Sentences with phrase «authority over a community»

In that custodial role a handful of Greek bishops continue to exercise authority over a community almost entirely Arab Orthodox in membership (today numbering about 40,000 in Israel, 120,000 in Jordan), whose constant complaint is of episcopal intolerance and the spiritual and organizational impoverishment of the «indigenous church.»

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Because McDonald's had done its research and knew that within three months of the purchase or lease of that land the local development authority would be approving a mixed - use high - rise community situated adjacent to McDonald's new location that would house over 20,000 residents.

«In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),

The government says over time some actions have been taken by the communities under state pressure to end the discrimination but that federal authorities are seeking a court order to prevent future discrimination by the defendants.

But over and above the broad ethical teaching, intrinsically universal in its scope, there are sayings addressed directly to the disciples as a community in being, capable of being compared and contrasted with other existing communities: «You know that in the world the recognized rulers lord it over their subjects, and their great men make them feel the weight of authority.

The task of confronting the nonevangelical world over the issue of Biblical authority is being undercut by the desire to challenge fellow evangelicals» notions of inspiration What is distinctively evangelical needs again to be forcefully presented to the wider Christian community.

Men alone are hold pastoral offices or leadership positions, and in the most strict patriarchal communities, fathers are given unilateral authority over their families.

A self - satisfied narcissism overshadows any authority claimed by the community over the individual.

The principal dispute is about who should exercise authority over the Muslim community: the Sunni believe that a leader or caliph should be selected by the community, while the Shia hold that caliphs can only come from the descendents of the Mohammed's chosen successor, his cousin Ali.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

The quest for inclusiveness in moral education can be pursued only by emptying lived morality of its particularity — those «thick» normative meanings whose seriousness and authority are embedded within the social organization of distinct communities and the collective rituals and narratives that give them continuity over time.

The question really is: how can I as a member of the Wheaton community and conservative evangelicalism make a break with the fathers of neoevangelicalism (i.e., Carl F. H. Henry) and advocate a method contrary to the authority they exercise over the evangelical subculture of which I am a part?

But then the Nestorian church (as most of the early Asian Christian communities came to be called) exercised ecclesiastical authority over more of the earth than either Rome or Constantinople.

Barth wrote somewhere, I think in his small book on Homiletics, that he felt in the future that preaching had to turn away from being a prepared speech event to a more community event with discussion, because the days of a professional authority feeding people what he thinks they need to know are over.

For example the 410 local authorities and 11,000 town, parish and community councils in England and Wales spend over # 113 billion a year to carry out similar functions.

About 260 pupils from four communities in the Bunkpurugu — Yunyoo district failed to sit for the BECE following a misunderstanding between chiefs and regional education authorities over location of examination centers.

The Ashanti Regional Security Council has placed a curfew on the Tafo township following clashes between the Muslim Community and the traditional authorities over a piece of cemetery land.

Cuomo says by not voting to extend the Bill de Blasio's authority over the public schools, they essentially voted for a return to the dysfunction of the old system of multiple community school boards.

Democratic 2016 frontrunner Hillary Clinton agreed to turn over her private email server to authorities yesterday — the same day an intelligence community inspector general told congressional committees that at least five emails from the server did contain classified information.

During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage of dozens of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million of funding for LGBT health and human services.

Until 1996, the community school boards had authority over the elementary and middle schools in their districts, including the power to appoint superintendents and to approve the superintendents» choice of principals.

Mayor Sheehan came prepared with data to back up her successes in environmental planning over the past years — such as the Energy Smart Community Plan, the $ 1.4 million awarded to the city by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to reduce Albany's carbon footprint and the city's investment in the water and sewer departments.

The community leaders alleged that Cameroonian authorities have taken over their ancestral homes, namely: Ine Odiong, Inua Mba, Ine Inua Abasi, Ine Usuk, Ibekwe, Itung Ibekwe, Akwa Ine Nsikak and Ine Ekeya.

In addition to its mental health consequences, the exceedingly long civil war in Guatemala resulted in displacement of 1 million people from their homes and workplaces, over 200,000 civilian deaths, destruction of hundreds of villages, crops and fields, the elimination of local leaders and authorities and, in the worst cases, torture, rape, and collective extermination of entire families and communities.

Over the next four years the government will provide # 300 million to a network of 121 music education hubs to work with schools, local authorities and community organisations to get more young people taking part in music and arts.

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

California's groundbreaking new school funding formula increases resources for students, especially those from low - income families, English learners, and foster youth and provides more local authority over spending, allowing communities to make decisions suited to local needs.

