Sentences with phrase «adopted persons did»

It was felt that birth parents and adopted persons did not need information about each other.

The International Association of Adopted People does not support any form of closed adoption because it believes that closed adoption is detrimental to the psychological wellbeing of the adopted child.

Not exact matches

In order for a highly complicated technology like blockchain to be accessible and adopted by every single person in the U.S., just like their Social Security card is, we've got a lot of bootstrapping to do.

«When you look at the way that companies are adopting benefits these days, you see a lot of people doing things like offering free lunches, beer, and ping pong tables,» says Gradifi CMO Meera Oliva.»

There's nothing complicated about these tips and they're easy to adopt, yet most people don't do them.

I wanted to be one of those people who live for the rush and never slow down, so I adopted (or rather didn't resist) that lifestyle.

In the 150 years since Confederation, the average income per person in Canada has increased about 20-fold after adjusting for inflation — all because we have adopted better ways of doing business.

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To effectively adopt this antidote a person should do enough research so their opinions are strongly believed, but be open to new dis - confirming evidence (weakly held).

Otherwise, you adopt the same kind of mindset they do when they expect people to just accept their statements as facts, yet they provide no evidence to support them...

«They could be new ways of doing sports, an activity, adopting a mugger in a town centre and working with sports and young people and suing that as ab opportunity to make Christ's love known.

Article 38 of the country's interim constitution says that «no person shall be coerced to adopt such faith that he / she does not believe in, nor to practise rites or services to which he / she does not voluntarily consent».

As must now be evident, the charismatic orientation may be cloaked in the style of those groups which call themselves charismatic or Pentecostal, but it is important to note that the charismatic negotiation is primarily a structure and as such may give form to the world views of persons and groups that do not adopt any of the features or practices of what is conventionally called charismatic religion.

The more clearly it is understood that ministry or, in the broad sense of the word we have adopted, that worship is the work of all the people (the laos, the laity), the more explicit will their doing theology be.

What I do know is that Rick is correct in that had people simply honored their marriage committments to begin with and put the supposed love of their life first rather than adopt the Hollywood lifestyle of divorce families woud be stronger and kids healthier.

So the answer is, yes, people do adopt «used» kids too.

While we are interested in bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus, our mission is not to recruit people from one religious institution or belief system for another; nor to give them new laws, dogmas and rituals; but rather to persuade all to change our lives and ways, and adopt a new way of seeing, doing and being.

Such questions can be difficult - either inherently or contingently so» and imperfect or even unsound positions can be adopted by intelligent and well - informed people who are doing their very best to think honestly and carefully about them.

So that's why when I hear about people wanting to leave the church because of politics or exhaustion, burn out, or disillusionment, I can sympathize but I certainly don't believe we should condemn every church out there and adopt this self - centered «woe is me, churches are so evil, pastors are two - faced and their motives are questionable, and Christians are so awful» mentality and pull ourselves AWAY from the work of God.

If we want to win people over to our way of living, we do it by the lives we live, not by trying to get this foreign government we live under to adopt the ways and rules of the Kingdom we represent.

But I do agree with judging ideas / theologies and concepts — since these are things people adopt and they can be discussed to help make a better society — but no shot at the person has to be done in those discussions (since it against no one person).

But I want to be careful to say that just because we seek to understand our own worldview and the worldview of the people in biblical times, this does not mean that we are supposed to adopt the worldview of the people in biblical times.

Many people look at this term «to be adopted as his sons» and ask «But don't we become children of God when we are born again?

I did that with the idea of Hell and found that what we think of when the word «Hell» is used (and was adopted by the church to scare people into obedience) was taken from a vision by someone in the 4th century.

These symbolic rituals could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

These are a few examples of symbolic rituals that could be adopted today in lieu of water baptism which might do a better job of representing our full identification with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection, and which, when we undergo them, would cause people who know us and observe what we are doing, to ask us why we would perform such a bizarre and morbid action.

