Sentences with phrase «by members of the community as»

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As the events are attended exclusively by members of the Western Australian business community, it is the ultimate opportunity for expanding your professional connections.

Before a bell rung 42 times to commemorate the dead, Giordano and other officials praised the ordinary and extraordinary acts of heroism by first responders and community members as the firefight raged on for more than a week.

«Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy,» he says.

Thanks to bold self - revelations from some top names in the industry, greater media coverage (such as this award - winning story from Inc. magazine by Jessica Bruder) and, sadly, the tragic loss of several members of the startup community to suicide, the curtain that once completely walled off founders» mental health struggles is starting to crack open.

Users are encouraged to engage in actions that will benefit other members and the community as a whole by rewarding such actions with Soma Community (SCT), a cryptocurrency designed to incentivize the members of the decentralized community to perform value - adding services and act as a fast, secure and cost - effective way of compensatiocommunity as a whole by rewarding such actions with Soma Community (SCT), a cryptocurrency designed to incentivize the members of the decentralized community to perform value - adding services and act as a fast, secure and cost - effective way of compensatioCommunity (SCT), a cryptocurrency designed to incentivize the members of the decentralized community to perform value - adding services and act as a fast, secure and cost - effective way of compensatiocommunity to perform value - adding services and act as a fast, secure and cost - effective way of compensation.»

One potential source of help, once the chaos subsided, came from a community organization called «US» (meaning «as opposed to them»), which was formed by members of a discussion group called the «Circle of Seven,» led by Malcolm X's cousin Hakim Jamal and one of Malcolm X's disciples, a UCLA Africana Studies doctoral student who was born Ron Everett but changed his name to Maulana Karenga.

He embeds himself within an Appalachian community devastated by widespread heroin use, following the emergency services as they respond to multiple overdose call - outs and meeting members of the community.

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

While some urbanites and rivers are reported to have said «to hell with the cameras, as long as we are abiding by the law, no amount of cameras will cause us to be afraid», members of the online community were infuriated, judging from the thousands of comments in the photo gallery on NetEase.

Digital currencies such as bitcoin are issued and usually controlled by its developers, and are used by members of virtual communities.

By becoming active members of the community, your team will not only help your own content remain at the top of the group for much longer, their rankings as top influencers in the group will also be raised.

Co-founder of Appstori.com, a crowdfunding platform, makes the following four predictions: (i) Vertical platforms will emerge to focus on select market segments; (ii) Crowdfunding platforms will evolve into «full - service» communities to better meet the needs of their members; (iii) Creativity and innovation through online crowdfunding will be supported not just by individuals but by organizations as well; and (iv) Benefits - based crowdfunding will complement equity - based platforms

Outside of work, Rehman's leadership and commitment to the community has been recognized by his appointments as a board member for the Social, Welfare, Education and Economics Board through his congregation.

It was released on August 1st, 2017, by community members prior to the Bitcoin Core activation of Segregated Witness (Segwit)- for simplicity across the site, we refer to BTC as Bitcoin Core (BTC).

Seven respected members of the Canadian visual arts community have been selected by RBC and the Canadian Art Foundation to serve as the jury for the 19th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition...

There are specialized 7 (a) program options for exporting companies, those in underserved communities, those with military ties (such as a veteran business owner or businesses owned by the spouse of an active service member), and those with cyclical or seasonal businesses that need help with short - term financial needs.

The new notes contain the same world - leading security features as the new $ 5 note that we issued last September, including the clear top - to - bottom window, and the tactile feature so that it can be recognised by vision - impaired members of the community.

All Ethereum addresses must hold a balance over at least 0.1 ETH as of block 5099720 and rank among the top community members as measured by «Points» (signups + telegram growth) of DAX.

