Sentences with phrase «go around the community»

Our youth also go around the community doing yard work for those in our community who are down and out.

Moya said he has been campaigning by going around the community and making subway stops, trying to drive people to get out and vote.

Not exact matches

While half the population requires food aid to survive you can see multi million dollar (U.S.) homes going up around Harare in gated communities with expensive shopping centers peddling fine imported foods and goods.

In - vehicle video ads: Companies like Go Vugo have been around for a couple years but haven't quite gained a foothold with the driver community.

«Taking a focused look at clarifying the regulatory environment around online lending, reducing some of the burdens of regulation on small and community banks, and reducing the burdens on community banks so they can go back to making more small - dollar loans is a good thing,» she says.

«Most of us can't imagine what it's like to not be able to pay to get on the subway to go to a doctor's appointment or to go to community college or to just get around and see a family member or a friend,» he said.

While this argument can take many forms, it often centers around two separate concerns: whether community institutions have the economies of scale to go toe - to - toe with the biggest banks; and whether the «too big to fail» crowd has unfair advantages that slants the playing field in their direction.

We have a long way to go, but by organizing people in their home communities, building voting blocs in key ridings, mobilizing around key decisions, slowly reframing big stories and fighting to lock in systemic changes, we are fundamentally re-balancing power in British Columbia.

We do things like take organization - wide coffee breaks where we ask staff to go buy a coffee and ponder a specific question; we hold online book clubs and create communities of shared interests that range from using data tools to vegetarian cooking to working parents; around the holidays we host regional holiday parties and virtual «Holi - DJ» listening parties, where team members swap playlists of their favorite music.

«If we lose the smelting jobs around this area, it's going to destroy this community.»

If you go far into the world of counter-human trafficking and the NGO community, the confusion around terms continues, especially with words like «rescue» which remains both highly subjective despite their common application.

Fed by LIES that a Jew had deliberately run over a black boy and MORE LIES that Jews deliberately let the boy die, and spurred on by a pillar of the community who showed up and ranted about «diamond merchants» in the neighborhood, a bunch of angry people went around attacking Jews indiscriminately.

The difference is I don't go around challenging the entire scope of the REAL scientific community making a fortune deceiving the willfully ignorant pretending I know more than they do about THEIR fields of research and study.

It is not uncommon to go into some of the poorest and most destitute communities around the world, where many of the people live in cardboard and tarpaper shacks and have barely enough food to live on, and in the middle of this community, find a large, grandly constructed church building with towering steeples, intricate stained glass, beautiful woodwork, and gorgeous hand - painted murals.

As far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justice.

So when I went to New York, I was having difficulty with my name, Ramón Estévez; just getting around and trying to get an apartment, trying to get job interviews and such, because the Puerto Rican community at that time was taking the blame for everything wrong in New York.

Being a part of a church plant has forced me to confront a vicious cycle in my life, a cycle that goes something like this: 1) I resolve in my head to live like Jesus in community with those around me, 2) I start reading Shane Claiborne books and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, 3) I get overwhelmed by how impossible it all seems, 4) I get distracted by work and daily tasks, 5) I give up, 6) I feel guilty.

They had been at least minor movers and shakers in their communities, people who felt some responsibility for what went on around them largely because of a match between the moral teachings they grew up on in church and the possibilities inherent in their middle - class social roles.

Working out of his small, cluttered office at Adrian University, where he teaches political science, the seemingly indefatigable Khan stepped into the role of public intellectual for the U.S. Muslim community after 9/11 with incisive articles such as «Memo to Mr. Bin Laden: Go to Hell,» which was picked up by more than a dozen news agencies around the world.

Some Rabbis had jobs, but many of them were supported by the community to teach 4 - 5 times per week in the synagogue, and also go around and help people, provide counsel, etc..

We belong to the total human community, and we do well to enter sympathetically into what has gone before us as well as to know what is going on around us.

Aaron comes up with the golden calf idea and the community goes wild, which proves that just because you are in a group of people gathered together to worship God doesn't mean you won't end up dancing around with something silly.

After heavy snow fall in the area, he's been clearing sidewalks around an elementary school, explaining to a local news station, «I don't want kids or parents having to go through the snow and possibly trip or hurt themselves... The community has supported me immensely with my struggles and tough times as I had a leg amputated and my fight with brain cancer.

And indeed, it did remind me of the recipe for Tishpishti, a Turkish honey cake that is based on walnuts and already gf, that was going around in our community last Rosh HaShannah.

