Sentences with phrase «built on the conviction»

Olivia Chow and the late Jack Layton Married 23 years when Jack died last August, Canada's political power couple had one of those enviably solid relationships, built on conviction to their causes and mutual admiration.

MASS MoCA's new collaboration with the Rauschenberg Foundation builds on convictions central to both organizations» missions: the importance of the relationship between the fine and performing arts, of nurturing new works by established and emerging artists, and of the ability of the arts to affect real change in the world at large.

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How a Turkish immigrant built a budding cafe brand, Hungry Ghost, based on a conviction he could deliver a better product

Each time they write a song, poem, novel, or paint a canvas, build a sculpture, or perform in a play, they are revealing their convictions on how Christianity and culture should relate.

As St. Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians 15, Easter faith is that conviction on which the entire edifice of Christianity is built.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

If, for example, our reflection on other animals takes place in the context of the conviction that Christ is in them and they are in Christ, that we and they are members one of the other, and that together we build up the body of Christ, it would no longer be possible to turn our backs upon their suffering with indifference.

In many of these efforts we drew on convictions, loyalties and insights built up among the people of God over many generations.

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

The saga of state Sen. Hiram Monserrate's (D - East Elmhurst) assault case is out of the courtroom for the time being, but although the first - term legislator avoided any jail time on his misdemeanor conviction for recklessly injuring his girlfriend while dragging her out of his apartment building, he still faces censure from his Senate colleagues and -LSB-...]

«A past conviction should never prevent someone from being able to put food on the table or pay their rent,» said Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, Deputy Leader and Chair of the Housing and Buildings Committee.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.

King, 40, has built his career on the conviction that all children should have access to the kind of schools, and the kind of teachers, that he credits with saving his life.

«This fund is built on high - conviction ideas from a wide range of bond markets, so we anticipate being able to spread risk broadly to protect investors from adverse outcomes while maximizing risk - adjusted returns,» says Brown.

If you're conviction isn't driving related, then there's a chance that you've had the opportunity to build up a no claims discount, in which case you could save up to 75 % on your premiums, which could go quite a long way to negating the inflation on prices that your conviction has caused.

This is done by putting up reward money for information that leads to an arrest and conviction of the perpetrator (s), keeping the public informed on court dates of current animal cruelty cases and by providing law enforcement with necropsies and resources, if needed to build a case.

Ghost House is installed in the temporary exhibition galleries where, rather than following chronological criteria, it creates environments that the artist describes as «built on memory», in which works from different periods are placed in dialogue with one another and with the museum context in the conviction that meaning can be found not only in the individual works but in their relationships, considered collectively and through time, like the narrative overlappings of a story.

I'm on the road but can't avoid posting on the conviction of six scientists and a government functionary in Italy on criminal charges, with substantial prison sentences handed down, for statements made about earthquake risks not long before a moderate earthquake toppled buildings and killed 308 people in L'Aquila in 2009.

Leading Change Toward Sustainability is built on such convictions.

Despite my better judgment — built on the integrity of physical scientists that I know, personally — the confusing discussions about statistical beefs and access to certain types of proxy data leave me like my pet dog: looking at mom, then dad, waiting to hear a word that I recognize, so that I can then act in confidence and conviction.

It is difficult to overstate the impact that a criminal conviction can have on your life as you try and build a career.

As reported in the written decision of the Law Society Hearing Panel (which decision is under appeal by the applicant), the applicant threatened to sue the other board members for defamation after he was removed as President of the condo corporation and a notice of his removal was posted; circulated a letter (under a false name) on some floors within the building that falsely stated that some of the board members had previously gone bankrupt, had criminal convictions and were accepting bribes and free meals from the developer of the condominium to settle deficiencies with the developer; made a derogatory remark about some of the residents based on their ethnicity; threatened to report some of the directors to US / Canada border officials, falsely alleging that they were drug smugglers; threatened both the corporation's property manager and security services firm that their contracts with the condo corporation would be in jeopardy if they did not provide a character letter to the applicant.

Vancouver About Blog Inspired from a profound conviction that women deserve shoes and boots that feel as beautiful as they look, Lord's Shoes has been proudly «heeling» women and enhancing their «soles» since 1930; built on family tradition and a premise that no women should ever find herself barefoot.

Gullotto acted on a conviction similar to Jones» when he agreed to list 18 new condos in a Dallas building that was previously low - income rental housing.