Sentences with phrase «change the language about»

The church also voted, by an overwhelming majority, to change the language about marriage in the church constitution to «two persons» from a «man and a woman,» according to More Light Presbyterians, a group that supports gay rights.

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Gordon has also denied that Trump or Manafort were involved in the language change and that there was anything nefarious about it.

Alexandru Iliescu, CEO of the language - learning app Mondly, said his startup had not been significantly affected by the changes, adding that he was excited to learn more about Facebook's augmented - reality efforts and how Mondly could work with them.

Change the language as needed, add in a few extra services you normally would not offer, and do whatever you can to get the client excited about working with you.

What was noteworthy about the Fed's announcement was a changes made to language about inflation.

Months after the language of a global climate treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol was finalized in 1997, an internal memo obtained by The New York Times laid out API's plans to infuse doubt about climate change into K - 12 materials.

It should include language about how the loan would be affected if its servicer changes hands.

Other changes under Poloz include abandoning so - called forward guidance that gives a direct hint on the next move in borrowing costs, and adding new language to forecasts about inflation risks.

Are you talking about your Bible that's been changed several times over the past couple hundred years from several languages, and then several times again in the English language?

Avelino Gonzalez, using language that I had hoped had gone out of fashion among Catholic seminarians, opines that «nothing has changed in two thousand years,» and attempts to enlighten this Jewish author that «what the Pharisees were teaching about hating your enemy... was scripturally unsound.»

When crotchety old grammarians complain about the debasement of language, often they are merely deploring change per se; other times they wax wroth over what seem to most of us relatively insignificant losses in precision, clarity, or beauty.

It keeps the language about the «intrinsic value of all beings,» which the Charter's originators regard as indispensable and the heart of the change in values they desire.

It has raised consciousness about the use of sexist language in the churches and resulted in some changes there.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

I think Live4Him is confused about the way in which languages grow and change.

After a nod from Francis, the language reports — which called for hundreds of changes (modi) large and small — were released, and were quite eye - opening about the degree of dissatisfaction with both process and result.

Except for certain changes of emphasis and the addition of technical and sociological developments since 1948, The Humiliation of the Word can be viewed as the development of Ellul's early concerns about language in The Presence of the Kingdom.

Previous incidents include her academic paper on black liberation theology that was interpreted by some to endorse a kind of Marxism, a Facebook photo showing her at a party on Halsted Street at the same time as Chicago's Pride Parade, and her suggestions that the college change some of its language about sexuality.

... if we are to be attentive to God's work in the world, we must listen attentively to the language of the people of our time... It is not only a matter of expressing the Gospel message in contemporary language; it is also necessary to have the courage to think more deeply - as happened in other epochs - about the relationship between faith, the life of the Church and the changes human beings are experiencing.

The workers are calling for five specific changes they plan to present to the school board during a Wednesday meeting: soliciting input from lunchroom staff to help improve school food, offering more training and education for lunchroom workers, adding collective bargaining language that protects workers» right to talk about the food to parents and kids, building working kitchens in all new schools, and ceasing the replacement of fresh food with frozen and reheated fare.

How about we change this language to «significantly cheaper than» formula?

In fact, friends tease me about how much I enjoy changing diapers and my family thinks I am speaking another language or starting a new career when they see updates like «Fluffy mail!»

«I found it hard to tell people that I was a single dad, not initially but when you see the change in a person's body language when they hear that you are, it leads me to believe that the stigma about dads with kids is alive and well.»

Always the inquisitive student, she thrives on change and growth, and is enthusiastic about slew of hobbies including gardening, cooking, dancing, language, literature, and blogging about this mishmash of interests at ~ ~ myOLIO ~ ~.

When the counselors from OA&FS have visited my class, I'm always impressed to learn about the changes they've made in their process, outreach, communication, and even in the fundamental language they use for adoption.

Working on different norms about male and female language will not increase women's ability to impact on social reality if this change is not related to broader forms of mobilisation.

