Sentences with phrase «efforts at a history»

The result must rank among the most readable efforts at a history of the field.

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One Belt, One Road represents China's biggest overseas spending effort ever, a project that, adjusted for inflation, is at least 12 times the size of the Marshall Plan, the history - changing U.S. program that helped rebuild Western Europe from rubble after World War II.

But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

When Betts arrived, the company's market share sat at 14.9 %, the lowest in its history and efforts to modernize the Canadian operation had only lodged it deeper in the grease trap.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

Many efforts at situating God in time and history have been made.

Your difficulty is that you want to try to live in history without sinning... our effort to set up the Kingdom of God on earth ends in a perverse preference for tyranny, simply because the peace of tyranny means, at least, the absence of war (Love and Justice [Westminster, 1957]-RRB-.

Christian love must be seen in its positive significance for human efforts in history, and at the same time its transcendent position of judgment upon all human effort must be preserved.

CNN: Baby boomer nuns revolutionize health care The baby boomer generation's efforts at creating social justice dramatically transformed history — from the Vietnam War to gay rights.

When reading the history of interpretation of Scripture, one is permitted to smile but not to laugh at allegory, symbolism, typology, and levels of meaning, for these were sincere efforts to hold the Scripture as Scripture while insisting that the congregation deserved some relevant word for its own situation.

The what of Christian belief is an attempt to state all that is implied in the whom of Christian belief; and the history of the Christian Church may be read, at least in part, as the constant effort of succeeding generations of believers in Christ to think out and think through the full implications of the new relationship to God established in Christ and enjoyed in the fellowship of Christian believers in Him.

In fact, at the heart of the historical - critical method lies the effort to establish in the field of history a level of methodological precision which would yield conclusions of the same certainty as in the field of the natural sciences.

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.

The «flattening» problem that Bloom worried about was too nervous about a brutish end of history than an infinity of beastly novelties, but we've put so much effort into sanding off the sharp edges of our beastliness that it's no surprise collective naughtiness seems at the same time to be getting safer and more dangerous.

Monsignor Eleuterio F. Fortino, under - secretary at the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has stated that the proposal was «fully shared» by the Vatican.33 This means that in spite of all efforts for unity the plurality of churches persists in history.

In it Paula Hyman, Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale, traces the efforts of the Jews of France since the Revolution to enjoy the benefits of emancipation without disappearing through assimilation.

Kautsky was right when he showed that at certain points the movement of history is irresistible no matter what may be the intentions or efforts of man, while at others man has a limited possibility of modifying, bending, arresting, or dividing the course of events.

That involves both knowledge of the history of past efforts at the same task and knowledge of scholarly study (i.e., «external history») of the church's internal history.

He did it by shooting at the most efficient clip of any 30 - points - per - game scorer in Finals history, proving he's a deserved champion despite LeBron's Herculean effort.

As Ley said: «We were just doing our jobs, trying to at least report the sports news and get it down, even if our effort was only a flyspeck in history.»

Efforts to screen prospective NFL draft prospects with a history of domestic violence more effectively is not only happening at the club level, but at the league level, as well.

He said: «I am expressing here today my profound gratitude to successive generations of this great Elephant Family who have stood for freedom and justice all through our country's history, sometimes at great personal cost, and who have resisted all efforts to dismember and divide their ranks.

We are fortunate to have his leadership at this crucial moment in our history and I support his effort to transform our state finances.»

At 11 a.m., Rep. Carolyn Maloney and the Girls Scouts of Greater NY announce efforts to establish a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to American Women's history on DC's National Mall, Fearless Girl Statue, Wall Street, Manhattan.

In a related development, the State Government also commissioned the statue of «From Ebute» located at the Mobolaji Bank Anthony way, Ikeja and statue of the «Community» at Ile Zik, Ikeja as part of its effort to tell the history of the State through iconic statues and monuments spread across historical locations in the five divisions of the State.

At the core of the book is the death of the commanding officer, Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, but it isn't just a regimental history, and Harnden puts into perspective the tactical and operational decisions, and how the military effort frequently was disconnected from the wider political context.

