Sentences with phrase «community than the place»

She is strongly invested in local and state politics and cares more about having a voice in her home community than the place she currently attends school.

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«Ending DACA would place severe economic strain on businesses around the country, putting them into the impossible and extremely costly position of having to fire productive employees for no other reason than an arbitrary change in federal policy, potentially resulting in backlash from other employees, or their broader community,» the report reads.

It's always seemed like more socializing than business, but you can't deny that it's a massive community and a place to reach people.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

Rather than helping to create opportunity in impoverished communities, some microloan programs have stymied growth as lending agents have pocketed much of the cash raised and placed borrowers in an inescapable cycle of debt.

With a community of more than 2 billion people, all around the world, in every different country, where there are wildly different social and cultural norms, it's just not clear to me that us sitting in an office here in California are best placed to always determine what the policies should be for people all around the world.

The Youpreneur Community is more than just a place to surround yourself with other entrepreneurs that «get it».

Our group of girls is such a tight - knit community that I'm so fortunate to be a part of, and they're all so brilliant with what they're able to accomplish, it's absolutely incredible, and I thought it would be great for us to have one place, rather than countless apps, to showcase ourselves and just get to know each other better!

As was recently communicated by more than 80 prominent Canadian business leaders, organizations and communities, the global reputation of our country as a safe and secure place to invest and do business is at serious risk.

For more than 100 years, Girl Scouts and their enthusiastic supporters have helped ensure the success of the iconic annual cookie sale — and they've had fun, developed valuable life skills, and made their communities a better place every step of the way.

Some communities start from a better place than others.

And yet the vast majority say their communities are very good places to live, that Americans are not hostile toward Muslims, and that American Muslims have a better quality of life than Muslims elsewhere, the survey of more than 1,000 American Muslims has found.

Knowing that God placed the desire in us not just for Him, but also for community and relationships should give us hope that when we fulfill those desires, they are actually from Him, and sometimes that may look different than we originally imagined.

A blog with a community of discussion like this is an excellent place to bring this out since it's easy for many voices to weigh in, rather than just those specially chosen to give their view.

Among these, none is more appropriate for emphasis in a discussion of community mental health than the observation that healing seems to have taken place almost invariably in some corporate context.

The bishops seem to see American society and its institutions as a market rather than a community united by a common culture — a place where strangers work and pursue their economic interests, not a society where people share common bonds and shared responsibilities.

It makes sense that more religious than nonreligous people are going to going to consider their community a nice place to live because It doesn't bother religious people that the average community is clogged with churches.

Could it not also be looked on in another way, that religion has caused Sophia to hate herself through the indoctrination and be encouraging women to escape and find freedom from such religion to a place of healing from self hatred and community that is more healthy than the opressive religious forces that are depicted in the picture.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

I suspect he will end up in a different place than Billy Graham and don't think he has any qualifications in the Christian community.

But we have our own purity codes these days — people we cast out from our communities or surround with Bible - wielding mobs, labels we assign to those who don't fit, conditions we place on God's grace, theological and behavioral checklists we hand out before baptism or communion, sins real or imagined we delight in taking seriously because we'd like to think they are much more severe than our own.

I was naive to think that the community was any different than any other place.

-LSB-...] With the word of Spirit and of freedom, a further horizon opens up, but at the same time a clear limit is placed upon arbitrariness and subjectivity, which unequivocally binds both the individual and the community and brings about a new, higher obligation than that of the letter: namely, the obligation of insight and love.

However, many bloggers such as yourself, David, Frogist, NL, etc. seem not to have any interest in learning from religion (which makes me wonder why you're here in the first place, no offense) other than to incite the Christian community which, for the most part, overwhelmingly disagrees with ordaining openly gay pastors.

(Mingana writes, «We do not deny that the persecution of Sapar gave a stimulus to the emigration of more Christians from southern Persia to India; and indeed there is every possibility that such an emigration did actually take place: but we do make that there is also every possibility that a Christian community of comparatively important size existed before that time in India, and it was more the existence of this community that attracted co-religionists from Persia in the time of persecution than the bare sword of Sapar.»

Rather than releasing the autonomous individual and placing him in a context of genuine participatory community, socialism has been seen as a system that crushes the individual under a centralized bureaucratic structure even more effectively than corporate capitalism.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

A brilliant writer and orator, Jabotinsky argued impressively that Palestine on both sides of the Jordan should be made the place of salvation for the wretched Jews of eastern Europe rather than the Jewish «spiritual center» or «model community»» proclaimed by Ha - Am and Buber.

