Sentences with phrase «faith effort at»

For most people who made a good faith effort at making a marriage work, a divorce is like surviving the death of a loved one.

If you have a court order that requires mediation, a good - faith effort at mediation might be expected.

They are required to make a good faith effort at marking to fair value — which could be the last round, but broader market dynamics can not be ignored.

In Australia and New Zealand, mediation is the preferred method and is called «Primary Dispute Resolution» as parties are not permitted to go to court until they have made good faith efforts at settling the dispute in mediation with the help of a professional mediator.

Not exact matches

I am sorry there are people that have no faith in God, but I am more saddened by the efforts of ALL in this discussion to cast words of hate on others in some personal attempt at achieving self - worth at the expense of someone else's belief (or non-belief).

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

At a deeper level, as people are conditioned to a consumer outlook, the church finds itself under challenge to present the Christian faith in a way that meshes with people's desire for answers, and in a more pernicious way for a faith «product», that will meet their needs with a minimum of effort and disruption.

As the old models of biblical study break down, Gary - along with his former colleague at Harvard, Jon Levenson - has been at the forefront of efforts to rethink the relations between the historical - critical project and the living realities of contemporary Christian and Jewish faith.

Sandro Magister points out that Pope Benedict appointed, as his own replacement at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop William J. Levada, one of the four bishops responsible for the effort against sexual abuse committed by priests in the United States.

Making our religion relevant to modern problems deserves our best effort, but in all things we must be governed by the compassion and good will that lie at the heart of our faith.

New texts on systematic theologies, along with new dictionaries, encyclopedias and biblical commentaries, are significant signs of efforts at retrieving the faith and «getting it all together.»

It calls every member of the Church • to renew their faith; • to make an actual effort to share it; • to recognise, certainly, a growing awareness of people to the changing circumstances of life today; • to value what is positive in every culture, while at the same time purifying it from elements that are contrary to the full realisation of the person according to the design of God revealed in Christ.

After two weeks of interviews with St. Louis faith leaders and advocates, and several days on the ground moving between mobilizing efforts in Ferguson and dialogues with evangelical faith leaders, I see the same dynamic at work here.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

At least the scientific community employs detached and objective standards that undermine our efforts to take refuge in the slanted judgments of shared faith.

Such religion defends the status quo at all costs, identifies faith in God with staunch conservatism, and associates «civilized» life with stony immobility in the face of revisionist efforts.

Again and again we have remarked that some of the chronic evil seemingly inseparably associated with mankind has displayed several of its colossal dimensions among peoples who have called themselves Christian, but that repeatedly efforts to counter this evil, some of them at least partly successful, have been put forth by men and women inspired and sustained by Christian faith.

What is again needed today — and remember that I am attempting to describe a position which will regard Christianity as a living, growing tradition, continuous with its past yet open to the present, ready for critical investigation and concerned to restate the faith for those who live in our own day — is precisely this fearless attitude about the faith, this honest effort at enquiry, and this constant willingness to relate the gospel to the changed world of a new age.

Relationships with those of other faiths should not be items added on to the Christian agenda but ought to be at the heart of much of our mission efforts.

Laura Muir came agonisingly close, but there was to be no medal for her efforts as Kenya's Faith Kipyegon won a breathless 1500m at the IAAF World Championships in London.

includes a mind blowing number of initiatives that address intersections with schools, child care, cities, towns and counties, Indian Country, and faith communities, as well as efforts to connect kids with salad bars at school, outdoor initiatives, parks, museum and gardens, reading, and chefs.

I was so angry at one point that I was actually shaking, as I had made a good faith effort to keep my tone civil, asking questions and not insulting or personally attacking (although I did ask several people tweeting about how much they loved eating Nestle chocolate about how they felt knowing that it was made with slave labour).

In an unprecedented appearance, First Lady Chirlane McCray will address the congregation at St. Patrick's Cathedral this weekend as part of #ThriveTogether: A Weekend for Mental Health, a nationwide outreach effort by over 2,000 faith and community groups in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. to highlight the need for education, compassion and open conversations about mental health and addiction.

Cuomo also announced the creation of an Office of Faith - Based Community Development Services to help coordinate nonprofit groups» efforts at networking and getting federal grants.

The person overseeing our infrastructure needs to have the expertise and qualifications to do the job; however, I understand that after a good faith effort to find a qualified candidate proved fruitless, we may need to look at other options when it comes to hiring.

Now, some of the writers here at TSR (cough cough, Aaron) have their doubts, but with Matthew Vaughn's previous directorial efforts and Bryan Singer returning as producer, I'm choosing the path of blind faith.

