Sentences with phrase «from old community»

People from old community organizers to undergraduate college students invested in their futures showed up to create an intergenerational movement.

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«Chesapeake Requiem,» a forthcoming book by Earl Swift, paints a timely portrait of the 200 - year - old crabbing community as it faces extinction from rising water levels.

Parsons» company, Indosole, which produces and sells a line of sandals and shoes made entirely of repurposed old tires, has achieved a great deal of visibility thanks in large part to its community of customers, who support and advocate the company's quest to save one million tires from landfills.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

He recited a Yeats poem in a thick Irish accent, smashed a coffee mug, and then began reading from the Cluetrain Manifesto, a decade - old Internet marketing treatise about the power of communities.

«The hires provide a combination of experience from older tech company Google, and innovations within the fast - growth startup community,» Fubini says.

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

She and several other experts said a first step is getting past the old definition of resilience as bouncing back from a hit, which presumes a community needs simply to recover.

Anonymous, a 12 - year - old virtual community that's been linked to hacks on everything from the government of Zimbabwe and Bay Area Rapid Transit to Visa, MasterCard and the Federal Reserve, has proven plenty capable of following through with its threats.

What a difference from the traditional state of affairs that most growing businesses have been forced to deal with: no money at all for start - ups or companies that were too small or too old or too dependent on their founders or even too needy for cash (that is, unless they happened to fit onto the investment community's shortlist of sexy companies du jour).

Suzan and I lived here early on, back in 2002 and now we're back... we just can't find a better, prettier, or more welcoming community... Everything you need is here, and because people from the U.S. and Canada have been retiring here for generations, almost all the locals speak English and many services (especially medical and dental) cater to older expats.

Most recently his work caught the eye of Forbes and was featured in an article entitled, The 12 - Year - Old Entrepreneur That Will Take Global Tech & The World By Storm Ian works closely with Dream Hustle Code, to help level the playing field for kids from communities that have traditionally been left out of the tech industry.

The plan — a scaled - down version from a draft a year ago — is for a 55 - and - older community named The Lodge at Weston Hills, on the site of the Weston Hills Country Club, 2600 Country Club Way.

Bitcoin Cash, which forked off from Bitcoin in July 2017 is not even one year old - but has gathered a massive community of supporters who have been pumping huge volumes of money into the platform, helping drive the currencies prices.

Williams is responsible for facilitating the establishment of numerous statewide and community change initiatives the areas of budget and tax policy, after school programs, older youth transitioning from foster care, poverty alleviation, mental and behavioral health, and neighborhood revitalization.

At a community center in Albuquerque on Sept. 17, Mr. Kerry declared: «Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton has profited from the mess in Iraq at the expense of American troops and taxpayers.

In addition, under the old rules of private placements (Rule 506 (b) of Regulation D), companies were prohibited from advertising their raise, requiring that they rely on their existing networks and warm introductions, further containing investment opportunities within the existing startup community.

Legal ethicists Thomas and Mary Shaffer, however, have convincingly demonstrated that two quite different ethical systems were operating side - by - side in the profession: an «old WASP» or «gentlemen's» ethic among small - town and establishment lawyers, and an «old world» ethic among lawyers from communities formed by immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Eastern Europe.

In the Old Testament stoning was a way to punish sinners and remove them from the community.

We can not simply add these new insights to the old, but we do not need to reject the insights we have brought with us from our community in order to appropriate the new ones.

I grew up singing songs from an over-head projector in old gyms and community centres with terrible acoustics rather than from a hymn book in a chapel.

We are not to intellectualize in a way that removes our focus from the very practical concerns of tending the sick, caring for the vulnerable, participating in community life (like Calvin, who concerned himself with the sewage systems in Geneva) or voting, getting the car fixed, recycling old newspapers, making meals.

As Pope Francis heads to Jordan, Bethlehem and Jerusalem this weekend, he's bringing along two old friends from Argentina: Rabbi Abraham Skorka, who co-wrote a book with the Pope, and Sheikh Omar Abboud, who leads Argentina's Muslim community.

New wine, a new logic of community that comes from a solidarity culture was projected against the old wine, the old culture.

Even if we were certain of the original meaning of the root underlying the Hebrew noun we could hardly take this as conclusive evidence of the basic understanding of the Old Testament prophet in the middle centuries of the first millenium B.C. Rather, we will have to understand the sense of the term nabi» from the person of the prophet himself as he appears and functions in the community of ancient Israel.

