Sentences with phrase «from human agency»

But the biblical picture of God and humanity also includes real interaction: Adam and Eve sin, and God casts them out of the Garden; Abraham argues with God about the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah» and, in that interaction, God's agency is seen as distinct from human agency.

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Since 1996, under a provision called the Dickey Amendment, Congress has prevented agencies in the U.S. Health and Human Services administration from using funds «to advocate or promote gun control.»

Soon afterward, the company, which provides communications services for government agencies, won a hefty contract from the Department of Health and Human Services.

The agency (commonly abbreviated as «OPM»), which serves as a human resources department for the federal government, has upped its figure to 5.6 million stolen fingerprint records from its original estimate of 1.1 million.

If the next decade of human space transportation is about private companies finding and developing cheaper and more efficient ways into Earth orbit, the decade following will be all about space agencies learning how to operate farther and farther from home, with an eventual eye to orbiting and eventually landing humans on Mars in the mid-2030s (per NASA's timeline).

«Early in the investigation process [that led to the firings], it was decided, as is the norm in such serious human resource matters, to have the Public Service Agency (PSA) lead the investigation,» Whitmarsh wrote on Oct. 6 to McNeil, adding that the Public Service Agency had support from the province's Chief Information Officer to investigate the handling of government data.

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

But while the former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is sharply critical of U.S. human rights policy (especially as conducted by Republican Administrations), he shows less concern about UN agencies, and none at all about the financing, motives, and agendas of the very mixed bag of interest groups known as NGOs.

But life is not found here either, for sex is one human being sharing with another on the deepest level, and this is patently impossible when love and community are separated from sex or when one relates to a sex partner as a thing, as impersonal as a partner from a rent - a-body agency.

After the opening introduction of his name and tide «apostle» in 1.1, he states that his apostleship is not from or through any human agency.

Or, from the other side, it is human agency which is in control and God can «enter in» only as a sort of extra.

The fact that human agency is explicitly asserted in verse 46 — «since you thrust [the word of God] from you and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life» — strongly militates against any assumption of divine agency in verse 48 and of an eternal decree of unconditional particular election (Shank, Elect in the Son, 184).

His plea for a core of human freedom, meaning, and moral agency must seem, from a purely scientific standpoint, like little more than wishful thinking.

It is possible, too, that «the destroyer» that ranged from house to house at midnight in Egypt was in fact a human hand acting through God's agency.

(c) Of the present experiences of God's power to deliver from the bondage of sin, e.g., Matt 1:21; Rom 5:10; 1 Cor 15:2; Heb 7:25; Jas 1:21; 1 Pet 3:21; of human agency in this, 1 Tim 4:16

America's exceptional history as the only nation in the world with two centuries of political continuity stems from its people's love for individual rights, which they hold to be inalienable because they are granted by a power that no human agency dare oppose.

How are we supposed to derive human consciousness — our rationality and intentionality, our richly variegated qualitative experiences, our sense of free choice, our complex and highly developed agency — from the aboriginal mentality of the simple individuals, presumably the basic particles, that constitute us?

The totality in Marxism is achieved by society's reconstitution of Christianity; in Teilhard the same alienation of the secular from the sacred is overcome, and the same totality is erected — but by extending the influence of Christianity into all sciences, social movements (including communism) and other agencies of human perfection.

Taken from the UK Food Standards Agency and the US department of Health and Human services website.

Experts from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strongly believe BPA levels currently found in humans are higher than the levels found to cause problems in the studies on animals.

It is sad that we get bucket loads of information from agencies about the legal and paper work stuff, but not much on what actually birth / first moms want, the human side of it.

Although the FDA has banned BPA from baby bottles, sippy cups, and formula packaging, the agency asserts that other polycarbonate products are safe and that the BPA levels found in humans are very low.

A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies, and is passed to our children through the placenta and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.

The Cook County ordinance requires suburban pet stores sell animals from government shelters, rescue agencies and human societies or federally licensed breeders with fewer than five reproducing female animals.

Mass Audubon, the University of Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Center, and the Natural Capital Project recently received a $ 560,636 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop information on the human benefits provided by the Narragansett Bay watershed.

The workshop was held as part of a new programme entitled Development and the Implications for Law, Justice and Society, which will engage with practitioners and policymakers from developing countries, major donors, and international agencies to examine the interaction between law and socio - economic development, democracy and human rights in post-Communist countries, in Africa, in Arab nations, and in Latin America.

