Sentences with phrase «civic life of»

About Blog St. James Cathedral is both an Anglican parish church ministering to the historic St. Lawrence neighbourhood and a cathedral, making it the spiritual centre of the diocese and a focal point for the civic life of Toronto, one of Canada's most prominent cultural and financial centres.

Many of us grew up here, attended local schools and began contributing to the civic life of the community at an early age.

Gelbspan is very proud to have been a member of the Boston Globe team that won a Pulitzer Prize, and he is proud of the constructive influence the series had on the civic life of Boston.

David Adjaye OBE was born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents and his influences range from contemporary art, music and science to African art forms and the civic life of cities.

We seek a workforce prepared for lifelong learning, and active engagement in the civic life of our society.

«To fulfill the promise of digital citizenship, Americans must acquire multimedia communication skills and know how to use these skills to engage in the civic life of their communities,» she writes.

Helen Marshall was a larger - than - life figure in the civic life of Queens and the State of New York.

Helen Marshall was a larger - than - life figure in the civic life of Queens, the City and State of New York, having served in the New York State Assembly (1983 - 1991), the New York City Council (1992 - 2001) and as Queens Borough President (2002 - 2013).

Melinda Katz, who succeeded Marshall as borough president, called her «a larger - than - life figure in the civic life of Queens and the state of New York.»

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following on the passing of the Honorable Helen Marshall, former President of the Borough of Queens: Helen Marshall was a larger - than - life figure in the civic life of Queens and the State of New York.

«Borough presidents play an extremely important role in the civic life of each of our boroughs by providing an invaluable human interface between our constituents and our behemoth city service agencies,» Mr. Díaz said.

We are particularly committed to improving the civic life of Philadelphia, our founders» home town, and to producing timely research on major issues and trends in Philadelphia for the benefit of decision - makers, the news media, and the public.

But they do bring into play an important element, heretofore lacking in the civic life of Latin America.

Ethnically cohesive bodies such as the various Lutheran churches were not fully engaged in the civic life of the society.

Christian observances were part of our street life and part of the civic life of our communities.

«It is a generous gesture which seems to recognise that Catholics are valued participants in the civic life of contemporary Scotland, where we seek to work with others in advancing the common good.»

Not exact matches

In the thinking of Parker and CEO Matt Mahan, people's personal lives are covered by Facebook and their professional lives by LinkedIn, but that still leaves their civic lives.

One of the key indicators of this is the extent to which a community's civic, business, and nonprofit leaders bring their unique capabilities to the table to solve problems and improve lives.

Big Idea: How technology can improve civic life by simplifying and streamlining the delivery of municipal and state government services through open data, better procurement procedures and open - source apps.

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

Consequently, even «best practices» that fully enforce Title VII «are insufficient to realize a labor market responsive to the needs of low - income workers for adequate wages, safe work conditions, and work hours and schedules that allow for fulfilling family and civic lives.»

Thus does he pervert that populism at the heart of American civic life at its best.

For our constitutional heritage is one of limited powers, which is predicated on and was designed to ensure a civic life distinct from political life.

And that bleaching has not produced a more tolerant people, but a far more intolerant civic life, of which the recent awfulness in Charlottesville, Virginia, may stand as a vile symbol.

We have lived in years in which religious style, not Enlightenment or biblical substance, counts in the bully pulpits of national politics and local civic ceremonies.

It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

As the years went on, Richard seemed to grow ever more knowledgeable, poised, intellectually many - sided, and well informed about the vast array of conflicts, arguments, clashing ambitions, and hidden purposes that mark our national civic life.

It is quite clear from the current economic debacle that the flourishing of our civic life depends on faith as well.

There is no need to affix a particularly pious label to these seemingly so secular duties of family and professional life with all their daily bitterness and boredom, and to the civic duties from which no one should try to escape.

In its civic rituals and manners, its symbols, monuments, and historic spaces, the life of a city is condensed, unified, and displayed.

This is no less true of the civic communities in which we participate — and the stories that we live out as citizens.

Now it says «For medieval Christians, the Eucharist (the sacrament of Communion) was not only at the heart of the Mass — but its presence and symbolism also wielded enormous influence over cultural and civic life.»

The Puritans» meetinghouses were simple buildings, constructed without frills, which expressed the unambiguous and rigorous nature of their civic and religious life.

The «theopolitical» realism of the prophets led them to reject any merely symbolic fulfillment of the divine commission, to fight the division of community life into a «religious» realm of myth and cult and a «political» realm of civic and economic laws.

The authority of office is not one based in common belief and life but in «agreements» and «rights» on the basis of which buffer zones are placed between persons who are not civic friends or brothers and sisters in the Lord but adversaries with differing interests.

In the larger social community, in the affairs of business, and in civic life the notion of the infinite value of personality is a noble abstraction more than a living reality.

He does not call for any simple return to a metaphysic which downplays the goods of worldly life in comparison to theoretical contemplation, religious devotion, or civic participation.

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

By focusing on the well - being of students after graduation in relation to their undergraduate program, the report returned to a basic premise of a liberal - arts education: moral formation for civic life.

Studies show that the Americans most obsessed with the lives of celebrities are particularly unlikely to participate in civic life, but that may be because they're the Americans who are particularly unlikely to have easy access to significant forms of political participation.

The adoption of comprehensive population policy marks an eventful change in the conception of the role of government in civic life.

It is not irrational or irrelevant to consider the elimination of public acknowledgment of religion a likely contribution to the loss of moral seriousness in our civic life.

The life of the contemporary bourgeoisie is a wearying frenzy of work, work, spending, and work, with some time left over for civic duties, commodified leisure, sex, family, and — maybe — a spiritual life.

Intensely aware of, but disturbed by, the pattern of self - segregation among young Korean American evangelicals, Ecklund is less interested in understanding the roots of their religious behavior than in analyzing its consequences for American civic life.

How much better to be a member of a church that, following a different «model of civic life,» has to confront its internal diversity.

To ferret out what the ethnic church means for civic life, Ecklund knew that she needed a point of comparison.

This absence of articulate, intelligent conservative arguments from the daily lives of millions of Americans is a civic disaster.

It also spoke powerfully to the transformation of Roman civic life, for Christians decided that they were unwilling to pay the cultural price of admission into the global economy at the time.

Workers sacrifice much of their privacy to the workplace, not to mention their time, which could be spent on other activities, whether that be family life, civic engagement or just sleeping.

At some level, integralism surely raises questions about the ability of Jews and nonbelievers to participate fully in civic life.