Sentences with phrase «central purpose»

Arts education — drama, music, and visual media — offers the most effective vehicles we have to deliver one of the oldest and most central purposes of education: to create citizens who know how to raise their voices in conversation with the world around them, whatever (and in whichever form) that conversation might be.

[iv] A central purpose of criminal laws is to punish those in society who intentionally commit inherently wrong actions that result in some form of harm to another.

Recommending transport interventions for delivery over the next twenty years that make a significant contribution to the Scottish Government's central Purpose of increasing sustainable economic growth, including a replacement Forth Crossing, this is the largest project of its type undertaken in Scotland.

There is no central purpose that unites its disparate businesses, or enables them to be greater than the sum of its parts.

Agency economists, it seems, gravitate toward maximizing shareholder wealth as the central purpose.

One of the central purposes of personas, archetypal representations of customers and their goal - directed behaviors, is to help enterprises develop a common view of customers.

High in the catalogue of social pathologies afflicting marriage and the family in America stands our system of family law, the central purpose of which is to enforce no - fault divorce.

This is the central purpose of the AA program.

in addition to encouraging each other, they assembled to celebrate Christ's death andresurrection on the first day of the week — the central purpose (AC 20:7) an addition to this, they assembled to pray, fellowship, and to hear the apostles» doctrine (Ac 2:42), which I assume they did not view as a boring waste of 2 hours, as is the fundamental structure of books like this which seem to be written to appeal to an entertainment driven society.

In general terms the central purpose of this impressive collection of lectures is contextualisation, rather than textual analysis.

If God did operate by providing new information, then we would indeed have a centered universe, a universe with a central purpose, with a conductor orchestrating the total flow of events, a universe with an overarching meaning.

What's happened, of course, is that over the past thirty years the central purpose of Catholic worship» the Eucharist» has been all but lost in a sea of concerns about community building, lay ministry, liturgical language, battles over music and statues, and yet more community building.

The test of conscience for any sexual act is whether or not it is in accord with the central purpose of the family, which is to embody the ideal of individual worth through an unconditional covenant between husband and wife and unconditional commitment to children.

When congregations of believers are effective, when they make room for testimony, talking and listening, when they act upon their charters with cards and casseroles and intercessory prayers with real names in them, they come close to displaying their central purposes.

The peculiar power of an institution is the sense in which its central purpose is reflected a myriad of times as if in some great hall of mirrors through the intersubjectivity created by all of its participants.

Browning's central purpose is to show that all authentic Christian theology is governed by practical interests.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

The central purpose of professional church leadership is apologia — that is, to formulate and defend theories or «doctrines» about God's truth and God's justice for Christian communities worldwide to apply in their lives in diverse cultural settings.

Cameron suggested that the central purpose of the EU «has been achieved» — to secure peace — and «today the main, overriding purpose of the European Union is... not to win peace, but to secure prosperity».

Second chambers are common in large, complex political systems; but their central purpose — to challenge the government and elected first chamber — makes them controversial.

Not as a bolt - on extra but as a central purpose.

However, a closer look at the report suggest that this is highly misleading.Rather than calling for softer sentences for shoplifters, the central purpose of Lammy's report is actually to call for tougher action against all those who steal small items from shops.

The thing I care about most - the central purpose of the Liberal Democrats in this Government - is to build a fairer society.

His request that the M.T.A. consider rebalancing tolls while not raising any additional funds also ignores the central purpose of the proposal: to raise revenue for the M.T.A., whose $ 32 billion, five - year capital plan faces a $ 15 billion hole no one knows quite how to fill.

When the Conservatives and their Liberal Democrat partners took office, no one could be in any doubt about what they regarded as their central purpose.

But the thing I care about most — the central purpose of the Liberal Democrats in this government — is to build a fairer society.

But as the UK's bill currently stands, the register is unlikely to be as accurate as it could be, thus undermining its central purpose of shedding light on who is really in charge.

Accusing his opponents of «the most blatant hypocrisy in pretending they have changed to a modern, enlightened party», Lord Lester said: «What they have done is seek to destroy the central purpose of the bill under the guise of giving rights to others and it's complete humbug done for electoral purposes.»

Judge Hellerstein wrote that the legislative history demonstrated that the «central purpose» of the law, known as Local Law 62 or the Car Wash Accountability Act, was to illegally promote unionization.

Throughout history, the escalation of a large part of technology has had combat as its central purpose.

Based on previous work and their own results, Drummond and his colleagues speculate that a central purpose of protein aggregation during heat shock is to reshape the cellular factory, focusing protein synthesis on proteins needed during stress.

If our personal identity is a story we tell about our bodies and certain brain activities that occur in them, and I think it is, then locating the self at a single point serves a central purpose: It separates the storyteller from the story.

But the central purpose of dating is to meet that one person you truly connect with.

The movie becomes repetitive pretty quickly, and while it would be tempting to dismiss the affair merely as a mixed bag of running jokes and performances, that would mean ignoring the ways Fist Fight undermines its central purpose through unearned lecturing.

This is a central purpose of teaching history, as it provides students with a clearer perspective about their own time and place.

The central purpose of this new learning environment is to encourage curiosity untrammelled by preconceptions or indeed physical barriers.

The central purpose of a voucher program is to expand the choices available to all qualifying parents, especially those who now have kids in public schools.