The Seneca Nation called on Paterson to «publicly condemn and distance himself» from Bloomberg and stated that the nation's president reserves the right to file a complaint alleging a «human rights violation and a hate crime» with the Justice Department and several other agencies.

Levine previously oversaw Bloomberg's communications staff from New York City's dozen Health and Human Services Agencies for nearly three years, Fricchione said.

The roles of routines and automatisms in social life and the human psyche have most been relegated from the domain of politics, a field abstractly reserved to institutions and individuals that assumingly value the virtues of agency and rationality.

Judith Enck, the regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, notes that «from their designation as probable human carcinogens to their well - documented immunologic, neurologic and reproductive health effects, long - term exposure to PCBs is cause for considerable concern.»

Mr. de Blasio was standing with a cadre of advocates from agencies that help the homeless who will serve on the task force, including Laura Mascuch, the executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, who serve as its co-chair along with two administration members, Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steven Banks and Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been.

Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.

NYS DOH received the grant award from Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human SerAgency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Seragency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Others used the event as a platform to call out the Trump administration for interfering with federally funded agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tasked with ensuring that people are protected from risks to their health and environment and that federal laws that protect human health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively, among other things.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) at public and regulatory bodies including Ofwat, Ofgem, the Food Standards Agency and the Equality and Human Rights Commission will walk out for an hour from 11 am today, tomorrow and Friday.

Other attendees included Erie County Legislator Peter J. Savage; Kimberly Trent, representing the City of Buffalo's Commission on Citizens» Rights and Community Relations; a dozen local human service agency partners; students from Bennett Park Montessori School, singer Kevin McCarthy, young entrepreneur Daniel Gibbs; and the Library System's new owl mascot «Reada Book.»

Memos from Michael Volforte, director of the Governor's Office of Employee Relations, to agency human resource offices and from Terri Brennan, director of administrative services, to all Executive Chamber staff were sent out last week.

Adrienne Long, from the Office of Child Labour, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in the Bureau of International Labour Affairs at the U.S Department of Labour was at the Agency's headquarters recently where she met with the DG, Dame Julie Okah - Donli, as part of her visit to Abuja.

Requests and referrals for crisis care can come from anyone: individuals, families, police departments, community agencies, community residences, adult homes, health and human service providers, the Rockland County Department of Social Services, the Rockland County Department of Health and other local mental health providers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2017 - 18 budget proposal calls for modest but continued attrition of the state workforce, with some of the biggest downsizing coming from human service agencies like the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities and Office of Mental Health.

Human service agencies from across central New York have joined the fight to ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase funding in the state budget for the non-profits that help disabled New Yorkers.

Funding for this research came, in part, from the National Institutes of Health (1R01NS091010 - 01, 1R01DC014690 - 01), Japan Science and Technology Agency (PRESTO), Pew Charitable Trusts, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Human Frontier Science Program, McKnight Foundation and New York Stem Cell Foundation.

Drawing increasingly on support from foundations and federal agencies, the Association has built pioneering programs for bringing underrepresented groups into science; applying science to human rights; supporting the growth of science in the developing world; exploring issues of science, ethics, and law; tracking federal spending for R&D; and in bringing scientists and engineers to work in Congress and executive agencies of government.

UNITED NATIONS — Earth's human population is expected to coast upward to 9.6 billion by 2050 and 10.9 billion by 2100, up from 7.2 billion people alive today, a United Nations agency has projected.

Within five years, human space exploration will have grown from just 10 percent of the agency's budget in 2006 to more than 40 percent.

In 2003 the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to delete from its annual Report on the Environment any reference to a study showing that human activity contributes significantly to climate change, and also to delete temperature data showing a worsening warming trend.

The data come from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an annual survey of 12 - to 17 - year - olds from all 50 states that is sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

«At a minimum, the human health risks to the site workers from radon and its decay products should be assessed along with the associated treatment technologies such as aeration systems or holding for decay,» the agency wrote.

The topic of the event, the 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, could hardly have been more timely, given the February budget request from President Obama that sought to drastically change NASA's direction for human spaceflight and the way the agency does that business.

ScienceInsider reported this week that the U.S. Senate rejected a resolution last week that would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions based on its finding that they endanger human health, among other stories.