Sentences with phrase «among poor people»

The research, «What's (Not) Wrong With Low - Income Marriages» by Thomas E. Trail and Benjamin R. Karney of the University of California at Los Angeles, suggests that government efforts to strengthen marriage among poor people should move beyond promoting marriage and concentrate on the actual problems that low - income couples face, such as money problems, drinking and drug use.

Wood stoves are most popular (obviously) in colder climates and (not so obviously) among poor people.

Although many commentators do note factors such as the price of gym membership, much of the blame for higher levels of obesity among poor people is placed on dietary choices.

And I feel — coming from a poor family myself — that I prefer to be among poor people.

They have found it doesn't align with annual tax - filer data, with «wonky» results in many areas — in particular showing rising incomes among poor people and falling ones among the rich.

Either way, the researchers recognize that individuals» happiness / well - being is greater when they have more money, especially among poorer people.

It is hard to imagine in our present neoliberal order, but it is a fact that the poorest among the poorest people participated in building a new Chile on a level most left - wingers never dared to dream of.

Migration is considered, among the poorest people of the American continent, the solution to their complex life problems; however, it only makes it worse.

In many cases farmers in the region — among the poorest people in the world — are abandoning their lands and migrating to already overcrowded cities.

Not exact matches

According to an article in People's Daily, there is indeed scope for rapid catch up among the poorest provinces:

Now as far as power goes: I take it you are aware sir, of recent increases in power usage and associated blackouts not only making the U.S. appear as inept as various two banana republics but also costing some people, usually the poorest among us or the elderly, their lives.

This led to a big split among those that latched on to the words that having faith in Jesus is what is needed to get to heaven vs words that say things like how it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven or help the poor.

(2) Put in place institutions that support economic activism and solidarity among all human persons, the rich, the middle - class, and the poor.

In that sense, the church institution may still succeed if they change their emphasis from attendance and building projects, being «in the spot light» and hating other people's «sins», and avoidance of the locally wounded, downtown poor, the widows among us, the children of single mothers, and so forth.

The people being helped see how those who are helping are just like them, couponing, struggling, being frugal; the people don't know who is being helped (churches don't reveal that information to their congregations), but do gain respect for the working poor who live, work, and worship among them.

Truly, this is what people keep implying, in saying we MUST have legal abortion, if only for the «poor among us.»

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

The guerrilla activities in turn led to the creation of Colombia's most deadly force today: the paramilitaries, made up of mercenaries easily recruited with a bit of pay, a uniform and a gun from among Colombia's desperately poor young people.

But since the rich powers and their academia and media condition the cultural framework of thinking on such issues, the just interests of the poor are not taken into account in the discussion of the rich as at the summit conferences of the G 8, but is not highlighted even in the discourse among the governments of the poor peoples as in the Non - Aligned Movement.

They are not highlighted even in the discourse among the governments of the poor peoples as in the Non-Aligned Movement.

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

It is important to recognize that Jesus was physically poor (cf. 2 Cor 8:9), because this means that when He «proclaimed the gospel» to the poor, He was ministering among His own people.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

Creation care is a growing concern among evangelicals, though they are also concerned that some of the decisions of environmentalists hurt poor people.

Some people's prejudice is that this religious sense is only generally present among the poor.

And where the volunteer efforts that are favored should be located is suggested by the fact that so many people — especially among those who have thought more about their responsibility to the poor — believe active involvement in churches would be a good way to help the needy.

This shift is evident in a variety of recent publications, among them James Poling's The Abuse of Power, Pamela Couture's Blessed Are the Poor and Larry Graham's Care of Persons, Care of World.

Chair of the scheme and Bishop of Burnley, Rt Rev Philip North told Premier: «The chance to give a year for Christ, exploring where he might be calling them and doing that in the context of service - often among some of our poorest communities - is an attractive one to young people.»

Jesus cites John the Baptist and his ragamuffin coalition of tax collectors and prostitutes, the poor and the uneducated, leprosy patients, foreigners, women and slaves — not exactly a prestigious endorsement, but a popular one among the people.

