Sentences with phrase «focused on life issues»

A topic strangely absent from an article so focused on life issues is war.

Not exact matches

This one from McMaster University via Coursera is focused more on career issues, and the topics covered sound like a top hits list of common work questions: «Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.»

A lot of career issues vanish, or at least shrink, when you focus on how to have a happier and healthier work life.

According to numerous studies, work - life balance is an issue Millennials especially focus on.

The debate, broadcast live from Las Vegas on MSNBC, was to focus on «Black - Brown issues,» but USHCC promised to wedge its agenda in among many competing agendas.

Sidewalk will focus on addressing major issues in cities, such as transportation, energy use, and cost of living, through innovative products, platforms, and partnerships.

The Beat Live, a travel business conference, is a thought - provoking event focused on the key issues in travel distribution, technology and managed corporate travel.

«With this announcement the Provincial Government and the Mayors Council has ensured that the discussion will now focus on the issue of improving transit and transportation to improve our economy, our quality of life, and our environment.»

The Ontario branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association said it appreciated the «focus on supportive housing which is key to recovery for individuals living with a mental health or addictions issue.»

As I wrote earlier this month, the NDP subtly shifted their messaging over the past few months, focusing on launching new programs and projects that they argue will «make lives better for Albertans,» rather than trying to out - flank the conservatives on economic issues.

The president did not address the issue in his public remarks, focusing instead on the power of prayer as a centerpiece of American life.

if you're from the US like i am, please move far, far away so those who believe in the first amendment and support all people the freedom to believe and live as they choose so we can focus on real issues like the economy, education, and ending oppression / slavery throughout the world.

@Kingnpriest, So in theory, if a person lead a good life, and never sinned (unlikely but possible), but never said a word about Jesus, good or bad (they'd heard about him but never addressed the issue, they just focused on living a good life), what would happen to them?

But Lee and Pennsylvania sex therapist Dr. John Giugliano, both members of the Society for Sexual Advancement - a national nonprofit think tank of licensed sex therapists - worry that therapy can become overly focused on dogma and ignore the patient's real - life issues.

The first phase of the Reformation focused on issues relating to personal salvation and the need for reform in the life of the church.

You would think that someone who had any rationality to them at all would be focusing on real issues, such as stripping away of our civil liberties, or the ongoing wars that actually cost this country billions of dollars and hundreds of lives, or the trillions of dollars in our deficit.

Instead of fighting over the amount of money that was spent on who - knows - what, shift the focus toward what really matters: (1) your fear of not having influence in important issues impacting your life, (2) your fear of not having security in your future, (3) your fear of having no respect shown for your values, or (4) your fear of not realizing your dreams.

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.»

George Weigel urges the Church to focus its «primary attention on two key issues: the life issues and religious freedom [because] these are the points of maximum confrontation with the dictatorship of relativism.»

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

In the early days bioethics focused on such larger issues, but the field was in time overtaken by an interest in what can be called regulatory bioethics: the protection of research subjects, the advancement of patient rights, and the devising of procedural guidelines for end - of - life care, for instance.

While Bread & Wine is a memoir that focuses on life around the table, Eat With Joy delves more deeply and directly into issues related to the theology of eating, touching on everything from food anxiety and eating disorders, to poverty, to obesity, to just and sustainable eating, to hospitality, to mindfulness, to communion.

Dubbed «Bonds that Matter» for its focus on these beginning - of - life issues, the ICRI's inaugural conference gathered scholars, activists, and students from around the country to Simi Valley, California last Friday to discuss the various ways in which these four practices violate children's rights.

That, says Dr. Southgate, is because the issue is focused on HIV / AIDS, and she asks readers to consider the «incalculable loss» from the disease --» the loss to all those whose lives would have been touched, even changed, but were not, by books not read because they were never written, by paintings not seen because they were never painted, by performances never heard because the song was not sung.»

The central focus of the church's message is on the ultimate issues of life and death.

If we had healthy loving communities, perhaps this would be less of an issue... but instead we focus more on individual salvation and not enough on living together in faith...

