against which we can measure the collective impact of #movethedial as we continue to increase the participation and advancement of women in our tech community,» says Chris Dulny, National Technology Sector Leader at PwC Canada.

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On September 3, Starbucks partners welcomed City of San Diego Councilmember David Alvarez, Megan Glynn from Blue Star Families and the local community to dedicate the 28th and National Starbucks as the second Military Family Store in San Diego.

While Target has been an active sports marketing player with its local teams, such as the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Timberwolves, as well as with auto racing, the new partnership is a first for the company because of its «holistic nature,» including local, community and national levels, explained a spokeswoman.

A new Moody's report forecasting «newspaper print ad revenue will decline by low - to - mid teen percentages through the first half of 2018, falling more steeply for national newspapers than for community newspapers... As a consequence, the industry's organic EBITDA will decline by 7 percent to 10 percent through early to mid-2018.»

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

As a federal court stated in a 2011 decision upholding the foreign national prohibition statute and regulation — a decision affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court: «It is fundamental to the definition of our national political community that foreign citizens do not have a constitutional right to participate in, and thus may be excluded from, activities of democratic self - government.»

As the community mourns, lawmakers in Florida are responding with mixed ideas on what to do to address the recurring issue of gun violence in the state and the national trend of terrorists continually targeting schools.

But, as a person who tries to depend on reason and community harmony, I don't see a problem with it being there, as long as we can have a mosque in the neighborhood, a star of David, and whatever else represents people who lost their lives in this national tragedy.

Olla works closely with Muslims on the national interreligious council of Ethiopia, even as he cherishes the right of each community to evangelize the other.

As Christians we value the health of communities, including national communities.

Gandhi's followers as well as many Western NGOs continued to work, without national help on community development.

And I want to register my strong conviction that we need to work toward a bottom - up economy in which many of the necessities of life are produced locally by individuals and companies that have their roots in the communities and do not see progress as meaning going national and global.

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One year (4 units) of clinical pastoral education in community mental health, or its equivalent as defined by national certifying clergy organizations professionally concerned with community mental health and community action.

He took national community for granted as the context of economic activity.

As we describe in our 2014 report for the National Marriage Project, «Facilitating Forever,» community organizations receiving federal funding approved by both Democrat and Republican administrations have attempted to foster stable marriages and families in at - risk populations for over a decade.

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.

The British who colonized India had accepted the European concept of nationhood as constituted by unity in blood and language, «ethnic purity and a single language»; therefore, they said, that «India is not and can never be a nation... India is a collection of religious communities... But the unfortunate tragic element was that this British interpretation of Indian history was also accepted by many of our national leaders... So British interpretation plus the shortsightedness of our own leaders, not excluding the Mahatma, together resulted in this dreadful phenomenon of communalism».

If he knows it and lives in it as the tradition of the great Church he has an authority in the local and the contemporary Christian community which the man who represents only the tradition of a national or denominational or localized community can not have.

Zionists tend to look on it as a national destiny and perhaps also a culture but not as a people embodying an essential relationship to God in the life of the community.

Of course, the real destruction of national community is going on chiefly in poorer countries, as a result of structural adjustment and such treaties as NAFTA.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.