Sentences with phrase «about the heritage of»

I don't think we should choose one or the other, what I'm simply saying is that if you think about the heritage of the Liberal Democrats going back a century or more, one might have thought if we'd entered the coalition that Blair and Ashdown were looking at in the mid - «90s, we might well have lost our identity.

The programme supports teachers in learning about the heritage of the area they teach in, so they can embed it into the curriculum, and make local links with the national story of England.

Hence, MGallery by Sofitel properties offer guests «Memorable Moments», which are designed to create experiences that allow guests to learn more about the heritage of a destination in a unique way.

Here you can teach your children more about the heritage of the area at the Azores Miltiary Museum.

Learn more about the heritage of Mestizos (people of Spanish and Mayan descent) in Northern Belize where this society enjoys a lifestyle that's distinct from Central American neighbors.

Learn about the heritage of pre-Hispanic culture in the presence of hieroglyphs, rock art and ancient religious magic, the most important legacy from the original inhabitants of the island.

TV screens present a 13 - part television series about the heritage of Hellenism made by the French film - maker Chris Marker.

Not exact matches

Last year, the United Nations» heritage body expressed concern about the state of the Great Barrier Reef and urged Australia to boost its conservation efforts.

The cleverness of the branding was centred around an individual of Scottish heritage who was smart about spending money and savings.»

A story about an entrepreneur's experience that led him or her to found a company, or one about the history of a particular product, for instance, can enhance a company's culture by conveying its heritage or sense of purpose and direction.

The comments, says Liviakis, «were talking about pedophilia, and there were disparaging, racist sort of remarks about my Greek heritage, and all kinds of evil things, to try to make fun of me and make fun of companies that I was involved in, and anyway to scare down the stock.»

Will Bunch's CNN.com tirade earlier this week against television host Glenn Beck and David Barton - the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that emphasizes history's «moral, religious and constitutional heritage» - for allegedly creating «pseudo history» reveals more about Mr. Bunch than it does about what Mr. Beck and Mr. Barton are presenting.

In fact the Book of Mormon talks about a separate civilization who arrived centuries before those of Jewish heritage; and not one verse of the Book of Mormon declares that there were NO other civilizations or peoples of other parts of the world also inhabiting the Americas.

And the new quest has found the support of Joachim Jeremias, who perhaps more than any other is the custodian of the heritage of detailed and exacting philological, environmental research about Jesus, which is perhaps the most permanent contribution of the original quest.

All of us, Lord, from the moment we are born feel within us this disturbing mixture of remoteness and nearness; and in our heritage of sorrow and hope, passed down to us though the ages, there is no yearning more desolate than that which makes us weep with vexation and desire as we stand in the midst of the Presence which hovers about us nameless and impalpable and is indwelling in all things.

Speaking in Westminster Hall in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI spoke movingly about Britain's heritage of constitutional government: «Your common law tradition serves as the basis of legal systems in many parts of the world, and your particular vision of the respective remains an inspiration to many across the globe».

This was not in Catherine's Russian heritage, and she set about to teach and give witness to the call of every child of God to be one with Him.

Nor have I anything to say about cultures or peoples who have not suffered the history of faith and disenchantment we have, or who do not share our particular relation to European antiquity or the heritage of ancient Christendom.

I thought the same thing, and upon reading the whole thing, i learned that this was a book about the OT law, and also priests, as well as the account of the festival calenders and the main heritage story of prophetic foreshadowing of the New Covenant, a better covenant.

But if we let our heritage slip from our hands, if we do not understand what we are, then Lincoln's great words about us, words we find it hard to understand in these closing years of the twentieth century — that we are «the last best hope of earth» — will in the end be nothing but a mockery, a sarcastic epithet for a fallen republic.

But the roots of The Controversy, how it came about, what was at stake, and how this relates to the theological heritage both sides still claim» all this remains up for grabs.

In actuality, their plan was pure brilliance as in one fell swoop they killed the main leader of the unrest, then created a mythology about his divine heritage putting the Roman leaders in charge of the new religion, and after all this time, still have control.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

When we stop talking about what it means, about what predestination means, we've stopped understanding what it means to be Presbyterian... [We need to talk about] the kind of theological energy, the kind of theological positivism that is part of the Presbyterian heritage....

And for those of us who are white or from a Western heritage — who have been acclimated to power structures and hierarchy while being blinded to poverty and injustice — maybe we, more than anyone, should be talking about decolonizing our theology.

Gnosticism has a long heritage of nasty judgments about the corruption of our bodies, our eating habits, our daily chores, our normal lives.

