Sentences with phrase «by the close relationships»

I believe that the church can be enriched by that closer relationship.

There are, however, many people who need the church who are threatened by close relationships.

When I came in I was quite surprised by the close relationships between politicians and the journalists whose job it was to write about them.

The arrangement was either a straightforward commercial decision, comparing the cost of the advertisements against the costs of the alternatives, or it was a commercial decision tempered by the close relationship between the Mayor and the now - departed Chief Executive of the bank.

The sense of safety and security afforded by close relationships with teachers provides children with a steady footing to support them through developmental challenges.

A contrarian view is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led the way to relaxed underwriting standards, starting in 1995, by advocating the use of easy - to - qualify automated underwriting and appraisal systems, by designing the no - down - payment products issued by lenders, by the promotion of thousands of small mortgage brokers, and by their close relationship to subprime loan aggregators such as Countrywide.

Enriched by a close relationship with the artist during his lifetime, The Phillips Collection has for the last 25 years played a leadership role in the study, presentation, and teaching of Jacob Lawrence's important contribution to the history of modern art.

«by the unique status accorded public education by our society, and by the close relationship between education and some of our most basic constitutional values.»

Not exact matches

The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

«The U.S. values its relationships with Canada, but even our closest allies must play by the rules,» Ross said in a press release.

Over the years, I have been impressed by the close collaboration and amount of time they invest in their portfolio companies and network of relationships,» Soto added.

A closer look at Market Basket's operations under Arthur T. Demoulas suggests that its industry - beating 7.2 percent operating margins in 2012, cited by the Boston Business Journal, derive from six secrets: long - term employee relationships, low overhead, bulk purchasing, low prices, no debt and treating employees and customers like family.

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

By 2008, when the financial crisis hit, Goepfert was cleaning out dealers who were closing up shop and developing relationships with older collectors looking to part with their guns.

In contrast, the first visit by a foreign leader at his Mar - a-Lago estate was a friendly weekend of meetings, dinners and golf that suggested the new president was willing to invest time in developing close personal relationships with leaders he feels he can work with.

«The U.S. values its relationships with Canada, but even our closest allies must play by the rules,» Wilbur Ross, the secretary of commerce, said in a statement.

In addition, McDonald's is hoping to build a closer relationship with customers by encouraging them to ask questions about the chain's food.

The best leaders will leverage close relationships with employees by finding out what their strengths are, and bringing out the best in their employees.

The newly unsealed charge, filed October 3 by the special counsel Robert Mueller's office, said that on January 27 Papadopoulos lied to FBI agents about «the timing, extent, and nature of his relationships and interactions with certain foreign nationals whom he understood to have close connections with senior Russian government officials.»

Propelled by the close personal relationship between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin and their shared multi-polar worldview, China and Russia have deepened their strategic partnership through energy agreements, joint military exercises, and economic development in Central Asia through the Belt and Road Initiative.

We are rooted in the community and have developed our business by creating close, personal relationships with our clients.

You can do this by initiating a loyalty program, giving them incentives and maintaining a close relationship with them.

If anything, though, the Canada-U.S. energy relationship actually looks like it's becoming closer, even with the two - decade - old North American free - trade agreement hanging by a thread.

Hewlett - Packard CEO Mark Hurd left the company last summer after the board investigated a sexual harassment complaint by a former marketing contractor with whom he had had a «close personal relationship.»

During the closed - door Washington briefing for chief executives with business in China, Lighthizer said that U.S. complaints about Chinese trade practices could not be resolved simply by additional talks with Beijing, and he appeared indifferent to concerns that the administration's hard line risked rupturing a $ 600 billion annual trade relationship.

I have struggled with this a great deal as I want very much to maintain a close relationship with my family but find myself growing increasingly distant because it is just too painful to be close to people that I love dearly but feel completely rejected by for something that I have come to recognize as a core part of who I am and how I view myself and the world around me.

When you find someone, whoever it might be, that you wish to be in a comitted relationship with, cherish them, do right by them, and keep them close.

