Sentences with phrase «home communities because»

West Coast LEAF will argue that the mandatory jail sentence at issue in this case has a disproportionate impact on women because of their role as primary caregivers and the potential for loss of child custody, and the likelihood that women will be jailed far from their home communities because of the lack of adequate facilities for incarcerated women in BC, among other issues.

Not exact matches

They argued that the only reason women wanted to «mother» and keep house in the community was because they were so bad at such things at home - that municipal housekeeping was only a movement against domestic housekeeping.

When asked about Nanaimo's unemployment numbers, Liberal MLA John Les said «Everybody is looking for work around home» and suggested residents should abandon their homes because «they may not be aware» that other communities might have jobs.

In it, he said he could not approve of the port, because it will destroy 32 fishing communities home to around 50,000 people.

So, you have a right to feel sorry for me, because honestly, after my hard day slaving in front of a computer where I create databases to help cure cancer, I end up going home and planning the community trips I take with 30 of my closest friends.

We were surprised to see him back at BYU within the year because he said he felt so much more at home in the BYU community than he ever did in his graduate studies elsewhere.

It's heartbreaking and disappointing because we had so many dreams here in this home and community and they've been pretty dashed.

Because I am somebody» in my home, in my community, in my nation» I will comport myself responsibly, I will be accountable, I will be available to serve others as well as myself.

In this view, America has a vital role to play in world affairs not because it is the home of a chosen people but because it has vast resources, has caused many of the problems currently facing the world, and simply as part of the community of nations has a responsibility to help alleviate the world's problems.

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.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

If the church is still our defining community, as I think for Christians it must be, then it is so in part because it breaks the metaphor of home.

He pursued the SPU job despite a secure position at Old Dominion partly because of the appeal of a return to his home territory, but also because he wished to live and work in a professing Christian community.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

«They have the right to live at home, where they've lived for 1,700 years, since before the arrival of Islam, so that they can continue not only because it is their natural right, but also because they are a presence that is a benefit to the Islamic community and which helps diversify the social context which can slowly favour a democracy that respects the identity of every person and each group.»

We also tend to hire our neighbors for work (electrical, home repair, and the like)... because that is another way we help «community».

Because of their hard work and generosity, our sweet home Napa Valley became $ 18.7 million sweeter for thousands in the community who will benefit from Auction Napa Valley proceeds.»

Because I was producing this for a community event i did leave out the whisky (although I do want to try it for home consumption with the liquor!)

We know there are a lot of you in our community because a number of you have wondered through our doors at some point on a mission for that very specific something you simply can't return home without.

I'm keenly interested in the subject of conflict resolution because I think it's truly at the heart of everything that matters in our communities, our businesses, our governments, really our world — and we've all heard the adage a million times: world peace starts at home.

Maybe it was a mistake that your wife made to make those postings public, but something good has come out from it because these stories, even though it's painful to be written about, these stories need to be told, because the midwives and home birth community are not talking about these risks.

We have an unfortunate record for ICU admissions this year, but the woo in our community is excited because our c - section rate is down 3 % (nothing intentional to lower that, just part of patient variation and an inclusion of home births as vaginal births in our community so the c - section rate now is a community stat instead of a hospital stat.

Because of our neighborhood community centers and parks, our employees have the unique ability to work close to home, and many of their coworkers are their friends and classmates.

The parenting niche is fun because it is so diverse - there are soccer moms, work outside the home moms, single moms - and we are a supportive community.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

We're here to empower you with the know - how and tools to live your best life in the kitchen because a simple home cooked meal can be the source of greater health, happiness, and community.

Andrea, I used to have faith in the home birth community as well, and midwives specifically because of my feminist roots.

Because the medical community doesn't believe that anyone would choose a home birth.

«Complainants have expressed concerns that the ad, in particular the phrase «go home», is offensive and irresponsible because it is reminiscent of slogans used by racist groups to attack immigrants in the past and could incite or exacerbate racial hatred and tensions in multicultural communities,» an ASA spokesman told Politics.co.uk.

