Sentences with phrase «affirming values»

Bill 60, Charter affirming the values of state secularism and religious neutrality and of equality between women and men, and providing a framework for accommodation requests, was tabled in Quebec's national assembly on November 7, 2013.

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The Canadian Secular Alliance has serious concerns with the Quebec's Bill 60: Charter affirming the values of State secularism and religious neutrality and of equality between women and men, and providing a framework for accommodation requests

On the website concerning the Québec Charter of Values you'll find a statement from the minister, Bernard Drainville, and, if you follow the arrows at the bottom of each screen, the desideratum of «clear rules for everyone ``, an «affirmation of Québec values» («By affirming these values, we are proposing to build a strong Québec identity, whether one was born here or elsewhere.»)

Bernard Drainville, Quebec's Minister responsible for Democratic Institutions and Active Citizenship, has finally introduced legislation affirming the values of secularism and religious neutrality with respect to the province of Quebec.

«In all these places,» write the Lappés, «we discovered people who are not accepting corporate global capitalism as it is but are evolving it so that growing and eating good food — and economic life itself — is again embedded in life - affirming values and community.»

Commitment to life - affirming values, and structures, solidarity with the poor in their struggle for justice and for their forests and land, and dialogue with other faiths directed towards a liberative ecumenism are some of these.

In 1966, he created Kwanzaa to connect African Americans with their African cultural roots and to enshrine life affirming values into black consciousness: values such as faith, purpose, self - determination, and cooperative economics, to name a few.

The search is for a global order where life - affirming values are preserved and strengthened.

The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»

That is your opportunity to affirm the value of your products.

A reference is where a customer affirms the value of your product to your prospect).

If marriage is a cornerstone of our society, aren't gay couples that want to be married affirming the value on monogamous commitment as the building block of healthy and sustainable families and communities?

The most important contribution of the churches, called for by those who newly look to it with hope, is to affirm the values of our tradition.

Camus steadfastly affirms the value of life in spite of personal and historical tragedy.

We, at least, do affirm those values, and haltingly, inconsistently, and often in distorted ways, try to embody them and encourage others to do so.

At least some modern religious thinkers, Niebuhr most prominently, have attempted to affirm the value of democracy on religious grounds.

To live at all is to affirm the value of living (even the act of suicide affirms the value of human action and of human life); similarly every animal acts as if the world were orderly.

One of the goals of a typical theology of resurrection is to affirm the value and dignity of the body, even if we don't know very clearly what happens or will happen to it in the resurrection of the dead.

Despite the prevalence of patriarchal discourse, the authors note that many churches have begun to confront machismo and affirm the value of women.

To the «Protestant,» the Preacher affirms the value of play in and of itself.

Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.

Genesis affirms the value of human guidance and transformation of nature in harmony with the whole of creation, and it rejects our culture «s frequent affirmation of consumption and waste.

Two recent documents from the Holy See — Pastores Gregis, the post-synod apostolic exhortation of Pope John Paul II, and the Directory for the Pastoral Ministry of Bishops from the Congregation for Bishops — vigorously affirm the value and necessity of national episcopal conferences while refining and clarifying their proper role.

Only by transferring its concern to «coordinations wider than personality» can the self affirm the values it is inextricably bound up with.

Women were rejecting a passive role in childbirth and affirming the value of women's instincts and collective wisdom.

Is it possible to affirm the value of the technological revolution, the legitimacy of the hopes and claims of the dispossessed, most of all, of the moral centrality of the Negro revolution in America today — is it possible to affirm all these values and still to live comfortably in the modern world as these writers portray it?

Each time I decide to keep a secret, I affirm the value of my own experience, independent of what others know about me, and that can be incredibly liberating.

They also found themselves confronting biblical passages which affirmed the value of the state — or, at the very least, of the official political authorities — and ascribed to it a divine origin.

The people who started #AllWidowsMatter meant well — they wanted to affirm the value of all widows.

Affirming value to change, as well as permanence, shifts the role of religion from keeping order or being the basis of order to providing the basis for creativity and originality.

Taking a largely historical perspective, Van Engen's essay most notably affirms the value in the missional church movement, which provides much of the fodder for the respondents.

And the Unitarians are leading the whole church in affirming the value and importance of the natural environment.

He valued persons over systems (Sabbath is for man, not man for Sabbath), he affirmed the value of persons over things (His concern for children, women); he rejected any custom or system that marginalised people (entered into solidarity with the poor and the weak); he was harshly critical against the self - seeking leaders (Pharisees) and excessive dependence on mammon — the commodity mentality — was abhorrent to him.

We recognize and affirm the value of physiologic birth for women, babies, families and society and the value of appropriate interventions based on the best available evidence to achieve optimal outcomes for mothers and babies.

«The Governor's support for the federal DACA program, our immigrant students and passage of the Dream Act affirms the value these individuals have in our society.

The meeting both affirmed the value of this aspiration and that science has delivered the necessary tools, but many practical, financial, and social obstacles stand in the way.

A new study of the records of millions of nursing home residents affirms the value of influenza vaccination among the elderly.

These yoga classes help teens build confidence, strength, patience and compassion, while affirming their value, worth, and awesomeness.

We intend our protest to affirm the value of artistic expression and the power of cinema to transcend political differences and unite people in their common humanity.

When asked to reflect upon these conversations ~ held at 16 different schools ~ educators responded by affirming the value of the process ~ Cathy explains: They want to meet with each other at a time and in a place devoted to professional learning ~ and they want to learn from and inspire each other in ways that result in improved teaching and learning across all participating schools.

«We greatly appreciate the strong leadership of Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray for anchoring a bipartisan fix for NCLB that affirms the value of local governance,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA Executive Director.

The grant program is one way to affirm the value of Oakland teachers and empower them to give the same thought and care they give to their students to themselves and their colleagues.

In Four Spirits I wanted to affirm the value of every individual life (including four unknown African - American school girls who were killed).

When asked whether there is any relationship between her previous novel, Four Spirits (set during the Civil Rights movement) and Abundance she says, «I wanted to affirm the value of every individual life.

The AAVMC affirms the value of diversity within the veterinary medical profession.

On April 26, 2012, FOCU hosted a Community summit, and distributed «The Way Forward,» a document outlining a set of community generated recommendations that imagine alternatives to a tuition - based model and affirm the values of Cooper Union.

It was, in part, about the relationship between Bob, the deceased husband, and his wife, Carol — a character - based love story affirming the value (in dollars) of Bob's life and his relationship with Carol.

Taking out a key person policy on your top employees also affirms their value to your business, strengthening the relationship.

Daisy also helped me in affirming my value so that I could assertively — and successfully — negotiate a compensation model I'm very happy with.