Sentences with phrase «action by»

They use church organizations and facilities routinely to advocate political action by their cult members.

The weekend of World Malaria Day — April 23, 24 and 25 — people of faith will take action by holding a ONE Sabbath event.

But in its analysis of the past and present it stresses the conditionedness of thought and action by economic interests almost to the exclusion of the recognition of the universal presence of transcending.

A television portrayal, however, may change the salience of a particular action by demonstrating its effectiveness or ineffectiveness in a specific situation.

Seven of these pieces of information deal with the degree to which the law is used to «eliminate» opposition rather that to facilitate concerted action by disparate groups.

The ERLC has offered six pro-life priorities for action by President - elect Trump and Congress in 2017, including the nomination and confirmation of a pro-life successor to the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, a permanent ban on all federal funding of abortion and the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the country's No. 1 abortion provider.

Wieman was concerned to show what commitment to the source of human good would mean in institutional and national life as well as in personal life.26 It would be false in his case to say that personal salvation is primary and social action its by - product.

Those who fail to heed the call, who are not galvanized into action by the presence of this errupting kingdom, are simply dead, perpetuating the existence of this old age.

Tor Valla, a water engineer with Norwegian Church Aid, a partner of the ecumenical Action by Churches Together, left Iraq just before the bombs started falling.

«Today's action by the U.S. Supreme Court represents a major victory for the freedom of all religious organizations to hire employees who share the same faith — whether Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, or any other religion,» World Vision U.S. president Richard Stearns said in a press release.

Salvation comes therefore through revolutionary action by the dehumanized victims of this process who rediscover in the solidarity of their total deprivation, the true humanity which will finally triumph.

This may involve the official, authorized action of a congregation or of a delegated group in behalf of a congregation; or action by a group of churches or by that delegated body that is able to act in their behalf.

I reply that the action by which the nerves of the stomach determine the different operations which constitute digestion, and the manner in which they confer so active a solvent power upon the gastric juice, are equally hidden from our scrutiny.

That was a personal action by one person.

Charles Lamb wrote: «The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.»

The illogical way you defend every unreasonable action by your personal creator is astounding.

It is an order of agents, none of which is completely determined in any concrete action by any previous (still less any simply timeless) action or set of actions or decisions.

The weaker minds in our society can easily be called to action by an «authority» speaking like this.

But in addition it seems to be more capable than any other vision of the future of stimulating and steadying our power of action by counteracting the prevailing pessimism.

Thus «the economy» is presented as a force working on its own, beyond comprehension by the average person or action by the average citizen.

The effort to secure action by state legislatures to require the teaching of creationism as science along with evolutionary theories has already succeeded in two states.

It's an easy, quick, one - time response to a call to action by our friends, networks, and causes we care for.

There are at least four channels through which the prophetic ministry can be implemented: (a) prophetic preaching, (b) study - discussion groups (and other educational programs), (c) social action groups, and (d) action by individual members through community social action projects.

«The Palestinian sites of al - Haram, al - Ibrahimi / Tomb of the Patriarchs in al - Khalil / Hebron and the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque / Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem: the Board voted 44 to one (12 abstentions) to reaffirm that the two sites are an integral part of the occupied Palestinian Territories and that any unilateral action by the Israeli authorities is to be considered a violation of international law...»

Christians should be able to criticize this or that political action by the state of Israel without automatically being labeled anti-Semitic.

As the devotees give themselves to their god, using some token for their oblation such as a human life, an animal, grain, a dance or other ceremonial, so the god responds to their action by relating himself afresh to them in a helpful and enriching fashion.

Oh and by the way, time doesn't exist either, history is nothing but (in) action by those who claim to have the rights to inherit whatever comes in handy while donating all else.

Is God still God, if He is influenced in His action by the prayers of men?

That one action by Senator Kennedy paved the way for a judicial appointment that almost surely was the key to preserving a constitutional right to abortion on demand and to the overturning of U.S. laws protecting marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

While he always remains God as the chief principle of explanation for such concrete emergents of the good — in all its variety — as do in fact appear, he is «enriched» both by satisfaction in what happens and by the provision of possibilities of future action by that which has happened.

They gave me tools to interpret every religious, altruistic, and in any way ideal assertion or action by others as merely a tactic of ego.

Inferences from common events must have quickly entered into consideration, being so intimately a part of ordinary prudence; and with the personalist interpretation of environment, supposed action by that environment would have the same relevance as action by another person.

If alcoholism is a sin, a believer can confess that sin, receive forgiveness, elect to turn from that sin, use the power of God in the effort, and end the sinful action by obeying God.

Mod is an action by a person in an environment, depending on legality or hinduism, illegality by hindu atheism, criminal self center ism, it has nothing to do with environment at large, as it is used today to define matters, because actions of a person are subject to scrutiny individually, not collectively, bases for call to treat individual acts as individually not collectively.

In concrete perception, the material movement ordinarily continued as real movement by nonvital matter is continued as virtual or nascent action by living organisms.

But until those issues are placed effectively on the agenda - for - action by the population of that functional world - village we will wait in vain for the first effective steps toward a modest degree of world government.

Meanwhile, at the Roman Catholic Boston College, students who are giving away condoms are being threatened with punitive action by the administration.

If each instrument had to be put into action by another instrument, one would never reach the principal cause.

The action by the publishing arm of America's largest Protestant denomination, the nearly 16 - million - member Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), comes one day after Matt Chandler's Acts 29 church planting network removed membership from Mars Hill churches and their popular pastor.

Reports indicated anti-Christian action by the Chinese communists, and many writers speculated whether much of the faith would survive the war, no matter its outcomes.

, Pilate again tries to avoid action by citing to the Jews the custom of releasing a prisoner on the Passover.

However, by 1995, the convention issued its Resolution on Reconciliation, publicly denouncing its past racism, and asking forgiveness for its role in supporting slavery and segregation — an unprecedented action by a Southern denomination.

Some vigilante groups, tired of promises and no action by the broadcasting industry, began to take matters into their own hands by initiating boycotts and urging the passage of censorship laws in communities and states.

He was appearing on a video game live stream when Giant Bomb editor - in - chief Jeff Gerstmann narrated the action by saying, «I've been doing some farming with my hoe.»

The deadly element here is the limitation of individual reason and action by spiritual or political leaders.

Worse still, that war conditioned us for so many decades to choosing between total inactivity and action by strident measures.

Black pastors should put this into action by developing programs and policies to transform the status of the poor.

Although many of those concerned for environmental protection are thinking about the natural world simply as it relates to human beings, the leaders of the environmental movement have been moved to perception and action by deeper changes.

Wood proposes that, instead of explaining the relation between theology and action by using the pair «theory / practice,» we think about the relation between «vision» and «discernment» in both inquiry and other types of action.

When our church licensed a woman to the preaching ministry over a decade ago, almost all the male deacons and many women members opposed the action by appealing to tradition and selected Scripture passages.