Senator Fischer, a former school board member and past president of the Nebraska Association of School Boards, introduced the amendment with Senators King and Tester to «ensure that communities have ultimate authority over their school districts,» and «strengthen the relationship among local school board members and parents.»

«A lot of the policies of the department have just been stepping over the authority of a locally - elected school board to make decisions that are in the best interest of their community and students,» said Erika Hoffman, legislative advocate for the California School Boards Association.

The city also has made many of its campuses «empowerment schools» in which principals, with input from the school community, are given greater authority over spending, educational programming and curriculum.

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.

«With the amount of investment that the City and (San Antonio) River Authority are going to put in this area,» Martinez explained, «it's just going to be such a different community over the next three to five years, and we're going to be right up ahead of it.»

If these operations are even regulated, which many are not, APHIS or a state agency or law enforcement typically turn a blind eye, dithering over their authority to shut them down, pretending these are somehow legitimate «businesses» that should be supported, ignoring that these sleazy operators make their money from animal cruelty and leave communities with unwanted dogs in their shelters, environmental and health hazards from improperly disposed of carcasses and waste, infestation, and wastewater and other sewage problems.

It does not replace or compromise the state's existing authority over pet dealers, but rather allows municipalities the option for greater local control and management if desired in their communities.

Nowinski helped IndyFeral smooth over situations regarding community cats by talking to neighbors and providing authority that volunteers didn't have.

Temporarily taken over by Galerie BRD, an initiative invited to Berlin for the Project Space Festival, Å + hosted second co-operation between two parties who negotiate whether and how they might use one another: Cosmin Covacju and Jasmina Ferouca, both from a Leipzig - based Sinti and Roma community, and Uwe Greiner, who runs a trade in scrap metals with Covacju and accompanies him in his dealings with German authorities.

Some of these storage ponds have actually broken through their earthen dams, most recently demonstrated by the disastrous 2008 spill at the Tenessee Valley Authority's Kingston facility, which sent over a billion gallons of coal slurry into the community and river system below.

It balances recognition of the inherent rights of a coastal state over its continental shelf with the interest of the international community in defining the limits of seabed beyond national jurisdiction, where the mineral resources are the common heritage of mankind and are administered through the International Seabed Authority.

«The provincial authorities wasted time and taxpayers» money for over two years by trying to criminalize activists who simply exercised freedom of expression, taking action that they themselves should have taken to protect the community,» said Amalie Obusan, one of the activists charged in the case.

Besides the legitimate questions and debates around who gets to use public spaces for what purposes, from a simply pragmatic perspective it seems likely that each individual physical occupation will eventually be cleared o — either by use of force from authorities, inclement weather, or the simple fact that it is very, very hard to keep such make - shift communities going over extended periods of time.

Young girl killed as clashes over land between communities and authorities escalate in Cambodia

The campaign ran over a 10 - week period to position DarrasLaw to the nursing industry as an authority and to build engagement with this community.

A / Professor Lavoie described how in 2013 the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) took over the responsibility for funding and service provision to all BC First Nation communities.

This has been a major issue in Australia where the foisting of a variety of «community» council structures on settlements and missions in Australia from the late 1960's on in the name of «self - management» or «self - determination» contributed to undermining traditional authority structures, had little credibility in the eyes of community members, and may well have contributed to the social dysfunction that has developed in many communities over the past 20 to 30 years - in Harvard Project terms, there was a monumental lack of cultural fit.

The proportions of Indigenous households renting from Indigenous or mainstream community housing organisations and those renting from private or other providers, fell by around two percentage points between 2001 and 2006, while the proportion of Indigenous households renting from state housing authorities remained relatively unchanged over this period.

The proposal expanded jurisdiction and authority over more waters of the U.S., negatively impacting economic development and property rights in communities across the country.

The Bureau received over 2,800 comments on the TILA - RESPA proposal during the comment period from, among others, consumer advocacy groups; national, State, and regional industry trade associations; banks; community banks; credit unions; financial companies; mortgage brokers; title insurance underwriters; title insurance agents and companies; settlement agents; escrow agents; law firms; document software companies; loan origination software companies; appraisal management companies; appraisers; State housing finance authorities, counseling associations, and intermediaries; State attorneys general; associations of State financial services regulators; State bar associations; government sponsored enterprises (GSEs); a member of the U.S. Congress; the Committee on Small Business of the U.S. House of Representatives; Federal agencies, including the staff of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Bureau of Economics, and the Office of Policy Planning of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC staff), and the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA); and individual consumers and academics.