(9) Finally, it focuses on the praxis of mission; for we are sent into the world to bear a life - witness to God's redemptive concern for all people everywhere in the face of issues which affect their daily lives.Dubose, God Who Sends, pp159 - 160

The founders of Black Lives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a moveLives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movelives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movement.

The conference — cohosted by the ERLC and Focus on the Family — features more than 50 speakers addressing not only abortion but such issues as adoption, end - of - life care, ministry to those with special needs, human trafficking, service to immigrants and refugees, and the development of a pro-life worldview.

«Working alongside pro-choice women on issues of human trafficking, domestic violence, genocide, foster care, and even special needs adoption has been among the most meaningful work I've been a part of,» said Kelly Rosati, Focus on the Family's vice president of advocacy for children and a speaker at the Evangelicals for Life conference this week.

One important observation made at the consultation was that the dialogues should not be focused only on traditional faith - and - order issues, ignoring other important realities in the life of the churches involved.

Quite serendipitous for me at the moment as I have heart issues and have just begun to focus on reorganising my day to make time for yoga and meditating; I think it might just add several more years to my life.

It will focus on best practices for social audits and issues such as working and living conditions, among other topics.

Since you seemingly think that Wenger should focus on his job instead of having an opinion about politics in the country he lives and works in (regarding an issue which would definitely affect his work situation) I'm guessing your work is to write about politics on blogs where it doesn't belong — or would that be an incorrect assumption?

Youth to Women and Manhood takes on the issues that confront young people today with speakers and special guests focused on helping teenagers strengthen their communities and enrich their own lives (Boston)

In particular, our blog will likely focus on: natural childbirth, natural parenting, traditional foods, freedom from / in religious issues, unschooling, unjobbing, living simply, & eliminating excess waste.

In grade 3, children learn the practical study of issues in daily living with a focus on food, farming and gardening.

As Reifsnider points out, it is important to take a life cycle approach to this issue, rather than focusing solely on nutrition during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Bachmann, who did not mention the contraception issue at all, but focused on quality - of - life economic issues, such as the price of gasoline that has risen in the last several months, but appears to be leveling off.

The third section focuses on three major global issues that are salient or intrusive at the domestic level and which require either some alterations in domestic ways of life or generate resistance at the domestic level to that intrusiveness.

«In some ways it's a more comfortable spot because the partisanship has been turned down, certainly in our lives, which allows us to focus on substantive issues that we think are important, whether we are in the mix, or whether we are on the sidelines advocating,» Savino, an Astoria - born Democrat representing northern Staten Island and parts of South Brooklyn, told me a few days later.

«He's actually even drilling down further and bringing more issues to the forefront on behalf of women's issues,» she said, «and so if he keeps delivering the way he's delivering and he keeps the focus on making women's lives better, I honestly don't see why we wouldn't want to endorse him.»

Inacio, a Democrat who petitioned her way onto the ballot, said she would fight to preserve state aid for Hartford and focus on quality of life issues.

In a time when we should be focused on the issues of respect and unification, I personally find it unacceptable for anyone who touches the lives of our children to speak in this manner... This kind of language does not belong within the context of our communities and our schools.

In addition to his focus on consumer protection issues, Garodnick said he will continue to push for long - term affordable housing and stability for tenants at Stuyvesent Town and Peter Cooper Village, where he was raised and currenty lives with his wife and young son.

If elected Mr. van Bramer wants to focus his energy on cost of living and affordability issues, including ending vacancy decontrol and expanding rent stabilization.

«Moving forward, it is my hope that the campaign will focus on the quality of life issues that are important to the people who live in the 10th Congressional district.»

Since you have brought up the fact that there could be legal implications, I feel that it is in the best interest of the campaign, and our efforts to focus on the issues that matter most to residents living in the city, to abstain from making further comments unless otherwise advised under legal counsel...

The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) is an economic think tank that focuses on issues that affect the quality of life and economic well - being of New York State residents.