Sentences with phrase «for other agendas»

The military can not be a social program for some other agendas.»

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You can find the complete agenda, which includes roundtables and other «concurrent» sessions that will not be livestreamed as well as various morning and evening activities for attendees, here.

Extensions for the São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro metros and other metro and light rail projects in many Brazilian cities are also on the agenda — although not proceeding fast enough for many Brazilians.

If you don't take the time to think about where you want to be, the circumstances of life and other people's agendas will determine that for you.

You realize that emotional intelligence also has a dark side — such as when individuals attempt to manipulate others» emotions to promote a personal agenda or for some other selfish cause.

«And for something to come out that has no agenda other than to be happy and full of love is kind of weird.»

Other key Democratic - leaning interest groups were knocking at the President's door with agenda items for him to act on after he was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.

But during the holidays we take more time to reconnect, see people we haven't seen for a while, and hang out with no agenda except catching up or getting to know each other a little better.

The documentary accuses the CIA, which had been heavily criticized for its use of waterboarding and other forms of torture in its treatment of Al Qaeda suspects, of using Bigelow to push its own agenda — to show that torture yielded actionable intelligence, that waterboarding got a suspect to give up information that led the CIA to the most wanted terrorist on earth.

While some observers take issue with the suggestion that the city is in some way «closed for business,» others wonder if Ford's penny - pinching, tax - cutting agenda goes much beyond the platitudes that helped vault him into the city's top office.

What's important for entrepreneurs with ambitious agendas is that they understand why they have chosen one approach over the other, how they have organized their infrastructure and culture to make it happen, and where they will integrate growth or scale with other competitive factors to make it harder for others to emulate their success.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

He is a reluctant Clinton voter, evidenced by his forthcoming article that, among other things, critiques the candidate for her newfound opposition to the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) and he has elsewhere called for a strong Republican Congress to help further the trade agenda.

Regular weekly meetings with standing agendas, for instance, give team members the chance to raise issues before they can fester, and to stay up to date on each other's plans so there are no surprises when, say, a certain promotion might be boosting sales — and the quantity of work on the warehouse floor.

It's because as Brendon Burchard, personal development expert and author of The Charge says, «The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas.»

While May has been effective in attacking Harper on a number of fronts, she still insists on breaking a principle she held to for many years: that the Green Party should not be trying to elect members but should be forcing other parties to adopt a green agenda.

In the intended - to - be-secret «internal agenda document» were plans for detailed discussions about economic, energy, security, military and other forms of integration.

Still, she does appear to be doing what others have done before her: Take data from other countries and use them as a basis for a Canadian policy agenda.

It's viewed better as a group of people, group of members who come together with a common goal and agenda, and a common sort of direction for how they want to help Bitcoin grow, help promote Bitcoin, in the face of challenges and push - backs from governments and other aspects of society.

The President of Treasury Board, Tony Clement, had made his government's anti-union agenda personal, refusing any consultation and referring to me and to other duly elected union leaders as «union bosses,» demonstrating nothing but contempt for us and for those whom we represent.

Other agenda's such as cross currency rate manipulation, supporting domestic export industries, etc. are high on the list of priorities for foreign holders of US bonds.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

She and others are coping out and looking for a faith that fits their dogma or agenda.

Social engineering was the preoccupation of the Nazis, and this holds true for every other genocidal agenda.

When we give in to this need for self exaltation, and organize others around our cause, then we recognize it as the warped type of social engineering you describe, where the goal is uniformity, not unity — promoting our own agenda, rather than participating in God's mission.

As long as there are those who would have others tell them how they should act, think, feel, and believe, there will be religions — and, those exploiting them for their own agendas.

He looks unsettled, and his unsettling sets the agenda for the episode, in which characters seek to get a read on others and not be read themselves.

