Sentences with phrase «as a sanctuary from»

In the churches we have almost palpably shied away from any such venture; indeed, we have offered the church as sanctuary from the cold winds of late 20th Century despair and the loss of purpose that informs nearly every creative work of art and parades itself visibly in the arena of politics.

QUIET CABIN If you see a car as a sanctuary from the harried outside world, you'll enjoy the new Envision.

Her vision for Kubu, meaning «home away from home» was to create each villa as a sanctuary from the daily grind, to holiday without a care in the world.

Not exact matches

I stood in the small hallway just outside of the sanctuary, nervously jogging from foot to foot as I strained to see through the crack between the doors into the church.

As we think of the women and children in these pictures, and all the ways in which this water will nourish and cool and cook and clean in their community, two prayers from Jan Richardson (In the Sanctuary of Women) come to mind.

As Schama notes, Rembrandt's move from Leiden to Amsterdam took him from a bastion of Reformed conservatism to a polyglot capital in which the Remonstrants dominated politics and mercantile pragmatism made it sensible to tolerate anyone who offered a good deal, whether Mennonite, Jew, millenarian or Calvinist — anyone, that is, except Roman Catholics, who were required to practice their faith in clandestine sanctuaries disguised within private homes.

In 1995 he purchased the Los Angeles International Airport when LAX moved to its current home on landfill five miles off the coast (downwind from the 2,000 - foot smog fans) One year later, faith projections were seeing reality in the present 52,000 - seat sanctuary known colloquially as «the Dudedome.»

Obviously the intent of the sermon is close to the intent of the text: to create a living image that can be carried from the sanctuary as a source of power for living and as a lens through which to interpret the world.

Also, the ruling board of Faith Church is presently studying a recommendation from a dozen members that the congregation serve as a sanctuary for political refugees from Central America.

And as a young pastor in Rockford, Illinois, I found that an American flag simply could not be removed from the sanctuary without splitting the church.

Some of us took the return of the tabernacle from remote corners of the Church to the center of the sanctuary as a physical sign that things in the Church had bonded to the right axis.

If a person has inappropriate urges (by that I don't mean gay, this is Pedophilia folks) they could see the church and it's celibacy rules as a kind of sanctuary where they may feel they can hide from their problem & hope God cures them.

Progressives clearly realize that parents are using religious schools as a sanctuary, hoping to shield their children from the materialistic culture and anti-traditional social agenda that have overwhelmed the public schools.

Following his address, as the military band played, a parade of flags borne by uniformed groups moved along the aisles and a huge American flag was raised from its folded position to stretch completely from the floor to the ceiling of that high sanctuary.

In ancient Israel - as is still true to a considerable extent in Judaism - women played no role in the cultic festivals, save that they were in no sense excluded from accompanying the male members of the family to the sanctuary and supporting the cultic ceremony with their presence (see I Sam.

But then again H. Maynard Smith warns that we are in danger today of passing from a sentimental view of the Middle Ages seen from a sanctuary where the sun irradiates the stained - glass windows, to a realistic view of the Middle Ages as seen from a gutter on a gloomy day.

Stone from the property has been cleverly used in features such as arches, walls, stone BBQ and pizza oven, a stone multipurpose workshop, and a beautiful round stone meditation sanctuary.

At Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, we offer a multitude of fun and educational nature - based programs for students from Preschool to High School, as well as College and Community groups.

O'Neill, Larson and McKenna claim that the Park District is in a state of financial crisis and that a rash of resignations from key employees, such as Bill McCollum, longtime park director, and John Platt, manager of the Sanctuary Golf Course, is damaging the district and hurting the community.

When it debuts next spring, the 3,700 square foot building will serve as the hub from which all of the wildlife sanctuary's environmental education flows.

As New England temperatures drop, the turtles wash up, cold - stunned and helpless, on bay beaches — where volunteers and staff from Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary are watching and waiting.

We're surrounded by forest on two sides and live across the street from a lake that serves as a bird sanctuary.

While railing against California for its so - called sanctuary immigration policies, Trump referred to some people who cross the border illegally as «animals» — drawing a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders for the harsh rhetoric.

Cuomo, who has spoken out strongly for immigrants and against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim - majority countries, is not committing right now to support a bill to designate New York as a sanctuary state for immigrants.

Despite New York City's status as a sanctuary city, federal agents can not be banned from public buildings and continue to make arrests despite outcry from local elected officials.

Mayor Bill de Blasio repeated his promises to preserve New York City's status as a haven for undocumented immigrants in the face of an imminent executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at punishing so - called «sanctuary cities» that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts.

The Justice Department is following through on an executive order to withhold as much as $ 4.1 billion in federal grants from so - called «sanctuary cities,» generally defined as places where local law enforcement limit their cooperation with federal authorities on immigration enforcement.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump said he would «cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities,» roll back President Barack Obama's executive actions shielding undocumented foreign nationals who arrived as children, deport what he claims are «more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country» and get eliminate of visas to foreign countries that will not take them back.

