Sentences with phrase «as signs of hope»

Empire State Development president and CEO Howard Zemsky looked to Hood's name recognition and market presence as signs of hope.

If they should keep it in the museum I feel like it shouldn't be a «center piece» but more or less as a reminder to those who held it as a sign of hope in those days.

But children should not be feared as a threat or a burden, but rather seen as a sign of hope for the future.

A video of a Houston pastor playing his piano in his flooded home is being shared across the world as a sign of hope in the midst of darkness for the Texan city.

Actually my thought was not meant as a sign of hope.

It would be tempting to look at City's 3 - 0 loss at Anfield on Wednesday and interpret it as a sign of hope for United.

«[Graham] almost invariably read the enthusiasm of others as a yellow caution light, and he took their misery as a sign of hope.»

The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans has chosen to fly Dread Scott's flag, entitled A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday, as an acknowledgement of lives being taken in our communities, as an invitation to a public dialogue, and as a sign of hope that history can be articulated, transcended, and put in the service of education and healing.

Cites I - 732 as sign of hope, despite not passing.

ECA Best of Reconciliation: Research, theory and practice serves as a sign of hope and also a call to action — action that will turn words of recognition into practice decisions that will be known and understood now and into the future.

Not exact matches

The three months ending with March were Apple's first full quarter selling its new flagship phone, the iPhone X. Analysts had pointed to signs, including the financial results of Apple's suppliers, that the device and its sister iPhone 8 and 8 Plus had not revitalized Apple's iPhone business as the company had hoped.

My guess is that it was lack of blood to the brain, but they decided to interpret it as an emerging possibility that maybe business might be starting to show initial signs of hope.

On the other hand, if you have a coworking space in the direct vicinity of WeWork or in a relatively untapped market, their marketing efforts might do you more harm than good, as we saw last year when WeWork employees started to reach out to other workspace members in the hopes of getting them to sign a lease with WeWork.

Signs of fading growth momentum across Europe have come as bad news to equity investors hoping for a repeat of 2017's bumper returns, but many say they're not ready to throw in the towel yet on companies that are still delivering strong earnings.

LONDON Signs of fading growth momentum across Europe have come as bad news to equity investors hoping for a repeat of 2017's bumper returns, but many say they're not ready to throw in the towel yet on companies that are still delivering strong earnings.

«As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquAs they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquas one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquas strong as ever.&raquas ever.»

The Stop The Traffik Declaration: At the end of 2007 we hope to deliver millions of signed copies of the Stop The Traffik Declaration to domestic governments as well as the United Nations.

The child as a gift of God is a sign of hope, of God's continued affirmation of his creation.

«It marks not only the place I hold as the Church of England's first woman Bishop and the sign of hope that may be for those who aspire to break new ground, but also the continuing fruitful dialogue between faith and learning and our shared endeavour to be beacons of possibility.»

Footnotes suggest a scenario behind the text: an illness, an inability to make pilgrimage to the Jerusalem temple, the taunt of naysayers who treat bad health as a sign of divine disfavor, the persistent hope that the soul now cast down will once again be raised up.

In the hope of locating his father's lost asses, Saul and his servant have consulted the seer, Samuel, who has not only reassured them on the score of the animals but has also anointed Saul «to be prince over his people Israel» (10:1) As sign and token of the validity of Samuel's act Saul is informed in advance of what is to take place, and it happens precisely as Samuel has said it woulAs sign and token of the validity of Samuel's act Saul is informed in advance of what is to take place, and it happens precisely as Samuel has said it woulas Samuel has said it would:

And that, in the last analysis, is all he can really have to say to us infirm sinners: «As men in a battle can not see how it is going, so Christians have no certain signs of God's presence in their hearts, and can but look up towards their Lord and Savior, and timidly hope.»

Arkes remains a convinced incrementalist in abortion politics: he recounts the battle over partial - birth abortion (still ongoing) as a «modest first step» away from the jurisprudence of Roe; in a similar vein he has hopes that the Born - Alive Act (now signed into law) might help to revive reasoned public discourse about the true character of abortion.

Given so much, we may be justified in believing that such a venture may honestly be reckoned as a grace - full sign of hope, even in these raddled times.

Nonetheless, the bishops maintain that lovers who want to be married as Catholics are a sign of hope in a culture where marriage seems superfluous.

