Sentences with phrase «culture of support for»

We pride ourselves on our culture of support for our sales team, a stellar reputation within our industry and community, and our focus on family.»

The model is designed to increase Latino enrollment by creating and strengthening the connection between Latino families and the school, while fostering a culture of support for children's academic education and spiritual formation.

Our goal for the next decade is to create a culture of support for the best and brightest minds.

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Those four questions are at the core of a fascinating (and slim) new book, Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business, by John Quelch and Emily Boudreau — which grew out of a conference of the same name held in April at Harvard Business School and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

If you're used to having support staff at your beck and call to handle matters large and small, you could be in for a real jolt of culture shock on your first solo day.

The prospect of a Harper majority appeared to fade as Quebec lashed back against his perceived insensitivity to the value of government support for culture.

CMIT Solutions has cultivated its culture of passion with the support of Lisa McLeod, a sales leadership expert, best selling author and motivational speaker known for creating passionate purpose driven sales organizations.

The extensive pan-industry study has uncovered significant deficiencies in Canadian industry capabilities for effective commercialization — notably, poor competitive competencies, a weak culture of collaboration and a pervasive lack of funding and smart support for innovation in commercialization.

Morneau said the government wants to support a «culture of lifelong learning» with targeted help for unemployed youth looking for work, indigenous peoples with funding to assist with the cost of post-secondary education and adult students seeking to enhance their skills.

While it is encouraging to see the high level of support from Chinese companies, for whatever reason, the unfortunate truth is that not all leading domestic Chinese companies are able to serve the one belt, one road as they are constrained by traditions, culture, and language barriers.

It has an entrepreneurial culture, research powerhouses, support for early - stage entrepreneurs, sources of capital, a talented pool of workers, and a strong media to tell startup stories.

Target's team is a source of pride for the company, and leaders focus on creating a diverse and engaged workforce supported by an inclusive culture.

I think it has inspired me to support and create other styles of business culture that value diverse perspectives and, I believe, are more effective for bringing out the best in a team.

For years, most prominently in sales driven cultures, the inside sales teams and inbound marketers have been relegated to the second tier in terms of budget, talent, perception, and support.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

Scroll down to hear David and Brian discuss strategies, anecdotes, and key industry statistics that support the preeminence of great sales culture as the defining trait of today's top sales organizations - and the north star for modern VPs, Managers, and Operations Leads charged with hitting high growth numbers.

Our global management team is comprised of experienced, forward - thinking leaders who are dedicated to fueling the success of our partner agencies and supporting their unique and differentiated cultures to drive outstanding business results for clients.

Other writers have described other causes: the lobbying for same - sex marriage, the feminists» push for liberation from marriage duties, their legislative victories in getting states to adopt unilateral divorce, the culture's glorification of single moms, and the financial incentives for illegitimacy and divorce that flow from the welfare, child support, and domestic violence bureaucracies.

Tenderness separated from the source of tenderness thus supports a «popular piety» that goes unexamined, a piety in which liberalism in its decline establishes dogmatic rights, rights that in an extreme» as presently in the arguments for abortion in the political sphere and for «popular culture» in the academic» become absolute dogma to be accepted and not examined.

In addition Findlay comments that it was also a culture - changing time when an outpouring of support from outside the South in the struggle for racial justice forced this issue toward the beginning of a resolution.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

It really inspires me to think that maybe my generation will be the one to sever the marriage between evangelicalism and politics, end the culture wars, and redirect our efforts toward feeding the hungry, helping the homeless, advocating for the helpless, pursuing racial reconciliation, supporting single moms, rejecting the seductive pull of power and violence, and earning a repuation as peacemakers.

His support for the unborn resonated with Americans fighting the consequences of Roe v. Wade: The right to life movement received a new language and dimension when he first spoke about a «Culture of Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vitae.

The way I personally was treated by the leftist poetry world in the run - up to the invasion of Iraq is one of the things that helped convince me to support the war: If their objections to the invasion were all culture - war retreads ¯ the open expression of anti-Semitism and hatred of Christianity were particularly appalling ¯ then I figured I should be for the invasion.

