Sentences with phrase «civic affairs»

He was active in civic affairs and in church work.

The second reason is the critical significance of the race question in American civic affairs at the present time, particularly in the field of public education.

In essence, social studies promotes knowledge of and involvement in civic affairs.

«Villaraigosa has a record and history of making education front and center and charter schools being part of that vision,» said Gary Borden, senior vice president of civic affairs at the California Charter Schools Associations, which runs the Super PAC supporting Villaraigosa.

«After talking to thousands of participants of Participatory Budgeting, our data shows that the process engages people who are disenchanted with politics and traditionally excluded from civic affairs.

Both Kavanagh and Jesuit theologian John Baldovin have shown how early Christian worship was a highly civic affair, just as the Church itself was from the beginning a public, urban institution.

So, when we use the phrase «political animal» today, it might be wise to recall that it originally reflected an understanding of civic affairs almost diametrically opposed to our modern obsessive fascination with partisan struggle, polls, campaigning, and the fortunes of a distinct «political» class.

The Town Hall was an important gathering place where civic affairs and weighty decisions were discussed.

«I have read your rantings and ravings over the past several months and frankly they show how ill - informed you are about civic affairs and politics.»

The law will replace current legislation that critics charged was difficult to enforce and so onerous that it could have brought civic affairs to a standstill.

Senate appointee Abe Lackman is a senior officer for civic affair at the Simons Foundation, the charitable organization founded by James Simons, the former head of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund.

(CNN)-- Linda Stephens has lived in her upstate New York community for more than three decades and has long been active in civic affairs.

In civic affairs and philanthropy, the widow Anne Vanderbilt and her lover Anne Morgan, daughter of Wall Street tycoon J.P. Morgan, reclaimed Sutton Place, a decaying waterfront district near the Queensboro Bridge, transforming it into a thriving colony of freethinking women, active in charity causes and pioneers of women's rights.

Instead of being about moral precepts and the exotica of the phenomenology of religion, assemblies and RE should be consciously addressing the moral, metaphysical and spiritual questions raised in the study of history, biology or civic affairs: indeed, the whole of the syllabus.

«RE in schools should be consciously addressing the moral, metaphysical and spiritual questions raised in the study of history, biology or civic affairs»

Individual energy conservation is not a substitute for effective citizen participation in civic affairs, for industrial energy conservation or revamped government energy policies.

Similarly, in community life and civic affairs, we increasingly recognize ourselves as leaders who are themselves being led by God, by the Holy Spirit, by the living Christ.

One of the most respected men in the area, Simpson is active, but quietly active, in civic affairs.

Alexa Kasdan, director of research and policy at The Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, said in a statement participatory budgeting «engages people who are disenchanted with politics and traditionally excluded from civic affairs.»

Miner, visiting scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, will speak about the importance of involvement in civic affairs, especially for young people.

Schwandt said that although she will no longer hold office, she plans to remain active in civic affairs.

The Club is committed to further the interests and participation of all citizens in the civic affairs of our community.

The Sound Community Fund provides direct grants of cash and product to King County nonprofits in human services, arts and culture, K12 education and civic affairs.

The Trustees are selected for having demonstrated a personal involvement in civic affairs and a high level of commitment and philanthropic leadership to our community.

That organization, reMain Nantucket, is now up and running, and the two people staffing it and carrying out Schmidt's vision are both lawyers who have been active in the island's civic affairs for many years: Melissa Philbrick and Rachel Hobart.