The rapid rise and spread of Communism must be accepted by Christians as the most seriously challenging deviant form of the Judeo - Christian heritage, just as, in the eighth century, the rise of Islam came about because of the tendency for Christian Trinitarian doctrine to revert to polytheism, adding weight to Mohammed's call for a pure monotheism.

Even as the economy and jobs consistently rank as top issues in the presidential race, many evangelical Iowans say they're weighing the personal faith of the candidates and that they still care about social issues and honoring the country's Judeo - Christian heritage.

But that same New Testament talks about the sense of rest that is the heritage of every believer.

In thinking about the public order, notes Turner, Calvin College has drawn heavily on the legacy of the Dutch politician Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920), but he agrees with Mark Noll's observation that recent evangelical political thinkers have also borrowed «from the Anabaptist heritage, from the mainline Protestantism of Reinhold Niebuhr, or from the neoconservative Catholicism of Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel.»

Thus, we need to look backward from Jesus to his heritage to understand how he came to think as he did about the kingdom of God, and forward from his crucifixion and resurrection to observe how the church dealt with his message.

We need to look backward from Jesus to his heritage to understand how he came to think as he did about the kingdom of God, and forward from his crucifixion and resurrection to observe how the church dealt with his message.

(Sure, there are individual opinions about certain matters, but there are individual opinions about the alien heritage of the British monarchy.)

Ireland's recent decision to approve same - sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country's Catholic reputation in ruins.Of course, this shift didn't come about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future.

In the past decade particularly, cynicism about the International Court of Justice and the UN has become so pervasive that millions of Americans are no longer aware of the crucial role that the concept behind these institutions played in their own heritage: «In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.»

In The Daily Mail, Melanie Phillips revealed her disrespect and ignorance for many cultures and groups of people by writing such nonsense as «without the Judeo - Christian heritage there would be no morality and no true human rights,» in a column about Druids.

The RSS has started village - level educational units that enable teachers well - versed in the ideology of Hindutva to live with and instruct minority communities about their nation, heritage, and civilization.

It begins by mentioning that the institution was founded long ago by an order of priests, but then the language shifts to «heritage,» which is identified with «the Judeo - Christian tradition,» which is about forming «lasting personal values.»

I google'd her family - She is married to a White Mormon and they have 3 children... They most definitely will be raised as Whites and will never be a part of her heritage... Just listen to her answer to the CNN Correspondant about Obama - she skipped the question entirley... This woman does not consider herself Black or Haitian American...

On the other hand, if they want to maintain separate cultural identity within the predominantly Anglo congregation, we can create opportunities for them to discuss this project with other members and teach the congregation about the values of their distinctive heritage.

At the end of the day, this is a story about Jewish identity and heritage.

First of all, it implies some superficial beliefs about the place of sexuality in human experience (we might regard these as being in the antechamber of the temple of sacred sexuality proper): the belief that sexuality is a key, perhaps even the key, component of the quality of being human (in this, of course, lies the pervasive heritage of Freud); the belief that modern Western culture, and especially American culture, has unduly suppressed sexuality (this is the anti-Puritan aspect of the proposition), and, that, as a result, not only are we sexually frustrated (and that frustration carries all sorts of physical and psychological pathologies in its wake), but our entire relation to our own bodies as well as the bodies of others has become distorted.

Of course, this shift didn't come about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain futurOf course, this shift didn't come about overnight — secularization has been in the works for some time — but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain futurof a dramatic break with Ireland's Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future.

Gill made his debut as a presenter on Songs Of Praise in August, and in Sunday's episode will be seen visiting long - running agricultural event the Royal Welsh Show with Jones to learn about its Christian heritage.

When I gave him the Bible, I thought of the movie we had seen together and wondered about the experience that this young man would have, moving beyond his upbringing to an engagement with the world's religious heritage.

But it is inadequate, because - and here my Pentecostal heritage shows - the end of biblical study can not consist alone in historical dates or tentative judgments about complicated and conjectured literary origins.

Those who feel there is something «unnatural» about introducing human genes into animals or plants forget that we share a high proportion of our genes with these species already: it is precisely this collective heritage that allows experiments on frogs to spawn treatments for human cancer.

While researching my prior post about Nikki Haley coming under attack by her fellow South Carolina Republicans for her Sikh heritage, I came across a local activist, Oran Smith of the Palmetto Family Council, who told CNN, «Most people can't even pronounce «Sikh,» even the ones that are criticizing her.»

It's a fact of our evolutionary heritage that I accept without the need to cover it up with lies about an invisible god and unrealistic afterlife.

Nowadays, about the only surviving British culinary heritage involves drinking; the hotels and restaurants serve high tea in the afternoon, excellent Singapore - brewed beers and stouts, and plenty of gin drinks.