And as Operation Sophia tried to rescue those from the seas around Europe as too many desperate people are drowning in pursuit of sanctuary.

Massey has not argued against New York's sanctuary city status, stating that it should remain as it is, and has opposed President Trump's travel ban on immigration from certain Muslim - majority nations.

He has vowed to take legal action to protect the city's status as a so - called «sanctuary city» for undocumented immigrants and Trump's executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries.

As Jonathan Jacobson, a committeeman from Orange County explained, «In the city of Newburgh, when the City Council passed a similar resolution they used the term «welcoming city» — to avoid the problems of calling it a sanctuary city and the targeting of the Trump administration.»

Sarah Teather MP, a prominent Liberal Democrat and former minister, said schemes such as this one «completely undermine any sense that the system will give a fair hearing to those who come here seeking sanctuary from war and persecution».

As of press time, it's unclear whether the immigration law will make Westchester a sanctuary county, as an 2017 executive order from President Donald Trump does not indicate what makes a municipality a «sanctuary» for illegal immigrantAs of press time, it's unclear whether the immigration law will make Westchester a sanctuary county, as an 2017 executive order from President Donald Trump does not indicate what makes a municipality a «sanctuary» for illegal immigrantas an 2017 executive order from President Donald Trump does not indicate what makes a municipality a «sanctuary» for illegal immigrants.

But it also comes as the city is threatened with massive cuts from the Trump Administration, which has suggested chopping Housing and Urban Development grants and threatened to yank law enforcement funding grants due to New York's sanctuary city status.

Legislature Minority Leader Hector Rodriguez, the primary sponsor of the resolution, declined to characterize the measure as creating a sanctuary county, but the proposal — which Rodriguez said was crafted largely from a policy adopted by Tompkins County — mirrors the language offered by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a report outlining model sanctuary provisions.

Governor Cuomo, who has spoken out strongly for immigrants and against President Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim majority countries, is not committing right now to support a bill to designate New York as a sanctuary state for immigrants.

Thus, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions took direct aim at «sanctuary cities» this past Mon., Mar. 27th, just as dozens of representatives from such municipalities gathered in New York City to discuss methods to protect immigrant populations.

The term sanctuary became the catch phrase of the day last year, as the federal government sought to withhold funds from municipalities it deemed sanctuaries.

Workers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be allowed to capture and relocate the turkeys from the hospital grounds to the And - Hof Animal Sanctuary in Catskill as part of efforts to get the birds out of the borough.

«We're only 12 days in, got a long way but I think the position of Governor Cuomo, his articulated position — and Mayor de Blasio and the City Council — of looking at New York as a sanctuary city, sanctuary state and saying openly and almost defiantly that we're not going to, as a city, back away from the New York standard,» «Abdur - Rashid said.

From there, the animals — which were the subjects of a 2 - year legal battle over their «personhood» — were supposed to go to Save the Chimps, a Fort Pierce, Florida — based nonprofit that bills itself as the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary, says Molly Polidoroff, Save the Chimps» executive director.

The authors said the findings may suggest that while the Ebola virus is rapidly cleared from most bodily fluids after resolution of the acute disease, it might persist in «immunologically privileged sanctuary sites» — certain bodily fluids such as semen and the vitreous humour fluid of the eyeballs.

Using the University of Miami's Research Vessel F.G. Walton Smith as a platform for daily dives with the NOAA Marine Sanctuaries Foundation's Mohawk ROV, scientists from the U.S. and Cuba specializing in corals, sponges, algae and fish logged thousands of dive notes, underwater photos and video, documenting the geomorphology, biological zonation and diversity of marine organisms.

In the field season 2014, the 60 - strong excavation team uncovered finds from all periods of the 2,000 - year history of the cult site, such as the thick enclosing wall of the first Iron Age sanctuary or the foundations of the main Roman temple of the god Jupiter Dolichenus, who became one of the most important deities of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century A.D.. His sanctuary is situated close to the town of Gaziantep on the 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) high mountain of Dülük Baba Tepesi.

NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves as the trustee for a network of underwater parks encompassing more than 600,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters from Washington state to the Florida Keys, and from Lake Huron to American Samoa.

Postmortem tissue is donated from National Primate Research Centers and Sanctuaries, as well as zoos.

Try to get to bed and wake up at approximately the same time every day; avoid large meals and physical activity such as dancing within a few hours of bedtime; and make your bedroom a sleep sanctuary, free from TV or other distractions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Our calming and restorative atmosphere serves as a sanctuary for our clients and a much needed escape from life's daily stresses.

Many of us imagine the womb as a quiet sanctuary where baby is isolated from the outside world.