It fits better with our common sense to adopt a view not unlike that found in parts of the Old Testament: sin will have its harmful consequences for the person doing as well as for the person done to, not as a result of a special interventionist act of God but as a natural result of the sin itself.

I do understand your resistance to adopting that mantle; most people don't enjoy being described as a bigot.

Didn't read the article, so I have no idea how President Obama's faith has been labeled, but as a person who began attending a Christina Church during adolescence, I know that it is very hard to accept a number of tenets of the faith, so I find myself doubting that a person who was raised for a number of years in a Muslim household and whose mother does not appear to have been of a Christian denomination, is likely to have adopted the tenets of the Christian faith.

Adopting the style she did, enables the more thoughtful dissenters to reflect on the validity of their rationale for being anti Muslim or opposed to an interfaith center for the purpose of bringing people together.

It's not that hard to do, it's just that most people have adopted this all - or - nothing approach to the universe that they're unwilling to even try.

Few people today consciously adopt substance metaphysics, but just because they do not think metaphysical issues are meaningful, they continue to reflect deep - seated metaphysical habits.

One does not ask whether a parable is true or false; one asks only whether it is psychologically effective in inspiring people to adopt the policies it endorses.

It has actually been my experience in ministry that I have witnessed people come to a place of realizing that they donâ $ ™ t really believe the way they thought they did, that they donâ $ ™ t subscribe to the platitudes, principles or practices that they inherited and thoughtlessly adopted.

You are assuming that that is the reason people don't have kids or have few, when the majority of people I know who limit their number of children or adopt or foster do so at least in part for society and the environment.

It requires that people adopt the same concern for the needy as Yahweh had done in electing Abraham and in rescuing his people from Egypt.

In addition to those people who call themselves «agnostic», because they say that they do not know, there are some Christians, such as Don Cupitt (b. 1934) who adopt a «nonrealist» position.

Does the fact that this proposal pictures theological schooling as a kind of «formation» of people mean that it implicitly adopts the model of theological schooling as paideia?

Wenger lost the plot when he brought in Giroud... what about the beautiful game involves having a lumbering striker who's main attribute is holding up play... our success with Wenger, and even before, came with pace and clinical striking up front, having a boss in the midfield and having physically imposing CBs... what about Wright, Bergkamp, Anelka, Henry or RVP remind anyone of Giroud (minus the left foot of course)... the formula was broken, which didn't have to be the end of our success, but when you adopt half - measures you can't expect things just to work themselves out on their own... at the very least Wenger should have brought in some wingers that can consistently cross the ball and then spend significantly more time addressing our lack of success with set pieces... ultimately this is why we continued to struggle with consistency and continued to constantly play people in the wrong positions

When he was talking about something good he did in Thursday's opening round of the Bridgestone, he often adopted the collective first - person: «We did make a couple really good 6 - to -7-footers on the last five holes...» When he talked about something bad he did — a bogey, say, or a poor chip — Spieth always said «I.»

People always say, «don't adopt a pet that you aren't willing to make a 15 - year - commitment to!»

What do you want people to know most about adopting overseas?

While most people don't have the influence of a hip and sexy grandma, a growing number of hobbyists are adopting pastimes usually associated with the octogenarian set.

But the people who need to do the work — and the people who will be involved — are the adopting parents and the first parents.

I can't tell you how many times I hear people say that they have adopted certain traditions in their family because it was what they saw their parents doing growing up and they always knew that they wanted the kind of love that their parents had.

Naomi Gardner - Owen: Cost for international adoptions that keep thousands of people from adopting even though they desire to do so.

You know, there have been some people saying: well, why did you adopt black embryos?

Some prospective adopting people want to know «how much does adoption cost?»

The fact that statistics on the number of suicides of adopted persons or natural mothers are not widely advertised does not change the fact that they occur with greater frequency than the norm in society.

Adopted people and adoptive parents don't always look at adoption the same way.