Sentences with phrase «by civic»

«Certainly, community - wide initiatives focused on aging in place can be initiated by civic leaders, community activists, and nonprofit organizations.

Other public property that historically has not been open to such activities, but which the government has allowed access to for such activities on a permanent or limited basis, include schools that open classrooms for after - school use by civic, social, or rec groups.

Soiled, fibrous seats scavenged from the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated train cars, and scraps of unused fabric procured from an industrial upholstery manufacturer, point to invisible bodies — bodies whose daily commutes, labor, and socialization are largely dictated by civic and commercial institutions.

History Decades of work by civic leaders led to the creation and steady expansion of the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences.

Her recent projects are motivated by civic and social actions focus on fostering relationships with a wide range of communities.

1956 The Society for the Contemporary Arts was founded by a civic group interested in promoting greater appreciation of contemporary art.

Inspired by civic pride, the city of Salem established the Hawthorne Hotel to serve as a community focal point.

Cleveland's Plan for Transforming Schools, the citywide plan to ensure quality schools for all children, was launched in 2012 by civic leaders and continues to drive improvement efforts.

As a result of the Renaissance 2010 charter school initiative launched by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 2004 and backed strongly by the civic and corporate community, Chicago is now home to 130 charter schools, serving 14 percent of district students.

The testing program itself was opposed by some civic and political leaders in Baltimore because, they argued, it would unfairly single out the city's poor children.

Locals have looked forward to this outdoor nonprofit performing arts series every summer since 1938, when it was founded by civic activist and arts patron Rosalie Meyer Stern.

We must be united by our civic responsibility to work together and solve this problem.»

«The army needs to train because in the event of being called upon by the civic authorities, we will know what to do.

[4] Scottish social thought, and Adam Smith's political economy in particular, thus appear as: `... a theory of a pluralisation of human personality -LSB-...] presented as an ideological alternative to the classical ideal of the personality unified by civic virtue and by a relatively static economy.»

49 CCD Councilwoman Debbie Rose is being opposed by civic leader Kamillah Hanks & former legislative aide Phil Marius.

State building not only requires state actors but can actually be driven by civic engagement, something Libya has in abundance.

This time, museum officials hope to address concerns raised by civic groups about the height and mass of the previous proposal.

I am sponsored by civic clubs, universities, ministerial associations, and councils of churches all over the world.

In 1948, John Courtney Murray called the new religion jurisprudence «rigid, ruthless, sweeping,» and insisted that the Court's doctrine «can not be approved by the civic conscience» (in an essay first printed in First Things, October 1992).

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

During his administration, Jewish hostility to Rome was greatly inflamed by the civic privileges issue.

These are memorialized by civic and government institutions;

Prior to those two is a particular moral and cultural system, constituted by civic institutions and well - ordered personal habits.

Its so stupid to think that making the grille and headlights look like an eagle with spread wings will make it look «strong» (stated by the Civics designer).

«Some are motivated by civics, some by money, some by patriotism, and others by being a joiner.

Not exact matches

In the thinking of Parker and CEO Matt Mahan, people's personal lives are covered by Facebook and their professional lives by LinkedIn, but that still leaves their civic lives.

The fund, organized by the St. Louis Regional Chamber, a civic economic development organization, Cultivation Capital, a St. Louis - based venture capital firm, and Twain Financial Partners, is already investing in local startups.

That, plus Scaramucci's forthcoming trip to Fletcher to discuss the petition and defend himself, made me think our civic system was working, facilitated in part by the opinion page.

«By investing the necessary time and resources, we are building a solid nonprofit that we are confident will successfully support the spread of our global culture of self - expression, participation and civic responsibility,» wrote Goodell.

Charitable giving is traditionally considered a great point of pride — and a civic responsibility — by presidential candidates.

Big Idea: How technology can improve civic life by simplifying and streamlining the delivery of municipal and state government services through open data, better procurement procedures and open - source apps.

Journalism with high civic value — journalism that investigates power, or reaches underserved and local communities — is discriminated against by a system that favors scale and shareability.

This Festival combines family - friendly activities, entertainment and usually, an ice cream sundae — all sponsored, hosted and supported by the Downtown Merchants, area companies, civic organizations and volunteers of the Seacoast.

By connecting more Americans who are civic - minded, it's contagious,» she said.

datalibre.ca is a blog, inspired by civicaccess.ca, which believes all levels of Canadian governments should make civic information and data accessible at no cost in open formats to their citizens.

Adam has developed strong connections in the local civic, educational, corporate and entrepreneur communities by working as a volunteer co-leader of the Kansas City Startup Village since its inception in 2012.

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Liberating data will spur grassroots research on important social, economic, political and technical areas, currently hampered by lack of access to and high cost of civic data.

The newest and most pernicious form of narrative is the turn to the idea that universities have the «civic mission» to transform political dialogue by activist illumination of community deliberation.

These would include tradition, guidance by accumulated wisdom, constitutionalism, and a civic republican vision of the orator as an ethical representative of the formation and endurance of a beneficial community.

Since even a god can't express all the civic virtues, we shouldn't be surprised that in American literature they can not be exemplified by one region, but have to be spread across many geographic localities.

But still, if a rich and high - powered conservative donor came to ask my advice, whether they should try to start a new college, or whether they should try the easier and apparently more civic - spirited task of helping to reform existing ones (by aiding things like existing APT programs, such as the one that employs me), I think I am obliged to advise the former.

Let's force all women to wear burquas on Mohammed's birthday.Doesn't work that way in this country and I am stunned by these comments.We live in a FREE country - got it?If you don't - sign up for remedial civics please.

Finally, has «The Church» completed its investigations into child abuse by priests, and turned over all evidence and probable abusers to the appropriate civic authorities?

The destruction of the voting assemblies of the eastern cities, which came about as a consequence of their inclusion in the empire, effectively left competition in the practice of benefactions as the only means by which the civic elites could compete for power in their localities; and success in this was dependent upon attaining the patronage of the man who sat at the top of the social pyramid.

By passing the ordinance, the civic, business, and political leaders show how much they have «grown» in the interim, but there is a problem with the people.

By and large, the rites of American civic religion are harmless enough, bland baptisms of the status quo by the application of a bit of liturgy emptied of any real dogmatic significance or personal demandBy and large, the rites of American civic religion are harmless enough, bland baptisms of the status quo by the application of a bit of liturgy emptied of any real dogmatic significance or personal demandby the application of a bit of liturgy emptied of any real dogmatic significance or personal demands.

Prominent academics and civil liberties organizations have raised the prospect of stripping churches of their tax exemptions and pursuing litigation to require private companies and civic groups to be led and staffed by people who pledge allegiance to the moral creed of the left.

«The institutions of men are, by analogy, the sacramentalisation of society in the natural relations of men one to another, and thus even the civic institutions of men, to be totally focused, must embody something of this underlying relationship to God as the source of human truth and the dynamism of natural human happiness.»

Indeed, having read plenty by Rod on the Ben Op and now having heard him, I am perplexed by those who think he advocates withdrawal from all civic engagement.