Of course, process theology can not fulfil this responsibility without interpreting Scripture, and the separation of process theology in recent decades from the close involvement in Biblical scholarship of the earlier Chicago school has led to critical weaknesses which are only now being addressed.1 Nevertheless, for process theology the appropriate relationship to the Bible can not be exhausted by hermeneutic.

My own view of all of this, as a practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas, and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.

I recently was approached by a wife in our church that I do not have a close relationship with and never have.

Whether it be conflict from his childhood when he was raised in Muslim household, or from his time in Hawaii when his Communist mentor likely eschewed any religion, or during college bringing him closer to a community likely agnostic at best, atheist perhaps, followed by years in which he sat listening to Black Liberation Theologian Wright, his relationship with Christianity's basic tenet is uneasy to say the least.

We must draw close to God and develop a personal, intimate relationship with him and really get to know him by meditating on his word and his ways:

The heat generated by this topic is witness to the fact that we are, in Pinnock's words, «close to the heart of the conception of religious authority in our evangelical confession, which «limits the ground of religious authority to the Bible.3» There is a «deep relationship between origin and authority» that can not be ignored.4 Thus discussion concerning the implications of inspiration is of interest to all evangelicals who seek to be Biblical Christians.

I have said that in this chapter I am using the word family to include not only what is usually meant by that word but also other types or varieties of close relationship with more than an other.

In polytheism, the Sky Father was a somewhat distant figure, complemented by the Earth Mother, with whom humans had the closer relationship.

Though there was a separation of church and mission in nineteenth century missionary thinking and practice, they moved steadily closer in the twentieth century, and by the Willingen Conference in 1952, the missionary movement had come to realize the inseparable relationship between church and mission.

Evangelicals in the various Holiness, Wesleyan, and Arminian traditions are, one may suggest, much closer to the Catholic understanding of the relationship between justification and sanctification than they are to the more rigorous Lutheran and Calvinist champions of «justification by faith alone.»

Men often feel threatened by the intellectual and authority roles of these women and by their ability as pastors, and therefore are reluctant to initiate or share a close relationship.

He discovered that the foundation of the building of personality is created during the first six years of life by the quality of a child's close relationships with need - satisfying adults.

Open and closed families can be distinguished by the number and quality of their extrafamilial relationships and by their responses to crises and change.

Knowing what we know today, no Priest should ever be in a one - on - one relationship or closed door meeting or confessional (not separated by a concrete wall) with ANY parishioner.

When we recall the variety of types of relationships represented by those close to alcoholics who have come — in my case for instance this includes a husband, wife, daughter, son, mother, father, fiancée, nephew, sister - in - law, neighbor, intimate friend — we realize that this estimate may not be far from accurate.

«8 Together with I Kings 1 - 2, certainly by the same author, it is written, if not by an eyewitness, by one who stands very close and in intimate relationship to the events described.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

My closing appeal is for believers to steward the gospel with excellence by showing the world the power of Christ through the solid interpersonal relationships of the ethnically, culturally, and generationally diverse Body He called to live on mission together.

After reading the book «So You Don't Want to go to Church Anymore» it seems the reason this was happening was because the church tries to teach you to have «precepts» which doesn't help you get closer to God, but instead teachs you to live by acts, as if acts are going to bring you into a closer relationship with God.

After an entire article of pin - the - tail on the semantic donkey based on the ficalness of word gender (different from actual gender, as I have never yet met a boat that was truely a «she»), the potentiality of a close friendship being more (when one of them went on to have several wives and children, one relationship so driven by lust for a woman that he took her from another man and tried to have her husband killed — so clearly not just marriages of social conformity), and a false analgy to slavery's restrictions in the Bible.

The Waldensians, a reforming group dating from the twelfth century in France who survived persecution as heretics by retreating to the mountains of northern Italy, established close relationships with Geneva and were drawn into the family.

They answered by citing most often 12 relationships established by «blood, marriage, or adoption»; a reader must wade that far before coming to one founded on another basis: «friends,» chosen as «close family» by only one of every 10 respondents.

By establishing close relationships with carefully selected local farms and small producers, Fossil Farms ensures that all meats are of the highest quality and authentically natural.