This singularity of vision means that we have failed to make a positive case for children as a social good, a sign of a society that is vibrant and alive, a source of joy, and a sign of hope.

The community of believers in each town, city and metropolis is the continuing presence of God in society, and as weak and faltering as that may be, it is a sign of hope in a world filled with power and greed.

The Jewish scholar here touches on a basic issue with which both Jews and Christians struggle as they seek to read the signs of the times and to approach their historical responsibility with a sense of honesty as well as hope.

Judaism and Christianity both point to the signs of God's active presence in history as the foundation of their hope.

And they speak of this sign as if it had been expected all along, but hope was delayed through all the centuries until the formation of the nation rekindled it.

I shall explore what It might mean to live as a confessing people in the context of the radical sin of low - intensity conflict and how we can faithfully respond to the present historical moment in which our participation in the structures of oppression call us to be prophetic witnesses and living signs of hope.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and deHope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and dehope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Editor: So much for doom and gloom, where do you see signs of hope for family life as you survey our Western culture?

So let me share something of what I see as the affirmations, and the signs of hope that Americans are an integral part of this struggle to manifest total humanness and to acknowledge God's ownership and care of the whole of creation of which human beings are a part.

She saw the religious artist as living in a world in which imagination had so badly eroded that signs of hope and transcendence were just barely perceivable.

In fact one has the feeling that the New Testament sees realms of society and state as both capable of being transformed by the ferment of the church, the community of Divine forgiveness and the hope of the coming Kingdom, to become foretastes and signs of ultimate human destiny, namely the Kingdom of God.

As disciples speak and live their faith and hope grounded solely in Jesus Christ, they become for others signs of hope, pointing not to the future secured by human hands, but the one intended by God.

The second sign of hope is how many young people have rallied around Adam, even as adults still feel somewhat awkward: There remains a cultural fear and lack of understanding toward special - needs children and the disabled.

If our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.

Reston expected great things from the mighty, not only muscle and heart but also some piety and nobility of spirit; and yet when they failed him, as they most often did, he did not damn them but rather foresaw signs of redemption and hope [p. 9].

Their knowledge of the life and ministry of Jesus, their experience of him as risen from the dead, and their recognition in him as 1) that hoped - for eschatological prophet (the Christ), as 2) God's own envoy, who could and does bear God's name (the Lord), and as 3) one who did and does God's saving work (the Savior)-- all contribute to the significance of that sign received first by the shepherds.

In his syndicated article, Fr Richard McBrien (Professor of Theology at Notre Dame) makes a similar point: «The lessening of interest in private devotions is more likely a sign that the Church is spiritually healthier now because its spiritual life is, as the Council hoped it would be, rooted more directly in the liturgy itself and especially inthe Eucharist» (The Tidings, Los Angeles 28 March A Matter of Health Many theologians in fact rather look forward to the withering of private devotions, as a vindication that maturity has arrived.

St John's account of the resurrection and encounter of Jesus with Mary of Magdala in the garden where Jesus calls Mary by name becomes for Vanier a sign of hope for us all, and when the disciples react with disbelief and ridicule at Mary's good news Vanier is reminded of the tensions in all human communities that can only be transformed by living in the Spirit who is sent by Jesus as a sign of his undying love for his followers.

In its Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium), the Second Vatican Council described the church as a sign and instrument of that eschatological hope.

«The communion of saints», which in one sense was understood as a sign of present glory, a realisation here and now of a share in the glory of God and his saints in «the last times», became a kind of last hope, a rescue operation.

There is, however, no sign as yet of the reform that many in this country (and elsewhere) are hoping for: as George Weigel puts it in his Los Angeles Times article, it is «the question of the appointment of bishops — and the volatile but unavoidable question of whether the church ought not devise criteria and processes for removing bishops who are manifestly incapable of leadership.

He offered his blood as the seed of liberation and a sign of hope that was soon to become a reality.

thank you, thank you, thank you for: — maintaining such a consistently wonderful blog that brings me a little joy with every new post — writing in a completely endearing way that makes you feel like a far - away friend (slightly creepy, perhaps, but true)-- coming to vancouver to speak about and sign your book, which is exactly as beautiful and chock - full of deliciousness as i could have hoped.

I (and my sons, who introduced me to your blog) have to wait until November 16th when you are in Toronto, as the cost of the tickets included a (signed, I hope) copy of your book.