Sentences with phrase «as your representative when»

It is strongly recommended that you hire an experienced real estate agent or broker to act as your representative when you buy your first home.

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But the transformation had been in the making since March 2011 when Colbeck and a fellow freshman, state Representative Mike Shirkey, first seriously considered legislation to ban mandatory collection of union dues as a condition of employment in Michigan.

«When he took over as CEO,» the representative said, «he was handed one of the toughest jobs in the history of American banking.»

I work for an online retail company as the sole customer service representative, the web optimization specialist, and the sole social media coordinator (on top of assisting with other projects) and I've been falling under scrutiny from my boss for not getting things done, when two of those are full time jobs on their own!

Research published in Harvard Business Review has shown that when sales representatives are faced with unrealistic goals they view as unattainable, they tend to lose motivation and underperform.

When you, as an individual, invest in our products or engage our services, your investment representative or you provide us with your non-public personal information.

Indeed, when addressing the House floor, Representative Kinzinger stated that he introduced H.R. 835 to «highlight the importance of supporting a growing industry at the intersection of consumer finance and technology otherwise known as fintech» with the purpose of ensuring «the United States is competitively positioned to leverage this next wave of technology for the economy and consumers» benefits.»

Alexander, the former immigration minister, said that decision was triggered when an Iranian, whom he described as an «Iranian state representative,» showed up at Toronto's Pearson International Airport with a diplomatic passport from St. Kitts and said he had come to meet then prime minister Stephen Harper.

When asked this question, John Zizioulas and other authoritative representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate responded that the Council as a process, not as an event with an identifiable outcome, is itself the vision.

I agreed with the minister when he stated in a way which downplayed any notion that this man ever thought he was distinctively representative of virtue (as this man would have always denied for himself) that nonetheless «maybe there was a saint amongst us.»

When the commission agreed that Scripture provided no directive concerning the ordination of women, the representatives from Latin America and Africa and other conservatives interpreted this as prohibiting a change of policy, while representatives, and especially theologians, from North America, Europe and Australasia interpreted this as allowing innovation.

These e-mail alerts have been able to mobilize a larger number of advocates in a shorter time, as when thousands of people swamped congressional representatives with e-mails concerning House bill 426, which condemned Yasir Arafat and placed all the blame for the conflict on the Palestinians.

Thus, when a representative of the community calls — and that representative is a clergyman — it often encourages the patient to feel that he may not be as evil or wicked and hopeless as he felt himself to be.

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

When I talk to my good friend who is a very conservative Catholic who views taking communion as sacred and every crumb is representative of Christ's body and not one crumb will drop... then compare it to how we do it at church... everyone ripping bread from the same loaf, crumbs everywhere, kids spilling the «wine»... does it really matter... is one more right than the other... one upholds church law on how communion will be performed versus our laid back version.

Overall, the entire field of Christian social ethics — liberationist or not — pays scandalously little attention to empirical data and social science, as when Karen Lebacqz cites the Hite Report as though it were a statistically representative sample of sexual attitudes and behaviors, or when Michael Novak draws simplistic comparisons between Japanese and Latin American political economies.

Robert Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (Norton, 1974) is representative of a certain somber mood that emerges when people reflect on the chances for our culture to overcome its myriad difficulties of population growth, of natural resource and environmental limitations, and of what Heilbroner refers to as the perplexing inability of our civilization to satisfy the human spirit.

When the major networks refused to sell them time, preferring instead to donate it to representatives of mainline denominations and ecumenical organizations, independent broadcasters bought time on local stations, laying the groundwork for what later came to be known as the electronic church.

When television came in about 1950, each of these «faith groups» was given time each Sunday for their TV programs — programs which were broadly representative of the religious and cultural diversity of the country as a whole.

When I speak, am I speaking as a representative of Jesus (as a Christian), or as a representative of my country?

The loss of social power by the ministry as a result of the spread of education and the transference to scientists of the representative authority of learning is comparable to the loss ministers suffered when Church and state were separated.

When you speak on this topic, are you speaking as a Christian, or as a representative of your country?

But in Jewish culture (or almost any culture), when a man of authority sends someone else for him as a representative, it is as if they themselves are coming.

When they tried to do that back in 1975, Representative John Monks of Muskogee memorably rose to the defense, hailing the great tradition of cockfighting as «the sport of all free countries.»

When the Reformer insisted that civil magistrates «have been invested with divine authority, and are wholly God's representatives, in a manner acting as his vicegerents,» he explicitly warns that this does not settle questions about the merits of a specific form of government.

When you let a minority of people talk on the majority's behalf, labeling them as «representatives» this is the sort of stupidity that usually comes out.

The artistic nature of the scene is clear: the setting of the questions to build up to a climax; the representative role of Peter; the post-Easter confession; the sudden appearance of the crowd when the time comes for general instruction, as so often in Mark; the reflection of the situation of a Church facing the possibility of persecution; and the way in which the whole pencope moves to its climax in the last two verses.