Ben Rogers, East Asia Team Leader at advocacy charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide, told Premier: «The Islamic Defenders Front, they for years have been pushing this agenda, trying to shut down churches, attack the Ahmadiyya community - who're a sect of Islam that other Muslims disagree with - and also often raided nightclubs and bars and want Sharia law to be established.

This list is not exhaustive, but it need not be so; more important than any one of the specific items above is the general principle that crafting a reasonable agenda for dialogue requires a commitment to allowing the other party to define itself on its own terms.

@bigred... the bible was written by MEN and edited and abridged by MEN who had / have an agenda to dominate and persecute others for their benefit... jesus and God had / have NOTHING to do with a book.

if not, i pray for you and i will set up missionaries all across the globe to make sure that the rest of the lost souls also find Santa Clause within them... let's first begin with donations; only from your heart and soul, and because of your kindness... no other agenda... Santa Clause loves you my dear... he has touched my heart so I know he exists... and I want you to believe in Santa Clause as well so you don't have to burn in hell... i want to save your soul my child... come pray with me...

Christian, far - right, conservatives are damned to eternal «no - fun» for fun on earth; when they get to heaven for following their obsessive «no - fun, living by misconstrued, so - called gospel agenda they'll cultivate new customers cultivating protein by worms and other parasites preparing the living earth for new life!

Over the ages, religion has been twisted and used by those with an agenda to accomplish other goals, but generally speaking it's the basic «10 commandments» stuff for what was the hopelessly ignorant masses.

How do we allow for change in ourselves and others — without making about our own agenda or timeline?

And if it hard for me to see, I suppose I should give grace to others, that maybe they don't see their own agenda.

How many times, for example, have I received a person into church membership knowing that there is an underlying agenda and that joining the church is merely a means to some other goal?

More and more, society mistrusts leaders whose chief interests are their own agendas and authority; more and more, people are looking for leaders whose first interest is the good of others.

Any other country I would have an issue with the church recruiting for the police, at least here police and the military are «sworn» to protect and serve (the Law) not the people or some ones private agenda.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Jesus did not teach hate and intolerance he did not reject health care he healed the sick he did not preach for profit and he did not deny anyone there rights he did not look down on others and he did not bear false witness the right wing conservatives have hijacked the word of god to fit their political agenda.

I have no agendas or goals or visions, other than what I perceive God reveals to me for my own personal consumption, and that's my business, nobody else's.

Appropriate care for the previous generation involves, among other things, what family therapist Murray Bowen has called «differentiation of the self from the family of origin» (see Family Therapy and Clinical Practice [Aronson, 19781) Those who work professionally with families have found that people experiencing marital or other family pain frequently have an unfinished agenda with the prior generation.

His argument for «building constituencies for change» is a plea to move beyond the intervention mode that passes for «international cooperation,» beyond the patronizing practices of private aid agencies driven by business competition rather than by civil constituencies and emancipatory agendas shared with others.

While his account is often sloppy, he is nevertheless right that the transhumanist agenda is a logical consequence of Gnosticism (which he and many others mistake for Christianity), and that this Gnosticism, which has theological roots in the Scotist - nominalist revolution in metaphysics, ever more exclusively shapes the modern cultural imagination and our understanding of what it is to be human.

In other words, the agenda for liberation and self - actualization must emerge from the authentic context of the oppressed.

The beginning point for this is for Black Americans and other oppressed minority groups to set their own agenda of liberation.

I say kudos to this man for his willingness to help others (regardless of their religious beliefs) and shame on those on this message board who try to promote their own agenda while degrading others.

At least theologically, there are two effective divisions between American Christians, One is between those for whom the gospel is itself the norm of all truth and the person of Christ therefore the founding metaphysical fact, and those for whom some other agenda or «theory» is the overriding norm.

If love is to be placed «above all,» then there simply can't be any other command or doctrine or agenda that competes with it for the top position.

In my fantasy vision it would be a land where we all loved each other enough to have more respect for each other than our own agendas and cared enough to put service to others ahead of service to ourselves.