Sentences with phrase «community leaders called»

24 HRS, VANCOUVER: Filipino Community Leaders Call for Federal Gov» t to Protect Temporary Foreign Workers

At 1 p.m., state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, Rep. Nydia Velasquez, Assembly members Felix Ortiz, JoAnne Simon and Diana Richardson, Brooklyn BP Eric Adams, historic preservation advocates and community leaders call on the state to fully investigate a possible African burial ground site, 193 Ninth St., Brooklyn.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Joe Crowley, Sen. Jose Peralta, Assemblyman Francisco Moya and community leaders call for the renovation of the dilapidated 110th Police Precinct building, and propose to build a Precinct Satellite station within Flushing Meadows - Corona Park, Corona, Queens.

Senator Klein, Assemblyman Crespo and Hunts Point Community Leaders Call for Official Recognition of African Slave Burial Ground at Drake Park

Protecting History: Senator Klein, Assemblyman Crespo and Bronx Community Leaders Call for Official Recognition of African Slave Burial Ground at Drake Park

Also at 10:30 a.m., Sen. Jose Peralta and community leaders call on the New York state Liquor Authority to stop granting on premise liquor licenses for new nightclubs along Roosevelt Avenue, 78th Street and Roosevelt Avenue, Queens.

The recommendations are consistent with a statement issued in 2008 by scientific community leaders calling on the U.S. government to establish conditions conducive to a thriving scientific enterprise.

The campaign kicked off with the release of a letter signed by over 160 Black education and community leaders calling on the NAACP to reconsider and to learn more about the benefits of charter schools.

About 50.000 Kuna's live on the 49 major islands of San Blas and are controlled by their own community leader called a Sahila.

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To keep a step ahead of emerging scams, the Call Center also collaborates with a number of key leaders and community partners including the Attorney General's Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, the Washington State Crime Prevention Association, the Better Business Bureau, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

Called «a cult legend in the online - community building world» by Mashable, Ryan is now focused on creating a strong membership experience and positive business outcomes for thousands of successful executives, thought leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs across the country.

There have been calls for a return to local ownership among Times staffers and community leaders throughout the past 18 years.

EDMONTON — Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley is calling on the Alberta government to commit to funding the Edmonton Drug Treatment and Community Restoration Court, a unique program in the city that provides a path to meaningful rehabilitation while at the same time improving community safety and saviCommunity Restoration Court, a unique program in the city that provides a path to meaningful rehabilitation while at the same time improving community safety and savicommunity safety and saving money.

He called Gov. Mike Pence a «leader who truly understands the potential for the business community here in Indiana.»

On a press call this afternoon, a Honduran TPS holder living in Miami, Mayor Bauters of Emeryville, California, and Florida community leaders discussed the importance of extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the 57,000 Honduran immigrants currently protected under the... Continue reading»

True leadership does not simply influence the community to follow the leader's vision, but also enables the community to face its most critical challenges and to be what God calls and enables it to be.

For me (as for most of us in the movement I think) it's always been about ideas and action and communities, not about any particular personalities or so - called «leaders.»

In recent months, we've seen a civil rights leader address an evangelical conference and clumsily call out the pro-life community for a failure to address racial injustice.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency: German court ruling on circumcision riles Jewish community Germany's top Jewish leader called on the federal Parliament «to ensure religious freedom» following a Cologne court ruling that said circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm.

The purpose of community, the purpose of our government, the purpose of our leaders should be to call us to pursue common values and common good, not simply in the moment of extreme crisis but every day in our lives, starting right now, today.»

not only do so - called «leaders» have to just become a part, but the other members of the community (whatever kind of community it is) need to accept the so - called «leader» as a part.

On these and other matters, he would tell the bishops that, «as preachers of the gospel and leaders of the Catholic community, you are also called to participate in the exchange of ideas in the public square....

Not too many women have a story of how their church community called them out as a leader long before they saw that gift in themselves.

He asks why «no word of condemnation comes from any Arab regime regarding the murder of innocent Iraqis on a daily basis» and points out that «so - called Muslim community leaders... have also failed to condemn these killings of fellow Muslims, while finding every «contextual» excuse for global Islamic violence.»

Yesterday I took a break (or gave the people a break) from my teaching, and Kathy Mullin spoke, one of the community's elders or leaders or whatever you want to call her.

Our aim is to call and form local leaders who can be good news for their communities.»

«Most evangelicals — leaders from all seven denominations — have expressed concerns,» Sergey Rakhuba, president of Mission Eurasia and a former Moscow church - planter, told CT. «They're calling on the global Christian community to pray that Putin can intervene and God can miraculously work in this process.»