There is a long experience in the Church of voluntary poverty, people who in obedience to their Christian calling cast aside all their belongings, make their own the fate of the poor of the earth, becoming one of them and living among them.

Peoples poor decisions based on fantasy may cause short term consternation among the more logically inclined but what is, will always be what really is.

We give witness that the Church's teachings — on the dignity of the human person and the value of human life from conception to natural death; on the meaning of human sexuality, the significance of sexual difference and the complementarity of men and women; on openness to life and the gift of motherhood; and on marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman — provide a sure guide to the Christian life, promote women's flourishing, and serve to protect the poor and most vulnerable among us.

Its teachings are very, very simple: There really are free and natural markets where the optimum value of things is assigned to them; everyone must compete with everyone; the worthy will prosper and the unworthy fail; those who succeed while others fail will be made deeply and justly happy by this experience, having had no other object in life; each of us is poorer for every cent that is used toward the wealth of all of us; governments are instituted among people chiefly to interfere with the working out of these splendid principles.

She also supervised the sending of large numbers of parcels to poor families, initiating a massive work of charity - today Foyer members send parcels to, among others, people in prison, with gifts of chocolate, soap, Bibles, rosaries, and religious literature.

We were reminded of this again day before yesterday by a most interesting person we found among the poorest of the poor, a messenger..

She told me she knew, no matter where I went, among the poor I would always find a place, I would always be accepted because of how I loved and how I accepted people like they are and didn't expect change.

I too may judge her when I have made... «my home among the poor, and not only the poor, but the poorest of them: the people no one will go near because they are filthy and suffering from contagious diseases, full of germs and vermin infested; the people who can't go to church because they can't go out naked; the people who can no longer eat because they haven't the strength; the people who lie down in the street, knowing they are going to die, while others look away and pass them by.»

The regulations in the shari`a concerning the categories of people among whom the zakat should be distributed are, however, only applied to the collectors of zakat, and to the poor and destitute, among whom are also included religious teachers because their activity is not considered to be a means of living.

Among those values is this one: «Reverence for the sacredness of human life and for the uniqueness of each person, especially those who are poorest and / or weakest.

We don't find him in churches, but among people, especially among the poor, the homeless, the outcast and sometimes even among the rich.

I don't care what my progressive friends say; there's little doubt in my mind that if Jesus lived among us today, he'd be hanging out at Wal Mart, not to endorse the company's business practices, but to love on the people — the poor, the sick, the whackos, the mulleted, the morbidly obese, the sluts, the drunks, the perverts, the lost, the lonely, the bent over, the motherless, and the tragically disconnected.

Second, as anyone who has lived among the poor for any length of time knows, the dominant ideology has also impressed itself on the consciousness of poor people.

The church has always been much more concerned about what people do with their own body parts in their own bedrooms than the poor, the suffering, and the dying among us.

As stated in the article, CHD is, perhaps inadvertently, presented to the Catholic people as supporting the Church's ministry among the poor.

The LEAP programme is cash transfer being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), aimed at reducing poverty by increasing consumption and promoting access to services and opportunities among the extreme poor and vulnerable households, elderly persons 65 years and above without any support and severely disabled persons without any productive capacity and recently, the extremely poor pregnant women and children under 2 years old.

The vast bulk of public attitude research in this field shows exactly that: people want an open field of providers who are allowed to deliver services, and this view is especially strong among the poorest, the very people most often denied decent care.

The President of the Muslim Students» Society of Nigeria in Lagos, Dr. Saheed Ashafa, said the widespread writing of open letters was as a result of the poor condition of the people, among other issues.

Her job performance is split among people we polled, with 48 percent of voters saying she's done an excellent or good job, while 49 percent say she's done a fair or poor job.

The federal government has repeatedly ranked the state's welfare - to - work programs as among the worst in the U.S. in helping to move poor people into jobs.