Sentences with phrase «aimed at their connections»

The criticisms leveled against the Christian missions in China, by both Communists and many Chinese Christians alike, were aimed at their connections with Western civilization and Western imperialism in particular, and at their inability to foster the growth of a really dynamic and expanding Chinese Church.50 Some of the missionary leaders were aware of this new situation.

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Taylor said the Assistant Coaches Program, one of several league initiatives aimed at finding former players work, was established to help players fine - tune their skills, make connections, and, hopefully, find work on the other side of the ball.

Moreover, by forcing draconian DRM locks on these games, requiring an Internet connection to play them, a move aimed at fighting piracy, EA has earned the righteous enmity of its customers.

Opposition leaders take aim at Harper's aide and his connection to the ongoing Mike Duffy trial as the campaign continues

He also refers to a presumably relevant property of human consciousness whereby, when consciousness entertains abstractions, «there is always present a preservative instinct aiming at the renewal of connection, which is the reverse of abstraction» (MT 169).

«Because when I think about the aim, the purpose of religion, I think it becomes — when you put aside the social institutions that spring up around religions in all their strains and various forms of strands — I believe that the purpose of religion is love and connection, to feel connected to one another and to feel at ease with who we are... a kind of oneness, a kind of wholeness.

Aimed at maximising end - to - end productivity, the interface delivers a near - line connection, allowing label printers the flexibility to run integrated inline or standalone off - line jobs.

So aim to get out of the house at least once a day, and keep your eyes open for chances to make a connection.

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Plus, ads aimed at friends - of - fans can even mention that your mutual connection is already a Fan... peer pressure!

Bridget Kelly, 43, Christie's former deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, 44, former deputy executive director of the Port Authority, face nine counts in connection with the traffic tie - up aimed at punishing Fort Lee's mayor for refusing to endorse Christie for reelection.

Essentially, the AFD facility is aimed at reinforcing, rehabilitating and modernizing the existing distribution networks, which is a prerequisite for the connection of new customers while ensuring the stability of the grid.

The panel narrowly approved Bingaman's amendment aimed at boosting use of distributed generation technologies such as residential solar power by easing their connection to the grid.

He co-managed the UCS - led Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative, a multi-year program aimed at raising awareness of the energy - water connection, particularly in the context of climate change, and motivating and informing effective low - carbon and low - water energy solutions.

The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.

The Rosenberg donation will enable the Buck to support its scientists as they test promising new theories aimed at unraveling the connection between normal aging and chronic disease.

«The workshop is aimed at strengthening the connection between mission needs in Basic Energy Sciences and the X-ray facilities and in particular identifying key questions in solar energy conversion where time - resolved X-ray techniques could make significant contributions.

Christian Connection is an online dating service aimed at single Christians in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Christian Connection is an online dating service aimed at single Christians in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia, United States.

In recent years a growing number of dating sites have sprung up aimed at bringing together both men and women looking for an affectionate, cerebral connection.

It launched a new service called Bumble Bizz in October, aimed at competing with LinkedIn to help its users make professional connections.

At My Single Connections, we aim to make the process effortlessly simple with our dating app.

It is in this connection that the conferences that ELLTA organizes are strategically an important initiative, as they aim at contributing to the knowledge on leadership and learning in Asia.

This fall, students will be launching a brand new campaign — Growing Connections, Transforming Beliefs — aimed at improving school culture by fostering more meaningful relationships between students and school staff.

Project RED was established by three organizations, The Greaves Group, The Hayes Connection and One - to - One Institute, and began with a research project aimed at addressing two major issues in U.S. education: improving student achievement and evaluating the total financial impact of technology on state budgets.

Community Connections — Every Day Counts (EDC) 4 — EDC is a process designed to identify and deploy innovations aimed at reducing the time it takes to deliver highway projects, enhance safety, and protect the environment.

«At Marvel, we aim to create an incredible digital entertainment experience that duplicates the same joy and emotional connection users feel when reading traditional print content,» said Joe Quesada, Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment.

For complementary titles with a STEM focus aimed at the K — 5 crowd, consider Kristin Fontichiaro and Molly Hall's «Classroom Connections: Maker Minds» (Book Links, April 2015).

Of course, retailers must recognize that they can't please everyone, but they can aim to do their best to have a good variety so that people know their options, even if the exact product for their need isn't in stock at the time they come in, said Pattie Boden, owner of Animal Connection in Charlottesville, Va..

* Whale School tours are aimed at increasing interest, connection and positive action for marine mammals as ambassadors for our life - sustaining seas.

The game's design aims quite directly at establishing an emotional connection between you and your test subject.

The Game Connection Meeting Application enables games firms to book meetings at the event in advance, with the aim of condensing business development work into three days.

The Robert S. and Dorothy J. Keyser Art of the Greater West Collection at the Nevada Museum of Art aims to make connections between artistic... more»

Through projections and light on a main wall and throughout the campus, the work aims to explore connections between the individual identities of the galleries and artists at Bergamot Art Center as a unified space.

The Robert S. and Dorothy J. Keyser Art of the Greater West Collection at the Nevada Museum of Art aims to make connections between artistic practices and diverse cultures of the Greater West super-region — a geographic area that spans from Alaska to Patagonia, and from Australia to the American West.

There will also be programme of workshops and tutorials aimed at establishing the connections between East and West, local culture and modern media arts on offer throughout the duration of the event.

It aims to create a subjective dialogue between the studio as a display space and the works exhibited, which searches the relations and connections of works emerging at different times from different starting points.

This sense of connection is one of portraiture's most important aims, whether memorializing famous individuals long gone or calling to mind loved ones near at hand.

A second activity of the Challenge is the Energy Fitness Award aimed at helping students better understand basic energy issues such as the connection between energy use and energy bills.

I'll argue that if you're one of the ~ 3M persons living in the Ben Tre and Long An provinces of Vietnam situated on the Mekong Delta, unsupported claims such as Lindzen's «The evidence is that the increase in CO2 will lead to very little warming, and that the connection of this minimal warming (or even significant warming) to the purported catastrophes is also minimal» is hardly a tight argument and is ethically extremely dubious, aimed as it is at paralyzing the public policy response necessary to protect those people at risk.

When students at UCL in London escalate actions on campus highlighting the conflict between the university's research and its investments, and exposing the close connections of university council members to fossil fuel companies; when pressure from scientists, climate activists and museum employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campaign.

A substantial connection between the initial (i.e., control) simulation of sea ice and the response to greenhouse gas forcing (Holland and Bitz, 2003; Flato, 2004) further hampers «clean» experiments aimed at identifying or quantifying the role of sea ice dynamics.

As White states in her article, there are urban meet - up events aimed at tackling loneliness and making human connections, but «those groups often require a degree of social confidence and stamina that many people lack.»

Absent a causal connection, the award should be aimed at alleviating significant hardship.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

FOVE is the latest gadget inspired by virtual reality, which aims at forming a unique human connection in the VR world.

It's called Facebook Lite, and it's a stripped - down, data - friendly version of Messenger aimed at users in developing countries, who have slower phones and limited data connections.

The Roku Express and Roku Express + are aimed at the entry level with five times more powerful processing than last year's models, and in the case of the Express + the option to connection via HDMI or composite A / V ports.

Aimed at users who have older Android devices or slower internet connections, Messenger Lite first launched in emerging markets at the end of 2016.

A big name in the VPN world, PureVPN is aimed at people who want some of the fastest connections around, as well as a wealth of connection options, thanks to its 750 plus servers in more than 141 countries and giving users the option to choose which data they wish to send through a VPN and which they want to pipe through a regular ISP connection.