Sentences with phrase «as a mandate given»

Lesslie Newbigin once observed, «One of the dangers of emphasizing the concept of mission as a mandate given to the Church is that it tempts to do what we are always tempted to do, namely to see the work of mission as a good work and to seek to justify ourselves by our works.

Not exact matches

Harper is vulnerable on the economy, which is why his campaign also is emphasizing «public safety» as another reason to give the Conservatives another mandate.

On Monday, two powerful conservative leaders in the House declared the blueprint unacceptable because it relies on giving people refundable tax credits to purchase insurance — a policy mechanism that, in a very rough sense, resembles Obamacare's subsidies to buy mandated health coverage (and is therefore being slammed by conservatives as just another entitlement program).

In a statement, the Montreal - based airline says the public may feel anxious about potential labour disruption as WestJet pilots begin voting on giving its negotiators a strike mandate.

And, given the importance of the SR&ED tax credit system as noted above, we do not believe it is realistic to think that the proposed council could succeed in meeting its leadership mandate without having responsibility for the success of SR&ED incentives, the largest element of the Government's support for business innovation.

In addition, whenever customs are viewed as divinely mandated, people who believe feel more obligated and empowered to enforce those customs not only on themselves but, if given the opportunity, on others as well.

The main thing that the British Mandate did was to give Jews the right to freely immigrate to the land area defined as Mandatory Palestine.

Since his appointment, the inspector general's report claimed that Kmiec has «devoted considerable time to writing articles for publication in the United States as well as in Malta,» given his belief that he had a «special mandate» to promote Obama's interfaith initiatives.

This Court was specifically mandated to «proceed and act and give relief on principles and rules which, in the opinion of the said Court, shall be as nearly as may be conformable to the principles and rules on which the ecclesiastical courts of Ireland have heretofore acted and given relief» [and] the [Irish] Constitution has inherited and amended this former jurisprudence in matrimonial matters.

Bonhoeffer saw the mandates as giving man freedom to live without having constantly to reflect on issues to be decided and thereby being kept in a state of indecision.

«This is the witness that the church has to give to the world, that all the other mandates are not there to divide people and tear them apart but to deal with them as whole people before God the Creator, Reconciler and Redeemer — that reality in all its manifold aspects is ultimately one in God who became human, Jesus Christ.»

The Century interpreted the results of the off - year elections of 1934 as giving Roosevelt a clear - cut mandate that said, «Go left, Mr. President, go left»; it asserted that «many features of the 1934 election suggest that a union of forces for a vigorous offensive in support of an avowedly radical program is not impossible» (November 14, 1934).

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

«As a pastor, the Word of God tells me in James that the true religion that God our Father accepts is to speak forth and to stand and to fight for the orphans and the widows,» he told CT. «And that gives me a mandate as a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.&raquAs a pastor, the Word of God tells me in James that the true religion that God our Father accepts is to speak forth and to stand and to fight for the orphans and the widows,» he told CT. «And that gives me a mandate as a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.&raquas a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.»

He understands the spiritual mandate he was given as a healer to serve as an intermediary between people and the spirit world.

... expository preaching can not be found to be a consistent example, let alone given as a mandate, in the Bible.

And if only «religious groups» are given protection, we are a long way from full, robust protection for religious conscience, which belongs to everyone who can be a moral agent: individuals, groups, churches, ministries, nonprofit - sector corporations, and for - profit corporations too (as in the case of Hobby Lobby in the HHS mandate controversy).

The Obama Administration has mandated that all health insurance plans must cover «women's health services» including contraception, sterilization, and abortion - causing medications as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act but what they don't understand is, we really don't give a fvck about women.

As you point out from the story of Eliashib, for those churches that consider the tithe an Old Testament mandate, then should not the tithe be used in the manner prescribed there, rather than for buying large properties, covering them with multiple buildings, and in the case of many megachurch pastors and associates, giving them six figure salaries that go far beyond providing for their needs?

State GMO labeling mandates would cost food and beverage manufacturers millions of dollars given the changes to food labels and supply chain systems that would have to be made as a result.

In fact with a vision-less and passion-less board as ours, Wenger as arrogant and as past it as he might is the only semblance of sanity, I don't support Wenger I believe he is currently doing a marvelous job, I support him because I can see a couple of moves ahead already, if Wenger leaves and the board stays the same, we are massively effed, Newcastle will be child's play, Kroenke's other teams are mid table contenders, he will simply look at another money making model for Arsenal, even Usamanov believes Arsene needs backing, if Usmanov came in today, he will not fire Wenger, he will seek to work with him, give him a clear mandate, back him up without pointing at the balance sheeets and if he still does not deliver, looks like a guy who would fire Wenger mid s - season, legacy or not.

But as I explained to readers here in «USDA Finalizes School Nutrition Rules: What You Need to Know,» the USDA declined to say whether promotions like McTeachers» Nights (as well as fast food coupons given as rewards, Box Tops collections and other such «indirect» advertising) constitute marketing for the purposes of that mandate.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

When images and memes circulate demeaning women who don't breastfeed or didn't breastfeed long as not having tried hard enough, being lazy, giving their child poison, being unfit mothers, and deserving of guilt for falling short of the «best is breast» mandate or «biological norm» jargon, the connections we should have are torn down, not fortified.