The latter is apt to be rather more aware of himself as primarily a person being professionally trained to fulfill a key - office, as an administrator, executive and leader in a vast and important department of the community life of the American people, than as a man on whom God has laid an arresting hand calling him out of that life in the first instance in order to be sent back into it on that basis to a ministerial and prophetic task.

Most communities fall apart quite quickly from my experience of them, and it almost always boils down to control issues on the part of the so - called self appointed leaders.

He conjectures why leaders of larger churches feel less comfortable using the word evangelical: «As a church grows, the core becomes surrounded by larger concentric circles that Rick Warren called the «crowd» and «community».

Such residential experiences of what Briel called a «truly Catholic community of conviction» lend themselves well to serious vocational discernment, and to the formation of true leaders for the future.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

(CNN)-- An influential Christian leader is calling for the evangelical community to match the Catholic church's efforts mobilizing against the Obama administration's policy on contraception coverage.

Community leaders, unions and churches are backing a call for the club to increase the pay of workers employed by contractors, such as waitresses and cleaners.

Partnering with local leaders, World Vision helped the community build and maintain a better dam — a beautiful reservoir of deep blue beneath a mountain called Hunu, capable of providing irrigation to ver 170 families and even stocked with fish for extra protein.

New park facilities planned for 1999 include the completion of a 12 - acre park in Chinatown, to be called Ping Tom Park in honor of the community leader who pushed for turning the stretch of industrial wasteland into a riverfront property for public use.

I get calls here and there, sometimes from parents, sometimes from La Leche League leaders, who want community AP support.

We call for unanimous support and encouragementfrom skilled breastfeeding counsellors, family members, community leaders, health care providers, policymakers and across all humanitarian sectors.

Jeanne has served for eight years as a Senior Mastery Core Leader in the thousands - strong Feminine Power global community, co-founded by Claire Zammit, Ph.D. (c), and Calling in «The One» national bestselling author Katherine Woodward Thomas, M.A., M.F.T. Jeanne is currently preparing to launch a live seven - week empowerment workshop for women in the Los Angeles area.

The youth and opinion leaders of the town are therefore calling for a mass transfer of all teachers in the community as they claim the phenomenon has existed for long and can't be allowed to continue.

Also at 11 a.m., IDC Leader Jeff Klein and Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj, community leaders and angry neighbors, will call on Airbnb and similar sites to immediately take down an advertisement for a home turned B&B on a quiet, residential street that's been the site many of loud, lewd and late parties, 2437 Fenton Ave., the Bronx.

THE BIBLICAL PATTERN FOR CHURCH IS THIS: Every Christian should gather together to hear the Scriptures and worship Jesus together with other believers weekly (see Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Acts 2:42; Colossians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 16:19; Colossians 4:15; Romans 16:5; Acts 20:20; James 2:2; Psalm 84:4; Psalm 37:17; Psalm 92:13) It is also good to meet for smaller groups of Christian community in each other's homes regularly (see Acts 2:46) It's good to have leaders overseeing the work and needs of each local church — this is the Biblical pattern — not all of us are called to church leadership, and so we should submit to, and serve whoever God has called to lead at the place we find ourselves (see Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5; Hebrews 13:7, 17; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 - 13; Philippians 1:1 b; Ephesians 4:11 - 12; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Peter 5:1 - 2; Acts 20:17;) If there are believers who are unable for physical reasons to attend a church weekly, they should find a church or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their own home.

Also at noon, Community Service Society and Riders Alliance's Grassroots Fair Fares leaders engage subway riders to call de Blasio's office and get on the record in support of Fair Fares, corner of the intersection of West 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, in front of the the A / B / C / D subway stop, Manhattan.

Some of the areas elected leaders, including Congressman Brian Higgins, are calling on the community to join them in supporting President Obama's plan to fight climate change.

Our side — education advocates, community groups, students, health care providers, faith leaders — held fast to the ideal of progressive taxation and called for the millionaires» tax to be extended, but no one was terribly optimistic about our chances.

Also at 11 a.m., state Sen. Sue Serino, Assemblymember Didi Barrett, Scenic Hudson, Legislative and community leaders and activists call on Cuomo to sign legislation giving the state broader authority to protect the Hudson River after the Coast Guard's recent anchorage proposal, Quiet Cove Riverfront Park, 1 Clear Water Dr., Poughkeepsie.

The new leader of Erie Community College is calling for change.

Last Friday, a coalition of Muslim leaders issued a joint statement calling on the Muslim community to mobilise against the BNP threat and get out and vote.

On congressional primary day in June, Espaillat claimed a narrow victory, leaving Wright calling for a recount, but soon community leaders brought pressure on Wright to move on and accept defeat, which he did.

U.S. Rep. Nydia Velasquez (D - Brooklyn), meanwhile, tossed her support behind Jung, calling him a «time - tested community leader»: