Sentences with phrase «by adopted people»

Voices of Adoptees Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition New York Provides a collection of articles by adopted people raised in transracial or transcultural families.

A birth parent may need time to prepare for the release of identifying information or possible contact by the adopted person.

Involving a third person such as the adoptive parents may be perceived by the adopted person as a breach of their privacy.

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By adopting these 7 core beliefs shared by an increasing number of consumers, start ups, and business leaders, you can break the old profit - first cycle and crush it in the marketplace — all by simply putting people firsBy adopting these 7 core beliefs shared by an increasing number of consumers, start ups, and business leaders, you can break the old profit - first cycle and crush it in the marketplace — all by simply putting people firsby an increasing number of consumers, start ups, and business leaders, you can break the old profit - first cycle and crush it in the marketplace — all by simply putting people firsby simply putting people first.

Under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, adopted in most states, information counts as a trade secret if it meets three criteria: The information must have independent economic value to people outside the company, the information must be generally unknown and unlikely to be discovered by lawful means, and the owner of the secret must make efforts to maintain the secret.

In the late 1990s, Pony first introduced a chat system that was adopted by over a billion people in China.

In order for a highly complicated technology like blockchain to be accessible and adopted by every single person in the U.S., just like their Social Security card is, we've got a lot of bootstrapping to do.

Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with data to crash it.

The crux of the act is simply this: illegal wage bias (based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability) occurs «when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, or when a person is affected by application of a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice, including each time wages, benefits, or other compensation is paid, resulting in whole or in part from such a decision or other practice.»

If hounding every person you've ever cared about into adopting encryption tools like PGP sounded like fun, you'll love living in a van down by the river with no internet access.1

Every year, millions of people find ways to transition out of poverty — by adopting new farming technologies, investing in new business opportunities, or finding new jobs.

Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

I began by teaching it to my college students, and over the past year have seen it turn peoples» life around and even benefit entire families who adopted it!

I need to be convinced that they are proposing to solve a problem that someone today has, that is not being addressed by current products or services, and that it is important enough that people will adopt their product to solve that problem.

Spurred on by visions of spending more time at the beach, many people are now encouraging businesses to adopt this kind of work plan.

Rare diseases are conditions affecting less than 200,000 people in the US and less than five (5) in 10,000 according to the definition adopted by the European Medicines Agency.

As sensors become smaller and easier to use, Dexcom and its competitors are betting that the systems will be adopted by the much larger group of people with Type 2 diabetes, which is typically controlled with medications, diet and exercise.

by As we explained in our last video, one of the most polarizing techniques that prevents people from seeing truth is the herding of masses into «taking a side» that they will adopt for the rest of their life.

By being a hemp advocate or business person in the United States, to directly compete with domestic farmers is contradictory to the sustainable advocacy the entire industry has begun to adopt.

«It has been ten years since the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by governments around the world.

Step by step, people will adopt the new technologies.»

The person who has spent the past 30 or 40 years carefully building his / her slow and steady pension pot will have a good sense of risk tolerance and is unlikely to adopt a gung - ho strategy by starting with a 6 % withdrawal rate for the coming 30 or 40 years of retirement.

Beginning July 1, 2014, Canadian Western Bank and its affiliates are required to adopt account opening procedures for certain accounts opened by individuals (non-entities) to identify account holders who may be U.S. persons, and begin a review of previously opened accounts to identify account holders who may be U.S. persons.

The material presented in this newsletter is of a general nature and does not constitute the provision by PNC of investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice to any person, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security or adopt any investment strategy.

Trying to «restore» household balance sheets by adopting policies that try to reinflate house prices in the hope that people «feel rich» again is not only wishful thinking, it is making housing more expensive for those that are indeed looking to purchase a new house now!

The Government of Canada must take all measures necessary to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent with the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations as General Assembly Resolution 61/295 on September 13, 2007 and that is set out in the schedule to this Act.

