Sentences with phrase «community took it upon»

Newly freed slaves and the black community took it upon themselves to educate their next generation.

Those scrapped plans were an enormous tease for players who fell in love with the island, so a fraction of the community took it upon themselves to complete that original, ambitious vision.

Not exact matches

Take this discussion a step further by incorporating customer feedback and producing iterations of the product based upon the discussions held in the community.

This is somewhat random depending upon the nature of the payments that take place in the community and on which banks» customers are the recipients of government spending or are paying tax.

The occasions themselves, after all, are discrete energy - events which would have no community or solidarity with one another without the implicit presupposition of a field or medium within which they first arise and then take their «place» relative to each other upon completion of their process of concrescence.

In addition to leading activism efforts in our local communities and providing pastoral care to those devastated by the verdict, we also took to Twitter, blogs, pulpits and conference podiums to call upon white Christians to wake up to the reality of racism in America.

Selfishness must be transformed by enlarging the idea of what the self is, expanding the personality until it takes in our friends, our community, our nation, our world, so that one does not need to stamp upon his self, but can say,

«God is Love», says the first letter of St. John, summing up in that simple three - word phrase the conviction to which the primitive Christian community had come when it thought about, meditated upon, responded to, and in profound acceptance came to grasp what indeed God was «up to» in that crucial event which took place at a given moment in history.

The «fact of Jesus,» in any important and really true sense, was Jesus as he was known and remembered in the community, and the testimony upon which we must rely for any knowledge of this fact must be taken as equally valid testimony to the resurrection.

Accepting the heterogeneity of its members, the congregation takes upon itself a synthesizing activity for the world at large and strives to develop a paradigmatic fellowship, a foretaste of the ultimate community of all humanity.

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...

Perhaps the future of cosmic evolution depends considerably upon how communities of human individuals take shape.

The decline of Western Europe's world position, the rise of existentialist philosophies and moods, the Western «return to religion,» the rise of communism, and the resurgence of Eastern civilizations on a religious base, have all conspired to bring about this new situation, wherein the secular intellectual, like the religious believer, takes his place as a member of one group of men, one of the world's communities, looking out upon the others.

In trying to develop upon the emphasis of Our Faith Story the most that OTWTL can affirm of the Church's role is this: «conversion is essentially a response to an encounter with Christ as truth mediated in the community of witness, that is the Church... (such that) we are «re-narrated» as we take on an identity which is conferred by grace.

Each board member shall serve on two Standing Committees except that upon request of the member, and taking into consideration of the needs of the board and its committees as well as the member's other contributions to the board and the community, the Chair may allow a member to serve on one Standing Committee only.

Warsi also dismissed the idea that pressure should be placed upon British Muslims to root out extremists within their midst, commenting that «when you say this is something that the Muslim community needs to weed out, or deal with, that is a very dangerous step to take.»

McGuire succeeds Dr. Grant Mitchell, the county's commissioner of Community Mental Health who took on the added role of acting commissioner of Social Services in July upon the retirement of Kevin Mahon.

This was made clear when Community Board 1, upon hearing that Governor Andrew Cuomo, shortly after taking office, was thinking of removing Chris Ward from the Port's helm, unanimously passed a resolution calling on the new governor -LSB-...]

Many youths from the community, who drank the local gin, were said to have queued up in their numbers upon sighting the ambulance of the state Ministry of Health, waiting to be taken to Owerri, the Imo State capital.

Understanding the central role the park plays in community life in the 8th District, upon taking office Legislator Bruso began reaching out to residents and community leaders and toured the park with the Parks Commissioner.

It is at those times especially, when he emerges as the dominant species in an environment, that man must take care not to make demands upon the community that may destroy his habitat.

Initially upon going 100 percent vegan, I immersed myself fully into both the vegan and raw food communities only to find that I was disappointed in the quarrel's that were taking place.

Taking inspiration from the personal life of his leading man (Lustig is a widowed grocer upon whose stories the screenplay is loosely based), Weinstein draws on his experience as a documentary film - maker to conjure a drama rooted in the reality of these characters and their community.

But with the threat of an ominous «enclosure» to stem the violence and an increase in tensions, the crew decides to take it upon themselves to promote a 48 - hour cease - fire, with free haircuts for the duration, hoping to inspire peace talks and community bonding.

The police have no identity for the young woman, an immigrant and probably a streetwalker, so the doctor takes the responsibility upon herself and follows the trail into outskirts of the community she's never really experienced.