They're also here for the sense of community: people sprawled on picnic blankets around an outdoor hearth, drinking six - packs and watching the sun go down.

With everything that has been going on around Arsenal Football Club so far this season, apart from the good performance and result against Chelsea at Wembley that saw us lift another community Shield trophy, there has not been too much for the Arsenal fans to cheer about.

While the community stumbled around in a haze, wondering where it had all gone wrong, the AFCB's leader sat in his moderately - sized room, pondering a way to turn it all around.

For some reason, the rumor has been going around, especially in parenting communities where loving parents want to protect their kids at all costs, that religiously wearing sunscreen is the only way to prevent skin cancer.

I'm active in PTA, shuttle our two daughters and their friends around town, play on a community softball team, go to a gym twice a week, and work Wednesdays in a small sports equipment store.

«If there can be this mandatory funding of $ 10 million a year, it would encourage school communities all around the country to go out and form partnerships to make this happen.

Millions of mothers manage to work and breast - feed, but if you ask around you'll hear all sorts of stories about where women have to hide to use the breast pump, what happens to the little bottles that are left in the community refrigerator, and why it's a bad thing when an important meeting goes way too long.

«Another boy then asked why they were going around collecting trash, and this gave us an opportunity for an organic conversation about our classroom community, responsibility, and accountability.

However, for those choosing to raise money, you can be confident that all of the funds go to support and develop deserving projects and programs in communities around the world.

Schneiderman joined the Community Free Democrats, Nadler's Upper West Side club, and began hanging around with the slightly older Nadler and the slightly younger Scott Stringer, now Manhattan borough president, who took Nadler's assembly seat in 1993, when Nadler went to Congress.

According to the prosecution, the quack doctor did not learn his lessons and went back to his old ways, this time around, changing the name of his facility to Family Community Hospital.

Speaking outside Stormont today, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said: «The people who carried out this attack don't have any support within the broad Republican community and Sinn Fein will go toe - to - toe to ensure there is no ambiguity around this action.

«Everyone is waving this boogeyman around about how this corporation is going to come in,» said Tony Herbert, a community activist and Walmart supporter.

As the week gets going we're watching as discussions continue around the mayor's rezoning policies, which have been seeing some significant pushback from community and borough boards.

I make sure to go to local community board meetings and others around the district so I can keep my pulse on the concerns of the district.

«When you look around the community, you literally can go into the community and find those organizations that are interfacing that do know exactly where those kids are, what they are doing.»

«And that's not just New York, it's a problem all across the country and it's a problem in reality and it's a problem in perception and if it's a problem only in perception, it is still a real problem because people have to trust the justice system and the trust has to go both ways,» Cuomo said, speaking about police and community, but also referring to the oft - cited conflict of interest around police and prosecutors who regularly work together but can then be at odds when an officer is suspected of a crime.

«Most of us can't imagine what it's like to not be able to pay to get on the subway to go to a doctor's appointment or to go to community college or to just get around and see a family member or a friend,» he said.

I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school district around.

when you look around you see contractors in slow motion every where but doing nothing on ground.take a clear case of jakande gate I solo to bucknor, isheri osun, ijegun rd project by hitech engineering awarded by tinubu in 2005 and later by fashola in 2008, up till today not even a single km of that road had constructed, not even a meter of drainage and the deck on pile bridge been constructed since 2008 have not gone half way.any lagosian residing at this communities must have one health challenge or the other because of the very terrible conditions of that road.Nigerians if the APC example in Lagos is what Nigerians will get from APC presidency, it is better we all go on our collective knees that God should destroy this party of falsehood, mischief, looters and wicked men and women.

There is plenty of credit for this to go around, but I want to especially thank Governor Andrew Cuomo for his dedication to our community.

The soldiers on board a taxicab on Saturday evening, are said to have gone to Aboso, a mining community in the Tarkwa - Nsauem Municipality, and combed around gold buying shops, where they extorted both cash and gold from unsuspecting dealers.

When the car replaced the horse, many old goods and services (such as horse - drawn buggies, saddleries and smithies) went virtually extinct, while whole new industries and communities grew around oil, gas, paved road, motels and suburbia.

«The news is that the community is forming around the concept of going back to Pluto with an orbiter mission that would stay and study the planet for years, and do it in ways that we could not have in a simple flyby like New Horizons.

I actually needed to get my body going, and after taking a look around the On - Line Beyond Diet community I found an articles area, which just so happens to have some great advice on fitness choices.

Went to a neighborhood potluck the other night for our Community Garden... host keeps chopsticks all around his kitchen for this very same reason..