Sentences with phrase «as civic institutions»

Some of Britain's town halls include astonishing designs and artworks which befits their status as the civic institutions at the heart of some the world's largest industrial cities.

Building on the Catholic emphasis on the importance of free marital consent, Luther and Calvin developed further the covenantal understanding of marital commitment, elevated the status of women, emphasized the freedom of young adults to choose their partners, helped make marriage more compassionate and established marriage as a civic institution regulated by secular law yet also blessed and given meaning by the church.

To some Hoosiers, worries about school funding and student achievement are secondary to questions about the effect that vouchers might have on public education's role as a civic institution.

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Zuckerberg said that Facebook could move far beyond its roots as a network for friends and families to communicate, suggesting that it can play a role in five areas, all of which he referred to as «communities,» ranging from strengthening traditional institutions, to providing help during and after crises, to boosting civic engagement.

In 2017, we need to restore stability and trustworthiness to marriage, social institutions such as universities, and civic life more broadly.

«The institutions of men are, by analogy, the sacramentalisation of society in the natural relations of men one to another, and thus even the civic institutions of men, to be totally focused, must embody something of this underlying relationship to God as the source of human truth and the dynamism of natural human happiness.»

Both Kavanagh and Jesuit theologian John Baldovin have shown how early Christian worship was a highly civic affair, just as the Church itself was from the beginning a public, urban institution.

«Thus even the civic institutions of men, to be totally focussed, must embody something of this underlying relationship to God as the source of human truth and the dynamism of natural human happiness.»

As such, the institution of marriage is a foundation of a just political order and the nursery of civic virtue, as spouses exercise mutual responsibility for raising their childreAs such, the institution of marriage is a foundation of a just political order and the nursery of civic virtue, as spouses exercise mutual responsibility for raising their childreas spouses exercise mutual responsibility for raising their children.

Indeed, given the heterogeneity of American higher education, its civic purposes must be understood as requiring different responses from differently situated institutions.

Schools are also, by design, the institutions best equipped to teach civic and political knowledge and skills such as critical thinking and deliberation.

The challenge for our diverse, pluralistic and democratic society — a challenge that, as ever, falls most heavily on schools, the civic institutions with the broadest reach in American life — is to blunt the sense that we are, in fact, coming apart.

She's a vocal tweeter not just about education, but also public institutions and civic life as a whole.

They are looking at Catholic schools not only as educational institutions but as civic or community institutions.»

The Trenton STEM - to - Civics charter is especially intriguing, as the school plans to have partnerships with institutions as varied as the Liberty Science Center and Princeton University.

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

Charter schools have become a central feature of the school «choice» movement, itself a key part of corporate school reform, which seeks to operate public schools as if they were businesses rather than civic institutions.

Join over 200 world - renowned art and cultural influencers from more than 20 countries, including museum directors, gallerists, curators, auction houses, collectors, entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, lawyers, artists, architects, designers, urban planners, government officials and tourism organizations, as well as corporate and civic leaders at Art for Tomorrow.

Partners for Sacred Places, founded in 1989, works to build the civic value of historic sacred places and the capacity of congregations to better serve their communities as anchor institutions, helping to shape vibrant, creative communities.

The «useful museum» is a civic institution that promotes art as a tool for social change and is created by the sum of the actions of its users.

After its leery, 1990s adolescence as a rhinestone in New Labour's crown of «Cool Britannia», the Turner Prize has matured into a respected institution and intermittent mobile vehicle for arts based civic regeneration.

The project is a study of the plans of the cities Rome, Berlin, and New York in order to propose a 21st - century civic institution and define its site with significance in regard to Freud's definition of the city as a psychic entity.

A core value of Aurora continues to be partnership and collaboration with other arts institutions like the Menil Collection, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as well as dozens of nonprofits, civic groups, and citywide businesses.

As seen at Trafalgar Place and Newport Street Gallery, they can breathe life and kick - start regeneration in neglected urban pockets to create new, desirable destinations and communities; as with Blavatnik School of Government, Weston Library and City of Glasgow College, they can give cities and institutions a new landmark to delight and draw in visitors, improve education potential, and increase civic pridAs seen at Trafalgar Place and Newport Street Gallery, they can breathe life and kick - start regeneration in neglected urban pockets to create new, desirable destinations and communities; as with Blavatnik School of Government, Weston Library and City of Glasgow College, they can give cities and institutions a new landmark to delight and draw in visitors, improve education potential, and increase civic pridas with Blavatnik School of Government, Weston Library and City of Glasgow College, they can give cities and institutions a new landmark to delight and draw in visitors, improve education potential, and increase civic pride.

Nawi's work as a curator emerges from a commitment to institution building as both a creative and civic undertaking.

HARTFORD — Much of the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford's great civic museum, is closed for renovations this summer as the institution prepares for its grand reopening in September after a major refurbishment.

Participants, from 30 countries, included museum directors, gallery owners, curators, auction houses, collectors, entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, lawyers, artists, architects, urban planners and government officials, as well as corporate and civic leaders.

In contrast to individuals serving as advocates, national science organizations, universities, and other expert institutions have a duty instead to avoid partisan advocacy and to sponsor efforts at civic education and public engagement.

(1) an interest in the individual holdings within a mutual or common investment fund; (2) an interest in securities held by an educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, or civic organization in which the judge or the judge's spouse, domestic partner, parent, or child serves as a director, an officer, an advisor, or other participant; (3) a deposit in a financial institution or deposits or proprietary interests the judge may maintain as a member of a mutual savings association or credit union, or similar proprietary interests; or (4) an interest in the issuer of government securities held by the judge.

Considering the incestuous relationship between China's government and its civic institutions, many investors are treating the report as an official statement.