Sentences with phrase «actions by communities»

Their lawsuit is the latest in a string of legal actions by communities that are attempting to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the problems climate change creates.

The report confirms that while the status of the snub - nosed monkey remains critical due to its fragmented, small population and ongoing threats, positive actions by communities, governments and NGOs have resulted in a dramatic improvement in the outlook for the species.

The workshop sought to address common themes or specific priorities for action by communities, resource managers and policymakers.

Where it is provided, in a common position or in a joint action adopted according to the provisions of the Treaty on European Union relating to the common foreign and security policy, for an action by the Community to interrupt or to reduce, in part or completely, economic relations with one or more third countries, the Council shall take the necessary urgent measures.

Any action by the Community shall not go beyond what is necessary to achieve the objectives of this Treaty.

(2) If action by the Community should prove necessary to attain this objective and this Treaty has not provided the necessary powers, the Council may adopt provisions with a view to facilitating the exercise of the rights referred to in paragraph (1).»

We promote, facilitate and drive collaborative action by community investors to build resilient, equitable and inclusive communities.

An open source guide, the Community Energy Implementation Framework, designed to help communities move Community Energy Plans from a vision to implementation, was released today in beta at QUEST2016 — Smart Energy Communities for Jobs, Infrastructure and Climate Action by the Community Energy Association, QUEST — Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow, and Sustainable Prosperity.

Not exact matches

When I see other people walk by trash or drop cigarettes in the middle of the street, I can't help but think that they're marginalizing their agency and the impact they can make in their community by just implementing one mundane action.

«Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy,» he says.

Users are encouraged to engage in actions that will benefit other members and the community as a whole by rewarding such actions with Soma Community (SCT), a cryptocurrency designed to incentivize the members of the decentralized community to perform value - adding services and act as a fast, secure and cost - effective way of compensatiocommunity as a whole by rewarding such actions with Soma Community (SCT), a cryptocurrency designed to incentivize the members of the decentralized community to perform value - adding services and act as a fast, secure and cost - effective way of compensatioCommunity (SCT), a cryptocurrency designed to incentivize the members of the decentralized community to perform value - adding services and act as a fast, secure and cost - effective way of compensatiocommunity to perform value - adding services and act as a fast, secure and cost - effective way of compensation.»

Good thing, too, considering labour action by the nearly 30,000 workers represented by both groups would have thrown a wrench into daycare, community centres, pools, city - run museums and other services.

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«Plaintiff bring [s] this action as the public has a right to know about this fraud that is being perpetrated in Dearborn, Michigan, the community with the highest concentrations of Muslims in North America,» the lawsuit read in part, as obtained by CBS Detroit.

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Influence as the ability for a person to inspire action amongst a community is a very powerful thing and therefore, increasingly appreciated by digital marketing and PR pros alike.

VANCOUVER — B.C. New Democrats are marking Homelessness Action Week by calling on the B.C. Liberal government to take real action to help the homeless by passing poverty reduction legislation and providing real support to communAction Week by calling on the B.C. Liberal government to take real action to help the homeless by passing poverty reduction legislation and providing real support to communaction to help the homeless by passing poverty reduction legislation and providing real support to communities.

The mission of United Way Centraide Canada is to improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and mobilizing collective action.

«By gamifying the interaction between researchers who find vulnerabilities and the customers paying» rewards for those actions «it creates a community of self - regulators... we have a large community that is earning money, paying for houses, supporting family,» he noted.

The manifesto warns: «The next UK government should recognise that without specific urgent action now there is a very real danger that Christian communities will have ceased to exist in large parts of the Middle East by the time of the next general election in 2022.»

If ethics is allowed to be controlled by the laws of any individual state there is a danger of returning to legal positivism, where the laws of a single state are allowed to contradict universal human rights, allowing residents of that state «legally» to carry out actions that are totally unacceptable to the international community and the Catholic Church.

The government says over time some actions have been taken by the communities under state pressure to end the discrimination but that federal authorities are seeking a court order to prevent future discrimination by the defendants.

We will take our emotions, our energy and our protest to communities most likely to be hurt by the actions of this federal administration... Graduation is not about the speaker.

Yet Hasidic life is characterized first of all by its wholly personal mode of faith, and it is only through the action of this faith that a community is formed.

In Christian communities discernment and response to God is mediated in a variety of ways — by ritual action, normative patterns of behavior, exemplary persons, appropriate images and music, and above all written and spoken words.

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.

Accordingly, the remainder of this essay will proceed as follows: I will first seek to show that the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity includes a principle of social action by which a universal community of rights is constituted, so that no moral theory can be valid if it is inconsistent with these rights.

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

He has inaugurated a new history by an action which restores the possibility of loyalty in this broken, suffering, yet still hopeful human community.

But those who in faith participate in the community established by the atoning action of Jesus experience the Spirit creating a new body for its expression in the world.

The community social action groups can be developed by such prayerful reflection and community action.

The idea is not a simple one but an idea of order and relation in the complex action and interaction of person, community and God, governing providentially, working by his spirit, active in history.

He has gone beyond the traditional doctrines by drawing his metaphor from within the action of loyalty when it deals with the broken community.

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.

Kuhn held that the thought and action of a scientific community are dominated by its paradigms, defined as «standard examples of scientific work which embody a set of conceptual, methodological and metaphysical assumptions».

A community is where «life is lived,» a society is an association in rational action, and the mass is man caught up by stimuli in which there are no real social bonds.12 The idea of the community — the willed entity — is important for the form of the church.13

Both give direction to the community, formed by those who are united in a particular religious experience, and this community is actively shaping and developing its religious experience in thought and in action.

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

And while our sisters around the world continue to suffer from trafficking, exploitation, violence, neglect, maternal mortality, and discrimination, those of us who are perhaps most equipped to respond with prophetic words and actions — women of faith — are being systematically silenced by our own faith communities.

In the process perspective, each sacramental action is both created by the community and creative of the community.

The exposé of Planned Parenthood engineered by Live Action has not only disclosed some illegal and immoral operations of Planned Parenthood, it has also revealed sharp divergences in the pro-life movement and Catholic community about what counts as lying.

There is a world of difference between a private devotional gesture, the action of the specially pious, and the prophetic witness of the whole community — the matter - of - fact witness, repeated week by week, that to be Christian is to stand among the needy.

Moral Realism inherent in this approach is to avoid two absolutist positions of utopianism - one, the approach of political religions which seek to bring perfect community on earth through political action, which ends in tyranny because it asks the impossible from power - politics; and the other, a withdrawal from politics because it can not bring perfect community on earth, which ends by tolerating the worst tyranny and oppression without resistance.

But, while the community action programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to «organize» communities, the AFLA contemplates implementation by functioning groups already (if precariously) in place.

Social action was not informed by a lively sense of Christian community, rigorous prayer, and disciplined Bible study; our secular critics and our conservative brothers and sisters were not far off the mark in describing Christian social analysis as warmed - over liberalism.

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.

Dedicated, knowledgeable churchmen have often seen the need to join forces with others in sparking a community - wide action program, coordinated by an Alcoholism Council.

Thus the process of appropriation includes the public action of the community and the personal internalization by the individual members who participate in the liturgy.

The Community Action Program of the War on Poverty with its slogan «maximum feasible participation of the poor» might at first sight appear inspired by Alinsky.

«Action - reflection,» a procedural term in urban training, became something more than a buzz phrase for clergy and seminarians who sat with organizer Tom Gaudette between engagements of a community organization, sometimes to 4 A.M. (hours preferred also by Alinsky)