There was the ludicrous sub-Orwellian language about an «implementation period», even though we only need it as we will have nothing to implement, and then the desperate «nothing - has - changed» protest that she has remained consistent since the Lancaster House speech, even though the government had since changed its stance on every issue from money and negotiation sequencing to the transition and future regulation.

Similar observations can be made about other reforms - and the language has already started to change, with «any qualified provider» replacing «any willing provider».

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia was in Buffalo to get the word out about changes to the state English language arts and math tests that third - through eighth - graders will start taking Tuesday.

And since many of their ancestors assimilated quickly, many Italian - Americans can't speak their ancestral language and don't know much about their heritage, Savino said, something she hopes the festival can help change.

«They will be not only upset but very confused about why anybody would do that, so it's disturbing that the governor's office and the office of budget management would do this change to the budget language.»

Savino said she and Klein had not yet received language from the governor's office about the particular changes to the bill's language they'd like to see before signing off on it.

Obviously, those who care about keeping the court in upntown Kingston will get better results with the language change being offered by Donaldson and Parete; «Should we move Family Court from the City of Kingston to the Business Resource Center in the Town of Ulster.»

Tucked into the language about how under -18-year-olds should be treated differently than adults, is this: «we must ensure that the victims of crimes and the effect of criminal actions against society as a whole are also taken into consideration as we weight changes to criminal justice policy.»

Cameron has changed his language into something he can really get his teeth into - «we should never leave Britain this exposed again» - when talking about Brown's record on the public finances.

It is a mark of how much has changed in the Conservative party since Thatcher's day that no serious Conservative politician would dream of using such sweepingly uncritical language about the police force today.

Such a move would have a profound impact on the unique languages and cultures including Pacific islanders — and in the Marshalls, locals have been talking about new ideas and phenomena as they've seen the preliminary effects of a changing climate on their coasts.

Those issues encompass more than just the latest conflicts about the age of the universe or climate change - related language in textbooks, she said.

With this roadmap illustrating the magnitude of visual changes over time in the videos, Brookshire overlaid the participants» EEGs to see whether people entrain around the normal visual frequency of about 10 Hz, or at the lower frequencies of signs and phrases in sign language — about 2 Hz.

Learning to play an instrument brings about dramatic brain changes that not only improve musical skills but can also spill over into other cognitive abilities, including speech, language, memory, attention, IQ and even empathy.

Some scratched - up chunks of ocher, found in a cave in South Africa, may signal a change in assumptions about just how long ago humans began to communicate abstract thoughts through language and art.

So how about instead of «Today I have to...» we change the language to «Today I have the opportunity to...».

After STAT inquired about the campaign with Kickstarter, the site said it asked the Gravity team to change the language because it wasn't in line with their rules on health claims.

I have had a man lie about speaking a second language (which turns out to be my second language, he later changed this on his profile ha ha) and another who assured me in our initial conversation that I could trust him and he would never hurt me (did I mention I was concerned about that?

I thought about changing my prediction to a shock win for Michael Haneke until I remembered that no director of a foreign language film has ever won this prize — no not even Federico Fellini or Ingmar Bergman, Oscar's indisputable favorites as foreign auteurs go.

Straight Outta Compton Rated R for language throughout, strong sexuality / nudity, violence, and drug use Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88 % Available on DVD and Blu - ray Biopics can be very hit and miss but this critically acclaimed story about the rap group NWA found a way to not only tell one of the pivotal stories of rap music, but managed to do so in a way that has the power to change the perspectives of its audience.

One of his characters is fashion - savvy and it's hysterical to watch his body language change and to hear his voice change when he talks about fashion.

With about five short conversations and a bit of oral and written language (a sign and an announcement) we were able to change the status quo by diverting at least 200 plastic bottles and aluminum cans out of the landfill or incineration waste stream.

Moreover, in conversations with reporters, Secretary Bell publicly acknowledged — for the first time since February 1981 when he withdrew the proposed Lau rules — that the policy change also applies to about 500 school districts that had negotiated compliance agreements requiring native - language instruction based on the «Lau remedies.»

Teachers can model the thought processes that accompany reading by talking about how the main character changes through the course of the book, about the author's use of language, and about surprises and disappointments they encounter as they read.