ORLANDO, Fla. — June 24, 2016 — Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) is pleased to announce, as a member of the Orlando business community, it will be making a $ 25,000 donation divided among several local organizations coordinating support and healing efforts to those who have been so profoundly affected by the tragic event on June 12, 2016.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

Thirdly, just as Christian scriptures are the gift of the Word of God offered by the Christian community as a record of its faith, so other scriptures can be considered also as a gift of the Word of God offered to Christians by members of other religious traditions.

Matthew 18 described how the community could live as a free congregation of brothers without having any members placed in positions of superiority and control, held together only by brotherly service, imposed upon all» (Schweizer, p. 398).

The people complaining today about being demonized did not, as far as I know, raise their voices in protest against the demonization of others by members of their own community.

Wow, As a member of this particular blog community, I am offended by the language.

He could be known as the Lord only by members of the community; or, to say precisely the same thing in different words, no one could «say «Jesus is Lord» except by the Holy Spirit.»

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

If you look up Marcus Borg — the principal source of information for this article — you will find that he is a leading member of the so - called Jesus Seminar that is not only been criticized within the Christian community, but also by scholars close to the Jesus Seminar such as Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School.

The event was seen as hugely insensitive in the wake of the Parkland shootings, in which a gunman used a weapon similar to the AR - 15 rifle to take 17 lives and was protested by members of the community.

But afterward, by what have been called «many infallible signs,» the members of the early Christian community were convinced that he was not a figure in the dead past but was somehow wonderfully alive as their present, living, and active Lord.

For this identification meant a radical redefinition of the whole idea of the Word, as that idea may have been known by members of the Christian community.

Beguines, as these communities were called, not only secured the lives of members but contributed to society by running hospitals and schools, by spinning and sewing.

In describing such worship as «public,» we do not mean, of course, that it was opened to all and sundry, but rather that it was public for the Church and for all members of the Church who by their baptism had been initiated into the community and thus had been given the status which made it possible for them to participate in what went on when the community engaged in its regular worship of God in Christ.

No one can any longer imagine that the preaching of the text is heard by members of the community just as it is spoken, or just as it is intended by the preacher.

From another perspective the Indian Christian convert has been described «as deracinated, and as an outcaste, no longer recognizable as a functioning member of his or her former community... in terms of the loss of caste and the pronouncement of civil death by Hindu law.»

In some cases, such as in a community planning body, this influence — initiated perhaps by several members of a core group may well be overt, The church will openly advocate certain measures with regard to zoning or relocation through its representatives.

While I can never recall another instance when Egyptian Christians were so full of rage that they became so bold as to shed decades of fear taught to us by the various and numerous terrors inflicted upon us by members of the Muslim community, I can recall dozens of dozens of instances of Christians being killed by this same community over the past three or four decades.

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Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Just as Christians they are very much members of the human community in the universe created, according to Christian faith, by the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus Christ.

As members of one of the oldest counseling, caring professions, clergymen can affirm their heritage by increased involvement in mental - spiritual health ministries within both religious and wider communities.

The newly converted provincials were brought into Islam not merely as members of the community, but were affiliated with the tribes as clients, or mawali, who did not find themselves treated as equals by their Arabian brethren of the faith.

Churches» limited exemption from antidiscrimination law is not and can not be justified as a special privilege for religion but simply as an instance of the autonomy, privacy, and «freedom of association» enjoyed by all members of the constitutional community, religious and nonreligious alike.

Mrs Wishart had lived at her home in Changford Road since 1967 and was a popular member of the community who was described by one neighbour as «very lovely, like the mother of the street».

The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.

Sodexo, the dining hall team, may be contracted by Marist College, but Charafeddine says they feel just as close as members of the college community.

Going forward we will expand the research to report data by company size and region, but we hope this set of information will provide value to our members as well as the import community at large.»

Okanda was discovered by a member of the Okapi community who saw him playing at a reception center as his family was waiting to be settled by the UNHCR.

Recognizing that the 43 - year - old club is beloved by many active members and neighbors, Carondelet looks forward to developing relationships with the community to explore ways the facility can continue to serve as a resource during the transition of ownership, site improvement and renovation, and long - term in ways compatible with school use.