Managing director Graham Shennan said: «We've taken the time to look at what's really important in education and settled upon a two - tier approach, where we can offer development solutions through Community Plus alongside a new range of model schools.»

The award ceremony is the culminating highlight of the network's 4th annual Charter Awareness Day taking place that morning, which will see students, families, educators and representatives from the state's public charter school community descend upon Nathan Hale Hall for a day of celebration and advocacy.

Reliance upon supplemental funding through bonds and overrides disadvantages schools; while wealthy districts may be able to generate additional resources, they don't always have community support and underprivileged communities — serving Latino students in particular — often don't take the risk due to the little reward.

For years, black women have been taking it upon themselves to impact their communities in the most direct way possible.

At the federal level, we continue to impress upon policymakers the importance of addressing the challenges that community schools take on.

Or take your own spin, or improve upon it, even better, but more specifically, like anything else, it comes down to the community that you can engage.

Based upon extensive research of successful feral cat management in various communities in the United States, SCFN took a different approach.

Graduate Community Upon Graduation, alumni are invited to join and take part in an online community for Starmark GraduaCommunity Upon Graduation, alumni are invited to join and take part in an online community for Starmark Graduacommunity for Starmark Graduates only.

We admire the runners fighting for the high - energy dogs, the nurturers fighting for the bottle babies, the suckers for cute who help socialize puppies and kittens, those who see the wisdom and beauty in the eyes of an older dog, the angels who take in hospice cases, the skilled caretakers who make medical rehabilitation possible, the big hearted fosters consistently serving as the bridge to a new life, the visionaries attacking the problem at its source through spay / neuter services and community outreach, the writers, photographers, videographers, and forces of marketing who make the animals shine, the adoption counselors and matchmakers who help animals and humans find each other, and the every day dog walkers, kennel cleaners, bowl fillers, and paperwork filers who provide the very foundation upon which the rest of us stand.

Bungie can not only draw upon their experiences with the Halo franchise but also build upon them with Destiny, taking gunplay, vehicular combat and designs to a whole new level, completely unrestricted by any shackles that a rabid community places on them.

But fans have criticized Nintendo's lack of support for the Smash Bros. scene, with players and community organizers having to take it upon themselves to set up tournaments and events.

With Soulcalibur V now unleashed upon the fighting game community, it's time for BGM Mode to take a look back at the series's epic soundtracks.

With extensive support for modding, many members of the community have taken it upon themselves to take the game even further — sometimes changing the game completely, other times just fixing what was considered broken or unrealistic.

Let's hope that Reverge builds upon some of the great ideas on display here and that the larger community of fighting game developers take a cue from Reverge Labs» tutorial structure.

Every level of the game can be remixed, added to and expanded upon and the community are free to build their own challenges with their own takes on the core levels.

The licenses cover the publicly available game data of the Arma series and Take On Helicopters and their use by the community for their own works, as it is our best interest to allow the community to build upon our data.

Expanding upon the exhibition that took place at Palais de Tokyo in Paris from October 2015 to January 2016, I ♥ John Giorno has been re-conceptualized specifically for New York, highlighting Giorno's significant relationship with the city, and his singular role in creating and fostering community here.

Check back for reviews of the other four main venues.While the varied presentation at Athens Conservatoire allows itself to touch upon the idiosyncrasies of our current context — politics, identity, immigration, neoliberalism — as a whole it can perhaps be taken as a hopeful reinvestment in community, conversation, and the processes of questioning.

Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic of childhood and the power dynamics of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.

Provoked by a lack of LGBTQ visual histories, Muholi took it upon herself to create an archive of images that documented her community.

The Studios» residency program is community - based and built upon the hope that visiting artists will take inspiration from Key West's rich artistic past and present, and will engage with — and be inspired by — the remarkable people and culture that surrounds them.

«Once Upon Unfolding Times» invites visitors to become submerged in parallel universes and to take a tour through a fictional city that is constantly shifting based on the actions of each community member.

The Hyogo Framework for Action, negotiated in 2005 in the wake of the tsunami, sets out priorities for disaster risk reduction and calls upon the international community to take practical steps to make communities safer.

She released a statement about why she undertook today's action: Today I'm taking action because Vermont Gas is intent upon shackling our communities to fossil fuels, and condemning us to irreversible climate change.

The witch - hunting obsessions of the climate cult took them into the realm of total absurdity with March's «Open Letter to Museums From Members of the Scientific Community,» which called upon museum administrators to begin refusing donations from the evil fossil - fuel industry.