Manhattan Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman, the Senate's only openly gay member and sponsor of a bill aimed at banning conversion therapy, praised the effort to curtail one of «the biggest consumer frauds in history.»

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

The Legislature approved $ 5,000 at today's annual Budget Meeting to support the Society's efforts to preserve local history and provide educational programming.

The release also informs us that this advertising launch is the Chamber's third campaign in the 2012 cycle and is part of the organization's largest voter education and grassroots mobilization effort in its 100 year history, aimed at highlighting candidates» positions on issues critical to the American recovery.

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James, who became the first woman of color to hold citywide office four years ago, has sued the city at least 11 times and spearheaded the passage of a bill that prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history in an effort to close the pay gap between women and men.

Officials at the Sage Colleges said they have recently concluded a $ 62.4 million fundraising campaign that surpassed their original $ 50 million goal and was the most successful fundraising effort in the institution's history.

Also at 11:30 a.m., Brightpoint Health celebrates the renaming of their renovated clinic to be called the Matilda Raffa Cuomo Health Center in honor of New York's former first lady and her long history of charitable and humanitarian efforts, 105 - 04 Sutphin Blvd., Queens.

The Legislature approved the allocation at today's annual Budget Meeting to support the museum's efforts to preserve local firefighting history and artifacts.

It is unclear whether replacing Ms. Finkle will have any significant impact, given a history of extreme violence at Rikers that stretches back decades, as well as a strong correction officers» union that has resisted even minor efforts to toughen oversight.

In his keynote talk at the 2015 Forum titled «Continuing Efforts to Improve Science Education in the U.S,» DeBoer reviewed the history of science standards development in the U.S. and the role of Project 2061 for an audience of several hundred science teachers from various Chinese provinces, many of whom were being recognized for excellence in teaching.

A discussion with Warren Wagner, chair of the botany department at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., an endowed NTBG research chair, and a father, helped Winter realize he wasn't alone in his often - exhausting effort to do several things at once.

The precise trigger for the ambush on Atahualpa is lost in history, although some accounts say tensions rose after Atahualpa took offense at the Spanish's efforts to convert him to Christianity.

I majored in history as an undergraduate — at Pomona College in Claremont, California, class of 1963 — then bailed on graduate school and became an elementary school teacher in a vain effort to calm a boyfriend's jealousy.

This fall researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make that data available to scientists studying climate, natural habitats and agricultural pests.

In this episode, Cambridge conservation scientist Andrew Balmford discusses the state of the world's birds; the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Rex Johnson talks about a new, strategic approach to conservation (both men were presenters at the recent conference «Conserving Birds in Human - Dominated Landscapes» at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the world's big cats.

The new database «is the most valuable effort to date to summarize the state of conservation and threats to the world's mammal populations,» says mammalogist Don Wilson of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. «By detailing threats at the species level, it will now be possible for management agencies in every country in the world to prioritize their efforts to try to mitigate these threats.»

The research team, including members of Prof. Keinan's lab, Prof. Eitan Friedman of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine, and Prof. Gil Azmon and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Haifa, based their study on data from the Jewish HapMap project, an international effort led by Prof. Harry Ostrer of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to determine the genetic history of worldwide Jewish diasporas.

But past efforts to glean ancient DNA from Kennewick Man failed, notes Eske Willerslev, a palaeogenomicist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, who led the current study.

Combine the effort required to run in armor with that needed to slog through mud, says Graham Askew, one of the study's leaders, and you'd expect at least a fourfold increase in energy expenditure — enough, it seems, to change history.

Candidates like Zhang who have both money and power at their disposal are rare, says an expert on history of CAS membership who asked for anonymity because he's involved in an effort to overhaul the yuanshi system.

AAAS has had a long history of supporting more diversity in science - related fields and has noted the setbacks that can occur when courts, state lawmakers, or regulators try to scale back efforts at more inclusive admissions policies.

Successful reform efforts require leadership support, and they should address all aspects of the learning environment — from the curriculum and teaching, to how classrooms are configured, said James Collins, who is the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at Arizona State University: «You can't fix one point on the continuum and expect the continuum to change.»

Efforts to harness the power of toxic chemicals and deadly organisms have been at the core of chemical and biological attacks throughout history.