In short, our provision of technical assistance was a good - faith effort to help schools improve but, at the end of the day, they were responsible for their results and we were responsible for holding them to account for those results.

In an effort to address educational inequities in the U.S., Scott also led an effort at the Foundation to build strong partnerships and deeper engagement between faith - based organizations that serve underrepresented students, families, and communities.

Author David Kuo, as a special assistant to President Bush from 2001 to 2003, helped craft plans to foster the participation of faith - based groups in federal efforts aimed at serving the needy.

Positive School Climate: What It Looks Like and How It Happens: Nurturing Positive School Climate for Student Learning and Professional Growth by Tami Kopischke Smith, Faith Connolly, and Charlene Pryseski In this BERC study, a qualitative analysis was conducted at five Baltimore City Schools to develop an understanding of how principals led their school's climate turnaround and how efforts -LSB-...]

The program also extends the efforts of Together for Tomorrow, a cooperative initiative among the Department, CNCS, and the White House Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to boost community engagement in improving outcomes at chronically under - performing schools.

In addition, he joined Joshua DuBois, special assistant to the president and executive director of the White House Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, at a town hall meeting at Memorial Middle School to announce Together for Tomorrow, a new administration initiative to both spotlight existing community efforts to turn around persistently low - performing schools, and encourage new community engagement that aims to do this for other schools.

In the end, success in achieving education goals — at the local, state and national levels — will require enhanced and good faith efforts to communicate and strategize around the many remarkable changes taking place that are literally redefining the world of education today.

Amazon has yet again set the KDP Select fund at «just» $ 3 million, so it will certainly need another record addition to that to keep the pay - per - borrow at a decent level, but the obvious effort to restore authors» faith in Kindle Unlimited is very encouraging.

While the homeowner doesn't need to be available during the inspection it is still recommended because it shows a good - faith effort that they are willing to discuss any possible defects, either structural or cosmetic, at the time of the home inspection.

1987), requires a debtor to show inability to maintain a «minimal standard of living» if forced to continue loan payments, circumstances that make the current situation likely to persist for much of the repayment period, and «good faith efforts» at repayment.

1987): (1) At current income and expense levels, the debtor would not be able to maintain a «minimal standard of living» if required to repay the student loans; (2) additional circumstances indicate that this financial condition is likely to continue for a substantial part of the repayment period; and (3) the debtor has made «good faith efforts to repay the loans.»

LOS ANGELES — January 29, 2014 — In an effort to ease overcrowding at the San Bernardino City Animal Shelter, Eastwood Ranch Foundation and PAWS For Hope and Faith have teamed up for «No Pet Left Behind», a five - day shelter pardon and adoption event.

Given the amount of money and effort Activision has put into building this new studio, however; I believe it is likely that there's faith in that studio to at least do as good a job as Treyarch.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.

This shift is due greatly to the tenacious efforts of black women artists in the «60s and «70s — like Emma Amos, Camille Billops, and Faith Ringgold and many more — who simply would not be ignored, and as a response, created their own spaces for visibility like Where We At and The Hatch - Billops Collection.

The United Church of Christ, a liberal Protestant denomination and the fifteenth - largest religious collective in the United States, has been at the forefront of faith - based climate efforts.

Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens of thousands of additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, knowledgeably and in good faith and with open identification of the nature of the social and political issues — is just not credible.

(1) make a good faith effort to persuade the client: (i) not to commit or to continue the criminal act or (ii) to pursue a course of conduct that will prevent the threatened death or substantial bodily harm; or do both (i) and (2) Inform the client, at an appropriate time, of the member's ability or decision to reveal information.

The employee must provide the requested recertification to the employer within the time frame requested by the employer (which must allow at least 15 calendar days after the employer's request), unless it is not practicable under the particular circumstances to do so despite the employee's diligent, good faith efforts.

i would say that a yearly progress update be required by the patent office that demonstrates a good faith effort in developing on the patent, or at least a good faith effort in obtaining funding, staffing or otherwise.

Mediation is not a formal legal proceeding, but courts may require divorcing spouses to make a good faith effort to at least try out mediation before going to court.

Any comments that appear to be duplicated across the Internet, without a good - faith effort to engage the content of the posts to which the comments are being submitted in reply, may be removed at the discretion of the editors.

«At the same time, industry needs more certainty that their good - faith efforts to comply while still meeting consumers» expectations does not expose lenders and settlement service providers to litigation during the initial period after the regulation becomes effective,» the letter continues.

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