Sentences with phrase «acting together»

Firstly, the US was not built on a Christian faith, it was built by numerous different cultures acting together despite the fact that their religions may have clashed.

Since the goal of organic union has seemed to be impossible to attain, the goal is now to create a covenant that will permit mutual recognition of sacraments and of ministries, witnessing together to common faith, and acting together in service.

That is why, from antiquity, important church decisions were reached at councils, the Pope and bishops acting together through consensus — the fundamental principle of ecclesial action.

And it is only by acting together, as Christians and non-Christians, that we can do anything significant about maintaining this freedom.

Thus, even a very modest institutionalization of this issue in theological education provides legitimacy and resources to those addressing the problems, and a space for healing, thinking, talking and acting together.

In his analysis, he discriminates three factors or aspects of the developing process, all of which, acting together, determine the process so that it exhibits a novelty or a character not accounted for by data and principles which were present at the beginning of the process.

«Church» and «state» refer to institutions, of course, whereas «religion» refers more broadly to the habits and actions of individuals, sometimes acting singly, sometimes acting together with others.

Local churches need to represent Christ to and for their neighborhoods, living and acting together as one Christian people around the Lord's Table and in mission.

When a family is united, children soon realise that life is not about serving one's own interests, but about acting together for the good of the entire family.

For example, a Stanford University project — which uses many PCs around the world acting together as a supercomputer to assist protein folding - related disease research — can offload calculations to the GPU to multiply its performance many times.

Those plans do not include retailers that can't get their act together and make themselves more attractive shopping destinations.

Customers may see a business's outdated processes as a sign they don't quite have their act together.

The president warned that North Korea «better get their act together, or they are going to be in trouble like few nations have ever been in trouble.»

The studios got their act together, though.

«If we don't get our act together here, we certainly aren't going to figure out how to go to Mars and live, because we have to understand the microbiology.

The corporate sector, which until recently paid little heed to profits or shareholders, is also getting its act together.

He says Stonyfield got its act together only around 1991.

Banks have finally gotten their act together, and that means online lenders will increasingly have to compete against these large financial institutions.

Then the company found religion, got its act together, and started repairing the considerable damage that had been done.

Hansen was planning to get Mexx's life back in order, but she couldn't get the brand's act together soon enough.

Use it daily to make a major change: Mushroom, bio-peptide, and retinol act together to strengthen and reboot damage.

«British businesses simply can not put their suppliers and customers on hold while the negotiators get their act together.»

«The airline industry, which has traditionally been fairly Jurassic in its thinking, needs to get its act together pretty damn quickly because we are so process - driven,» Clark told us.

This is just some sloppy, dangerous seamanship, and the Indian Navy better get its act together fast.

That said, Tesla is slowly getting its act together with Model 3.

He allegedly offered multiple apologies, according to E! News, but Jenner «told [Rob] that this was going to affect Dream in many ways if he didn't get his act together.»

It's also why Starbucks needs to get its act together, and go above and beyond to make sure that this kind of discrimination stops.

«The problem is a board and top executive team that don't always appear to have control of its wide - ranging cast of characters... Twitter needs to get its act together or risk losing buzz, potential ad revenue, and its bright future too.»

Speaking of the conference — more than 100 biopharma executives signed a fascinating open letter released Wednesday imploring the industry to get its act together when it comes to gender diversity.

Have your act together?

So rather than the bankrupt countries getting their act together to attract business, the solution is to penalize everyone and make the entire continent less attractive.

We need new monetary policy tools precisely because the fiscal authorities can't get their act together, and because existing monetary measures have limited effect.

The next recession, though, we thought might come in 2014 or later — after the news industry had somehow gotten its digital transition act together and found some stable going - forward business model.

As Vox's Ella Nilsen has documented, millions of Americans will effectively lose their flood insurance if Congress can't get its act together in time to reauthorize, or temporarily extend, the program.

In a January 29th article titled «Trump's Plan a Recipe for Failure, Former Infrastructure Advisor Says,» he added, «If we don't get our act together very soon, we should all be brushing up on our Mandarin.»

ENERGY: Oil prices pushed ahead amid speculation of a production freeze after the world's two largest oil producers, Russia and Saudi Arabia, agreed to act together to stabilize global oil output.

Following the tragic death in August last year of Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern Moritz Erhardt, several top firms have been getting their acts together and setting rules and regulations to ensure that internship program participants aren't being overworked and putting their health at risk.

Here are the top six reasons why Congress needs to get its act together and fix the Ex-Im Bank:

It has been encouraging to see Zenefits get its act together: the HR company and its competitors make it far easier and cheaper to grow a new business.

Officials in Iowa and New York had their act together and scrambled — successfully — to keep production facilities and jobs in their states.

We are one of the few advanced economies really with its act together, with very solid economic fundamentals.

As a man, you've got to get your financial act together if you want to be marriage worthy to be able to take care of a family.

First, we need to get our act together as a country when it comes to climate policy.

In other words, I'd prefer the stock trading at 0.6 x its value rather than 0.4 x its value if I think the former stock is going to grow at 6 % once it gets its act together.

The article basically mimics her remarks that they are getting their technical act together, that their new analytics tool FinCEN Query «allows investigators to more easily search the 11 years of BSA data and apply filters.

That struck me as a political party that really doesn't have their act together.

Based upon on his recent public comments, Dimon seems to be interested: ««And you know at one point we all have to get our act together [so that] we will do what we're supposed to do [for] the average Americans.»

While loan servicers that collect payments on more than $ 1 trillion in student loan debt seem to be getting their collective act together, government regulators continue to keep a sharp eye out for «unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices.»

The stock market is not the same thing as the economy, but this gives you an idea about how much room some of these markets may have to run in the years ahead if they can get their act together and make their equity markets more appealing to foreign or domestic investors.

First, we need to get our act together and ensure the current program remains solvent.