In an interview titled «Why Nigeria should embrace digital currencies», Mr Peter Elofusim speaks of the opportunities in adopting digital currency: «The reason digital currency or Bitcoin came into existence and has stayed till today and why the people should go for it, is that it is not affected by socio - political events.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussionBy engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussionby focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

You may believe the Gospel of John is made up whole cloth too but it shows that, at the latest in the second century, that Christian understood themselves to be adopted into God's people not by blood by by faith (by faith we are saved through grace is how Paul put it).

Brav decided to educate the people in her city of Hilo, Hawaii, by planning a fundraiser for an orphanage in Africa, where a friend of hers was adopting two children.

The definition of evangelism officially adopted by a later General Convention reads as follows: «Evangelism is the presentation of Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit, in such ways that persons may be led to believe in him as Saviour and follow him as Lord within the fellowship of the church.»

Churches need to help people in the art and practice of prayer, but not by denying the reality of the world we live in, not by calling us into patterns or practices we can not possibly adopt without serious mind - bending exercises.

They include: the command of the sovereign; the majority of the voters; the principle of utility; the Supreme Court's varying interpretations of the Constitution's great but ambiguous phrases; the subtle implications of platitudinous shared values like «equality» or «autonomy»; and even a hypothetical social contract that abstract persons might adopt in the imaginary «original position» described by John Rawls.

In his A History of the English Church and People, the Venerable Bede, describing the council held by King Edwin in 627 to decide whether Christianity should be adopted in the land, has one of the king's chief counsellors address the assembly in the following manner:

Persons who shun marriage simply to remain free to please themselves are not to be honored, but those are to be honored who have adopted other forms of dedication in place of marriage, whether by deliberate intention, by force of circumstance, or because no person has appeared with whom they could wholeheartedly make an enduring covenant.

Such questions can be difficult - either inherently or contingently so» and imperfect or even unsound positions can be adopted by intelligent and well - informed people who are doing their very best to think honestly and carefully about them.

In these religions there were wars in heaven before the creations... there was killing on earth by the first peoples God created... even Moses who got the ten commandments... of which the first said «Tho shall not kill» immediately upon receiving slaughtered thousand of his own for not immediately adopting them.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

Secularism is not understood in similar terms, and is understood in positive terms by what people gain from adopting it.

He only sees two kind of people: His sons and daughters, adopted by Him through repentance and applying the shed blood of His Son, and those who are NOT His.

If we want to win people over to our way of living, we do it by the lives we live, not by trying to get this foreign government we live under to adopt the ways and rules of the Kingdom we represent.

I did that with the idea of Hell and found that what we think of when the word «Hell» is used (and was adopted by the church to scare people into obedience) was taken from a vision by someone in the 4th century.

They have regularly experienced discrimination and mockery by black people because they were adopted into a white home.

In its wake, we have adopted various unspoken beliefs that may or may not endure, for instance that all distinctions between groups of people are always morally dangerous; that we expand our rights by defining ourselves in reference to unchanging, inborn identities; and that talk of rights is inherently morally elevating.

By succumbing to this view while continuing to hold on to the trappings of mainline Christianity, many people in the mainline churches have adopted a «Christ of culture» response.

The Court, if it had wished to rely upon Jefferson to determine the true and original intent of the First Amendment, could have served themselves and the American people well by referring to Jefferson's warning to Judge William Johnson regarding the de-ter-min-ation of the original intent of a statute or a con - st - itu - tion On every question of con - struc - tion, carry ourselves back to the time when the Con - st - itu - tion was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.»

In any case, from the moment the people of Israel saw themselves as God's people, adopted by Yahweh not only for special favors but also for great demands, it made a difference that stamped their whole history.

Rome started appointing faithful bishops and they began to accept and adopt the resources lay people had created often in the face of lamentable opposition by their predecessors.

Contrived by an 19th century man who propagated a worldview that «fearful people» adopt, giving it the Nazi Salute lest they be labeled with the opposition.

People of faith are among the most likely to adopt or foster, but are being held back by adoption «myths»,... More