Sentences with phrase «as special group»

This tradition is quickly becoming a favorite of mine as this special group continues to grow each year.

These would be such things as the fact that Jesus was baptized by John, kept company with sinners, called disciples and chose twelve as a special group, performed some «faith healings», reached out to outcasts, entered Jerusalem in triumph, defied the authorities, was arrested and crucified, and was experienced afterwards by his disciples.

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As a Navy SEAL amongst a group of «young, eighteen - year - old kids» barely out of basic training, Chris felt he had a special obligation.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

This special group of people dedicated themselves to playing and sharing mathematical ideas that often took form as puzzles or games.

U.S. Special Operations forces have been providing air support, training and supplies for the Syrian Kurdish group, the People's Protection Units, known as the «YPG» from its Kurdish initials.

Some complaints are generated from customers who are chronically dissatisfied, seeking a freebie or have an ulterior motive, such as special - interest groups opposed to your company and products.

Lewis, fund's chief investment officer, spent nine years at Citigroup as a director of the bank's global special situations group, a $ 5 billion prop - trading group that specialized in distressed debt, high - yield bonds, and value equity.

This can be done around special events or regular gatherings in your space, such as accountability groups, workshops, lunch and learns, or regular networking events.

Tax expenditures are special provisions of the tax code such as exclusions, deductions, deferrals, credits, and tax rates that benefit specific activities or groups of taxpayers.

As Americans for Annuity Protection and others work on efforts to overturn this bad rule, we must all do what the rule does not - serve retirement savers» best interests — not regulators or special groups.

At a special White House event this week, members of the American Trucking Associations (ATA), along with a contingent of Road Team Captains, a group of professional drivers who act as industry «ambassadors» as part of a national outreach program, met with President Trump to discuss a range of issues affecting motor carriers, including health care.

The Every Voter Counts Alliance, bringing together over 60 organizations from across the country representing diverse groups, will be hosting a press conference on Parliament Hill later this morning just as the special parliamentary committee on electoral reform is set to begin its deliberations.

His duties include oversight of Morrow Sodali's Proxy Solicitation Group, as well as special project work including bankruptcies, corporate control events, and strategic consulting.

As part of its commitment to the community and the industry, Talison Lithium offers tours of the Greenbushes Lithium Operations for schools, tertiary institutions, special interest groups and seniors in Western Australia.

Some of these options may be perfectly acceptable to you, and will help bring in searchers who use other words to describe the same product as you are selling, but others may wind up showing your ad in inappropriate search results (e.g., when someone is looking for a premium cookie for a special afternoon tea they are planning for a human group).

It and other dark money groups can serve as conduits for anonymous donations from corporations and other wealthy special interests to flood elections, making it particularly dangerous to democracy.

As with the focus groups, your network will feel special if they fall into that very small niche and get excited about providing you information.

The latter position means opposing any Constitution amendment which grants special privileges or status to one group in Canada (such as recognition of Quebec as a distinct society).

When I made this goal I was originally planning on switching over my work RRSP to some ETF's that pay dividends as well — however after closer inspection I found out we get a special group management fee rate — and the MER on these funds is only 0.5 %.

That was certainly the thrust of much of the US comment at the time of the revision of Canada's Copyright Act in 2011 - 12 and is a theme repeated regularly in inputs to the annual USTR Special 301 process by groups such as the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) and in the 301 Report itself.

«As we honor our brave military men and women this coming Veterans Day, we should continue to extend special opportunities to transition to civilian life after their service is done,» said Mike Bidwell, CEO and President of The Dwyer Group and a U.S. military veteran.

As a sign of such openness, the Ecumenical Patriarchate organized a special meeting of a select group of thirty Orthodox scholars at its headquarters in Istanbul, the Phanar district on January 5, 2016.

