Sentences with phrase «faith effort in»

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.

Nevertheless, it is possible to make a good faith effort in that direction, and I believe that the IPCC text does represent a good faith effort to present a simplified model of the truth.

Not exact matches

Duperreault replaced Peter Hancock, who abruptly resigned in March after shareholders lost faith in his turnaround effort.

In the letter, the two also make a good faith effort to answer what they say are the 10 toughest questions they get asked about their philanthropy.

They may put in a good faith effort but fall short.

While companies would still have to make good faith efforts to classify their products correctly, mistakes or disagreements in classification would no longer have tax consequences, removing the fears of audits and eliminating the need for CITT cases on the proper way to classify a trampoline enclosure.

Michael Ferro may want his shareholders to have faith in his vision of returning Tribune Publishing to some kind of halcyon time when newspapers ruled the media world and spun off millions in cash flow with virtually no effort.

On the subject of religion, Porter points out that the time, effort and currency invested in the practice of faith is simply the price of receiving «a mixture of insurance and social services.»

Plan sponsors should document their efforts in case they need to avail themselves to this good faith compliance policy.

«We partner with charitable and faith - based groups in the communities,» Mills said about FEMA's recovery efforts.

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).

CNN: As sex trade increases around conventions, faith - based groups step up efforts It's 10 p.m. in Charlotte's trendy NoDa district, and a handful of women and one man have hunkered down over French press coffee and pastries.

It is as if they place their faith in their faith (which is scarier than placing it on our own efforts) and not on God.

No, although I've voted Democratic in every election since 1976 — except for primaries in Texas where there's no point in voting Democratic — I can say that every candidate I've ever seen has made some effort to look like a man of faith.

Make an honest, sincere effort to find God and plead for help to have faith in Christ and you will know the truth.

He was also familiar with the Una Sancta movement, an effort to overcome confessional divisions through the renewal of faith among both German Protestants and Catholics, to establish «fraternity in Christ across all barriers.»

so please try to be civil and not slam doors in the face of people that put a lot of love and faith in their efforts to share good news in this world of increasing bad news.

Among the many blessings resulting from this cooperative effort, we note especially our common affirmation of the most central truths of Christian faith, including justification by faith, in the 1997 statement, «The Gift of Salvation.»

There WAS a successful grassroots effort on the part of private citizens who happen to be of the LDS (MORMON) faith who fanned out in their communities all over California in an effort to Pass Prop 8.

This distinction points to what is perhaps the major flaw in Dreher's otherwise winsome effort: the lack of emphasis on creation as a normative order to which everyone, irrespective of faith, is subject.

The history of modernity in the West is in many ways nothing more than the effort to destroy medieval faith.

Communities of faith are not bereft of the Spirit, and therefore of the possibility of renewal through the efforts of men and women who dare to act in the hope that the Church can contribute more to our public life than merely another interest group.

We can't see that all those controversial policies developed by the Bush and Blair administrations were not really put forward in good faith as efforts to protect American and British citizens from repeated terrorist attacks.

Yet I wouldn't go around to nursing homes in an effort to crush the faith that dying old people cling to as the last thing they have.

There are many of us who are weaker than we realize, and in an effort to be heard and enjoy some personal accolades as a leader of the faith, are; but only to look foolish for narrow - mindedness, cultural irrelevance, or logically flawed expressions of theology.

Despite such efforts to instill doubt in voters, a recent CNN / ORC International poll showed that a candidate's Mormon faith made no difference to 80 % of Americans, and that 51 % believed Mormonism was a Christian religion.

A fundamental flaw in this claim, on which I'll elaborate more in another comment, is that lacking any reason to believe anything one could reasonably call a god exists, what incentive do I have to invest time and effort developing faith in one?

These guys lived their faith in real, tactical, practical ways that led millions of people closer to Jesus, in big efforts and small acts of love.

In a statement Thursday, the Mormon church called the issue «complex and challenging» and said it believed the Boy Scouts were making «a thoughtful, good - faith effort» to address the issue.

That the majority of the relatively few men coming forward for priesthood now want to be faithful to the magisterium is likely due in large part to the enormous efforts of John Paul II and Benedict XVI to teach the «full faith», the «full content of the life of Christ».

Mitt Romney's team invited reporters to go to church with him last Sunday, and The New York Times is reporting that the upcoming Republican presidential convention will showcase Romney's faith in an effort to humanize him.

Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs!

They, with great effort and sacrifice and going completely against the tide of the times, raised us in the Catholic Faith with conviction and joy in a radically secularising Netherlands.

There was too much effort to protect a special sphere in which Christians could maintain their faith while surrendering the dominant domains of thought to science.

Hall said political leaders have been «in terror of the gun lobby,» but now they need to know that faith communities such as his are willing to stand behind efforts to push for gun control.

The development in our souls of supernatural life (based on the natural spiritualization of the world through the efforts of mankind): this in the last resort is the field where the operative power of faith is positively and without any known limits exercized.

Louder than Words encourages and motivates those stuck in a rut of tepid or untapped faith to take the plunge, make the effort and leaving false humility behind, to aim high.

The church also convened an international conference in Crete, but as Patriarch Bartholomew says, «our efforts will be meaningless if they remain fragmented».19 The demands of the world call upon Christians not only to act ecumenically but together with all people of faith and good will.

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.

Although the Indian constitution guarantees that religious groups may propagate their faith, Hindu nationalists claim that many Christian organizations engage in coercive proselytism, especially among the Dalit classes, in a calculated «anti-India» effort to pollute national identity.

Jesus Christ is the «Elect One,» not by some effort of human nature alone, for that would not be real election, but by God's eternal purpose which «from the beginning of the world» — and long before it, too, if we may so speak — has determined that «in the fullness of the times» there shall be just such an actualization of the potential God - Man relationship as Christian faith discerns in Christ our Lord.

Troy Jackson is the interim executive director of the AMOS Project, a faith - based organizing effort in Cincinnati fighting for racial justice.

We seek true ecumenism, and its foundation is full faith, deep charity and tremendous personal, spiritual effort to live the integrity of Christ in morals, as well as in faith.

So, in an effort to help you learn how to walk by faith, how to take up the shield of faith, how to allow God to be your bodyguard, I want to conclude this morning with a short discussion on how to live by faith.

The current interest in practical theology may be seen as a return to the earlier effort to develop a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the life of faith in contemporary society.

I found my faith again in the margins — through the Gay Christian Network, for example, and among fellow doubters and dreamers who limp from their wrestling with God — and I'll be amplifying and supporting these efforts even more as they face potential new threats under this administration.

Well, I du n no about what will God to do them, but I'm sure, I'm moved by their effort to be Christ like and the faith that they have in God.

But it does not follow that one is necessarily subjected to these thought - forms in his effort to understand the witness to faith.

Rather, it follows the flawed efforts of terrified people who, out of faith and love, willingly «wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places» (Eph.

The letter from the Council (which consists of forty representatives of the region's Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Jewish communities) warned that the SBC's efforts, «however well - intentioned,» might well «disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith - based prejudice.»