Sentences with phrase «families of living things»

Dogs belong to the canidae family of living things — the family that includes the jackal, the fox and the wolf.

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«They constitute an unpaid extension of the workday; they encroach upon things like family life and drinking with people with whom you don't share a copier,» wrote Lauren Collins for The New Yorker.
Giving your word about things like a short timetable to profits and consistently devoting time to the family will soothe some of their fears and make your life easier — at first.
True happiness comes from your inner landscape — things like loving yourself, providing for your family, having happy moments with friends and feeling proud of how you are making a living.
And given the disparity in wealth between Walmart employees (many of whom live below the poverty line) and the Walton family (who control the company, and who are the richest family on earth), this might be a situation where giving beyond what you're legally required to give might be the right thing to do.
Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too.
Whether it's financial woes, family feuds, or simply balancing seasonal pressures with the rest of life, one thing's clear: the holidays are stressful for almost everyone and they impact work.
Those are big things to balance, but the fact that the government has indicated [it's] interested in the question is a good sign and if [it's] going to talk about more than just length of leave, it could be a significant opportunity to make life better for families
When she is asked what she hopes for in her life, Ms. Xiao, an upwardly mobile member of a two career family making about 60,000 RMB / year (approximately $ 10,000), wants the same things we all want: good health for her family, a steady and challenging job, a better life for her 16 - month old baby than she had.
Living here offers a great lifestyle and community to individuals and families, especially business executives or retirees who want to lock the door & let the 24 hour security take cares of things.
A family connection to law enforcement is not the kind of thing that has traditionally been viewed as discrediting in American life — and certainly not as discrediting in conservative political circles — but things are changing in the Trump era.
Life happens, and, when it does, it sometimes has a tendency to get in the way of the things we are trying to do for ourselves and our families.
The show does not deal with the important things that go on at a community college which are basically apprenticeships in needed skilled careers required for a productive economy, as well as training in skills that can provide for the needs for one's own life and family in terms of holding a career in an honorable and albeit remunerative manner.
Go back to family and farming (using your own organic seeds) and keep some of the really good things... like penicillan which saved so many lives at very low cost.
It's one thing to help people go thru the final moments of life, but it's ALSO NECESSARY to ensure that their spirits don't end up separated from God forever; that they're able to be WITH this God that their family taught them about.
Dealing with the death of a loved one really puts things in perspective and makes you realize the love of family and and friends is all that really matters in this life.
But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?
I think I'm too simple in my thinking that; if you don't like it, DO N'T WATCH... if you don't agree with it, DO N'T CHOOSE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE THAT WAY... Seems like a very simplistic way of thinking, but I have personal opinions on EVERYTHING, but I don't force others to live their lives according to my moral fiber... i don't judge people for living their lives the way that makes them happy... And i believe that IGNORANCE is the basis for INTOLERANCE... people are famous for HATING things that they don't understand... again, if it MORALLY offends you, don't read stories on things that you don't agree with, don't watch shows that portray choices that you don't agree with... The Brown family seems close knit, almost like extended family living under one roof... the kids work together and get along much better than a lot of «mainstream» households i seLIVE YOUR LIFE THAT WAY... Seems like a very simplistic way of thinking, but I have personal opinions on EVERYTHING, but I don't force others to live their lives according to my moral fiber... i don't judge people for living their lives the way that makes them happy... And i believe that IGNORANCE is the basis for INTOLERANCE... people are famous for HATING things that they don't understand... again, if it MORALLY offends you, don't read stories on things that you don't agree with, don't watch shows that portray choices that you don't agree with... The Brown family seems close knit, almost like extended family living under one roof... the kids work together and get along much better than a lot of «mainstream» households i selive their lives according to my moral fiber... i don't judge people for living their lives the way that makes them happy... And i believe that IGNORANCE is the basis for INTOLERANCE... people are famous for HATING things that they don't understand... again, if it MORALLY offends you, don't read stories on things that you don't agree with, don't watch shows that portray choices that you don't agree with... The Brown family seems close knit, almost like extended family living under one roof... the kids work together and get along much better than a lot of «mainstream» households i see...
The family is a good thing in itself, but a vulnerable thing that needs to have a life apart from the state, and forms a great part of the institutions needed to resist its always expanding desire to control and direct more and more of society.
The first thing that must be said, however — a point only faintly adumbrated in the WCC statement's suggestion that Jesus had redefined the family — is that the fellowship of the kingdom of God, though it may be spoken of as a family, is neither generated nor sustained through biological transmission of life nor by the love given and received in the history of our families.
I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.
Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop Random House, 342 pages, $ 22.50 What baleful things may befall a rugged, plain - spoken, life - affirming man when he ventures into that great bourne called The Beltway» that is the (probably unintended) theme of the....
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
She continues to question all things spiritual, cares deeply about living a Christ - centered life, and creates all kinds of problems by living out loud; she blames her family for continuing to encourage her.
God killed every living thing on the face of the earth other than Noah and his family, because man was wicked.
The synod agreed that the evils responsible for the recent catastrophes were such things as pride in heart and body, a spiritual falling away, excessive profanity, breakdown of family life, and failure to observe the Sabbath.
