Sentences with phrase «face up to decades»

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Thus one problem facing these churches in the next couple of decades will be to find ways to open up the decision - making processes to responsible theological reflection and wider accountability.

Writing more than five decades ago in Sports Illustrated, Catholic moral theologian Richard McCormick stated: «Regardless of what answer we come up with, it is both a sign and guarantee of abiding spiritual health to face issues at their moral root.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Over the next couple decades, the market came to reflect the multicultural face of modern Philadelphia, thanks to a concerted effort to seek out and persuade a variety of knowledgeable merchants to open up stores inside — from Amish in Lancaster County to Chinese a couple blocks to the east.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Wenger, as we have known for over two decades is afraid to face up to the truth and thus spouts little other than utter nonsense, claptrap and predictably boring lies, which we hear ALL the time and ridiculous cliches.

The biggest challenge over the decades has been for working dads to maintain their commitment at home in the face of resentment from your partner who is picking up the slack.

More than 31 million children in the United States participate in the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP, each school day, 1 and a large number of students consume up to half of their daily calories at school.2 Yet, many schools were built decades ago and face challenges as they strive to serve foods that meet children's dietary needs.

Weprin, the only speaker to give up his law practice, is also the only one in nearly three decades to serve without facing criminal charges tied to his practice.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who has run the Assembly for two decades, was arrested and faces up to 100 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Report author Stewart Lansley said: «Up to a third of those of working age are facing a deepening livelihood crisis, one which has brought weakening job opportunities, low living standards and a range of new economic uncertainties compared with the immediate post-war decades.

They say their clients were unjustly charged after a lobbyist made up lies to try to escape the decades in prison he could face after admitting to eight crimes.

They say their clients were unjustly charged after an associate, disgraced ex-lobbyist Todd Howe, made up lies to try to escape the decades in prison he could face after admitting to eight crimes.

It's taken David Willetts two years to sum up the problems facing Britain in the coming two decades.

The magistrates claim they are facing a 3.5 per cent annual cut in real terms funding in the coming years, but Lord Falconer insisted that over the last decade, investment in the criminal justice system had gone up from two per cent of GDP to 2.5 per cent.

Rather than apologising for a mistake made by someone else over a decade ago, Jeremy could have told Labour members how he proposes to face up to his own leadership failures.

This seems an aptcharacterization for a Labour party leadership that has had more than two decades to face up toinevitability of constitutional change in the UK, and repeatedly refused to do so (outside a brief period from 1997 to 1999).

Essentially, it is time for us to wake up and realize that a major problem we now face is unprecedented levels of neurological disease, not just the earlier dementias and thinking of the USA — «when America sneezes, Europe gets cold a decade later.»

As the Arab Spring played out over the past year and a half — as Egypt's first free presidential ballots were totaled up in late May, and Morsi faced off against a former general, Ahmed Shafik, in June — social media gave a platform to the competing voices and points of view silenced for decades under the jackboots of various Arab regimes.

Other familiar faces soon show up too (making fans of the series chuckle with recognition and astonishment at what more than a decade will do to some people's appearance), including Vikcy Lathum (Reid), Heather (Suvari) and Chuck Sherman (Chris Owen), among others.

Jason refuses to set up any of his friends and faces a prison sentence of at least a decade.

JJ Abrams» soft reboot picks up decades after the Rebels victory over the Galactic Empire, switching out the main Skywalker cast for an ensemble of fresh faces to lead a new trilogy of flicks.

He's been a familiar face on screen for over a decade, and seemingly every time he comes close to serious stardom, he ends up pulling back.

Despite the film taking in a period of approximately two decades, Hoult is not made up to look any different from his fresh - faced self from the start to the very finish.

The chosen setting for the face - off between Boris and Brolin's square - jawed appropriation of Jones (minus a decade or three) happens to be Florida in the run - up to the Apollo 11 space mission.

The perception built up over the last decade in Pennsylvania and other places has made schooling an either - or situation: face - to - face or online.