Given the centrality of slavery as the definitional opposite of freedom in Pettit's account of republicanism, his preference for a kind of institutional arrangement that has shown itself capable of repeatedly holding, at times against democratic majorities, that the state - mandated oppression of minorities is perfectly acceptable is odd.

Kofi Adams» explanation on how the former first lady left the NDC is borne out of the fact that President Mahama is accusing the NPP's Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo - Addo of dividing the largest opposition party and as such, he will be a bad president for the country should Ghanaians give him their mandate in the 2016 elections.

«It will once again give people the opportunity to reject the Tories» narrow, divisive agenda, as well as reinforcing the democratic mandate which already exists for giving the people of Scotland a choice on their future.

She would spuriously use a win to claim that the 37 % of votes that might be cast for Tories (even smaller than the 37 % of the total electorate that she claims as a «mandate» for Brexit) gives her a «further mandate» for this act of folly.

A new Tory leader and prime minister will be chosen in December 2018 — giving him or her six months to strut across the national stage as prime minister and then go to the country in May 2019 in order (unlike Gordon Brown) to seek their own speedy and personal mandate.

Importantly, Corbyn won across all categories of eligible voters giving him what the BBC referred to as a «rock - solid mandate».

Given Brexit talks are due to start on June 19, a weak minority government with no real mandate would undermine Britain's position in negotiations, leaving open the possibility of another election later this year, as happened in the UK in 1974.

«I have done one term in office, and part of that term was taken by court litigation; And even then we have executed our mandate satisfactorily and am certain that, Ghanaians will give me the second term to make eight years (8) as required by the constitution.»

The queen who holds an Mphil, BFA, Theatre Arts, Gender Studies, from the University of Ghana, Legon also urged those in the arts fraternity to visit the ministry's website to know the mandate they are working with as well as agencies aligned to the ministry adding the president Mahama needs to be commended for giving the arts its own ministry.

• Compel unions to renew any strike mandate with a fresh ballot within four months of the first ballot and give employers the right to hire strike - breaking agency staff as well as require a union to give the employer at least a fortnight's notice before the industrial action starts.

We have no doubt as to what he will be able to attract to our community if he gets the mandate of the people which we are prepared to give him».

«As often been repeated, the best way to pursue our objectives about governance is to run the whole hub of the mandate provided by the constitution that will give us enough time to meet all our aspirations for the people.

But as it is now, the people have come to realize that the mandate they gave to Otunba will soon be returned to him.»

Despite the fact that huge swathes of the electorate voted with Labour, believing it to be their best way to stop Brexit, the Tories were able to spin the last general election as giving a huge mandate to pro-Brexit parties.

The Mubarak regime never gave much weight to its popular, democratic mandate, deploying variations on crude Egyptian nationalism as a legitimizing vehicle as and when necessary - most recently in its World Cup altercation with Algeria and the showdown with Hamas over protecting «national sovereignty» on Egypt's Gaza border.

«Any such commission of inquiry should be given the mandate to establish the facts and circumstances surrounding the slave auction and other atrocities being perpetrated in Libya against Nigerians and other African women, men and children, and to collect and preserve evidence as well as clarify responsibility, including the potential complicity of any governments and non-state actors.»

He said, the commonwealth election observers are given a mandate to observe and consider factors affecting the credibility of the electoral process as a whole.

The statement said even though Okorocha did not explain how the APC intended to reclaim the two states, the PDP Chairman warned him and his party «to steer clear of Rivers State as the people were prepared to resist any unlawful means to snatch the mandate given to Governor Wike.»

«The ratings give voters a scorecard on how their individual legislator voted and how many times they force local governments — reeling from unfunded mandates — to raise taxes or nanny state proposals that interfere in how we choose to live our lives... As long as voters continue to hold Legislators responsible, we believe New York will become a business friendly place that people no longer have to flee in order to save on taxes.&raquAs long as voters continue to hold Legislators responsible, we believe New York will become a business friendly place that people no longer have to flee in order to save on taxes.&raquas voters continue to hold Legislators responsible, we believe New York will become a business friendly place that people no longer have to flee in order to save on taxes.»

«While we were trying to come up with the necessary procedures, Governor Ambode kept telling us to hurry up to start disbursing the loans to residents which signified his good intention and he has also given us the mandate to make the disbursement a monthly affair to make the fund get to as many residents as possible,» Omoigui - Okauru said.

the authority to carry out a policy, regarded as given by the electorate to a party or candidate that wins an election: he called an election to seek a mandate for his policies

«He was in the vanguard, as a chieftain of the OPC, in the confrontation with the military, during the June 12 struggle, to reclaim the mandate given to our son, Chief Abiola, which earned him series of detentions by the authorities.»

That would give them individually, and the body as a whole, a democratic mandate.

But while addressing chiefs and members of the Ga Traditional Council as well as NC supporters at the Ga Mantse Palace in Kaneshie today [Thursday], President Mahama said he is hopeful Ghanaians would give him a second term mandate on December 7.

In carrying out its function under the law, the Electoral Commission can not employ non-statutory remedies, as the law does not give it that mandate.

(WP)-RRB- ******************* Very likely!If, as expected, the Supremes» right - wing bloc, with possibly Kennedy joining, stike down the mandate, the Obamacare, ACA, will collapse.The mandate was a sop to the private insurance giants, in return for their lukewarm support for the ACA.The mandate would have given the private insurers up to 20 - 30 million new customers, with a large percentage subsidized by the feds.