Sentences with phrase «as social centers»

Offices are physically smaller and no longer function as the social centers and training hubs that they once were — at least not to the same extent.

Saunas are actually a huge part of Finnish culture, serving as social centers and places to conduct business.

Originally opened in 1930, Hotel Settles has been restored to reclaim its place as the social center of West Texas.

But the mall as a social center where you could escape parental oversight and meet other kids isn't what it was.

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The center - left Social Democratic Party came off particularly badly in the scandal, with senior officials exposed as feasting at the trough.

Social networking service Facebook, for example, made health and wellness options as accessible as snacks and offers a wellness center with primary, urgent, and online care, as well as physical therapy, chiropractor and acupuncture services.

Stanford's Career Management Center found that there wasn't as nearly «as much aggregation in technology - Internet - social media as you might otherwise expect,» says Sanghvi.

Recent surveys of U.S. social media usage, such as the Pew Center's, find that Twitter is only used by 17 % of the U.S. population, and at BI Intelligence we've published data showing that Google + has overtaken Twitter in U.S. audience numbers.

After stepping down from the NAACP in 2013, Jealous took a job as a partner with Kapor Capital, the seed investment arm of the Kapor Center for Social Impact.

The center itself has been active within Cambridge University since 2005, conducting research, teaching and product development in pure and applied psychological assessment — and claiming to have seen «significant growth in the past twelve years as a consequence of the explosion of activity in online communication and social networks».

The explosive social media controversy that ensued over the Giuliani interviews centered on the fact that on April 5 the President had stated flatly «no» when asked if he was aware of the $ 130,000 payment that Michael Cohen had made to porn star Stormy Daniels as hush money over her allegations that she and Trump had had a sexual relationship.

According to the Pew Research Center's Teens, Social Media & Technology Survey: «Facebook remains the most used social media site among American teens ages 13 to 17 with 71 % of all teens using the site, even as half of teens use Instagram and four - in - ten use Snapchat.&Social Media & Technology Survey: «Facebook remains the most used social media site among American teens ages 13 to 17 with 71 % of all teens using the site, even as half of teens use Instagram and four - in - ten use Snapchat.&social media site among American teens ages 13 to 17 with 71 % of all teens using the site, even as half of teens use Instagram and four - in - ten use Snapchat.»

Launched in 2014, this business quickly positioned itself as the leading subscription e-commerce player in the niche, with a brand centered on high quality design, great user experience and large social outreach.

So I was part of the Center of Excellence team and our focus was around how could we drive social media strategically into the business, as effective tool across HR, Sales, Product groups etc..

Baby boomers most often cited Social Security as their expected primary source of retirement income (35 percent), according to a 2015 report from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, whereas Gen Xers and millennials expected retirement accounts like 401ks or IRAs to be their main source of retirement income.

Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he depicted the central theme of American politics as the struggle for power between the business community and all other social groups.

As part of its new international outreach, the cathedral has opened the Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation, which describes itself as focusing on poverty, social justice and peacemaking initiatives around the globAs part of its new international outreach, the cathedral has opened the Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation, which describes itself as focusing on poverty, social justice and peacemaking initiatives around the globas focusing on poverty, social justice and peacemaking initiatives around the globe.

Play has a social aspect as well, its delight finding its center not in the player but in that with which he plays.

Unlike the rescue mission which is usually an isolated entity, the Skid Row corps and the Social Service Center of the «Sally» (as the organization is known on Skid Row) are a part of a network of installations and services, the therapeutic resources of which are all available for helping alcoholics.

Moreover, the school as an institutionalized set of practices is itself a center of (usually very minor) economic, social, and political power in a larger host society.

The American Coptic community is close - knit: The tradition's churches tend to be social hubs as well as religious centers.

-- No funds from this center will go to the «social charities» of organizations like the Hamas and Taliban since that is used as a front for laundering monies that support terror.

Allow this center in a man to remain dulled by the crowd; allow it to continue dissipated by busyness; permit it to go on evading its function by a round of distractions, or to lull itself by a carefully chosen rotation of pleasures; abandon it to its attempt to drug, to narcotize suffering and remorse which might reveal to it its true condition; let it wither away the sense of its own validity by false theories of man's nature, of his place in the social pattern, of his way of salvation; in short, allow any of these well - known forms of domestication of man's responsible core as an individual, to continue unchallenged, and you as a thinker and a friend of men have committed the supreme treason!