That was exactly the point Feistritzer made in The Truth Behind The «Teacher Shortage,» an editorial published in The Wall Street Journal (January 28, 1998) in which she questioned conventional wisdom that the United States would face a teacher shortage in the next decade, needing to find 2 million new teachers simply to keep up with demand.

Yet there is a method, backed up by decades» worth of science that can give everyone a good shot at never having to face these horrible diseases.

I'm in shock and disgusted by Xboxs direction the past half decade and their decision to not put out VR has been a disgrace and a smack in the face to loyal fanboys who have put up with Xboxs repeated blunders.

Ever since I watched Barrett run up the side of a building, drop - kick a reaverbot in the face, and plow through a crowd of people on a hover bike launching pedestrians high into the stratosphere, I have had a burning urge to play the kind of game that a Mega Man Legends made in this decade can be.

Historians have argued that the work stands as a precedent both for the artist's own performances in the 1960s and for the explosion of performative work in that decade.20 Paul Schimmel astutely places Automobile Tire Print on a trajectory of performative works based on the notion of capturing an indexical trace, reaching back to Pollock's drip paintings, moving up through Rauschenberg's blueprints, and on to Piero Manzoni's Lineas (1959 — 61), Paul McCarthy's video Face Painting — Floor, White Line (1972, fig. 5), and Ulay and Marina Abramovic's 1977 performance Relation in Movement, in which they drove a van in a circle for sixteen hours, leaving a circle of oil drips and tire marks on a public plaza in Paris.21

Auerbach has been instrumental in choosing all but one room of the work in Tate Britain — eight paintings for each decade, not quite one a year, of subjects that have never varied: the heads and faces of the people he has known best and loved most in that time; the streets he has wandered most days, from the urban confusion of Camden Town in north London up to William Blake's Jerusalem of Primrose Hill, a mile away; and the chim - chiminey view over rooftops from his studio window.

The global fossil fuel industry faces a loss of $ 28 trillion in revenues over the next two decades, if the world takes action to address climate change, cleans up pollution and moves to decarbonise the global energy system, according to European broking house Kepler Chevreux.

Anyway, it tries to prove something that flies in the face of the evidence that CO2 keeps us warm, and more CO2 heats up the planet (as can be seen in the nice curves that are not believed by a majority of bloggers in attendance, let alone the obvious increase in average temperatures over the last decades).

Surely after decades of satellite measurements, countless field experiments, and numerous finescale modeling studies that have repeatedly highlighted basic deficiencies in the ability of comprehensive climate models to represent processes contributing to atmospheric aerosol forcing, it is time to give up on the fantasy that somehow their output can be accepted at face value.»

LONDON / NEW YORK, November 25 — Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $ 2.2 trillion in the next decade, threatening substantially lower investor returns, by pursuing projects that could be uneconomic in the face of a perfect storm of factors including international action to limit climate change to 2 ˚C and rapid advances in clean technologies, think tank the Carbon Tracker Initiative warns today.

One possibility is that having failed to win the argument (it's generally agreed that scepticism has increased over the last decade or so) they need to create an excuse, a scapegoat, an imaginary villain, rather than face up to their own failings.

And, let's face it: if a half - century old knife wound can be implicated in a nonagenarian's demise, it's only a matter of time before scientific advances and lawyers team up to point the finger at other decades - old instigators of death.

At Corker Binning we have spent over a decade representing individuals in UK and international cartel investigations, whether they are in the position of being suspects or witnesses, and have built up a wealth of experience making us well qualified to advise individuals facing investigation and prosecution.

As law firms face intensifying competition from accounting firms, automation, start - ups in Silicon Valley, and so on, law firms that want to be around over the ensuing decades might want to look at modifying / applying the «20 % time rule» to their practice.

Talking about the stratification of seniors housing residents, Gingrich notes that in the next several decades, up to 30 percent of U.S. seniors might face some challenges paying for stays at seniors care facilities using their existing resources and another 30 percent will likely need financial assistance from the government.

(MCT)-- Almost two decades ago, Cheryl Turner decided to spruce up her yard, specifically an east - facing back yard with trees.