Sentences with phrase «called upon community»

The Layman family called upon community members to help them fulfill their dream of providing new books to hospitalized children in the area.

And at a service in this church in late 1945, Harvard President James Conant — which President Faust also mentioned — honored the brave and called upon the community to «reflect the radiance of their deeds.»

Alongside his colleagues at the nongovernmental organization 350.org, McKibben has spearheaded a campaign calling upon communities, governments and universities all around the world to take action by divesting from fossil fuel companies.

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Mandiant was also called upon to investigate the last major attack to hit the health sector, which involved Community Health Systems, a Tennessee - based hospital operator, in August.

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Known nationwide as an authoritative voice on managed IT services for small and medium - size businesses in the communities they serve, CMIT Solutions» franchise partners are often called upon as expert sources on trending IT issues.

Known nationwide and across North America as an authoritative voice on managed IT services for small and medium - sized businesses in the communities they serve, CMIT Solutions» franchise partners are often called upon as expert sources on trending issues in franchising, IT, and cybersecurity.

The rich history of the American South meets the influence of metro Atlanta's global community, offering a variety of shopping, dining, and cultural experiences that draw upon the diverse tastes of those who call this city home.

«Food banks are dynamic organizations that are continually evolving to address hunger in their communities, but they struggle to access enough resources to do the vital work they are called upon to,» said Katharine Schmidt, Executive Director, Food Banks Canada.

«We call upon the international community to hold the Sudanese authorities to account for the safety of these human rights defenders.

For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

In addition to leading activism efforts in our local communities and providing pastoral care to those devastated by the verdict, we also took to Twitter, blogs, pulpits and conference podiums to call upon white Christians to wake up to the reality of racism in America.

Frei calls upon the Christian community to regain «its autonomous vocation as a religion» by telling its distinctive stories about how God worked in the life of Israel, and God's self - revelation in the life of Jesus Christ.

In one of the more moving moments of the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton tapped the power behind the American wish to live in community when he told his audience at the University of Notre Dame, «Most of all we are in a crisis of community, a spiritual crisis that calls upon each of us to remember and to act upon our obligations to one another.

This unique emphasis upon what in Anglo - Saxon cultures we call «the communitarian individual» (the individual who is not atomic and alone, but a member of many different, smaller communities) provides two different forms of protection from the State, one for the individual person and the other for what Edmund Burke called «the little platoons» of daily life.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

«Together with the Synod, I earnestly call upon pastors and the whole community of the faithful to help the divorced, and with solicitous care to make sure that they do not consider themselves as separated from the Church, for as baptized persons they can, and indeed must, share in her life.

Yes, in the sense that there could now be some basic agreement upon just what criteria, what methods of inquiry, what modes of argumentation, what evidence would count for that public community of inquirers called theologians.

As you may have gathered, I like nearly everything in your «Call to Covenant Community» manifesto; but most of all I appreciated your central ecclesiastical statement, «The church we seek to strengthen is built upon the hospitality of Jesus.»

I run an online community called The Lasting Supper where you are allowed to have an opinion but you're not allowed to impose or impute it upon others.

The Church teaches forgiveness and calls upon her people to bring sinners back into the fold and help them reconcile with the Community.

In fact the fundamental rights of the citizen require that all traditional communities change, breaking traditional hierarchies and patriarchies, to bring about social justice by giving the dalits, the tribals and the women who were excluded from the traditional power - structures of society, fuller participation in the power - structures; and the State is called upon to assist it by suitable legislation and other means.

Needless to say, John the Baptist was what you might call a polarizing figure, popular among those who had traditionally been excluded from the faith community and not so popular among those whose reputations and careers depended upon protective walls.

In similar fashion, he needed at least an elementary knowledge of law, for as the educated person of the community he was called upon to give legal advice, draft legal documents, and frequently adjudicate legal disputes.

This book is an invaluable resource that walks mothers and families through the steps of customizing their postpartum care and teaches them how to call upon a postpartum community care team.

PAHJ calls upon the insights of Joseph Campbell's Great Monomyth Wheel — the universal structure of storytellers — that helps us as individuals and communities to create and understand the personal and collective stories / mythologies we live by.

Overweight children in her community are generally looked upon as «healthier» than children of normal weight (who are called «pencil - necked» or «beanpole»), and a fellow PTA member once literally told her, «We don't care about nutrition!»

«We call upon all people to show love and concern for each segment of the community as we would to members of our own family.

PRESS RELEASE New City, NY (July 3, 2013)-- Rockland County Legislator Ed Day (New City - Pomona) is sponsoring a resolution to call upon the State Assembly to pass Assembly Bill A. 1443, that would phase out the Metropolitan Transit Authority payroll mobility tax in 2017 and related Assembly Bill A. 7775 that would immediately exempt community colleges -LSB-...]

The Legislature will also declare April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Cortland County and call upon all citizens, community agencies, faith groups, medical facilities, and businesses to increase their participation in our efforts to stop child abuse before it starts.

In light of this fraud, I call upon Gigi Li to step down as Chair of Community Board 3.

«There were some very high expectations placed upon the personnel at the Center when we consolidated operations and began routing every community's emergency calls into this one center.

This was made clear when Community Board 1, upon hearing that Governor Andrew Cuomo, shortly after taking office, was thinking of removing Chris Ward from the Port's helm, unanimously passed a resolution calling on the new governor -LSB-...]

«I join with Mayor Bill de Blasio, the District Attorneys of New York, Bronx, Kings and Queens County, and the law enforcement community, in calling upon Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto this legislation.

Adams also praised Goldstein, saying he has «a great wealth of institutional knowledge» the borough president hopes to call upon when he forms a Community Board Task Force this year to explore reforms to community boards across theCommunity Board Task Force this year to explore reforms to community boards across thecommunity boards across the borough.

The Board hears presentations from City officials and others and, as part of the land use review process, is sometimes called upon to vote on land use questions that impact more than one Community Board District.

Distress call was made upon which the people of the community gave the suspect hot Chase, and while he was running away with the bike, he fell into a ditch and hit his head on a concrete culvert.

The group of young scientists also deplored a lack of diversity in the scientific community, calling on European policymakers to launch a Europe - wide charter for diversity and equality and to make research funding conditional upon its adoption by host institutions.

«We had to call upon the Dalmatian breeding community, and the response was immediate.

We realize that the positions reflected in this statement raise critical challenges for our health care system and insurance providers, such as that of adverse selection, but we call upon the scientific and religious communities — indeed, on all people of good will — to bring an informed understanding and a generous heart to this debate.

The research and medical community are called upon to heed the great need to promote breast density awareness.

«We call upon the medical community to support these students as they pursue medical careers.

We are calling upon the medical and academic community to support undocumented students applying to medical school.

The «Venice Statement» also calls upon the scientific community, among others, to contribute to the further clarification and promotion of the right, and the monitoring of its implementation.

The Common Fund was established by the NIH, calling upon the scientific community to address the most pressing questions facing biomedical research.

We, the undersigned members of America's scientific community, call upon our country's research institutions — large and small — to embrace openness.

Diversity in film has been called upon by every corner of the cinematic community and «Star Wars,» Lucas Films, and Walt Disney do not get enough credit in being of the first to fully embrace this notion into its most profitable franchise.

With Dark Souls Remastered right around the corner, we call upon the IGN community for help once again — this time to rank every Dark Souls boss from the original game.

Civic groups, community service organizations, and senior citizen groups have been called upon to help recruit volunteers.

As I reflect upon my teaching experience and the community I call home, I find myself constantly thinking about the future of my students.