It's a mistake, Dannin says, portray «a single, notorious example as representative of the entire religious movement,» especially when the NOI under Elijah Muhammad «resembled Islam only to the extent of its taboo against alcohol and pork.»

We hear a lot about what it feels like to leave a church after mistreatment, and we hear some things about what it looks like to find a church as a haven after being mistreated elsewhere, but I've seen very little writing about what it's like to stay in the Catholic Church when Her representatives have deeply harmed you.

As the representative and pioneer of mankind the Church meets its social responsibility when in its own thinking organization and action it functions as a world society, undivided by race, class and national interestAs the representative and pioneer of mankind the Church meets its social responsibility when in its own thinking organization and action it functions as a world society, undivided by race, class and national interestas a world society, undivided by race, class and national interests.

that must be it and Bush, when he sent the Imam out as muslim representative of America, was just suckered in by it.

Patriarchs of Moscow were senior KGB officers; the present Patriarch, Kirill, began his career as an ROC representative at the World Council of Churches in 1971 when he was twenty - five years old, a sure sign of KGB affiliation.

When, in the earliest days of the Church, men and women who had been converted to Christianity were to be welcomed into membership in the Christian fellowship, incorporated into the Church, it was required that they should profess their belief in Christ as the Messiah — which is to say, God's special representative for the establishment of His kingdom among men — and as the Son of God — that is, as uniquely related to the Father of all mankind.

One recalls the sermon of Paulinus when he pointed to the swallow flitting through the Saxon banqueting hall from darkness to darkness as a parable of the life of man, were it not that Christ has shed light and hope on the darkness beyond.25 Again King Oswy at Whitby is claimed to have decided for the Roman representative because he was the agent of St. Peter, holder of the keys to the gates of heaven.26 At the other extremity of the empire Cyril and Methodius impressed the Bulgar king by a picture of the judgment to come.

When President Reagan announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See on January 10, 1984, he appointed William A. Wilson, who had been serving as his personal representative to the Pope, as the first US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Holy See.

The government insists regulators would prevent that from happening, but Greens leader Christine Milne has argued the potential conflict of interest means the PUP senators should abstain from voting on the carbon bill, as Mr Palmer himself did when it went through the House of Representatives the first time.

Clear Opinions, November 2013 GPI partnered with EcoFocus Worldwide Research to conduct a sample of 4,046 nationally representative adults ages 18 - 65 to ask them very specifically what factors are considerations for them when thinking about the purchase of a food or beverage as it relates to packaging, particularly when it comes to concerns regarding the health or the environment.

Well, Atlanta did try to get McGriff as long ago as the eve of Game 1 of the 1992 World Series, when a representative of the Braves told San Diego that Atlanta was «strongly interested in McGriff.»

As Commander Jack Renard, the Middies» officer representative, says, «When I went to the Academy, we wanted to kill Maryland and beat Army.»

When the first labor contract between the owners and the players was agreed to in 1968 — 14 years after the Major League Baseball Players Association was formed as the representative of the players — the owners insisted that collusion be against the rules.

When the dust settled at Jack Nicklaus» event, McIlroy was the sole representative of the trio the golf world desperately wants to embrace as the «Big 3» to finish in the top 10.

When Manchester City announced Pep Guardiola as their manager, it was evident City hierarchy are looking to go one step ahead in European competition and finally win the big trophy having become consistent representatives from England.

«I don't feel any park commissioner should function as a potted plant, which is what I felt like when I was our representative on the museum board,» Hegarty said.

For example, when I hired on many of my contract workers as employees, I knew I was going to need an HR representative to help me create internal HR policies.

Pumping isn't as efficient at getting milk out of your breasts as your baby is, so the amount you pump isn't always representative of how much your baby eats when she feeds at the breast.

One of the first places to look for information on your rights when returning to work as a new mom is to talk to your Human Relations representative.

In practice GAIN representatives lobby to weaken regulations to help its partner companies such as Danone (the world's second largest baby food company), Mars, Pepsi and Coca Cola, to create markets for processed foods in low - income countries.9 When «market led approaches» focus on foods for infants and young children it is troubling.

When Nestlé entered the UK market with the takeover of the SMA brand in 2012, it recruited a network of well - paid Clinical Representatives (who also gain bonuses), with the stated responsibilities as follows:

Apparently, these aren't accurate, nor are the sales representatives, and you'll look like a fool when you explain that you are a holistic clinic that specifically came in requesting natural fibers such as wool, cotton, jute, sisal, reed, seagrass, or coir but it needed to hold up in a commercial building and never, ever would you have invested in nylon!

From a constituent viewpoint, when you first log in via mobile phone or Facebook, the app will set you up to «follow» the President, your two Senators and your Representative using basic demographic information (such as your zip code) you'll be prompted to enter.