For some of us the place for building community is in our neighborhoods, which tend to be held together more by mortgages and zoning laws than by the religious understanding of the word «neighbor.»

Food and Drink - Fall 2011 -(Page 48) > r RESTAURANTS Mark's Pizzeria Community Spirit Mark's Pizzeria does more than sell pizza as it works to make its communities in upstate New York better places to live.

I do not include losing final appearances or second place in the league, as I have more ambition for our club than those who regard Community Shields and near misses as trophies.

He recently returned to his place of birth to give something back to the community, and possibly give them a chance to convince him to play for Jamaica rather than England!

Last season, United won the FA Community Shield, the EFL Cup, and the UEFA Europa League, earning a place in the group stages of the Champions League this season, which United could not do by finishing sixth in the Premier League, the competition the club found tougher than the others.

By the teen years, they will be shoveling the neighbor's walk, building the neighbor a lawn border, sorting food at the food bank, picking up garbage on the river bank, and volunteering in the community for no other reward than the good feeling of making the world a better place to live.

On the community service front, Pope wants to see students become part of a like - minded community that shares their passions, rather than feeling like they have to do unusual projects in remote places.

Health Foundations is so much more than a place to give birth or receive quality health care — it is a place where people's dreams are made possible, where families grow and where community is built.

Much more than an online community, the members - only PATH forums are a place where the conversation is uplifting, provocative, practical, and very supportive.

But placing requirements on the meals» contents without committing to the provision of a Nutrition Education programs which reaches well beyond the school setting out into the community will do nothing more than make for all that much more very nutritious, very expensive garbage.

A child misbehaving (acting foolishly) = (perception) that parents aren't correcting child and A child misbehaving (acting foolishly) = judgment not from God (the only One equipped to judge) but from others in faith community and Judgment from others = not good feeling then not good feeling = fear of other's assessment of parenting choices and then fear of opinions of others = parenting from a place of fear of man rather than leadership from God through His Word and the movement of His Spirit within

In 293 communities throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Great Britain, more than 160,000 Junior League members have been the driving force behind the kinds of initiatives and institutions that make communities healthier, more vital places to live: childhood immunization, family literacy, women's shelters, children's museums, historic preservation, leadership development, and more.

Despite such differences, in the late 1890s many of the residents of the Boston Insane Hospital had more in common with the founders of Mass Audubon than we might think — both shared an understanding of the natural world as an essential part of everyday life, as a place of personal meaning and healing, and as a common good to be shared with the community.

With more than 25 years serving the community, Big & Little is a great place for your child to learn, grow and make friends.

Besides the relatively low cost - per - acquisition (competitive with Google Ads, and significantly cheaper than most digital channels), online recruiters like drawing support from these two online communities because their members are primed to act — not a surprise, considering that they've gone out of their way to join Care2 / Change in the first place!

When Tony Avella was our councilman, he being honored in Rego Park, Astoria, Jamaica, all because he was running to do «public service» other than what he was elected to do in our community in the first place.

There is much common ground, too, with the ideas for «community - wealth building» being developed very concretely by the Democracy Collaborative in the US, though there is a stronger emphasis in their work on the need to root capital in specific places than one usually finds in the alternative liberal tradition.

Even though only about 13 percent of rent - stabilized apartments turn over each year, a report released on Tuesday by the antipoverty group Community Service Society of New York argued that the vacancy allowance, which has been in place since 1969, is so high that it contributes more to the overall rise in stabilized rents than the annual increases.

«I've been proud to call Southern Nevada home for more than 35 years and it's been an incredible place to work, raise a family, care for my parents and volunteer in the community.

And travelling communities need safe places more than ever in the face of so much fear and hostility.

Francesca Carlow is a scrupulously honest person who has lived in our district, raised her family, built a business and been a well known community leader for 30 years, a person who, while not a professional career politician, made the decision to get involved in public service with no goal other than to make long island and New York State a better place to live work and play.

«Gov. Rossello didn't have to ask because in New York, we are family with the Puerto Rican community and with family, you don't have to ask for help,» he said, noting that New York is home to more Puerto Ricans than any other place outside the island territory.