Sentences with phrase «challenges confronting people»

Ace broadcaster Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey Santana popularly referred to as, Abeiku Santana, has said Ghana lacks advanced social intervention programmes considering the level of poverty and social challenges confronting people in the country.

You acknowledge that one of the greatest challenges confronting people who believe the Bible is «God's Word» concerns the violent portraits of God in the Bible.

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People are often discouraged when confronted with a large, daunting challenge.

I think what usually happens to these people when they are confronted with a convincing truth that challenges their present way of thinking is that they revert to a childish coping mechanism of regressing into a more secure but less mature belief system.

My relationship with God is as natural as it is with any other person; going back into a situation where your walk is a «regiment» of reading, prayer, attending, singing, etc. is seriously a challenge, and I'm not sure what to do at this point... especially when confronted with «so how did you like this or that?»

It confronts people with the challenge of living faithfully right where they are.

Our challenge as Christians who are also citizens of an empire is to find hope and guidance in biblical calls to repentance and conversion that inevitably confront people whose historical ties are linked to dominant powers that come under the judgment of God.

How to be the kind of person who can stand up to life, face its difficult challenges and hardships, and carry off a victory in quality of character and useful living — that central problem confronts us all.

He and later researchers showed that, when confronted with challenging new information, most people seek to preserve their current understanding of the world by rejecting, explaining away, or avoiding the new information or by convincing themselves that no conflict really exists.

Innovative life enrichment and marriage renewal programs in our churches, schools, and social agencies can help mid-years persons confront the challenge and the choices, the pain and the possibilities, and from this confrontation begins the adventure of new growth.

In a church which understands itself as God's pilgrim people, called to confront new challenges, church leaders have a double duty.

While some assurance of confidentiality is needed to build trust in a community, people like Jim Kok wonder how others can «support, challenge, pray for, weep with, give help to, advise, and confront with an aim toward healing if they do not know what is happening» (Christianity Today, July 17, 1981).

How would I feel if I was a small person in a big world, a world where large beings were constantly jabbering at me in a language I barely understood, a world where everything was a challenge, from climbing out of a chair to learning to control my bodily functions, a world where every day, all day long, I was confronted with new things to taste, new things to explore, new things to discover.

The publication provides an overview of the challenges confronting young people living with HIV and clear recommendations for ways to improve treatment, care, support and prevention services for them.

The statement urged Chiefs, Opinion Leaders, Youth and people of the area to exercise restraint in the face of the challenges confronting them and to use non-violent means to channel their energies into ensuring peace in the area.

Mr. Spencer Taylor Acting Executive Director of CEDECOM noted that pineapple growing has been identified as the pre-occupation and the life blood of the people of Ekumfi although the farmers are confronted with challenges which position them below the poverty line.

«It is a great challenge to improve the health of our people,» he said while asking member states to do more in terms of funding so as to confront health emergencies.

My experience as a councillor was that, if we took plans for development out to our constituents, confronted them with the challenges we faced as an area and carefully explained why we were proposing what we were, we could take people with us.

«Those from Niger Delta continue to blame the Federal Government for the challenges confronting their region, whereas, people like Ibori should be held responsible.

The South Korean Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Woon - Ki Lyeo, has reaffirmed his government's intention to help confront the challenges facing the people of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) ecological zone.

«From experience in other similarly - impacted communities in New York, I know that working cooperatively and transparently to confront this challenge is in the best interests of both the people of Hoosick Falls and Saint - Gobain.»

«We have come to fix the nation, to fix the problems; otherwise as a people, as a nation, we would have been going through a struggle for existence and a great challenge would have been confronting this nation.

Whereas, Dr. King confronted unprecedented challenges with the knowledge and belief that, as one people united in principle and purpose, «we shall overcome» all prejudice, hate, and intolerance; his legacy lives on through the civil rights victories won during his lifetime, as well as those won in the decades since;

Following which the information minister Mustapha Hamid in response to these criticisms defended the government's decision on the appointment of the 110 ministers of state noting that the country's current economic state requires more people who are competent enough to confront the challenges facing the country and resolve them in a manner that will put the state in the path of progress.

We will suggest that President Mahama and his people redirect their energies towards at least attempting to confront those challenges.

No one has worked harder bringing people together to confront the challenges facing Dutchess County and its residents than Marc Molinaro.

If you don't equip people with good analysis and strong messages, things that are tested that they can use when they confront a challenge, then they do their own thing or indeed they do nothing.

Despite the numerous challenges confronting the continent, President Akufo - Addo stated that «Africa is on the cusp of building a great, new civilisation, which will unleash the considerable energies and huge potential of the African peoples, so that we will make our own unique contribution to the growth of world civilisation.»

UCLA neuroscientist encourages the use of exercises to challenge people with obsessive compulsive disorder to confront what bothers them most.

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In it, the paranormal investigation team of Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren, co-authors of several books and shown as the film begins lecturing a small auditorium of people on the finer points of ghost - hunting, confront their Greatest Challenge Ever when they're called to the modest New England farmhouse of the Perron family.

It's challenging, it makes you confront things you don't want to and it can be depressing as hell but when you exit the theater, you feel almost reborn, opened to a new way of looking at the world and the people in it.

Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all - black Mission College in «School Daze.»

Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education (Harvard Education Press / March 15, 2003 / $ 49.95 le / $ 24.95 pb) draws on the perspectives of teachers, researchers, and administrators — and adolescents themselves — as it examines the complex, changing identities young people manage as they confront the challenges of school.

Explore curated collections of resources related to building the skills, mindsets, and necessary supports to help young people confront adversity, cope with challenges, and demonstrate perseverance to attain goals.

Here numbers and facts might be easy to dismiss, but faces, names and stories have power — great examples of this can be seen at the People Killed Since Newton and US Gun Deaths sites.Do MoreCreating good infographics is a challenging activity — here you have develop useful graphic metaphors, use appropriate fonts, maximize your whitespace and confront variety of other design considerations.

Challenging students to dig in and achieve their potential during instructional hours confronts a mighty obstacle: the principle of least effort, the idea that people apply nominal effort to achieve a basically acceptable result instead of pushing themselves in pursuit of greatness.

For a young person living with an intellectual disability (ID) in the UK today, there are still a number of challenges which have to be confronted.

At a recent SEMA Installation Banquet I was noting some of the challenges that confront the industry and I read an excerpt from an industry trade publication: «We may wake up one morning soon and find there's no one left with any reason to buy headers or manifolds or a host of other performance products designed to make a car perform better... We may also wake up and discover that a future generation of young people aren't all that interested in the automobile because the excitement of it is gone — or maybe legislated away by safety and clean air regulations....»

Published in 2002, it was a collection of nine different stories, each one about a female character who confronts the author's trademark mix of challenging plot twists and some very untrustworthy people, according to the book's review at Amazon.

Her interest seems to have been to use art to confront racism directly by aggressively challenging white people's sense of identity, which is directly linked to the practice of lynching, a more psychological approach than yours.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

Given the large scale and increasing number of human - induced global challenges being presented to humanity in 2008 with a mere 6.6 billion people on Earth, what do you suppose our young people can expect to confront in 2050 when 2 1/2 billion more people are added to our current numbers?

Mann added that 49 people out of tens of thousands of former and current NASA employees is just a tiny fraction, and that «NASA's official stance, which represents the full current 16,000 NASA scientists and employees, is clear if you go to their website or look at their official publications: human - caused climate change is real, and it represents a challenge we must confront.»

For many people, dealing with the challenges of recovering from an injury and confronting the life changes it brings can be overwhelming.

Too many poor people in the U.S. lack access to lawyers when they confront major life challenges, including eviction, deportation, custody battles and domestic violence, according to a new report by advocates at Columbia Law School's Human Rights Clinic.

There is nothing soft in an offender being confronted and challenged by the person he wronged.

I've seen what happens to many of these people in court, when they stand up and try to explain to the judge how they are «Mennonites» who can't be found guilty under the Constitution because it's a violation of their rights dating back centuries before America existed, or when they challenge the judge's right to preside over their case because of some arcane law, or that red light cameras are unconstitutional because they do not get to confront their accusers, again, I cringe, because I know what's coming.

I help people work through them so that growth can occur in the Counseling Relationship.I believe that if you never confront and challenge your problems then nothing will change.There is hope for finding meaning in our lives.

It is quite evident that people who struggle with life challenges are looking for support, assistance and encouragement, as they confront their difficult circumstances.