It's just an age - old attempt to have it both ways; people who are Christian and perceive that others will reject them for being «religious» or «conservative» love this kind of talk because it allows them to distance themselves from the Christian community while still claiming to follow Christ.

Years ago, when my grandfather was still alive and they lived in a trailer park community just outside of Regina, there was a playground of old tractor tires at the end of the dirt road and I can still smell it, the mix of hot melting rubber in the Saskatchewan heat and the faint smell of urine from within them because little boys would pee in them, everyone knew that.

Will you learn to pray from the «masters,» the saints in your community the old faithful ones?

Dissatisfaction with older forms stemmed also from a new understanding of worship and community.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

An off - duty LAPD officer fired his gun during an altercation with a 13 - year - old Latino boy and group of teens in Anaheim, California, allegedly because one of the teens walked on his lawn on their way home from school, sparking protests in the area community protested the case.

We have, therefore, more than the outline of Mark to rely upon; it is supplemented and confirmed by the tradition recorded in the speeches of Acts — themselves perhaps embedded in old Judean, Jerusalem, or Caesarean sources, oral or written, which had come down from the primitive community and were incorporated by the author of Acts in his volume.

For our ethical considerations on peace, peace - ministry, conflict resolution, Christians may profit from reading the Old Testament, our Holy Scripture, as a witness to the experience of a people in war and peace with other nations and as a reflection on what peace requires of the community.

If that is the case then the decision of the Archdiocese of Birmingham to implement sex education programmes from Year 5 (10 year olds) would not be supported by the Catholic community in the UK.

New churches, schools and Catholic institutions were constantly being opened, and the Catholic community was a vibrant one, the small nucleus of «Old Catholics» having been augmented by Anglican converts and Irish emigrants — from which groups came Francis Bourne's own family.

He says that he «discovered that most of these older people were survivors of similar community - building experiments from the 1970s» and had become jaded and cynical.

It is the Reason of Plato at work, freeing us from old, stale habits of thought in the expectation that out of the resulting conversation, from the very turmoil and confusion of interpretations at war with one another, can emerge in good time a better understanding and a better practice of what it is to become and be within human communities.

This reappearance of the religious in the midst of secular society — and in forms far different from our traditional religious communions — raises as well, of course, a host of vital theological issues that can not be ignored: What is the relation of Christianity (or of Judaism) to these new and old religious communities?

The operation of such a ruling group is pictured in the story of Boaz» negotiations for the redemption of Naomi's property (Ruth 4:1 - 12); the narrative is presumably from a comparatively late time, but the councils of elders persisted in the smaller communities right through Old Testament history, so there is ground for believing that the author relates practice with which he was familiar.

Older people are likely to be cared for in special homes or communities for the aged and for those who have retired from active work.

As the messianic events of liberation in the Old Testament were not a result of human efficacy but rather a gift, an act of power that transcended the given possibilities of history, the Christian communities saw in Jesus an act of God's freedom... the power that creates a new future is something new, it is freedom from beyond history that is freedom for history.

I have fallen away from the church though the older I get the more I realize that any organized religion freaks me out, but here is the thing there are lots of homeless shelters and hot food banks that run off churches so they do some good for the community.

Nouwen, who later in life confessed that he had known since he was six years old that he was attracted to members of his own sex, would, in lectures and books, «speak of the strength he gained from living in community, then drive to a friend's house, wake him up at two in the morning, and, sobbing, ask to be held.»

Before the New Testament was put together, from the oral traditions about Jesus and the letters and other material known in the primitive Christian community, appeal was made to the Old Testament, that is the Jewish Scriptures, for predictions of and a way for interpreting the significance of Jesus.

The new community he anticipates is not to be derived from the old shattered one.

We do this for a couple of reasons — to acknowledge that our small church is part of a much bigger Church and to remember that our young community springs from a very old Ccommunity springs from a very old CommunityCommunity.

Paying tribute to the 17 year old from Aldershot, a spokeswoman from the combined school and sixth form said: «Nye was a warm, well - loved and popular member of our school community.

We need to Stand up NOW We Need to Start the unifying process, so we are taken from hands of those piranas, I feel this in daily life, as 30 year old woman, why is all those man so beyond in arrogance and confidence, Imagine our children when alone in their closeness, not understanding, Prayer shall be heard in hearts of us many, and start the process, we are the ones that will change the planet and the way are in church, schools, daily community....

themselves from any one construal by including within their communities persons with allegiances to a variety of construals of the Christian thing or persons proposing original syntheses of older construals.

Café Niní, is also the gathering place for members of the chilehead community, and we met some old fiery friends from Germany like Gabi, Elmar and Bodo.