Circular religious logic will still never fully justify the fact that religion asks for special rights and protections, which it gets, and then turns those rights and protections on other groups as a defense mechanism for when they are accused of discriminating... i.e. «We can choose who we accept and who we don't because of our beliefs... wait, what... how can you say you will not accept our religious organization, that's religious discrimination!»

Catholics, as any religious group, have so special privilege despite what you think the pope says..

has become an excuse for everything, as long as you are in a special interest group.

They are tangible evidence of the special forms of rationality that characterize a certain human group, as contrasted with the products and processes of reason that apply universally.

Apparently, then, this specialized group of nerves is the material locus for a «critical node,» as Whitehead puts it, at which point bodily feelings are transmuted so that «there is an increasing development of special emphasis» (PR 477).

As long as churches and other special interest groups receive tax exempt status, we are ALL being required to pay for things we don't believe iAs long as churches and other special interest groups receive tax exempt status, we are ALL being required to pay for things we don't believe ias churches and other special interest groups receive tax exempt status, we are ALL being required to pay for things we don't believe in.

The charter deals also with the rights of particular groups who merit special consideration in society, such as elderly people, migrants, people with different capabilities, and prisoners (12).

This fundamental function of general civil religion could be carried out by churches that remained indifferent to the special civil religion embodied in such documents as the Declaration of Independence and bound up with the history of the American nation, but most American religious groups have been able to affirm both general and special civil religion as well as their own doctrinal peculiarities.

He is a fake as the rest, all supported by special intrest groups, worried about another country more then USA.

Helene, I respect your thoughts but if everyone felt the same as you and believed that their special interest group deserved special treatment as a show of tolerance, not much would get done.

Various smaller groups such as families and friends may be held to provide the environment for these special nonsocial nexus, by praying, remembering, and creating an especially intense group unity among themselves.

If you persist in labeling yourself as a special separate group of people, how can you expect other people not in your group to understand that you are equal when you refuse to do it??? And after all the effort we've all put into it????? But I stand outside your group and ask that you simply become everyone along with everyone, free and equal and not separate — not ever again — ever...!

As to special speakings, sermons, large group discussions, and so on, my general observation is that these are successful according to the degree: (1) that they are competently planned; (2) that they fit both fore and aft into the ongoing life of the organization, be it local church, college, hospital, or some other institution.

But those tasks can be classified broadly into two groups: those in which theologians want to regard themselves as doing something special and unique and those in which they wish to affirm community with other religious traditions.

It bothers us because politicians and special religious interest groups don't believe as your alleged Jesus man believed and want to control the population based on their book of fantasies.

As for your silly «agenda» nonsense, gays are not a «special interest group» anymore than blacks were before the civil rights act was passed.

On the other hand, they are a special group in respect to such features as rational capacity, imagination, memory, foresight, language, and the ability to create and transmit culture.

Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the principles of justice.

And no special interest group has a bigger agenda than the believers, who are fighting to keep their mental illness from being recognized as just that.

In contrast, both groups and topological spaces are interesting for their bare - bones abstract structure as well as their special subclasses.

More attention needs to be directed toward the conflicts and competition between organizations, federations as supraorganizational means of resolving some of these conflicts, and more innovative organizational forms such as parachurch agencies and special interest groups.

I have no problem what so ever with Aethist, they just need to go do thier own thing and not bother anyone else or demand special treatment, there are too many of those groups as it is.

First is strong voluntary associations, such as churches and civic groups, that bring people together around broad common agendas rather than narrow special interests.

Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens, community action groups, ethnic organizations.

If you believe otherwise, you are (by default), stating that your deity is, in fact in favor of a special and elevated group of individuals (such as yourself and your favorite authors) who can and should control others faith by virtue of their special understanding of this god and his «inspired» word.

Kathy and Karl (co-pastors) are two special people, as are the others who are part of the group.

According to this final group, Christ had chosen America, especially its white immigrants, as a special rod of iron to scourge his wayward world and return it to the pristine purity of capitalist Eden.