Sentences with phrase «collective acts of»

How we use our individual and collective acts of speech and silence to negotiate common (global, national, local) goals relating to the world we live in and want to live in, still remains a deep democratic conundrum.

And in the collective acts of the community is to be found «new life.»

The new day that is dawning for me and, I suspect, for many others — despite our Protestant suspicion of rituals — is the realization that truth is somehow embodied in ritual and the other collective acts of the community.

The former refers to an interior disposition emerging within the people of God — an inward awareness of the nature of the faith — while the latter refers to the consensus achieved as a result of this collective act of discernment.

A group of 10 assemblies that have been structured as such to promote accessibility and meet the legal requirement for a collective act of worship, broadly Christian in nature.

Despite Britain's multi-faith society, schools are still required to include a collective act of worship of a Christian nature, while faith schools and religious academies have raised fears about community cohesion and covert selection.

Evaluating the collective act of knowledge building involves a shift of focus from the individual effort to the quality of the product.

Animating the Armory with the sights, sounds, and movement of renowned interdisciplinary artist Nick Cave, The Let Go will transform the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a dance - based town hall that brings together visitors to participate in a collective act of catharsis.

Rehearsal for a Reunion (with the father of pottery) is based on the artist's trip to Japan to reconnect with his estranged Japanese father through the collective act of making a tea set in a pottery workshop.

Not exact matches

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Another popular attack method used by hacking collectives is «doxxing»: the act of releasing personal, private information of specific people, often private citizens.

This is the kind of information - based warfare that hacking collectives specialize in, which has ripple effects beyond the act itself.

The Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce is a membership based proactive network of business - minded individuals that are committed to acting as an accessible, visible, supportive and reciprocal resource to our members and the Tri-Cities at large, communicating their collective voice to help shape a prosperous business community.

The buyer network acts as a collective form of collaboration with each node of the network directly influencing purchase decisions.

MacIver was an initial supporter of Act 10, the bill that stripped collective bargaining rights, and has released several reports supporting the measure since it became law.

For qualified investors in Switzerland, this material shall be exclusively made available to, and directed at, qualified investors as defined in the Swiss Collective Investment Schemes Act of 23 June 2006, as amended.

With the tabling of the Budget Implementation Act (Bill C - 59) on May 7, the Harper government has tossed aside any pretence of collective bargaining.

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«These acts of violence against innocent citizens are an unwarranted affront on our collective safety and freedom,» Jonathan said.

Important points of transition, both collective and individual, somehow need to be acknowledged and accentuated by special acts and symbols; graduation from college continues to be such an event, and the widespread impersonal character of diploma presentations does not satisfy the need for marking the time in a special way.

It is Mankind as a whole, collective humanity, which is called upon to perform the definitive act whereby the total force of terrestrial evolution will be released and flourish; an act in which the full consciousness of each individual man will be sustained by that of every other man, not only the living but the dead.

One individual with an inhuman view of reality who acts alone can not be equated to Muslim - terrorists who make a collective effort to carry out their deeds.

«The pilots are engaged in this illegal slowdown in order to bring pressure on Spirit during current negotiations for an amended collective bargaining agreement pursuant to Section 6 of the Railway Labor Act,» Spirit Airlines spokesperson Paul Barry said in a statement given to Buzzfeed News.

The operative question is whether the African - American entrepreneurs who perform, produce, distribute, and display the «music» that has the made the trashing of «bitches» and «hos» tolerable will clean up their own collective act.

Kierkegaard defends himself against the apparently Pelagian implications of this thought by stressing that even though each individual sins through his own disobedience (sin is not a category of necessity), nevertheless, in this act of disobedience he reveals his solidarity with Adam and Eve and all other persons in history, who together make up the collective human race which, in Adam, stands guilty before God.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

Man objectivates his ultimate and permanent characteristics in the course of his individual and collective history, though he exercises them in every one of his acts - without actually realizing it.

Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh, who judge this inchoate NGO uprising as presently «the only force we see that can break the global gridlock,» finish their important study with a judgment about its high stakes: «The great question of our age is whether people, acting with the spirit, energy, and urgency our collective crisis requires, can develop a democratic global consciousness rooted in authentic local communities.

For Man, by the act of «noospherically» concentrating himself upon himself, not only becomes reflectively aware of the ontological current on which he is borne, but also gains control of certain of the springs of energy which dictate this advance: above all, collective springs, in so far as he consciously realizes the value, biological efficiency and creative nature of social organization; but also individual springs m as much as, through the collective work of science, he feels himself to be on the verge of acquiring the power of physicochemical control of the operations of heredity and morphogenesis in the depths of his own being.

From 1870, the state has taken increasing control, although the Church of England and Roman Catholic churches still have a significant role, and religious education, which now includes teaching about the other major world religions as well as Christianity, is still required, as well as a daily act of collective worship.

[15] In each case, the collective is a set of simultaneous individual acts of worship.

Out of these shared convictions and the culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens in their origins, the common destiny for which they longed, and the virtues necessary for success in their individual and collective journeys through life.

Most humans will act for the good of the collective (as long as it benefits themselves as well, self preservation is a driving force).

In this collective smog the abortion issue acts as a kind of volatile precipitant, causing all the various elements of angst in church, state and society to condense and focus themselves with a terrible intensity.

The very fact that we are here in growing numbers and walking up to receive the ashes is an act of public and collective defiance of the destructive situation that has been forced upon us.

Stanley Hauerwas devotes the first part of A Community of Character to demonstrating the intimate connection between character and story.1 «Every community and polity,» he writes, «involves and requires a narrative, «2 actually a constellation of stories, that acts to indicate and to inculcate a society's collective character.

The very act of attempting to convert one's colleague may be an act of solidarity, a way of creating a mutual bond, and the pastor who preaches in individualistic terms may still invoke a sense of community by calling — in the collective setting of the morning worship service — for unity amid diversity.

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

«The Fair Labor Standards Act provides employees the ability to join forces in a «collective action» and seek justice from large corporations that they could not afford to bring on their own,» said David Lichter, a co-founder and partner of Higer Lichter & Givner, one of the law firms representing plaintiffs in this case.

He was just a dude who wasn't hitting or acting like a part of a single - minded collective.

What's irking me the most since last night is the gall of these Juve, Barca & Bayern fans to play the collective victim card and act as if football is being destroyed by RM as a sport.

However, waiting won't change the unsupportive support spreading as a result of this collective ignorance of society so those unintentional acts must be addressed.

Thankfully, Schumer said, the cuts don't take effect until January 2013, which gives lawmakers plenty of time to get their collective act together.

The United States and others who are acting in collective defense of Iraq and Turkey are in a precarious position.

But he's tired of waiting for the Republicans to get their collective act together.

Furthermore, the condemnation of every Tom, Dick and Harry of the act is ample attestation of the fact that the perpetrators have offended the collective conscience of the Ghanaian people,» he said.

And, acting in concert or in competition, they can also leverage the collective intelligence of widely scattered sources to discover truth faster than traditional journalists ever could.

No one knows what President Trump will seek to do to international trade agreements, to immigration laws, to the United States» network of bilateral and collective defence agreements, to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, to the fragile condition of race relations in the United States, or to the Affordable Care Act.

«The greatest pressure we can put to bear on Iran to change the behavior is a collective pressure,» a goal which was to be achieved by continuing to work in conjunction with other nations, as opposed to adopting the Trump idiosyncrasy of acting unilaterally.

When the failed Republican American Health Care Act was pulled from the House on Friday, there was a collective sigh of relief among Obamacare supporters and participants.