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

John XXIII first broke ground with the encyclical Pacem in Terris (1963), which put human rights at the center of Catholic social teaching as the necessary condition for human dignity.

Social scientific interest in the «religion factor» has increased greatly in the last quarter century, and we have assiduous monitoring by such as George Gallup and his Princeton Religion Research Center.

As such a center works its way into the lives and needs of disadvantaged peoples, however, more and more expert persons are brought into the picture in some capacity — health center personnel, social agency workers, persons who can find jobs, vocational training teachers, and many others.

In proportion as the spiritual element recovers its natural position at the center of our culture, it will necessarily become the mainspring of our whole social activity.

For many years, the black church was the hub for teaching, training, employment opportunities as well as acting as a community and social justice center.

While debate over the understanding of Biblical interpretation lies at the heart of current evangelical discussions concerning women, differences in theological tradition lie at the center of discussions over social ethics, and disagreement over one's approach toward the wider secular culture is surfacing as the focus of controversy regarding homosexuality.

«65» In the paragraphs which follow, it becomes clear that behind Wallis's question is his belief that traditional evangelical thought has failed to deal with our fundamental human nature as social beings, choosing instead to center on the solitary individual vis - à - vis God.

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political sSocial Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political sSocial Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political ssocial responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual 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free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political ssocial ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political ssocial arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political ssocial responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

Other surveys — such as the General Social Surveys, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago since 1972 — find that the Catholic share of the U.S. adult population has held fairly steady in recent decades at around 25 %.

But a social trinity is impossible on Whitehead's terms, since «person» in the sense of an individual center of subjectivity must be identified with «substance» as the underlying unity of an actuality.

Thus he can speak of sin as being dead in those who have «died» and «risen» with Christ — that is, those who have become members of the new social reality of which Christ is the representative Head and Center.

Mosques in China, as centers for spiritual inspiration and social activities, are used as a place of worship, prayer, and chanting — and also used as a meeting place, a school, a place to perform Islamic ceremonies, a funeral home, and a judicial court.

Moreover, for nearly two decades under the leadership of Dr. Norman Kurland, an economist and lawyer, the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Washington, D.C., has advised businesses as well as governments on expanded capital ownership, based on the ideas of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (the latter a Thomist philosopher) in their book The Capitalist Manifesto (1958).

Andrew M. Greely, is professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona as well as Research Associate at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

He clarified the ethical demands of a God - centered life by applying obedient love or agape to all human situations, both personal and social, and insisted this included the earthly as well as the eternal, and required our best actions amid the relativities of the present world.

On the other side of the social justice debate are those who argue that social justice issues are at the center of the Gospel, and that as we look at the life and ministry of Jesus, we see Him engaged in social justice actions at every turn.

exhibit interest in the social and discursive processes of «demarcation» by which orthodoxies define, and thereby in some sense create, heresies — not only as the inevitable cartographic by - products of the impulse to draw boundaries and create centers, but also (paradoxically, and in multiple ways) as necessary sources of «nourishment» for orthodoxies themselves.

Yet «work, as a human issue, is at the very center of the «social question,»» asserts the recent papal encyclical Laborem Exercens (On Performing Work) issued by John Paul II.

Considered all together the data suggest a portrait of the religious - minded as a churchgoer who has a self - centered preoccupation with saving his own soul, and an alienated, other - worldly orientation coupled with indifference toward — a tacit endorsement of — a social system that would perpetuate social inequality and injustice.

His 1984 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters is particularly revealing, for there he most obviously makes public a piety which is essentially personal, even private — a piety which takes social form in intimate, bounded and family - like voluntary associations that see themselves in tension with the larger society even as they claim to be its spiritual center.

In some cases the person is a psychiatrist (as is the case at the Temple University Mental Health Center in Philadelphia) or a psychologist, but most frequently he is a social worker.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

In this area of law, prosecutors work closely with experts in this field as part of a multi-disciplinary team, which includes law enforcement, social services, child advocacy centers, medical and mental health providers, the school system and many other partner agencies.

«Evangelical issues, social issues, were most important to us, but also beating Obama, that definitely matters as well,» Alan and Kim Jerkins told CNN, as they left a polling station at the Gardendale Civic Center.

The questions that it generated were simply ignored as interest in social and sociological matters took center stage.

Opened more than a century ago on March 21, 1904, The Westin St. Francis still today maintains its preeminence as San Francisco's center of social, theatrical and business life.