«Families who have had to leave their homes and will need to have them repaired because of flood damage should not be asked to pay council tax,» shadow communities and local government secretary Hilary Benn said.

«Neoliberalism sets people against each other and makes them very insecure, because it sells their homes out from under them, it sells their communities out from under them, it sends their jobs to China,» he says.

A young woman juggling an entry - level administrative job and classes at a community college; a divorced dad working 40 hours a week as a custodian to help support his two kids; a veteran trying to make a living back home after serving our country overseas: They, and millions of other hard - working Americans, struggle to make ends meet because their jobs pay low wages.

«Gov. Rossello didn't have to ask because in New York, we are family with the Puerto Rican community and with family, you don't have to ask for help,» he said, noting that New York is home to more Puerto Ricans than any other place outside the island territory.

«I supported the $ 29.6 million grant from the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council because I recognize how important it is to create jobs and to provide new, affordable homes to residents in our community.»

The Dems targeted Congressman Bob Turner (NY9), a conservative businessman who replaced the disgraced wildman perv & leftist Democrat leader Anthony Weiner and in doing so targeted the Jewish Community that once voted for Weiner, but that voted for Turner because of 0bama's filed policies at home and antipathy toward Israel.

«All of this is happening because of the years of advocacy and dedication of all of you: the elected officials, community activists, community boards, friends, family and neighbors that make up the fabric of The Bronx that 1.4 million New Yorkers so proudly call our home.»

Every week we hear shocking stories about children being held in police cells, or sent hundreds of miles away from home for care, because the right support isn't available in their own community.

«The Nation supported the initiative because we have experienced firsthand how responsible gaming can provide vital financial support for communities, creating good - paying jobs and providing opportunities for young adults to move back home for career advancement.»

When the whole community was held on siege and nobody could come out and we were all calling our loved ones from outside not to come home, some even slept outside because they can't come home.»

Nevertheless, Rye and other communities in the downstate region still have much higher property taxes because of the higher home values.

«In line with this, Okorocha mandated his commissioners and his LGA's transitional chairmen in all the 27 Local Government Areas of Imo State to move into the villages and communities to sensitized them to boycott the sit - at - home order at all cost, unfortunately, those mandated to do so could not do it because power belongs to the masses not those in Government.

Flynn said the issue is about home rule because local communities should decide what gets done with their land.

Muslim leaders are calling on their community not to stay at home during the upcoming European election because of the expenses scandal.

The people of Ijebu - Igbo hereby appeal for Governor Ibikunle Amosun's intervention, and to save us from the barbaric and uncivilised act of the Ibadan Elelctricity Distribution Company who have not supplied us with electricity for some time now because some community members launched a peaceful complaint against excessive billing despite the service being nothing to write home about.

«From its inception to now, the proposed text amendment tells the story of Build it Back's dramatic progress under Mayor de Blasio's leadership: the idea for the amendment came out of a community - level meetings in Queens, it was produced with collaboration across agencies, and it is being passed to help homeowners who were stuck because of burdensome regulations so that they can begin rebuilding their homes and making their neighborhoods more resilient,» said AMY PETERSON, Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Recovery.

Because of «poverty» in these Hasidic communities the taxes on those of us who are «non-poverty stricken» residents in Orange and Rockland Counties have spiraled out of control and are threatening to drive us out of our homes and out of the State or into actual poverty.

And because of a lack of facilities, patients — suspected, probable, or even confirmed — can not be removed immediately and have to be kept in the community or at home, waiting for beds to open up.

When there is no role model close to home, I look for one in the community or at work because role models are vital for success.3

The evaluation committee judged the Kitakami site preferable because of geologic conditions, local infrastructure, and the possibility of making an international scientific community feel at home.

ENDAUM and SRIC intervened in NRC's licensing of the HRI project in 1994, asserting that the proposed solution mining risks long - term contamination of the regional aquifer and presents health risks to the local communities because homes and schools are located close to the proposed mining operations.