I think that the key, among other things, to understanding the opinions and positions of others is imagination.Try to imagine the Muslim who has lost their whole family to «collateral damage», the gay who has lost their family to rejection... let's lay down our obstinate doctrines that are so quick to offer «the only solution that WE can live with» and walk in their shoes, feel their pain and realize that our medicine is not a «one size fits all»....
Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»
What they need is sympathy, compassion, love, and the reassurance that while we do not know why certain things happen, God is not angry, is not punishing them, and God is not out to destroy their life or that of their family members.
OR, might God choose to reveal truth through the experiences of a people who tried to be true to him, certain moral principles, failing again and trying again, people looking for universal truths and communicating them to their children generation after generation, orally and through writing things down, organizing themselves into communities and societies, aiming for justice, teaching each other, defending their families, lives, cities, and governments.
It is also good to opt for family counselors who would definitely be the right person to show as wells guide the right way of thinking and acting in such crisis times of life The right thing would be to take control of oneâ $ ™ s emotions and act prudent enough because the life of not one but two are at stake in problematic affairs.
«In the family,» writes Francis, «we first learn how to show love and respect for life; we are taught the proper use of things, order and cleanliness, respect for the local ecosystems and care for all creatures.
Grace is a powerful thing but to live a life of non-repentance only to use the «get out of jail free card» in one's dying breath is a twisted concept that has been theologically exploited by Evangelicals in order to «get the numbers up» and provide family members of those who have died with a warm feeling that their loved one made the right choice at the end.
To correct this problem this same god killed every living thing on the planet with a global flood except for a family and two of everything else living.
Jesus replies that though the disciples have given up their actual families, in the new corporate life of the kingdom a new family will be given, and in the final summing - up of all things, they will enjoy peace and eternal life with God.
«What we have realized is there are seasons in all of our lives and dreams take sacrifices but they become family things,» Kurt says.
It is so easy for people to judge, but till you have something like this happens in our life, then we can understand, my son ended his life 6 years ago, we had no sign of anything, any of all the parents or not parents pointing the finger at this family, shame on you cuz, things happen when you least expect them, if we had known what to do, do you think we would not have done it.
Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and feelings that arise: «The ideas and issues which excite me most are...;» «The things that are most worth living for right now are...;» «I feel the most joy (pain, hope, lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I feel closest to (most distant from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs from my childhood which no longer make sense are...;» «Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life of our family, I'd like Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life of our family, I'd like life of our family, I'd like to..
In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.
It's probably the prairie kid thing, combined with the evangelical - mutt thing, but when acedia slinks into my soul, spreading into every corner of my life with an ooze, when my mind is fuzzy and apathetic, when I'm listless and worn out, burned out, on religion and parenting and marriage and family and everything about my life, I get to the daily, methodical, healing goodness of real work.
I protect kids for a living, do everything I can to help ALL people, respect all life and give everybody their dignity, give my time and resources to help others, complain little, hurt nobody, want minimal things for myself and often go without, sacrifice for family, friends and community, but because I do not think there is a deity in the sky, I'm going to Hell while some selfish, ignorant, mean, destructive, abusive and hateful person who says, «Sorry» to God at the end of their life goes to Heaven.
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.
Mental health concerns should motivate a layman to encourage his minister to do those things which are consistent with his mental health — a regular «preacher's sabbath» away from the telephone, at least a month's vacation for recharging his emotional and intellectual batteries, sufficient money and freedom to enjoy the legitimate recreational resources of the area, and enough privacy to protect the minister and his family from excessive living - in - a-goldfish-bowl pressure.
(Mark 10:23 - 27) Renunciation is the rule for all, (Mark 8:34 - 37; 10:21, 28:31) and the compensations are as simply and absolutely set forth as is the requirement: the good things of this life, such as they are, the blessings of family and of property, will be shared by all within the community, «now in this present time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life
The other thing I know is that she, in every part of her life from diet to family to work to worship, exercises a discipline and orderliness and obedience that I could never attain to in a hundred lifetimes and that, by her own admission, those ways of being and doing come up out of her Mormon faith and are her praxis.
So it seems to me that for those of us who call ourselves Christians, but who also have used the brain that God gave us to conclude that the planet is more than 6000 years old and that the actions of Noah and his family saved all the then living things — that we can retain faith in a God who would not joke around with Abraham just to test him.
Regardless, why would you adore something that «goofed» it's creation and resorted to killing every living thing except good fish and a boatload of dinosaurs and 1 family.
Among the many important things said by the Holy Father, I believe the most important was this: «The Catholic faithful must know that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality, a truth as essential to the renewal of the priesthood and the episcopate as it is to the renewal of marriage and family life
very hard thing to come to the realization when I was 19 that I had grown up in a dysfunctional family and that it had given me a footprint that I would carry for the rest of my life.
It's interesting that Pope Francis» people pick and choose what they like to hear and they ignore — you know he'll say something that is kind of paradigm - shifting in terms of getting people to think differently, but people don't read the full context of what he says about family and about life issues, about a lot of things.
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