Sentences with phrase «as little communities»

I have wondered as little communities like mine lose their small independent bookstores and have no big box booksellers if the libraries will pick up the slack and start holding author signings.

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In the snowboarding community, the news was greeted with no little joy, especially after Burton Carpenter himself announced he was taking over again as CEO.

What began as a passion project (my little engine that could) evolved into an amazing community of inspiration, support, fun and frivolity.

From simple soap making to furniture making, with just a little work you can have a steady supply of homemade items to sell on sites such as eBay, Craigslist, or at a community sale.

While Schnatter has discussed his uniquely homespun hiring process before as well as his employee management strategy, this latest act should serve as a heartrending example of how great leaders, with a little empathy, can transform their companies into communities.

«We see ourselves at Facebook as a community and culture of builders, so we like to see how people are thinking about things a little bit differently.»

The guiding principles are that the Community Standards should reflect the cultural norms of our community, that each person should see as little objectionable content as possible, and each person should be able to share what they want while being told they can not share something as little as Community Standards should reflect the cultural norms of our community, that each person should see as little objectionable content as possible, and each person should be able to share what they want while being told they can not share something as little as community, that each person should see as little objectionable content as possible, and each person should be able to share what they want while being told they can not share something as little as possible.

When social media first started its ascension into our hearts and minds, as a business community, we were quick to latch on, even though there was little way to relate activity performed on social to sales made offline.

She found little evidence to support the idea that owners participate in civic and community activities any more than renters, and after controlling for factors such as income, housing quality and health, she concluded that owners were no happier.

Environmentalists celebrated the anniversary this weekend, but the mayor of one of the communities hardest hit by the eventual decision to reverse clear - cut logging in the sound and preserve it as a UNESCO biosphere, says his community has little to cheer.

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«Exposure like this opportunity to present in New Orleans, in many ways, puts Little Rock — and Central Arkansas — on the map as a city and a community working toward creating a more inclusive, diverse and equitable startup environment.

So, as a small business owner, the substantive relationship you have with your local banker, or the social capital you've built within your community over years, if not decades — which propels enormous goodwill, customer loyalty, and economic value — means little, if anything, to regulators.

Largely I would echo what Christine has already said about the way in which we feel accepted within our community, but if you'll bear with me for a little bit, I'd like to attempt to explain to Trey in particular what I see as the difference between this type of acceptance and the attitude of the many Christians who view homosexuality as sinful such as what you have encountered with your sister.

We ask too much of the Constitution, and too little of ourselves, when we view it as the wellspring from which to draw comprehensive notions of public virtue or when we project onto it our aspirations as a national community.

It has little to say about most of the matters that should be important to us as individuals and as a community.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

Such churches provide a little bit of warm fellowship, but community is where people, as Paul writes so graphically in the book of Galatians, «bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ» (6:2 KJV).

Too little — in that we can so seldom discover in the family anything more than an arena for our personal fulfillment, in that we fail to see it as a community that ought to transmit a way of life.

As a former community organizer, he knows that you need a little empathy all around to get anything done among people with different world views.

I would go as far to say that the church communities I have known have been, mostly, at least a little better than life in the non-church world.

After that came ten years labouring as a parish priest of Prouille, a period of little success in gaining converts from Catharism, although he founded a small community of nuns who wanted to remain Catholic while living a life of comparable simplicity as they would have had as Cathars.

European Community leaders leave little doubt as to the importance of the communications revolution on an economic and social level.

As it turns out, very little of the 51 % of the church budget for «missions» goes toward serving the poor and helping the needy in the community.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

which of course, her being a little old late 80 - something with white hair, resulted in my adopting her as a surrogate grandmother... this community got me through two of the roughest years of my life, when I was trying like hell to get SSDI.

There's very little to no outrage from the scientific community about who is or isn't the master of the universe, as many grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons and they all know that refers to He - Man and his God's that give him «The Power!!»

Too often the church has taken a stance of concern for the world, but has understood itself as a delivered community having little ultimate stake in the fate of the world.

These three little clusters are so close to each other in meaning that the Matthean community put them all together, perhaps at a very early date, into what we know as the Sermon on the Mount.

Whereas primitive and archaic cultures required little specialization of functions and little work beyond that required to provide food, clothing, and shelter, civilization required a high degree of specialization and a great amount of disciplined labor directed to providing wealth for the community as a whole and for a small class within it.

The evidence of the Rabbinical literature, which is mostly of late date and uniformly hostile to Christianity, adds little of historical worth, but confirms that Jews who became Christians formed a community to some extent separate from other Jews, and by the end of the first century at least were regarded as heretics.

True, there are not yet concentration camps, but the civil liberties community (as they like to call themselves) has given little indication to date that it would put up much resistance to the idea.

I met a woman who, as a little girl, watched a cross burn in her front yard and endured teachers at her new school shouting racial slurs at her because the community around her was angry about integration.

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

To say that all religious communities recognize the right of people not to be tortured, or that all religious communities support the self - determination of indigenous peoples is not very exciting: even if these claims are true (and I suspect that they are not), they bear little relation to any claim that a faithful member of any religious community would recognize as his own.

We may notice even in our own setting that when there is little on the visible horizon threatening us either as individuals or as a community, we live largely for what we are doing at the moment.

How far he can move in these directions, as in exploiting others to one's own gain, driving a shrewd deal or pursuing an advantage, stretching the truth, «having a little affair,» or drinking in moderation, depends for most persons less on the will of God or the revelation of God in Jesus Christ than on what is and what is not done in one's community.

As an Atheist my uncle doesn't object to God and religion because even though he doesn't believe, he feels it makes life a little safer in his community, rationalizing that some may be diverted from crime based on their fear of God.

The website for the project, known as the Park51 Community Center, said that the «new images display an updated exterior and provide a first look into Park51's interior and lend some insight on how we're envisioning the project,» in a post that went up Tuesday but that initially drew little notice.

Because of traditional Christian attitudes toward homosexuality as inherently sinful, there has been little help for the LGBT movement from the black community.

To develop this sense of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now, life can become meaningful; for in the little cells of Christian faith and love which are our parishes as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing world.

It is astonishing that the Christian community has paid so little attention to work as a religious issue.

As a transcript of a living community tradition, the Gospel of Mark relies not only upon the early passion narrative and the oral records of Jesus» life and teachings, some of which may already have been gathered into little collections, sequences, groups of sayings; it relies also upon the apostolic experience which supplemented and interpreted those traditions.

In light of the underground community of abuse and depravity that exists in the priesthood, I see this condemnation as little more than the excessive whinings of the proverbial kid caught with his own hand in the cookie jar.

Although scholars and professional theologians might be condescending toward it, and look to Germany for intellectual guidance, for the American Christian community as a whole, the «theology» imported by scholars was of little more than academic interest.

Capital and community, we thought, could keep two separate sets of books and still be all right so long as each set looked a little more affluent year after year.

The present is all that you have; and unless in this present you can find general principles which interpret the present as including a representation of the whole community of existents, you can not move a step beyond your little patch of immediacy.

At such a gathering as the World Conference on Church, Community and State — the title currently used almost to the exclusion of «Life and Work» - in such a place as Oxford, it requires a little time for the mid-American participant, even if he is not unfamiliar with the scene, to adjust his mind to the serious and urgent issues of the conference.

As we saw in Chapter 3, H. Richard Niebuhr has emphasized that the Christian's primary knowledge of revelation is given not through objective reporting but through participation in a community's internal memory of saving events that to outsiders may have little narrative significance.