For that reason only we find now the ruling powers are in the hands of secular non religious ones... The conference above stated that the secular regimes in the West had used the indifference between religions, branches, doctrines by creating «Fitnah» said to be harder than killing... because you get all those with Fitnah to fight among them selves... beside establishing and supporting terrorist groups to get the area unstable far from investment and development environment that has caused the mass immigration of the capital heads, professions and skilled labour hands from their countries to the west and be treated as garbage at countries that they do not belong to whether as culture, race or religion....

I like my culture and my freedom... women are not material objects and you're a pig for supporting the oppression of them.

He receives support from the immigrant community he had sought to avoid when he embarked for London, wishing to conquer the heights of British culture.

In response to the pervasive relativism in contemporary culture, and the form of relativism that is called religious syncretism in the dialogue between religions — a problem that came in for special attention at a recent Synod for Asia — CDF, with the Pope's express support, is reiterating the Church's faith that Jesus is, as he said of himself, the way, the truth, and the life.

Soviet spies were of the left generally, they supported liberal causes, they defended the Soviet Union in all circumstances, they were often secret members of the Communist Party, they were uniformly suspicious of American initiatives throughout the world, they could be contemptuous of American democracy, society, and culture, and, above all, their offenses were often minimized or explained away by apologists who felt that no man should be called traitor who did what he did for the cause of humanity.

That kind of power is something the Church still has in some cultures today, but there's nothing in the New Testament that supports this kind of power for the Church at all.

It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

This museum, on the other hand, is supported fully by city taxes and to have such disregard for the culture of the area clearly shows a need to replace administration.

Is support for the civil rights of homosexuals a form of support for «gay culture»?

Indeed, a major incentive to archaeological discovery lay precisely in the desire of students of the Bible to find in the records of this ancient culture some support for their faith in the Bible.

Citing books by Al Gore and Bill McKibben to support his critique of our consumer - oriented culture, French emphasizes the crucial role churches can and should play in sensitizing us to the need for sacrifice if we are to reverse the destruction.

For Christians, such aid also aligns with our convictions to care for the poor and support a culture of liFor Christians, such aid also aligns with our convictions to care for the poor and support a culture of lifor the poor and support a culture of life.

For example, the Bible is frequently quoted in support of opposition to portrayals of sex and violence in the media but not often to challenge the practice of western media corporations destroying poorer indigenous cultures by selling cheap western entertainment that under - cuts local programming, even though protection of the poor is a strong biblical message.

Third, all but one of Niebuhr's options take for granted that Christians have a common identity with the surrounding culture, that church and culture will mutually support each other, and if there are problems in the culture, Christians are responsible to fix them.

I really want to support you because I love your website so much — I would be willing to pay much more for a cookbook that has all of the photos your website as well as an alphabetized search index and all of the great info you have about Korean culture and ingredients.

«So we built out our infrastructure to support the development and training of our people and to maintain our brand's culture that we have had for 25 years.

It requires a re-education of our culture to understand how to take responsibility for what you are putting in your bodies and what type of food production you want to support.

And finally, they are calling for public policies to support such food systems and food cultures, based firmly on the universal right to food and the satisfaction of basic human needs.

In addition, as part of the brand's unique culture, the restaurant will donate 10 percent of the restaurant's proceeds to benefit the Zoological Society of Florida, the support organization for Zoo Miami, on Tuesday, July 21.

Whether you want to show your support for Mexican heritage — and the large contribution Mexican culture has made to the melting pot of the U.S., or if you're simply looking for an excuse to whip up sangria and enchiladas, Cinco de Mayo is a holiday worth celebrating!

«Campbell's support for the WFF Volunteer of the Year Award is a natural extension of our values, culture and commitment to social responsibility.

In Uruguay the dictates of Latin culture are discouraging enough to female athletes, and financial support for athletes of both sexes flows fitfully.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision